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Aaron Joseph Metzger is not a career politician. He is a CT technologist who has worked at a Joplin hospital, scanning patients through every emergency that does not wait for daylight. Now he is running as the Democratic candidate for Missouri House District 161. Missi Hesketh is not a politician who came to southwest Missouri to run for office. She is from here. With elections around the corner, Missouri voters need to know the dates, deadlines, and requirements before the

This is not a political opinion. It is a documented record, sourced to the nonpartisan international institutions that have been measuring democracy in every country on earth for decades, of where the United States of America stands right now, in June 2026, and how it got here. It has a name, and it is not "democracy." And what you can do today.

Missouri voters head to the polls on August 4, 2026 for the state primary election, and this year the stakes are much higher than most primaries. Here is what is on your ballot and what it means.

How Democrats abandoned rural America, how Republicans exploited it, and why both have to answer for what they have done... And What You Can Do

Doniphan is a town of roughly 1,800 people in one of the poorest counties in Missouri, where nearly 1 in 3 residents lives below the poverty line, the nearest hospital closed in 2018, and every elected official who represents them is a Republican who has voted for policies that make their lives harder. In 2026, that can change. This guide tells you exactly what is at stake, who is running, what the Republicans have done to this community, and why the Democrats challenging the

Aaron Joseph Metzger is not a career politician. He is a CT technologist who has worked the night shift at a Joplin hospital for 13 years, scanning patients through car wrecks, heart attacks, strokes, and every emergency that does not wait for daylight. Now he is running as the Democratic candidate for Missouri House District 161, which covers most of Joplin north of the Newton County line.

The Supreme Court just brought back Jim Crow. Not as a metaphor. Not as hyperbole. As policy. We can write letters. We can call representatives. We should do both. But we can also do something those states will feel in their bones: we can stop spending our money there.

Prøject 2025 is a 920-page blueprint published by the Heritåge Føundatiøn in 2023. It is not a conspiracy theory, but rather a documented governing agenda. Here is what it planned, what has already happened since January 20, 2025, and what is still coming if we do not take back the House and Senate in November 2026.

People sometimes ask we why we go so deep into federal policy, Supreme Court rulings, counterterrorism strategies, and congressional maps. Some claim we are wasting our time. Here is our honest answer for you to know what your vote means.

In eight days, †rump's regime and a captured Supreme Court dismantled sixty years of voting rights protections, allowed Republican-led states to carve up majority-Black districts, and set in motion a nationwide assault on Black political power not seen since the end of Reconstruction.

Republican lawmakers are prioritizing †rump's vanity projects and IÇE funding over the economic relief voters are demanding. The midterm numbers show exactly what that will cost them.

About a year ago, we stood in rooms and said it out loud: they are going to try to cancel elections. Don’t be surprised when it happens. People looked at us like we were being dramatic. Conspiracy theorists, they called us. Alarmists. Sound familiar?

Today, April 29, 2026, the United States Supreme Court completed what scholars are already calling the most consequential rollback of civil rights in a century. In a 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the Court's conservative supermajority gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the last meaningful legal shield protecting Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian American voters from racially discriminatory electoral maps. What you CAN still do.

These scripts and templates are ready to use for Voting Rights. Find your senators at senate.gov and use these to email and/or call your representative and senators.

Missouri Republicans, at direct instruction from †rump, have gerrymandered a Black congressman's district out of existence, put the abortion rights voters just won up for repeal, and are now trying to make sure citizens can never use the ballot initiative process to fight back again. This is the 2026 playbook. And Missouri is ground zero.

The ƒBI just investigated a New York Times reporter for covering Kash Patel's use of government resources. That story broke today. But the assault on a free press didn't start today, and it won't stop unless the people who depend on journalism to survive demand that it does. What you can do to help is listed.

House Rule IX gives any single member of Congress the power to force an impeachment vote — no committee, no leadership approval, no permission required. The articles are already written. The rule is already there. Why it isn't being used (yet), and how you can help.

The constitutional grounds for removing †rump from office have been documented, sourced, and argued in Congress. What's missing isn't evidence — it's the political will to use it before the 2026 elections make the choice impossible.

Access. Affordability. Accountability. Southwest Missouri deserves all three from its representative in Congress. For three-plus years, Eric Burlison has delivered none of them. Missi Hesketh is running to change that.

Missi Hesketh, running for Congress in Missouri's District 7, will be at the Town Hall TONIGHT. Be there!