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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

Most Americans have never heard of the American Legislative Exchange Council. That is not an accident. It is a strategy. ALEC is not a lobbying firm, though it functions like one. It is not a political party, though it operates like one. It is not a government agency, though it writes the laws that govern millions of people's lives. ALEC is a pay-to-play operation, a nonprofit organization founded in 1973 that brings state legislators and private corporations into the same ro

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.

ANNOUNCEMENTS! Come to our April 18 meeting to discuss how we're defending a democratic America, including our plans for May 25 Hands Across America 2.0! Donate and share today to spread our fight for a fascist-free nation!

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

If you've been watching the news lately — the No Kings protests, the mail-in voting executive order, the war in Iran, the treason charges being debated in legal circles — you may be feeling what a lot of people are feeling right now: the urgency to do something, combined with the exhaustion of not knowing where to start. Tonight is a place to start. Join us on Zoom for Together Across America.

The word treason is not thrown around lightly in this article. It is the only crime specifically defined in the United States Constitution, deliberately written narrowly by the Founders to prevent it from becoming a political weapon. That precision was intentional. And it cuts both ways. When the case fits, it fits unambiguously. We begin with January 6, 2021. We do not end there.

A note from longtime organizer and friend Robin McGehee — who has spent decades on the front lines of justice, from fighting for marriage equality to marching on Washington with the National Equality March.

The signatures have been counted. The votes have been cast. The bombs are still falling. And this Saturday, March 28, millions of Americans stood up and said: enough.

Voting under threat is real. Here's how you can help protect it. If you've been watching the news, you know the 2026 midterms are shaping up to be unlike any in recent memory. Steve Bannon has publicly called for IÇE agents to "surround the polls." †rump officials have refused to explicitly rule it out. IÇE has been deployed to airports, and with Bannon openly describing it as a "test run" for Election Day. Whether or not IÇE actually shows up at polling places, the threat it

This Saturday, March 28, we take to the streets as part of what is expected to be the largest single day of nonviolent protest in American history. Before we share the details for our Joplin gathering, we want to make sure you know exactly what is at stake. Please read what follows. It is important. It is real. And it is why we cannot afford to stay home.

"We're the only country that does mail-in voting. Mail-in voting means mail-in cheating. I call it mail-in cheating." — DONALD TRUMP, MEMPHIS CRIME ROUNDTABLE, MARCH 23, 2026 ⚠ FALSE

In 2012, a small group of political scientists at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden set out to build the most rigorous global dataset on democracy ever constructed. They called it the Varieties of Democracy Institute, or V-Dem. At the time, global democracy was near its historic peak. Their colleagues called them alarmists. The data, they said, was exaggerating the risk. Democracy was fine. The data was not exaggerating.

The free press is not a partisan issue. It is the infrastructure of democracy, and it is being dismantled, right now, in real time and in plain sight. There is a moment in every authoritarian takeover when people look back and ask: why did no one say anything? Why did no one sound the alarm before it was too late?

From a Fox Business confession in August 2020 to a bill now moving through the United States Senate, this is the documented record of one man's systematic campaign to eliminate the voting method that threatens his party's grip on power — and why November 2026 is the deadline to stop it.

Sixteen days into an unauthorized war with no exit strategy, 200+ U.S. troops injured across seven countries, oil at $105 a barrel, every major ally refusing to help — and a president who says he might bomb Iran "just for fun" and wants to "take Cuba." The 25th Amendment was written for exactly this moment. Here is the case, the process, and exactly what you can do today.

The word "concentration camp" is a loaded one, and it is used here deliberately. A concentration camp is not defined solely by gas chambers. It is defined by the mass detention of civilians, outside the normal judicial process, in conditions of deliberate deprivation, with inadequate medical care, and no meaningful path to release. By that definition, what is happening in America's immigration detention network meets the threshold — and the evidence is overwhelming.