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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.

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.

How the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais Decision Unleashed a Nationwide Assault on Democracy — and Which Corporations Are Paying for It

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.

People sometimes ask we why we go so deep into federal policy, Supreme Court rulings, counterterrorism strategies, and congressional maps. Some claim we are wasting our time. Here is our honest answer for you to know what your vote means.

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.

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 United States federal government is killing people. Not in distant wars. Not in classified operations. Here. In detention facilities spread across seven states. In parking lots in Minneapolis. On the streets where ordinary Americans live. And the majority of this country does not know their names. We will make them known.

The answer is not the 25th Amendment. It was never the 25th Amendment. The answer is in Article I of the Constitution, it has been there since 1787, and it is called impeachment. Congress has the power. Congress has the grounds. Congress has the obligation. What Congress does not have — what it has been conspicuously lacking — is the spine to use it. That changes when the people demand it. So let's be clear about what we're demanding, and why.

An Opinion Editorial This morning, on Easter Sunday — the holiest day on the Christian calendar — the President of the United States woke up and posted this to Truth Social: " Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP " Read that again. Slowly. A 79-year-old president, on Ea

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.

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.

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

"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.

The Kids Online Safety Act — KOSA — along with a package of roughly a dozen related "child safety" bills, is quietly advancing through the House with bipartisan support. And while the name evokes images of legislators shielding children from predators, the actual mechanics of these laws tell a very different story. This is not a child safety package. It is the most sweeping assault on anonymous speech and civil liberties in the history of the American internet.

Representative Burlison, We, your constituents from Missouri’s 7th Congressional District, submit this formal Notice following your public rejection of impeachment for President Donald Trump and your continued refusal to use constitutional remedies in the face of executive abuses.

Missouri's $300M farm fraud crisis hits locals hardest—Agridime's $220M ghost cattle Ponzi and McBee's $4M USDA scam prove neighbors, not immigrants, are the real threat. MO AG data: 90%+ native-born scammers exploit church/co-op trust. Verify via Sec. of State, call 800-392-8222.