Always Seek Truth was founded in 2021 by Cynthia Rose — a former community-college librarian — out of frustration with how quickly bad information was spreading in her own neighborhood, and how few accessible tools existed to help ordinary people slow down and verify what they were reading.
Cynthia spent fourteen years as a reference librarian at a community college in northwest Montana, where she helped thousands of students learn to find, evaluate, and cite sources. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science and is a member of the American Library Association.
After leaving the library in 2020, she began holding informal evening sessions in her living room — teaching neighbors how to verify claims circulating on social media. Those sessions grew into workshops, then into a full practice.
"I'm not a journalist, and I'm not an activist," she says. "I'm a librarian. My job is to help people find the best available information and make up their own minds."
We accept no funding from political action committees, partisan organizations, or news outlets. The practice is supported by workshop fees and reader contributions only.
We critique reasoning, not parties. Our guides examine claims from across the political spectrum and apply identical standards to each.
Every claim we publish links to the underlying primary source whenever one exists. If we can't verify something, we say so plainly.
We make mistakes. When we do, we correct them publicly, date the correction, and explain what changed. That habit is the whole job.
We assume our readers are intelligent adults capable of handling complexity. We don't shout, we don't moralize, and we don't oversimplify.
We are based in Kalispell, Montana, and most of our in-person work happens within a few hours' drive. Place matters to us.
Kalispell sits in the Flathead Valley of northwest Montana, between Glacier National Park and Flathead Lake. It's a small place where people still talk to their neighbors — and where the loudest voices on the internet often have the smallest connection to local reality.
That contrast shaped our approach. We work in libraries, churches, coffee shops, and living rooms. We believe media literacy is most useful when it's practiced together, in person, with people you actually know.
We respond personally to every message — usually within two business days.
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