Today Is My 5-Year Anniversary

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Five years ago I was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and my oncologist told me the average lifespan following diagnosis was . . . about five years. But here I am, feeling fineĀ¹ and testing out brand new chemo meds that didn’t even exist in 2014.

So what do I want for my anniversary? How about a donation to our fundraising campaign dedicated to corruption in politicsā€”a timely topic if ever there was one? All contributions will be doubled, so this is a great bargain.

Still not enough? Tomorrow is my birthday. I’d like a cake and a contribution to our fundraising drive. How about it?

Still not convinced? Today’s catblogging offered you three separate pictures of two different cats. That must be worth a contribution all by itself.

Or maybe I can guilt you into it? After all, there’s no telling how many years I have left to pester you about fundraising drives. You’d feel bad if you ignored this one and it turned out to be my last, wouldn’t you?Ā²

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Ā¹Except for the Evil Dex, of course, but waddayougonnado? Things could be a whole lot worse.

Ā²Journalistic integrity forces me to acknowledge that this is unlikely. I should have many more years ahead of me. But I could always get hit by a bus.

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GREAT JOURNALISM, SLOW FUNDRAISING

Our team has been on fire latelyā€”publishing sweeping, one-of-a-kind investigations, ambitious, groundbreaking projects, and even releasing ā€œthe holy shit documentary of the year.ā€ And thatā€™s on top of protecting free and fair elections and standing up to bullies and BS when others in the media donā€™t.

Yet, we just came up pretty short on our first big fundraising campaign since Mother Jones and the Center for Investigative Reporting joined forces.

So, two things:

1) If you value the journalism we do but havenā€™t pitched in over the last few months, please consider doing so nowā€”we urgently need a lot of help to make up for lost ground.

2) If youā€™re not ready to donate but youā€™re interested enough in our work to be reading this, please consider signing up for our free Mother Jones Daily newsletter to get to know us and our reporting better. Maybe once you do, youā€™ll see itā€™s something worth supporting.

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