Is Beth Macy the Liberal JD Vance?

She’s Written Bestsellers About Appalachian Struggles. She’s Running for Office. But Don’t Compare Her to JD Vance.

Democrats try rolling out potential answer to JD Vance for 2026 midterms

Beth Macy, a 2026 Democratic candidate for Virginia’s 6th Congressional District, has drawn some comparisons to a liberal version of Vice President JD Vance, Politico reported on […]

She Might Be Democrats' Version of JD Vance

Beth Macy is a journalist and author in Virginia who is best known for the 2018 nonfiction book Dopesick , which told of the ravages of the opioid epidemic in Appalachia. The 61-year-old from Roanoke is now running for Congress in Virginia's 6th District, and, as a Politico profile notes, the...

Is Beth Macy the Liberal JD Vance?

Politico: “One need not be a citizen of the Appalachia-based 6th Congressional District of Virginia for that to be the case. For a certain class of book-reading American — the type with a taste for deeply reported stories about left-behind parts of the country — the woman running for this seat in the United States House is something of a household name.” “An award-winning reporter for the Roanoke Times for 25 years, she’s the author of five nonf…