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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

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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.

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

Joplin, Missouri sits on a federal Superfund site where one in six residents lives in poverty, 460 children are homeless, and wages run $28,000 below the national average, the direct legacy of industrial extraction that built fortunes and left workers with poisoned soil. Yet Joplin votes Republican by 74% margins, rejected its own minimum wage increase by 731 votes, and sends to Washington two senators who have not lifted a finger to address the very conditions their party cr

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.

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.

What happened to voting rights last week was not an isolated event. It was a continuation of a documented pattern, and the LGBTQ+ community, along with every American who believes in constitutional equality, needs to understand that pattern clearly and urgently, because the next chapter is already being written.

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.

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

April 7 came and went. Some results hurt. Some inspired. And now, with August 4 on the horizon, southwest Missouri Democrats cannot afford to sit this one out. Here, we break down everything that happened on April 7 — from SB 3 to the Joplin City Council race that is still not officially called — and lays out exactly who we are voting for and why on August 4.

If you live in Newton or Jasper County, there is a question on your April 7 ballot that looks like a property tax break. It is not. It is a funding trap — and if it passes, the services your community depends on every single day will pay the price. The measure is tied to Missouri Senate Bill 3, passed in a special legislative session in June 2025. It sounds simple. It is not. And that is exactly the problem. Vote NO on April 7. Here's why....

The Jasper County Municipal General Election is this Tuesday, April 7, 2026. Polls are open 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM. If you are white, you have something many of your neighbors, coworkers, and fellow Americans do not have right now: the ability to walk into a polling place without fear. Not because you are more of a citizen. Not because you have more rights. But because of the color of your skin and because this Regime has made it very clear that it intends to use that fear as a

On the evening of March 31, 2026 — the same day eight million Americans were still celebrating the largest protest in U.S. history — Donold †rump signed an executive order targeting the way Americans vote. Not the way undocumented people vote. The way you vote. The way your neighbor votes. The way your grandmother votes from her assisted living facility.