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Friend,
When Donald Trump was elected in 2016, we faced a global climate emergency, brutal economic inequality, deep systemic racism, and a broken democracy hijacked by corporate power.
And during his disastrous four years in office, these problems didn’t go away. They festered and got worse.
Under Trump, the U.S. squandered years that it couldn’t afford to waste to solve the climate crisis. The gap between rich and poor—which was already greater than at any time in 100 years—exploded during the COVID-19 pandemic. The power of corporations was steel-reinforced by a judiciary packed with far-right Trump appointees.
Now, suddenly, a window of opportunity has opened, allowing us to once again make real change. Trump is gone, Democrats control the House, and Mitch McConnell no longer controls the senate.
But as suddenly as the window opened, it could shut again … and the fierce urgency of now is bearing down on all of us.
This is the moment when Common Dreams is most essential. This is the time when our mission to inform, inspire, and ignite change is most needed.
Corporate news outlets like CNN are still obsessed with the Trump circus, and the right-wing propaganda ecosystem of Fox News and social media conspiracy theorists aren’t even operating in reality.
We are urgently reorienting our newsroom away from four years of resistance and redoubling our efforts to shine a bright light on the climate crisis, corporate abuse of power, and economic injustice.
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