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Paula Jean Swearengin paints a brighter future with the colors of grassroots activism and policy ambition. Her statements blend optimism with concrete action, giving readers a clear sense of how collective effort can reshape communities and the environment.

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I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on deaf ears.

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The people I've met through my path in activism, we're trying to bring real people into a leadership role because we are real Americans…

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I was born here in West Virginia, though I spent a little time in North Carolina when my step-dad got laid off from the…

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It doesn't bother me to be called a 'hillbilly' because I lived in the hills. I grew up in the hills and the mountains…

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The question we face today is: What are we going to do when the coal is gone? And make no mistake it's going. No…

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But my family is connected to coal. There's hardly anybody in West Virginia that doesn't have a connection to the coal industry.

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The Democratic Party has failed us, because we haven't run the progressive platform we've been promised... That's why people have moved their votes to…

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I'm really not a politician: I don't have a political background, though I've been an activist fighting for my community for years. So I…

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I've done everything imaginable as a mother and a coal miner's daughter to create a brighter future for our children, and it fell on…

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I have diverticulitis. Most of my family have stomach issues because of the water we drank when we were little. Lots of people have…

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I believe our future is in building a 21st-century, clean economy.

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Joe Manchin has been our secretary of state, he's been our governor and he's been our senator. And through his long terms, we have…

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We tapped into the abandoned mine land fund to pay for pensions, and that money was to clean up the mines, not make up…

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I was born in Mullens, West Virginia, and lived in a community called Iroquois in Appalachia. We faced heavy pollution. Our water came from…

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Bernie Sanders won the primaries because he offered promise, offered hope, offered solutions.

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I buried my baby brother this year because of the opioid crisis, I've seen my friends and family, strong miners born and bred in…

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