2026 is just hours away, Meredith — and freedom can’t wait

The following is from the American Wild Horse Conservation:

In just hours, the calendar will turn — and 2026 will begin.

Before that happens, we want to pause and recognize what you helped make possible this year — and why the moment ahead matters so much.

In 2025, we won some historic legal victories. Together, we:

• Shut down the federal Adoption Incentive Program, a corrupt scheme that funneled wild horses and burros to slaughter;
• Won a major federal appeals court ruling in Wyoming, halting the largest attempted eradication of wild horses in U.S. history;
• And won critical Freedom of Information Act lawsuits, forcing the government to turn over thousands of pages of records that brought critical accountability and transparency to their wild horse and burro management program.

These wins weren’t symbolic — they were hard-fought and they saved lives.

But as we head into 2026, the pressure to remove wild horses from public lands is not slowing down — it’s intensifying. More roundups. More legal battles. More moments when someone has to be there.

That’s why we’re racing to raise $100,000 before midnight tonight — and why every donation is 2X matched. If you believe these victories must continue — and that wild horses deserve defenders as strong as the threats they face — please give before the year ends.

Freedom can’t wait — and neither can we.

— American Wild Horse Conservation