Barn Raiser Special Report
Rural Perspectives on the 2024 Election
Rural candidates, elected officials, political consultants and organizers discuss the results of the 2024 election, analyze what it means for rural communities and explain how that knowledge should inform policy and organizing efforts to ensure that rural America thrives.
Keith McCants is the chair of the Bryan County Democrats. “Until [party leaders] show a willingness to come down here to invest and to campaign and to talk to us, it’s going to be the same old song,” says McCants. (Courtesy of Keith McCants)
Election 2024
November 11, 2024
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.”
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Politics
November 14, 2024
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
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Politics
November 18, 2024
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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