In 2019, Wyoming Rising members were unable to stay silent during the campaign for the Presidency between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. We came together to fund and design our very first billboard, “Unity over Division.” It proved so successful, that we were inspired to create several more messages in 2021–2022:
We extended our visual message campaign throughout 2022 with four more billboards in Cody and Powell. We had been reading Timothy Snyder’s book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and accepted the challenge to Take Responsibility for the Face of the World: “The symbols of today enable the reality of tomorrow.” We believe that reminding each other of our collective responsibility is a way to preserve freedom.