Welcome to Down Home! https://downhomenc.org/ Down Home North Carolina Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:56:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://downhomenc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DH-Cardinal-125x125.png Welcome to Down Home! https://downhomenc.org/ 32 32 On the porch with DHNC member Kisha Jeffries https://downhomenc.org/2026/03/10/otp-member-kisha-j/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=otp-member-kisha-j Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:42:54 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=22792 Between caregiving and a full-time job, one Granville County farmer is cultivating more than crops—she’s growing community support Kisha (MK) Jeffries works full-time for a lab company and is a founder of Handéwa Farms, alongside her daughters, family and friends. This Afro-Indigenous collective grows hemp for CBD products. They also grow vegetables and melons that... Read more »

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]]> North Carolina’s 2026 Primary Election Projection: Corporate Cronies v. Everyman USA https://downhomenc.org/2026/03/06/north-carolinas-2026-primary-election-projection/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=north-carolinas-2026-primary-election-projection Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:53:32 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=22469 For several poor and working-class people in North Carolina, endgame isn’t during the 2026 November elections; it was this past Tuesday.

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]]> 2025 Municipal Election Results: The Working Class Wave Is Here https://downhomenc.org/2025/11/05/2025-municipal-election-results-the-working-class-wave-is-here/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2025-municipal-election-results-the-working-class-wave-is-here Thu, 06 Nov 2025 03:34:10 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=22113 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.  

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]]> Square up: Responding to the Backwards Budget Bill Together https://downhomenc.org/2025/10/25/responding-to-the-backwards-budget-bill-together/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=responding-to-the-backwards-budget-bill-together Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:32:30 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=21888 Everyone will be impacted by this backwards budget bill. Every one – hardworking moms, dads making ends meet, grandmas and grandpas on a fixed income, innocent children and babies who just got here, young adults trying to make it in the world, teens trying to get by and grow up – every single hard working,... Read more »

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]]> Lawmakers must choose: buyouts for billionaires or affordable healthcare for working families? https://downhomenc.org/2025/09/29/lawmakers-must-choose/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lawmakers-must-choose Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:36:46 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=21406 We’re on the brink of a government shutdown and affordable healthcare and the people who depend on it are at stake if massive cuts to healthcare and other programs go through. All elected officials must take responsibility for making sure our government works for working-class people, not just for billionaires and the politicians that serve... Read more »

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]]> One year later: It’s not yet time to look back at Hurricane Helene https://downhomenc.org/2025/09/26/one-year-later-its-not-yet-time-to-look-back-at-hurricane-helene/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-year-later-its-not-yet-time-to-look-back-at-hurricane-helene Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:33:59 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=21329 On the anniversary of Hurricane Helene, two Western North Carolina leaders say too much of the recovery from the storm remains unfinished to see the storm as a memory.  By Down Home Member Dalton George and Preston Blakely Syndicated by Beacon Media One year ago, Western North Carolina was forever changed by Hurricane Helene. Roads and... Read more »

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]]> Power Surge: Introducing the very first Down Home Candidate Academy Graduates! https://downhomenc.org/2025/08/19/candidate-academy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=candidate-academy Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:15:04 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=20907 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 »

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]]> It Takes a Village: Alamance Chapter Wins “Care Over Cuts” Campaign https://downhomenc.org/2025/06/26/it-takes-a-village-alamance-chapter-wins-care-over-cuts-campaign/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=it-takes-a-village-alamance-chapter-wins-care-over-cuts-campaign Thu, 26 Jun 2025 23:23:28 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=20871 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 »

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]]> Don’t cut our healthcare to give tax breaks to the rich https://downhomenc.org/2025/06/24/dont-cut-our-healthcare-to-give-tax-breaks-to-the-rich/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-cut-our-healthcare-to-give-tax-breaks-to-the-rich Tue, 24 Jun 2025 23:19:38 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=20833 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 »

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]]> Alamance County Commissioners: Invest in our kids, stop the cuts! https://downhomenc.org/2025/06/11/alamance-county-commissioners-invest-in-our-kids-stop-the-cuts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=alamance-county-commissioners-invest-in-our-kids-stop-the-cuts Wed, 11 Jun 2025 21:44:13 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=20786 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.

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]]> Medicaid is my lifeline. If Republicans cut it, I could die early. https://downhomenc.org/2025/05/29/medicaid-is-my-lifeline-if-republicans-cut-it-i-could-die-early/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=medicaid-is-my-lifeline-if-republicans-cut-it-i-could-die-early https://downhomenc.org/2025/05/29/medicaid-is-my-lifeline-if-republicans-cut-it-i-could-die-early/#respond Thu, 29 May 2025 19:44:22 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=20757 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.

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]]> https://downhomenc.org/2025/05/29/medicaid-is-my-lifeline-if-republicans-cut-it-i-could-die-early/feed/ 0 Change In Action: Meet the 2025 Issue Campaigns https://downhomenc.org/2025/05/19/change-in-action-meet-the-2025-issue-campaigns/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=change-in-action-meet-the-2025-issue-campaigns Mon, 19 May 2025 17:26:18 +0000 https://downhomenc.org/?p=20609 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.

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