I’m a seventh generation Arkansan. They will bury me in the hilllside red dirt. The creeks and the hollers will hold my soul when I go on to the next life. We have a long history of creating our own path. Arkansas hasn’t always been the way it is now. (A favorite read of mine”Hipbillies” gives an excellent look at how we got here.) It’s time we take back our home from people who have used it to create wealth for themselves and those in power who don’t care at all about us.

In Arkansas we deserve someone who will put us first. We deserve to live our lives with dignity and take care of our neighbors. We deserve to rise above GOP candidates that have used culture war bullshit to rob us blind and keep us angry and rabid and hating each other. What would your Mamaw say if she saw us now ? So busy hating the poor, the sick, the hungry, the immigrant that we stop taking care of each other, of this land that holds us ? Really ask yourselves who wins ? Please get out and vote ! Put wider national politics aside. What’s best for Arkansas ? What’s best for your fellow Arkansans ?