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Campaign Finance: next, you need to vote

19 Sunday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Amendment 4, ballot initiatives, campaign finance, General Assembly, HJR 3, Mike Kehoe, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missourians for Fair Governance, Project Majority Rule

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission in opposition to the restrictive requirements on initiative petitions required by Amendment 4 (HJR 3) on the August ballot:

C232522 07/19/2026 Missourians for Fair Governance Protect Majority Rule Missouri PO Box 2187 St Louis MO 63158 7/17/2026 $56,129.72

C232522 07/19/2026 Missourians for Fair Governance Protect Majority Rule Missouri PO Box 2187 St Louis MO 63158 7/17/2026 $430,992.20

C232522 07/19/2026 Missourians for Fair Governance Protect Majority Rule Missouri PO Box 2187 St Louis MO 63158 7/17/2026 $313,895.19

C232522 07/19/2026 Missourians for Fair Governance Missouri Association of REALTORS 2801 Woodard Dr. Suite 101 Columbia MO 65202 7/17/2026 $300,000.00

[emphasis added]

No on Amendment 4.

“Vote No on Amendments 4 & 5”

Previously:

About that ‘inconvenient’ redress of grievances thing… (June 5, 2026)

Campaign Finance: but wait, there’s even more (June 5, 2026)

Campaign Finance: way, way in (June 13, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Democracy (June 19, 2026)

Campaign Finance: fight the power (July 10, 2026)

Yes, he really is that stupid

18 Saturday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Congress, Mark Alford, social media

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4th Congressional District, clown, dumbass, Fascist pig, former newsreader, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media, sycophant, that ridiculous hat, Trump sycophant

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[July 18, 2026]

We must confront communism head-on before it’s too late. 🇺🇸
If freedom is our foundation… why should we have to continue to watch communism take root in American cities?
COMMENT 👇
Is communism taking over our cities?
👍 YES — Time to fight back!
😟 NO — Explain why…
[….]

“…NO – Explain why…”

We don’t have to explain shit to you. As a member of Congress you’re the one who’s supposed to do the explaining. Dumbass.

There is much hilarity in the responses:

Chicken Little!

Sometimes I wonder if this is a parody account. 🙄

I guess when all else is falling, just take a page out of Roy Cohn’s playbook.

this whole administration is out of Roy Cohns playbook. And if anyone reading this is unsure, watch the documentary on Roy Cohn.

Good. Do a town hall at Penn Valley CC and let’s talk about it. Open forum.

Heh. Not gonna happen.

Hell Alford maga Republicans are using communist tactics on the American people . Keep lying and keep changing the narrative to keep them confused and they’ll give up. Trump wants to be putin.

They call it communism when you want a doctor. They call it freedom when one man wants everything

Not understanding the difference between communism and democratic socialism is on-brand for a third-rate news anchor.

Republicans can demonize social democracy all they want but what it really means is that we want a system where we pay into should translate into the tax payers getting something in return like affordable healthcare, a booming economy, energy efficiency and a government that works for the people. We aren’t asking for anything free we are asking for a return for our value as any self respecting person should.
Republicans are terrified of letting the people see a government that actually works for the people and not just corporations and the wealthy.

If only you took fascism as seriously as you take communism.

Know your propaganda before spreading it.
[….]

Red scare. Wherever have we seen that?

Spreading propaganda again, Mark or whoever wrote this. You have TDS- trump devotional syndrome.

Do you know what communism is ?

No. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

Didn’t we see this movie back in the 50s with Joseph McCarthy? Not very creative of you.

Is the communism in the room with us right now?

What is the matter with you? Seriously? Spouting Joe McCarthy (1950s) talking points? None of you would even be using the word communism if you didn’t hear that nonsense from Trump and his mouthpieces. Do you remember how Trump has made glowing compliments about Xi, the leader of China being smart and strong, etc.? He is giving him a first rate reception when he comes to the U.S. in the next couple of weeks. While we are at it, do you remember a guy from Missouri named Harry Truman? Here is what he said about socialism. Quote courtesy of the Truman Library: “In President Harry’s Truman’s remarks in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952, he said this:
Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years.
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called farm price supports.
Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
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.”
How about stopping your nonsensical conspiracy theory scare tactics and coming up with real proposals to help people.

Communism = the ‘ism’ of the day for a politician and his party that fear losses in the midterms. It all comes down to what amounts to bull💩ism.

Maybe you should check out a history book to see what happened to those who backed McCarthyism. It didn’t turn out pretty.
We can see you feel backed into a corner because you feel like you might not win this time around. So, you are bringing out the buzzword, communism. You are showing just how weak you are.

You know what yes, let’s talk about it. Why don’t you schedule a townhall and we can talk about it there.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo].

Most probably not.

But fascism that’s ok right

Do the name Joe McCarthy ring a bell???

I don’t see it anywhere.

Idiocy. Is idiocy taking over the Republican Party? Let’s talk about it. Certainly when it comes to Congressman Mark Alford it is. A Moron Of The First Degree

Roy Cohn, Trump’s mentor passed away in the 80s. Who is your lawyer Mark McCarthy Alford? Take every one’s eye off the ball, while fascism takes hold in the nation’s capital

No. Is this satire??

Sadly, no.

Plainly speaking.. NO it’s not … the MAGA base needs to have someone or something to blame

No it is not. So McCarthy of you.

Who elected this misshapen shrubbery, anyway?

Dear lord what year does Mark Alford think we’re living in, 1952?

Sorry, we are looking out for Fascism, a real problem

So glad we didn’t learn from the first McCarthy. What you call communism is public schools, public health, roads and infrastructure, fire depatments…. the list goes on. Sad thing is that you *know* it, but you also know that circus performances for the weak minded gets you elected, right?
How about we talk about fascism and authoritarianism, like our *current* administration.

This.

It doesn’t exist here . Fear mongering from the orange guy .

How much does a politician who uses fear mongering respect the voters?
Your system isn’t working.

With the way republicans are eliminating the middle class by making it impossible to get ahead I’d say I see it in the policy making you continue to push.

Ridiculous. You know it isn’t Just another scare tactic

“Communism” is the new boogeyman. Shades of Joseph McCarthy

I’d feel bad for Mark’s social media manager having to constantly post bullshit propaganda- but they must be on board or they wouldn’t do it. We’re not falling for it.

For MAGA, all “Communist” means is “disagrees with Trump”

Can we do something about the cost of health care, food and gas instead of trying to scare people? It’s really getting old. Trump is NOT going to be around forever.

Gotta get the grift while the getting’s good.

Mark, you will jump on any bandwagon Trump is driving.

You CANNOT be serious!!!! LOL!!!!!

“Run your damned mouth about it,” you mean.
Since *at least* Harry Truman (and arguably dating to the creation of Social Security in 1935), the terms “communism,” and “socialism,” (and through the magic of reverse causality, also “Marxism,” “Leninism,” and probably even “Trotskyism”) have been intentionally dumbed-down by the swells and their wannabes to mean any threat to the Aristocracy, however remote. Any insult, however slight. Any lapse in the deference shown them, however brief. Any curtailment of their unearned privilege, however dire the circumstance that demands it.
No longer are the terms reserved to governments based on the work of Karl Marx, the elimination of private property, state ownership of the means of production, overarching government surveillance and terrorism of its own citizenry, Gosplan-style central planning, collective farms, the “psychological hospitals” for political opponents, the Gulag system, a One Party State, or any of that other Bolshi crap. No one really believes any of that is coming back, and for a very good reason – no one with any sense is advocating a return to any of it.
Would you believe that democracy itself has come to be covered by this idiosyncratic definition? Democracy, Public Education, Labor Unions (of course), Equality, the Rule of Law and the “Regulatory State,” and indeed, the whole idea of a government whose rules must be obeyed by all.

You’re nothing but a PARROT, spouting off the talking points you have been given. You don’t care about the majority of your constituents, who are in the working class, or the harm this current administration is causing to them and their families. You are complicit in the failure of our governments checks and balances.

You know the crazy old man that wears diapers keep saying communism communism communism and you freaking magical cult people just eat it up and slurp it up and kiss his ass even a dirty diaper. A fascist regime oppresses the Press he tries to shut down all opposition. Does that sound familiar? You guys really need to stand up for the Constitution of all the Amendments not just the second amendment. The first the fourth the 12th and the 14th and then maybe use the 25th against the crazy old band that keeps leading you guys astray. Enough is enough! The blue tide is coming.

Oh sweetie, communism is deader than disco in the USA. Find a new boogeyman.

Open a book for God’s sake Mark. Have one of your people read it to you. Stop using big words you don’t know the definition to.

You are a horrible human being and a liar.

You’re just making shit up now? What precisely have you and your party, which controls all three branches of federal government, done to actually help the average American?

Never seen anyone work so hard to get their stupid ass voted out

Your lack of education regarding what communism is is very offensive. Pretending that anything that doesn’t back Trump and MAGA is somehow communist shows how little regard you have for those you claim to represent.
Your dishonesty and ignorance is something that you should be ashamed of.

You want a thumbs up or a frown. If you frown, YOU want people to explain. YOU, the bootlicking clown that never answers anyone’s questions, want people to explain.
Our country has been taken over idiots like you. You are a gutless, unqualified, propaganda machine.

Bingo.

You gotta wonder how people this stupid get elected.

This is the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen. Who elects such imbeciles?

Seriously??? Anything to distract. Do you even know what communism is? SMH

Nobody with half a brain believes your stupid shit.

Marky Mark it’s so sad that you think communism is our big issue. We’re not living in the ’50s we are not going to fall for this garbage.

Didn’t take you long to start pushing the propaganda bull 💩 from your orange 🍊 clown 🤡

No asshole its not. This is pure McCarthyism designed to smear the opposition. Trump is losing badly in the polls. His programs are a joke and the public knows it . He will do anything to stay in power . The old commie card worked well in the fifties so here we go again. And of course unprincipled scoundrels like yourself will play Along not caring a whit how much damage it does.

I don’t know. What does the book titled Unhuman on communism you and the Trump administration are following by Jack Posobeic say?
Don’t insult us with this act of feigned interest in anything we have to say.
Communism is not an issue.
“Far Left Terrorism” is not an issue.
However, Fascism is definitely a problem.
Let’s face that head on by voting your fascist loving ass out of Congress.

First it was the cats and dogs being eaten then antifa and now it’s the communists,scaring people is all you got 😱republicans can’t govern 🖕

There isn’t any communism in America and you sound unbelievably stupid saying so.

No, you made the claim. Prove that communism is taking over. It’s not. Stop pushing the false propaganda.

Go back to the 1950s and McCarthyism, and try to improve your IQ by learning a history lesson. It’s nothing but a red herring.

You are crazy. Find some new material.

My God, this crap is straight out of McCarthyism from the 1950s.

Let’s start very simply with having you tell us the definition of communism? If you can manage that, we will then collectively show you why you’re an idiot.

Mark has so little to offer politically that he is now resorting to resurrecting Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Red Scare tactics to accompany his White Nationalism. This is unAmerican and unacceptable.
[….]

Seriously stop.
There is no communism!!!!
You truly are an clueless idiot
You’re just kissing daddy Trumps ass more and more.
Why do you push these stupid and dangerous lies?
Do you even know whst you are doing and the damage it’s causing?
I mean seriously
Or
You that power hungry that you would sell you would to the devil
You truly are not a Christian.
You should be ashamed of yourself

You are literally the dumbest person in Missouri and that says a lot.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Alford’s like-hey guys our policies suck so let’s try to gin up a red scare to get votes. Your constituents are too smart to fall for this bs.

You’re so desperate you’re making the Red Scare great again. No real ideas to help make ordinary Americans lives better, so pull out some of scare tactics from the past.

Moron.

In the form of scared masked ICE Agents.
Congressman Mark Alford let’s talk about how Republicans and MAGA have made things worse and quit the imaginary belief it’s the communist fault.
It’s yours. You’re a screamer who makes things worse based on your record.

Where are the communists, Mark?
Please spell out what plans they are pushing that qualifies for that distinction.
You’re a goddamn liar and worthless fearmonger.

Congressman Mark Alford This kind of talk is completely unhinged. Screaming about “communism taking root in American cities” isn’t leadership — it’s paranoia. Anyone who’s this detached from reality shouldn’t be anywhere near a public seat of power. At this point, it’s clear he’s lost his mind, and the responsible thing would be for him to step down immediately, OR VOTE HIM OUT

Alford you and your party have nothing to run on so you are bringing out the boggy man

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Campaign Finance: Maryland, Virginia, whatever…

18 Saturday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Amendment 5, campaign finance, class warfare, Dark money, HJR 173, income tax repeal, Mike Kehoe, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missouri Promise, PAC, regressive taxation, right wingnut welfare, right wingnuts, shift the tax burden, welfare for billionaires and millionaires

Not Missouri.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the dark money PAC helping to perpetuate right wingnut welfare for millionaires and billionaires:

C264249 07/17/2026 Missouri Promise PAC American Advancement Inc 5557 Baltimore Ave. Ste. 500-1028 Hyattsville MD 20781 7/16/2026 $200,000.00

C264249 07/17/2026 Missouri Promise PAC Revitalization Project 6731 Frontier Dr #1026 Springfield VA 22150 7/16/2026 $200,000.00

[emphasis added]

Out-of-state right wingnut dark money. What else is new?

No on Amendment 5.

“Vote No on Amendments 4 & 5”

Previously:

Campaign Finance: for billionaires and millionaires (May 30, 2026)

Bait and switch (June 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: promising us high regressive sales taxes (June 14, 2026)

MoGop’s Dark Money (June 20, 2026)

Gov. Mike Kehoe (r): “Missouri voters are stupid” (June 24, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Missouri is a suburb of Ohio…and Virginia (July 7, 2026)

Campaign Finance: When they say, “We’ll make the rubble bounce,” they add, “…this high.” (July 8, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Kings take pawns (July 10, 2026)

Campaign Finance: throw in dark money, stir… (July 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Missouri is an expensive suburb of Ohio…and Virginia (July 16, 2016)

Campaign Finance: from Alabama to Dittmer

18 Saturday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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AFC Victory Fund, campaign finance, Dark money, defunding public education, federal, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, PAC, Public Education, right wingnut

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C243038 07/17/2026 AFC Victory Fund AFC Victory Fund 421 Office Park Drive Mountain Brook AL 35223 7/15/2026 $425,000.00

[emphasis added]

It’s new, sort of, in Missouri:

AFC Victory Fund – Active
MECID: C243038
Committee Type: Federal PAC
PO Box 337
Dittmer, MO 63023
[….]
Treasurer
Kelly Waymon
PO Box 337
Dittmer, MO 63023
[….]
Connected Federal PACs
Name & ID Address
AFC Victory Fund (C00846683) 228 S. Washington St., Suite 115
Washington , DC 22314
[….]

Who?:

AFC Announces Launch of Affiliated “AFC Victory Fund” Super PAC
Updated on September 25, 2023 at 9:47 am [….]

Dallas, TX – The American Federation for Children is pleased to announce the official launch of AFC Victory Fund, a national Super PAC that will take AFC’s work of championing school choice…

[….]

[….] The American Federation for Children (AFC) is a conservative 501(c)(4) dark money group that promotes the school privatization agenda via the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and other avenues. It is the 501(c)(4) arm of the 501(c)(3) non-profit group the Alliance for School Choice.[1] The group was organized and is funded by the billionaire DeVos family, who are the heirs to the Amway fortune. [….]

American Federation for Children
November 30, 2016
Bill Oberndorf will succeed Betsy DeVos as chairman of the American Federation for Children. Bill brings more than 25 years of experience in helping to advance the cause of parental choice and education freedom. Read more about him!
[….]

Ah, defunding public schools.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: dismantle the public good, privatize everything (July 28, 2018)

Campaign Finance: Public education, eh? (September 15, 2019)

Campaign Finance: oxymoron (July 14, 2020)

Campaign Finance: of, by, and for the children (July 24, 2020)

Campaign Finance: in a name, sort of (October 6, 2020)

Campaign Finance: Who profits? (July 12, 2022)

Campaign Finance: Why not just name it ‘The Committee to Defund Public Education in Missouri’? (July 11, 2024)

Campaign Finance: the money behind the “school choice” voucher scam designed to defund public education (July 30, 2024)

What a friend we have in Donald (r), and Betsy, and…June 10, 2026)

Joined at the hip (June 11, 2026)

Raving lunatic

17 Friday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Eric Schmitt, social media, US Senate

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Senator Eric Schmitt
[July 15, 2026]

The Hammer & Sickle wave has taken over the Democrat party.
They are Anti-police. Anti-ICE. Anti-Western Civilization.
It’s incredibly dangerous for our country.
[….]

Some of the responses:

Is the boogie man in the country with us?

As long as there are Republicans…

Yah his name is trump

Yah his name is trump

Franklin D. Roosevelt was frequently called a socialist by his conservative and far-right critics during the 1930s. However, he strongly rejected the label and viewed his New Deal policies not as a shift toward socialism, but as a pragmatic effort to save capitalism by addressing severe economic inequality and preventing a potential revolution.

what he did was lift the country out of a Depression. Just because it helps people doesn’t make socialism evil. Capitalism without regard to the working class is evil.

anti cops come from their own actions.

I needed a good laugh this morning. Keep the Russian influence coming – we all need a joke to start our day.

Ignorance, stupidity and hate on full display. Typical degenerate scumbag loser.

except it’s not funny; it’s hateful and a deliberate effort to smear over 50% of the voters in our country.

This guy is hilarious

Of course he is! …. He’s a REPBLICAN!😂

what a delusional pice of fascist shitbag

Ignorance and hate on full display. Typical degenerate scumbag loser!

They are worried about communism, but they really ought to look up the 14 characteristics of fascism.

Fascism Anyone? – Laurence W. Britt (2003)

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”

Oh no the Pinkos are back!
You guys are great comedy. I thank you.

Are you serving the people or the Republican party? Instead of spewing the rhetoric the Republican Party has told you to use, maybe you should listen to the constituents of Missouri who elected you to represent them. I am tired of your fear mongering rhetoric and can’t wait to vote you out.

Theyre really really going for the scare angle on the mid terms

Is this the new desperation angle?? Ya’ll, really?

If this The Onion or InfoWars?

Sadly, no.

Inaccurate. But the pro-McCarthy wave is taking over the GOP.

Carry that water, dude.

When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag, carrying a Bible. And calling itself MAGA. (see above)

Paint me evil for wanting universal healthcare, paid maternity leave, free college and trade school, protections for workers from wage theft and exploitation, clean water and air, safety, and our freedoms protected.

So the tagline ‘socialist’ wasn’t wording and is now escalated to ‘communist’ – got it.

What crazy label will Republicans use next to attack Democrats?
Republicans control all 3 branches of our government. Wouldn’t be nice if they could use their time to make America a better place to live?

oh no not the red scare…again… because that went so well the first time around lol

Oh, y’all found a new talking point. How cute!

I thought we were ANTIFA??? 😄

This doesn’t sound like communism to me …………Liberals in the United States have historically championed an active government role to promote social welfare, expand civil liberties, and regulate the free market. Their major contributions to the country fall into several foundational areas: Economic and Labor Protections The New Deal (1930s): Instituted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, this series of programs created Social Security to provide a safety net for the elderly, established the minimum wage, and spurred job creation through programs like the Works Progress Administration. Labor Rights: Legalized the right of workers to form unions and collectively bargain through the National Labor Relations Act. Civil and Voting Rights Civil Rights Act of 1964: Passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson, this landmark legislation legally ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Voting Rights Act of 1965: Prohibited racial discrimination …

You are hilarious! Let’s cry “red menace”… that will move public opinion.

Old playbook won’t work

Projecting much?

I was a preteen in the 50s, but I remember my mom was locked on those hearings daily. When McCarthy was finally called out, it sounded like a baseball stadium in our neighborhood.

The “red menace” myth again!🤣 That dog don’t hunt.

Anti western civilisation? OMG we are doomed, doomed I say.

I’m 63 years old, and I’ve been hearing about “communism” taking over our country for as long as I remember. It’s a scare tactic that is used to intimidate when things aren’t going their way. Those of us who are educated and intelligent know that. It’s the same old, same old. The only enemy we face, right now, is the current administration. Period.

Did not have “attempt to recreate the Red Scare” on my 2026 bingo card

Maybe the senator should be anti-lying?

This idiot is such an embarrassment.

A lot of well reasoned and intelligent responses to this ridiculous post. I can’t add anything extra so I will just say ‘piss off Eric’.

When was the last time you actually had an original thought instead of just regurgitating shite….

Does he have a list of names?

The Red Scare bit is many decades out of date.

. . . Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Studies show that the states and counties with worst quality of life are governed by Republicans. Tickle down economics is a monumental failure. Drastic change has to happen, and moderation ain’t going to cut it.

“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our own history and our doctrine and remember that we are not descended from fearful men. Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular…. There is no way for a citizen of the Republic to abdicate his responsibility.”
― Edward R. Murrow

The things people say instead of just saying the truth; they truly only want two classes in society, the rich and the poor

What are you afraid of Eric?

Now affordability and expanding public services are “hammer and sickle” policies?

Wow you make them sound so cool

Heh.

Wine makes everything funnier

Heh.

I don’t know why these people think anyone is taking them seriously. It’s like they think we’re stupid or something.

Sadly, yes.

Right because expecting OUR HARD EARNED TAX MONEY to come back to *us* in the form of services and not just be siphoned off by billionaires is just *so* unreasonable. 🙄

When I see the inversion of truth, where lies are presented as facts, I feel compelled to interact. The entire Republican platform falls under the category of “inversion of truth”. The deliberate reversal of reality, where truth is branded as falsehood and lies are presented as fact, essentially turning moral or factual, truths upside down. It is a form of manipulation or propaganda where, for example, evil is labeled good, or aggression is portrayed as defense.

Everyone’s laughing at you Eric.

I saw some unicorns, a few pigs flying by, and it might’ve been a cow jumping over the moon last night, but I still haven’t seen any people pushing for communism. Anyone else?

Are they in the room with us now?

Gaslighting at its finest.

Oh my, be Communist is not enough! Now we are against Western Culture too! Hilarious 😂

I would be ashamed if this kind of crap came out of my mouth. Apparently you failed your history class

I’m so scared

Awww! Might cut into the grift.

Nutcase

Oh my god, how dare anyone propose helping the poor and elderly, making health care affordable, making the obscenely wealthy pay appropriate taxes, ensuring freedom of and from religion…it is far too anti-evil to be considered…

What are you, 3 years old? Get a grip mini-McCarthy.

Do these Republicans really believe this shit?

It’s hard to tell.

Let’s resurrect the old republican playbook of McCarthyism. Because that worked so well, the first time

we are also anti-propaganda

Oh, come on!! This is what we’re going with now? Pathetic.

I get to live through a pandemic AND another red scare, oh what a time to be alive

You people are so fucking desperate it is unreal.

This guy is an idiot!!! Helping the GOP demagogues to establish another boogeyman for the cowardly GOP electorate. Schmitt contributes nothing to this nation but GOP bullshit.

And on and on….

Campaign Finance: Missouri is an expensive suburb of Ohio…and Virginia

16 Thursday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Amendment 5, campaign finance, class warfare, Dark money, HJR 173, income tax repeal, Mike Kehoe, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missouri Promise, PAC, regressive taxation, right wingnut welfare, right wingnuts, shift the tax burden, welfare for billionaires and millionaires

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the dark money PAC helping to perpetuate right wingnut welfare for millionaires and billionaires:

C264249 07/16/2026 Missouri Promise PAC Revitalization Project 6731 Frontier Dr #1026 Springfield VA 22150 7/15/2026 $200,000.00

C264249 07/16/2026 Missouri Promise PAC American Policy Coalition 4200 Regent Street Suite 200 PMB 1005 Columbus OH 43219 7/15/2026 $750,000.00

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All that our-of-state right wingnut dark money. Go figure.

No on Amendment 5.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: for billionaires and millionaires (May 30, 2026)

Bait and switch (June 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: promising us high regressive sales taxes (June 14, 2026)

MoGop’s Dark Money (June 20, 2026)

Gov. Mike Kehoe (r): “Missouri voters are stupid” (June 24, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Missouri is a suburb of Ohio…and Virginia (July 7, 2026)

Campaign Finance: When they say, “We’ll make the rubble bounce,” they add, “…this high.” (July 8, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Kings take pawns (July 10, 2026)

Campaign Finance: throw in dark money, stir… (July 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: throw in dark money, stir…

16 Thursday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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Amendment 5, campaign finance, class warfare, Dark money, HJR 173, income tax repeal, Mike Kehoe, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Missouri Promise, PAC, regressive taxation, right wingnut welfare, right wingnuts, shift the tax burden, welfare for billionaires and millionaires

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the dark money PAC helping to perpetuate right wingnut welfare for millionaires and billionaires:

C264249 07/15/2026 Missouri Promise PAC Missouri Action PO Box 1312 Jefferson City MO 65101 7/14/2026 $2,510,790.00

[emphasis added]

Still, no transparency.

No on Amendment 5.

Group supporting Amendment 5 spends more than $3 million ahead of election
July 15, 2026
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

The group promoting Gov. Mike Kehoe’s push to eliminate Missouri’s income tax has spent $3 million so far this election.

Filings with the Missouri Ethics Commission show Missouri Promise PAC has spent $3.3 million from April 1-June 30 supporting Amendment 5. Most of its spending has gone toward “media” so far.

Its major donors in the report are two groups – $1.9 million from Missouri Promise Inc. and $1.5 million from Secure Missouri…

[….]

“Group”? Uh, try “Dark Money PACs”.

Missouri House Democrats
[….]
“OBVIOUSLY, THAT’S RIDICULOUS” | We’ve gotten a lot of comments about an extremely misleading PAC-funded advertisement that’s circulating in Missouri, trying to convince people that the extra sales taxes they’ll have to pay if Amendment 5 passes will somehow “make big tech pay, so you don’t have to.”
SPOILER ALERT: It actually makes YOU pay more, so rich folks don’t have to.
#moleg #MoHouseDems #mogov #Missouri

“Vote No on Amendments 4 & 5”

Previously:

Campaign Finance: for billionaires and millionaires (May 30, 2026)

Bait and switch (June 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: promising us high regressive sales taxes (June 14, 2026)

MoGop’s Dark Money (June 20, 2026)

Gov. Mike Kehoe (r): “Missouri voters are stupid” (June 24, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Missouri is a suburb of Ohio…and Virginia (July 7, 2026)

Campaign Finance: When they say, “We’ll make the rubble bounce,” they add, “…this high.” (July 8, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Kings take pawns (July 10, 2026)

Campaign Finance: sigh

16 Thursday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance

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yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C071094 07/15/2026 Missouri Senate Campaign Committee Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 7/14/2026 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

C171236 07/15/2026 Missourians for a Responsible Budget Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Westphalia MO 65085 Retired 7/15/2026 $100,000.00

[emphasis added]

We could have had nice things…

Mark Alford (r): gone fishin’

14 Tuesday Jul 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Mark Alford, social media

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Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

This morning:

Congressman Mark Alford
[July 14, 2026]

The fight for the SAVE America Act isn’t over.
Protecting our elections starts with common-sense measures like voter ID and proof of citizenship, because only Americans should decide America’s future.
[….]

Some of the responses:

You don’t have to have a passport to be a US citizen. When I renew my passport every ten years, that is an unnecessary hassle. Last time I drove to Hot Springs AR and got it done in one day. There is not very much election fraud in the US, there is more noise about election fraud by Republicans to keep the Epstein files out of the news cycle. What is sad that another country is going to be the one to release the Epstein files.

The congressman asks:
“Why would anyone be against that”. I’m going to answer for you all, now.
The Save Act cannot be a law and either Alford knows this, or he rightly should be shamed for this level of rank incompetence. In either case, it is an unforgivable breach of the public trust places in the seat that has been the voice of West Central Missouri for over 100 years.
Here are the facts:
In 2013, the Supreme court decided the case of Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. (570 U.S. 1). In that ruling, Antonin Scalia wrote the majority opinion clarifying the Qualifications and the Elections clauses stating, and I quote:
​”The Elections Clause empowers Congress to regulate how federal elections are held, but not who may vote in them.”
And then, just to make sure you know, he backed it up with the hammer:
​”Prescribing voting qualifications is the ‘States’ exclusive prerogative’ under the Constitution.”
If Alford or any MAGA party leader was at all serious about this, they would be making the case with proof of illegitimate voting in the most recent elections where the MAGA party secured unified government control. They would then easily be able to get the 2/3 majority vote in both houses that a constitutional amendment requires.
Instead Alford is pushing this fantasy test-bill that would immediately be knocked down by the Supremes. And for what? It’s a fantasy that Alford and the entire MAGA party is wallowing in, and it’s frankly boring and pathetic.

You’re over.

Alford admitted the same at his coffee meeting in Raymore. He mentioned 1 incident where a dead person received a ballot in the mail in, drumroll please, California. He is aware of the data proof yet online is a different story.

Hey Mark, how many non citizens voted in the last 30 years worth of presidential elections?

Was your election legitimate without the save act?

try doing something productive. health care, for example.

Can you please provide documented and vetted evidence of the election fraud and corruption this act will target? How rampant is the problem?

They can’t

What part of – ONLY U.S. CITIZENS ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS – don’t you understand Mr. Alford ?? !

You didn’t object to your win, did you Mark Alford.

Funny how the party that is currently in control of the govern is screaming about election fraud.

Under the SAVE Act, you cannot use your driver’s license to register to vote,” Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois said March 19 on X. “Republicans want you to buy a passport instead. If you can afford one. This is a modern-day poll tax.”

Its a poll tax. Its over

Putz.

Congressman Mark Alford, by insisting that U.S. elections have Not been secure you are implying that the only reason Republicans have won the majority in Congress and the White House is because the elections were rigged for Republicans to win.
Which is it, Congressman: are U.S. elections secure or did Republicans rig the elections so they win???

You control all three branches of government by winning elections. How in world can you cry foul? If elections are so bad, then how did you ever get elected? Take your time, just explain this, we are all waiting.

No, Americans do not want the SAVE TRUMP’S ASS voter suppression bill. You just don’t want to look for a real job come November.

Tell me you hate women without telling me that you hate women.

Are you really this stupid?

Yes. This has been another edition of Short Answers to Simple Questions.

If there is widespread voter fraud by Democrats, why does the GOP control the Presidency and both houses of Congress?! That really doesn’t sound like a Democrat master plan.

If the election process is failed then you and everyone else in office up to the White House are not in office rightfully

This bullshit bill is dead. Give it a rest already maybe pull your head out of trumps ass and actually do your job for once sleepy mark.

Why didn’t you appeal your own win congressman if the system is broken and rigged you can’t be legit ? No one can ever anwser that

Is your job up at mid terms Alford? Cause you’re pretty much out of touch with the real world.

Shut up. Just shut up. Multiple studies, investigations and ridiculous lawsuits have tried and FAILED to find any voter fraud. Fewer than 30 cases of people voting when they shouldn’t have. And a couple of those were REPUBLICANS FAKING RESIDENCY. So Shut Up Piggy.

mark alford is working hard to suppress your vote
Only a minuscule amount (0.00000764%) of the vote was found to be fraudulent per the conservative heritage foundation
mark is making up unreal problems while ignoring the real ones
mark is delusional from wearing orange tinted glasses

TRUMP-LICKING, VOTER SUPPRESSING, MAGA NAZI ASSCLOWN

Stop trying to deny legally eligible people their voting rights
For someone who has something to say about everything, you won’t admit the so called save act will cause women to be denied their vote.
That is ridiculous and you know it. Just because Trump is always looking for ways to cheat doesn’t mean you have to go against 4th district residents!

Nobody is too dumb to get the id they need. It’s just we shouldn’t have to go through hoops to do so. Nobody is crying about ids except Republicans. In everything Republicans do to try to make sure they win is cheating. Gerrymandering. Hoping no one gets the paperwork they need to take to vote. The drama queens turn it around like people are too stupid to vote. But the truth is the people believing it and posting the lies about it are the ones that’s going to be the cheaters in any election. So when you’ve changed things and put your citizens through hoops to vote and you still lose….what are you gonna blame it on? If you win it’s great but when you lose someone rigged it. You guys are the only ones cheating and you know it.

FFS! Solution in search of a problem. You are a traitor to this country!!

It’s a poll tax and illegal. Abolish the electoral college that way every individual Americans vote would actually count. One Person. One Vote. A person would think that if these grifters had any good ideas, policies or any legislation whatsoever that would benefit all Americans that they would want everybody to vote. Apparently fear mongering, lying, cheating, stealing and always playing the victim doesn’t sell. Their disdain for the American people is on display every day.😎

Go fuck yourself

Are you really that immersed and right wing prop paganda , that you think we can’t see what’s going on?? Trump knows that he can’t win the next election without rigging the system. Ask per usual , trump’s accusations are actually confessions.

A non problem. Work on our country’s real problems, useless.

You mean the rig america act.

Only Americans do, liar.

Stop beating this dead horse. It’s not going to ever pass.

Mark Alford is a pathetic little tool promoting MAGAt lies. The so called SAVE act is just Trumpspeak for voter suppression. Non-citizens do not vote. They do work, pay taxes and contribute to the economy of our community.

Nothing to see here folks…. Just Mark trying to sell us on a voter suppression act…. Meanwhile no comment from Mark condemning the latest murder at the hands of ICE…. # do better Congressman Mark Alford

Fascists are all about election manipulation. Right before an important election you want to change the rules.

Yes, yes Mark we know you support voter suppression. It is very clear that you can’t win a free and fair election, and your elderly orange billionaire already said the quiet part out loud. He clearly told us in his speech that he needs the save act to game the system so that the Republicans will not lose for 100 years.
You are so anti-American and a traitor to our constitution.

Our elections are already secure. This bill is garbage.

Congressman Mark Alford this isn’t going to pass you idiot. Your wasting time on this much as you wasted on the Bad Bunny halftime show investigation. You’re worthless. FU 🖕

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 11, 2026

12 Sunday Jul 2026

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For the sixth year.

The annual Pride Festival in Warrensburg was held yesterday in the Union Ballroom on the Campus of the University of Central Missouri.

Vendors started showing up at 10:00 a.m. for setup. The doors opened for the general public at noon.

There were vendors, various information booths, photo backdrops, a costume contest, food and refreshment, and a silent auction by Free Mom Hugs.

After the venue opened there was an all ages drag show:

Later in the afternoon several local political leaders and candidates spoke in support of the community. Representative Wick Thomas (D) addressed anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation in the Missouri General Assembly and spoke on the value of this community’s celebration of pride.

Rep. Wick Thomas (D).

Unlike previous pride festivals the public pearl clutching by busybodies outside of the event was next to nonexistent. Desultory actually. One person.

Yeah, no.

There were allies there, just in case:

“Love is Love”
“I am so happy you are here!”

It was another good day.

Previously:

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 26, 2021 (June 26, 2021)

Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)

“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 4, 2022 (June 4, 2022)

The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 19, 2023)

Always the other (April 21, 2023)

Meta – The pearl clutching right wingnut bigots among us (April 22, 2023)

Unified Field Theory of Right Wingnut Pearl Clutching, Self-Righteousness, and Victimhood (April 22, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 (April 25, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council – April 24, 2023 – part 2 (April 26, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 (May 9, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 2 (May 9, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 3 (May 9, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 4 (May 9, 2023)

Addressing Bigotry – Warrensburg, Missouri City Council Meeting – May 8, 2023 – part 5 (May 10, 2023)

Living in a self-imposed cultural vacuum (May 10, 2023)

A downward spiral…of pearl clutching (May 25, 2023)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 3, 2023 – Returning to Family Friendly Format (May 26, 2023)

Thoughts and… (May 27, 2023)

Everyone is here for the ratio (May 28, 2023)

All means all (May 29, 2023)

Warrenburg, Missouri Pride Festival – before the crowd – June 3, 2023 (June 3, 2023)

Warrensburg, Missouri Pride Festival – hand wringing, pearl clutching, and sign waving in the noonday sun – June 3, 2023 (June 3, 2023)

Warrensburg, Missouri Pride Festival – June 3, 2023 (June 3, 2023)

Warrensburg, Missouri Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 (May 19, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – Starting at 11:00 a.m. (June 1, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – Across the street (June 1, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – on being an Ally (June 1, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – Same Planet, Different Worlds (June 2, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – useless platitudes pave the road to self-righteous certainty (June 2, 2024)

Breaking News: Pearl Clutchers Clutch Pearls (June 3, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – Crystal Quade (D) (June 4, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – Elad Gross (D) (June 5, 2024)

Warrensburg Pride Festival – June 1, 2024 – Richard Brown (D) (June 6, 2024)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – May 31, 2025 (May 31, 2025)

Pride Festival – Warrensburg, Missouri – May 31, 2025 – It was a good day (May 31, 2025)

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