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Friend,
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.
Will you make a donation today to expand our bandwidth and server capacity and make sure our website never crashes during a crisis again?
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