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Okay, I’ve threatened and described what we’re doing in several posts. So here we go. This is 5th Anniversary week at TPM. Today is day one of our 6th year online. And we’re celebrating by kicking off our new fundraiser.

I’ll be following up with a number of posts describing our plans for expanded coverage of politics, public corruption and the 2006 election cycle and what this fundraiser is for. But here are the essentials …

We’re going to launch a new blog dedicated to chronicling, explaining and reporting on the interconnected web of public corruption scandals bubbling up out of the reigning Washington political machine. As we move into next year the coverage will also expand into how these different stories are playing in congressional elections around the country. What are we raising the money for? Simple. Salaries.

One of the reasons so few blogs do sustained, original reporting is that it’s hard, time-consuming work. And that’s near to impossible to do if you’ve got another full-time job making claims on your time. We want to hire one and hopefully two full-time reporter-bloggers to dig into this story, explain recent press reportage and distill it, work sources on Capitol Hill and around Washington, and report on it every day exclusively for you. We hope it’ll be a site you’ll want to visit every day.

Anyway, that’s the pitch. It’s an experiment and we hope you’ll be part of it with us. We’ll be following up with more details about what we’re planning throughout the week. Click here to make a contribution right now. And thank you so much in advance.

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