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When Congress was writing the $2 trillion coronavirus bailout bill two
weeks ago, the big corporations sent their lobbyists up to Capitol Hill
to make sure they got what they wanted.
Meanwhile, the everyday Americans who count on Common Dreams to monitor
Congress for them flocked to our website to find out what was in the
bill.
But then, just when the public was most in need of timely, factual
information, our website went dark, unable to handle the enormous number
of people coming to it.
Suddenly, just as Congress was finalizing the details of this massive
bailout, readers were not able to find our coverage about the lack of
meaningful oversight of the bill's half-trillion-dollar corporate slush
fund.
Our stories on the bill's failure to provide protective gear for
health-care workers, adequately fund unemployment, or provide workers
with paid leave disappeared from the internet.
And people were unable to find our stories uncovering dirty provisions
hidden in the bill, like an insidious attack on Social Security and the
massive taxpayer handouts for Big Oil.
Common Dreams covers stories that the corporate media won't touch.
That's why so many people came to us in that key moment to find out what
was in this massive bill—and why it was such a disaster for our website
to crash at that key moment.
But if we hit our spring fundraising goal of $60,000 by May 1, we'll be
able to expand our server capacity and keep providing the journalism you
count on.
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