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9 Nov

Tomorrow, Missouri's Attorney General will be part of a group at the United States Supreme Court arguing that the Affordable Care Act should be thrown out so that millions of Americans will go without health care coverage.

And he'll do it with our money.

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He won't argue that just part of it should be eliminated. He'll state that the entire thing - protections for people with preexisting conditions, Medicaid expansion that covers millions of Americans, and even punishments for fraud - should go.

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He'll do that all with our money, and he'll do it without having a plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, without Missouri's U.S. Senators having a plan to replace it either.

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9 Nov

Missouri Democrats must be a leading voice for workers. Not just locally, but nationally, like we used to be.

We can stand for the right to organize on the job.

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We can show how a prevailing wage helps local communities, how fair pay for a day's work supports our families, how a fair share for farmers protects our food supply and our health.

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We can prove that an economy that unleashes our potential, that is inclusive of all of us, that brings Americans of different backgrounds together is one that can change the world for the better.

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6 Nov

Whenever I hear the political argument that, to win, we need to abandon this or that part of the state or country, I think about the people I've met all over Missouri, my time teaching, a speech of Dr. King's, and an older black man I heard in North St. Louis County.

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When Dr. King sat in a Birmingham jail cell in 1963, he spoke to the white guards. He listened to the guards’ criticism of the marches, their arguments supporting segregation. Dr. King talked to them “calmly,” he said, because they wanted to talk.

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When tempers were flaring throughout the country, in a place where one person was a prisoner and the other his state-empowered captor, these people from opposing sides sat down and talked. Eventually, the guards told Dr. King where they lived and how much they made.

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@BigElad

5 Nov

I know Missouri Democrats are having the abortion conversation, some arguing that we need to accept candidates into the party who oppose abortion, some saying absolutely not.

I think we miss a fundamental part of the picture when this becomes the fight: The right to privacy.

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Missouri Democrats ran a candidate opposed to abortion in Jefferson County, who talked about his NRA A rating, and who defended the massive mask-less parties at the Lake. He lost by a lot.

That doesn't totally prove anything, but it's important to note.

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There are many folks in our state who oppose abortion personally. That doesn't necessarily mean they oppose our right to privacy. We need to be clear about what the conversation is, in my view.

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@BigElad

25 Oct

I've been seeing some misinformation going around specifically about Amendment 3 in Missouri, especially coming from its politically-connected supporters.

Let's go through 7 of the claims.

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Claim 1: Clean Missouri in 2018 purposefully hid the fact that it was changing how we do redistricting in Missouri.

No. Clean Missouri's reforms to gerrymandering were pretty clear. Redistricting was the first bullet point: sos.mo.gov/elections/peti…

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That's not the case for Amendment 3. Amendment 3 purposefully buried its redistricting changes under two seemingly attractive bullet points.

Folks, the redistricting changes are worth well more to politicians than the $105 in ethics changes Amendment 3 offers.

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Elad Gross 🇺🇸

@BigElad

21 Oct

https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1318700027703865344

I disagree.

Missouri, like every other state, and like the United States, counts every person. Representatives are supposed to be accessible to each one of us, regardless of our ability to vote.

That is the long-held principle behind counting everyone for redistricting.

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https://twitter.com/BobOnderMO/status/1318700027703865344

Amendment 3 runs counter to this American principle of representation. Instead of counting total population, it counts people on "the basis of one person, one vote."

It doesn't say "illegal immigrants can be excluded." The language is much more expansive.

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Amendment 3 grants wide powers to the government to decide who counts and who doesn't. You and some of your colleagues interpret it to mean that undocumented immigrants do not count.

What about documented ones? What in the language you used protects them?

Nothing.

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