There was a very proud Republican in the group of Democrats that I spoke to last night. I assume my talk was a little upsetting to him so he came to talk to me afterwards. I am accustomed to speaking to devout Republicans, so it went fine, but let me tell you something…
A Republican in a very red district isn’t accustomed to folks talking back. When you ask them point blank about the propaganda they spout, they can’t go any further than a talking point. He was a nice man, but he was stuck on “culture war” crap. He said, there’s only
two genders and I was like, cool story, but is that more important than your roads? He didn’t follow. I told him MOLeg was so concerned about gender ideology, that they didn’t accomplish much else. He didn’t think that was okay. He wanted to talk Trump, but tfg has little to do
with Missouri roads, or schools, or hospitals, or living wages, or affordable housing, or affordable childcare. It confuses Rs when you keep the conversation local. And that’s my advice to you, friends. Keep bringing them back to state politics. Their party has tanked the state.
In case anyone is wondering, I absolutely did not flip him from republican to democrat😂 But, he heard things that put him back on his heels and made him think about what he was saying. It is uncomfortable, but it is needed.
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I'm driving 5.5 hours today to talk to a group in rural MO...I'm speaking on book bans, but more than that, I'm energizing rural Dems. I'm talking about the 40% of seats that went unopposed last year. I'm trying to fund candidates, and you can help. bluemissouri.org
Most of our grassroots donors give $15-$20 per month. We have monthly member meetings to talk and uplift each other. We give 100% of your donation to down ballot candidates--these folks often struggle to raise enough for the basics. We have their back. bluemissouri.democracyengine.com/join_missouri
Unlike Republican grifts, we are transparent. I am paid off the 'tip' function. None of your candidate donation will go to me. I am traveling the state on those 'tips' because I believe in my state and I have no choice but to fight...my kids and grandkids are here. Join me.
And just like that, the posts have been deleted. We know what indoctrination looks like, and it’s not history lessons. It’s out-of-control Christo-fascists given the reins of public schools.
"The way to defeat voter suppression is by defeating it head on, not by celebrating working around it. The first step to fighting it is to call voter suppression what it is: the deprivation of constitutional rights."
"Second, we need to label those who support voter suppression as vote suppressors...It is villainous to make laws that prevent your fellow citizens from voting."
I was married at 18, pregnant at 19, and a mom by 20. I am from rural Arkansas and I am not an anomaly. I was actually proud to say I wasn't a teenage mom. I was able to get out of poverty with Pell grants and Medicaid, but these social safety nets are under attack. They want...
to keep us poor, pregnant, and desperate. I am the face of a rural woman...there is a concerted effort on the part of the GOP to force ignorance into our communities by deleting sex ed, history, and school in general. They will keep us undereducated so we can work for less...
They will force pregnancy on young girls to keep them hopeless of ever getting out of poverty. They will keep an education a dream with the only option being a lifetime of debt. They will bust unions and keep us too busy paying bills and working two jobs to look up and see who...
The GOP harms folks with very real “culture wars.” I live in rural Missouri. I knocked doors. Folks didn’t ask for less funding for their schools. They didn’t ask for hospital closures. They didn’t ask for the local library to be defunded. They didn’t ask for guns in public.
Did some of them vote for politicians that do this? Yes. It is an all out war on rural psyches. Create a religious war to scare folks. Talk about nonexistent problems. Keep us in fight or flight mode. Lie to us. Point to others as the source of our failing towns. Keep us angry.
And then maybe you can get folks to vote for someone who will destroy our schools, our libraries, our roads, our hospitals, and depress our wages but at least it’s a politician who won’t “tear babies limb from limb”, right? These are the options given to folks. It’s Psyops.
Raymond Gunn was lynched in Maryville, MO in 1931. He was marched from the county courthouse in Nodaway County to the Garrett School House where, under duress, he confessed to killing a white school teacher. He was then chained to the roof while the school was set on fire…
Reports say he screamed and it was 11 minutes before he succumbed to the fire. There were thousands who watched the lynching and reporters were there from St Joe to cover it. Did you know it would be nearly impossible to teach this lynching under a new bill in Missouri?
A MO legislative plan would usher in new limits on race-related school lessons would limit lessons on lynching. It would limit lessons on racism. It would scare teachers into limiting history. It erases the history and lynching of Raymond Gunn. stltoday.com/news/local/gov…