For nearly a decade, with the smells of fresh manure and homemade shoofly pie in their nostrils, GOP operatives have worked diligently to register an under-courted voting bloc — the Amish.

MEADVILLE, Pa. (Gray News) – An 11-year-old Amish child was shot in the head while chipmunk hunting with friends Saturday, according to a police report from Pennsylvania State Police.

Republicans could see a boost in Pennsylvania from a demographic rarely seen at the polls: the Amish. The state’s famed “Pennsylvania Dutch” registered to vote in “unprecedented numbers ...

This event sparked widespread concern in the Amish community, which saw it as emblematic of government overreach into their way of life. Traditionally averse to modern politics, the Amish felt ...

And free rides to the polls on Election Day. The Republican Party and its allies are toiling to court Lancaster County’s potential Amish voters, as they seem to do every year. Researchers remain ...

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — On a recent weekday afternoon, an Amish man in a horse-drawn buggy navigated through a busy intersection of auto traffic in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County, past a ...

He targeted labor unions, hunters and specifically Amish communities. For this last group he used the case of a local farmer whose dairy was raided by state authorities for selling raw milk ...

Martha Ross, who now makes TikTok videos about the Amish experience, says she doesn't miss anything about the lifestyle — except her family Zoey Lyttle is an Editorial Assistant at PEOPLE.

An Oct. 22 Threads post (direct link, archive link) includes a video slideshow of people posing with political signs reading "Amish for Trump." "180,000 registered New Amish voters in Lancaster ...

And although their numbers are still small, Amish communities are spreading west. When families move to these new areas, others tend to follow, with the total population doubling over the last two ...

He launched a furniture business with two cousins a decade ago and now owns a company that distributes its solid-wood tables and chairs nationwide. From a second-floor corner office, he presides ...