From Democratic Party growing star Jane Kleeb, an urgent and stirring road map showing how the Democratic Party can, and should, engage rural America

The Democratic Party has lost a whole era of rural voters. By focusing nearly all their message and resources on metropolitan and coastal voters, Democrats have sacrificed entire parts of the united states where there is normally more common surface and shared values than what shows up on the surface.

In Harvest the Vote, Jane Kleeb, seat of Nebraska’s about Harvest the Vote: How Democrats May Gain Again in Rural America Democratic Party and founder of Daring Nebraska, provides us a energetic and sweeping argument for why the Democrats shouldn’t turn from rural America. As a party head and longtime activist, Kleeb speaks from experience. She’s been fighting the nationwide party for more resources and creating a grassroots motion to flex the power of the voting bloc that has long been overlooked and forgotten.

Kleeb persuasively argues that the hottest issues of the day can be fixed together with rural people. On climate change, Kleeb implies that the vast areas of rural America may be used to enact clean energy improvements. And issues of eminent domain and corporate overreach will galvanize unlikely alliances of family farmers, ranchers, small business owners, progressives, and tribal market leaders, much as they did when she helped fight the Keystone XL pipeline. The hot-button issues of weapons and abortion how the Republican Party uses to wedge voters against each other could be bridged by putting a megaphone following to issues critical to rural areas.

Written with a fiery tone of voice and commonsense solutions, Harvest the Vote is normally both a proactive approach and a much-needed balm for a highly divided nation.