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Rural voters are Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill’s” worst nightmare. We've distributed over 20K yard signs and placed over 60 local stories of the impact of Medicaid cuts to rural communities. Click the link below for a campaign update! open.substack.com/pub/ruralorgan…

Top headlines from Rural News Clips—subscribe free! —GOP leaders throwing money at a rural AZ House race — Dems say it's telling —Farmers can access free mental health resources —Oz escalates Medicaid fraud claims against states after focus on Minnesota ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Top headlines from the Rural News Clips — subscribe free! —Contraceptive visits drop at Planned Parenthood after Medicaid cuts —Fertilizer, gas price surges tied to war hitting farmers —Millions more Americans uninsured after lapse of ACA subsidies ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Top headlines from Rural News Clips; Subscribe free! —ICE’s warehouse purchases strip tax revenue from communities —The threats to Minnesota’s Medicaid funds are unprecedented. Other states could be next —Research: The US Postal Service’s fiscal crisis ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Top headlines from the Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —Federal funding cuts shift state budgets —Rural Arizonans fight bill that would let a hedge fund sell their water to Phoenix —Trump admin. turns to migrant workers to address farm labor shortage ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Donald Trump ran on mass deportation, yet the White House and top GOP officials are now telling Republicans not to talk about it ahead of the 2026 midterms. We are going to keep talking about mass deportation. Watch the full video here ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/we-are-going…

From tariffs to the economy to immigration to international conflicts, Trump’s growing list of failures is colliding all at once. On top of new revelations showing how reckless the cuts to programs were under DOGE, many people are starting to realize the chaos was never a plan.

The Trump Admin deleted Rural.gov, so we rebuilt it and made it better. We're calling it RuralFunding.org. The goal of our site is to improve access to funding opportunities for small towns and rural communities. Check it out and let us know what you think.

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —New rural health care funds aren't going to the areas that need it most —Rural voters lead turnout in 2026 Texas primaries —How the SAVE Act would make rural voting harder ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —Rural Texas Latinos turned out big for Democrats —Rural hospitals struggle with expanding maternity care deserts —Rural healthcare in the red as Trump withholds Medicaid payments to Minnesota ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —Trump’s AI drive is colliding with his most reliable voters —States try ‘public option’ ACA plans to cut coverage costs —Without weighing public health, EPA weakens coal plant air pollution standards ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

When a town of 5,000 is told it may have to absorb a detention center twice its size, it stops being abstract politics. Communities are asking who pays when the federal government doesn't. They do. For many rural Americans this is added costs of living to fund inhumane policy.

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —Vance struggles to sell Van Orden and Trump to tariff-battered Wisconsin —New ACA plans could increase family deductibles to $31,000 —Federal Medicaid funding pause threatens care in rural Minnesota ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Check out what our friends at RuralProgress.org are planning for the 250th anniversary of the United States. The Backroads Tour celebrates the rural leaders who helped build this country and the people carrying that tradition forward today. backroads.us/backroads-upda…

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —Midwest farm bankruptcies up 70% in last year —Red states are doing what Trump won’t: Going after abortion pills in court —Data center tax breaks are on the chopping block in some states ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Join Rural Organizing tonight, 2/26, at 7pm est to strategize and make connections to stop ICE concentration camps Link to join tonight: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Link for next week: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #StopICE #RuralOrganizing

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —This South Texas region flipped for Trump. Now it’s seeing red over his immigration policies —Small towns struggle with failing water systems —Trump’s factory boom might be a bust ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —As ICE buys up warehouses, even some Trump voters say no —Data centers are reshaping local politics in the Great Lakes —Here’s what’s in House Republicans’ ‘skinny’ Farm Bill ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…

Tariffs have hit farmers and small businesses from every direction. They drive up the cost of equipment, parts, and seed, all while making it harder to sell crops on the back end. For rural communities already squeezed by costs and chaos, the \ impact is impossible to ignore.

The Supreme Court just issued a rare rebuke. After challenges to Trump’s unilateral tariffs, the Supreme Court has ruled that Congress, not the president, has the authority to impose them. A significant check on executive power heading into a midterm year.

Top headlines from Rural News Clips. Subscribe free! —Towns fight ICE detention centers, but have few tools to stop them —Little-known FEMA rule may be making flooding worse in rural Wisc. —Rural Wash. hospitals swamped with Idahoans seeking charity care ruralorganizing.substack.com/p/rural-news-c…