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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

[emphasis added]

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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4th Congressional District, Fascist pig, Mark Alford, missouri, right wingnut, social media, sycophant, that ridiculous hat, Trump sycophant, voter suppression, Your papers please

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

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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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)

‘Tis the season (primary)

11 Saturday Jul 2026

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54th Legislative District, Amendment 4, Amendment 5, August election, Primary, Taigan Plummer, yard signs

Yard signs.

“Vote No on Amendments 4 & 5”

Taigan Plummer (D), in the 54th District.

Looks like a good plan.

Mark Alford (r): “Remain calm, all is well!”

10 Friday Jul 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[July 10, 2026]

💥@POTUS has worked tirelessly to ensure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!
We must finish the job & deliver for the American people.👇
[….]

There is much hilarity in the responses:

You are parroting and praising a man in mental decline that should not be in charge of any military. This is just making us less safe, spending a $billion per day wasting our money and bankrupting our country.
You are so weak, Mark.
Your constituents never wanted this war.

I live in Missouri. I am totally opposed to this War

Pick up a weapon and take your 63 year old ass over there and assume a post.

Have you noticed that Trump has contradicted himself dozens of times as to whether there is a war, the U.S. has won the war, the war is over, there has been regime change, the new people in charge in Iran are crazy or reasonable, the Strait is open, the U.S. is going to start bombing again, and/or whether there is a peace deal? Is that what you call peace through strength?

Did you forget that trump TORE UP the Nuclear Treaty (JCPOA) that Obama signed that guaranteed Iran would NOT gain enough for a weapon??? Part of the treaty was to return the money Iran paid for planes in 1975 BEFORE the overthrow they NEVER received!!

Go enlist, Mark.

VOTE ALFORD OUT!!!

I’m right there with you. I live in Missouri and I will never vote for any Trump bootlicker, and Mark Alford is one of the biggest Trump ass kisser there is.

Try reality for a change.

Ouch. That one left a mark….

Sure, Mark. Get right on that.

🤡 & Full Of 💩 (Propaganda)

So-called peace through strength doesn’t work. What it does is cause resentment and resistance. Strong-arming does not create a lasting peace.

So explain, if we have obliterated their military capabilities, I lost track how many times, how is it they are still fighting?

When does the peace start?

“Anything War can do, Peace can do better”

Trump had an exit plan from Vietnam. What’s his exit plan from Iran? The goal?

He started this whole thing. Bitch, please…

You sir are a disgrace you need to resign

Wonder how many rounds of golf trump has played since this war started (tirelessly?)

Is he protecting us from the Islamic Republic of Japan?

Mark, your posts are getting more pathetic every day! Your posts are getting more laughs than likes! Can’t wait to vote you out!

Mark Alford (r) [2022 file photo].

I guess you did not read what the Obama signed and trump got us out. Obama got everything thing that trump can not

B.S.

Of course this 🤡 loves Trump—because Trump loves unqualified television personalities going into politics. 😑

So tirelessly that he falls asleep all the time! Such a schmuck!

You are such a flipping idiot. But thanks for the daily laughs

You’re so full of b*******

Peace by starting a war? Interesting how you flipped that around. 🙄

He has worked tirelessly to make himself rich, to destroy the environment, to start wars like he’s a 5 year old playing with toy soldiers, just for his ego, and destroying lives for no reason. He is deplorable and you are just as bad for enabling him rather than standing up to him. You are setting yourself up for a sure loss at the polls in November.

Remember when hypocrite Trump said no more wars and we’re not the world’s police. That was after Mexico was paying for the wall but before eliminating the Russia war on day 1.

Congressman Mark Alford, nobody with human compassion should feel proud to be a warmonger. Only political sycophants, military industrialists, and investors in weapons manufacturers applaud war. And just so we’re clear on one of your favorite idioms, peace is NOT achieved by the false notion that military action = strength. Peace is literally the absence of war.

Kill for Peace! Destroy for Peace! Yay!

Potus has worked tirelessly to make money for himself and to make America the number 1 sponsor of global terror. He clearly cant stand peace and loves war and conflict.

Peace through strength⁉️ POTUS and Hegseth have been dropping bombs on Iran for months now, declaring peace at hand over 30 times. Iran has been a threat for decades, but has never attacked American soil. But Trump started this war anyway without provocation. We had peace until Trump broke it. As for Mark? Not a peep about it, no questions asked as to why and to what end. The 4th Congressional District deserves a Representative who doesn’t automatically smooch the President’s derrière.

It amazes me how you people can lie like this with a straight face

Isn’t it, tho? I cannot fathom the complete and total lack of any morals or integrity in this man. Look at him. Look at him lie; he knows he’s lying and he does it anyway like clockwork.
Look at him vote constantly AGAINST the people for the more, more, more the rich demand, even when those laws he passed kill people and destroy lives and livelihoods – and the country.
I can’t get past how lacking his upbringing must have been for him to be this way, and how he obviously learned nothing about being a good person on his way to adulthood. But then again, that goes hand in hand with the charges of abusing a horse to the point it was taken away from him, and the numerous abuse claims filed against him at the station for his abuse of the women he worked with.
Just a shit human, in other words. Alford isn’t remotely qualified to hold office. #UnfitToServe

When you say these dumbass catchphrases of the week do you even notice how dumb you sound saying them out loud
“Peace through strength”😑

Trump starts a war he doesn’t know how to finish
News at eleven

Finish what job?
What was the objective to begin with?
Netanyahu punked Trump., plain and simple.

Finish the job? What job has he ever finished? Doge? Reflecting pool? Lower healthcare costs? Lower prescription drug costs? Lower food costs? Lower utility costs? Knowing the names of world leaders? Capping credit card interest at 10%? Reduce the debt? Your guy is petty, emotionally reactive, and a prime example of corruption. He nor you is intelligent enough to “finish the job”.

Liar.you are trying to destroy our voting rights and you have already voted to cut our health care when you voted to cut almost nine hundred billion dollars from medicaid and that will be devastating to americans

I thought the Iranian military was obliterated, twice??

I think you meant chaos by ego.

An unprovoked attack is not peace through strength.
There was a deal in place to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons, but your beloved felon tore it up rather than negotiating the new terms.

What does finish the job mean? Kill everybody in Iran? Make Iran look like Gaza. What?

“Peace through strength” is another Orwellian bullshit phrase…
-War is Peace
-Freedom is Slavery
-Ignorance is Strength
Those of us who actually read and paid attention in school know this, Little Markie.
Trump has FAILED, miserably.
AND, he’s wasting billions of our tax dollars.
How about our healthcare, asshole?

You are a fucking liar

Working so hard that he still can’t end the unnecessary war he chose to start?
What an ‘art of the deal’. Lol
And you’re telling him what a great job he’s doing?
You hack

The convicted felon is not signing the housing bill in protest. You are pathetic

“No more war for profit”

Campaign Finance: Kings take pawns

10 Friday 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

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

C264249 07/10/2026 Missouri Promise PAC American Policy Coalition 4200 Regent Street Suite 200 PMB 1005 Columbus OH 43219 7/9/2026 $500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Yeah, no transparency.

No on Amendment 5.

“Mike Kehoe is Trump’s Bitch”

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)

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