Last Friday, Missouri’s legislature adjourned for the final time in 2023. After weeks of back and forth, here’s what won — and lost — in 2023. 🏆 The Winners🏆 1. Majority Rule One of the biggest victories of 2023 came not from what did pass, but from what didn’t. This year, politicians came into session […]
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Only days before the Missouri State legislature left Jefferson City for Spring Break, Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft left the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), an interstate group that works to prevent voter fraud. ERIC helps states maintain accurate voter rolls by keeping people who can no longer vote off state’s voter list. It also […]
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Senator Josh Hawley is up for reelection for the first time since he joined the United States Senate, and he should be nervous. He’s going to have to stand behind his record on veterans. As the race heats up, Hawley’s trying to convince us he’s worked for veterans. So let’s take a walk down memory […]
Read MoreWoody Guthrie may be one of the most influential American folk musicians. He also was a socialist and anti-fascist. Guthrie is most well known for the song “This Land Is Your Land,” which originally critiqued the ownership of private property and called out wealth inequality in the United States. After Josh Hawley invoked some famous […]
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On Thursday, the Missouri legislature adjourned for their week-long spring break, marking the halfway point of 2023’s legislative session. What do we have to show for it? Well, not much. After 37 days of back-and-forth, the legislature has fought a lot over issues that Missourians just don’t care about, and passed just one bill. Yeah […]
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March 8 marks International Women’s Day, a global day to celebrate women’s achievements in their drive for gender equality, and a time to call on our electeds to do their part to keep women’s rights moving forward. Unfortunately, in Missouri, so far this year extremists in the legislature have done the exact opposite of what’s […]
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Almost three years ago, Missourians banded together and went to the ballot box to expand access to healthcare for working families and save lives by expanding Medicaid. Back then, our Republican legislature tried to defy the will of the people by dragging their feet and not funding life saving healthcare— they even dawdled after the […]
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Missouri’s most famous achievements in reproductive health include being the first state to ban abortion completely. If that’s not enough to make you scream — it gets worse. In June 2022 after the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights advocates argued that Missouri Republicans would only dial up their efforts to take […]
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Last week, Jamie Reed, a former employee of the Washington University Transgender Center released an article alleging the center had committed wrongdoing against patients. But the timing and the key players surrounding the accusations, in addition to blatant political motivations, reveal she is part of a larger machine at work to attack LGBTQ+ people across […]
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In case you missed it, this week the MO Leg is taking aim at LGBTQ kids and teachers, introducing a “Don’t Say Gay” bill that goes even further than the Florida bill that made national headlines last year. Missourians from around the state came out in droves to testify against the legislation, which would prohibit […]
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