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Supercreator is the premier politics newsletter for the creative class.
Each weekday morning, creators of all kinds — including writers, journalists, podcasters, social influencers, video producers, visual artists, educators, activists, musicians, home cooks, pro chefs, software developers, marketing leaders, and entrepreneurs — wake up to Supercreator Daily, the essential guide to the politicians, power brokers, and policies shaping the American creator experience.
The newsletter is read in 46 states (what’s good Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska?!) and across 43 countries. This reach is a testament to the Daily’s trusted signature mix of scoops, interviews, and analysis that deepen readers’ understanding of how Congress and the federal government work and how they can use the political process to enable their creativity and improve their health, wealth, and well-being.
Supercreator Daily is also a valuable resource for members of Congress and their aides, former Obama and current Biden administration officials, strategists, operatives, and advocates who want to make sense of the issues that matter — especially to Black, brown, women, and LGBTQ creators who are often overlooked and underserved by existing systems and institutions.
In addition to the daily newsletter, paid subscribers receive weekly uncut, on-the-record interviews between Supercreator founder and Supercreator Daily author Michael Jones and the members of Congress and outside sources he regularly chats with. These clips peel back the curtain on the reporting process, bring you closer to the legislative process, and provide exclusive access to the raw material used to craft each morning’s edition of the newsletter.
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Don’t identify as a “creator?” That’s okay, but you probably know a few people who do. And even before the pandemic up-ended our existence, it already felt impossible to sustain a creative business or side project — especially if their home base is on one of the coasts like mine — without a safety net, like an uncreative day job. Because the open internet, with all its promise, has also been hijacked by a handful of big companies that devalue creative work and contribute to the consumer expectation that creative work should be free — even though it’s not free to produce. This is the result of policy choices. But bad policies can be replaced by better ones. And Supercreator is the guide that shows you how.
A bit about me: I’m Michael Jones, a Congress reporter covering national Democratic politics, domestic policy, and race and inequality in America. I started Supercreator to take creators inside the systems and institutions that pick winners and losers in the new economy. I intend to break a steady stream of news on what’s happening on Capitol Hill and at the White House and what it means for people who create and consume things on the internet — so send me your tips, please!
As one of the few solo independent reporters to be accredited by a congressional press gallery, I spend hours each week roaming the halls of the US Capitol and listening to what lawmakers want me to know, probing for what they don’t, and reading between the lines to connect dots that seem disassociated from each other. And when I don’t have the answers, I find experts, scholars, and fellow creators who do. Then I share the best reporting from my notebook with readers who may be too busy working to get noticed and paid for the brilliance they bring to the world to follow the torrential daily news cycle.
Before I launched Supercreator and jumped on the politics beat, I worked as a fashion journalist and e-commerce copywriter for two global magazine brands. (I studied journalism and was a newspaper editor at Texas A&M University-Commerce, a small school about 45 minutes east of Dallas.) And before that, I used to publish a cool fashion blog too. And in what feels like a lifetime ago, I designed, developed, and delivered learning experiences for corporate financial institutions. I’m also a proud inaugural alum of the On Deck Writer Fellowship.
Here’s what people are saying about Supercreator:
What I think is unique and important about Jones’s work is how he takes seemingly separate issues like housing, climate organizing, and the national debt, and relates them to the day-to-day work of creators. This is an effort to not just make those engaging in the creator economy take politics seriously, but for politics to take them seriously as well.
—Kate Lindsay
Michael is relentless in demystifying the legislative process and how politicians spend their days, empowering me as a reader to understand who is working when, from where, and why it matters with regards to the issues I care about.
—Natalie Toren
Michael has made the seemingly inaccessible legislative process accessible, and that, I believe is the true power of journalism and reporting. Our world is constantly changing, and Michael’s work allows me as a digital creator to not only work and live in this new economy but also plan ahead for our country’s future.
—Melissa Kimble
Supercreator makes political news easy for me — a political novice — to understand. I find the reporting thorough but not overwhelming and that Michael meets the reader where they’re at and delivers the news that is so very important to our lives without it feeling intimidating. It’s a must-read for me and has given me tools to understand the world we’re living in even better.
—Christine Cauthen
As a freelancer in today's creator economy, Supercreator is one of my go-to sources for a recap of everything happening in Washington — all the details of who has a seat at the table, which promises are being kept or abandoned, and why I should care.
—Alicia Kenworthy
Above all, I hope Supercreator demystifies the legislative process so you feel empowered to influence your friends, loved ones, and even those who disagree with you regarding your vision and values. Because although young, low-income, and nonwhite voters have been trained to only participate in democracy in extraordinary times of crisis or during election campaigns, it’s the ordinary moments that determine who gets to be seen, heard, and acknowledged when it matters the most. I want each issue to feel fresh, newsy, and human. And I expect you to hold me accountable for this ambition. See you in your inbox soon!
