Tag: Politics

An election official places a sign as voters line up outside a polling place at the Fogelsville Volunteer Fire Co., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. Photo: Matt Slocum/AP Photo
An election official places a sign as voters line up outside a polling place at the Fogelsville Volunteer Fire Co., Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, in Fogelsville, Pennsylvania. Photo: Matt Slocum/AP Photo

Opinion: What the Left Doesn’t Understand about Rural America

To win in rural communities, Democrats need to show up and help, not heckle. Earlier this month, a small Twitter spat erupted between mystery writer Don Winslow and Tessa Duvall, an investigative reporter with the Louisville Courier-Journal. Winslow, well known as a liberal activist, kicked it off by tweeting, “The two senators […]

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Parkersburg, West Virginia. Photo: P. Nick Curren/100 Days in Appalachia

What Drove a West Virginia Democrat to Storm the Capitol on January 6?

Four years after being elected to the Parkersburg City Council with help from progressives, Eric Barber was all in for Trump. Co-published with The Intercept. Eric Barber was elected as a Democrat to the Parkersburg City Council in West Virginia in 2016. Local progressives supported his campaign, and once in office, […]

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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks at a commencement ceremony for nursing students from West Virginia Junior College on April 20, 2018, at Chestnut Ridge Church, in Morgantown. Photo: Jesse Wright/100 Days in Appalachia

Fact-check: W.Va. Home to Zero Billionaire’s Despite Joe Manchin’s ‘Concerns’ about Billionaire Tax Proposal

In a recent tweet, David Gura, a broadcast journalist currently with NPR, tweeted Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., about a seeming irony of one his stances in the hard-fought battle over a key element of President Joe Biden’s agenda. After word emerged that Manchin had thrown cold water on a “billionaire’s tax” proposal by […]

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A citizen of Asheville speaks to community leaders during a June 17, 2021, Information and Truth Telling Session held as part of the city’s reparations process. Photo: Hunter Rentz/100 Days in Appalachia

Asheville Leaders Said They Wanted Reparations. One Year Later, Progress Has Been Slow at Best.

When Asheville, North Carolina’s City Council passed a resolution in favor of reparations for its Black citizens in July of last year, the initiative gained national attention. Multiple thinkpieces from national media outlets pondered if the city – the first in Appalachia and the South to address reparations and the […]

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