Mark Alford (r): “Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies…”

28 Wednesday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 28, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
After visiting nearly every rural hospital in Missouri’s Fourth District, I’ve seen firsthand just how important these facilities are to the communities they serve.
That’s why I introduced the Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act to give hospitals like Bates County Memorial a new pathway to Critical Access Hospital status, helping them remain financially stable and continue caring for families in MO-04. 🏥
We’re fighting to protect our rural hospitals and make sure Missouri families continue to have access to emergency care close to home!
#ShowMeResults #WorkingForYou
[….]

Some of the responses:

Congressman, your voting record appears to have wandered out of the photo.
On July 3, 2025, you voted YES on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That law was projected to cut federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over ten years, including approximately $137 billion in rural areas.
Now you’re posing at a rural hospital under “SHOW-ME RESULTS” and asking us to admire your commitment to keeping the doors open.
Some of us read the roll calls between photo opportunities.
Your proposed Medicare reimbursement fix could help Bates County Memorial. Good. Pursue it. But explain how that squares with your vote for Medicaid reductions that put additional financial pressure on rural healthcare providers.
And before the predictable response about the $50 billion rural health fund: that money lasts five years, serves purposes beyond hospitals, and doesn’t fully replace the projected rural Medicaid losses. Putting some money back doesn’t make the larger reduction disappear. Arithmetic remains stubbornly unimpressed by campaign graphics.
Your post says you introduced legislation. Introducing a bill is a step. It isn’t evidence that a hospital has received additional reimbursement or that you’ve saved one from closure.
So here’s the question your post conveniently avoids:
How much funding do hospitals in your district stand to lose under the law you supported, and how much would your proposed bill actually restore?
Show us those numbers, Congressman.
You brought the photograph. Bring the accounting.

Over the last 10 years (2016–2026), 12 to 14 rural hospitals have closed in Missouri (out of 21 total hospital closures across the state during that span). Recent 2026 reports indicate that roughly 50% of Missouri’s remaining rural hospitals are considered at risk of closing due to workforce shortages, inflation, and federal funding pressures, with a significant percentage projected to face severe jeopardy within the next few years. Medicaid cuts are a major contributing factor.
Whats taken you so long to notice?
Herrera for Congress!!!

hmm, seems like maybe the Trump admin shouldn’t have dismantled all of the oversight bodies. We need to eliminate and prosecute fraud, not cut healthcare

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion

ACA was implemented 16 years ago! I don’t understand why people keep blaming everything on it and not doing anything to change it!!

Before the BBBill they were in good shape
You broke them

Congressman Mark Alford
Bullshit MAGA Kool-Aid!
What about your vote and support for The Big Bullshit Bill?
I cast my vote today for Herrera for Congress 🗳 🇺🇸
Be sure to look both ways before you go fuck yourself!

Did you tell them you voted to cut their funding???

Mark Awful, liar.

How did you vote on the big beautiful bill that takes away healthcare? Munchausen by proxy? I’ll make healthcare sick then pretend to nurse it back to health in an election cycle.

Markey Poo 💩,
Do you ever read the comments after you post this garbage? You and your ilk are going down.
Vote Blue
Flush this turd down the toilet!

AGAIN INTRODUCED. That gets us nowhere. You’ve not stayed in session long enough to get anything done.

Revisionist history! Fox TV personality Marky Asswipe voted to cut healthcare for Missourians. Vote him out!!

Mark Awful, why don’t you tell your constituents what happens to Medicaid on Jan 1, 2027. Come on Mark, you voted for it.

Funny how Alford wants applause for introducing a bill to help rural hospitals after voting for Trump’s legislation that included Medicaid cuts which will expedite rural healthcare facilities closings.
You don’t get credit for putting out a fire while helping start it.
Vote for Jordan J Herrera.

Alford voted with Trump to cut Medicaid Medicare and insurance premium subsidies causing rural hospitals to close. This post is a lie . Vote him out vote Blue everybody.

So..
Bailing out hospitals your trump supporting agenda wrecks?..?
Weird.

This guy has such a dominant maga voter base that he just lies right to our faces

Bla,Bla,Bla lil’ boy!!!🤡🤡🤡🤮🤮🤮

I think Mark Alford didn’t read the Big Beautiful Bill before he voted on it.
One of the changes that Republicans won’t talk about is going to create an even worse doctor and nurse shortage in rural Missouri:
Graduate Medical Loan Changes
• Beginning July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated for new borrowers and new
lifetime borrowing caps will apply for medical school and nursing students.
[….]

Big Beautiful Bill? Remember voting for it and cutting healthcare? I remember!

Good morning to everyone except the incumbent politicians suddenly knocking on doors and begging for votes:
Years of ignoring your constituents. Seven days of pretending to give a fuck.
We’re voting you out.

Why are we inviting criminals into the United States?
A senior State Department official says Brazilian opposition candidate and Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend presidential election loss.
Bolsonaro had been ordered in Brazil to surrender his passports and said yesterday that he had no plans to leave his country, amid an investigation into alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
[….]

Fascists get in for free.

How about holding Marco Rubio accountable?
On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, former investment banker, and affiliate of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. At the time, Lewin’s appointment drew criticism because of his lack of experience in government, diplomacy, or foreign assistance. But for career staff inside the agency, the issues surrounding Lewin’s new role were much more alarming than his thin résumé.
For at least two months, USAID senior staff had no knowledge of how Lewin, who appeared at the agency one day as a policymaker on an obscure detail from the General Services Administration, could have suddenly begun wielding the powers of the agency’s top official.
Internal USAID emails reviewed by WIRED reveal that during the three-week period of March 18 to April 4, during which Lewin began canceling lifesaving aid programs and personally signed off on the termination of thousands of USAID employees, he did not sign the paperwork typically required by law to begin work at the agency, despite repeated requests. In fact, his appointment was so mysterious that USAID security was unable to issue him an ID card because they had no records of his employment.
[….]

Where’s my DOGE check? Can you check on that for us? Christmas is coming up soon.

expect it in about two weeks along with that healthcare plan they’ve been promising for 10 plus years😂

I wish you and all the government officials could live my (or any middle- or low-income people) lives. Then maybe you would understand what you and your buddies have done to the US!!!!! Shame on you.

You’re a little late. Our hospital has already shut down several departments and laid off lots of people!!!! Just because you want votes, you’re saying this!!!!!

Visiting another rural hospital for a photo op that you voted to close in the big bullshit bill?… Way to go sleepy mark!
[….]

Is that why you voted to cut millions from them through Medicaid and Medicare cuts?

After the midterms the $500 billion cuts to Medicare begin! The Republican Big Beautiful Bill is stealing your healthcare! 😔

Wwjd?
[….]

That’s super fantastic.
So, anything on the crippling prices of gas, diesel, groceries, health insurance or housing? How about a plan to help OUR farmers instead of enriching Argentina’s farmers with their uninspected mystery meat. Maybe a check on the out of control corruption? Perhaps a sound plan to stop the needless war that trump started? Epstein files? Anything at all?
[….]

So, is everybody ready for the 2026 version of “Stop The Steal”? I wonder if Gym Jordan and the other maga dirtbags have their bullhorns and posters out of storage yet. I do hope they try it again, would love to see what happens this time.
[….]

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

In my neighborhood

27 Tuesday Oct 2026

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Today, scattered around my neighborhood:

Interestingly, there are no Trump signs, nor are there signs for republican candidates in yards inside the neighborhood.

There are plenty of right wingnut amendment and right wingnut candidate signs planted in the public right-of-way outside the neighborhood.

Go figure.

Mark Alford (r): they ain’t buying the spin

26 Monday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 26, 2026]

Under Republican leadership, we’re putting the safety and security of the American people FIRST! 🇺🇸
Illegal southern border crossings dropped 95% in FY2026 compared to Biden level-eras. 📉
President Donald J. Trump is backing our Border Patrol agents, enforcing our immigration laws, and taking action to secure our southern border.
A secure border means safer communities, stronger national security, and greater protection for American families. That’s what we’re fighting for! 🇺🇸
[….]

Some of the responses:

Congressman Mark Alford, there is always more than one way to interpret data. And MAGA Republicans have become notorious for spinning valid data points into propagandized poppycock.
[….]

Where does the war in Iran fit into the program?

You should visit your buddies in northeast Vernon county. 🖕🤡

How does Trump 1 term compare to Biden?

As an Independent voter, I used to believe that Republicans were honorable, honest, moral, had integrity, and were devoted constitutionalists. MAGA changed that belief. Until MAGA is fully extinguished, I will not vote for a Republican.

Beware of the desperate unarmed brown people!! Their misery will be transferred to you! To exterminate your troubles theirs must be ignored!!
They’ve actually convinced you that the presence of a POOR person is what is making you poor ~ NOT the fat rich guys? The ones with ALL THE CAPITAL?? That pay no taxes???
That their proximity has made you financially less somehow, or in some manner denied you some important thing…??
Really?? The people with nothing are the ones ripping you off??
“Your enemy isn’t carrying all their belongings in a plastic bag. Your enemy is carrying an investment portfolio. Wake the f*ck up!”
– Liam Cunningham, Irish actor
But you never read a single word the GOP tax bill or the Mueller Report, or any of those indictments after that, nor paid any attention to where the money is actually going, have you?
For gods sake, a woman with three kids didn’t walk from Guatemala to break into your double-wide and steal your jewels…She didn’t come up here to sell you meth…
She isn’t stealing your underpaid job.
She came up here to survive.
CBO Director Phill Swagel wrote in a note accompanying his economic forecasts: As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, “we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.”
Got that? The surprise increase in immigration has led a multitrillion-dollar windfall for both the overall economy and federal tax coffers.
The truth is: the only truly corrupt and dangerous minority is the rich.
In the unlikely event that the facts matter:
Undocumented immigrants don’t receive food stamps, live in public housing, enroll in non-emergency Medicaid coverage or receive supplemental security insurance or cash assistance. They are eligible to receive emergency medical services, enroll in public schools and participate in meals programs there, and participate in Head Start or WIC. There is no federal program that directly gives cash to immigrants in the country illegally.
Look it up…
AND…it is not a violation of any US law to arrive at a port of entry seeking assistance and asylum – those that do are NOT HERE ILLEGALLY.
[….]

President Trump and the Republicans have made America the least safe it has been in over 80 years by trying to end alliances which have kept us safe. This is a travesty and you are complicit.

White House propaganda.
What they aren’t telling you is that Trump’s boarder policies are cutting strategic LEGAL immigration far more than illegal immigration.
What they aren’t telling you is how much MAGA inferiority complexes are costing American citizens.
Missouri has had enough.

and how many folks had their due process violated? american citizens killed?

Keep lying Alford. It’s all you have left.

Please explain how this helps the cost of living to hard working Americans. Is this what the GOP is hanging their hats on? Get real!

Trump has made 81 million off gas aka Iran war

I don’t care about undocumented immigrants!!!!
I am not afraid of undocumented immigrants!
Undocumented immigrants are not destroying my life!
Undocumented immigrants CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ECONOMY.
Undocumented immigrants are NICER than any MAGAs I know!
STOP with FUCKING SCARE TACTICS regarding undocumented immigrants!
Stop with the INHUMANE and ILLEGAL detention of undocumented immigrants!
COME UP WITH A BETTER PATH TO CITIZENSHIP!
THAT…IS WHAT WE WANT!

You’re a joke….. TRUMP invites Iran to bomb US cities…. Said it’d be ok. Any citizen saying that would have been arrested and locked up.
He took a $400 million jet from Middle East countries.
And you’re worried about the border?? Vote BLUE

You mean the safety of Rich White Men….

WWJD? Welcome yhe stranger!!

In Two months the Big Medicaid cuts come into affect
[….]

Meanwhile, how many citizens have we shot?

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Previously:

Mark Alford (r): Quick, look over there! (October 26, 2026)

Jordan Herrera (D) in the 4th Congressional District: We get mail!

26 Monday Oct 2026

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Jordan Herrera (D) at the Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce candidate forum on October 21, 2026.

In today’s mail:


With your vote for Jordan on Nov 3rd, everything can change!

Vote Nov 3rd

Showing up is half the battle.

Previously:

Johnson County Democrats – Homecoming Parade – Warrensburg, Missouri – October 17, 2024 (October 17, 2026)

Johnson County Democrats – Fundraiser and Fellowship – Warrensburg, MO – October 17, 2026 (October 18, 2026)

Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce Candidate Forum – October 21, 2026 (October 22, 2026)

Mark Alford (r): Quick, look over there!

26 Monday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 26, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
Rural Missourians deserve quality healthcare close to home!
Last year, I joined our congressional delegation in urging state leaders to prioritize rural healthcare through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
Now Missouri is putting that $216 million to work — strengthening rural hospitals, expanding emergency and maternal care, and training more professionals. 🏥
I’ll keep fighting so rural communities’ needs stay front and center! 🇺🇸
#ShowMeResults #WorkingForYou

Some of the responses:

Cut 100 million put back 10 and expect to be thanked.

When is he going to start doing anything?

After January third when he packs his backs and whack-a-moles over to pop up in a different grift.

Didn’t you vote for the Big Beautiful Bill Mark?

Yep.

Unfortunately ,more than 200 rural hospitals have closed or converted to models that exclude inpatient care (such as Rural Emergency
The program notes that 50% of the funds will be distributed equally across all 50
states, and the remaining 50% of funds will be distributed in a manner to be
determined by the CMS Administrator based on the concentration of rural healthThe law cuts federal Medicaid and CHIP spending by roughly $800 billion to over $1 trillion. Because roughly one in four rural residents relies on Medicaid—a higher rate than in urban areas—these cuts disproportionately strip coverage and funding from rural communities
Anyone with a calculator on their smartphones understands that this program has no longevity and was designed as a Midterm election fluff
Smoke and Mirrors
Today’s current event that is making national news is Children Mercy Hospital.
The desperation in the parents of young patients was heartbreaking to hear.
Currently its affecting about 400 Children getting cut off from Healthcare through the ACA cuts in the big beautiful bill.
The news reporting states the actual number could be closer to 55,000 Children being denied future Healthcare services.
Many ACA insurance plans are being utilized by are small buisnesses and entrepreneurs who don’t have the benefits of an employee group plan.
Alford likes to talk about what he’s done for rural hospitals, but its all talk ,since many of these cuts are happening in January 2027
Alford has turned his back on Children’s Healthcare.
Mark Alford you can create a new meme with you saying ” I Did This ”
Well actually you accomplished this debacle by your involvement in the Big Beautiful Bill

he will never reply . He will tell you it’s all Bidens fault

SHOW-ME A NEW CONGRESSMAN

don’t to forget gas prices so they can aford to get care and Med.

Alford voted to weaken rural health

It’s going to get worse too, right Mark?

Mark Awful voted to eliminate more healthcare in MO beginning Jan 1, 2027. Republicans timed it so it hit post the elections. That tell you all you need to know about Mark Awful and Republicans

You voted to cut Medicaid and Medicare while also supporting limitations to maternal medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

After he voted to take it away. We NEED better!

Did he read the “big beautiful bill”?!

He voted for it.

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion.

So nice of you to take away rural healthcare and then scrape together crumbs to “strengthen” rural healthcare. The farmers who lose access to healthcare will send you packing.

You’re la[t]e or fake to the rural hospital issue. Cuts in Medicaid by the big beautiful bill you signed have rural hospitals in a bind as now they have people without Medicaid who can’t pay, but still need services. [….]

We cannot forget that this is the same man that voted for A Bill that just kicked thousands of people off insurance at Children’s Mercy Hospital. VOTE MARK ALFORD OUT.

You supported the cuts and was making comments about why. Have a townhall.

What about Children’s Mercy in KC and the devastating cuts you’re responsible for?
Vote Jordan J Herrera and get someone in who has a brain and who cares, and isn’t just doing sound bites.

Alford is and always has been all about himself! Please don’t believe anything he says!

Hey Mark, you already screwed up the Affordable Care Act. I bet you’ll have something in 2 weeks, right?

Too late to hope you do better

Look fool . We know exactly how you voted. Quit your bull shit. You would be much better off just shutting the F up

Where’s Trump’s best Healthcare plan ever you know the one he said he was going to replace ObamaCare with. Another thing that is the problem is Healthcare is one of the highest to be monopolized in the US same as about 99% everything else and the Republicans support the corporate American that does it

It’s too late idiot. You voted for the big ugly bill. Rural healthcare fate is sealed thanks to you! Nothing you can do will bring it back. Quit posting this crap. You should have never voted for the big ugly bill!

Cocky Congressman Mark Alford thinks he’s going to win Missouri District 4. He sent emails asking for money sending ideas for FY 2028.
Yet he never shows his face around the District to hear Constituents concerns and learn from them directly how money can be appropriated.
VoteBlue

You know what would help rural health systems? Not cutting Medicaid and Medicare.

Congressman Mark Alford protects pedophiles and hates you.
He voted for these cuts to rural hospitals and BRAGGED about his vote on the Big Beautiful Fuckup bill.
The arsonist being remorseful does not absolve guilt.
Vote the lying, pedophile sycophant out.

A little late aren’t you

Congressman Mark Alford didn’t i just read a couple weeks ago where two more missouri hospitals shut down OB units?

Yes we did. The new owners of the hospital in Marshall will NOT be offering OB services. Fact!

Have you even addressed the Childrens Mercy hospital issue of being not authorized by several insurers on the ACA?

High Gas Prices, High Groceries, Federal Workers are being Attacked! What Good are you doing?

You voted to cut Medicaid and Medicare while also supporting limitations to maternal medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Just like Trump, create the problem from Big Beautiful Bill, then claim you are doing everything to solve it!

I think we are gonna see results but I don’t think you will like them…better tighten up that resume Mark….unless of course you know that election interference is looming and you are safe.

You voted to cut Medicaid….. stop pretending to care when it’s election time

His platform promoting health is to push hungry kids off SNAP, the working poor off of Medicaid, let the program collapse precipitate the closure of rural healthcare facilities, and remind the poor that they are that way because of bad decisions.
May Alford be consumed by the twenty-first century hellscape he and his like-minded theives architected for the poor.

Hi, Mark—Have you seen how well your president’s oil and gas stocks are doing? Have you seen that he’s enriched himself by $2.4b while in office?
I’m sure the farmers don’t mind taking that $8b bailout when they can rest assured that your president is doing so well for himself.

Honestly, they think we’re stupid. It’s insulting. Doesn’t matter the state, they claim they are fixing something they made worse or they’re taking credit for something they voted against.

So you spend your time in congress destroying basic healthcare access then you don your cape and proclaim yourself the savior of healthcare. My hero!

You are embarrassing

THIS IS A STATE OF EMERGENCY yet nothing!!!! Mosaic doesn’t even have a Pediatric wing. Almost every child in NW & SW children go to Mercy. Yet they’re worried about abortion and transgender. 1% of the population is transgender.

Now do 1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next ten years that will crush rural hospitals all over the country. Blatantly lying is what the Trump cult does.

By voting to cut healthcare for millions of people? Raising the cost of health care by voting against ACA subsidies? Voting to strip funding from hospital by Medicaid cuts? That’s Alford fighting for rural healthcare?

After your party DECIMATED it.

You have to be literally one of the absolute clueless and outright dumb individuals to ever come from Missouri politics. Just a complete dolt. I’m a conservative and I think you’re just terrible for this state.

You strengthen rural health care by voting for the big bullshit bill so the rural hospitals close…. Way to go sleepy mark!

You touted for and voted for the big bullshit bill.
Shut up and sit down.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

We are here

25 Sunday Oct 2026

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This is where we are. Read the whole thing:

Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social
[October 24, 2026]
Here is where I want to focus in. The Biden administration tried to return to normal, to reset back to historic norms under the belief/assumption that Trump 1 was some sort of historical aberration. 1/
1/26

Turns out the Biden admin was the aberration. A brief interregnum where an admin fiddled as the US smoldered before it was reignited into a conflagration that is burning everything to the ground. None of the actual leaders & planners for the events of 6 January 2021 were held accountable. 2/
2/26

BG (ret) Perry’s electronic devices were never examined because he claimed Speech & Debate clause protection & DOJ proceeded to go through w/the litigation on that. The Speech & Debate clause DOES NOT cover plotting an autogolpe & revolt against the constitution in various locales around DC!!!! 3/
3/26

Everyone may remember Marjorie Taylor Green & other Republican reps & senators leaving the White House after a planning session for the events of 6 January, going to the press set up, & making statements &/or taking questions. NOT COVERED BY THE SPEECH & DEBATE CLAUSE!!! 4/
4/26

Taylor Green had NOT even been sworn in yet!!!! And, yet, nothing, nada, crickets!!!! Just allowed to go on as if she hadn’t done anything, let alone tried to overthrow the constitution, constitutional order, & the Republic. Same w/all the other co-conspirators. 5/
5/26

Sure, about 600 or so schmucks & a couple of dozen hard core Proud Boys and Oathkeepers were prosecuted, but they didn’t plan the events of January 6, 2021. The people who did – Trump, Meadows, Perry, Taylor Green, Stone, Patel, & dozens & dozens of other elite & notable Republicans – walked. 6/
6/26

The attempt to prosecute Trump himself came way too late & was basically an afterthought partially forced by the congressional investigation that made it untenable for Garland & his team to keep keeping their heads down in the search for a return to historic norms for DOJ. 7/
7/26

And so an American Rubicon was crossed. The revolt against the constitution & constitutional order never ended. It was rolled into the GOP’s 2022 midterm campaigns & Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign. And it eventually paid out w/his reelection & GOP majority control of Congress. 8/
8/26

But this was the crossing of an American Rubicon, not THE American Rubicon, because we’d already had several previous crossings of an American Rubicon. In 2000 the “Brooks Brothers” rioters, including Kavanaugh & Schlapp, shut down recounting activities in Florida. 9/
9/26

Which contributed to the Supreme Court selecting W as the 43rd president rather than let the legally authorized Florida recount continue. Every Republican official, operative, consultant, & lawyer involved in that was rewarded. An American Rubicon was crossed. 10/
10/26

This too was the crossing of an American Rubicon, but not THE American Rubicon. Because in 1980 an American Rubicon was crossed when Reagan’s campaign conspired w/the Iranian revolutionaries to NOT release the hostages in order to damage Carter & increase Reagan’s chance of being elected. 11/
11/26

Yet, this was also the crossing of an American Rubicon, but not the American Rubicon because in 1968 Kissinger, working for Nixon despite being employed as a peace negotiator by the Johnson admin, conspired w/the North Vietnamese to NOT agree to the peace deal on the table. 12/
12/26

This successfully increased Nixon’s chance of election, which in turn would see Kissinger elevated to Secretary of State, & prolonged the war for six more years killing thousands of additional Americans & Vietnamese. Here too AN American Rubicon was crossed, but not THE American Rubicon. 13/
13/26

Because in the early 1930s a group of hyper-wealthy elites, including such GOP stalwarts as George Herbert Walker & Prescott Bush, conspired to overthrow the constitution & constitutional order by manipulating the Bonus Army remnants thereby forcing an unelected fascist co-president on FDR. 14/
14/26

That plot failed thanks to Maj Gen (ret) Smedley Darlington Butler, but it was ultimately swept under the carpet by both Congress & the news media. 15/
15/26

In NOT a single one of these examples, in not a single one of these crossings of an American Rubicon, was anyone who planned, oversaw, or profited from these attempts to subvert &/or overthrow the constitution or constitutional order held accountable. 16/
16/26

The simple fact is that everyone who planned, oversaw, & profited from their actions got away scot free! There were either perfunctory, at best, investigations that were allowed to fizzle or everyone was told to move on, look forward not back. or trust in the strength of American institutions. 17/
17/26

What Trump, his aides, surrogates, & enablers are doing now, did from November 2020 through January 2021, & from January 2021 to January 2025 were at least the third, fourth, and fifth crossings of an American Rubicon in my lifetime. 18/
18/26

This 🧵 isn’t meant to demoralize, it’s not meant to critize Andy’s point, which is the only correct one. Accountability must come & it must be swift, severe, transparent, & final! 19/
19/26

The problem is the history of the US, just for the past 93 years or so, is that there is no accountability for attempts by Republican elites & notables to overthrow &/or subvert the constitution & constitutional order. Just more rewards & profits for doing so. 20/
20/26

We are where we are because there hasn’t been accountability. Even when our institutions were more or less intact, rather than completely subverted & now run by the people engaged in overthrowing the constitution & constitutional order. 21/
21/26

We’ve run out of American Rubicons. There’s no constitutional order to shore up, repair, & augment to prevent a next time because the constitution is what the GOP has revealed it to be: some nice sounding words on old parchment preserved under glass. 22/
22/26

That’s why the lively, & usually good faith discussion on here, about we have to reestablish fidelity to the constitution, constitutional order, & rule of law when trying to clean up this mess versus we need to be ruthless & not worry about it the way Trump & team have done misses the point. 23/
23/26

There’s no going back to what was normal. That’s broken. And not just broken, Trump, his team, his supporters have pulverized it. Something completely new will have to be established rather than the reestablishment of what was w/some renovations & reinvigorations. 24/
24/26

I don’t know what that new thing is or should be. I have some thoughts about it, but that’s for another day. 25/
25/26

What I do know is the reactionary revanchist revolutionary Trump/MAGA movement & its captured GOP have made sure that if we get through this, which is a big if, the rubble will have to be thoroughly cleared before we can begin to attempt to build something new & more capable of enduring. 26 & end/
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Denny Hoskins (r): read the room, man….

25 Sunday Oct 2026

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Another statewide republican politician in Missouri, in a long line of examples, who continually trips on his own shoelaces.

Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].

Missouri Secretary of State
[October 24, 2026]

A theme throughout President Harry S Truman’s 1948 Whistle-stop campaign, Missouri’s favorite son emphasized that the power of the US government rests with the people.

The November 3 general election is just ten days away—make your voice heard!

[….]

On the importance of voting

When you vote, you are in control of your government.
– Harry S Truman –

Denny Hoskins

Some of the responses:

You keep his name out of your mouth.

There is considerable irony in Secretary of State Denny Hoskins invoking Harry Truman’s words: “When you vote, you are in control of your Government.”
Truman meant considerably more than simply encouraging people to show up on Election Day.
In those 1948 remarks, Truman said, “I trust the people, because when they know the facts, they do the right thing.” He said the American people themselves should decide what kind of government they wanted. Throughout that whistle-stop campaign, he repeatedly returned to the same principle: ordinary citizens exercise control over their government through the ballot box.
That fuller context matters.
Because when more than 300,000 petition signatures were submitted asking that Missouri voters be allowed to decide whether to accept the legislature’s mid-decade congressional redistricting, Hoskins attempted to keep that question from the ballot. The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously concluded that he was wrong.
The Court found the petition legal, sufficient and timely and pointed to the plain language of the Missouri Constitution, which reserves to the people the power to approve or reject “any act of the general assembly” through referendum, subject to specified exceptions. The Court ordered Hoskins to certify the petition and put the question before Missouri voters.
There is a similar contradiction with Amendment 6, which concerns protecting Missouri’s initiative and referendum powers and limiting the legislature’s ability to undo decisions voters make through those processes. Hoskins initially refused to certify that measure as well before ultimately certifying it pursuant to the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision.
So quoting Truman here deserves some scrutiny.
You cannot invoke an American icon’s words about citizens controlling their government while leaving out the principle underlying those words. Truman’s message was not that voters should have a voice only when government officials are comfortable with the question being decided. His repeated message was that political power ultimately belongs to the people and that voting is how they exercise it.
No one can know exactly what Harry Truman would say about a Missouri political controversy nearly 80 years later.
But we do know what Truman actually said.
“I trust the people.”
“When you vote, you are in control of your Government.”
Those principles are difficult to square with fighting to prevent Missouri citizens from voting on a referendum after they had satisfied the signature requirements, particularly when Missouri’s highest court ultimately ruled unanimously that the Constitution gave them precisely that right.
Harry Truman’s legacy belongs to history, not to any current officeholder. If you are going to borrow the credibility of his words, you should be prepared to live by the democratic principle behind them.
Otherwise, quoting Truman becomes less a tribute to his principles and more an exercise in political convenience.

Oh I will, bud. I sure will. You and your red blazer can bank on it!

So you’re yes on 6?

This is why I’m voting Yes on 6, because we are in charge of our government and the folks elected to represent us need to be reminded of that.

Except when Hoskins, Kehoe, or Hannaway disagree with how you vote… 😒

Please don’t invoke Truman. You, sir, are no Truman!

Unless you elect people who will not listen to the will of voters…Yes on 6!! Because actions have consequences

Glad you agree Denny. Yes On 6

Yes on 6! The rest are tricks!

This is rich coming from you. 🤡

Rich, coming from you!

Unless you live in Missouri. Missourians make their voices heard, place amendments. Then the legislature wants to tell us we don’t know what we want.
🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

And then the Missouri GOP tries to interfere in your vote

Yes on 6 to maintain your power.

Yes on 6.

The irony of Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins posting this cannot be understated. Here’s a statement that Harry Truman delivered at one of those whistle stops so many years ago:
“When the Republican candidate inscribes the slogan ‘Down With Socialism’ on the banner of his ‘great crusade,’ that is really not what he means at all.”
“What he really means is ‘Down with Progress–down with Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal,’ and ‘down with Harry Truman’s fair Deal.’ That’s all he means.”
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You were on my mind when I voted this morning 😊😊

President Truman would say Hoskins is a disgrace to his office and the great State of Missouri! I will VOTE YES on Amendment 6 and NO on Prop A, the gerrymandered voting map! Missouri’s right to petition has been part of our Constitution since 1908. The same Constitutional right Hoskins, Kehoe and Hanaway thought they could overrule and both Supreme Courts ruled against them. We won’t let any of them forget this!
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So much irony with this one. Vote yes on 6.

Pahhlease!

Interesting that you didn’t feel this way about the new maps! Aye on 6!

We need to get rid of the corrupt party Hoskins belongs to, but they will find a way to cheat & rig this election (already starting in Alaska). We need to overwhelm this fascist gop regime, take control and insert sweeping reform to ensure such incredible corruption never takes place again. You’re part of the problem Denny Hoskins, you’re a fascist traitor who serves one man, not the people. History will not be kind to your ilk.
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Wow, your hypocrisy is effing stunning.

Truman’s rolling over in his grave every time you say his name

Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, How dare you.

I will Vote NO on 3, 7, 8 and Prop A.

Then how come we have to keep voting down the abortion ban, over and over? You DO NOT allow Missouri citizens to control the government they fund.

Does MO still elect any non-slimeballs, or is it pretty much just guys like you?

I vote in every election because Missouri Republicans in 2026 are still making laws about womens’ bodies and cheating to silence our petitions, votes and voices.
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We are voting Denny. And don’t worry we will be voting out your precious map

Get his name out of your mouth and off your meme.

You are a horrible slimey disgusting American traitor.

That’s rich coming for you.

Not in Missouri.

That explains why you try so hard to overturn our votes.

God you’re a hypocrite

Now that’s a ratio.

Obama wore a tan suit once.

Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].

Previously:

HB 1: Gerrymander this (September 9, 2025)

Can play with AI, can’t be bothered to certify petition signatures (June 7, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r) is a pre-eminent legal scholar and final arbiter of the Missouri Constitution, said no one ever… (August 4, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court: “HB 1 congressional redistricting, yeah, no.” (September 3, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court: “HB 1 congressional redistricting, yeah, no.” (September 3, 2026)

Favorite whine (September 3, 2026)

Gov. Mike Kehoe (r) thinks we’re all ignorant and stupid (September 3, 2026)

What the Missouri Supreme Court said (September 3, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court slaps down Denny Hoskins (r)….again (September 4, 2026)

Tears in the rain (September 4, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r): “…unclean hands…” (September 7, 2026)

Justice Brett Kavanaugh – SCOTUS: “Yeah, no.” (September 8, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court order to Denny Hoskins (r): “…show cause…” (September 9, 2026)

Missed it by that much (September 9, 2026)

Salus populi suprema lex esto (September 10, 2026)

Stupid is as stupid does (September 10, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r) and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (September 10, 2026)

So sad (September 10, 2026)

Judicial contempt has a way of making one focus (September 11, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r) and friends whiff at the U.S. Supreme Court (September 25, 2026)

A paragraph for Missouri history (September 25, 2026)

Being obtusely wrong still makes you wrong, Denny (September 26, 2026)

Denny’s Dirty Ball (September 28, 2026)

What color is the sky in Denny’s (r) world? (0ctober 3, 2026)

We Get Mail – “NO” on Proposition A (October 5, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “NO” on Proposition A (October 10, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “NO” on Proposition A – with emphasis (October 15, 2026)

Campaign Finance: there’s still work to be done (October 22, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r): keep stepping on that Fascist rake (October 23, 2026)