fighting for
our home states

We’re ex-pats from the heartland, making lives in big cities, building bridges back home.

Reclaiming the heartland from corporate control will take all of us, and coastal transplants have a major role to play

Billionaire political donors don’t care about our home states’ small towns and rural communities, so it’s on us to support those back home, fighting for the heartland.

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Partner Initiatives

We support the most exciting, innovative grassroots organizing in the heartland.

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Indiana

NAFTA Story Project

Iowa

Working Families Party

Michigan

Power to the People

Ohio

Humans of Addiction

Wisconsin

The Race and Class Narrative Project

Indiana

NAFTA Story Project

iowa

working families party

Michigan

Power to the People

ohio

Humans of Addiction

wisconsin

The Race and Class Narrative Project

Home state associations

We are currently operating 5 Home State Associations in New York City. Join now and come to your home state’s next monthly meeting.

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new york city

coming Soon

los angeles

san francisco

minneapolis

chicago

Don’t live in any of these cities? Let us know where you are and we’ll work to get a chapter set up as soon as we can.

Heartland Rising is proud to be affiliated with Hometown Connect. Our two organizations are working in partnership to build bridges across the rural-urban divide to build power for rural communities.
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We are grateful to Hometown Connect for developing a model for building domestic hometown associations that has served as a source of inspiration for Heartland Rising’s home state associations.

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We need you

Winning this fight will take people and money, so whether or not you’re from the heartland, you can get involved.

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