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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

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.