Hi Reader,

The role that journalism plays in our democracy has been particularly urgent this year, from covering the insurrection, to reporting on diminishing voting rights, to fearless investigating of homegrown extremism. Fact-based, nonpartisan information is needed now more than ever, but newsrooms are shrinking and the legacy newspaper industry is in financial crisis.

But not ProPublica. Here, we’re getting bigger, growing stronger and are doing more reporting than ever before. When we were founded over a decade ago, we decided to find another way to fund high-quality reporting — with support from folks like you who understand the importance of journalism to the democratic process. Today, we’re the largest investigative newsroom in the country.

We raise our funding with grants from foundations, philanthropic support from major donors and ... you! Tens of thousands of our readers donate to ProPublica with gifts ranging from $1 to many thousands, and today I’m asking you to join us with a year-end donation.

Our funding model works because there are enough readers of our work who step forward with a gift — readers who believe in the power of journalism to dig up facts, shine a light on injustice and hold the powerful to account.

Join those readers today with your donation to ProPublica of any amount, and help us start 2022 in high gear as we investigate disinformation, racial inequity, immigration and so much more.

Thanks so much,
Jill Shepherd
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