Bill Cooper was killed shortly after 9/11 after predicting it in advance. He also used to call out Alex Jones as a cointelpro agent. Alex Jones was unscathed and took Bill's market share in the truth community after his death.
Top tier researcher Matthew North disappeared in 2020 and is rumored to be dead. He did a lot of research looking into Jones and his shady buddies, actual cutting edge information dangerous to the establishment too. Jones keeps on going.
Max Igan had to escape Australia to continue his work and not go to prison. AJ continues to sit pretty in Austin, TX.
How much of a threat to the establishment could Jones really be if they didn't take him down yet? Answer, none whatsoever. As Matthew North & Bill Cooper pointed out, Jones is a traitor.
If not AJ then who should people listen to now?
You'd be better off just finding random stuff on Bitchute and Odysee after typing in certain keywords.
I've found a few new people this year. I highly recommend listening to anyone talking about secession and counter economics. Mises institute (Tom Woods, Jeff Deist, David Smith) is good on that, though their stuff is nerdy at times and heavy on economics.
I also discovered David Knight this year, he is doing solid work on covering the current reality. Tim Truth and Hugo Talks are covering a lot of good information as well. Mike Adams has a lot of good info on prepping. Those people are actually serious about doing something. People like Jones (and others) telling us to grab popcorn and wait for Trump to save us are our enemies.