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This week the Washington Post published a feature about The Bulwark. I think the reporter did a nice job capturing the spirit of who we are and what we’re doing here:
The Bulwark is a little bit like if you invited the socially liberal, fiscally conservative kids you knew in college to a dinner party with your erstwhile #Resistance relatives who still make jokes about Trump’s tan. It’s a motley ideological crew, but they’re united in their anxiety for a second Trump term.
— Jesús Rodríquez, Washington Post
Today, I’d like you to invite you to become a member of The Bulwark.
Our mission is to provide reporting and analysis in defense of America’s liberal democracy. We are laser focused on the 2024 election and making sure that Americans understand the threat Donald Trump poses to our great experiment in self-governance.
You’re a free subscriber to our newsletters and podcasts, so you probably noticed that you’re getting a lot of Bulwark content already—and getting it all for free. Without any annoying ads on the website.
We built The Bulwark that way on purpose.
By making most of what we do free, we’re trying to arm people with facts and analysis so they can make the case in their communities that sitting out this election out or voting third party puts our democracy in peril.
The support of our paid Bulwark+ members is what makes that possible.
Our members support us so that we can make most of what we publish free, so that our work can have the biggest impact. Their support has allowed us to bring on former representative Adam Kinzinger as a contributor and George Conway to do a show about the Trump trials. The support of our members is what has fueled our growth on YouTube, where millions of Americans get their news.
A Bulwark+ membership does come with a few perks—unlimited access to The Triad and Press Pass newsletters, ad-free and member-only podcasts like Just Between Us with Mona Charen on Tuesdays and The Secret Podcast I do with JVL each Friday. Plus there are live chats and community commenting features on the site.
These perks are nice, but most members tell us they join because they want to support the mission and join a community that engages in good faith.
Honest news. Smart analysis. Good faith.
The Bulwark has been the most exciting project of my career. I never expected that this many people would be this passionate about civility, bipartisanship, good-faith disagreement—the whole Bulwark vibe. We’ve grown faster than we ever imagined, and we’re constantly impressed by how engaged, determined, and committed our readers are. It comes through in the comments on the newsletters and podcasts. It comes through in the emails you send us. And in the chats on our livestreams. And especially at our in-person events. You get the point: It comes through everywhere.
We have to keep up that intensity. I’ll make you a promise right now: The Bulwark will not tire. We will not flag. We will not slow down.
As JVL likes to say, we’re all in this together. We know you’ll keep us going, just as we keep you going.
—Sarah Longwell, Publisher
The Bulwark is a reader supported publication. Your membership helps to sustain the work we do here.
