In much of America, power is earned through stewardship—of land, family, and town. But what we’re seeing now is power being centralized in Washington with no accountability and no root system. Trump’s DOGE agency and wave of executive orders don’t fix problems. They bury them under authority.

Layoffs, DEI erasure, “at-will” reclassification—all with the stroke of a pen. You tell me where the people fit in that picture.

What MAGA once promised was representation. What it’s become is domination. That’s not the future rural America signed up for.