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November 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM

Humbly asking you to support our mission before midnight

Tomorrow, millions of us will be around tables with family — catching up, eating too much, and inevitably hearing someone bring up politics, the media, “fake news,” or whatever your uncle saw on Facebook this week.   John, Tomorrow, millions of us will be around tables with family — catching…

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November 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM

It’s good news & bad news, John

We’ve got momentum, but we’re still falling behind where we need to be.   John, Let’s start with the (very) good news: Sunday was one of our strongest fundraising days in weeks. More than 100 people chipped in — a meaningful boost and a real dent in our 1,200-donor goal for November. That mo…

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November 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM

We’re confused

Help us jump-start a slow November with 150 donations by midnight.   John, We’re confused — honestly.  We expected to see a much bigger response to yesterday’s email, especially after the milestone we just hit. COURIER just passed 5 million social followers, making us one of the fastest-grow…

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November 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM

John, we’re counting on you today

To stay fully funded and prepare our newsrooms for the high-stakes 2026 midterm elections, we need to find 1,200 donors before November 30th. With our average donation at just $27, your support genuinely makes or breaks whether we hit this goal.   John, We need to be direct: COURIER is way be…

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November 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM

These headlines show you exactly how the news media “sane-washes” Trump

We don’t normally chase Donald Trump’s latest social-media distractions. But today, as he scrambles to deflect attention from the imminent release of the Epstein files, we need to highlight a particularly unhinged Truth Social post — because it shows how the legacy press sane-washes Trump, saniti…

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November 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM

Trump threatened ABC’s news license over the Epstein files

We’ve already done what legacy outlets wouldn’t: we built a searchable public database of more than 20,000 Epstein emails so people can see the truth for themselves — without the MAGA media spin.   John, Donald Trump is scared of whatever is in the Epstein files — and yesterday, he showed it.…

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November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM

Our ICE coverage is going viral. Help us keep telling the story

We tell the stories of the communities ICE targets — not the sanitized version federal officials hand the press.   John, While the shutdown and Epstein stories dominate legacy media, one of the most urgent stories in America is barely being covered: the escalating assaults by ICE agents in lo…

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November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM

MAGA wants the Trump–Epstein emails buried. Here’s how we’re fighting back.

We can’t let them bury the truth.   John, More than 20,000 pages of Jeffery Epstein’s emails have been released by the House Oversight Committee. And what they reveal is damning for Trump and MAGA: Epstein emailed that a teenage victim “spent hours” at Donald Trump’s home. In the email, Eps…

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November 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM

8 Senate Dems caved. COURIER is calling them out.

After the best week in years, Democrats folded on the shutdown without any victories.   John 8 Senate Democrats just caved on the government shutdown — and nobody seems to know why. We’ll get into the details in a moment. But first: if you believe voters deserve a progressive media network t…

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November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM

Our grades for every major media outlet in the age of Trump

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F   Hi — Mark Jacob here, contributor at COURIER. Lately I’ve been hearing something that worries me: people saying they “can’t trust any media anymore.” After decades working in newsrooms, I can tell you — that’s not an accident. MAG…

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November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM

Trump threatens to sue the BBC for an astonishing $1 Billion

Trump continues to use legal threats and intimidation to silence the media.   John, The BBC has confirmed that Donald Trump is threatening a $1 billion lawsuit over an edit in a January 6 documentary. The threat comes even after the network admitted the error, disciplined staff, and apologiz…

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November 7, 2025 at 4:58 PM

What CBS cut from Trump’s 60 Minutes interview says everything

Once a paragon for American journalism, last night’s interview makes it clear that CBS News has been utterly captured by Trump:   John, Last year, Donald Trump sued CBS News for supposedly “deceptively editing” a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. It was a frivolous claim—but Paramount…

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November 5, 2025 at 4:11 PM

Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and MAGA’s normalization of hate

Carlson didn’t have to endorse every word Fuentes said. By treating him like a guest instead of a hateful extremist, he made bigotry sound like just another opinion.   John, Tucker Carlson just did something even some conservatives called dangerous. He handed his massive platform to Nick Fuen…

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November 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM

MAGA and the media team up to smear Mamdani

If you’ve been following the coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s run for New York City mayor, you might think he’s running for president or to chair the DNC.   John, New York votes today — and the coverage of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral race has been a master class in how the far right plants a lie and…

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November 3, 2025 at 6:12 PM

What CBS cut from Trump’s 60 Minutes interview says everything

Once a paragon for American journalism, last night’s interview makes it clear that CBS News has been utterly captured by Trump:   John, Last year, Donald Trump sued CBS News for supposedly “deceptively editing” a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. It was a frivolous claim—but Paramount…

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October 31, 2025 at 5:03 PM

Final call: Protect democracy and support our fearless reporting on ICE

Ordinary people — even U.S. citizens — are being detained in America. And most of the country doesn’t even know when and where it’s happening.   John, Ordinary people — even U.S. citizens — are being detained in America. And most of the country doesn’t even know when and where it’s happening.…

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October 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM

Local News is exposing ICE

While the legacy media pushes Trump’s latest spectacle to our phones, people are quietly vanishing into detention centers. Families are spending weeks searching for loved ones.   John, Ordinary people are being detained — and in some cases, disappeared — in America. And it’s not just immigra…

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October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM

Media must cover — not cover up — Trump’s unfitness

The president benefits from the failure to focus on his broken brain   Hi — Mark Jacob here, contributor at COURIER. The national press is still missing the story of Donald Trump’s unraveling. Too many journalists keep trying to make sense of behavior that’s senseless — treating delusion lik…

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October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM

Don’t let MAGA win Virginia – fuel our coverage before tonight’s deadline.

One week from today, Virginians will vote in the year’s most important election — and what happens there will shape the balance of power in Congress for years to come.   John, One week from today, Virginians will vote in the year’s most important election — and what happens there could shape…

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October 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM

We have 48 hours to fund our Virginia election coverage.

If Republicans win here, they’ll gerrymander Virginia like they did Texas and North Carolina.   John, Virginia’s elections are next week, and while Virginia’s elections are always an important test of political momentum before the national midterms, this year what happens in Virginia truly a…

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October 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM

Trump’s third term talk is more than just BS and bluster

Trump’s allies are already talking about his third term — and the press is treating it like a punchline.   John, Steve Bannon just said the quiet part out loud: “He’s gonna get a third term. Trump is gonna be president in ’28 and people ought to just get accommodated with that.” He even clai…

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October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM

The good news (and the bad) in the fight for democracy

No Kings was a breathtaking rebuke of authoritarianism, but the fight isn’t over.   John, It’s a day of good news — and bad — in the fight to stand up to MAGA. First, the good: More than 7 million Americans filled the streets last week for the No Kings protests — the largest peaceful demonst…

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October 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Donald Trump’s ballroom is a joke – the demolition of the White House isn’t

Thanks to Apple, Amazon, and corporate America, Trump is demolitioning the White House for a personal vanity project.   John, When Donald Trump first talked about building a “beautiful ballroom” at the White House, most of the media rolled their eyes. They covered it as a joke — another gaud…

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October 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Stand with “No Kings” protestors today by helping us tell their stories.

From New York to Tacoma to Kalamazoo, millions will march under one message: in America, we don’t do kings, dictators, or autocrats.   John, Thank you for taking a moment to read our message. Today is an important day.  From New York to Tacoma to Kalamazoo, millions will march under one mess…

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October 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM

MAGA really wants you to believe “No Kings” is unAmerican

Exercising the First Amendment — the right “to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances” — is as American as it gets.   John, In a moment, we’ll tell you about how MAGA is trying to smear this weekend’s pro-democracy protests as unAmerican, but first we want to ask fo…

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October 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM

How far has COURIER’s reporting reached in 2025? (Hint: it’s massive)

With your continued support, we’re only getting started.   4.5 billion views—and counting. Help COURIER fight MAGA and stand up for democracy: DONATE John, This number is incredible: This year alone, COURIER’s newsroom network has reached more than 4.5 billion social media views. That’s b…

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October 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM

See the “Time” photo Trump doesn’t want you to see. Then help us spread it far and wide.

History reminds us over and over again that one of the best ways to take down a wannabe strongman is to show he’s not a symbol of strength at all.   John, Donald Trump is furious over his new TIME magazine cover — calling it “the worst of all time” because, as he ranted on Truth Social at 1:…

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October 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM

“No Kings” protesters are patriots. Help us tell their story.

In more than two thousand cities, organizers say it could be the largest protest in U.S. history — a nationwide call heard from small towns to city squares, echoing a simple message: No Kings.   John, Next weekend, Americans from every corner of the country will take to the streets. In more …

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October 9, 2025 at 3:56 PM

The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago

Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable   John, Hi — Mark Jacob here, contributor at COURIER. When a woman is shot by ICE and federal officials rush out a version of events that doesn’t match the bodycam footage, it tells you two things: the government will lie …

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October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM

No King protests and Trump’s “war from within”

$24 million is going straight into Trump’s Versailles-style White House ballroom—a 90,000-square-foot, gold-plated monument to himself. Most creators on YouTube get a plaque. Trump got himself a ballroom.   John, Last week, Donald Trump told hundreds of generals that America faces a “war fro…

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October 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM

The hiring of Bari Weiss and the end of CBS News

CBS News — once the home of Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, and the belief that tough, factual journalism makes our democracy stronger — just made Bari Weiss, founder of the MAGA-curious The Free Press, its new editor-in-chief.   John, CBS News — once the home of Walter Cronkite, Edward R…

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October 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM

No King protests and Trump’s “war from within”

$24 million is going straight into Trump’s Versailles-style White House ballroom—a 90,000-square-foot, gold-plated monument to himself. Most creators on YouTube get a plaque. Trump got himself a ballroom.   John, This week, Donald Trump told hundreds of generals that America faces a “war fro…

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October 4, 2025 at 3:38 PM

YouTube is helping Donald Trump build his ridiculous golden ballroom

$24 million is going straight into Trump’s Versailles-style White House ballroom—a 90,000-square-foot, gold-plated monument to himself. Most creators on YouTube get a plaque. Trump got himself a ballroom.   John, YouTube just caved to Donald Trump to the tune of $24 million. Not because Trum…

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October 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM

We missed our goal, John

We’ll be honest with you: we can’t keep funding this work if we keep missing deadlines. Grassroots support isn’t just part of COURIER’s budget — it is COURIER’s budget.   John, First, thank you for continued support for COURIER and our mission and for reading this email today. We couldn’t do…

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September 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM

Humbly asking you to read this message about tonight’s fundraising deadline from beginning to end

We’re just hours from midnight, and we’re still well short of our September fundraising goal. Trump and MAGA are escalating their attacks on democracy, speech, and even our right to dissent. Meanwhile, the media is folding. The truth is that, if grassroots supporters don’t step up, we risk losing…

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September 30, 2025 at 3:19 PM

The news media is laundering Trump’s lie about his own popularity.

Please read our urgent message before our fundraising deadline at midnight tonight.   John, At midnight, we face a critical fundraising deadline. We’d be grateful if you took a moment to read why supporting COURIER matters right now — but if you’re able, please chip in today to help us build…

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September 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM

John, please sponsor a newsroom to protect democracy and defeat MAGA

COURIER’s Dogwood is on the ground providing essential reporting. We need your grassroots support to keep our coverage going.   John, You’ve been selected as one of our top supporters to sponsor a newsroom at this critical moment for democracy. With Trump and MAGA escalating their assault o…

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September 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM

The fight for democracy starts in Virginia — and it starts now

COURIER’s Dogwood is on the ground providing essential reporting. We need your grassroots support to keep our coverage going.   John, In this moment of crisis — as Trump and MAGA escalate their assault on democracy and the free press — the most radical thing we can do is show up, speak out, …

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September 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM

Project 2025, Brendan Carr, and Trump’s war on speech

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump swore he had “nothing to do with Project 2025.” He called its ideas “ridiculous” and “abysmal.” That was a lie.   John, On the campaign trail, Donald Trump swore he had “nothing to do with Project 2025.” He called its ideas “ridiculous” and “abysmal.” That…

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September 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM

25% of Americans won’t be able to watch Kimmel’s return – find out why

Here’s how the Kimmel blackout reveals Donald Trump’s strategy of using corporate pressure to stifle speech and silence critics.   John, Jimmy Kimmel Live! is back tonight. But if you’re among the 25% of Americans served by ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair or Nexstar, you won’t see it. Withi…

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September 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM

The best way to protect free speech

Corporations are pushing MAGA cancel culture.   John, We’re $20,000 short of our $60,000 September goal with just 10 days to close the gap.  If you already understand the importance of ensuring that independent media survives Trump and corporate America’s assault on free speech, please contr…

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September 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM

Sinclair threatens Kimmel & ABC with list of demands

The through-line is chilling: corporations with business before Trump’s regulators are folding to MAGA to protect their own bottom lines.   John, Yesterday we told you about ABC’s unprecedented decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! after threats from Trump’s FCC Chair. The suspension wasn’t go…

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September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM

MAGA cancels Kimmel. This is the moment to stand up for free speech.

By now you’ve heard the alarming news that ABC caved to pressure from the Trump administration, suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! indefinitely. The network blamed “affiliate concerns.”   COURIER doesn’t answer to Donald Trump's pressure or billionaire boardrooms — just our commitment to defen…

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September 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM

Cowardly journalists try to silence the brave

Reaction to the Charlie Kirk assassination exposes media timidity   Hi John, Following the tragic and unacceptable assassination of Charlie Kirk last week, COURIER contributor Mark Jacob wrote about how news operations are making the impact of that murder even worse by firing journalists. Yo…

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September 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM

Report: Trump sues NYTimes for libel

On Truth Social, Trump announced a $15 billion lawsuit against the NYTimes.   Hi John, Overnight, Donald Trump announced he was filing a $15 billion defamation lawsuit against The New York Times and some of its most respected reporters for stories suggesting that he built his fortune in part…

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September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM

The Only Way to End Political Violence

Political violence surges, rhetoric escalates, and responsible media and action are needed now more than ever.   Hi John, This week was another unprecedented and deeply disturbing week in American politics. I was gathering with members of my team in New York on Wednesday when we heard the ne…

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September 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM

CBS News shows its true colors in the Trump era

CBS is preparing to give a senior editorial role to Bari Weiss — reportedly paying between $100 and $200 million to acquire her right-wing media outlet The Free Press.   Hi John, Tara McGowan here — founder and publisher of COURIER. My very first job in media was at 60 Minutes. Back then, I …

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September 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM

Trump is attacking ActBlue again, John

A new “No Kings” protest is announced for Oct. 18th and MAGA is picking up its war on ActBlue   John, It’s a day of good news — and bad news — in the fight to stand up to MAGA. First, the good: Another No Kings rally is set for October 18. Organizers are taking to the streets again after Tr…

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September 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM

How MAGA Sinclair Broadcasting could swallow up ALL local news, even yours

A court decision shredding ownership limits, a Trump-led FCC bent on empowering partisan broadcasters, and Sinclair’s drive to control the airwaves are converging toward one outcome — a Trump-aligned stranglehold on local news.   John, Sinclair Broadcast Group — the far-right media giant tha…

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September 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM

In Chicago, we do not submit

Trump is trying to intimidate a city that refuses to be intimidated   Hi — Mark Jacob here, contributor at COURIER. Donald Trump is threatening to send the U.S. military into Chicago — treating one of America’s greatest cities as if it were enemy territory. As someone who’s spent decades repo…

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