Friend,

When Disney/ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live!, people like you spoke out — and it worked. Free Press supporters flooded local affiliates with calls and got Kimmel back on the air.

That’s the power of organizing. And today — on Giving Tuesday — a generous donor will TRIPLE your very first donation to help us reach our $20,000 goal and fuel the fight for free speech.

Corporate media owners have demonstrated a pattern of caving to pressure from those in power. The Washington Post fired respected opinion editor Karen Attiah for speaking honestly about racism and violence. She used her platform to tell the truth — and lost her job for it.

On the other hand, Bari Weiss — founder of The Free Press, an organization that borrowed our name but none of our ethics — used her platform to spread lies and sow division … and got a powerful new job out of it. The uber-wealthy Ellison family acquired Paramount, parent company of CBS, and installed Weiss as editor-in-chief of the news outlet that was once home to Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite.

This is all part of a bigger crisis we’re tracking through our Media Capitulation Index, which exposes how media owners like Jeff Bezos, Nexstar and Sinclair are bending to Trump’s demands and silencing dissenting voices. Every day they cave a little more — and every day, Free Press fights back.

Your generosity powers that fight. It sustains our efforts demanding oversight hearings for FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and our campaigns to reimagine a media system that serves the people — not billionaires or politicians.

This is the choice Giving Tuesday offers: We can retreat into fear and let the federal government continue to exert control over corporate media, or we can build something better together.

Please, before midnight, take advantage of our 3x-match offer with your very first gift. Your contribution will help Free Press defend free speech and independent journalism for all.

With gratitude,

Candace and the rest of the Free Press team

P.S. Corporate media won’t save journalism — people will. Give today and a generous donor will TRIPLE your donation to build a truly independent press that serves democracy.