Rural Power Packs

The Indiana Rural Summit helps recruit, retain, and incubate candidates. Nobody runs alone. We help candidates representing rural and small-town communities, often running in difficult districts lacking county-level infrastructure. We are about base building through electoral organizing and increasing voter turnout to win races. 

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Power Packs are state Senate-anchored candidate-block target races, surrounded by competitive and long-shot House races, moving together as a wave. (Power Packs are based on the Virginia Grassroots Coalition model.)

Explore:

  • Power Packs: 61 Indiana Rural Summit candidates in 10 focused packs — each candidate appears once
  • My Pack: Find your candidate coalition by county, candidate, or district number
  • Fundraisers: ActBlue fundraiser pages for Indiana Rural Summit Power Pack coalitions — Senate-anchored and House-anchored donor pools supporting candidates running together as a wave
  • IN Partisan Lean Index (IN-Index): How far each district leans Republican or Democratic, based on recent election results apportioned to districts using census block assignments. 

 

Intern Program

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 Motorcade for Medicaid

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