The Beyond Resistance initiative hopes to put focus on the disenfranchised rural Americans, directly affected by Trump’s second term policies. It also hopes to reeducate Democrats on the importance of meaningfully engaging with rural voters.

States are battling for their piece of $50 billion in federal rural health funding, but it’s not just hospitals vying for the money. Tech startups and policy demands are raising the stakes as Medicaid cuts loom.

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The Republican Party won a majority of the votes in Virginia's rural areas in this week's gubernatorial election, but the margin dropped significantly compared to both the 2021 election and the 2024 presidential race, a Daily Yonder analysis shows.

When Dianne Connery took over as development director at a public library in rural north Texas, it was on the verge of collapse. Now, it is a versatile community hub. Connery talks the particular challenges and opportunities of the journey.

In August, the USDA announced a Rural Veterinarian Action Plan to address the shortage of production animal veterinarians in rural areas, adding to existing efforts being made by veterinary medicine programs at some Western universities.

There’s no fixing rural Georgia’s economy and demographics without attending to its higher ed challenges.

In Pikeville, Kentucky, people gather to trade heirloom seeds that have been passed down for generations.

With commodity prices collapsing and costs of farming rising, the lack of government assistance adds to farmers’ worries about the viability of their operations.

A Nevada program addressed overallocation of groundwater by paying farmers to use less. Is it working?

At the Daily Yonder we’ve got a different level of compassion for rural communities, and our independent take on rural America is possible because readers like you step up to support our work.

In August 2024, Charlie Gundy announced the xTx Trail project, a proposed 1,500-mile route stretching across Texas. He and colleague Beckie Irvin discuss the origins of the projects and the challenges along the way.

With limited ways to connect and build community, Cedarcreek, Missouri, turned to a tried and true potluck at the church. But full bellies and money collected for the firefighters is only a fraction of what the gathering accomplishes.

Also more likely to be affected by the payment freeze are families with children and residents of the central parts of larger cities.

“Wayward” is fast-paced and well-written, with twists and turns that are genuinely unexpected and engaging. Lighter moments stand out among a generally creepy, dread-filled atmosphere, making it a perfect watch for spooky season.

“Generational trauma[...]means one generation’s scars affecting four generations or more[...]It also means when we face our own trauma, it colors and deepens what we experience.”

The GOP is fighting to slash Biden-era health insurance subsidies in the Senate version of Trump’s One, Big, Beautiful Bill.

Ten years after launching a plan to cut salt pollution, Lake George is seeing results, and the model is spreading across the country and beyond.

With federal assistance in the face of natural disasters in question, Vermont turns to reforming its waterways management and diversifies its sources of emergency funding.

Common spaces for creative and entrepreneurial community members can serve as great idea and business incubators for rural America.

Wild places invite us to find unity across our divides.

Historian Nicholas Villanueva, Jr., discusses the long legacy and paradoxes of the International Gay Rodeo Association.

Many non-profits across rural America focus their efforts on developing programs designed to introduce, train, and retain new generations of workers in trades. To make it compelling, they want to address communities’ needs beyond the worker shortages.

Demographic projections show signs of a regional catastrophe already begun.

In counties that supported Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election, dissenting community members made their voices heard on Saturday.

A non-profit program employs young people to grow food, and learn about the market side of food production - all while being paid a fair wage for their labor and supporting the local food supply chain.

From grocery stores to food distribution services, Black women are leading efforts to feed their communities.

In recent years, Texas has experienced escalating climate disasters, which have disproportionately affected older adults and rural communities. Now, new state funding offers long-term care facilities the opportunity to implement backup energy infrastructure, if they can access it.

An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.

Where can you get rid of junk nobody wants? Sometimes, in rural areas, the place to consider is at the intersection of personal rights and responsibility.

Artists, wildlife, and conservation are all winners in the country’s only federal art contest.

By writing off Victorian social norms as silly and stiff, "The Hardacres" misses the opportunity to help viewers genuinely engage with the past. Though I’m no defender of the British class system, we do modern audiences, and historical people, a disservice by dismissing these realities out of hand.

While educational outcomes resulting from a shorter school week remain inconclusive, four-day weeks are often a solution to budget shortages and teacher retention issues.

A new Trump visa policy will put financial pressure on the nation’s top research universities, several of which are rural counties.

Mental health services, dentistry, mammography and cancer screenings, as well as post-hospitalization care, are among the many offerings mobile health clinics can bring to a rural community.

At Neighbor’s Cupboard in Winterport, Maine, funding cuts aren’t the biggest challenge. It's keeping volunteers, especially as they get older.

Mahpiya Ile Win, also known as Elsie DuBray, grew up on a buffalo ranch in South Dakota's Cheyenne River Reservation. She told us about the near extermination of buffalo by white settlers and how the animal's comeback is linked to Native liberation.

While Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill covers about 80% of the Farm Bill provisions, the lack of bi-partisan agreement on its formal re-authorization could see a number of programs, including SNAP, significantly cut down.

The branch manager of Vantage West Credit Union in Tombstone, Arizona, shares about what makes credit unions different from traditional banks and how they work to support her rural community.

Indigenous pueblos, national park employees, and community volunteers work together to preserve a centuries-old adobe church at Pecos National Historic Park in northern New Mexico.

Before a collapse in Georgia's rural counties population, a decade of drops in per capita income lay the foundation for future trouble.

Through tribal-led curricula, language revitalization, and advanced degree programs, the Navajo Nation is reshaping the future of its education system.

Just 13% of adults in Nebraska's Kimball County had a four-year degree in 2020. The trends in Nebraska mirror those nationally — rural residents are still less likely to have a college degree than their urban counterparts.

Healthcare experts and practitioners alike worry that explicit language preventing the use of the program funds to prevent rural hospitals from closing is a death sentence to many of the facilities already struggling to stay open.

Small-town grocers feel a strong sense of responsibility to their communities, but the threat of closure often looms.

‘We're not trying to lead their causes, but just support…in any way that we can.’ – When residents of Benson, Arizona, began organizing against an aluminum recycling plant, a Tucson group offered to help.

“Trash: A Poor White Journey” explores the stigmatization of rural poverty, investigating what the real ‘trash’ is in the American poverty machine.

Ginny Hawker is a singer and mentor in the Primitive Baptist tradition, an acapella style with roots in Appalachia.

A new crop of dramas set in the most remote reaches of America provide another take on that trusty storyline of humankind striving in the wild, and the best of them are those that play up the loneliness both within and around the central character.

In rural America, housing vacancy rates are a complex measure that can point to seemingly contradictory phenomena.