Liberal Currents Needs Your Help

This is your chance to make a material difference in what voices are heard in this country.

For those of you who follow me here and not elsewhere, I wanted to announce The Liberal Currents Startup Fund.

Here are some people who think you ought to chip in:

In this time of authoritarian consolidation, building and supporting true opposition media is more important than ever. A loud opposition press with a long reach is a critical factor for successfully resisting presidents with ambitions of becoming dictators. There is a reason that consolidating control over the media system is one of the very first things that authoritarians do, every single time. And Trump has sought to do exactly that, with more and more signs every day that he is making headway.

But even where he has not consolidated his control, supposedly liberal media have been utterly inept at opposing him. As masked thugs kidnap people in broad daylight, as the military is sent into American cities, as the press itself is under assault, the owner of the New York Times proudly proclaimed: “We’re not the resistance. We are nobody’s opposition.” At a time when entire states are threatened by the administration for allowing a single transgender woman to participate in women’s sports, The Atlantic is publishing anti-trans writers who rant about “liberal misinformation bubbles.”

We are not a news organization. We won’t be replacing the New York Times anytime soon. But the country deserves a better, more principled publication that has the place in our media industry that The Atlantic does. Liberal Currents could one day occupy that role, if our growth continues as it has.

If you want to help us take our first real steps down that long road, please donate to the Liberal Currents Startup Fund today. This is your chance to make a material difference in what voices are heard in this country.