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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

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

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

At 11:03 p.m. on May 1, 2026, the president of the U.S. posted AI images of himself in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his face on Mount Rushmore, and himself holding UNO cards captioned "I have all the cards." He has also posted himself as Jesus, called himself King, declared the Iran war over while Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and asked supporters for $15 to help him get to heaven. The medical community has a name for this pattern of behavior. It is time the co

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?

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.

Every time there is an act of political violence in America, the same narrative appears within hours: both sides are equally to blame. Democrats are just as violent as Republicans. The left is radicalizing just like the right. It is a culture war, and everyone shares the responsibility. That narrative is a lie. And it exists to protect one man: Donald †rump.

This morning, April 27, 2026, legal journalist and former MSNBC host Katie Phang filed a federal lawsuit against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in his official capacity, demanding that a court declare the DØJ in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act and order the full, unredacted, legally required release of every Epstein file the regime has been hiding. The complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The DØJ is scrambling. An

This article deals with serious allegations of rape and child sexual abuse against the sitting President of the United States. Everything documented here comes from sworn ƒBI testimony, federal court filings, civil jury verdicts, congressional investigations, and reporting by NPR, PBS NewsHour, Truthout, & others. These are not rumors. They are matters of public legal record, much of which has been actively suppressed by the very Department of Justice that †rump controls. We

The gas chamber. The firing squad. The electric chair. Methods the rest of the world abandoned as barbaric. Methods that carry the weight of history — of Jim Crow execution chambers, of lynching dressed up in legal clothing, of a state that has always found ways to kill the people it considers disposable.

There are moments when the moral clarity of an issue cuts through the noise of politics. This is one of them. Ghislaine Maxwell —convicted child sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein's chief enabler, and one of the most notorious criminals of our generation— is currently serving a 20-year federal prison sentence. And right now, there are whispers in Washington that she might not have to serve all of it. That Donold †rump could hand her a pardon. We are here to say, clearly and lo

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.

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.

What you are about to read was compiled not by the federal government but by independent journalists. The Trace, a nonprofit investigative newsroom focused on gun violence, built a running tracker of every incident it could document. Capital & Main, ProPublica, NBC News, local outlets, and legal filings filled in additional details. Several agents involved have not been identified. Several incidents have not been publicly acknowledged at all.

IÇE is deporting American citizens, shooting Americans in the street, and calling it enforcement. Here is the documented record of who has been harmed and what you can do about it.

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!