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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.

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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.