Harvest the Vote

How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America

By: Jane Kleeb

Narrated by: Jane Kleeb

From Democratic Party rising 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 an entire generation of rural voters. By focusing the majority of their message and resources on urban and coastal voters, Democrats have sacrificed entire regions of the country where there is more common ground and shared values than what appears on the surface.

In Harvest the Vote, Jane Kleeb, chair of Nebraska’s Democratic Party and founder of Bold Nebraska, brings us a lively and sweeping argument for why the Democrats shouldn’t turn away from rural America. As a party leader and longtime activist, Kleeb speaks from experience. She’s been fighting the national party for more resources and building a grassroots movement to flex the power of a voting bloc that has long been ignored and forgotten.

Kleeb persuasively argues that the hottest issues of the day can be solved hand in hand with rural people. On climate change, Kleeb shows that the vast spaces of rural America can be used to enact clean energy innovations. And issues of eminent domain and corporate overreach will galvanize unlikely alliances of family farmers, ranchers, small business owners, progressives, and tribal leaders, much as they did when she helped fight the Keystone XL pipeline. The hot-button issues of guns and abortion that the Republican Party uses to wedge voters against one another can be bridged by putting a megaphone next to issues critical to rural communities.

Written with a fiery voice and commonsense solutions, Harvest the Vote is both a call to action and a much-needed balm for a highly divided nation.

This is how the midwest is won

Jane Kleeb lays out what Democrats need to do if we want to represent rural America once again.

This will be the year of rural blue!

Serving hope and hard truths about what has to change for democrats to win back rural voters by SERVING them and our mutual interests. Jane has lived the change she became a part of and tells her story and lessons learned in this book.

I am more hopeful about how democrats can better serve rural constituents and stay true to our values:
Defending the family farmer and rancher, who value their property rights, depend upon immigrant workers/entrepreneurs and defend their local identity in their public schools. They also hate abusive big businesses polluting the environment that they depend upon for the health of their crops and livestock.

Stories of the battles she’s won and lost that will inspire service to the best of our rural roots and to resist those who would take advantage of them while pretending to serve their values.