Two years in. They're still trying to stop us.Here's what we built. Here's what comes next.
Friends, Drop Site News turned two years old yesterday. In the span of time it takes most news startups to find their footing, we became one of the largest independent news outlets in the world — influencing policy, exposing war crimes, and changing what people understand about power. That didn’t happen by accident. It happened because tens of thousands of readers decided this work mattered enough to support it. Today, we’re asking you to join them. Foreign governments have banned us. The White House attacks us. Corporate legacy media scrambles to discredit us. They’re all betting we won’t be able to keep this up. For less than $0.25 a day you become part of the community that makes this newsroom impossible to intimidate, impossible to exhaust, and impossible to silence. Upgrade to a paid subscription today, and for the next 48 hours, it’s 20% off. Each Drop Site investigation reaches 780,000 subscribers’ inboxes, and our website reaches 24 million monthly readers. We are the #1 Newsletter in World Politics on Substack. Our Tuesday livestreams average 10,000 concurrent live viewers. Our YouTube content has crossed 14 million views. Over 750 investigations published. All of it free. All of it independent. All of it funded by readers like you. We are changing the narrative — and those in power know itTwo years ago, the dominant media narrative on Gaza, on Israel’s influence in American politics, on the Epstein files, on what was actually driving U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East — was largely dictated by corporate legacy outlets deferring to power. We helped change that. And the people we cover have noticed. Drop Site has been at the center of a seismic shift in how the American public understands power. We drive the stories that legacy outlets ignore — giving people documented evidence to understand what they were already sensing, and in many cases, to change material conditions on the ground. The genocide in Gaza. Fake ceasefire negotiations masking ongoing U.S. and Israeli aggression. AIPAC’s stranglehold on Washington. The collapse of democracy in Pakistan. Authoritarian consolidation across South America. The Epstein-Israel intelligence connection. We talk to the people the White House doesn’t want us talking to. They called it “America Last behavior.” We call it journalism. In two years we have helped change what the world understands about power — and those in power have noticed. Every reader who upgrades is making a direct statement: we see what you are doing, and we are not looking away. You can make that statement right now. Can you support our work by becoming a paid subscriber today? We need you for year 3Drop Site at two years is not what any of us imagined when we started. It’s bigger, louder, and landing harder. The scale of what we can take on in year three But the scale of what we can take on in year three — more global correspondents, a technology desk dedicated to Big Tech’s role in human rights abuses, expanded video production, continued legal defense of our reporters — depends entirely on how many readers are willing to step up and make this work sustainable. Right now, a small fraction of our 780,000 readers are paid subscribers. If even a fraction more made the switch today, it would change what we’re able to do in year 3. Corporate media abandoned this journalism. Those in power are doing everything they can to suppress it. For less than $0.25 a day, you become part of the reason neither of them wins. We are two years in and we are just getting started. Thank you for being part of this. Drop Site News P.S. If a paid subscription isn’t possible right now, we understand — and our commitment to keeping all of our reporting free never wavers. But if you can, today is the day. And if a subscription isn’t the right fit, a one-time tax-deductible donation of any amount goes directly into the journalism. Every dollar counts. We’re just getting started, and we need you with us for year 3.
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