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I'll be direct with you.

We're in the final days of 2025, and I need to ask for your support. A generous donor has put up a matching fund that will double every contribution made to The American Prospect before December 31st. Your $50 becomes $100. Your $250 becomes $500.

This year, we’ve published ambitious and meaningful journalism. From our June 2025 special issue on how the destruction of consumer protections will lead to a golden age of scams to my recent reporting on the coming health care cost crisis, we’ve written and reported stories that corporate media ignores but that matter to real people. 

We could make more money if we took corporate advertising or put our work behind a paywall, but we believe that would compromise our ability to tell the truth no matter where it leads us. Independence and the ability to clearly explain who has power and what they’re doing with it has never been more important. 

We think this journalism needs to reach everyone, not just people who can afford a subscription. We don't chase clicks with outrage bait. We do the hard work: multi-month investigations, deep policy analysis, and the stories that require reading thousands of pages of documents and dozens of interviews.

And we can only do this because readers like you decide it's worth supporting.

With this match in effect, your donation goes twice as far. But only until midnight on December 31st.

I know you're getting a lot of these emails right now. I know everyone needs your support. But I also know that independent, reader-funded journalism is one of the few remaining checks on concentrated power in this country. And I know that The American Prospect is one of the only places still doing this kind of work consistently, without compromise.

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