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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.

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

The Supreme Court just brought back Jim Crow. Not as a metaphor. Not as hyperbole. As policy. We can write letters. We can call representatives. We should do both. But we can also do something those states will feel in their bones: we can stop spending our money there.

Today, April 29, 2026, the United States Supreme Court completed what scholars are already calling the most consequential rollback of civil rights in a century. In a 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais, the Court's conservative supermajority gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — the last meaningful legal shield protecting Black, Latino, Native American, and Asian American voters from racially discriminatory electoral maps. What you CAN still do.

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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

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.

April 7 came and went. Some results hurt. Some inspired. And now, with August 4 on the horizon, southwest Missouri Democrats cannot afford to sit this one out. Here, we break down everything that happened on April 7 — from SB 3 to the Joplin City Council race that is still not officially called — and lays out exactly who we are voting for and why on August 4.

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

On the evening of March 31, 2026 — the same day eight million Americans were still celebrating the largest protest in U.S. history — Donold †rump signed an executive order targeting the way Americans vote. Not the way undocumented people vote. The way you vote. The way your neighbor votes. The way your grandmother votes from her assisted living facility.

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

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.

On February 26, 2026, approximately 1,700 transgender Kansans woke up criminals — not because of anything they had done, but only because of who they are.

Do you want S†ęphęn Mįllęr out of our White House? So do I. Let's talk about it.

Romania's twentieth-century journey reveals how quickly democracy unravels when nationalism, economic crisis, and extremism converge. This is more than a distant history lesson. It's a vivid mirror reflecting pressures familiar to Americans across the political spectrum today.

Since Donold †®*mp's January 2025 inauguration, U.S. 'immigration enforcement' has claimed over 40 lives. This includes 49 documented IÇE custody deaths in 2025—36 named plus 13 unnamed, the deadliest year since 2004—plus 9 more through February 2026. These tragedies span Krome Processing Center fatalities, December spikes, and Minneapolis raid killings of U.S. citizens amid agent impunity. At least #45LivesLost...