The continuation of our retrospective.

May

The Missouri General Assembly ends the legislative session and open a special session to consider the impeachment of Governor Eric Greitens (r).

The Petition for a Special Session of the General Assembly to consider “disciplinary actions against Governor Eric R. Greitens” (May 4, 2018)

Jefferson City: “Ah, the Eric Greitens bill” – SS SCS HB 1558 (May 10, 2018)

Jefferson City: it still doesn’t appear to be working – May 17, 2018 (May 17, 2018)

Jefferson City: House Rule 42 – May 17, 2018 (May 17, 2018)

Jefferson City: Tikkun olam – May 18, 2018 (May 19, 2018)

Jefferson City – the end of the regular session – May 18, 2018 (May 19, 2018)

Jefferson City: the beginning of the special session – May 18, 2018 (May 19, 2018)

And then:

June

And…scene (June 1, 2018)

Lauren Arthur (D) wins in 17th Senate District special election (June 5, 2018)

Parkland.

March for Our Lives – Road to Change – Kansas City, Kansas – June 18, 2018 (June 19, 2018)

Ryan Deitsch – March for Our Lives – Road to Change – Kansas City, Kansas – June 18, 2018 (June 21, 2018)

Children in concentration camps:

Senator Roy Blunt (r): suffer the little children (June 20, 2018)

Wendy Baird, a mom, age “thirty-something”, from Independence, Missouri and Senator Roy Blunt (r) (June 20, 2018)

In Overland Park, Kansas:

Protest imitates fashion (June 22, 2018)

Performance Art (June 22, 2018)

Somebody’s grandmother (June 22, 2018)

Immigration protest at Rep. Kevin Yoder’s (r) district office – Overland Park, Kansas – June 22, 2018 (June 23, 2018)

Being a Donald Trump (r) sycophant didn’t work out very well in November for Kevin Yoder (r).

In Kansas City, Missouri:

Melania’s claim to fashion immortality (June 24, 2018)

Don’t take away my rights, I’m still using them… (June 24, 2018)

No human being is illegal… (June 24, 2018)

Cosecha KC Rally to Protect Families – Kansas City, Missouri – June 24, 2018 (June 25, 2018)

Mayor Sly James – Cosecha KC Rally to Protect Families – Kansas City, Missouri – June 24, 2018 (June 25, 2018)

Again, in Kansas City, Missouri:

No, we cannot (June 29, 2018)

Children understand (June 29, 2018)

As we are all (June 29, 2018)

Be the badass on the right (June 29, 2018)

Why here? Why now? (July 1, 2018)

In Columbia, Missouri:

That was so last century )June 30, 2018)

The triumph of privatization (June 30, 2018)

Families Belong Together – Columbia, Missouri – June 30, 2018 (July 1, 2018)

June was a very busy month.

July

Welcome to Missouri:

The only Confederate flag that ever mattered was a white rag on a stick.

Celebrating treason for the season (July 3, 2018)

Ouch. (July 6, 2018)

The fight against “right to get paid less”:

Vote “No” on Proposition A rally – Kansas City – July 10, 2018 (July 10, 2018)

Campaign Finance: less than four weeks to go (July 11, 2018)

Donald Trump (r) came to Kansas City:

Protesting Donald Trump (r) in Kansas City – July 24, 2018 (July 25, 2018)

Well, yeah.

Previously:

The Political Year in Pictures – 2018 – part 1 (December 28, 2018)

It’s been another very interesting year for us. We could all benefit from less interesting.

We took a lot of photos in 2018. Many having to do with the aftermath of the 2016 (yes) and 2018 general elections.

Over the course of the last year we covered a number of government and political events in Missouri (and elsewhere), in the process taking thousands of photographs. Most of them didn’t make it into the blog. Some of the things we saw and heard made us smile, made us think, made us gasp, made us hope, and made us despair.

We thought we’d provide a retrospective of some of the pictures and stories we consider to be memorable.

January

The Missouri General Assembly opened its session on January 3rd.

The opening of the legislative session – in the House – January 3, 2018 (January 3, 2018)

Rep. Bruce Franks, Jr. (D): comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable (January 4, 2018)

HB 1817: Well, what brought that up? (January 4, 2018)

The sordid story of now former Governor Eric Greitens (r) started early in the month.

Oh, my. (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 2 (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 3 (January 11, 2018)

אַ שאַנדע פֿאַר די גוים and *IOKIYAR (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 4 (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 5 (January 11, 2018)

Oh, my – part 6 (January 12, 2018)

Sen. Denny Hoskins (r): not exactly a ringing endorsement (January 12, 2018)

Gov. Eric Greitens (r): piping (January 16, 2018)

Oh, my – part 7 (January 16, 2018)

On January 20, 2018 close to two thousand people (the organizers’ head count was over 1600) gathered at the amphitheater in the Courthouse Square in Columbia, Missouri for a rally and march to commemorate last year’s Women’s March and to protest Donald Trump, his administration, and his republican enablers.

Rally and March in Columbia, Missouri – January 20, 2018 (January 20, 2018)

Rally and March in Columbia, Missouri – January 20, 2018 – Valérie Berta-Torales (January 21, 2018)

Rally and March in Columbia, Missouri – January 20, 2018 – part 2 (January 21, 2018)

Welcome to Missouri:

Donald Trump (r) carried the county by 46.855% in 2016 (January 27, 2018)

February

Donald Trump’s (r) draconian immigration enforcement directives had inhumane and devastating effect on families across the United States.

Immigration: Syed Ahmed Jamal and many other stories like his (February 11, 2018)

Immigration: Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) – Press Q and A – Kansas City – February 11, 2018 (February 12, 2018)

Immigration: Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D) – Kansas City – February 11, 2018 (February 12, 2018)

Immigration: Rev. Eleanor McCormick – Kansas City – February 11, 2018 (February 13, 2018)

Immigration: on DACA – Kansas City – February 11, 2018 (February 14, 2018)

March

Yet another demonstration after a mass shooting in a school in America.

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – in Theis Park on Saturday, March 24, 2018 (March 20, 2018)

Another sign for the times (March 23, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Warrensburg, Missouri – March 24, 2018 (March 24, 2017)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – signs (March 24, 2018)

Are we tired of 2nd Amendment overkill (and I do mean kill) yet? (March 24, 2018)

Until this changes… (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – more signs (March 25, 2018)

March for Our Lives – Kansas City – Theis Park – March 24, 2018 – getting there (March 25, 2018)

There but for the grace of… (March 26, 2018)

Students walked out of class.

Seventeen minutes of silence (March 14, 2018)

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church from Topeka, Kansas came to town:

A hate group, the First Amendment, and a funeral in a small town (November 23, 2010)

At noon today in Warrensburg (March 12, 2018)

It’s hard out there (March 13, 2018)

April

Everything Eric Greitens (r).

The Report (April 11, 2018)

A CAFO, a neighborhood, a botanical garden, and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. What could go wrong?

Now that’s a CAFO (March 18, 2018)

Now that’s a CAFO – comments addressed to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (March 21, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? (April 3, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – photos (April 5, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – Tabitha Schmidt, CEO President, Powell Gardens (April 5, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – Karen Lux (April 5, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – Al Weir (April 6, 2017)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – Aimee Davenport on behalf of Powell Gardens (April 6, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – Eric Tschanz (April 7, 2018)

Suppose you threw a DNR CAFO hearing in Warrensburg and everyone came? – Chuck Petentler (April 7, 2018)

Late December rain.

Wait a minute…