Biden Wins. Trumpism Endures. What Free Press Is Doing Next.

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While we’ll remain vigilant for whatever a lame-duck President Donald Trump — or let’s face it, the year 2020 — might bring, we will be putting our collective energy toward repairing the damage done over the past four years, while diligently working to expand what’s possible in a Joe Biden administration and new Congress. Our immediate priorities include:

  • Influencing presidential appointments. 
  • Winning Net Neutrality in 2021.
  • Ending the digital divide — for real — in the next four years. This effort starts with a major push for broadband in the next massive recovery bill along the lines of the HEROES Act, which passed the House last May. With so many people trying to school their kids and do their jobs from home — the necessity of ubiquitous, affordable broadband is clearer than ever. Now is the moment to put ambitious goals on the table, to move from minutiae to moon shots, and to work to truly end the digital divide by the end of Biden’s first term.
  • Going to the Supreme Court. Our long-running case challenging the FCC’s repeated attempts to eradicate media-ownership limits without studying the impacts on ownership opportunities for women and people of color is headed to the highest court next year. 
  • Reviving public media and local journalism. 
  • Making media reparations a reality. 
  • Confronting hate and disinformation on the platforms and the airwaves. 
  • Defunding surveillance. 

Biden Wins. Trumpism Endures. What Free Press Is Doing Next.