This Rural Political Strategist Says Democrats Need to Learn from Winners

“The Democrats are stuck on this consultant-driven, top-down approach to campaigns that is not working.”

Why Democrats Lost in Rural America. Again.

A message from rural America to Democratic Party elites

The Right Wants to Divide Rural People and the Working Class. Here’s How We Unite.

The director of the Appalachia People’s Union on why the South is ready to stand up to Trump
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As Goes the Black Belt, So Goes Georgia

As chair of the Bryan County Democrats, Keith McCants says that to win statewide, Democrats need to go outside of Atlanta

Can ‘Good Neighbor’ Politics Win in Rural America?

Virginia’s Rural GroundGame sees year-round organizing as they key for longterm success and defeating Project 2025

Politics & Policy

Rural America in the 2024 Election: Key Races and Ballot Measures

Here are the results of battleground races and important ballot measures that affect rural Americans

The Grassroots Electoral Movement Reshaping Rural Politics

In many rural areas, races go uncontested. That’s changing in 2024 thanks to grassroots efforts to contest every election
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Native Life

Young Voters Are Getting Tribal Citizens to the Polls

Native Americans in swing states could help decide the 2024 election. Can they overcome barriers to vote?

Montana Tribal Citizens File Lawsuit Over Alleged Voter Suppression

Does GOP control of the U.S. Senate hinge on stopping Natives from voting in November?

Water Protectors Use Novel Legal Tactic to Challenge the Dakota Access Pipeline

Novel anti-SLAPP laws could help uncover Dakota Access Pipeline secrets
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Science & Environment

Project 2025 and Its Plans for the Nation’s Public Lands

Native leader says massive deregulation would lead to “total desecration”

Signs of a Ceasefire in Michigan’s Energy Wars

Rural comunities have been fighting for nearly two decades over large-scale solar and wind farms. A new law might turn down the temperature as the state seeks to reduce carbon emissions from generating electricity.

What’s Fueling Michigan’s Green Energy Backlash?

A renewable energy push is bringing millions of dollars to Michigan’s rural communities. But not everyone is pleased.
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Arts & Culture

Farm to Table Goes International in Rural New York 

Korean lunch, Albanian dinner and Iranian wine—in the Catskills?

Country Queers Spread the Love in Rural America

Rae Garringer’s new book documents more than a decade of LGBTQ+ rural life

A Supper Club State of Mind

Wisconsin has more supper clubs than any other state. But how long will this iconic institution survive?
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Food & Agriculture

A Second Trump Administration Threatens Longstanding USDA Conservation and Insurance Programs

Family farmers fear the Conservation Reserve Program, a steady source of income, could be eliminated

Animal Agriculture Conference Asks: What’s the Future of Our Food System?

Iowa’s environmental crisis has policy leaders and farmers challenging corporate agriculture

The Farm Bill Must Support Farmers Affected by PFAS Contaminated Sewage Sludge

Maine stepped up to protect its farmers. It’s time for Congress to protect farmers nationwide.
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History

The Devil Spiders of the Catskills

A hair-raising, barn-burning tale from “Eerie Appalachia”

Land of Liberty

Myth-making in the early American republic

Jim Hightower Confronts the 1980s Farm Crisis

"It's the same old story—Reagan helps the rich, and Lord help the rest of us."
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