A cross-sector coalition of independent media organizations, nonprofit newsrooms, and civic institutions have committed to publishing stories of local nonprofits defending democracy and impacting their communities on or around July 4, 2026.

The network will be explicitly designed to ensure this is a national journalism movement, not a coastal or urban one, available through the written word, radio, or video. NPQ will commit to republishing and amplifying local and independent newsroom and narrative platform coverage of #WeTheCivic stories