They're Silencing Newsrooms. We're Building a New One.

🚨A month ago, CBS’ 60 Minutes iced a documentary exposing the horrific torture of immigrants at an insidious prison in El Salvador.

🚨Now, the same billionaires who crushed CBS are circling CNN.

This is the oligarch takeover of American media — and we’re the resistance.

For decades, we trusted mainstream outlets to hold power accountable. But one by one, they’ve been captured. Billionaires don’t buy newsrooms to inform the public — they buy them to control the narrative. They spike stories that threaten their interests. They replace investigative journalists with talking heads. They turn the Fourth Estate into a public relations machine for the powerful.

The corporate media consolidation we’re witnessing isn’t just bad business — it’s a direct threat to democracy itself. When a handful of ultra-wealthy oligarchs control the flow of information, they control what Americans know, what we talk about, and ultimately, what we believe is possible.

But here’s the truth they don’t want you to know: We don’t need them anymore.

Today, I’m excited to announce our response: the launch of our new brand, Raw America. To counter mainstream media pandering and the downfall of TV news, we’re creating a new channel with you — not billionaire backers, not corporate advertisers, not political consultants. Just us.

Like Raw Story, Raw America will bring you breaking, up-to-the-minute reports that the mainstream media won’t touch. But this time we’ll serve you bite-sized videos filled with humor and humanity. Video will allow us to reach new audiences beyond the policy wonks and news junkies, and ensure the future of progressive news for the next generation.

Raw America is the biggest liftoff at Raw Story in 20 years — and it’s only possible because of you.

Raw America will bring you familiar faces — think Thom Hartmann — and new voices, including the talented Iago Lashua and “British Chris.” We’ll grab you the best clips from breaking news events and break down what’s really going on behind the sanitized soundbites and manufactured consent.

Raw America lives on Substack, where independent media thrives. You can also find all our videos on YouTube. Each day we’ll break down the story behind the story — and offer you entertaining takes on underreported news that powerful interests would rather you ignore.

To create this exciting new channel, we’ve partnered with Really American, a social media brand. Combined with Raw Story’s 80 million monthly pageviews and another 50 million pageviews per month, we reach 130 million Americans hungry for truth over propaganda.

This is how we fight back. Not with their money. Not with their platforms. With our voices, our values, and our refusal to let democracy die in darkness while oligarchs turn off the lights.

Join us.