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Meet the People Powering The Free Press

A maritime gold miner in Alaska. A senior at the Air Force Academy. A priest in Greenwich Village. And some 767,000 more.

By The Free Press

August 7, 2024

Today, more than 767,000 people are joined together by their common pursuit of truth under the banner of The Free Press.

Our readers, our listeners—our growing community of Free Pressers—come from every corner of our modern, subdivided world. Homeschoolers and Harvard professors. Priests, rabbis, atheists, and mystics. Federal judges and criminal-justice reformers. Police officers and former convicts. People from every state of this country and from many countries on the map. 

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Meet the free people that make The Free Press. People like. . . 

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