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This May, we are raising $6,500 to directly support Kang-Chun Cheng, our Editor-at-Large, whose camera equipment was damaged by a Russian missile strike in Ukraine, and $9,565 to support Alex Ip, our Publisher and Editor who was forced to depart the United States after his work permit renewal was wrongfully denied by the Trump administration. Can we count on you to support crucial, award-winning journalism?

Hello there! We are The Xylom, a nonprofit, worker-led news outlet that reports on everything you need to know about global health and environmental disparities.

In 2026, we are determined to continue investigating how the Trump administration and its allies are making the world (not just the U.S.!) sicker, poorer, and dirtier. However, American media is in a moment of retreat, as exemplified by The Washington Post's mass firing of international staff, climate reporters, and photojournalists. At a moment when regime-aligned media become more shallow, jingoistic, and insular, we cannot let this become the new normal. 

Whether you start a monthly donation or make a one-time gift, your generosity allows us to keep sending our award-winning team of contributors to cover countries, people groups, and issues that legacy media have abandoned, in addition to paying our editorial staff a living wage. If even one-tenth of our readers and social media followers gave just TWO dollars a month, we would be able to meet our budget without additional support from grants. 

Can we count on you to help us go above and beyond? Thank you!

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P.S. The Xylom is an independent, nonprofit website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists. We will never have a paywall, and we don't take money from special interests, lobbyists, or politicians either. That's because our intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or search algorithms.

Please share your support. Every dollar counts!