Columbus, OH— RuralOrganizing.org announced today that Matthew Hildreth has been named executive director of the organization dedicated to rebuilding a rural America that is empowered, thriving, and equitable. Hildreth previously served as the board chair of the organization. [...]
Please note that the following agenda is a rough-draft proposal and we'd love to hear your feedback on it. [...]
Rural Americans want rural-specific solutions to rural-specific problems and the policies that they support come straight out of the Progressive platform. Progressives should lean into them.
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Progressives aren’t connecting with rural voters and we know why.
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Over the last year, I’ve read every Democratic post-mortem report I can find on rural voters in the 2016 election. I still haven’t found one that captures what I saw living in a town of 800 people in rural northwest Iowa during the election of Donald Trump so I decided to write my own.
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