At the Middle of the Year, I Need Your Help

By Cliff Potts
WPS News
Scheduled for July 2, 2026 — 23:35 PHT

July 2 is the middle of the year.

That seems like the right time to say this plainly: I need your help.

WPS News has 65 subscribers. Sunday is the strongest readership day. Around 15% of visitors show up then. The best hour is 23:00, when about 5% of readers appear.

That is not a complaint. That is the math.

I have been building things on the internet since 1998. This work goes back to 2008. This current version of WPS News began in 2023, then truly started moving in 2024. So technically, this is still only the second year of this particular push.

But it does not feel small from this side of the screen.

It feels like years of labor. It feels like an archive. It feels like testimony. It feels like a record of a world that keeps trying to forget what it just did yesterday.

And I am asking you to help me keep it alive.

I cannot afford advertising. I can barely afford what I am already doing. I am trying to build other income streams online, but hope is not a business plan. Right now, the best thing anyone can do for this work is simple:

Share it.

Send a post to one person. Mention WPS News somewhere. Point someone toward the archive. Help one article find one more reader.

That is not nothing. On the internet, that is how anything survives.

The last twelve months have been brutal. My wife died on September 3, 2025. We were married less than two years. I still miss her so much that writing the sentence breaks me.

My dog died the week before Easter 2026.

My son died by suicide on June 12, 2026.

So yes, 2025 and 2026 have been a hard-ass motherfucking year.

And I am still here.

I am still writing. Still archiving. Still watching. Still trying to tell the truth in a world that often treats truth like an inconvenience.

But I need something back.

Not money, though money would help. Not applause. Not pity.

I need help carrying the work farther than I can carry it alone.

This archive matters. The essays matter. The record matters. The warnings matter. The history matters. The stubborn refusal to look away matters.

I have done what I can do.

Now I am asking you to do what you can do.

Share the work.

Help WPS News find the people who need it.

Because the world may not understand its importance yet.

But someday it will.

And when that day comes, the record needs to be here.