President Biden’s allies are looking to eat into former President Donald Trump’s support among rural voters in a few key battleground states. American Bridge 21st Century kicked off a $140 million ad campaign Monday in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin that seeks to remind — or convince — voters about the chaos of the Trump years […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A Democratic group is rolling out a new $140 million ad campaign that aims to chip away at Donald Trump‘s support among one of his most loyal voting blocs: rural voters. The ads, from American Bridge 21st Century, will begin airing Monday in the northern battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and […]
Graduate student Kait Nascimento, a disabled single mother living on welfare benefits, says it took her 10 days to “freak out” about Goddard College closing this summer. That’s how long she needed after learning in early April that her three years of coursework for a master’s degree in mental health counseling would not transfer to […]
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — As Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming opens for the busy summer season, wildlife advocates are leading a call for a boycott of the conservative ranching state over laws that give people wide leeway to kill gray wolves with little oversight. The social media accounts of Wyoming’s tourism agency are being flooded with […]
GUYMON, Okla. (AP) — Two bodies have been recovered in a rural Oklahoma county, a day after four people were charged there with murder and kidnapping in connection with the March disappearance of two Kansas women, authorities said. Both bodies found in Texas County will be taken to the Medical Examiner’s Office to determine identification, […]
The book White Rural Rage was co-authored by political scientist Tom Schaller and commentator Paul Waldman. As the title suggests, the gist is that white rural voters are a threat to democracy. In an interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, Schaller gave this unvarnished assessment of the rage he sees overflowing in the heartland. Rural whites, […]
Oklahoma investigators say they believe foul play is behind the disappearance of two mothers in a remote part of the state over the weekend. The state’s Bureau of Investigation said it is still searching for Veronica Butler, 27, and Jilian Kelley, 39, after their car was found abandoned Saturday about 11 miles south of the […]
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — When Ali Aglan joined Missy Testerman‘s 2nd grade class, his family had just moved from Egypt to rural East Tennessee, where his parents now run an Italian restaurant. Coming home from school one day in the town of Rogersville, he told his mother that no one would talk to him. “He said, […]
OPINION: It’s always exciting when the left finds another group of Americans to hate. First, it was former President Barack Obama’s bitter clingers, then Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables,” followed by President Biden’s “ultra-MAGA” Republicans, insurrectionists and Christian nationalists. Now, the menace of the moment is something called White, rural rage. Coming from the left, […]
The Protection Racket Media has spent the last few weeks running with a new narrative of panic pornography: “white rural rage.” Along with “Christian nationalism,” these media explanations of the current dysfunction in American politics start and end with Donald Trump and his alleged “threat to democracy.” The general gist of these narratives is that […]
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