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The first thing you see when it pops up is pioneers in Appalachia.
Like, what am I missing?
Christian nationalists who want to turn a small middle Tennessee community into their base of operations.
It was like happening and you didn't even realize it was happening.
I just was trying to figure out what I personally, one person could do.
This isn't a fly by night LLC that will be shut down.
Come move here to be with us.
Over the next few years we have so much planned.
I got a question.
Why are you in Jackson county?
The winter of 2025 was an anxious one in Gainesville.
It had been several months since news broke about the plan to build a quote aligned community near town.
Ridge Runner, the real estate developer behind the project, was buying up so much land
that it now controlled more acreage than Gainesville itself.
Locals were uneasy, bracing for what might come next.
Then on March 31, 2025.
So Andrew, thank you for doing this.
You're so controversial.