To Our Loyal Readers,
I’m writing this update a year and a half into my tenure as CEO for Dallas Express Media – and what a ride it’s been. The year 2024 was one of the most dynamic news years since 2001 and 9/11. It was also the year that the impact of independent “new media” as an alternative to the far-left, lying legacy media was fully realized. We were proud to have been embraced last year by some of the biggest brands in independent media and journalism including Elon Musk, the Joe Rogan Experience, Lara Logan, amuse, Tim Young, Texas Football Network, Nellie Sciutto, Chris Salcedo and many others.
Successful 2024 Ends with Hyper Viral Event
DX readership grew over 50% in 2024 and the year culminated with us breaking the single most viral story of the year – how DFW- area Congresswoman Kay Granger was AWOL from Congress the last six months of the year and found to be living full-time in an independent living facility while her constituents had no representation in Washington D.C. The story which was shared by Elon Musk, amuse, Libs of TikTok and many others exploded globally the weekend before Christmas and was covered by every major media outlet in the world. It’s had over 100M views and was inescapable for the last two news cycles of the year.
That hyper viral-story brought a new level attention and credibility to DX. We added almost a hundred thousand new subscribers the last week of 2024 alone. Politico did an exclusive interview with me back in March and published a “story behind the story” of how DX was able to scoop the entire “lazy” (Politico’s characterization) D.C. establishment media for the Granger story using old- school “shoe leather” journalism by getting deep in the field and cultivating sources.
DX Competitors Fail to Seek Treatment for TDS
Their complimentary story on DX was ironic in the sense that Politico is notoriously far-left leaning and their recognition of a new media journalistic achievement flew in the face of the fake news attacks and criticism of DX by our local far-left, legacy media competitors – most notably the Dallas Morning News (who lost millions of dollars last year alone), Fort Worth StarTelegram (owned by a New Jersey hedge fund who bought it out of bankruptcy to harvest from a California company), and D Magazine who’s editor, Tim Rogers, is a notorious far-left propagandist who threw a public tantrum on X over November elections (Trump and Dallas HERO – both which he violently opposed) and fled that platform because it’s full of “nazi’s” – the predictable trope of the TDS afflicted when they’ve fully lost the argument, narrative and in this case trust of their own readers.
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Continued Growth and New Partnerships
We’ve carried that strong momentum (and ongoing competitor frustration) into 2025 where I’m proud to share that DX‘s readership growth has fully doubled from 2024 – and we’re only halfway through the year! And we continue to expect our growth to accelerate at an exhilarating pace as our geographic reach expands. To that end, I’m excited to announce our latest content partnership with Yahoo/AOL News who are now distributing The Dallas Express articles and content to their national and global audience.
DX‘s Success is Because of YOU
Lastly and most important, the incredible success we’ve experienced is all because of you, our loyal readers who continue to evangelize and spread the word to your friends, family and colleagues nationwide about The Dallas Express.
DX is “The People’s Paper” after all. On behalf of the entire Dallas Express staff, our Publisher and Board THANK YOU and please continue to encourage folks to subscribe (for FREE of course) to our daily newsletter, download the DX app at the Apple and Google Play stores, attend our DX events like the overflow capacity “Who Killed JFK?” forum we recently held, and/or to become donor members, sponsors or advertisers. As a reminder The Dallas Express is a non-profit, 501c3 so all contributions are tax-deductible.
Thanks Again and Onward into the New Media Future!
Christopher Putnam
Chief Executive Officer
Dallas Express Media LLC