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** Stand Strong Against the Oligarchs 💪
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Dear FAIR Friends,

We’re launching into spring with our seasonal fundraising appeal. Our goal is to raise $30,000 by May 1. Thanks to your generous donations this winter, we have started this year off better than we did last year, but there’s still work to do to stabilize our finances and close a significant gap in our budget we have sustained since Covid.

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While the Trump/Musk administration continues to attack everything our movement has worked to build—a free press, economic equality, civil rights, freedom of expression—we pledge to stand strong against the oligarchs. The state of our democracy is looking bleak, but that’s exactly why our work must continue.

Unsurprisingly, the party of “free speech” is banning books, ideologies, medical terminology, diversity initiatives, protests—and news outlets they disagree with. While corporate media of all stripes cravenly bend the knee to this administration, FAIR exposes their treachery and brings you the truth they're afraid to print.

We’ve been tracking the freezing effect Trump's myriad threats, lawsuits and other actions have on a free press. Whether it's Meta backing down on factchecks, ABC choosing to settle a winnable defamation lawsuit with Trump, or the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post refusing to run an ad critical of Elon Musk and a satirical cartoon of Bezos and Trump, we know that the corporate press cannot be our only source of information. We need a grassroots media movement that keeps the American people—not billionaires and politicians—at the center.

We are independent and nonprofit because we see our mission to inform the public and hold the powerful to account as paramount. While our independence affords us more freedom to speak the truth, we are bracing for attacks. Last year, FAIR and other public interest groups were subpoenaed by Elon Musk in his suit against Media Matters for its damning report on hate speech on X. We believe lawsuits like this are simply fishing expeditions intended to intimidate and drain the resources of these organizations.

But we refuse to be intimidated, especially because we know we have a vibrant community of media activists behind us. As you know, we require resources to carry out this work and to remain financially stable through the chaotic years ahead.

We want to stress how important it is for this work to continue, during and beyond this administration.

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Our small 4-person staff, interns and talented network of freelance writers are proud of the work we do every day to smash the myth of the liberal media and advocate for a freer and more democratic media system. We believe that if we can expose disinformation and bothsidesing and expand the points of view we hear, we can achieve a more just society for all.

Through sharing our work with your friends, subscribing to Extra! and donating to FAIR, it's you, our audience, who are the backbone of this organization, and why we are able to do what we do.

It’s time to buckle down and fight on! Thank you for your support.

In Solidarity,

—Your Friends at FAIR
Olivia Riggio, Janine Jackson, Jim Naureckas and Julie Hollar

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