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Campaign Finance: make it so

02 Monday Nov 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Amendment 6, Amndment 3, campaign finance, missouri, Missouri Ethics Commission, Stop the Ban, Vote Yes on Amendment 6

‘YES’ on Amendment 6, ‘NO’ on the rest.

Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C264382 11/02/2026 Vote Yes on Amendment 6 Missouri AFL-CIO 131 E. High St Jefferson City MO 65101 11/2/2026 $50,000.00

Amendment 6

[….]

Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to:

– expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
– allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits;
– prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers;
– prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, – without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and
– preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions?

State and local governmental entities estimate no costs or savings.

Fair Ballot Language:

A “yes” vote will prohibit the people’s elected representatives from directly amending or changing any law enacted through the initiative process; require that any modifications to laws enacted through the initiative process be referred to the people by a vote of at least 80% of each chamber of the General Assembly; restrict the legislature from passing laws that limit the ability to pursue initiatives and referenda; maintain the current signature requirements of five percent of the individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a law; maintain the current signature requirement of eight percent of individual legal voters in each of two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts for proposing a constitutional amendment; and maintain the current requirement that a simple statewide majority of votes cast on a measure by individual legal voters is sufficient to enact any law or constitutional amendment.

[….]

It is a plan.

Vote ‘YES’ on Amendment 6.

And for the campaign to preserve access to women’s health care:

C253512 11/02/2026 Stop the Ban Planned Parenthood Great Plans 4401 W. 109th Street Overland Park KS 66211 11/2/2026 $45,000.00

Vote ‘NO’ on Amendment 3

[2024 file photo]

Denny’s Betrayal

02 Monday Nov 2026

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2026 Missouri Election, Denny Hoskins, Donald Trump, Missouri Secretary of State, Republican Voter Suppression

Mark Alford (r): baseless scare tactic

01 Sunday Nov 2026

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

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4th Congressional District, former newsreader, gaslighting, Hypocrisy, Mark Alford, right wingnut, social media, sycophant, that ridiculous hat, Trump sycophant

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 31, 2026]

The real Halloween horror story: phantom votes and election integrity tricks at the ballot box. 🎃 👻
Missourians deserve elections decided only by legal American citizens. The House has already passed the SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship and photo ID so every vote is protected. ✅
It’s time to give America the election security it deserves.
[….]

Wait, then how did you get elected?

Some of the responses:

You are the one pulling all the tricks! But we are about to get one Big Treat. Herrera for Congress

I’m an election judge and you already have to show photo identification to vote. We also have great training.

Thank you for working the elections! I enjoy doing it, too!

how do you feel about being demonized by Congressman Mark Alford?

watch the video from the TPUSA sponsored forum in Marshfield. It was as full of lies as it was poorly produced. It was reminiscent of bad sketch comedy.

they don’t want honest elections if they’re attacking the honest local people running them.

More women have credibly accused Donald Trump of sexual assault than non-citizens have voted in federal elections.

I did by voting yes on 6 and no on everything else

me too!!!

YES on 6…. Fuck No on the rest of the tricks!

The Save Act is voter suppression especially for women and a poll tax. The senate is smart not to pass it!

The real Halloween horror story is a congressman spreading debunked voter fraud myths to justify laws that suppress turnout among seniors, veterans, and rural voters who lack the required documents. You want to solve a problem that doesn’t exist while MO-04 constituents are losing Medicaid, SNAP, and their local hospitals. Jordan J Herrera is focused on real problems. Vote Herrera for Congress by Nov 3rd! jordanjherrera.com 🎖️🇺🇸🗳️

Keep ballot candy out of propositions, too.
[….]

Like you?

Yes on 6 the rest are tricks and Jordan Herrera for Congress. ✅

I did. Voted on 6 and no on the rest and voted Herrera for Congress!!!
See ya Mark! Would love to say it’s been fun but I cannot afford fun under you and the orange idol.

Yes on 6 no on the rest

As usual, no facts just hypocrisy

As an election judge, you already have to show your MO ID or you can’t vote. There’s no need for the SAVE Act.

#VoteOutTheGOP
Congressman Mark Alford
I thought the plan for midterms was to let Democrats win so you can blame us when the big ugly bill goes full force.
#voteblue
#VoteOutTheGOP

So your election 2 years ago was compromised?

Why don’t you tell these nice folks how the “Big Beautiful Bill” is going to strip even more assistance from needy Americans in December? (conveniently timed to be AFTER the midterms, but just in time for Christmas).

Congressman Mark Alford
Vote out the bums. No Republican Congressman or Senator deserves to be re-elected.
The Republican majority congress has done absolutely nothing this year. Mike Johnson sent you home Sept-10. You have done nothing since. Congress worked only 72 days this year. The least productive Congress in the history of the US.

Missouri already required a valid photo id to vote and has since I began voting. So you did nothing for your constituents really.

This gives “blame the refs” energy. I would invite every citizen to work even one election as an election judge. Work the polls at one election, of any level. These GOP / MAGA people are banging an old drum to make you think there’s fraud, when there isn’t. Work one and you’ll see the care and process that goes into making them safe and secure. They only scream fraud when they lose, or know they are going to.

Wow. Your running out of material.
Circling back to this favorite in hopes to cast doubt on Tuesday’s election results?

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Missouri voters are done with the Missouri Republicans that don’t listen to them

More right wing propaganda of the day. They just have to lie about everything.

Alford has no independent thought left. He just spews idiotic trump BS

We see you projecting your intentions to try to play tricks.
We know you’re gaslighting.
Valid ID is already required in MO to vote. Our citizenship is checked and verified when we register – that’s what we pay Election Authorities to do already.
Stop trying to suppress women’s votes and please, please, quit taking your orders from Republicans leadership and Trump.
All you can do is read a script.
I vote for Jordan J Herrera!!
He is much more qualified and actually listens to the constituents of this district.

You still on that BS bandwagon?

But, But, But MARK! The mo gop purposefully wrote Admendment 3 to TRICK VOTERS!!!

Still yapping about the Big Lie

Oh good, you’ll be stepping down then? 👏 👏 👏

You are the trick on the ballot. You should go sit down

You are such a useless idiot 🙄

Maga gaslighting

You mean like the 2 Republicans who dressed up like Muslims and tried to vote, who then got caught and are now being charged with fraud?

Trump’s puppy, Alford keeps pushing the MAGA lies.

You’re the ones pulling the tricks and lying about election security.

Yes, keep the Republicans tricks out of the ballot box. It looks like they are the ones playing the tricks all over the country.

Keep Musk out of our elections and it will be a fair election.

You are the trick. A one trick pony, short on substance and known to leave piles of shit behind him. And the sooner you are loaded up and hauled off the better.

More false propaganda and scare tactics from Congressman Mark Alford … If he actually looked into and studied voter fraud… He would find fraud at the hands if his republican cohorts… # vote for Jordan J Herrera

You’re the horror story.

The only honest ad Alford could make would be to say ” I’m going to do whatever Donnydaddy says “

You all are the masters of projection and corruption, Marky Mark.
I hope Jordan J Herrera trounces your lying ass and my vote has already been cast that way.

Look here you asshole! MO and especially Jackson county have very safe and secure voting processes. Quit trying to scare people about something you know nothing about and doesn’t exist! We have had virtually ZERO voter fraud throughout the entire country over the past 40 years!!! Our election officials are dedicated to their jobs to ensure citizens have free and fair elections. If you’re so sure of phantom votes and election integrity being broached then provide fact based examples. I’m waiting🤬 in the meantime shut the hell up about voting fraud. It doesn’t exist. Shame on you as an elected official supposedly trusted to work on behalf of the American people. You’re just a cheap shill in an expensive suit. FY

Biggest threat to free and fair elections is Republicans
#J621
#musk

You are embarrassing

Republicans do what Russia wants

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

The MAGA elected official voting manipulations are right in front of our faces. MAGA seems to be having trouble proving their accusations in the courts.

You infuriate me with your baseless claims of MO voter fraud. Prove it on your way out the door.

The Price of a Golden Ballroom
400 current Children’s Mercy Hospital patients
55,000 area Children on the ACA
” Keep The Tricks Out of The Voter Box ” – Mark Alford 72 Day House Representative
Vote in record numbers Cass County
Imagine the TRICKS The Rural Children will be facing after January 2027
CUTTING SNAP WASN’T ENOUGH

Nice ghost story Mark…get back to us Tuesday after your party tries the real election interference….

I believe the focus should be on reeling in Trump and his MAGA regime from pulling their tricks trying to steal the midterm elections! That is the scary part of the elections! Screw the SAVE America Act! Congress can put on their big boy and girl panties and stop this freak of a president from running amuck and making illegal decisions!

Such BS !!! Election tricks ??!! What about your Uncle Donnie ‘offering’ $5000 for voting ??!! Such BS – admit it !! I’m voting for who showed up at the town halls and talked to people – not someone spewing ‘wins’ online and trying his damndest to be just like DJT.

Are you saying the GOP who controls Missouri politics is guilty of cheating in an election? Have the Republicans compromised our elections??? 😱😡😱😡😱😡😱😡😱😡😱

You Republicans keep YOUR tricks out of the ballot box, and we’ll all be fine.
Shithole liars.

You are completely wrong. The SAVE act is a way to eliminate legal voters like women, the elderly and low income households. It is used in the same way back when poll taxes were used to eliminate black votes. You are not for the people of this state.

The “tricks” are lies told to pit voters against each other! Your years as a representative were spent lying and shilling for the 34 count Felon, adjudicated rapist and insurrectionist! You were and are a mistake that will be corrected November 3rd!
[….]

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Fall Color – November 1, 2026

01 Sunday Nov 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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This morning, in the drizzle, in west central Missouri:

Wasting all that money – at the last minute

01 Sunday Nov 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Amendment 3, anti-abortion, blatant hypocrisy, bullshit, gaslighting, mail, missouri

Vote “NO” on Amendment 3.

The anti-choice, anti-trans bigots, anti-women’s health care PAC pushing Amendment 3 on the November ballot sent a another slick mail piece to our household. It arrived in yesterday’s mail:

Pressured? What a load of bigoted bullshit.

Permanent harm? Like no access to healthcare?

There are no “sex change” surgeries on children in Missouri.

Their definition of “common sense” is a complete ban.

“Up yours”
“Against abortion? Get a vasectomy”

We’ve already voted. We voted “NO” on Amendment 3.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Next (August 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: bring a nuke to the fight (September 4, 2026)

Campaign Finance: there’s plenty more (September 24, 2022)

Campaign Finance: even more (September 28, 2026)

Campaign Finance: be under no illusion (September 30, 2026)

Campaign Finance: an emphatic “NO” (October 2, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “…and they shall sow the public right of way and all the empty lots across the land with their yard signs…” (October 4, 2026)

Campaign Finance: that about sums it up (October 5, 2026)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (October 7, 2026)

Campaign Finance: all that right wingnut money, just to vilify a tiny minority (October 9, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “…It’s the only way to be sure.” (October 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: no quarter (October 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: keeping it up (October 15, 2026)

The current temperature out there (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: you’re next (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Solidarity (October 19, 2026)

Campaign Finance: all-in for the anti-choice propagandists (October 20, 2026)

Wasting all that money (October 22, 2026)

Campaign Finance: – no quarter – “NO” on Amendment 3 (October 23, 2026)

Campaign Finance: saturation (October 26, 2026)

Vote “NO” on Amendment 3.

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