Happy (almost) Thanksgiving!
I am going to be posting intermittently over the next few days — but there won’t be another “Morning” post or “Chris Crucial” newsletter until next Monday as I take a few days to decompress.
I wanted to take a minute before I head off for that break, however, to say simply “Thank you.”
In the Zoom calls I do with paid subscribers — and I have now done over 350!!! — I always make sure to say thanks. It’s such a simple gesture but, to my mind, so meaningful.
I started this newsletter in January 2023 without any real plan. I knew I wanted to write and talk about politics and government. I wasn’t sure if people would read/watch it. Or, even if they did, if they would be willing to reach into their wallets (do people even have wallets anymore???) to support me financially.
You all did. And for that I am hugely grateful. (To read more about my journey, check out this profile of me that
wrote.)There’s more work to be done. And I need to continue to grow — on the free and paid side — to accomplish some of those lofty coverage goals I have set for myself.
I am going to have much more in the coming days on where I want all of this to head — and what I hope to accomplish.
What will always be at the core of everything I do is a commitment to nonpartisan, independent, transparent and authentic journalism. I won’t always get it right. But you will always know where I am coming from — and why. And on those occasions I make a mistake, I will admit it — and explain a) how it happened and b) what I am going to do to ensure it doesn’t happen again.
That won’t change. That’s who I am. And who I always will be. If you want to support me doing that sort of of journalism, you can do it here:
I hope Thanksgiving is a time of good friends, good food and good football for you. Take good care.
— Chris
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