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June 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM

We’re going LIVE today!

Free Press Are you free this afternoon? Please join us for a community conversation at 12 p.m. ET TODAY Friend, We’re just hours away from our webinar with Baher Azmy of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Damon Hewitt of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and write…

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June 4, 2025 at 4:16 PM

One more day to RSVP!

Free Press Are you free tomorrow? Please join us for a community conversation on Thurs., June 5, at 12 p.m. ET Friend, The second Trump administration has fully weaponized our own government against us, seeking to intimidate and discourage people from standing up to…

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  Ruth, Free Press · [email protected]

June 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM

FWD: Trump’s attacks on protesters, the press and privacy rights

Free Press Join us on Thursday! Please join us for a community conversation on Thurs., June 5, at 12 p.m. ET Friend, Each and every day, we learn of another egregious violation of First Amendment freedoms from this lawless administration and its enablers: The ongoing removal of rep…

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  Nora, Free Press · [email protected]

June 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM

[RSVP] Free Speech in the Age of Retaliation

Free Press Please join us on Thurs., June 5 Please join us for a community conversation on Thurs., June 5, at 12 p.m. ET Friend, Last week, Free Press proudly hosted an event in Los Angeles as part of FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez’s nationwide tour opposing government c…

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May 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM

FWD: 5/31

Free Press Bumping this to the top of your inbox Friend, we wanted to bump Dutch’s email back up to the top of your inbox. The clock on our end-of-month fundraising goal of $10,000 stops at midnight. With so much at stake — cuts to public media, attacks on free speech and the press, and th…

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  Dutch, Free Press · [email protected]

May 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM

5/31

Free Press It’s on *us* to continue fighting back Make an urgent gift to Free Press by the end of the month » Friend, we don’t blame you if you’ve been having a hard time keeping track of everything that happened this month. Here’s just a teaser: To kick May off, Pres…

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  Jessica at Free Press · [email protected]

May 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM

ICYMI: A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Gomez

Free Press Protect your right to free speech Friend, Yesterday, we hosted a great conversation with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, journalists and lawmakers about growing threats to free speech — and our panelists did not mince words: “I launched this First Amendment tour t…

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May 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM

We’re going LIVE today!

Free Press Are you free this afternoon? Please join us for a community conversation at 12:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. ET TODAY Friend, We’re just hours away from our livestream with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez. Very few policymakers have been as brave as Gomez in speaking o…

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May 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM

FWD: [RSVP] A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Gomez

Free Press Join us to hear from FCC Commissioner Gomez Friend, Join us tomorrow for a conversation with a fearless FCC commissioner who has put everything on the line to fight Trump and Carr’s authoritarian overreach. Here are the details: WHAT: The Public Interest in Free Speech: A Conv…

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  Brenda at Free Press Action · [email protected]

May 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM

[VOTE] Free Press Action has been nominated!

Free Press Action Just one click from you goes a long way … Vote for us today! Friend, Each month, CREDO Mobile selects three progressive nonprofits to receive a generous grant — and we’re honored to be nominated for the month of May! But we need your help: CREDO hosts a…

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May 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM

FWD: Who's attacking Daniel Tiger? 🐯

Free Press Action Take action to save popular children’s programming Friend, If you have a child or care for a loved one’s child, you know how essential PBS KIDS programs like Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood and Sesame Street are to their educational development and imagination. Or maybe you …

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

May 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM

Who's attacking Daniel Tiger? 🐯

Free Press Action Take action to save popular children’s programming *We’re making it easier than ever to take action with us: If we already have your information in our records, you just need to click one of the links or button below to instantly sign the petition.* Tel…

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May 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM

[RSVP] A Conversation with FCC Commissioner Gomez

Free Press Please join us on May 28 Please join us for a community conversation on Wed., May 28, at 12:30 p.m. PT / 3:30 p.m. ET Friend, Free Press is honored to host a panel and listening session with FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez to discuss the Trump administration’s …

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May 17, 2025 at 2:02 PM

Free Press Update: May 2025

Free Press Check out our monthly recap to see what we’ve been up to Friend, Welcome to the May 2025 Free Press Update, our monthly newsletter recapping as much of our work from the last month as possible into one email. This one has a little extra info since we missed our April…

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

May 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM

FWD: Republicans are determined to crush nonprofits

Free Press Action Stop this tyrannical overreach Friend, On Wednesday morning, the House Ways and Means Committee advanced budget reconciliation legislation that included this nonprofit killer provision — and now the full House could vote on it with very little warning. Enacting this legisl…

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  Jenna, Free Press Action · [email protected]

May 13, 2025 at 10:35 PM

Republicans are determined to crush nonprofits

Free Press Action A frightening bill is back from the dead Call Congress right away to oppose a dangerous power grab: 202-688-0628. Friend, In November, right after Trump’s reelection, many of you helped us defeat H.R. 9495, dubbed the nonprofit-killer bill. Supporters…

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

May 9, 2025 at 8:33 PM

Explained: The right-wing takeover of Voice of America

Free Press Trump’s megaphone for right-wing propaganda Friend, Earlier this week, we learned that senior Trump adviser Kari Lake wants to turn over control of the Voice of America (VOA) newsroom to the notorious pro-Trump propagandists at One America News.1 One America News is …

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  Brenda at Free Press Action · [email protected]

May 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM

We’re on the CREDO ballot!

Free Press Action Fund the fight for your digital rights without spending a cent Cast your vote for Free Press Action and help us win a grant from CREDO Mobile. Exciting news! You can help us raise money without donating a cent. This month, Free Press Action is one of th…

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  Free Press · [email protected]

May 3, 2025 at 5:23 PM

Democracy’s early warning system

Free Press More urgent than ever Friend, Today marks World Press Freedom Day, a global acknowledgment of the importance of independent journalism as a safeguard against democratic backsliding. Here in the United States, ongoing attacks from the Trump administration weaken the …

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  Brenda Rivas, Free Press · [email protected]

May 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM

Last chance to double your impact

Free Press Help sustain the work ahead Friend, This week, we launched a goal of securing 100 gifts by midnight TONIGHT to fuel our work fighting the Trump administration’s catastrophic cuts to public media, attacks on free speech and a free press, and so much more. The truth is…

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May 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM

FWD: 100 days down, 995 more to go

Free Press It’s not too late to have an impact on the days to come … Friend, we just wanted to make sure you saw Candace’s message from yesterday. Friend, We’re officially 100 days into the second Trump administration, and it’s been nothing short of a disaster for free speech, a…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

April 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM

100 days down, 995 more to go

Free Press Every dollar you give today will have 2x the impact on our work Friend, We’re officially 100 days into the second Trump administration, and it’s been nothing short of a disaster for free speech, a free press and privacy. To make matters worse, the spread of disinforma…

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  Kimberly Longey, Free Press · [email protected]

April 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM

2x your impact on the next 100 days

Free Press We have our work cut out for us — you can help Friend, today marks Trump’s first 100 days in office. And if you think it feels more like 100 years have passed, we can’t say we disagree. As we witness the Trump administration’s relentless attacks on our fundamental ri…

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 26, 2025 at 2:36 PM

ICYMI: Free Press Action members visited congressional offices this week

Free Press Action The American public rejects this grift Friend, Throughout this week, Free Press Action supporters joined our staff in dropping by their local congressional offices to demand that lawmakers do everything in their power to oppose the rampant corruption of the Tru…

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  The Free Press Team · [email protected]

April 23, 2025 at 3:35 PM

FWD: Trump’s latest attack on 60 Minutes

Free Press Trump and Carr won’t let journalists do their jobs Friend, The government should not control what kind of journalism you have access to — and going after 60 Minutes for its interview with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is a clear First Amendment violation. Sign our petition demand…

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  The Free Press Action Team · [email protected]

April 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM

FWD: Project 2025 laid out the blueprint

Free Press Action The stakes have never been higher — we need your help Friend, In just one week, Trump moved to yank $1.1 billion from public media and demanded the FCC pull CBS’ broadcast licenses — proof he’ll use every lever to crush coverage he can’t control. Your donation to Free Pres…

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM

Ready to drop by your local congressional office?

Free Press Action We need your help this week Friend, This week, Congress is on recess — meaning lawmakers should be back home and ready to hear from you: their constituents. If you haven’t already, please sign up to drop by your local congressional office and stand up against the corrupt b…

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  Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM

FWD: Democracy is NOT for sale

Free Press Action If you have any free time next week … Friend, The corrupt Trump/Musk regime has already made its federal budget priorities clear: Your taxpayer dollars are no longer earmarked for beneficial government services like Social Security and public media. Instead, the authoritari…

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  Dutch at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM

Project 2025 laid out the blueprint

Free Press Action The stakes have never been higher — we need your help Friend, This week, the Trump White House fired a dangerous one-two punch at the media: First, Trump called on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to strip CBS of its broadcast license following a 60 Minutes intervie…

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM

Democracy is NOT for sale

Free Press Action Congress needs to hear from us before the month is over. Sign up to drop by your local congressional office to defend democracy from the billionaires. Friend, Many of you took part in a National Day of Action on April 5 to demand that the lawless Trump …

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  Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 16, 2025 at 4:06 PM

FWD: [ACT NOW] Block this bad budget

Free Press Action Urgent: Public media is on the chopping block Friend, The White House wants to zero out funding for public media — which would fulfill long-standing pledges from far-right figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Elon Musk and Project 2025 extremists to defund NPR and PBS. I…

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  Candace at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM

[ACT NOW] Block this bad budget

Free Press Action Urgent: Public media is on the chopping block *We’re making it easier than ever to take action with us: If we already have your information in our records, you just need to click one of the links or button below to instantly sign the petition.* Don’t Let…

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  Timothy Karr, Free Press · [email protected]

April 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM

Trump’s latest attack on 60 Minutes

Free Press They don’t want you to see through their lies *We’re making it easier than ever to take action with us: If we already have your information in our records, you just need to click one of the links or button below to instantly sign the petition.* Tell FCC Chairm…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

April 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM

Delivered: Your FCC comments

Free Press We’ll make sure Chairman Carr hears your voices Friend, We’ve delivered more than 13,000 signatures directly to the Federal Communications Commission in opposition to Chairman Carr’s attack on CBS and press freedom. Public comments are a crucial part of the agency…

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM

ICYMI: Hands Off! National Day of Action

Free Press Action Standing up for democracy Friend, On April 5, millions of passionate advocates rallied as part of the “Hands Off!” National Day of Action. Free Press Action is proud to have joined with partners from organizations fighting for important issues like voting righ…

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  Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM

FWD: [RSVP] Hands Off! National Day of Action

Free Press Action We need your help this weekend Friend, Trump and Musk have made it clear that they are for the billionaires alone — with the rest of us paying a grave price for their corrupt gains. Left unchecked, this authoritarian regime will continue shredding essential government servi…

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  Heather at Free Press Action · [email protected]

April 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM

[RSVP] Hands Off! National Day of Action

Free Press Action Please join us on Saturday Find a rally near you for a National Day of Action to defend democracy on Sat., April 5. Friend, Free Press Action is partnering with more than 100 groups to organize a National Day of Action for democracy, for workers’ rights…

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  Brenda Rivas, Free Press · [email protected]

March 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM

How far your gift can go

Free Press Just hours to go to hit our March goal Hi Friend, we’re asking you to make a gift toward our March end-of month-goal of 200 individual donations. Here are just a few of the ways we’ll put it to work: Your gift powers tools and outreach to supporters like you who we …

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  Free Press · [email protected]

March 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM

FWD: Four big reasons we need your support today

Free Press Making sure you saw Candace’s email Friend, From fighting attacks on the media to working to protect our right to privacy, it’s an all-hands-on-deck moment at Free Press — which requires big, bold organizing and policy work to protect our democracy. Will you give to Free Press t…

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  Candace at Free Press · [email protected]

March 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Four big reasons we need your support today

Free Press Help us reach our March fundraising goal Friend, I’ll get right to it. Here are four big reasons why Free Press needs your support before the end of the month: Republicans in Congress — with the full-throated support of the Trump administration — are attacking publi…

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  Sarah Stone, Free Press Action · [email protected]

March 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Strengthening local news in a time of crisis

Free Press Action Dreaming and building into the future Friend, Amid the fears that many are facing under the second Trump administration — cuts to federal services, skyrocketing costs and threats of mass deportations — people need information about what’s happening in their com…

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  The Free Press Team · [email protected]

March 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM

Free Press Update: March 2025

Free Press It’s been another busy month for our team … Friend, Welcome to the March 2025 Free Press Update, our monthly newsletter recapping as much of our work from the last month as possible into one email. This one has a little extra info since we didn’t get a newsletter out…

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  Alex Frandsen, Free Press Action · [email protected]

March 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM

ICYMI: Local News in Times of Crisis

Free Press Action Stand up for the journalism you deserve Friend, Yesterday, we hosted a great conversation about our vision for the future of journalism. We shared more details about the policy agenda developed by members of the Media Power Collaborative and Free Press Action, …

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  Sarah Freeman-Woolpert, Free Press Action · [email protected]

March 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM

FWD: [RSVP] Local News in Times of Crisis

Free Press Action Join us on Friday! Friend, This Friday, we're holding a webinar featuring journalists and media advocates who are on the ground in local communities and in statehouses fighting for the future of journalism. Be sure to RSVP now so you don’t miss their insights about press fr…

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March 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM

FWD: We need to protect NPR and PBS

Free Press Action Did you see Craig’s email? Friend, At last week’s “Protect Public Media Day” protest, Free Press Co-CEO Craig Aaron made a powerful appeal for the independent public-media system we need. Between Musk’s proposal to zero out funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasti…

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  Craig Aaron, Free Press Action · [email protected]

March 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM

We need to protect NPR and PBS

Free Press Action The billionaires want us running scared Friend, Last week, dozens of activists and our allies joined me outside NPR headquarters to protest the Trump regime’s extreme attacks on public media. Trump, Musk and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr want journalists to stay ti…

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  Alex Frandsen, Free Press Action · [email protected]

March 7, 2025 at 11:23 PM

Putting media power back in the hands of communities

Free Press Action Please join us at next Friday’s webinar Join us on Fri., March 14, to discuss a bold policy blueprint for this nation’s local-news crisis. Friend, Journalism is under threat, and our communities are paying the price. The Trump administration is attempti…

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  The Free Press Team · [email protected]

March 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM

FWD: Speak out against government censorship

Free Press Brendan Carr’s distorted reality Friend, Add your name to demand that the FCC stop its unethical campaign of intimidation and censorship. *One click on the link or button will instantly add your name to our petition if we have your details on file.* Then read Heather’s message b…

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  Heather Franklin, Free Press · [email protected]

March 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Speak out against government censorship

Free Press The Trump administration is trying to control the media and twist the truth *We’re making it easier than ever to take action with us: If we already have your information in our records, you just need to click one of the links or button below to instantly sign the …

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  Free Press · [email protected]

March 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM

2X MATCH EXTENDED FWD: Your monthly impact DOUBLED to fight authoritarianism

Free Press One more chance to double your monthly impact Friend, we’ll start with the bad news first: We fell slightly short of our February goal of signing up 50 new Connectors to give to Free Press every month. But here’s the good news: Our generous donor has decided to extend their mat…

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