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Executive Director, Blue Missouri. Grassroots organizer. Writer. Educator. Former State House nominee. Rural mom fighting for rural schools.
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Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

New euphemism for authoritarian lawlessness just dropped

Friends, do not sit down if violence breaks out at a protest. Sitting down will put you in danger of being beaten and make you an easy target. Turn and walk back the way you came. I wouldn’t have even mentioned this, but “Occupy Democrats” has millions of followers 👇🏻

Weird, right?

ICE detentions of people with no criminal records are up nearly 900 percent over the same period last year. Gift link: wapo.st/43DxcEB

FOX: “27% support, 53% oppose” 👀 #TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

As a native Arkansan, this made me laugh out loud. Did you know her brother tortured and killed a dog but got off because their dad was the Governor? You can get away with rape and murder in that state as long as you’re kin to someone at the courthouse. Sarah is full of shit.

1/3 Listen to Masha Gessen, a journalist & expert on authoritarianism, warn we are entering “the most dangerous phase” normalization in the decline of democracy. This is the stage when repeated violations of democratic norms—actions that once shocked us—become part of everyday life.

Democracy is strong and functioning in Minnesota.

If you listen to podcasts, I'd be honored if you put this one on your rotation today. I spoke to Former North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp on knocking rural doors and having conversations with folks who may not have heard a Democratic message in decades. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

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“Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine.” ~Henry David Thoreau

We feed you. They hunt us.

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect

A self-aggrandizing, anti vaccine, raw milk drinking, AIDS denialist who believes he is smart, but is the personification of Dunning-Kruger, and who was called a predator by his cousin is in charge of HHS. It is going to get worse.

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

Trump is politicising the US military. This is an overtly political speech that uses active US military personnel as background props. This is a brazen violation of Department of Defense Directive 1344.10, and a breach of the longstanding US tradition of ensuring the military remains nonpartisan.

Okay so law enforcement IS capable of massing on elementary schools to snatch up children, just not when there’s an active shooter. Got it.

Sorry, I’m not listening to folks who criminalize immigrants while voting for a criminal…

Why settle for first place when you can tie for fifth?

Josh Hawley hasn’t found his soul, friends. He is just making sure that Missouri billionaires aren’t on the hook for funding Medicaid expansion. Medicaid cuts will have to be made up at the state level and the wealthy won’t get their tax cuts if they defund Medicaid at the federal level.

The Speaker of the House is endorsing physical torture for the Governor of California.

I’m not telling anyone how to protest but I am saying the optics of the police and marines being violent against protestors decked out in red white and blue waving American flags would be undeniably bad…

To be rural became, almost by definition, to be Republican. To be urban was to be progressive. The social and even professional pressure to conform is enormous. To be an “out” Democrat in a small community risks social exclusion – and worse. Jess Piper www.realclearpennsylvania.com/articles/202...

Donald Trump promised to lower costs. So what are Republicans in Congress proposing in their "Big Beautiful Bill"? Cutting taxes for billionaires—funded by cutting food assistance and slashing health care for millions of people. It's the same old failed trickle-down economics.

Every day, Trump’s focused on addressing problems that didn’t exist until he created them.

The thing the Trump administration has most in common with their boss:

I just called Congressman Sam Graves‘s office to ask about highway funding and the young man told me I didn’t know understand which district I live in and then hung up on me. Here’s Sam’s Kansas City number if you have any questions about highway funding: 816.792.3976

Not one Missouri GOP lawmaker who uses the quip "taxation is theft" has ever returned his taxpayer-funded pay...