About Holler & Hammer
We’ve got work to do.
North Carolina’s working class communities have carried this state for generations. They build it, grow its food, staff its institutions, maintain its infrastructure, and serve in its military. But when decisions get made in Raleigh committee rooms, in late night amendments, in quiet backroom meetings those same communities are treated like an afterthought.
Holler & Hammer exists to correct the record.
This isn’t some watered down political newsletter. This is about telling the truth and giving working class folks in rural areas like where I live in Johnston County and beyond a voice.
Why subscribe?
Subscribers receive record backed analysis of North Carolina politics, local legal battles, and the real world impact of state and national policy on rural and working-class communities. The reporting traces legislation, court decisions, campaign finance, and local governance to show how power actually operates and who it affects.
Holler & Hammer also documents the longer story of this state. Black history in Johnston County and across North Carolina. Working class struggle, land fights, labor battles, civil rights cases, and the people whose names rarely make it into textbooks but shaped the ground we stand on. That historical work is expanding, because policy without memory is propaganda.
Sometimes, the work turns inward. Poetry lives here too. Not as decoration, but as testimony. The same themes show up, survival, power, poverty, land, family, history. Different form. Same fight.
Check out my past posts for stories from the front lines of Johnston County, NC and beyond.
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Holler & Hammer covers how power, policy, and everyday life intersect across Johnston County and North Carolina. Big fights, small decisions, and everything in between.
If it matters where you live, it belongs here.
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