Hi there,  

Every day I visit the RealClearPolitics homepage and find articles that I deeply disagree with.  

If you’re like most RealClear readers, that’s an important reason why you visit RCP. It’s a feature, not a bug.

We all want to stay well informed, but we can’t do that by reading only those who tell us what we want to hear. That’s why we value RealClear’s commitment to viewpoint diversity: to showing the strongest arguments from right, left, and center.

I’m the president of RealClear Media Fund—a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that supports nonpartisan news aggregation, along with serious investigative reporting, commentary, and analysis on politics and public policy. The work that we support appears on RealClearPolitics and verticals such as Policy, Energy, Health, Education, and Books & Culture.  

One of your fellow readers, Carolyn, from San Antonio, recently sent us a message about why she finds the RealClear news experience so valuable:  

“I read RealClearPolitics at least 3 times weekly because it gives me access to some of my favorite writers, some writers that infuriate me but make me think and some that I probably wouldn't have access to without RCP.” 

Carolyn took her appreciation one step further and donated to RealClear Media Fund. 

If you appreciate the unique brand of viewpoint diversity that we bring to the media marketplace, and you haven’t yet done so, would you consider following Carolyn’s lead and advancing our mission through a tax-deductible year-end gift? 

The kind of news aggregation, commentary, and journalism that you see featured on RealClearPolitics cannot be sustained by advertising alone. This is why we need your support. Please use the link below to donate now.  

https://www.realclearmediafund.org/donate/ 

While I have your attention, you may recall that I emailed you a few weeks ago with some exciting news of how we’re fighting back against censorship and defending freedom of speech and press. 

RealClear Media Fund has inaugurated a new award as a rival to the Pulitzer Prize: The Samizdat Prize. Named after the underground publishing network in the former Soviet Union, the Samizdat Prize honors those journalists and public figures who did not flinch when censorship threatened. 

Because you’re a loyal RealClear reader, I’d like to extend a special invitation for you and your guests to join me at the upcoming Samizdat Prize gala in Palm Beach. I’d love to have a chance to meet you in person as we honor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Taibbi, and Miranda Devine. While they come from different perspectives, what connects them to each other, and to our mission, is a principled defense of free speech. 

Click this link for more info on the event and securing your tickets: https://realclearsamizdat.com/ 

I hope to meet you there, 

David DesRosiers 
President 
RealClear Media Fund