Dear readers, I want to welcome new and long-time free subscribers to the full Off Message experience by offering a year-long discount on monthly and annual memberships. If you’re interested in receiving three additional posts in full each week (no more pesky paywalls), submitting questions for our Thursday mailbag, joining members-only group chats, participating in our commenter community, and various other perks, please consider becoming a paid member. I believe (and am proud) that Off Message has distinguished itself at a disorienting time as a rare bastion of clear thinking and analysis. We see the world steady and whole. We want to be a hub for vigorous but good-faith internal debate within the broad, pro-democracy movement—a virtue that had gone missing in the Trump years—and to rekindle a lost spirit of fighting liberalism before it’s too late. In the first weeks of this rogue administration, I hope we can all see how essential those objectives are—and how difficult the coming years will be without them. This community is, thus, the vanguard of the country’s political future. I intend to bring the same ethic that has served us well since we launched into the uncertain period we’ve just entered. And I’d love for you to be part of the community through it all. If you pick up an annual subscription now, you’ll be set well into next year’s fateful midterm elections. Together we’ll endeavor to make sense of madness, state truths bluntly, hold Democrats to account when they waver, and serve as a no-nonsense alternative to a cowed and mealy-mouthed mainstream political media. Paid subscriptions make Off Message sustainable, and make it possible for our publication to grow—they allowed me to set aside money for a freelance writer’s budget within our first year, and my goal for this year is to hire at least one staffer or columnist. You can help put that goal within reach. I hope you’ll consider signing up at a discounted price. And if you have friends or family members who would enjoy or benefit from a newsletter like this, in times like these, I hope you’ll bring them along, too. Thanks again sincerely for your support, Brian
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