Joni Mack has organized one of the smallest women's marches in the country two years in a row in a town where 80 percent of residents voted for Donald Trump. This year, just over 50 people came out to demonstrate in the town of Pinedale, Wyoming. That's about half as many as last year.Mack, a local silversmith, is a registered Republican who doesn’t agree with much of her party’s platform. In fact, Mack considers herself a progressive on most issues. That's a tough thing to be in rural Wyoming."I'm a registered Republican, which seems sort of at odds with my activism, and it really is. But there's a strategy behind it," Mack told VICE News. "I think there's strength in saying, 'I'm a registered Republican. I'm a lifelong Republican, and I don't agree with what you're doing.'"Wyoming has progressive roots — its nickname is the Equality State because it passed the country’s first women’s suffrage bill back in 1869. But the state has also long been a deep red hue, a remote place where people like being far away from the federal government.VICE News followed Mack and her fellow marchers as they set out to rally in Pinedale, Wyoming.
This segment originally aired January 22, 2018 on VICE News Tonight on HBO.
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