Allow ourselves to toot our own horn for just a moment. Last week, we posted about our nomination for US News & World Report’s Alternative Media Outlet of the Year contest. In a shockingly short voting run, we edged out Ohio State’s (or, rather, Mark Titus’) Club Trillion and won the contest for the second consecutive year!

This is a great honor, and we here at Onward State are very grateful to you, our readers, for voting for us, for reading us, and for just being all around awesome. Seriously, you guys rule.

Can Onward State three-peat? We’ll see at around this time next year!