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  First,  thank you. Because of your support, COURIER had its best grassroots fundraising month ever—with  5,000 online contributions in February alone .  That’s 5,000 grassroots supporters who believe in independent journalism’s power to hold the line when corporate media won’t. I want to share a long but important note about why our work (and your support!) has never been more urgent. Like many of you, I’ve watched the first month of the Trump administration unfold with a mix of anger and shock—not at what they’re doing (they warned us), but at how quickly they’re dismantling democracy and how unprepared too many Democratic leaders seem to be. Far-right extremists and billionaire oligarchs like Elon Musk have seized total control of the federal government, gutting institutions and consolidating power. Violent insurrectionists were pardoned. Our closest allies are being pushed aside and replaced with brutal dictators.  America is in crisis—the exact constitutio...