Rural News Clips, August 18, 2026
PA ag secretary says Trump's tariffs have hurt farmers; A simple idea may be easing political hostility in rural America; What really works to support rural community colleges?
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Rural News Clips, August 17, 2026
Rural economic pain tests the GOP’s grip on a Trump stronghold; Federal job cuts are making wildfires harder to fight; The ‘country hicks’ who refused $26 million from an AI data center
Rural News Clips, Aug. 14, 2026
Rebecca Cooke in Wisconsin says the Dems ‘left behind’ rural America; Trump official asked for more aircraft to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch; Data center backlash echoes fossil fuel
The Rural Margin: News from Rural Battleground Districts, Aug. 13, 2026
The Max Miller PAC money problem: to return or not return? Rural Health Transformation Fund trotted out as a fig leaf for Medicaid cuts; Trump surrogates deployed for incumbents
All Politics is Local: Why Abundance Movement Campaigns Are Failing to Connect with Rural Voters on Data Centers
Part two of our Data Center Summer series: What Democrats must do to capitalize on the local bipartisan backlash to data center projects
Rural News Clips, Aug. 12, 2026
Rural Michigan in crisis: Too many governments that too few want to lead; New ‘Water Watch Center’ launched to help small utilities; How Crowley eked out a win in the Wisconsin governor primary
Rural News Clips, Aug. 11, 2026
Trump lets Medicare drug subsidy lapse before midterms; He’s not a Democrat. Democrats love him anyway; Guns and the ballot in Maine’s Second District
Rural News Clips, Aug. 10, 2026
Dems work to protect a top House recruit in Wisconsin Cash flow pressure reshapes rural small business borrowing; In rural Wisconsin, frustrations over Trump ag policies heat up House race
The Data Center Summer: Some Candidates Are Pitching Jobs, But Most Voters Are Worried About Expenses
The first post in a series on how rural voters turned against data centers and top-down economic development, and why Washington missed it.
Rural News Clips, Aug. 7, 2026
Fears amplified by ‘AI slop’ and social media hamper rural solar boom; Black Georgia voters on what they want from America and the Democrats; Rural Alabama counties have little say in data centers