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Down Home North Carolina is building power with poor and working-class people in North Carolina’s small towns and rural communities.| Welcome to Down Home!
For the very first time, Down Home held our own 10-week training session to prepare a multiracial, working class team of our members to step into ring as candidates for local elections. In a culmination of years of big dreams and even bigger work plans, we are incredibly proud to present the very first graduating... Read more » The post Power Surge: Introducing the very first Down Home Candidate Academy Graduates! appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Down Home’s Alamance Chapter works with community coalition and local electeds to win care over cuts in this year’s county budget process. By Theresa Draughn, Down Home member & 2025 Organizing Fellow For the last several weeks, working members of the community, along with the Alamance County Down Home Chapter, have been busy planning, contacting... Read more » The post It Takes a Village: Alamance Chapter Wins “Care Over Cuts” Campaign appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
A bill making its way through the U.S. Senate would be devastating for the millions of people on Medicaid in North Carolina. I’ve seen from every angle just how essential Medicaid is to helping working families get by. But the bill that passed the U.S. House last week would raise healthcare costs and cause hundreds... Read more » The post Don’t cut our healthcare to give tax breaks to the rich appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Down Homies are calling all Alamance residents to join them on calling on their county commissioners to pass a budget that will invest in kids and to stop the drastic cuts that have been proposed. The post Alamance County Commissioners: Invest in our kids, stop the cuts! appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Since being diagnosed, Medicaid has been my lifeline, providing the infusion treatments that allow me to function daily. Without this support, my quality of life would drastically decline, and I could face premature death. That’s why I am deeply concerned about the devastating impacts Republicans’ proposed Medicaid cuts would have on me, and countless other North Carolinians in our state’s small towns and rural communities. The post Medicaid is my lifeline. If Republicans cut it, I coul...| Welcome to Down Home!
Down Home NC members are running issue campaigns in their counties to make sure local budgets meet the needs of rural working class people of all races. The post Change In Action: Meet the 2025 Issue Campaigns appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
I should have drowned when I was 9 years old in 1966... I remember the current. I remember sinking and never hitting any bottom. I remember gulping the murky brownish greenish water. I remember fighting with my arms in the wet darkness... If in your heart you do not understand the role of healing which public pools can play in our county, then I fear you my friends are continuing to be victimized by our collective historical trauma of racism. The post “I should have drowned” — Public sp...| Welcome to Down Home!
The first 100 days of any new administration are always considered crucial. This is the period when the incoming president looks to make a lasting impression and set the tone for what is to come. The one we are in right now has been a whirlwind unlike any other. The post Building Long-Lasting Change for Our People: Recapping the 2025 Issue Campaign Bootcamp appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
The first 100 days of any new administration are always considered crucial. This is the period when the incoming president looks to make a lasting impression and set the tone for what is to come. The one we are in right now has been a whirlwind unlike any other. The post The First 100 Days of the New Administration: Fighting for North Carolina’s Working Families appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Even as we come to grips with the election of Trump, those of us at Down Home have grasped one undeniable truth. Our organizing works. The post Down Home Outliers in a Red Wave — Organizing Works appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
We’ve already identified the risks and challenges in our communities, campaigned for their solutions, and endorsed the candidates that we know will continue the fight against them in positions of power that we were once not privy to as rural people. But it’s not just about what’s at stake this election — it’s about what we could win. The post What We Could Win in This Tuesday’s 2024 Election appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Wall-to-wall bargaining unit wins annual raises, robust safety protections, and more The post Down Home North Carolina Union ratify union contract appeared first on Welcome to Down Home!.| Welcome to Down Home!
Down Home North Carolina is building power with poor and working-class people in North Carolina’s small towns and rural communities.| Welcome to Down Home!
Even as we come to grips with the election of Trump, those of us at Down Home have grasped one undeniable truth. Our organizing works.| Welcome to Down Home!
