This is where I write about the race, the district, the 17 counties I’m running in, the fights I’m running on, and the work as it happens. Field notes from the trail. The math of an outsider campaign in real time. What I get right, what I get wrong, who I meet, what I learn. No PR voice, no consultant tone. Just me, telling you the truth about how this actually goes.
My older national and cultural writing lives at rachelandthecity.com. Both feeds go out through the Substack if you want them in your inbox.
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Less judgment, more help: why diversity built this country
A Pride Month reflection on the American bargain – you be you, I’ll be me.
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I’m Going Big or I’m Going Home
Why I’m running for Congress in TN-5, and why I won’t run the campaign everyone expects.
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It’s time to rewrite the 2007 law hiding in your gas tank
There’s corn in your gas, and a story behind it. How a law from 2005 wastes water, weakens your fuel, props up the wrong crop, and keeps groceries expensive – and what we could actually do about it.