John,

The Trump administration just announced its intention to destroy American public broadcasting.

According to The New York Times, the White House plans to ask the Republican controlled Congress to rescind more than $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for NPR, PBS, and their local affiliates.

That’s nearly all the federal support public broadcasting receives.

If successful, it would devastate hundreds of local stations—especially in rural areas where public media is often the only reliable source of news.

With the Trump administration doubling down on its authoritarian tactics to silence and intimidate the press, your support for Independent media has never been more important. Can we count on you to fight back by contributing $25 or more today?

We’ve already seen Trump ban the Associated Press from the White House press pool, sue CBS News and The Des Moines Register, and unleash federal investigations into PBS and NPR. Now he’s trying to erase them entirely.

This is why COURIER exists.

When billionaires buy newspapers, networks cave to lawsuits, and the government tries to erase outlets that tell the truth, we don’t back down. We fight harder.

COURIER reaches more than 5 million Americans across social platforms and runs 11 state-based newsrooms in battleground states—covering the stories other outlets are too afraid or too compromised to touch.

We will be exposing this attack on public broadcasting across our network, so that voters understand exactly what’s at stake. And we will keep fighting until every community has access to independent, fact-based news.

If you believe in a free press—and you’re tired of watching it get dismantled—now is the time to act.

Chip in $25 or whatever you can today to support independent journalism that refuses to be silenced.

Donate NowIn solidarity,
The COURIER Team