Yes, we believe rural communities deserve better.

Open Road is an independent expenditure PAC driven by rural people who are choosing community over corrosive politics in rural America.
We exist to support and promote progressive civic engagement and public policy awareness in rural communities by making independent expenditures and other lawful political disbursements that influence the selection, nomination, or election of individuals to public office.

Yes, we work to get rural Democrats elected.

We work to get rural Democratic candidates elected because we understand a basic truth about American politics. Rural Democrats often hold more negotiating power. They hold dramatically more than the extremely far right Republicans who often represent rural districts. In a system that regularly leaves rural communities behind, we need every advantage we can get.

Yes, we are a Super PAC.

But not the dark money kind. We are rural residents using the same tools that corporations and special interests use. But we use them to ensure rural residents have a seat at the table.

Yes, we have supporters from all backgrounds.

Rural independents and moderate conservatives support Open Road because we listen and give them a real seat at the table, especially around economics. Left-leaning Democrats support us because a functioning coalition is far better than letting far-right extremists roll back civil rights.

Yes, we we believe that rural voters are the key.

We don’t romanticize or stereotype rural life. We live it. The Democratic Party has prioritized data and policy over the past two decades. This approach has unintentionally alienated rural voters and shifted the rural political social fabric to the right. As a result, Democrats have lost almost 20% of the vote share in rural communities. We prioritize the rebuilding of trust in our rural communities. Our approach is based in data but our goals are relational. They start and end with community. We don’t believe in silver bullets. We are doing the hard work we should have started decades ago.