Instead of stifling our despair and pushing forward with more work, we need to make time for our fears. Maybe you’re like me and you think you’ve got a pretty good handle on why you’re operating in low gear right now. I’ve written my own list in journals, played it…

In the last three months, friends and fellow organizers— running smart, sophisticated, winning campaigns in West Virginia — have been up against it, facing attack after attack in their work. Some folks have been “investigated,” featured in local news hit-pieces. Some folks have been blasted online, the integrity of their…

In elections, we are facing setbacks locally and more broadly. A bold new experiment in West Virginia offers lessons for long-term success. As seen in Waging Nonviolence April 8, 2020 There’s a buzz right now in America’s heartland. It’s the sound of dozens of electoral experiments getting off the ground…

Sign up for Do Rural Organizing’s 14-part series on base-building lessons from rural West Virginia. Take a look. In three years time, WV Can’t Wait built out the largest electoral organizing infrastructure our state has seen in decades. With county teams in all but one of our 55 counties, 39…

A dear friend and fellow rural organizer called me a couple of weeks after the election and said: “I feel like I’m not supposed to say this, but I feel lost. I’m not sure if anything we’re doing here is working against these enormous forces.” Doubt is not a popular…