I've known Bethany for a few years. She is the real deal. Brilliant woman and SHE SHOWS UP; every event, every town hall, every protest, every fundraiser. She supports good governance, other local leaders, and she puts the time in. I wish I still lived in her district to vote for her. #bluemo

O’Fallon, MO PD is effectively an arm of ICE, quietly operating in the fastest growing city in MO. They are disappearing our neighbors. #bluemo Toe truck lot operators in area see the damage:

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Last year I made a list of all of PublicSquare businesses in St Charles County, MO. Putting all of them in a thread here. I was sad to see Frisella Nursery on the list. All of the businesses on this list pledged to be explicitly anti-woke and anti-choice when they joined. #STC #STL #BlueMO #boycott

I know people may get mad that there isn’t a Dem running against these assholes for STC County Exec. That is because it is really hard to be a Dem in STC and they don’t have a functioning pipeline to fill big races, YET. They are building it. Support your local party. Especially in R areas. #BlueMO

I was very proud to be a part of this collection process and applaud the groups who worked with @peoplenotpolsmo.bsky.social to make this happen. Regardless of the outcome of the vote or legal shenanigans they pull to keep it off the ballot, everyone should be proud. #BlueMO

#BlueMo Check out these lies I was just texted by the RNC:

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it block $4B in foreign aid funding WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling and allow it to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid that was previously approved by Congress. The case is one of many lawsuits challenging the White House’s efforts to supersede Congress’ spending authority by canceling funding without lawmakers’ […]

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Many Black, Latino people can’t get opioid addiction med. Medicaid cuts may make it harder. Pharmacies in Black and Latino neighborhoods are less likely to dispense buprenorphine — one of the main treatments for opioid use disorder — even though people of color are more likely to die from opioid overdoses. The drug helps reduce cravings for opioids and the likelihood of a fatal overdose. While the nation as a […]

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Trump campaigned on closing the Education Department. Reality is more difficult. WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s aim to shutter the Education Department faces steep hurdles in Congress, where Republicans’ legislative efforts to abolish the agency remain stalled and appropriators have rejected many of his proposed cuts to education spending. After campaigning last year on a pledge to shut down the department, Trump came into office promising to […]

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TWMP Column: Folks will never give Charlie Shields enough credit for his time at DESE The accolades of former Senator Charlie Shields are too numerous for a simple hillbilly to list, but the only thing I’m sure of is that… The post TWMP Column: Folks will never give Charlie Shields enough credit for his time at DESE appeared first on The Missouri Times.

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New Missouri attorney general inherits more than 120 pending Sunshine Law requests There will be more than 120 public records requests sitting on Catherine Hanaway’s desk when she takes the oath of office Monday morning to become Missouri’s next attorney general. Some of the requests are months old, but all but one were submitted this year, said Stephanie Whitaker, spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office. And while higher […]

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Our democratic form of government will not survive if we remain silent What will it take to wake us up to protect and fight for our democratic form of government with all its imperfections and the way of life it provides? It has not survived thus far without courageous voices defending it. It will neither survive today nor move forward without our courageous voices. Let us keep […]

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Press Release: Erin Schrimpf to become Director of Policy and Communications at Hahn | DeBoef Government Relations Hahn DeBoef is pleased to announce that Erin Schrimpf has joined the firm as the new Director of Policy and Communications The post Press Release: Erin Schrimpf to become Director of Policy and Communications at Hahn | DeBoef Government Relations appeared first on The Missouri Times.

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This Week in Missouri Politics – September 7, 2025 On the first episode of the TWMP College Tour, Scott Faughn is joined by the President of UCM, Roger Best The post This Week in Missouri Politics – September 7, 2025 appeared first on The Missouri Times.

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Trump’s new law will limit payments to hospitals that treat low-income patients President Donald Trump’s new tax and spending law will likely force more than half the states to reduce payments to doctors and hospitals that treat Medicaid patients, a change critics warn will be particularly harmful to rural hospitals struggling to stay afloat. Medicaid, the joint state-federal health insurance program for low-income people, reimburses doctors, hospitals […]

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New jobs report shows worst August job gains since 2010 The United States added only 22,000 jobs in August, and previously reported gains in June were revised down to a loss of 13,000 jobs in a Bureau of Labor Statistics report issued Friday morning. The August jobs increase was the lowest for that month since 2010 in the aftermath of the Great Recession. June’s decrease […]

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Blue states hold on to public health dollars while red states lose out After the Trump administration slashed billions in state and local public health funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year, the eventual impact on states split sharply along political lines. Democratic-led states that sued to block the cuts kept much of their funding, while Republican-led states lost the bulk of […]

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ICE arrests fell in August despite show of force in DC, Los Angeles Despite the assistance of armed troops in U.S. cities, federal immigration officials recorded fewer daily arrests in August than in July and remain well short of a Trump administration plan for 3,000 arrests a day, according to a new report. As of Aug. 29, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests averaged 1,055 a day for […]

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Missouri cannabis sales remain steady as new products emerge More people are heading to Missouri’s dispensaries to buy cannabis products — and spending more money when they go, according to industry experts who spoke Thursday at the MJ Unpacked cannabis conference in St. Louis. While dispensaries in other states are offering steep discounts to try and attract customers, Missouri’s prices have remained steady.  “Missouri […]

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Missouri Republicans invoke Christian values to gerrymander out a Methodist minister As the Show-Me State joins the mid-decade gerrymandering war following prodding by President Donald Trump, Republican leaders quickly framed the effort as a godly mission. Yet, their proposed map seeks to flip the seat of U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a longtime Democratic congressman who is also a United Methodist minister. In announcing a special legislative session to redraw […]

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As few as 5% of voters could defeat initiative petitions under Missouri GOP legislation A proposal that would make it virtually impossible for voters to change the constitution or state law through the initiative petition process cleared a Missouri House committee Thursday evening. The legislation sponsored by state Rep. Ed Lewis, a Republican from Moberly, largely mirrors a request from Gov. Mike Kehoe to require a majority of voters […]

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Legislative push to gerrymander Missouri congressional map advances If a new Missouri congressional map endorsed by President Donald Trump is put into place, voters living on Kansas City’s east side will share a congressional district with people living nearly four hours away in Osage County.  Anyone living in downtown Kansas City would be in a district stretching south nearly to Springfield. And Kansas […]

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RFK Jr. battles with members of US Senate panel over vaccines, removal of CDC director WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  vehemently defended his actions on vaccines and other public health issues under questioning by both Republican and Democratic senators during a contentious hearing Thursday. Kennedy, confirmed on a mostly party-line vote earlier this year, repeatedly justified firing everyone on an influential vaccine advisory panel, […]

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Trump administration urges Supreme Court to quickly overturn ruling against tariffs WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is urging the Supreme Court to quickly take up the president’s emergency tariffs case to avoid “catastrophic” economic consequences for the United States, according to a filing. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent argued in the Wednesday petition that roughly $750 billion to $1 trillion in tariff revenue is at stake if […]

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Trump sued over District of Columbia ‘military occupation’ by state National Guard units The District of Columbia’s attorney general sued the Trump administration Thursday over the ongoing presence of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital, arguing the deployment amounts to a military occupation that violates the district’s right to self-rule. President Donald Trump’s deployment of D.C. National Guard troops and units from states outside the district  violates laws against […]

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Governors split over mobilizing National Guard as Trump seeks more troops WASHINGTON — Inside a bustling Union Station, commuters and tourists breeze past armed military personnel patrolling in groups of three or four as part of President Donald Trump’s surge of National Guard troops and federal agents into the nation’s capital. Outside on a recent weekday afternoon, Robin Galbraith stood among a handful of people protesting […]

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Freedom’s Frontier, preserver of Kansas and Missouri history, spared by release of federal funding LAWRENCE, Kansas — Freedom’s Frontier has received the half-million dollars the federal government held hostage for six months, ensuring the organization can continue for another year to preserve the story of the struggle for freedom through historic sites across Kansas and Missouri. Freedom’s Frontier is among 62 National Heritage Areas that recognize historic, cultural and […]

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‘Jackass legislation’: Missouri lawmakers urged to reject quick fixes for property taxes Missouri lawmakers should repeal property tax freeze laws that are warping the system, shifting the tax burden and failing to help those most in need of relief, St. Charles County Collector Michelle McBride said Wednesday. Speaking to the House Special Interim Committee on Property Tax Reform, McBride said there are 115 properties in St. Charles […]

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