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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

What the Research Actually Says About Who They Are and How They Got There This is not a political opinion. It is a documented psychological and sociological analysis of a movement, sourced to peer-reviewed scholarship, that explains why MAGA supporters reproduce the same patterns of obedience, cruelty, denial, and violence with such consistency. The pattern is not accidental. It is built into the movement's structure, its recruitment methods, its theology, and its relationsh

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.

†rump told the country he was fighting for them. What he was actually doing was building a machine, assembling the full weight of the federal government into a weapon aimed not at America's enemies, but at America's own people. This is the documented record of how he did it, agency by agency, lie by lie, and with a blueprint that his own people wrote.

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From the Oval Office to statehouses, from congressional floors to campaign war rooms: a documented record of Republican officials convicted of, or credibly accused of, sexual crimes against children and adults. We have selected the most prominent and most thoroughly verified cases. We publish them not in the spirit of malice, but in the spirit of accountability, which is, after all, what journalism is for.

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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.

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.

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