Good Yankee| The Poor Pundit
For Forgotten Americans
Good Yankee is a grassroots platform built for working- and middle-class Americans who feel disconnected from the elites shaping our communities, and the establishment media and podcasters who speak from an unrelatable elitist perspective. I began speaking out after watching rapid overdevelopment change the small town my family calls home. After listening to pundits and commentators with large platforms and feelin forgotten and disconnected, and truthfully unable to keep up with every elitist distraction I decided that there was a space for a voice like mine. The average American is not a part of the wealthy elite, we are working class, middle-class hardworking people. We need voices that we can connect to because they live our lives and understand what is actually affecting us. We don't need another lecture about which foreign country we should be sending our tax dollars to. Instead, we need to hear about the things affecting our communities, our families, and direction on how we can fight to keep the America First movement alive. We are the People and we deserve to have an American dream too. This space is about honest conversation, rebuilding community, and standing firm in the belief that We the People still have a voice.
Mission
My mission is to speak out against overdevelopment in small towns and the establishment media and politicians who seem to only care about us when they need a vote — and conveniently forget the middle- and working-class Americans the moment the cameras are off.
I believe that by connecting and communicating, we can become a strong force against the elitist corruption that is reshaping our communities and affecting our everyday lives. I want to produce commentary for the average American and focus on the issues that actually matter to us — not the talking points handed down from cable news or political insiders.
This is a place built for the forgotten Americans who feel like the promise to put America first rarely reaches their neighborhoods or their paychecks. I know what it’s like to shop at Walmart and stretch every dollar. I know what it’s like to work every day at a job that feels like it goes nowhere, just to keep food on the table.
We matter. And our founders intended for power to rest with the people. It’s time we start building each other up, strengthening our communities, and thinking independently instead of blindly supporting establishment narratives and paid pundits who don’t live the lives we do.
Who am I?
My name is Emily. I’m a working-class mom and a Southern transplant — though I guess I don’t feel like a “transplant” anymore.
God led me to this small Southern town, and in many ways, He saved my life in the process. I went from being lost and struggling with addiction to becoming a wife, a mother, and an advocate for the kind of small-town America that gave me a second chance.
Instead of moving here and trying to turn it into the city I came from, I embraced the culture. I fell in love with it. I found a version of the American dream I never could have afforded in the overpriced, overdeveloped place I left behind.
Then I started watching that dream slip away — for me and for my neighbors.
Luxury apartments. Overpriced townhomes. Strip malls rising where fields once stood. Politicians praising “growth” while everyday families quietly wondered how much longer they could afford to stay. I had seen this before in Maryland. I knew how gentrification works, and I recognized the pattern.
At the same time, I listened to podcaster after podcaster debate foreign policy and billion-dollar aid packages while barely acknowledging the issues affecting working- and middle-class Americans at home. When they did try to talk about us, it often sounded disconnected — like we were an afterthought in conversations meant for the wealthy and politically connected.
They don’t know what it’s like to shop at Walmart on a strict budget. They don’t know what it’s like to work a job that barely moves the needle. And they certainly don’t know what it’s like to rely on the welfare system while trying to build something better for your family.
There is space for voices like mine — real people with lived experience, who understand what it feels like to fight for stability, dignity, and opportunity. I’m building this platform because I know what we’re going through. I am one of the middle class. I measure success by whether families can afford to stay in their communities — not by how well a stock portfolio performs.
Good Yankee exists to be a voice for the forgotten Americans who deserve policies that put their families, their towns, and their futures first.
