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August 31, 2023 at 11:13 PM

Tell Apple and Google: Remove X from your app stores if Elon Musk removes the block button

Free Press This is BAD. Tell Apple and Google: Stop carrying X in your app stores if Musk removes the blocking feature! Friend, Since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he’s rolled back the kinds of safety measures and failed to enforce the kinds of policies that might keep hate a…

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August 29, 2023 at 6:35 PM

🎉 Our 20th anniversary, the fight to protect your online privacy & more

Free Press ➡️ Open for the August edition of the Free Press Update Welcome to the August edition of the Free Press Update, our monthly newsletter recapping as much of our work from the last month as we can fit into one email. Let’s get started: Happy Anniversary, Free Press! …

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August 25, 2023 at 5:33 PM

Soaking up sun and gearing up for a busy fall

Free Press We’re staying focused on our legislative priorities Friend, Last week, one of our colleagues was meandering through the aisles of Costco, as one does, when he got tangled in a rack of Top Gun and Disney Princess Halloween costumes. He left the glorious A/C of the stor…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

August 21, 2023 at 1:09 PM

FWD: We sounded the alarm 🚨 — and we were right

Free Press Help us ramp up our campaign to protect your privacy. We wanted to make sure you saw Candace’s email from the other day. In a post-Roe America, our personal data is at greater risk than ever — but we’re fighting back. Fuel our efforts to protect everyone’s privacy with a donation …

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August 20, 2023 at 3:14 PM

We sounded the alarm 🚨 — and we were right

Free Press Help us ramp up our campaign to protect your privacy. The Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has jeopardized ALL privacy rights. Help us double down on our fight to protect your personal data with a donation today. Friend, Last June, we sounded the ala…

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August 18, 2023 at 1:02 PM

The fight for data privacy is *personal*

Free Press With your help, we can get real privacy protections Friend, Have you logged into Facebook recently and noticed more misleading political content in your feed than usual — rather than content from your friends and family? Or maybe you’ve seen an increase in spam emails…

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August 16, 2023 at 8:24 PM

We have so much to celebrate

Free Press Reflecting on how Free Press has grown and changed Friend, Free Press turns 20 this week — marking two decades of our fight to transform our media system. Let’s celebrate! As the co-CEO of Free Press — and someone who has been here for 19 of those years — I’ve been …

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August 11, 2023 at 7:07 PM

FWD: Tell Congress: Pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act

Free Press Your data-privacy rights are on the line. Act now. Friend, Law enforcement can buy all kinds of information about us without a warrant. That includes our browsing and search histories. There’s a bill that would close this dangerous loophole: Demand that Congress protect everyone’…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

August 10, 2023 at 8:07 PM

Your data sold to the highest bidder?!

Free Press Your data-privacy rights are on the line. Act now. Right now, government officials are buying our data from private companies that gather and store unprecedented amounts of information about us — a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. Tell your members of Congr…

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August 2, 2023 at 6:33 PM

Explained: Why companies are tracking & selling your data

Free Press You shouldn't have to go off the grid to have privacy Friend, Almost all of us use digital platforms and services that gather our information, including details about our identities, our locations and our browsing and search histories. In fact, it's nearly impossible …

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July 29, 2023 at 6:13 PM

Congress must value information over influence

Free Press What you need to know about the journalism-policy debate in Congress Friend, House Republicans are trying to gut the Corporation for Public Broadcasting — and the Senate is pushing a terrible bill that would make it even harder for independent news outlets to survive…

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July 28, 2023 at 3:14 PM

Protect NPR, not Sinclair

Free Press With your help, we can win journalism policies that’ll help communities We believe in a better media system — one where publicly funded local journalism flourishes and harmful Big Media lobbying does not. If you believe in it too, please chip in before our end-of-mo…

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July 25, 2023 at 7:03 PM

☀️Your July updates from Free Press

Free Press PBS under attack yet again, Threads and so much more Welcome to the July edition of the Free Press Update, our monthly newsletter. Ready to dig into everything we’ve been up to in the last month? Tell Majority Leader Schumer: Hold a Floor Vote for FCC Nominees Before…

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July 23, 2023 at 2:46 PM

FWD: [Petition] Sen. Schumer: Hold a floor vote on FCC nominees

Free Press It’s Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s job to make sure a vote happens. Friend, We’re urging Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold a floor vote in the Senate to confirm the FCC nominees without further delay — so the deadlock at the agency will finally end. We’re trying to gather as …

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

July 22, 2023 at 7:56 PM

[Petition] Sen. Schumer: Hold a floor vote on FCC nominees

Free Press It’s Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s job to make sure a vote happens. Friend, The FCC has remained in an unprecedented 2–2 deadlock since January 2021, the result of efforts by the phone, cable and broadcast lobbies to hamstring the agency that oversees their businesses. Ea…

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July 20, 2023 at 5:47 PM

FWD - [Petition] Congress: Protect public media funding

Free Press We’re hoping you’ll add your name today. Public media is under attack. Again. A House subcommittee just voted to end federal funding for NPR and PBS. But we don’t see your name on our petition yet. Will you join us in telling Congress to protect funding for public media? Thanks f…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

July 19, 2023 at 5:22 PM

[Petition]: Congress: Protect public media funding

Free Press Urgent: Congress needs to hear from activists like you today House Republicans are threatening to defund public media. Help us fight back: Take action. Friend, Bad news: Republicans in Congress just proposed eliminating all federal funding for the Corporation for Publ…

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July 18, 2023 at 4:53 PM

FWD: Republicans are targeting Big Bird again

Free Press Public-media funding is once again on the chopping block Friend, public media is under attack. Again. House Republicans have proposed eliminating all federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a main revenue source for the hundreds of local NPR and PBS stations ac…

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

July 17, 2023 at 11:04 PM

Republicans are targeting Big Bird again

Free Press Public-media funding is once again on the chopping block Friend, The House GOP has been busy attacking everything and everyone that doesn’t fit into their narrow view of American culture. It’s a list that includes history teachers, children’s books, racial-justice p…

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July 15, 2023 at 12:47 PM

FWD: Tell Sen. Schumer: Hold a floor vote on FCC nominees!

Free Press We’ve waited long enough for a fully functioning FCC Friend, We’re urging Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold a floor vote in the Senate to confirm the FCC nominees without further delay — so the deadlock at the agency will finally end. We’re trying to gather as many petition sig…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

July 14, 2023 at 9:23 PM

Tell Sen. Schumer: Hold a floor vote on FCC nominees!

Free Press We’ve waited long enough for a fully functioning FCC Friend, The FCC has remained in an unprecedented 2–2 deadlock since January 2021, the result of efforts by the phone, cable and broadcast lobbies to hamstring the agency that oversees their businesses. Earlier this year, …

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

July 13, 2023 at 9:19 PM

Explained: What’s the deal with Threads?

Free Press Make sure you aren’t trading one mismanaged hellscape for another. Friend, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are going toe to toe in more than one arena. Their latest cage match is over the future of micro-blogging, the social-media format that involves short posts shar…

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  Jessica and Craig, Free Press · [email protected]

July 7, 2023 at 1:13 PM

You vs. Big Media

Free Press Another media system is possible Another media system — one that isn’t dominated by harmful Big Media-backed narratives and the consolidation of local newsrooms — is possible. Help us hit our fundraising goal of 250 donations with a gift by midnight » Take a mome…

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July 6, 2023 at 2:26 PM

FWD: This bill must be stopped

Free Press We need all hands on deck if we’re going to stop the JCPA Friend, The Journalism Competition and Privacy Act (JCPA) — an awful bill in Congress that would weaken the local journalism its champions claim it would save — is on the move. The JCPA would send a tiny portion of Google’…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

July 5, 2023 at 4:14 PM

This bill must be stopped

Free Press We need all hands on deck if we’re going to stop the JCPA The JCPA would make the local-journalism crisis much worse and we need your help to stop it. Rush a donation by 7/9 » Ugh, friend. Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the controv…

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June 30, 2023 at 8:39 PM

This week set us back. But it will not crush our spirits.

Free Press Free Press condemns SCOTUS erosion of equal opportunity and human rights Friend, This week the Supreme Court issued three rulings eroding equality and human rights. The majority opinions are tough to read and seem to come from an alternate reality where there is no …

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June 28, 2023 at 6:36 PM

🗞️Here’s your June Free Press Update:

Free Press Right-wing cries to defund PBS, funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program, and more Welcome to the June edition of the Free Press Update, our monthly newsletter. Let’s dig into everything we’ve been up to in the last month: The Black Future Newsstand Experience…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

June 22, 2023 at 6:17 PM

FWD: Internet access is in jeopardy for millions of people

Free Press Urge Congress to save the Affordable Connectivity Program Friend, Home internet is as essential as electricity. But it’s also super-expensive. That’s where the FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program comes in: It gives households living near the poverty line or enrolled in other fed…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

June 21, 2023 at 8:04 PM

Millions living near the poverty line could lose home internet❗

Free Press Urge Congress to save the Affordable Connectivity Program Friend, You don’t need me to tell you that the cost of home internet is ridiculously expensive. And for too many people, that hefty price tag put home internet far out of reach — until the FCC created the Affor…

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

June 16, 2023 at 1:17 PM

Explained: What happened when PBS fact-checked Trump’s lies

Free Press PBS dared to hold Trump accountable — and experienced a right-wing backlash. Friend, During its broadcast of Trump’s post-indictment rally on June 13, PBS NewsHour dared to hold the former president accountable. The show added factual context to the disgraced former president’s li…

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June 15, 2023 at 8:50 PM

Explained: What happened when PBS fact-checked Trump’s lies

Free Press PBS dared to hold Trump accountable — and experienced a right-wing backlash. Friend, PBS must have really crossed the line this time. During its broadcast of Trump’s post-indictment rally on June 13, PBS NewsHour added factual context to the disgraced former presid…

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June 14, 2023 at 8:43 PM

FWD: The cost of high-speed internet is too damn high

Free Press This urgent petition is missing your name Friend, Despite its importance, broadband-internet access in the United States is far from universal. Tens of millions of households rely on the Affordable Connectivity Program to make ends meet and ensure they have the ability to partici…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

June 13, 2023 at 10:07 PM

The cost of high-speed internet is too damn high

Free Press The more people who join us in demanding action, the more powerful we’ll be Friend, In 2021, our advocacy paved the way for historic broadband provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure package that President Biden signed into law. This investment in closing the digi…

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June 11, 2023 at 2:08 PM

FWD: We’re ready to stop Sinclair. Are you?

Free Press Sinclair has destroyed local news for far too long. Friend, We’re fighting tooth and nail to hold right-wing media conglomerates like Sinclair accountable for gutting local newsrooms and broadcasting propaganda — and we’re pushing Congress to reject industry-written bills like the…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

June 9, 2023 at 9:03 PM

We’re ready to stop Sinclair. Are you?

Free Press Sinclair has destroyed local news for far too long. Friend, All across the United States, local journalism has been decimated. For millions of people, it simply doesn’t exist — and communities are suffering in the absence of essential local reporting. Without local n…

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

June 8, 2023 at 6:29 PM

Explained: How Musk is setting up Twitter’s new CEO to fail

Free Press A new CEO won’t fix the hellscape that is Twitter Friend, Twitter’s new boss has inherited a company in a tailspin — and unless Linda Yaccarino takes up advice Elon Musk has ignored, the social-media platform is destined to crash and burn. According to new reporting…

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June 7, 2023 at 11:06 PM

FWD: Tell the Senate: We need a fully functional FCC now 🚨

Free Press Making sure you saw Heather’s email Friend, We’re urging the Senate to confirm the FCC nominees without delay — so the deadlock at the agency will finally end. We’re trying to generate as many petition signatures as possible — but it doesn’t look like you’ve taken action yet. Wil…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

June 6, 2023 at 10:07 PM

President Biden was inaugurated more than two years ago. It’s June 2023 and we still don’t have a fully functional FCC. 🤯 Tell the Senate to confirm the FCC nominees without delay!

Free Press This delay is harming millions of people. Enough. Friend, President Biden was sworn into office on Jan. 21, 2021. Flash forward more than two years later: It’s June 2023, and we still don’t have a fully functional Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Never before…

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May 31, 2023 at 6:37 PM

We're counting on you

Free Press Could you help us hit our May fundraising goal? Help Free Press hit a critical May fundraising goal with a donation before midnight >> Friend, Whether you’ve been following Free Press for a long time or just recently joined our movement, you may know that one …

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May 30, 2023 at 7:33 PM

Your May Free Press update is ready

Free Press Biden’s new FCC nominee, Sinclair’s destruction of local news & more Welcome to the May edition of the Free Press Update, our monthly newsletter. It was another busy month around here and we have a lot to cover — let’s dig in: President Biden Nominates Anna Gomez…

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May 26, 2023 at 5:33 PM

Elon Musk 🤝 Ron DeSantis

Free Press We’re monitoring DeSantis and his manipulation of the media to push forward his agenda Friend— Earlier this week, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) announced his run for President through a live Twitter Spaces event. The event was a colossal disaster — full of tech snafus …

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

May 23, 2023 at 6:45 PM

BREAKING: We finally have a new nominee to fill the fifth seat at the FCC

Free Press The end of the FCC deadlock may be in sight Big news: President Biden nominated Anna Gomez — a State Department senior technology adviser, former FCC and National Telecommunications and Information Administration official, and corporate attorney — to fill the fifth an…

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May 18, 2023 at 6:34 PM

FWD: Tell Google: Stop aiding abortion prosecutors❗

Free Press Google is collecting info on people visiting abortion clinics Friend, Last year Google promised that it would delete the location histories of users visiting abortion clinics. However, new research shows that Google is still collecting and retaining location histories on people ma…

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May 17, 2023 at 2:03 PM

Tell Google: Stop aiding abortion prosecutors❗

Free Press Google is collecting info on people visiting abortion clinics This is bad: Despite claims to the contrary, Google is still collecting and retaining at least two distinct pieces of location data from individuals visiting abortion clinics. Prosecutors could easily weapo…

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May 16, 2023 at 6:36 PM

FWD: Explained: Why CNN provided a platform for Trump

Free Press CNN’s Trump town hall showed the lengths networks will go to in pursuit of profits. We just wanted to make sure you had a chance to read Timothy’s email from the other day on why CNN provided a platform for Trump at its town hall. You can read it below! —All of us at Free Press …

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

May 15, 2023 at 7:50 PM

CNN’s Trump trainwreck

Free Press CNN’s Trump town hall showed the lengths networks will go to in pursuit of profits. Friend, The pageantry of lies that passed for a town hall last week was yet another low point in CNN’s coverage of Donald Trump. To absolutely no one’s surprise, the former president…

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May 13, 2023 at 1:03 PM

FWD: URGENT ACTION NEEDED → Stop the JCPA!

Free Press Thousands have already taken action — will you join them? The Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) has been reintroduced in the Senate. Spoiler alert: It’s still bad, and would benefit right-wing media conglomerates like Sinclair instead of local communities that need…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

May 12, 2023 at 8:34 PM

URGENT ACTION NEEDED → Stop the JCPA!

Free Press Join us in calling on the Senate to stop the JCPA. Sinclair’s out here shutting down local newsrooms while Congress is pushing a bill that would line the company’s pockets. Tell your senators to reject the JCPA. Friend, Our legal team has scoured the details of …

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

May 8, 2023 at 5:12 PM

FWD - Explained: How lawmakers and regulators are helping Sinclair destroy local news

Free Press Why right-wing media conglomerate Sinclair is getting away with it Hey Friend, we just wanted to make sure you had a chance to read Timothy’s email from the other day on how lawmakers and regulators are helping media conglomerate Sinclair destroy local news as we know it. You can …

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

May 6, 2023 at 1:07 PM

Explained: How lawmakers and regulators are helping Sinclair destroy local news

Free Press Why right-wing media conglomerate Sinclair is getting away with it Friend, Sometimes lawmakers write legislation that would do the opposite of its stated goal. Nowhere is this more evident than in two recent bills — one introduced at the state level and another in th…

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