Beth Macy
@bethmacy.bsky.social
Running for U.S. Congress when not when writing books, which include PAPER GIRL and DOPESICK. Regular essays on Substack.
To volunteer and/or donate to my campaign: http://www.bethmacyforcongress.com.
To volunteer and/or donate to my campaign: http://www.bethmacyforcongress.com.
Coming soon to you, Steel City! Loved this conversation with the great Neema Avashia.
Read all about it: Neema Avashia '01 interviews author and journalist Beth Macy in advance of her appearance at @pghartslectures.bsky.social next week. ⬇️
"What has happened to home? What has happened to us? And where do we go from here?"
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...
December 3, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Coming soon to you, Steel City! Loved this conversation with the great Neema Avashia.
Pls join if you can!
Great lineup, definitely a show to check out! bluevirginia.us/2025/12/wedn...
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Pls join if you can!
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@kwhite-networknova.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social @rachnash.bsky.social - VA Congressional Primary Races
🧜🏼♀️ Elaine Luria
📕 Beth Macy
🐂 Joy Powers
Rachna Sizemore Heizer for Board of Supervisors, Braddock District to highlight on Dec. 9 in Fairfax County.
DIRECT: tinyurl.com/fpl2025c
🧜🏼♀️ Elaine Luria
📕 Beth Macy
🐂 Joy Powers
Rachna Sizemore Heizer for Board of Supervisors, Braddock District to highlight on Dec. 9 in Fairfax County.
DIRECT: tinyurl.com/fpl2025c
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
@kwhite-networknova.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social @rachnash.bsky.social - VA Congressional Primary Races
🧜🏼♀️ Elaine Luria
📕 Beth Macy
🐂 Joy Powers
Rachna Sizemore Heizer for Board of Supervisors, Braddock District to highlight on Dec. 9 in Fairfax County.
DIRECT: tinyurl.com/fpl2025c
🧜🏼♀️ Elaine Luria
📕 Beth Macy
🐂 Joy Powers
Rachna Sizemore Heizer for Board of Supervisors, Braddock District to highlight on Dec. 9 in Fairfax County.
DIRECT: tinyurl.com/fpl2025c
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"What has happened to home? What has happened to us? And where do we go from here?"
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...
Talking about Empathy with Beth Macy - Pittsburgh Review of Books
I’ve known about Beth Macy for a very long time. A number of her books take place in the geography of my childhood. She is friends with some of my dearest
pghrev.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
"What has happened to home? What has happened to us? And where do we go from here?"
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...
Neema Avashia interviews Beth Macy on her latest release, “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in Fractured America.” @avashianeema.bsky.social @bethmacy.bsky.social pghrev.com/talking-abou...
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"For those considering refreshing their activism skills, Hathaway recommends signing up for state and local newsletters, including those put out by social-service boards, and showing up to public meetings and posting what you learn."
A sobering look at shutdown pain from housing authority residents (and how you, too, can become a citizen journalist). My latest Substack on two women fighting for basic human dignity.
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
How These Women Turned into Citizen Journalists and Activists
By Shining Light On the ‘Slow Dismantling of Human Dignity’
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
"For those considering refreshing their activism skills, Hathaway recommends signing up for state and local newsletters, including those put out by social-service boards, and showing up to public meetings and posting what you learn."
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This is the kind of fact-finding and honesty Beth Macy will bring to Congress.
Rave on!
Rave on!
A sobering look at shutdown pain from housing authority residents (and how you, too, can become a citizen journalist). My latest Substack on two women fighting for basic human dignity.
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
How These Women Turned into Citizen Journalists and Activists
By Shining Light On the ‘Slow Dismantling of Human Dignity’
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This is the kind of fact-finding and honesty Beth Macy will bring to Congress.
Rave on!
Rave on!
A sobering look at shutdown pain from housing authority residents (and how you, too, can become a citizen journalist). My latest Substack on two women fighting for basic human dignity.
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
How These Women Turned into Citizen Journalists and Activists
By Shining Light On the ‘Slow Dismantling of Human Dignity’
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A sobering look at shutdown pain from housing authority residents (and how you, too, can become a citizen journalist). My latest Substack on two women fighting for basic human dignity.
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
open.substack.com/pub/bethmacy...
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Here's a few I read that enriched my year and the Family Inequality perspective:
Paper Girl, by @bethmacy.bsky.social
Keeping it Together, by @jessicacalarco.com
The Siren's Call, by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Capitalism and Its Critics, by @johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Not all published in 2025)
Paper Girl, by @bethmacy.bsky.social
Keeping it Together, by @jessicacalarco.com
The Siren's Call, by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Capitalism and Its Critics, by @johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Not all published in 2025)
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Here's a few I read that enriched my year and the Family Inequality perspective:
Paper Girl, by @bethmacy.bsky.social
Keeping it Together, by @jessicacalarco.com
The Siren's Call, by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Capitalism and Its Critics, by @johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Not all published in 2025)
Paper Girl, by @bethmacy.bsky.social
Keeping it Together, by @jessicacalarco.com
The Siren's Call, by @chrislhayes.bsky.social
Capitalism and Its Critics, by @johncassidysays.bsky.social
(Not all published in 2025)
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No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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Beth Macy wrote the definitive account of the opioid epidemic, and she is everything JD Vance pretends to be.
She's also one of the millions of Americans stepping up to do more than she expected, because democracy is on the line.
Now she's running for Congress.
She's also one of the millions of Americans stepping up to do more than she expected, because democracy is on the line.
Now she's running for Congress.
Andrea visited Roanoke for the fourth time this year to find countless people standing up against Trump to protect one another in ways they’d never imagined—including her friend Beth Macy, whose party...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Beth Macy wrote the definitive account of the opioid epidemic, and she is everything JD Vance pretends to be.
She's also one of the millions of Americans stepping up to do more than she expected, because democracy is on the line.
Now she's running for Congress.
She's also one of the millions of Americans stepping up to do more than she expected, because democracy is on the line.
Now she's running for Congress.
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The path to victory for @bethmacy.bsky.social in Congress is lined with doodles!
November 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The path to victory for @bethmacy.bsky.social in Congress is lined with doodles!
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I'm attending Beth Macy for Congress's event, you should, too, if you get a chance...
Beth Macy Waynesboro Listening Session · Beth Macy for Congress
Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man, has spent her career shedding a light on stories that powerful elites didn't care to see. Now, she's running for Congress to address the issues that have...
www.mobilize.us
November 21, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm attending Beth Macy for Congress's event, you should, too, if you get a chance...
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Beth Macy never thought she would run for Congress. But she knows democracy is on the line and couldn't resist the pleas of those who believe she's the only candidate who can beat the awful Ben Cline.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
Update your bingo card
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November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Beth Macy never thought she would run for Congress. But she knows democracy is on the line and couldn't resist the pleas of those who believe she's the only candidate who can beat the awful Ben Cline.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
And if she flips this red seat in western Virginia, no more Speaker Johnson.
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I'm attending Beth Macy for Congress's event, “Beth Macy Waynesboro Listening Session” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/bethmacyforc...
Beth Macy Waynesboro Listening Session · Beth Macy for Congress
Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man, has spent her career shedding a light on stories that powerful elites didn't care to see. Now, she's running for Congress to address the issues that have...
www.mobilize.us
November 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I'm attending Beth Macy for Congress's event, “Beth Macy Waynesboro Listening Session” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/bethmacyforc...
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Listen to Michael Keaton!
Beth Macy is taking her message to voters that enough is enough. It's time that working on behalf of one's constituents becomes a thing again and Beth will do just that. Her heart knows no other way.
#BethMacyForCongress
Beth Macy is taking her message to voters that enough is enough. It's time that working on behalf of one's constituents becomes a thing again and Beth will do just that. Her heart knows no other way.
#BethMacyForCongress
Grateful to Michael Keaton, who lost a nephew to overdose, to come out swinging for my campaign—and for what is right!
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Listen to Michael Keaton!
Beth Macy is taking her message to voters that enough is enough. It's time that working on behalf of one's constituents becomes a thing again and Beth will do just that. Her heart knows no other way.
#BethMacyForCongress
Beth Macy is taking her message to voters that enough is enough. It's time that working on behalf of one's constituents becomes a thing again and Beth will do just that. Her heart knows no other way.
#BethMacyForCongress
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Beth Macy's latest book is a heartfelt -- even brave -- attempt to understand the economic, social, educational and political decline in the Heartland.
The book centers on Macy returning to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio, to figure out what's what.
#readitnow
@desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
The book centers on Macy returning to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio, to figure out what's what.
#readitnow
@desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Beth Macy's latest book is a heartfelt -- even brave -- attempt to understand the economic, social, educational and political decline in the Heartland.
The book centers on Macy returning to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio, to figure out what's what.
#readitnow
@desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
The book centers on Macy returning to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio, to figure out what's what.
#readitnow
@desmoineslibrary.bsky.social
“When you look at the trend, you can see that big pharma targets these exact same communities where the jobs have gone away. And the government let that happen. In fact, a lot of our officials are being bought off by big pharma now. We really need to hold them accountable.”
Beth Macy makes her run for Congress official
Roanoke-based journalist Beth Macy sat down with Cardinal News for an interview about her decision to run for Congress. Her formal campaign announcement is slated to take place Tuesday at the Histo…
cardinalnews.org
November 21, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“When you look at the trend, you can see that big pharma targets these exact same communities where the jobs have gone away. And the government let that happen. In fact, a lot of our officials are being bought off by big pharma now. We really need to hold them accountable.”
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Journalist Beth Macy raises $350,000 for congressional bid in 24 hours.
She wrote "Dopesick." cardinalnews.org/2025/11/20/m...
She wrote "Dopesick." cardinalnews.org/2025/11/20/m...
Macy raises $350,000 for congressional bid in 24 hours
For comparison, that’s almost as much as Rep. Ben Cline has on hand. It’s also almost twice as much as Shannon Taylor raised when she entered the 1st District race, which is considered …
cardinalnews.org
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Journalist Beth Macy raises $350,000 for congressional bid in 24 hours.
She wrote "Dopesick." cardinalnews.org/2025/11/20/m...
She wrote "Dopesick." cardinalnews.org/2025/11/20/m...
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The story of the opposition to Trump is the story of a bunch of people doing things they never expected to do.
Andrea Pitzer on how her friend @bethmacy.bsky.social, the bestselling author of Dopesick and Paper Girl, decided to run for Congress.
Andrea Pitzer on how her friend @bethmacy.bsky.social, the bestselling author of Dopesick and Paper Girl, decided to run for Congress.
Update your bingo card
YouTube video by Degenerate Art by Andrea Pitzer
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November 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The story of the opposition to Trump is the story of a bunch of people doing things they never expected to do.
Andrea Pitzer on how her friend @bethmacy.bsky.social, the bestselling author of Dopesick and Paper Girl, decided to run for Congress.
Andrea Pitzer on how her friend @bethmacy.bsky.social, the bestselling author of Dopesick and Paper Girl, decided to run for Congress.
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I've never heard a louder crowd at a political rally. Roaring enthusiasm.
I went to Roanoke to witness a community's attempt to care for *everyone* in it, and to see how residents are demanding accountability from their elected officials. (Also, great news: @bethmacy.bsky.social is running for Congress!)
Of, by, and for the people
Roanoke is rising, and it's drafted Beth Macy for Congress.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I've never heard a louder crowd at a political rally. Roaring enthusiasm.
Grateful to Michael Keaton, who lost a nephew to overdose, to come out swinging for my campaign—and for what is right!
November 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Grateful to Michael Keaton, who lost a nephew to overdose, to come out swinging for my campaign—and for what is right!
Thanks @andreapitzer.bsky.social — truth teller, friend, and badass black belt who thinks as hard as she kicks. We need to clone her.
I went to Roanoke to witness a community's attempt to care for *everyone* in it, and to see how residents are demanding accountability from their elected officials. (Also, great news: @bethmacy.bsky.social is running for Congress!)
Of, by, and for the people
Roanoke is rising, and it's drafted Beth Macy for Congress.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Thanks @andreapitzer.bsky.social — truth teller, friend, and badass black belt who thinks as hard as she kicks. We need to clone her.
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The indomitable @bethmacy.bsky.social has built a career amplifying unheard voices, shining light on those too often forgotten, and calling out abuses of power. I believe she’s the right person to replace Ben Cline in Congress.
bethmacy.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
bethmacy.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Worst-Kept Secret
I'm running for Congress!
bethmacy.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The indomitable @bethmacy.bsky.social has built a career amplifying unheard voices, shining light on those too often forgotten, and calling out abuses of power. I believe she’s the right person to replace Ben Cline in Congress.
bethmacy.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
bethmacy.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
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"This was a more energetic campaign entry speech than any I've ever seen and I've seen a lot." -- veteran journalist and editor of CardinalNews.org Dwayne Yancey
Congrats to @bethmacy.bsky.social on her campaign launch last night! Here are some pix for that event.
@roanokeindivisible.bsky.social
Congrats to @bethmacy.bsky.social on her campaign launch last night! Here are some pix for that event.
@roanokeindivisible.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"This was a more energetic campaign entry speech than any I've ever seen and I've seen a lot." -- veteran journalist and editor of CardinalNews.org Dwayne Yancey
Congrats to @bethmacy.bsky.social on her campaign launch last night! Here are some pix for that event.
@roanokeindivisible.bsky.social
Congrats to @bethmacy.bsky.social on her campaign launch last night! Here are some pix for that event.
@roanokeindivisible.bsky.social
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I’m at @bethmacy.bsky.social’s announcement event right now. She’s running for Congress, to represent Virginia’s 6th district. It’s just getting started. It feels amazing right now.
November 18, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I’m at @bethmacy.bsky.social’s announcement event right now. She’s running for Congress, to represent Virginia’s 6th district. It’s just getting started. It feels amazing right now.