This is the second in a series of interviews, in which we will ask rural candidates, elected office holders, political consultants and organizers what lessons are to be learned from the 2024 General ...

Robin Johnson, 66, started his political career as a freshman in college with Jimmy Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign. Since then, he has advised rural candidates across the country, including his ...

Donald Trump was elected the nation’s 47th president in the early morning hours after Election Day, returning to the White House with a decisive win in both the electoral college and the popular vote.

There will be many stories about the 2024 election. Still, at its core, Donald Trump’s victory was built on expanding his margins and vote totals even further in rural counties across the country, ...

In the mid 1980s, Thomas Eich’s grandparents, who farmed corn and soybeans, enrolled in the newly established Conservation Reserve Program, administered via the U.S. Department of Agriculture to ...

All too often, rural America is neglected by candidates at the top of the ticket. And when those candidates do the token farm stop, they often hit on a handful of tired messages about feeding the ...

The rural-urban divide has long hurt Democrats in rural America. Yet organizers at Rural GroundGame say they have a winning ...

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The rural vote is vital on November 5. Even a small shift in the electoral margins of rural counties could determine the outcome of the presidential election in battleground states. Down ballot, the ...

In late 1966, residents of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, began reporting encounters with a six- or seven-foot tall creature with glowing eyes and large wings. Local papers dubbed it the “Mothman,” ...

Since 1964, I have consistently voted for third-party candidates in presidential elections—but not this time. This year, I am tossing my political purity and sanctimony out the window and voting for ...