Holy shit, Day by day Kos is 23 years outdated. That’s geriatric in web years.
And the rationale we’ve lasted this lengthy? It’s not the headlines. It’s not the algorithms. It’s not even the workers (together with me!).
It’s you. The neighborhood.
From the earliest days of Day by day Kos, this wasn’t a conventional publication. It was a rowdy, passionate, purpose-driven neighborhood of progressives who understood one thing highly effective: After we arrange, once we inform the reality, once we battle collectively—we win.
That spirit is alive and effectively. Up to now yr alone:
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You revealed over 40,600 tales
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Greater than 4,500 totally different writers contributed
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The neighborhood submitted 1.9 million feedback
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And logged-in customers considered community-authored tales 17.5 million occasions
On a median day, 21,000 of you log in to learn, write, advocate, and reply. On Election Day final yr, almost 45,000 of you confirmed up. You’re not background noise. You’re the engine.
And that’s why celebrating our first 23 years—and looking out ahead to what comes subsequent.
For a lot of our historical past, Day by day Kos made cash by way of advertisements, political campaigns, and partnerships with advocacy teams. That meant that we have been promoting entry to you. You have been the product.
However that’s modified. Right this moment, round 80% of our income comes straight from you—by way of subscriptions and donations.
That shift modifications every thing. It implies that every thing we do—each technical improve, each editorial resolution, each neighborhood function we develop—has to reply a couple of easy however important questions:
Does it enable you keep knowledgeable—with out all of the both-siderism noise?
Does it provide the information and framing to push again on right-wing spin?
Does it make you’re feeling extra geared up to speak to others about what’s at stake?
Does it enable you really feel rather less alone within the battle?
And yeah—does it additionally make this place extra enjoyable?
As a result of it’s not nearly politics. It’s about folks. About pleasure, and connection, and that unusual, highly effective solidarity that comes from realizing you’re in it with hundreds of others who give a rattling.
Certainly, years in the past, a neighborhood member coined the phrase, “Came for the politics, stayed for the community”—and it immediately grew to become the neighborhood’s motto. That sense of solidarity issues greater than ever—particularly in a rustic that turned even more durable towards Donald Trump final yr.
So thanks—for 23 years of combating, constructing, laughing, grieving, profitable, and rising. Thanks for sticking with us. And thanks for serving to form the way forward for Day by day Kos—not simply as readers, however as the rationale this place exists in any respect.
Right here’s how one can assist us hold going sturdy for the following 23 years:
Right here’s to what comes subsequent.
