#Missouri Deserves Better Than Josh Hawley.

My letter to the editor is threaded here.
newstribune.com/news/2024/may/… U.S. Senator Josh Hawley would rather a pregnant patient be pushed to the brink of death than receive life-saving abortion care.

He supports the restrictive Idaho abortion ban which is now being considered by the Supreme Court of the United States.

🧵Last year, a bill that would have stopped foreign corporations from owning more #Missouri farmland passed both the House and Senate, but didn’t make it across the finish line. Now we have another chance! The Chair of the House Veterans Committee is threatening to strip the good language about foreign ownership of farmland from Senate Bill 912. Please contact Committee Members TODAY and ask them to keep it in the bill! The Committee will vote TOMORROW April 23!

🧵 My latest letter printed in the local newspaper is threaded here.
newstribune.com/news/2024/apr/… Dear Editor,

What is State Representative Dave Griffith even doing???

He’s voted twice this session against raising teacher pay. Missouri ranks dead last in the nation in average starting teacher pay. #moleg #JCMO 🧵

🧵 My letter to the newspaper about the stakes of the November election is threaded here.
newstribune.com/news/2024/mar/… Dear Editor,

If Donald Trump is elected to the presidency in November, he and the MAGA Republicans in Congress plan to fully privatize Medicare, increasing profits for private health insurance companies while diminishing the quality of health care that senior citizens and…

My letter on the retirement of U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) was published behind a paywall today in my local newspaper.

🧵Dear Editor,

I am very pleased that U.S. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer has announced his retirement. In the USA, anyone running to represent us must respect the votes of We the People. But MAGA Republicans like Luetkemeyer and U.S. Senator Josh Hawley engaged in a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the will of the people.

🧵 I wrote to my local newspaper about how voting for Democrats will improve the lot of Missourians. #MOleg

West of the Mississippi River, only Missouri and Arkansas failed to deliver economic growth in 2023. Governor Parson and the Republican-dominated state legislature’s… …plan to cut business and corporate taxes and spend less on public education and workforce development isn’t working, just as the imaginary “trickle down” economics doesn’t work on the national level.

Twenty years of Republicans in charge of our state has resulted in…

I wrote to the newspaper about my gratitude for the Missouri Family Health Council, which provides free emergency contraception kits to Missourians in a climate of diminishing freedoms.
newstribune.com/news/2023/nov/… This Thanksgiving season, I am especially thankful for the Missouri Family Health Council. In the face of unprecedented attacks on our freedoms by both elected and unelected public officials, @MOFHC is looking out for Missourians by providing free emergency contraception kits.

For more than 100 years, Missouri voters from across the political spectrum have used ballot initiatives to enact the will of the majority – from protecting the Right to Farm and constitutional limits on state taxation & spending, to healthcare and ethics reforms. #HJR43 #moleg Missouri’s initiative process is a sacred constitutional right and an important part of our democracy; it gives voters the freedom to have a say on the laws that govern us and serve as a check and balance on the state legislature. #HJR43 #moleg

Reality Check: Your tax cut scheme would reduce general revenue by over $950 MILLION per year. That’s almost 27% of #Missouri’s school funding formula. Besides schools, the state will struggle to fund public safety, healthcare, and other critical needs….
#MOLEG

https://twitter.com/govparsonmo/status/1562228200234635265

Reality Check: One third of Missourians — older Missourians with fixed incomes and low wage earners with children — would get no tax break at all. The wealthiest 1% would average $6,024 and the lowest income Missourians would receive just $11. #moleg

Eleven. Dollars.

Celebrating @JamieforMO’s promising election results!🎉

https://twitter.com/saularm653/status/1554670664493277184

#Missouri HJR 53 is a horrific child abuse bill that will get a hearing in #moleg Wednesday, March 3rd. Read about it here and then I will tell you what you can do about it: house.mo.gov/billtracking/b… Historically, #moleg has hearings attacking transgender children in the evening on a weeknight. Children and their families travel from all over the state to testify against the bills, to ask for the right to be treated like other children.

@tillysmama1 @RoyBlunt @SenHawleyPress Some constituents are being told by @royblunt’s office that he supports a fair trial with calling of witnesses and presentation of documents; others’ messages are just being taken. When I confronted the discrepancy, I was told “Things are just changing so fast🤷🏼‍♀️” and...
👇 @tillysmama1 @RoyBlunt @SenHawleyPress ...that he has, in fact, issued a public statement and that it is on his website. I looked back as far as December 13 and found no such statement. Called back and after getting voice mail several times got the same person! I confronted her and she directed me to...
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#Missouri #SCR7 being presented by Senator @JillSchupp in #moleg Senate Rules Committee #ERA #ERANOW Rowden Bernskoetter, Hegeman, Schatz present, from what I can tell. Lots of hands go up to testify in favor. Fewer will testify opposed.
#SCR7 #moleg

#Missouri #MOleg @CleanMissouri thread👇

https://twitter.com/shewho_resists/status/1110223707056820224

https://twitter.com/shewho_resists/status/1110229014935977984?s=21

A thread by @dearinterwebs #moleg #SB279 #SB139 #SB345 #SB312 #TrustWomen👇
“I have been trying to think about how to explain what happened yesterday in the #Missouri Senate Health and Pensions committee. I have testified in Jefferson City three times.... Twice in the Senate and once in the House. Last year I testified in the Senate, and while I was called “distasteful” by the Representative from the House who was sponsoring the anti-choice bill for saying the word “fetus”, the general tone was respectful....

THREAD👇Not an anomaly: @CovCathColonels
@leadershipinst @glatraining @campusreform
@yaf @y_a_freedom @aul @crnc @frcdc @conservbookclub @hillsdale @aul @free_our_net @libertyu @libertylaw @aipac
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#exposechristianschools #exposecatholicschools Associated with @rgreggkeller: @acuconservative @atlasstrategy @scottwalker George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Brett Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito @realbencarson @jimtalent @mittromney

Keller is from #Missouri, associated with @showme @missouricentury @mohumanities @mattblunt

Happy #IndependenceDay
#GoodTrouble will rain down on your parade.
#FreeOurFuture #AbolishICE #ShutDownSessions facebook.com/groups/1071289…

My letter in today’s @NewsTribune (thread)
Dear Editor:
I write regarding the editors' May 2 letter on the right to protest. This is the kind of poorly thought out opinion that comes of not having a diverse editorial board. /1 You literally just published an article last week pointing out that Missouri leads the nation in homicides committed upon black people and has done so for seven of the last 10 years. /2