It's only January, but a lot of people are already thinking about November. New from the American Communities Project: Why MI-07 will tell us a lot of the electorate this fall. www.americancommunities.org/one-race-in-...

Unemployment Continues Increasing Across America open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

Unemployment rose in every kind of community in the latest American Communities Project analysis. Rates are still relatively low, but across the board increases are not common and concerning. www.americancommunities.org/unemployment...

Americans may be divided on how to handle some parts of immigration, but there is surprising consistency on a path to citizenship for long-term immigrants www.americancommunities.org/surprising-c...

In this month’s American Communities Project newsletter, how Americans feel about inflation, guns and religion and what they know of the first year of the second Trump admin. mailchi.mp/daee7b8e400d...

New from the American Communities Project for Christmas week, how people feel about religion and practice their faith across the 15 community types. www.americancommunities.org/americans-id...

What Do Americans Know About Trump 2.0? A Lot. substack.com/@amcommpro/n...

New from the American Communities Project. One year into Trump 2.0, Americans are largely tuned in to what the WH is doing - setting the stage for what could be a consequential 2026. www.americancommunities.org/what-do-amer...

From the 2025 American Communities Project survey. People aren't reading, trusting or paying for traditional news. www.americancommunities.org/americans-la...

Concerns about crime are much smaller than you might expect in most communities - including Big Cities. www.americancommunities.org/perception-g...

How Americans Are Feeling Inflation Pain in 2025. (@dchinni.bsky.social American Communities Project) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/251204-top...

Inflation has been the top issue in the American Communities Project survey for three straight years, but the pains aren’t the same everywhere. Rural communities are feeling it worse, including those with large Black and Hispanic populations. www.americancommunities.org/how-american...

What can you learn at a college football tailgate? It's one of the few places where red and blue America intersect. youtu.be/lyqyszHlTuo?... So the American Communities Project visited tailgates around the country to get thoughts on education, DEI and AI. www.americancommunities.org/tailgate-tal...

This fall the American Communities Project sent local reporters to college football tailgates across the country - from greater Philly to LA - to get people's thoughts on the value of a college degree, the meaning of DEI and the impact of AI. www.americancommunities.org/tailgate-tal...

Attitudes on #Tariffs cut through the red/blue divide. In the 2025 American Communities Project survey, majorities in communities that voted for and against Trump said they had noticed changes. And in every community they saw the changes as negative. www.americancommunities.org/america-in-2...

The new American Communtiies Project survey of more than 5,400 Americans shows community divisions on immigration enforcement. 65% in Big Cities and Hispanic Centers have seen changes in the last 12 months. But only 42% in the Evangelical Hubs. www.americancommunities.org/america-in-2...

The @cookpolitical.com Report digs into the numbers from the latest American Communities Project survey of 5,400 Americans.The nation's great uniter: Inflation concerns. www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/nat...

The @apnews.com digs into the latest survey from the American Communities Project. apnews.com/article/poll...

The American Communities Project has conducted a version of this survey for three consecutive years. “Inflation” has been the top concern across all 15 community types every year, including this one. And the communities see it worsening. www.americancommunities.org/america-in-2...

Today the American Communities Project releases its survey on the state of the nation. One finding: Communities that voted for Trump tend to feel a LOT better about the future of the US than they did last year. One noteable exception: The Hispanic Centers. www.americancommunities.org/america-in-2...

What the NJ and VA Gov. Races Tell Us About The Electorate substack.com/@amcommpro/n...

What the American Communities Project learned in the NJ and VA Gov races. A subdued Trump vote and a very fired up Dem electorate, particularly in places that matter for the Dems. www.americancommunities.org/what-the-nj-...

Comparing how concerned communities are about crime to where Nat Guard Troops are being deployed. www.americancommunities.org/how-national...

Employment Declines Across Communities, Signaling an Economic Slowdown open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

The Political Left in American Communities open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

analysis exploring Where the Local Journalists Are in America from the American Communities Project using data from Rebuild Local News. www.americancommunities.org/where-the-lo...

In light of today's jobs report, I wanted to re-up this. ... Signs of Economic Softness Appearing in Some Communities open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

After Six Months of Trump 2.0, Residents Open Up About Impacts Where They Live open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

Job figures from May show some reasons for concern in manufacturing and agricultural communities. www.americancommunities.org/manufacturin...

America's hopes and fears, immigration, the populist right and what comedy looks like across America, in the latest American Communities Project newsletter. mailchi.mp/e1016fd11515...

Where is the Populist Right in the American Communities Project's types. open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

The Populist Right in American Communities open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

Where does "the Populist Right" live in the American Communities Project, an analysis done with the @pewresearch.org political typology www.americancommunities.org/the-populist...

The American Communities Project is working with PharosGraph to examine where voters are placing blame for inflation. June's numbers show Trump rising as the lead cause in more places and a big jump for a new blame target: Corporate Greed. open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

At six different communities across America, what does comedy look like in a very tense 2025. New from the American Communities Project - www.americancommunities.org/comedy-scene...

Americans’ Double Vision on Immigration: People see it differently depending upon whether it is framed as a local issue or a national one. (@dchinni.bsky.social, American Communities Project) amcommpro.substack.com/p/americans-...

Immigration is a different issue locally than it is nationally to voters. www.americancommunities.org/americans-do... New from the American Communities Project.

As Politics and Consumerism Clash, a Look at Tesla Dealerships Across Communities open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

When you cut funding for higher ed you hit at College Town communities that are the economic drivers for their regions. New from the American Communities Project www.americancommunities.org/universities...

In Key Michigan College Town, Students Spill Feelings About Future of America open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

As higher ed is hit by federal grants cuts and other challenges from the Trump Administration, the American Communities Project talked to students in its own College Town, East Lansing, home of @michiganstateu.bsky.social, about hopes for the future. www.americancommunities.org/in-key-michi...

To get a better sense of how people in different communities are assigning blame on inflation, the American Communities Project is partnering with PharosGraph. There data show some WIDE differences. www.pharosgraph.com/post/mapping...

Who gets the blame for inflation? pharosgraph.webflow.io/post/mapping...

A chat with Ray Suarez about his trip to the U.S.-Mexico Border open.substack.com/pub/amcommpr...

Very interesting analysis. Completely correct? Probably not. But it’s important because if you look closely at detailed results months after elections, you usually find the first “big takeaways” were a bit off or just wrong. It’s time for this discussion. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Want to know more about what the US-Mexico border feels like in 2025? Join Ray Suarez and me over on Substack, May 27th at 1 pm. And, don’t forget to subscribe to the American Communities Project while you’re over there. substack.com/@amcommpro/n...