Writing · One brain, two feeds

Tennessee writing lives here. Everything else still lives at RachelandTheCity.

I’ve been writing about politics and culture for years - the back catalog is at rachelandthecity.com, and that’s where the national stuff still goes. This page is where I write about Tennessee. The district. The counties. The fights I’m running on. Things people in TN-5 need to know that I’m not going to bury inside a national essay.

Two feeds. Pick what you need. Or follow both.

HERE

Tennessee writing

Lives on this site · rachelfortn.com

Campaign-issue writing. The 17 counties of District 5 are where my attention goes. I’m writing about who’s on the ballot, who’s rigging what, what the legislature in Nashville is up to, and what specific things are breaking in Memphis, Frayser, South Memphis, Lake County, Lauderdale, Maury County, and everywhere in between.

What you’ll find here:

District 5 candidates and races. State-level corruption and the people running it. County-level reporting from the road. Rural hospital closures and the people who let it happen. The Tennessee gerrymander. Memphis-specific accountability writing. Field notes from county trips. Endorsements and anti-endorsements with the receipts.

Posts coming soon

THERE

National & cultural writing

Lives at · rachelandthecity.com

Everything that isn’t Tennessee-specific. The federal grift, the cultural moment, the Trump administration’s daily nonsense, the music industry, media analysis, the GriftMatrix investigations, and the personal essays. It’s the project I’ve been building for years, and it’s not going anywhere just because I filed for office.

What you’ll find there:

National politics and the Trump administration in plain language. The GriftMatrix - the long-running investigation into who’s grifting whom. Daily explainers on the news. Cultural commentary. Music industry essays. The Daily Grift podcast. Five years of archived writing.

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Why the split

Because running for Congress in TN-5 is a different job than writing about the country.

If you live in this district, you don’t need me to explain federal politics to you - you can find that anywhere. What you need is somebody actually paying attention to what’s happening here, naming the people doing it, and showing you the receipts. That’s what this page is for.

If you’re here because you’ve been following my national writing for the last few years, welcome. That work continues at RachelandTheCity, exactly the way it has been. I’m not stopping. I’m just adding a second feed for the campaign-specific writing so the Tennessee stuff doesn’t get buried under everything else, and the everything-else doesn’t crowd out the district.

One brain, two feeds. Same voice on both.

The newsletter

The Substack pipes both feeds into one inbox.

If you’d rather not check two sites, the newsletter at rachelandthecity.substack.com sends out the writing as it goes up. Tennessee posts, national posts, all of it. Free to subscribe. New paid subscriptions are turned off while I’m a federal candidate - see the finance page if you want the full reason - so if you’re already subscribed paid, thank you, and if you’re new, free is the only tier available right now.

Pick a feed. Or both. Either way.

The Tennessee writing on this page is where the campaign work lives. The national writing at RATC is where the bigger picture lives. They run in parallel, and they’ll keep running in parallel through August.

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