Holy shit, Day by day Kos is 23 years outdated. That’s geriatric in web years.
And the explanation we’ve lasted this lengthy? It’s not the headlines. It’s not the algorithms. It’s not even the employees (together with me!).
It’s you. The neighborhood.
From the earliest days of Day by day Kos, this wasn’t a standard 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 nicely. Previously 12 months alone:
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You revealed over 40,600 tales
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Greater than 4,500 completely 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 mean day, 21,000 of you log in to learn, write, suggest, and reply. On Election Day final 12 months, practically 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 searching ahead to what comes subsequent.
For a lot of our historical past, Day by day Kos made cash by means of advertisements, political campaigns, and partnerships with advocacy teams. That meant that we had been promoting entry to you. You had been the product.
However that’s modified. Right this moment, round 80% of our income comes instantly from you—by means of subscriptions and donations.
That shift modifications every little thing. It implies that every little thing we do—each technical improve, each editorial choice, each neighborhood function we develop—has to reply a number of easy however important questions:
Does it assist you to keep knowledgeable—with out all of the both-siderism noise?
Does it provide the info and framing to push again on right-wing spin?
Does it make you’re feeling extra outfitted to speak to others about what’s at stake?
Does it assist you to 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 individuals. About pleasure, and connection, and that unusual, highly effective solidarity that comes from figuring out you’re in it with 1000’s of others who give a rattling.
Certainly, years in the past, a neighborhood member coined the phrase, “Got here for the politics, stayed for the neighborhood”—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 12 months.
So thanks—for 23 years of combating, constructing, laughing, grieving, successful, 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 explanation 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.
