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There’s never been a more difficult time for independent media than today.

Friend,

As one of the founders of Common Dreams, I’ve been here from the very beginning.

I’ve seen a lot in those years, including hard-fought victories and bitter disappointments, and we’ve seen countless other digital news sites come and go.

And in all those years, I can tell you that there’s never been a more difficult time for independent online journalism than right now.

Tech giants like Facebook and Google are exerting more and more control over the flow of traffic on the internet, and these corporate giants are making it increasingly difficult for new readers to find us by tweaking their algorithms and prioritizing corporate outlets in their news feeds and search results.

Meanwhile, the pandemic has driven up our costs and created once-in-a-lifetime challenges for journalism that we never anticipated.

Our ace in the hole has always been you, our readers. But I can’t remember a time since the very earliest days of our founding that our future survival was in doubt the way it is now.

That’s why I’m making a personal appeal to you now to donate to our Spring Campaign goal and help us survive these challenges, so that we can continue to deliver progressive journalism in order to inform, inspire, and ignite change for the common good.