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The guardrails protecting democracy may have buckled, but they are not broken. Autocratic forces are ascendant in America, but the story isn’t fully written. Truth-telling independent media is one remaining bulwark against Trump’s unrestrained exercise of power. Our nonprofit newsroom is built for what’s ahead. No oligarchs or billionaires can tell us what to publish. Please stand with us.

There’s a great MoJo explainer by Siddhartha Mahanta and Nick Baumann up today on the SOPA blackout. This video is a good enhancer.

A big part of some of the bigger-than-average gains (see Kate Sheppard‘s Keystone piece today) against environmental folly of late are thanks to a truly free and unhindered internet. Also worth a look: our slideshow of major websites that went dark on Wednesday in protest of SOPA.