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A two-hour mental-health stream every Wednesday night. Open chat, peer conversation, occasional guests from partner orgs. Replays live in the Discord.
Live every Wednesday, 7:30 Eastern
If you need to talk, talk to us.
Heavy Hitters is a community of veterans, first responders, and the people who love them. We run a weekly mental-health stream, a peer Discord that is awake more often than not, and a small emergency-assistance fund named after a Marine’s dog. We’ve been there. Come in.
01 · What this is
Heavy Hitter’s Project · Vol. III
Built by people who have been there, for people who are.
Most of us came home and got told to be okay. We weren’t. So we built a place where you don’t have to be. There’s a Wednesday stream, a Discord that’s usually loud, an emergency fund for the months that go sideways, and six people whose names and faces are below. That’s the whole thing. There is no membership tier. There is no app to download. There’s a phone number at the top of this page and a Discord invite and a folding chair next to ours.
- Wednesdays
- 7:30 EST
- Live on Twitch, mirrored to Discord.
- Founded
- 2023
- Great Falls, Montana.
- 501(c)(3)
- EIN
- 33-2598998. Donations tax-deductible.
02 · Wednesday Nights
Mental health, live
The first place we showed up was the only place we could.
Wednesday at 7:30 Eastern, Robert opens a Twitch stream and we talk for two hours. Sometimes about gear. Sometimes about sleep, the kids, the dog, the meds. Sometimes about the day in 2019. The Discord is awake whether the stream is or isn’t.
Discord
The Heavy Hitter’s server
A peer-support server that’s usually awake. Channels for vets, first responders, families, and the in-between. Mods are real people who’ve had bad weeks. There’s a #talk-to-someone channel that gets read fast.
03 · The Hachi Fund
One application · 48-hour response · confidential
Emergency assistance for vets & families.
Fast and direct support, when it matters most.
The Hachi Fund exists to step in when veterans and their families hit sudden financial crises, providing fast and direct support when it matters most.
It was started to support a Marine Corps veteran whose dog, Hachi, became suddenly ill. The Heavy Hitters Project stepped in to offset the veterinarian costs. The fund carries his name.
If you are a veteran or a first responder facing a sudden expense, the fund can help. We accept applications for short-term assistance with veterinary bills, utilities, transportation in family emergencies, and similar urgent needs. We do not means-test. We aim to respond within 48 hours.
You can also support the fund directly. Give to the Hachi Fund →. Tax-deductible.
04 · The Crew
Six people. All their names.
The people running this.
05 · Stand With Us
Back the work
Some weeks the rent comes due, and the dog gets sick, and we’re still on at 7:30.
If you can, give.
Stand with us.
Every dollar funds the Hachi Fund and the cost of keeping the Wednesday stream and the Discord on. Tax-deductible. No gala, no tier system, no glossy mailers.
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Send people our way, and ours yours.
If your organization serves the same audience (vet care, first-responder mental health, peer support), we want to send people your way and the other way around.
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The shop
Get the shirt, if you want one.
The margin goes into the Hachi Fund. We will not pretend it is an intervention.
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06 · From Robert’s desk
May 2026 · Great Falls, MT
Friend,
If you found us at 2 a.m., welcome. Most of us did. If you found us because someone you love is having a rough time, welcome too. We have a Discord channel for you and we read it.
I started this in 2023 because, after the Marine Corps and a year in Afghanistan as a contractor, I came home and got handed a stack of forms. Some of them helped. Most of them didn’t. The thing that helped was a couple of people sitting on a stream with me late at night who’d been where I was and didn’t pretend otherwise. We built this so other people don’t have to find that by accident.
We’re small. We’re six people. We have a fund named for a dog. We’re going to be on Wednesday at 7:30. If you can come, come. If you can’t, the numbers at the top of this page are good and we’ll be here when you can.
Robert Heavilin