Jess Piper is the Executive Director of Blue Missouri and the host of the Dirt Road Democrats podcast. We discuss the reality of living in rural Missouri, the state of education, and the dearth of Democratic candidates across the state.
Rural candidates have little to no support from the state party, but Republicans enjoy the support of local churches. One-third of Missouri is rural, but there is not a single elected Democrat representing these areas. Uncontested races are bad for democracy and without Democrats in the race, there is no contest of ideas. In Missouri, for example, multiple school districts only have four days of school, but there have not been elected Democrats who are willing to push back and properly fund these public schools.
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Credits:
Host: Mila Atmos
Guests: Jess Piper
Executive Producer: Mila Atmos
Producer: Zack Travis
Our Unjust SCOTUS: Adam Cohen
Raising White Kids: Jennifer Harvey
Equity in Healthcare: Georges Benjamin, MD
Inclusive Excellence: Franklin Gilliam
Implicit Teacher Bias: Dr. Walter Gilliam
Unapologetically Indigenous: Sarah Pierce and Amy Sazue
Separation and Supremacy: Laura Briggs
Unions & Racial Justice: Tamara Lee
State-Sponsored Segregation: Richard Rothstein
Ending The Filibuster: Eli Zupnick
Critical Race Theory: Mari Matsuda
White Too Long: Robert P. Jones, Ph.D.
Surveillance Capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff
Fixing Public Schools: Ted Dintersmith
Reimagining Higher Education: Leon Botstein
Ending the Counter-Revolution: Bernard Harcourt
Reimagining Law Enforcement: Norm Stamper
The Precarity of Taxi Work: Veena Dubal
The Future of Antitrust: Zephyr Teachout
A Keynesian Future: Zach Carter
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