Twice a year we ask for your help keeping TPM alive and thriving. Today is one of those days. It’s very, very important to our whole operation. We’ve just kicked off our Annual TPM Membership Drive. We do this because TPM is chronicling — generating and saving the receipts of — our on-going national crisis and we cannot do that without growing our number of subscribers. If you’re a TPM reader but not a member (see below if you are a member!) please take this moment to join us by becoming a member. Maybe you used to be a member and your membership lapsed. We need you to come back and become a paying member. We have a 25% discount running for the duration of the drive.
What if you are a member? We need your help too. First, you can upgrade your membership. You can go from a Prime account to a Prime AF account or from Prime AF to Inside. But there’s something else you can add too, perhaps the most important. We have about 35,000 members currently. That’s 35,000 potential ambassadors to new readers and new members. Many of you know people who are on the outskirts of the TPM community but not members. Perhaps they’re full fledged TPM readers but not members. We’re not expecting anybody to make individual sales pitches on our behalf. But it is a huge, huge boost if you go on your social channels and let people know about TPM and our drive. Are you on Bluesky? Talk about us on Bluesky — or Facebook or even Twitter. Tell people what you love about TPM and how memberships funds our whole operation.
We’ve seen concretely over the year the critical role of independent media when democracy is on the ropes against rising authoritarianism. No media organization owned by a big diversified corporation can be independent. They are too vulnerable to a rogue president. They are owned by too many carrots and sticks. We’re different. We answer to no one but our readers and our values. That makes what we do critical in a moment like this. As I wrote above, we are chronicling the unfolding national crisis of democracy in America. Please help us do this job.
