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From Alaska to Marshall County: How One Woman is Building a Progressive Resistance in Rural Tennessee
In this powerful episode, the Cast Iron crew sits down with Jess Limbird, the Democratic Party chair in Marshall County, Tennessee—a place so red it went 78% for Trump in 2024. But don't let those numbers fool you. Jess, who spent two decades in Alaska working with Native students and fighting broken systems, came home to Tennessee with a fire in her belly and a clear mission: prove that progressives aren't isolated blue dots drowning in a red sea. From organizing "Bearing Witness" protests every Saturday on the town square to mobilizing the community to save their beloved Black city manager from a racist firing, Jess is showing rural Tennessee what real grassroots power looks like.
This isn't your typical political o ...