Friend, did you see the message below from Free Press Co-CEOs Jessica and Craig?

Since they reached out, we learned of another awful Trump nominee: Andrew Ferguson, tapped to lead the Federal Trade Commission. Ferguson would rather focus the agency on attacking the trans community than on reining in disinformation and runaway AI abuses. He is a dangerous choice, and we will do everything we can to oppose his hateful agenda.

That's why we're counting on our supporters to help us hit our $50,000 year-end goal — that's what we’ll need to stand against enemies of free expression like Brendan Carr and Andrew Ferguson and take on the likes of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Rupert Murdoch and the other billionaires who powered Trump’s return.

Today, every dollar you donate will be matched, so your support couldn’t come at a better time. Please make a tax-deductible gift to Free Press while your contribution will go twice as far.

Thanks in advance for your generosity,

Brenda and the rest of the Free Press team

Friend,

As we get ready to stand up to Trump 2.0, we’re clear-eyed about his playbook: attacking the media so his administration can evade accountability for destroying civil-rights protections and democratic norms while funneling billions in taxpayer dollars to Trump’s inner circle of billionaire grifters.

This past year, we've witnessed billionaires wield outsized influence over our democracy and our media — amplifying disinformation and undermining trust in journalism to enable the reelection of Donald Trump. With his promotion of one of the Project 2025 co-authors to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency will spend four years attacking free speech and freedom of the press. But with our deep expertise on all things FCC, Free Press is uniquely positioned to fight back.

We have ambitious plans to fight authoritarianism in 2025 — but we can't do it without you.

We must raise $50,000 by the end of the year. And thanks to a generous donor, every dollar you give will be matched, doubling your impact. Will you make your first tax-deductible gift to Free Press? Your gift today will go twice as far.

Here are four big reasons why making a generous gift to Free Press before the end of the year is so important:

• We’re facing a five-alarm fire at the FCC. With Trump’s nomination of Brendan Carr to serve as the next chairman, we expect more media consolidation that will allow Trump-friendly conglomerates like the right-wing Sinclair to gain control of even more TV and radio stations. Carr is also committed to overturning the recently restored Net Neutrality protections and undermining the FCC’s ability to hold companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon accountable for abusing internet users. Carr has threatened to pull broadcast licenses of stations that fact check Trump or offer opposing views. This is a major violation of free speech, and Free Press is prepared to fight the Trump FCC in the courts of law.
• We’re worried about the future of public media. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are sharing details about their newly created, dubiously named “Department of Government Efficiency” — and they’ve called for removing all funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a main revenue source for the hundreds of local NPR and PBS stations that air Sesame Street, Fresh Air and other beloved programs. Free Press has stopped previous efforts to cut public media, and we’ll do it again.
• We will never give up and we won’t stay quiet. Walking away from a fight isn’t the way we do things. Just one example: Look how long it took us to win — and then win back — the Net Neutrality rules we fought so hard for over the last decade. We will never stop fighting to protect Net Neutrality, combat attacks on journalists and defeat dangerous bills designed to silence nonprofits.
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