Dear Friend,
Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old Air Force veteran, was recently charged leaking a classified document to The Intercept that shed light on alleged attempts by Russian actors to hack into U.S. election infrastructure. She is currently sitting in jail, awaiting trial after being denied bail.
First Look Media, the publishers of The Intercept, have agreed to match every donation up to $50,000 until August 30th, so we need your donation today!
Thanks in part to the document Reality is charged with leaking, we now know hackers attempted to breach the election systems in 39 states, and that state election officials resisted attempts to increase security before the 2016 election. Some election officials
did not even know their systems were targeted until The Intercept’s report was published.
Instead of working to bolster our country’s digital security to protect our election systems, the Trump administration is engaging in an extremely harsh and disproportionate prosecution of Reality, using
the same lawused to go after whistleblowers Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.
In times like these, courageous people who bring important information to public attention need to know someone will have their back when they choose to do the right thing. Please join our campaign, donate what you can to Reality’s legal defense, and help us spread the word.
Standing in solidarity,
The Freedom of the Press Foundation Team
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