Help Keep The Blue Hog Biting At Their Heels in 2025!

Dear Reader: 

Arkansas Times  is proud to be the homebase for the state’s No. 1 investigative journalist, Matt Campbell aka  “The Blue Hog” in 2024. He’s been rattling cages all year long. 

Campbell made a name for himself by exposing the skulduggery of Arkansas elected officials including former Circuit Judge Mike Maggio (bribes), former Lt. Gov. Mark Darr (misuse of state credit cards) and former state Sen. Bob Ballinger (questionable ties to  Ecclesia College). Famously, Campbell combined his government transparency law know-how with disciplined and determined digging to unearth a $19,029.25 invoice at the center of Gov. Sarah Sanders’ “podiumgate” scandal.

Just last week, Campbell was wondering why the tax payers are still paying $184,000 a year to Gov. Sanders’ failed and fired former prisons chief Joe Profiri for  a job that doesn’t exist .  Nobody understands Profiri and the behavior that led to his firing better than the Blue Hog.

Skilled and fearless journalists like Matt are what make the  Arkansas Times  a powerful, progressive voice, unafraid to speak up for the disenfranchised and the silenced in Arkansas.

I’m writing today asking for your help to keep the Blue Hog and the  Arkansas Times  strong and effective in the face of the unbroken Trumpist rule stretching from the Arkansas state Capitol all the way to Washington. D.C.

The old model of journalism is broken, but the new model combining  advertising with  subscribers and  donors, is allowing local news publishers like the Arkansas Times to grow strong and healthy. In the past three years, our subscribers have increased their support (we’re at 4,560 strong now) and donors have contributed nearly $300k this year. As a direct result, we’ve grown from a staff of five editors and reporters to 12 with over 500,000 unique visitors a month to arktimes.com.

There are many ways you can help. You can encourage your friends and fellow progressives to subscribe to Arkansas Times. You can increase your monthly subscription amount to $15-25-50. You can give a donation to our editorial fund. Or you can give a donation to fund Matt’s salary directly. Whatever is best for you.

In our 50th anniversary year, I’m proud to say that the  Arkansas Times  is as strong as it's ever been. We’re more committed than ever to telling the truth about this strange time in our state and nation’s history and  can with your support.

Thank you. 

Yours,

Alan Leveritt 

Publisher,  Arkansas Times

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