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The Contrarian: The Rural Revolt Against Trump Is Real (w/ Blue Missouri’s Jess Piper)
Jen Rubin of The Contrarian interviews the Executive Director of Blue Missouri, Jess Piper, to explain the surprising success of Democrats in red America. Since Trump has regained office, 27 Democrats have flipped seats in elections, whereas not a single Republican...
A Conversation about Reaching Rural Voters with Jess Piper
In the second part of this episode of the Rural Impact Podcast, "Michelle meets with the Executive Director for Blue Missouri, Jessica (Jess) Piper. Born and raised in rural America, Jess is a mother to five and grandmother to three, lives on a small farm on the...
Facing the odds: Jessica Piper on rural activism and public schools
In this episode of Wide Awake America, host Nadine Smith interviews Jessica Piper, a passionate advocate for rural communities and public schools in America. Jessica, a former American literature teacher for 16 years, ran for a house seat in Missouri’s first district...
Jessica Piper: Democrats Must Contest Every Seat
I grew up in the 80s and 90s as a feral Gen Xer. I did some wild and sketchy things, from riding in a laundry basket instead of a car seat as a baby, to living from dawn to dusk outside every summer as a child, to drinking from a bottle of Mad Dog 20/20 at a party in...
Maryville Forum: A letter to voters from Jessica Piper
Nov 3, 2022, Jessica Piper In politics, it’s so easy to lose sight of what matters. Our farms, our schools, and our communities here in Northwest Missouri show that we have lost sight of what matters. They show that our politicians have also lost sight of what...
Riverfront Times: BEST POLITICIAN: JESSICA PIPER
RFT, October 2022 Mix one part schoolteacher and one part fighter, and you’ll get Jessica Piper, a self-described dirt-road Democrat campaigning to be the state representative in Missouri’s First District, a rural district in the northwest corner of the state. She has...
NYT: Why Little-Noticed State Legislative Races Could Be Hugely Consequential
By Nick Corasaniti, Oct. 10, 2022 EASTPOINTE, Mich. — The conversation started with potholes. Veronica Klinefelt, a Democratic candidate for State Senate in suburban Detroit, was out knocking on doors as she tries to win a seat her party sees as critical for taking...
Gaslit Nation: Laboratories of Autocracy; The David Pepper Interview
Gaslit Nation, October 5, 2022 David Pepper has witnessed Ohio devolve into an electoral autocracy where extreme Republican gerrymandering ensures that the results of the state elections are pre-determined. This is happening across the country in so-called red states,...
Flatland KC: Meet Jessica Piper: Missouri’s ‘Dirt Road Democrat’
State House Candidate Runs Uphill To Win In Rural Missouri Published August 26th, 2022; Catherine Hoffman Jessica Piper wipes the sweat off of her brow and knocks on the 50th door of the morning. She’s painfully aware that someone on the other side may hate her...
BTL: State Legislatures Are Ground Zero on the Attack of Democracy
Interview with David Pepper, Blue Ohio co-founder, attorney and former chairman of the Ohio Democratic party, conducted by Scott Harris As the House Committee investigating Donald Trump’s failed Jan. 6 coup attempt continues to gather new evidence of the former...
