HAPPY NEW YEAR — and please help make 2026 a great new year for The Moderate Voice. TMV was started in January 2003 on BlogSpot and quickly evolved into a group blog that was on several platforms before settling on Word Press. MANY blogs have died over the years due to social media, in particular Facebook and Twitter. We’ are still (stubbornly) here. During the golden age of blogging The Moderate Voice was a winner in the annual Weblog Awards (Bloggies) contest.
The Moderate Voice needs donations. It has no big corporate or huge individual donor and makes a modest amount from other sources.
2026 promises to be a VITAL year. In addition to politics, The Moderate Voice will be running a lot more book, movie, television and streaming reviews. Some will be “capsule” reviews (short reviews) and others longer.
As we move into our 23rd year, The Moderate Voice is again a news source on Google News and some of its posts are also run on the Japan-based phone app SmartNews, which has 30 million monthly users. So its reach goes beyond those who find it on the internet.
Please help TMV out so it’s around for a 24th year — and maybe 23 more years. Use the GO FUND ME donation button on the right.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.