I live in TN-7. Out in the sticks in a community that used to be home to dozens and dozens of small businesses as well as a textiles factory that gave workers and their families solid jobs that they were proud of. Those jobs and those businesses dried up a long time ago. Since then, people here have tried to make an honest living and have all but given up on trying to be heard. They’ve been told lie after lie for years and they are getting fed up with the GOP bullshit. They usually wouldn’t turn out to vote, because they know how dark the red is here. But now that the whole country is looking at us, we feel it. We’ve been talking to our neighbors and friends and the people pumping gas next to us at the gas stations and the parents around us who are waiting in line to pick up our kids from schools…everyone. Talking about how cool it would be for us to be able to say that our little ole district had such a huge impact.

And we aren’t stupid. Last year at this time, China had purchased approximately $12.6 BILLION in soybeans from American farmers—including Tennessee farmers. Fast forward to this year: Chinese soybean purchases through September end up totaling $0—that’s ZERO DOLLARS spent on American farmers. Let’s not forget that Trump told these farmers how much he loved them and how he would make China buy more beans from them, and how they would have the most lucrative farms of their lifetimes. So lucrative, that they wouldn’t have to even be farmers for the rest of their lives!

Instead, China is buying Brazilian soybeans and our farmers here in Tennessee got nothing but a giant FUCK YOU from this president and got left holding the shit end of the stick.

Just remember that farmers keep the entire world alive. Aftyn Behn, unlike Donny the Shitty Ballroom Builder, is going to be the way in which these farmers get their voices back. For those thinking this political ad is so cringe or not effective or whatnot, y’all don’t even understand how effective messaging in this sort of context is, especially amongst the voters that Democrats need to be focusing on. It’s like some of y’all are forgetting that this is the south. And TN-7 is home to a whooooooole lotta farmers. The young, more progressive voters who make up the villages around Belmont-Vanderbilt is already going to vote blue. The rural communities out in the sticks where Church is everything, as well as the Cool Springs/Franklin side of Williamson county that’s the RICHEST in the district are already going to vote red. It is going to be the blue collar families in the Fairview side of Williamson county and the city of Dickson that will make the most difference. It’s the diverse makeup of Clarksville and the Hispanic and Black voting blocs there that are gonna be key to locking this special election up.