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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

†rump told the country he was fighting for them. What he was actually doing was building a machine, assembling the full weight of the federal government into a weapon aimed not at America's enemies, but at America's own people. This is the documented record of how he did it, agency by agency, lie by lie, and with a blueprint that his own people wrote.

THE LONG CON — PART II | A CATN INVESTIGATIVE REPORT The Big Lie: 81 Million Votes, 64 Dismissed Cases, and the Words He Said in Private

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.

Doniphan is a town of roughly 1,800 people in one of the poorest counties in Missouri, where nearly 1 in 3 residents lives below the poverty line, the nearest hospital closed in 2018, and every elected official who represents them is a Republican who has voted for policies that make their lives harder. In 2026, that can change. This guide tells you exactly what is at stake, who is running, what the Republicans have done to this community, and why the Democrats challenging the

Journalists are being arrested, deported, shot with pepper spray bullets, and had their homes raided by federal agents. Mainstream media is barely covering it. Here is the full documented record, and here is where to find the reporters who are willing to tell the truth.

A manifesto addressed to every American who chose this, and to every American who must now live inside what that choice has made.

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.

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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Access. Affordability. Accountability. Southwest Missouri deserves all three from its representative in Congress. For three-plus years, Eric Burlison has delivered none of them. Missi Hesketh is running to change that.

Hey, †rumpsters... If you voted for him and you are now watching what is happening with dread — the war in Iran fought on Israel's behalf, the meme coins, the Qatar jet, the flag-draped coffin used as a fundraising prop, the Epstein files pointing upward toward the most powerful men in the room — then sit with that. You helped cause this. Owning that is the beginning of doing something about it.

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.

If you live in Newton or Jasper County, there is a question on your April 7 ballot that looks like a property tax break. It is not. It is a funding trap — and if it passes, the services your community depends on every single day will pay the price. The measure is tied to Missouri Senate Bill 3, passed in a special legislative session in June 2025. It sounds simple. It is not. And that is exactly the problem. Vote NO on April 7. Here's why....