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Hope in the Heartland is a voice for the forgotten corners of America—where faith meets class struggle, where dirt roads lead to revolution, and where resistance grows like wild prairie grass. It’s a publication for those who know the system is broken and are ready to build something better. If you care about the working class, anti-imperialism, social justice, and the personal transformations that come with the fight for liberation, you’ll feel right at home here.

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I grew up in rural America, moving from place to place, passed between different guardians, shaped by poverty, abuse, and an environment that rewarded ignorance. Like many around me, I held bigoted views and embraced a right-libertarian, hyper-individualist mindset, convinced I understood how the world worked. But life has a way of humbling you—if you let it.

At some point, I had to face a difficult truth: I was wrong. My heroes were wrong. My family was wrong. Everything I thought I knew about politics, economics, and history had been fed to me by systems designed to keep me blind. So I did what René Descartes once suggested—I dumped out my entire basket of beliefs and examined each one. Piece by piece, I rebuilt my understanding of the world, this time grounded in material reality, anti-imperialism, and a rejection of capitalism as the natural order of things.

That process of unlearning led me somewhere I never expected: Islam. I spent years resisting it, but when you encounter the truth, you either accept it or live in denial. I chose to accept it. And that choice led me to my wife, a Gambian national who has been my rock, my greatest supporter, and an incredible stepmother to my kids. Our life together is a constant learning process—navigating faith, culture, and the struggle of the working class while refusing to let the world define who we are.

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A Muslim revert, activist, and rural organizer writing on class struggle, social justice, and personal transformation. Hope in the Heartland is where faith, resistance, and working-class life intersect—covering everything from political essays to personal

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I was once a bigot who set out to debate Islam—then reverted. Now, I write to bridge the American working class, expose the systems that keep us divided, & dispel the myths used to turn us against each other. Liberation starts with us!