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

We took a lot of photos in 2019. 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, including Iowa for some reason), 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

Jason Kander (D) – continues his good works.

Jason Kander – Outside the Wire (2018)

Rosebud* (January 1, 2019)

The Missouri General Assembly opens the 2019 session in Jefferson City.

Representative Brandon Ellington (D) – Houe Minority Whip.

House Democratic Minority Leader Crystal Quade – January 9, 2019.

The opening of the legislative session – in the House – January 9, 2019 (January 9, 2019)

The opening of the legislative session – in the House – photos – January 9, 2019 (January 10, 2019)

Minority Leader Crystal Quade (D): at the opening of the legislative session – January 9, 2019 (January 13, 2019)

The weather.

F 10, 1/800, ISO 400, 270 mm.

It’s still snowing out there (January 12, 2019)

Women’s March – Kansas City.

“…since the 1960s”

“Intersectional feminism or bust”

Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 19, 2019)

Rep. Sharice Davids (D) – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 20, 2019)

Jolie Justus – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 21, 2019)

Alissia Canady – Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 (January 21, 2019)

Kansas City Women’s March – January 19, 2019 – part 2 (January 21, 2019)

February

Right wingnut bills in the General Assembly, campaign finance, and weather.

F 8.0, 1/640, ISO 400, 400 mm.

Missouri: “Hold my beer.” (February 6, 2019)

Missouri: “No, really, hold my beer.” (February 7, 2019)

Icy (February 7, 2019)

Missouri: “Go ahead, you keep holding that beer.” (February 7, 2019)

Yep, it’s cold out there… (February 7, 2019)

Fun with legislation.

SB 366: that was then, this is now (February 12, 2019)

HB 858: “@&%$ Missouri voters” (February 13, 2019)

HB 927: The “you can’t deny Nazis and Fascists campus meeting and club resources, but you still may be able to call them assholes” Act (February 14, 2019)

March

The weather, boutique legislation in the Missouri General Assembly, and Iowa.

Dark-eyed Junco. Junco hyemalis. Canon 5D Mark III, Canon 70-200 F 2.8. 2X III. F 11, 1/1000, ISO 1600, 400 mm.

It’s freakin’ cold out there (March 3, 2019)

Red-bellied woodpecker. Melanerpes corolinus. F 5.6, 1/25000, ISO 16000, 400 mm.

Spring! (March 20, 2019)

Representative Dean Dohrman (r) [2016 file photo].

HB 573: Why? Who? (March 9, 2019)

SB 259: Really? For what purpose? (March 11, 2019)

HB 573 and SB 259: Let the army of lobbyists go forth… (March 12, 2019)

HB 573 and SB 259: What took you so long? (March 12, 2019)

HCS HB 573: if you put marshmallows and sprinkles on a mud pie it’s still a mud pie (March 13, 2019)

Iowa.

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D) [2019 file photo]

Senator Cory Booker (D):

Sen. Cory Booker (D) in Indianola, Iowa – March 16, 2019 – “Hope is the active conviction that despair will not have the last word.” (March 16, 2019)

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D) in Cedar Rapids, Iowa – March 17, 2019 – keep the peace, tell the truth, obey the law (March 17, 2019)

Iowa (March 18, 2019)