Perhaps the single biggest easily identified cohort of TPM readers is from the academic community. So many .edu members and contributors! The heat map of the TPM readership lights up around college towns across the country. 

Quite a few of our .edu contributors have given very generously, so a special shoutout to them. Thank you for your support as we race to hit our $500,000 goal for the TPM Journalism Fund. 

If you haven’t managed to click through and make your contribution, now is the time. Under 48 hours to go!

As we make the final push to reach our $500,000 goal for the TPM Journalism Fund drive, I want to thank all of the lawyer contributors and see if I can convince a few more to help out. 

Some of the biggest contributions to date to the TPM Journalism Fund drive have come from the legal community. We can’t thank you enough for that. 

Much appreciation to those of you who stepped up in a big way in response to my post yesterday. One reader doubled his initial contribution, and several other readers also came forward with four-figure contributions.

Your substantial giving has pushed us close to the $400,000 mark. 

If we can get over that hump today, then we can spend next week sprinting toward $500,000 in the final stretch run. 

Keep it coming!

Each of you has a role to play in getting us over the $500,000 hump, but I want to home in on the heavy-hitters out there. We can’t do it without you, either. If you’re in a position to give into the four or five figures, we need you. We need you a lot. Click here. 

By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court has lanced the boil that was the independent state legislature theory. The majority opinion was authored by Chief Justice John Roberts.