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December 14, 2022
Democrats Can Win Rural Seats if They Listen to Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Washington’s new congresswoman talks working-class appeal and the failure of the party elite.
Nick Bowlin
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November 17, 2022
Democrats Must Do Better in Rural America
If this midterm was a success for Democrats, it is a retreat from what they ought to expect.
Anthony Flaccavento, Erica Etelson and Cody Lonning
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September 27, 2022
Student Debt Cancellation Will Help Rural Communities Too
Critics of Biden’s forgiveness plan falsely call it a wealth transfer to the “urban elite.” In 2020, nearly 6.5 million rural Americans owed an average of $35,000 in student loan debt.
Reed Cleland
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August 23, 2022
How to Kill a Rural Hospital
In Gallup, New Mexico, doctors and community members are rallying to save Rehoboth McKinley Christian Hospital.
Cecilia Nowell
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July 15, 2022
It Can Happen Here: A White Supremacist Coup That Succeeded
A vivid reminder that rural Americans are on the front lines of democracy.
Laura Flanders
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May 4, 2022
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April 13, 2022
Growing Up Queer in a Small Town
With minimal representation in my hometown and in the media, I hid my queerness and internalized toxic misconceptions about gender and sexuality.
Hannah Reynolds
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November 10, 2021
Here’s How the Democrats Can Win Back Rural Voters
Democrats have a rural problem. Our party’s failure to even seriously contest—let alone win—statehouses and congressional seats over so much of the electoral map leaves us perpetually behind.
Jane Fleming Kleeb
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February 16, 2021
How a Climate-Justice Champion Won Office in Rural, Working-Class Maine
State Senator Chloe Maxmin, a progressive activist who unseated the GOP minority leader in November, talks about social-movement organizing.
Wen Stephenson
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February 4, 2021
In India, Farmers Are Resisting Narendra Modi’s Propaganda Machine
The government is using a pliant media and its social-media warriors to paint protesting farmers as secessionists.
Ullekh N.P.