Friend, we just wanted to make sure you saw Jessica and Craig’s email from the other day. This is a terrifying moment in our nation’s history, but we’re determined to confront the slide toward authoritarianism.

Friend, in January, Donald Trump will become the president again — crashing into office on a wave of lies, racism, hate and other authoritarian tactics, egged on by a media system that puts profit over everything else.

We can’t pretend we aren’t devastated — especially for the communities that Trump put in the crosshairs to reclaim the White House. But we’re also reflecting on how we got to this point, and what it will take to build power to take on unaccountable billionaires — from Rupert Murdoch and Elon Musk to Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos — whose media empires have put our democracy at risk.

One thing we’re crystal clear on is this: Free Press Action has an important role to play in the months and years ahead. Our team has specialized skills that will be needed to confront and combat the country’s slide toward authoritarianism. We’ve fought a Trump administration and the media moguls enabling it before, and we’ll do it again.

Will you rush an emergency donation to Free Press Action today? Your gift will help us do what’s necessary to fight authoritarianism.

There is much we can do to stand up to the next Trump administration and the billionaire media-makers who helped bring him back to power. We will:

• Organize our team of attorneys and policy experts to do everything in their power to derail Trump’s agenda to deregulate the media and tech industry: We’ll throw sand in the gears, we’ll take the Trump administration to court and we’ll file legal and policy analyses that help our allies at the agencies and in Congress slow down any rules or laws designed to strip away people's rights.
• Fight Trump’s war on journalists and the truth: We will fight to ensure that the press remains free and open and that dissent is a respected and protected right. The media have failed us, but we must aid the journalists and muckrakers who reveal Trump-administration wrongdoing, protect the protesters raising their voices, and speak out against attempts to silence and harass critics of Trump and his billionaire enablers.
• Expose the media and tech billionaires who powered Trump’s return: We’ve taken on the likes of Musk and Murdoch many times, costing them billions of dollars for spreading hate and disinformation. We will fight back against their attempts to whitewash Donald Trump’s actions. We’re primed to challenge Elon Musk should he try to take on an official government role. Free Press will shine a light on corruption and collusion between government actors and the billionaire class behind media, tech and telecom giants.
• Oppose the worst of Trump’s ilk from filling top leadership positions at the FCC, FTC and beyond: Sitting FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr seems primed to be the next agency chairman. We’ve had extensive dealings with him and have covered his close ties to Project 2025 and right-wing extremists. We’ll be tracking Trump’s most dangerous appointments, exposing them in the press and campaigning to prevent them from taking power.
• Take our fights to the states if the federal government won’t help people or carry out its responsibilities: We have many opportunities in statehouses and municipalities to build support for civic media that actually meets the needs of local communities, to make reparations a reality, and to protect people from corporate abuse.
• Campaign to stop draconian rollbacks of public and corporate policies that safeguard civil and human rights: This will include standing up to media and tech companies that have profited off of the hate, dehumanization and lies that helped reelect Donald Trump. We will build coalitions and campaigns to destabilize the far right’s use of our media system to advance racism, hate, authoritarianism and violence.