In the heart of West Virginia, this documentary tracks Richard Ojeda's quest to flip a red seat blue.
It’s November 2018, and the United States lurches towards a critical mid-term election with democracy at a crossroads.
In West Virginia, State Senator Richard Ojeda, a former Major in the U.S. Army, runs for Congress as a Democrat in a deeply Republican district. Can he flip a red seat blue?
Can laid-off coal miners learn computer coding and find employment in the new digital economy?
And can a group of young woman band together after opioid addiction to successfully restart their lives? This is The Fight for West Virginia.
Filmed & Directed by Samuel George
Edited by Jeff Cook
Produced by Anthony Silberfeld & Faith Gray
Executive Producer Irene Braam
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Subjects: Richard Ojeda, West Virginia, Mined Minds, Learn to Code, Opioid Epidemic, Drug Recovery, Politics, Election, Congress, Donald Trump, Campaign, Digital Economy, Silicon Holler, Carol Miller, rural America, Red State, liberal, conservative, Republican, Democrat, progressive, documentary film
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