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Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Bestselling Appalachian Author Seeks Office: An Anti-Vance

For a certain class of book-reading American -- the type with a taste for deeply reported stories about left-behind parts of the country -- [Beth Macy], the woman running for [the Appalachia-based 6th Congressional District of Virginia], is something of a household name.

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I'm about 100 pages into Beth Macy's PAPER GIRL and was thinking, "There are a lot of good threads here for a solid, cutting-edge Democratic campaign" and lo and behold turns out that one person who also thought so was Beth Macy! www.politico.com/news/magazin ...

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-- Jason Linkins (@dceiver.bsky.social) Dec 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM

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FWIW: The Roanoke Times is a serious good paper. Not afraid at all to tackle local issues, and not just small-city boosterism.

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-12-30 09:23 AM | Reply

Running an an anti-JD Vance candidate is probably a good idea.

The Hillbilly Hypocrite is about as popular as an inflamed gumboil.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-12-30 09:32 AM | Reply

The anti-Vance. Someone who uses a couch for sitting.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-12-30 06:58 PM | Reply

So, her main shtick seems to be along the lines of ~I am not like VP Vance.~

Wow, that seems to be quite damning for VP Vance's political ambitions going forward.



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-01-01 01:39 AM | Reply

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