Heres How Truthout Is Preparing for Trumps Day One [Video]

For months, Donald Trump issued terrifying promise after terrifying promise on the campaign trail: threatening to deploy the military in his mass deportation schemes, pledging to increase fossil fuel extraction, and vowing to issue a number of repressive policies targeting the most vulnerable people in our communities. He’s also promised to hit the ground running with a flurry of executive orders as soon as Inauguration Day comes around. Truthout has been preparing for this day, and the rest of his second term, by anticipating a broad range of possible scenarios under a second Trump administration that seeks to crack down on left and progressive civil space — including journalism outlets like ours.

In this conversation, Maya Schenwar, director of the Truthout Center for Grassroots Journalism and Truthout’s board president, and editor-in-chief Negin Owliaei talk about the threats to media and nonprofit organizations under Trump, the role and responsibility of independent journalism in …