SUPD 993 Dirt Road Democrat Missouri's Jess Piper
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Jess Piper is a former teacher and candidate for state representative in Missouri and she is real bad ass.
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A career educator turned dogged but unsuccessful 2022 political candidate, Piper is still putting out her message, now by podcast.
The first episode of “Dirt Road Democrat” came out today. Piper focuses on the public education funding crisis in Missouri, but the challenges she takes on — teacher pay, vouchers, a war on the poor — resonant here, too. With the title “The GOP Attack on Public Education & The Grifter Economy,” you might expect it to be meaner. But this University of Arkansas at Fort Smith alum who taught in public schools in Arkansas and Missouri for decades lives on a farm and cracks jokes about dead chickens. No elitism here. Alas, her parents voted for Trump.
Piper, 44, is the card-carrying, door-knocking type of Democrat who hasn’t supported a Republican presidential candidate since the first George Bush, when she was still stuck to the ideology she was taught growing up. Raised in a conservative household and brought up in Fundamentalist Baptist churches scattered across the South, Piper has emerged as an unlikely voice in an unlikely place.
From Louisiana to Mississippi to Arkansas, Piper has lived in the most conservative corners of some of the country’s reddest states, and now she’s helping man the progressive front of a nationwide culture war in rural Nodaway County, where row crop is king and where conservatives win in landslides and where Piper raises cattle and chickens and children and fights for what she believes in every chance she gets.
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| 0:00.0 | Stand Up. |
| 0:02.0 | Oh hello and welcome to the Friday episode of Stand Up, where normally I don't do a news segment, |
| 0:08.0 | but I had a little extra time the night before the hangout, so I figure I said the best of us. |
| 0:12.0 | Why not? I'll just throw out some headlines I don't have time to grab the audio |
| 0:17.0 | But I think you'll appreciate it I've got a great guest joining me today. Jess Piper is on the program for the first time she goes by the nickname the |
| 0:25.9 | dirt road Democrat because he's a former rural educator and she ran for Statehouse as a Democratic nominee for Missouri's HD1 |
| 0:37.1 | district so she's a rural activist a public school advocate and a very |
| 0:41.2 | powerful influential woman on social media who is doing all she can to help |
| 0:46.1 | get Democrats elected in the state of Missouri where apparently they are pretty lonely, |
| 0:51.0 | very excited to have Jess Piper on the show for the first time. |
| 0:54.1 | That's going to start at about seven minutes in. But let me get to some of those headlines |
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