We’ve long believed that American politics would be a whole lot better if people like him – working folks who care for the land and their communities so well – were representing us.
And now he is. On Tuesday night, [regenerative farmer Jamie] Ager won the House race for North Carolina’s 11th congressional district, resoundingly flipping a Republican seat that Donald Trump won handily in 2024.
He wasn’t alone. Democrats tore into Republicans’ rural vote margins, wiping out almost half of Trump’s colossal 40-point advantage in 2024. Of the 21 most rural-populated states that held elections for US Senate, Democrats won in 10 of them, including states like Kansas, Mississippi and Iowa, all long surrendered to the Republican juggernaut.
“Pregnancy should be between a woman and her doctor, not a woman and the government” has been a VERY effective line in my experience.
Also: “Rapists shouldn’t be allowed to choose the mother of their children”