Rural communities are being squeezed from every side.

From rising health care costs to crumbling hospitals,

from attacks on public schools, to the fight for paid family and medical leave.

Farmers and small businesses are reeling from the trade war,

and now Project 2025 is back with a plan to finish what Elon Musk started.

Trump and the Republicans won rural votes, then turn their backs on us.

Join the One Country Project for the Rural Progress Summit, July 8 through the 10th.

This free virtual event brings together leaders

like Senator Heidi Highcamp, Secretary Pete Buttigieg,

Governor Andy Beshear and others

for real talk and real solutions.

Together we'll tackle the most urgent issues

facing rural America.

Register today or learn more at RuralProgress.com. tackle the most urgent issues facing rural America.

Register today or learn more at RuralProgress.com.

This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Batcher.

My colleague and co-host Bill Rajo,

Senior Fellow Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

and we welcome his colleague, John Hardy, writing most recently at the National Security Journal.

He also writes for Bill's Long War Journal about Russia watching the American B-2 strike on suspect nuclear weapons sites in Iran.

The headline in the Reuters in these moments tells the story of Russia.

...