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2024 Report: 100 Rural Power Building Counties

INTRODUCTION During the Spring of 2023, RuralOrganizing.org launched a project to analyze, evaluate, and identify...

By campaigning everywhere and delivering for rural voters, Democrats closed margins and stopped the Red Wave…for now.

For the past decade, RuralOrganizing.org has been the rural and small-town voice in the...

A Breakdown of the Major Rural Legislation Passed During The 117th Congress

SUMMARY With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the Infrastructure...

Race for the House: A Preliminary Analysis of Rural Candidates of Color running in Battleground U.S. House Districts

The vast majority of mainstream political journalists and pundits, with a few exceptions, tend...

See How American Rescue Plan Act Funds are Being Spent in Your Community By Searching the USASpending.gov Website

By Searching the USASpending.gov Website Knowing how to navigate the rural economic development and...

Authoritarian Warning Signs in Small Towns and Rural Communities

Local Authoritarianism Rural Survey Report A National Snapshot of the Experiences of the RuralOrganizing.org NetworkRuralOrganizing.org...

RuralOrganizing.org Applauds Proposal to Expand Child Tax Credit

The following is a statement from Annie Contractor, Policy Director for Ohio-based RuralOrganizing.Org: Lawmakers who...

RuralOrganizing.org Welcomes Initial Funding for RECOMPETE Pilot Grants

The overwhelming amount of applicants from distressed communities shows the import of RECOMPETE and...

Down Home Democracy: How Rural Grassroots Organizing Won Ohio’s Abortion Referendum

2023 showed us that abortion is the winning strategy in 2024. This year’s August and...

Data Delivers Democracy in Kentucky

There are various strategies for moving the needle forward and building progressive power in...

Audio: What can progressives learn from the rural results of the 2023 election?

From yard signs, to abortion, to MAGA Republicans, on this episode of RuralTalk,  Matt...

100 Top Rural Counties State Deep Dives

Historically, rural voters have been neglected in the progressive strategy because it’s assumed they...

How to Make Progress Toward Rural Health Equity

Second in our Rural Policy Roundtable series, on October 16th, 2023, a group of...

Democracy and Abortion win BIG in Ohio!

We won!  The No On Issue 1 campaign fueled by grassroots energy and investment in...