27%
Independents who trust national media — an all-time low (Gallup 2025)
17%
Americans who trust the government to do what is right "most of the time" (Pew Research Center, 2025)
77%
Americans who want leaders to work across party lines (Independent Center 2025)
45%
Americans who now identify as Independent — largest voting bloc ever (Gallup 2026)
27% - Independents who trust national media, an all-time low (Gallup 2025) • 17% - Americans who trust the government to do what is right "most of the time" (Pew Research Center, 2025) • 77% - Americans who want leaders to work across party lines (Independent Center 2025) • 45% - Americans who now identify as Independent, largest voting bloc ever (Gallup 2026)
A Note From the Editor
Voting as an Independent in America is hard. We're here to make it easier.
Independent voters are now the largest voting bloc in the nation, yet you'd never know it. Coverage prioritizes partisan narratives, leaving Independents to pull the picture together from siloed news sources ourselves. Voting is no friendlier: long ballots with dozens of races, candidates whose positions are hard to pin down, and more than 23 million Independents locked out of presidential primaries entirely.
That's why I built Independent Times News. Our mission is to do that heavy lifting for you: cut through the noise, deliver the unspun facts from every perspective, and make it easy to reward the leaders who choose to work across the aisle. In our own families and workplaces, we know progress takes compromise and cooperation. Why should we accept anything less from our politicians?
When cooperation prevails over partisan warfare, something better becomes possible: stability, shared purpose, and real progress. Citizens believing in their vote, their leaders, their economy, and each other.
None of that is possible without being well-informed on both sides of every issue. That is the news we deliver.
— Lisa Singer, Editor-in-Chief
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"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."
Thomas Jefferson (1788)
Third President of the United States