Dear Reader,

As we close out 2021 and plan for the year ahead, I’m asking you to join us and make a year-end donation to ProPublica. Readers like you provide a critical portion of our revenue, and I’d love to be able to count on your support as we head into next year.

Investigative journalism is a luxury in many newsrooms. ProPublica was founded over a decade ago to fill a growing hole that continues to this day: legacy funding models are failing and with that comes shrinking newsrooms. The kind of work we do is painstaking and expensive, but I know you agree that deep-dive, fact-based reporting remains as critical as ever to our democracy and our civic life. ProPublica’s work has spurred reform through legislation, at the voting booth and inside our nation’s most important institutions.

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Thank you,
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