South Dakota Rural Voters is a non-partisan grassroots electoral organization. We are building power with people who share our values and seeking to connect with candidates who will champion us and our ideas. We believe rural people and places matter to everyone, everywhere, and we want to convene and mobilize rural and urban people alike around these beliefs:
- Democracy is worth fighting for. Protecting voting rights, direct ballot initiatives, election processes, plus overhauling campaign finance rules are both popular and essential ideas. We can make it happen.
- We believe in solutions that make it possible for all families to live a good life. That means doing the work to make housing, childcare, healthcare, senior care, and education more affordable and accessible.
- We believe South Dakotans everywhere have been exploited by large corporations that take resources from—without properly returning them to—our communities. We stand for systems that empower working people.
- We believe clean water, fresh air, and healthy soil are critical to life now and in the future. Profits aren’t more important than that, ever.
SDRV allies with like-minded individuals and organizations to recruit and educate potential South Dakota candidates for public office.
Our team
South Dakota Rural Voters is a member of the Western Organization of Resource Councils Grassroots Democracy Program, which is the 501c4 political arm of WORC. The Grassroots Democracy Program is a regional coalition of rural vote programs and Native vote organizations that work together to elect candidates that will champion our issues and support rural, Indigenous, and people of color communities. We do this by identifying and training our member leaders to run for office, holding elected officials accountable throughout the year, and passing smart public policy to advance our issues at the state, local, and federal level.
Learn more about the Grassroots Democracy Program.
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