Friend, the people on the other side of our fights don’t show up alone.

They bring armies of lobbyists, law firms and consultants — paid for by billionaires who are perfectly happy to sabotage free speech for more power.

Free Press can’t and won’t compete with that kind of cash. What we have is something very different: thousands of people giving what they can —and refusing to let censorship, media mergers or the destruction of public media happen quietly.

That’s why your tripled gift before midnight matters so much. We’ve set a $50,000 year-end goal, and for these final hours a generous donor is TRIPLING every tax-deductible donation — turning $15 into $45, $50 into $150, $100 into $300. Will you make your first gift to Free Press by midnight while every dollar is tripled?

Those small gifts are what let us do essential work in the face of so many threats: filing comments that slow or stop dangerous media mergers, helping people flood ABC affiliates with calls when Jimmy Kimmel Live! was yanked off the air, fighting attacks on public media and pushing for new funding of local news.

None of that happens because a billionaire wrote us a check; it happens because thousands of people decided they weren’t going to sit this out.

If you’ve ever wondered whether your donation really counts against our opponents’ corporate money, I can tell you that it does — because you’re not giving alone. Tonight, your very first gift is part of a much bigger wave, and it’s worth three times as much.

With gratitude,

Dutch and the rest of us at Free Press

P.S. Big Tech and media conglomerates have lobbyists and deep pockets. Free Press has independence — we don’t take a cent from business, government or political parties. Until midnight tonight, every dollar you give is TRIPLED toward our $50,000 goal to defend free speech, strengthen local news and hold media & tech companies accountable in 2026. Please chip in if you can.