1/ Happy holidays! As a non-profit, @MotherJones depends on year-end donations to keep our newsroom digging into the stories you care about. We still need to raise $326K, so here's a thread to hopefully persuade you to pitch in. Every little bit helps: secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7D…
@MotherJones 2/ Like a lot of news orgs, we've compiled a most read stories of the year (and decade) list. What's telling is that they're (almost) all substantive investigations, be it into immigration detention, or shady rehabs, or Trump's super shady bit of tax fraud motherjones.com/media/2019/12/…
@MotherJones 3/ Some MoJo stories have an immediate, huge effect, like @Davidcorndc's 47% video (which literally changed the outcome of the 2012 election), or @shane_bauer's undercover private prison guard (which helped wake people up to conditions inside): motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer 4/ Sometimes we publish things that, well, we WISH had gotten the notice at the time that they later did. Like when @DavidCornDC wrote about Christopher Steele raising the alarm to FBI about Trump and Russian interference before the 2016 election: motherjones.com/politics/2016/…
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer 5/ That was the same day the Times published this really ill-considered story, which it has never walked back or explained: 
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer 6/ We've dedicated reporters to disinformation, the opioid crisis, gun violence, immigration, foreign interference, and voting rights, all thanks to the support of readers: motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer 7/ We make a point of explaining to our staff and our readers just how we make and spend our money: The tl;dr is this chart, but you can read a lot more about that here motherjones.com/themoment/
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer 8/ We don't rely on advertising, in part because our reporting tends to piss off big advertisers. The support of readers is how we, and all serious news orgs, will survive and thrive. shorensteincenter.org/mother-jones-c…
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer 9/ We also can't rely on advertising because doing so puts you at the mercy of the platforms, which are at best ruthless and at worse, actively undermining democracy and journalism, which @MonikaBauerlein and I wrote about here: motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer @MonikaBauerlein 10/ S that's where readers come in. If you want us to keep going, and growing, and leading the way for how non-profit fearless and unionized journalism can survive, please pitch in. Sustaining monthly donations are particularly helpful! secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/7D…
@MotherJones @DavidCornDC @shane_bauer @MonikaBauerlein 11/ More than 3,000 journalists got laid off this year. Overall there are 25% fewer journalists than 10 years ago, in newspapers, the decline is 45%. We've not just avoided layoffs, but steadily grown, tenaciously reporting on big stories often years before others. Thanks to you!
