Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

April 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Red tape hurts disaster recovery

One Country Project     Storms, floods, and tornadoes slam rural parts of the U.S. every year like clockwork – battering outdated infrastructure in places with the fewest resources. As storms become more intense, more frequent, and occur earlier in the season, rural co…

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April 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM

Tuesday Talkers 4/15: Higher Ed’s Biggest Nightmare: Trump University, Maine v. the Administration

One Country Project     Good afternoon, It's been nearly two weeks since President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs were imposed on the American people and uncertainty enveloped farmers and rural communities. According to The Washington Post, farmers in North Carolina, …

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April 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM

Billionaires don’t know a thing about farming

One Country Project     Billionaires don't know a thing about farming. So why are we letting them run the Ag Department into the ground? Right now, the Trump/Musk machine is planning to dismantle the Department of Agriculture headquarters, lay off thousands more worker…

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April 9, 2025 at 8:15 PM

Changing your strategy is a good thing – and we’re not afraid to do it.

One Country Project     Democrats get a bad rap for using the same playbook over and over again when it stopped working a long time ago. Changing your strategy is a good thing – and we're not afraid to do it. One Country Project speaks up for rural Americans and all fo…

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April 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM

Tuesday Talkers 4/8: Let the DO(D)GEBALL Game Commence, Weathering the Storm

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Over the weekend, massive anti-DOGE protests against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk erupted in cities and small towns across the United States. Washington, D.C. and New York City were filled with more than 100,000 protesters…

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April 4, 2025 at 8:00 PM

This isn't how you run a country, a business, or a roadside fruit stand.

One Country Project Cancelled contracts have now taken $1 billion from American farmers.     Cancelled contracts have now taken $1 billion from American farmers. In the latest instance of cutting first and asking questions later, two cooperative agreements that provid…

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April 1, 2025 at 9:50 PM

Tuesday Talkers 4/1: Will Trump Liberate Farmers; An ICE Crackdown

One Country Project     Good afternoon, On this April Fool's Day, the nation's eyes are on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election that has broken spending records. Elon Musk has dumped roughly $20 million into this race, endorsing conservative candidate Brad Schimel over …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

March 31, 2025 at 4:31 PM

When did they start rooting for failure?

One Country Project     It was an honor to serve as the Senator for North Dakota for six years. It's heartbreaking that I was the last Democrat to do so. Back when I was first elected, it felt like most everyone had a stake in doing what was best for our community. No…

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March 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM

Let’s expand, modernize, and invest

One Country Project Sabotaging public services is not the mark of a country that’s doing well.     Sabotaging public services is not the mark of a country that's doing well. Innovating, expanding, and modernizing them is. And we're perfectly capable of doing that with …

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March 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM

Tuesday Talkers 3/25: Americans’ Frustrations Are Growing; Trump is Trying to Dump the Department of Education

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Welcome back to another week in wild, wild America. For starters, Trump administration national security leaders made a big mistake, and it looks really bad. They included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief at The Atlantic, in …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

March 21, 2025 at 6:30 PM

What does the leaked memo tell us about the future of Social Security?

One Country Project This is just another way to defund and disrupt a critical lifeline.     Despite denying any change to normal service or operations, a newly-leaked memo points to crippling changes for Social Security recipients. Elon Musk's DOGE group has plans to fi…

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March 18, 2025 at 9:05 PM

Tuesday Talkers 3/18: Rollin’ the Dice with Economic Aid for Farmers, Healthcare in Rural America is Scarce and May Be Getting Scarcer

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Happy National Agriculture Week! According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) 2022 Census of Agriculture, 95% of U.S. farms are family-owned and operated. Additionally, there are 3.4 million farmers in our country, ded…

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

March 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM

Here’s what happens if we defund Veterans Affairs:

One Country Project     The news is breaking that devastating cuts are coming to our veteran men and women in uniform – a completely unneeded and preventable disaster. In line with their goal to squeeze, limit, and defund federal agencies and programs until there's alm…

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March 11, 2025 at 9:28 PM

Tuesday Talkers 3/11: Are Tariffs Working? Farmers and the Environment

One Country Project     Good afternoon, The March 14th deadline to fund the government is inching closer and closer. Today, the House will vote on a bill to fund federal agencies through September to avoid a shutdown. Yet again, lawmakers are playing games with funding …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

March 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM

Uncertainty, confusion, and risk

One Country Project     A strong economy is steady, secure, and reliable. Foolhardy tariffs don't signal strength – they signal uncertainty, confusion, and risk. Costs are already high. A twisting, turning, back-and-forth, maybe-maybe not policy on tariffs and trade ar…

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March 4, 2025 at 11:02 PM

Tuesday Talkers 3/4: Tariffs and Tensions and a Brewing Trade War (oh my), Rural America Can Kiss the Social Safety Net Goodbye

One Country Project     Good afternoon, The egg crisis continues to rage on in America and our new Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins is offering some not-so-helpful advice: people should raise their own chickens in their backyard. According to Politico, Rollins also …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

February 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM

Unpaid grants. Unpaid contracts. Unpaid reimbursements.

One Country Project     Unpaid grants. Unpaid contracts. Unpaid reimbursements. This is what American farmers are dealing with today in the aftermath of the federal government's hurried and careless policy of "move fast and break things." As the new administration vows…

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February 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM

Tuesday Talkers 2/25: Watch Out Farmers, A New Farm Bill Could Be a No-Go, Farmers in a Frenzy

One Country Project     Good afternoon, The honeymoon phase of President Donald Trump's term appears to be unraveling as Republican lawmakers face angry and upset voters at town halls across the country. Some Americans are finally waking up to the lawless and cruel acti…

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February 22, 2025 at 4:20 PM

We’ve got some news to share:

One Country Project     "Rural" Americans number about 60 million people. And it's actually a much more diverse population than you might think. Rural America can be small towns, college towns, exurbs far out from a nearby city, and, of course, anywhere you'd call the …

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February 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM

Rural Update 2/20: Farmers Left in the Dust, Trump’s (Second) First Month

One Country Project     Good afternoon, As the chaos and disorder in Washington grows, world leaders have begun to take action. French President Emmanuel Macron called for an emergency meeting of European leaders to discuss Trump's participation in Ukraine-Russia peace …

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February 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Rural Update 2/18: Mass Firings Hit USDA, So Much for Securing Rural Schools

One Country Project     Good afternoon, The mounting chaos within our federal government continued to pile up over the weekend. Yesterday, the White House came out saying "Elon Musk is technically not part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)," despite the …

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February 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Rural Update 2/13: A Chilling CPI Report, A RURAL.GOV Outage

One Country Project     Good afternoon, It has been a busy week with Republican House Agriculture Chair Glenn Thompson questioning Trump's workforce cuts, USDA employees being placed on leave, and the Trump Administration sending groups of low-risk migrants to Guantanam…

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February 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Rural Update 2/11: Controversial Confirmations, Executive Order Outlook: Tough Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum

One Country Project     Good afternoon, It has already been an eventful week and it's only Tuesday. Some key updates relevant to rural America include House Republicans planning to cut funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Trump Administr…

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

February 8, 2025 at 8:35 PM

Living in a rural county shouldn’t be a death sentence

One Country Project     Living in a rural county shouldn't be a death sentence. But sometimes that's what it looks like. More and more rural counties are losing doctors, hospitals, and clinics – and it's leaving millions of Americans worse off in case of an emergency. I…

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February 5, 2025 at 7:29 PM

Tariffs are taxes

One Country Project Everybody is talking about the T-word     Tariffs are taxes. And this week, just about everyone is talking about the T-word. Using another executive order this past weekend, President Trump is levying new tariffs on all goods from China. Tariffs are…

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February 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM

Rural Update 2/4: Dismantling DEI will Hurt Rural Americans, Executive Order Outlook: Tariff Turmoil

One Country Project     Good afternoon, This week started off rocky with Trump's sweeping actions taking a toll on American jobs, our trade relationships, and more. Yesterday, Trump and his billionaire co-president Elon Musk made moves to shut down the U.S. Agency for I…

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

January 30, 2025 at 10:18 PM

Who picked that orange you’re eating?

One Country Project     We have to face facts: nearly half of all agricultural workers in the U.S. are undocumented laborers. Any disruptions, raids, or threats of raids will slow production, increase costs to farmers and consumers, and increase reliance on foreign-gr…

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January 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM

Rural Update 1/28: Making America’s Colleges More Expensive, Executive Order Outlook: Clean Energy on the Line

One Country Project     Good afternoon, We've made it to week two in President Trump's America and things are still feeling overwhelming. What we know so far remains the same; Trump is talking a big game. He's hitting hard on issues through threatening executive orders …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

January 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM

What makes a town livable, productive, and prosperous?

One Country Project     In a flurry of Executive Orders on his first day in office, the Trump administration took aim at two historic laws that could have tremendous effects on rural and small town America. This executive order pauses funding for projects currently in …

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January 21, 2025 at 10:08 PM

Rural Update 1/21: Trump Returns with Sweeping Executive Orders, Simultaneously Taking Credit and Denouncing Gaza Ceasefire Deal

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Yesterday was a big day in America. Inauguration Day was in full swing as Donald Trump officially became the 47th president of our country. Trump took his oath of office in the Capitol Rotunda where his lies about the 2020 electio…

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January 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM

Our wishlist for rural America:

One Country Project     Small town and rural America are speaking up and demanding to be heard at the start of this new Congress – because the progress, support, and funding we need are never going to come if we don't demand it. And I should know: I grew up in rural No…

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January 14, 2025 at 8:19 PM

Rural Update 1/14: An Escalating Climate Crisis, Confirmation Hearing Complications

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Inauguration Day is right around the corner and President Joe Biden is preparing for his departure from the Oval Office. Yesterday, the president delivered a speech at the State Department on his foreign policy legacy, which inclu…

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January 7, 2025 at 8:45 PM

Rural Update 1/7: America Remembers January 6th, Rest in Peace Jimmy Carter

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Yesterday, Congress certified President-elect Donald Trump as the winner of the 2024 election without challenge, unlike four years ago. As a direct result of Trump's refusal to acknowledge his loss in 2020, local and federal law e…

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

January 6, 2025 at 6:39 PM

Four years ago

One Country Project     Thousands of people descended upon the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 with the goal to cause chaos, mayhem, destruction, and to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Americans have fought and died over the centuries to prot…

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December 31, 2024 at 8:29 PM

Rural Update 12/31: Happy New Year’s Eve from One Country Project

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Happy New Year's Eve, everyone! It has been quite the year for rural America and American politics at large. While the new year may come with its challenges, One Country Project remains committed to uplifting rural voices and the …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

December 28, 2024 at 6:41 PM

It’s time for Congress to prioritize US

One Country Project     The list of priorities for rural Americans is long. But that's what happens when Congress prioritizes extremism and culture wars over progress. So, it's time for Congress to move forward and build our future. At One Country Project, we're fighti…

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  Tessa Gould, One Country Project · [email protected]

December 24, 2024 at 6:12 PM

Rural Update 12/24: Chaos and Confusion return to D.C. with Musk and Trump

One Country Project     Good afternoon, As a bipartisan three-month extension of federal funding was approaching passage, Elon Musk threw a monkey wrench into the works with his hyperbolic fact-free claims about the proposed deal. President-elect Donald Trump took a bre…

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December 17, 2024 at 7:21 PM

Rural Update 12/17: Farm Aid Deal Flops, Empowering Rural America

One Country Project     Good afternoon, A lot is going on in Washington, D.C., to say the least. It will be a Christmas miracle if Congress successfully avoids a government shutdown by the end of this week. The quack, RFK Jr., visited Capitol Hill yesterday for the firs…

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December 13, 2024 at 5:21 PM

$695 billion dollars and 74,000 projects

One Country Project     Infrastructure projects are booming under President Biden! In the three years since the landmark — and much overdue — bipartisan infrastructure law was passed, over $695 billion dollars have funded more than 74,000 projects around the country to…

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December 10, 2024 at 7:05 PM

Rural Update 12/10: Deportation Devastation for Agriculture, The Ongoing Rural Maternal Health Crisis

One Country Project     Good afternoon, President-elect Donald Trump is already on a war path ahead of Inauguration Day. Over the weekend, Trump said he is planning to pardon the Capitol rioters and that members of the January 6 investigative committee should be jailed.…

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December 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM

FWD: Bringing jobs, growth, and prosperity to Indian Country

One Country Project     On the flip side of celebrating the resilience and growing prosperity of native communities is facing the realities of its past: abuse, assimilation, and humiliation at the hands of the United States government. I had the honor of speaking to Donovan Archam…

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  Tessa Gould, One Country Project · [email protected]

December 3, 2024 at 7:23 PM

Rural Update 12/3: Trump’s Tarriff-ying Threats, Raging Rural Health Disparities

One Country Project     Good afternoon, The buzz in Washington continues to center around President-elect Donald Trump building his Cabinet, with his latest picks being Chad Chronister to lead the Drug Enforcement Administration and Kash Patel to serve as FBI director. …

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November 26, 2024 at 7:22 PM

Rural Update 11/26: Rolling with Rollins for USDA Chief, Billionaire Bessent for Treasury

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Toxicity is infiltrating our country as the second Trump administration prepares to move back into the White House and a Republican-led Congress awaits its reign. At the end of last week, Matt Gaetz withdrew as Trump's nominee for…

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

November 23, 2024 at 7:54 PM

Bringing jobs, growth, and prosperity to Indian Country

One Country Project     President Biden is renewing his commitment to our rural tribal communities and reminding lawmakers that our work is far from over. On the heels of Native American Heritage Month, President Biden travelled to Arizona to offer a formal apology on…

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  Tessa Gould, One Country Project · [email protected]

November 19, 2024 at 6:42 PM

Rural Update 11/19: Stabenow Standing for Farmers, A Five-Year Plan for Rural Healthcare

One Country Project     Good afternoon, As President-elect Trump continues to prepare for his second term in the White House, there has been a lot of buzz around his agency nominations and plans to hit the ground running with deportation action and aggressive tariffs. W…

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

November 18, 2024 at 9:19 PM

Wondering what to do? Here’s the answer:

One Country Project     As this long and stressful year begins to draw to a close, it's hard to know if there's anything at all you can do to change your neighborhood and community for the better. World Central Kitchen is the answer, and here's our simple ask: can you …

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  Heidi Heitkamp, One Country Project · [email protected]

November 15, 2024 at 5:40 PM

The mission stays the same

One Country Project     No matter who wins in any election in this country, our mission to stand up for rural Americans stays the same. Voters upset about a number of issues have spoken and voted in Donald Trump for another four years. Make no mistake that One Country…

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November 12, 2024 at 9:48 PM

Rural Update 11/12: Trump's Transition Back to the White House, Trump's Promises to Rural America

One Country Project     Good afternoon, President-elect Trump has started to assemble his Cabinet and senior staff in preparation for his second term in the White House. In a recent interview, Trump said his "biggest mistake" of his first term was choosing "bad, disloya…

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November 5, 2024 at 9:13 PM

Rural Update 11/5: Electric Election Trends to Watch For, What to Expect With Election Results

One Country Project     Good afternoon, Happy Election Day! It appears crowds dwindled at former President Trump's rallies as his campaign came to a close. "Trump often uses his audiences as an indicator of his support" and in this election in particular, he has used hi…

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November 2, 2024 at 3:19 PM

Our closing arguments

One Country Project     It's time for closing arguments in this election. And here's what it comes down to: we want a new generation of leaders in office. We don't want the other guy back in our daily lives again. We're leaving behind the chaos and fear every morning w…

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