May 19, 2026
(NEW YORK – May 19, 2026) – MS NOW is hitting the road for a live community event on Thursday, June 25, at 7 p.m. ET at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia ahead of America’s 250th anniversary: We the People: America 250 - Country at a Crossroads.
The live event will bring some of MS NOW’s most trusted and notable anchors, special news-making guests, and members of the MS NOW community together for an evening of in-depth discussion and engagement around the most pressing issues facing our democracy ahead of the historic milestone.
Tickets are on sale now at ms.now/america250.
We the People: America 250 - Country at a Crossroads will provide attendees a unique front-row seat to their favorite MS NOW anchors, including Rachel Maddow and Ali Velshi, along with special guest and constitutional legal expert Sherrilyn Ifill.
In addition to access to the live event on June 25, each ticket purchased includes an offer for one year of MS NOW’s first-of-its-kind membership launching later this summer.
MS NOW Live was first announced in December 2023, featuring a dual approach to live events: a first-of-its-kind, community-focused ticketed events series, as well as more intimate, sponsored, invite-only programs. We the People: America 250 follows MS NOW’s two mass-market fan events in October 2025 and September 2024, held at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and Brooklyn Academy of Music, respectively. Each first-of-its-kind event brought approximately 4,000 super fans together from all across the country in one place for the annual gathering.
MS NOW Live furthers the network’s rapid expansion and community building across digital, social, and audio platforms. MS NOW continues to lead the pack as one of the most influential news organizations on non-linear platforms, recording over 2.1 billion combined views across YouTube and TikTok so far this year, with more views on YouTube than ABC News, CBS News and NBC News combined. MS NOW users continue to spend more time on ms.now than on The Washington Post, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal, and reaches more unique visitors than Politico, Axios, and The Atlantic. MS NOW also recorded over 140 million audio downloads in 2025, now with over 20 original podcasts and 22 showcasts.
On television, MS NOW reaches 32 million Americans every week and continues to have one of the most engaged audiences in all of television, with the average viewer watching more than nine hours each week, more than any broadcast network. MS NOW has quadrupled its weekday primetime audience over the last 20 years, averaging 1.5 million viewers in April 2026, up from 383,000 in April 2006.
Marcus Mabry is MS NOW’s Senior Vice President of Content Strategy. Lauren Peikoff is the Executive Producer of Live Events.
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