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Vol. VIII · No. 47 Edition · Tuesday, March 11, 2025
31,000 readers · 42 countries Filed from Washington, DC
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A reader-funded newsroom on the U.S. far right

We do not run advertisements. We do not sell sponsored copy. Every dossier, field report, and FOIA page is paid for by readers and institutional subscribers.

FascismUSA is an independent watchdog newsroom covering the American far right since 2017. The two ways to back the work are below: Subscribe for the free weekly Intelligence Brief, or license institutional access if you read us from a newsroom, library, or university department.

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31,000 subscribers across 42 countries
240+ mainstream outlets citing our reporting
0 retractions in 28 months

Two funding lanes

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Pick the column that matches how you use FascismUSA. The free archive is open to everyone; paid tiers fund the investigative team, the FOIA pipeline, and the data vault that hosts the 1,400-organization database.

For readers, journalists, educators

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$8/ month, or $80 / year

Pay what pulls you in. The free tier covers 100% of the core archive; recurring support funds investigative time and courtroom reporting.

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What's included

  • The Cascadia Brief, weekly intelligence newsletter
  • Full read access to the 1,400-organization database
  • All 1,180+ published dossiers and field reports
  • FOIA document vault (18,400+ pages of released records)
  • Subscriber-only source-of-record annotations
  • Annual donor briefing call with the editorial team

No paywall on the core archive. Free readers get every dossier, every database entry, every field report. Paid tiers accelerate the next investigation.

For libraries, newsrooms, university departments

Institutional access

$1,800/ year, per site license

A single subscription covers every researcher at your institution, with IP-authenticated access, citation-export tools, and a usage report your library can attach to acquisitions.

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Everything in individual, plus

  • IP-range and Shibboleth / OpenAthens authentication
  • Unlimited simultaneous users per site
  • Citation export to Zotero, EndNote, BibTeX, RIS
  • COUNTER 5 usage statistics for library acquisitions
  • MARC record delivery and discovery-service indexing
  • Quarterly institutional briefing with the editor-in-chief
  • Curriculum-use license for classroom distribution

Indexed by the Library of Congress's Chronicling America project as a primary source on domestic extremism (2023). MARC records available on request.

Public ledger, 2025

Where the money goes.

Every dollar is mapped to a named output. The four line items below cover roughly 71% of the annual operating budget; the remainder covers editorial salaries, insurance, legal review, and modest office overhead. The full IRS Form 990 is published annually.

$4,200/ month

Investigative team & data-vault hosting

The single largest recurring line. Covers the four-person editorial team's field-reporting time and the managed-hosting bill for the 1,400-organization database. This is the figure the page's headline asks recurring donors to sustain.

38% of annual budget

$1,950/ month

FOIA litigation pipeline

Court filing fees, paralegal time, and lawyer retainers for the FOIA cases that have unlocked 18,400+ pages of government records on extremist networks since 2019. Output is verifiable: every released page is published in the document vault within 30 days.

17% of annual budget

$1,400/ month

Fact-checking & legal review

Every dossier is double-sourced and reviewed by outside counsel before publication — the workflow that produced zero retractions across 1,180 dossiers in the trailing 28 months. Paid stringers across 31 states bill against this line.

13% of annual budget

$600/ month

Newsletter production & subscriber support

The Cascadia Brief reaches 31,000 subscribers in 42 countries every Thursday morning. This line covers copy-editing, list management, and reader correspondence handled by the editor-in-chief personally.

3% of annual budget

Audited annually by an outside CPA. Form 990 and the prior three years' audited financials are available on request to credentialed journalists, institutional subscribers, and grant officers.

Editor's note

A funding declaration.

FascismUSA Project, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit newsroom incorporated in the District of Columbia. We accept money from individual donors, institutional subscribers (libraries, newsrooms, university departments), and a small number of mission-aligned foundations whose grant guidelines are published in full on our transparency page.

We do not accept paid placements, sponsored content, or advertising from any advocacy organization on either side of the political spectrum. We do not accept money from political parties, candidates, party-aligned PACs, or any organization whose own funding originates in those sources. Editorial decisions are made by the editorial team alone; the board of directors has no review or veto authority over any story, dossier, or field report.

This page exists because credentialed readers — journalists, librarians, university procurement officers — have a right to know who pays for the work before they cite it, link to it, license it, or assign it in a syllabus. The answer is: you do, if you read us.

— The editors

Questions about funding or conflicts of interest: [email protected]

The headline monthly cost center

$4,200/ month

Keeps the investigative team in the field and the database online.

That single figure is the cost of the four-person editorial team's reporting time and the managed hosting of the 1,400-organization database. Sustaining it takes roughly 525 recurring individual subscribers at $8/month — or one institutional license.

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