Dear reader,

Throughout May we have been reminding Guardian readers of the critical importance of independent news. Today we bring our Facts are Sacred campaign to an end as we close in on our goal of 50,000 acts of support to help power our work through the rest of 2025.

Will you be one of the last few readers to help push us over the line?

The reason we send you these messages like these, and others you may have seen over the past four weeks, is because – frankly – we have to. We don’t have a rich owner, we’re not a corporate entity. That means we have to ask readers like you to back our work.

The alternative is to pull up the drawbridge, close off our website solely to those who can afford to pay and dramatically shrink the number of people around the world who are able to access high-quality, fact-checked independent reporting – journalism that is free to challenge those in power.

Over the last month, we’ve been reminding people what it looks like when the press isn’t free and when journalists are muzzled by forces of authoritarianism. It’s clear that as threats to the press grow, the world becomes a worse place.

Just 2.4% of our regular readers pay to support our work. If you think the kind of journalism we produce is important, please consider joining their number today.

The most impactful way to do so is on a monthly basis from €4. You can do so here.

Thank you for reading

Will Dean
Supporters editor, the Guardian

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