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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A long, long-overdue thank-you to Janine Giordano Drake for the chance to talk with @lawcha.bsky.social's Labor Online about When Democrats Won the Heartland -- check out the conversation here: lawcha.org/2026/08/04/c...

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Cory Haala on his new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland | LAWCHA

Cory Haala’s new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (University of Illinois Press, 2026) tells

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Redwood Falls. So that rebrand to the Minnesota Star Tribune is going...

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David Cochran @dcochran1004.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My interview with @coryhaala.bsky.social, author of “When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992,” is in the current issue of the Illinois Labor History Society Reporter.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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Cory Haala on his new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland | LAWCHA

Cory Haala’s new book, When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992 (University of Illinois Press, 2026) tells

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

imagining the Air Conditioning Repair School at Greendale, but with the pretension of Ohio State and the debt of Rutgers

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Been a fun (if abbreviated) return to College Park, site of my greatest triumph: not the 'Cats over the Terps (though that happened, obviously), but me, solo, over the Chessie.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

A Republican senator in a safe, rural, red seat dogged by medical lawsuits and his insistence that farm/trade economics are fine? Surely it'd never happen.

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RandBall’s Stu @randballsstu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Minnesota Vikings (complimentary)

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Alma mater beats employer. Go alma mater.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

No, that's when I wear my #13 Northwestern jersey with "Samsa" on the back

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Really honored to be cited in this @ruralspatialj.bsky.social article alongside scholars like Kathy Cramer. Read to learn more on the application of Wisconsin's political history to its current political climate.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Pastries on the table, blue and gold treatments on the lights, dembow playing on the loudspeakers (chosen by the school director). Real vibes in Brookings for Day 1 of classes.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A tradition I last enjoyed in 2018: the chance to watch 'Cats-Gophers for the low, low price of intestinal distress. (Northwestern winning makes this tradition even funnier.)

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A student reflection on his final project -- if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go crawl in a hole and die. "What is it, 2009?" (the year I graduated high school) is going to live rent-free in my head for a loooooong time.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

New job! As of yesterday, I'm Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in Civic Engagement and Public History at South Dakota State University. I'll run our Museum Studies minor, SD National History Day, and new statewide history programs. Not good at #EarsUp yet, can't wait to start. #GoJacks

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Today in "fun with soft power", my kids' new interactive, LeapFrog/BBC-branded globe capitalizes the names of independent countries and stars their capitals. I wonder where these globes are manufactured...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Part of the confusion: MORE FARM GROUPS. I had two pages of acronyms in When Democrats Won the Heartland; now, in memos from farm advocacy groups in IL/MO...they're CCing a half-dozen others each. WAS one Pepe Silvia? Off to get thumbtacks, string, and a cigarette and get to the bottom of it...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Excited for folks to contrast images like Wendy here with the cover of Michael Lansing's new book, A Police State (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... Charlie Stenvig is the law-and-order Mpls mayor in 73! Understanding how these co-existed is crucial to MN liberalism.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ah, it's too bad northwestern was already planning to wear its green mardi gras-themed uniforms the SAME DAY. shoot.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My word there's a lot going on in this letter to Dick Gephardt in February 1988. Two conservative Republicans call him "dead wrong" on the Contras and bemoan "charity programs for dead beats"... ...but say he's the only acceptable candidate on trade and send him $100. A land of contrasts.

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Atlas Shvitzed @therafischwartz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We have seized the airports and radio stations. Madison has fallen. We ask the people of Wisconsin to please remain calm during this period of transition.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Front page stories on Quiz Bowl and a Farm Crisis protest. The March 27, 1986 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune has basically all my interests covered.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Look at my laptop/external keyboard setup back in January 2016 on my...second?...official research trip I ever took as a graduate student. LOOK AT THAT. Brookings, South Dakota.

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

i have made some inquiries why michiganders have primary elections 4 months after normal states and i was told it was "to distract them from pat fitzgerald"

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

From a Missouri activist group in 1994 about corporate hog farms. I'm sure if we squinted we could find a kernel of relevance today.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just passed through Ankeny - RIP to the Village Inn, where in 2018 former state rep and gubernatorial candidate Jerry Fitzgerald met and told me stories for 4 hours while the servers looked increasingly annoyed with us. Good times.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

As @edsbs.bsky.social notes, my regret: doing research at CU, instead of renting a car and driving to Border War in Laramie, I went to a friend's to watch Northwestern-Huskers. Went to an awful OT. ('Cats won.) Wyo-CSU was a massive snowstorm. Never would've left Laramie. Never would've wanted to.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am begging these people, just once, to read something, anything, on the Bank of North Dakota.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Currently doing casual research for one of the next projects, politics of family farming since 1979... ...and this tableau in the Dickinson Press in 2010 is something: a farm advocate assessing the impact of the oil boom on his property and pocketbook. Oh, and a big Bakken ad.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It makes me chuckle every time I come across it in my notes.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I genuinely cannot watch and cringe at Haley Stevens anymore, so I'll bring up what @jimhightower.com predicted the moderate wing of the Democratic Party would do in the 1988 elections, since the progressive populist wing was gaining power. I mean, sub "Michigan" for "Southern" accent, but...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

man, Fall 2020 at Tarleton State was an interesting time to be alive and teaching

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

the chat is roasting me with 90s-era wisconsin university system-based jabs and I do NOT like it

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

See, people said the risque fanfic scenes I included in the epilogue were a mistake, but WHO'S LAUGHING NOW

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

If you'd like to hear a GREAT conversation (not every day I get to talk race relations in Williston, North Dakota or expanding the concept of the lumpenproletariat in the Midwest) but DON'T want to look at my face... Check out the podcast! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Really excited to be on This Is Revolution! Let's talk When Democrats Won the Heartland ( @illinoispress.bsky.social ), left-populism, and visions for the future of American politics: youtube.com/watch?v=nebc... Starting now!

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

gross, boomers, go be populist in AOL or something

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Great thread from @philiprocco.bsky.social of how commentators with a political axe to grind willfully misread the history of left-populism and socialism, especially in the Midwest, to serve their present-day agenda.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Advice given to a progressive organizing outfit in mid-1985, in contrast to the Democratic Party setting up the (short-lived, ineffectual) Democratic Policy Council. Anyone else ever seen this modification of the Goldwater line? Because I'm enjoying it immensely.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Something Sanders-type progressive populist pols have done well: work, over and over, to bring those "moderates" along with clear and accessible messaging. Crosstabs from Paul Wellstone papers and polls from the Strib bore this out despite how left of the electorate he was.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

all the more maddening, imo, that dems found a way to win ALL FOUR SEATS in both north and south dakota and the dnc broadly decided it wasn't interested in pesky things like "continuing to do that"

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

In honor of the Fourth and my own weight loss goals, I think I'm gonna try the Zachary Taylor diet.

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Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Lived in my neighborhood eight years now; last night was the first time I'd been in the ice arena five blocks away. (Older kid's dance class.) Chasing the younger kid, I walked into the north arena, see the wood roof and center ice "NH": BAM! nostalgia city. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG8u...

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