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Mark Alford (r): that right wingnut echo chamber just got a lot smaller

13 Friday Nov 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 12, 2026]

šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø Democrats campaigned on affordability, but where are their solutions to bring down costs for hardworking Americans?
I joined Miranda Khan on Miranda’s Right on KCMO Talk Radio to discuss Democrats’ focus on impeachment instead of affordability, why I oppose impeaching Secretary Pete Hegseth, continued pressure on Iran, and making the VA the GOLD STANDARD of healthcare for our veterans.
[….]

Some of the responses:

The Big Beautiful Bill you voted for comes due in January.
You will tout it as a tax cut. It is for billionaires but Missouri children will go hungry. Cuts to WIC, food assistance/ EBT and school lunches.

Wasn’t the Hegseth Impeachment Articles written and introduced by a Republican?

Yep.

and before the midterms. Mike Johnson sent everyone home to avoid the vote

Where are YOUR solutions?

You know January is in 1 and 1/2 months…šŸ˜‰

Where are YOURS???

How about lifting the tariffs, tax the rich, retract the billionaires tax cuts, end Iranian war

I believe the Dems stated that many, many times. But, Alford is only appealing to his ignorant MAGA base who don’t watch anything besides Fox.

they don’t wanna do anything to actually solve any problems. They just wanna talk about how they’re going to. And offer absolutely no path forward all while stealing everything that isn’t nailed down.

The Republican Congress passed The Take Care of America’s Veterans Act (H.R. 9237)—on Veteran’s Day, November 11, 2026!
The bill contains provisions estimated to reduce future veterans’ disability compensation by $57 billion over 10 years
Ironic don’t you think? Republicans screwed veterans over on the very day established to honor them.
Try harder Mark. Actions speak.

Isn’t is disgusting how they name bills that make it sound good, but in reality, they’re just a big “fuck you?”
-Right To Work
-One Big Beautiful Bill
-The Patriot Act
-The Lower Energy Costs Act
If you look up all of these bills, they favor Big Corporations and Big Government and screw over the average American.

my husband a Vietnam Veteran, was denied benefits for agent orange, but ..thanks to President Biden pact act, after all these years, he’s finally getting some disability for it!! Now you have a president that wants to take disability away, make it make sense 😔

you mean trump right?

Hell, they haven’t even been sworn in yet. Also Trump ran in 2024 on lowering prices and no new wars how about YOU deliver on that?

Put your listening ears on, I have read where the Democrats plan to vote to undo broad import tariffs starting with Canada goods like steel, aluminum, dairy and household appliances, expand the number of drugs subject to federal price negotiations, reverse Medicaid funding cuts, reinstate premium tax credits for ACA, reassert Congress’s authority over setting import taxes to lower costs of groceries, fertilizer, & building materials just to name a few. Also read plans on housing costs, tax incentives and investor limits, buyer and renter aid, raising Federal minimum wage to $15.00 and the list goes on…..kind of odd how an old woman (me) seems to be better informed on their platform to help ensure affordability. 25th Amendment, Section 4 works for me. Iran operated under the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, this is a senseless war that Benjamin Netanyahu & Trump started to takeover the Gaza Strip to develop it as the “Riviera of the Middle East”.

Just stop the tariffs- end the war and see what happens

I guess if they just undo everything republicans have done in the last 2 years, prices will drop 10%.

Read the room

90% of mid term voters said corruption in current administration was crucial or major factor.
Investigate selling early access to social media posts for stock market info. Accepting a Qatari jet. Accepting half a billion dollars for family crypto from UAE sheikh. Son getting Pentagon contract for drone company they just bought stake in. That’s just tip of iceberg

VC-25B Bridge aircraft arrives at Joint Base Andrews, begins commissioning flights. (U.S. Air Force courtesy photo) [edited for size]

Don’t forget the “bribe jet”.

When democrats reinstate my benefits YOU cut on Veterans Day it will help my affordability problem.

Shouldve been voted out…..

I know you like to ignore me, Mark Alford, but vets and VA employees deserve answers for exactly how you’re going to make the VA the gold standard for vet care when you and your party destroyed the VA. Kansas City is still short hundreds of staff members. It takes a year to get in with some specialists because your party chased off a lot of really talented and effective direct care VA staff. Providers are literally working out of their cars in the parking lot because there’s not enough office space to accommodate the RTO you fools pushed out without a plan. Please explain how you’re going to fix the damage you’ve done to the VA. We are all due answers

Um, they haven’t even taken office yet. Republicans are still in control and we still haven’t heard any Republican plans to bring down prices. Thanks for showing your ignorance.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Didn’t Trump say he’d bring prices down ā€œday 1ā€, yet EVERYTHING is more expensive 2 years later?? And he said he ā€œdidn’t careā€ about nothing being affordable?? Where’s your outrage for you dear leader who lied to everyone? Who the hell keeps electing your stupid ass!?

Where are you and the republicans plan? All prices have done since Trump got back in office was go up. Where are your plans for healthcare, or your concept of a plan. Maybe the blue wave was more of a reflection on the total incompetence of Trump and all you republicans support for it. Your boot licking ass should have been voted out as well. We are so sick of the lies, greed and incompetence you and your party have become. This isn’t even a shell of what the Republican Party use to be. I always had some disagreements with republican policies but at least you had elected officials that could somewhat be respected. The way you have adapted to the MAGA narrative and supported Trump through all his disrespectful comments and actions is deplorable. As an independent I always had values that leaned to both sides but now I agree with nothing this party has to offer.

He’s delusional and so is every ass hat that let him keep his job.

Like
Tariffs
War
Cutting Education
Yeah those worked.

right next to the perfect call transcript, the pedo files, the GOP healthcare concepts of a plan, the orange menaces tax returns, the plan for a day 1 ceasefire in Gaza and Ukraine, the missing Venezuelan gold/oil, the nuke from Iran that was 2 weeks away that we’ve obliterated beyond repair every week for the last 37 weeks…I mean I could go on, but let’s hear from the guys who’ve been in the majority for the last 4 years and passed OBBA that’s about to screw tons of working class Missourians over…but yeah. Let’s talk about the Democrats who aren’t in power yet and why the prices of things haven’t come down yet.
Again. Alford is either disingenuous or inept, possibly both. But neither of those qualities are what you should look for in an elected rep.

Alford you are pathetic!!

How did this empty get elected in the first place?

But where are their solutions?!? Are you serious? Let’s talk about who started this and who enables him at every turn. I’ll help you since you and your maga comrades have zero self awareness. It’s you, Mark.

It’s a shame you didn’t come up with anything for the past several years.

GOP has had two years and tried nothing at all. Things have gotten markedly worse. I think about that every time I’m at the pump and the grocery store.

So now that you and the Republicans have screwed everything up, you point the finger at the Democrats for not being able to fix it?

That’s their plan.

Besides licking Trump’s toes, what have you done while in Washington for the last two years?

It’s possible to do two things at the same time Mark. Not like you, avoiding town halls and obstructing real legislation, wait… I guess you can do two things at the same time too!

Well, a lot of the most harmful things impacting affordability in the “big beautiful bill” start to hit next year, with things like my student loan repayment forgiveness being entirely thrown out the window as a direct result of legislation you and your RNC colleagues rammed through. Worried that will make my student loan payments skyrocket.

Stop the stupid tariffs and the stupider war. There’s a start.

Your solution of being a Trump sycophant didn’t work.

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

Ummm….they haven’t taken control yet Mark, but we trust they can do BOTH—clean up the messes left in the wake of unprecedented corruption that YOUR party took ZERO action to address, AND work to make life more affordable. But why don’t you talk to someone in Congress instead of already gearing up for 2028 by spouting off on the news? News folks don’t have lawmaking power, you and your colleagues do. Why don’t you roll up your sleeves and actually get to work. Maybe start by talking with Elizabeth Warren, she ALWAYS has a plan and has a track record of reaching across the aisle.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D) [2019 file photo].

Shut your mouth. You never cared about us or tried to
Lower prices. You voted for alll this bad shit that’s happening and now you want to try to blame the Dems. You’re an idiot and will lose your job In 2028. Just wait. Loser (thats what Trump calls people. I learned that from him)

Where are yours? You guys have had the last 2 years to do something.

So why is socialized medicine good for our veterans but not good for the rest of Americans, Mark?
You can’t have it both ways.
Stop being an affordability hypocrite!

You had 2 years of a unified government, but decided to use it to lick the boot of the guy that called affordability a Democrat hoax. Until you have a plan and get it out of the House, you can kindly stfu about lowering the cost of living for everybody.

If you’re the solution, you sure haven’t done shit yet

Trump and his complicit horde of stooges are the problem, removing you types is a big step in fixing the problems that you people have caused.

Mark is wrong again.

Where is the Republicans solution to Healthcare costs. You’ve had a total of 6 yrs under trump to implement something an another 4 under Biden to come up with one and you haven’t so shut the fuck up you pitiful little boy. Your actions, or lack there of has spoken volumes you waste of dna.

That post again, “Congressman doesn’t know how time works”.

Suddenly you’re worried about affordability. Your man Trump said affordability is scam, fake news. He says he loves inflation, and high gas & diesel prices are okay because the Iran non-war has eliminated their nuclear weapon which no one can verify. Of course he says he’s keeping 1/4 of Venezuela oil sales to his personal bank account in Qatar, he likes the high oil prices.
Nice try faking your constituents out trying to say you’re worried about affordability when you’ve blindly signed every Trump legislation causing the problem.
Will you be voting yes on the Epstein discharge petition in the House?
Oh, that’s right, you voted yes before on DOJ to release all remaining Epstein documents and didn’t care the 12/19/25 release date hasn’t been met.
Why am I reading you voted to reduce future VA benefits to the toon of $57 billion, per Veteran support groups?

Congressman Alford, your party has been in charge for 22 1/2 months – what have you been doing all this time? And you are blaming the Democrats who haven’t even taken charge yet? Help me understand your complaint please… I’ll wait.

Why are you all so worried about the Dems? The Republicans have done absolutely NOTHING but take away everything possible from everyone with all kinds of cuts to programs that people actually need. Somenody has to come up with some ideas because the Republicans have shown without a doubt that they have nothing but corruption and greed on their minds. So stop acting like you all are doing something great. You had your chance and blew it. Let someone else take over who might actually do the job right this time around.

They haven’t even taken office yet
Are you really this stupid in real life

Just when I think you can’t get any more ridiculous. What an embarrassment to this state.

The Democrats who ran on affordability aren’t in office yet… You’ve been in office for a minute… WTF have you been doing?

They want to reinstate the SNAP and health insurance cuts. They want to cut off anymore war funding so it can come to a close and prices will come down. I guess like all other magats you don’t watch real news.

Where were yours, bitch? You’ve BEEN in office and haven’t done shit for Missouri.

A Republican brought up the vote to impeach Hegseth you vegetable.

You oppose impeaching Hegseth because you are a MAGA bootlicker. You have always done as you were told, fecklsss.

Solutions? To bring down costs? They did — don’t start a war with Iran so that the Iranian government doesn’t shut down the Strait of Hormuz!
Talk about an ELEPHANT in the room.

You spent the last 2 years controlling all 3 branches of the federal government and did nothing. Republicans controlled all 3 branches of Missouri government and did nothing. You worked for your donors and not for people. Democrats very well could do the same with power, but they at least sort of pretend to want to give people things like afforfable healthcare. This election showed that everyone is tired of the corruption and bullshit. Any party that shows that they want to work for people over donors has a chance to rule for a long time. Unfortunately, you have never even pretended to be for that

STFU. You’ve had years. Where’s yours?
Thought so

Get rid of random tariffs and end the war. Or, you could just tell your cult leader that. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

So you went on the show to bash them for not having a plan for affordability, and didn’t at any point in time talk about what plan you have for it? You can’t be serious šŸ˜‚

Oh, Mark! How did you vote on Veterans Day? Let me guess….

Such a whiny little bitch. You are so clueless. End the self-imposed Republican war(the one you voted for) Reduce / eliminate tariffs (taxes) the tariffs you abdicated your constitutional responsibilities on, make health care more than a concept of a plan, I guess you have not heard this as you are tone deaf

They aren’t in office yet. You’ve had two years. You’ve done nothing but jump whenever you’re told to jump. That’s not leadership. That’s a yes man.

Where the hell are YOUR solutions…. You literally caused this crisis and you somehow think you get to ask this… you mi$erable pos! YOU did this… to millions.
This comment is like choosing to burn your own house down and blaming the fire department for not saving it for you. Zero accountability
Democrats have half solved the problem already by stopping you a$$holes from making any more corrupt and terrible decisions. Thank god

ā€œThey can’t solve the problems I helped to create before they’re in powerā€ is a WILD take lol

Can you please stop with the divisiveness? So sick of it. Any chance you could work towards solutions that actually benefit all of YOUR constituents instead?

Congressman Mark Alford, telling lies still?? The Democrats are focused on affordability AND oversight responsibility over the executive branch, the latter of which has been totally ignored by you Republicans for two years. 🤷

Republicans campaigned on affordability two years ago. You’ve had control of all three branches of government since then and have made the economy worse. You need to sit down.

Little Mark you are still in control till January. And STFU about cost like all of a sudden you give a damn. Get out of the way clown.

Better than the big shitty bill you passed to fuck the American taxpayer, so let’s talk affordability mark

Are you fucking serious with this???????
The election was JUST LAST WEEK! They haven’t even been sworn in, yet!
And, we’re still fearful that YOU will participate in some sort of coup to prevent their swearing in!
WTF did YOU do on the issue of affordability??? NOTHING!!!!!
My god…you have learned NOTHING.
What a fucking, disgusting jackass you are.
And, Democrats can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Shooting innocent fishermen in the Caribbean is a high crime, Mark. You stupid fuck.

Very soon you will be irrelevant. But sure, keep talking maga bullet points. It’ll be fun to watch.

Was he ever relevant?

Where’s your outrage about Trump and Lutwick literally ignoring a Chinese spy?

You did absolutely nothing about affordability. Democrats aren’t even in charge yet. They can focus on corruption and affordability at the same time.

They seem upset.

Mark Alford (r): you can smell the desperation

07 Saturday Nov 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

The new ultra-minority party in the upcoming U.S. Congress is presenting panic.

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 7, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS! šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
Your tax dollars deserve accountability!
This Congress, as Chairman of the @HouseSmallBiz Oversight Subcommittee, I joined my Republican colleagues in demanding answers from the SBA over allegations that the Biden Administration concealed misuse of pandemic-era relief funds.
Small businesses played by the rules. Washington must be held to the same standard.
[….]

Was this written by a seventh grader using crayons? Just asking.

The responses are lit:

Why wasn’t that done in the last two years?

Audit the pentagon?

“Small businesses played by the rules”—unless you count the millions in forgiven PPP loans that went to wealthy corporations and members of Congress. Funny how “accountability” only matters when it’s not your own caucus cashing the checks.

That left a mark.

Like the reflection pool and ball room!

He is chairman of the “small” biz committee, how fitting.

Not for long.

What bills have republicans passed to help the working men and women of America?

šŸ‘take me to your leader

We will see how tough you will be in January?

We showed you results on Tuesday.

ā€œWashingtonā€ — ā€œheld to a standard.ā€
This really can’t be being said with a straight face. My word. Is the electorate really presumed to have not been seeing the events of the past two years?
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz.
The deaths of servicemembers.
The combat missteps.
The waste of weaponry.
Proposed sell-offs of public lands.
Destruction of heritage landmarks.
Federal officials treating individuals as if they deserved to be assaulted, thrown around, or shot.
Rapacious impoundment of federal funds.
Pushing DoD away from political and religious neutrality.
Firing senior military personnel apparently for upholding standards.
The Oval Office, the East Wing, a ā€œballroom,ā€ the the Reflecting Pool, statues, Kennedy Center, or attempts at changing names of territory.
If I were to actually search for the trashing of standards instead of riffing on the obvious, this list would be interminably long.
ā€œUpholding standards,ā€indeed —

An investigation of data from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) finds that, in Donald Trump’s final days in office, his administration rushed to eliminate oversight for loans which were flagged for potential fraud or further investigation — and wiped flags from nearly every one of the largest PPP loans.
As the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) revealed in a report published Wednesday, over the course of several weeks before President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the Trump administration went on a spree of eliminating flags on PPP loans, the majority of which went directly to personally enriching the richest Americans. Officials in the Small Business Administration (SBA) eliminated 2.7 million flags between December 2020 and January 2021, as the administration was in its lame duck period.
Special preference was given to the largest loans, which often also went to the largest corporations. On January 16, 2021, four days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s SBA wiped 99 percent of special review flags, which were given out to every loan above $2 million for separate investigatory purposes.

How about focusing on stuff that DIDN’T happen four years ago.

So no more for the war and the bullshit trump has wasted on

Stephen Miller. Dana White. Mark Alford.

Alford definitely doesn’t deserve his paycheck!

I thought after this feckless Muskrumpian shill saw the results of November 3 he would quit being such a feckless Muskrumpian shill. But, I was mistaken because lil Markie Allfraud doubles down on his stupidity and continues to support and worship the sexual predation of women and children, a 34 times convicted felon, serial grifter, and mentally unstable traitor. Such an ignorant twit lil Markie Allfraud is.

Voted for the war voted for BBB no accountability

Like you g.a.s. about fraud and abuse..stop with the propaganda statements šŸ™„

$1.4 Trillion for socialist redistribution of wealth/voter bribe
(~ although I guess that’s off the table now ~)
$170+B for ICE and Border Patrol
$160B (& counting) in Iran
$40B for Argentina (not incl. beef)
$8B to bail out farmers as a result
$3.8B annually for Israel
$1B to refurbish Trump’s Qatar jet,
which is not in service
$1B to Colombia
$900M+ for DC construction
$495M for an old prison worth 1/10
$464M for unused deportation planes
$230M for Trump’s DOJ
“compensation”
$200M for Kristi Noem’s jets
$185M for Trump’s golf outings
5+M for Liberia
Even $2M + for banners of Trumps face
Etc., etc., etc.
Add: The largest deficit in US history, up almost 30% in only 6 years under trump/GOP
But no money to lower your healthcare costs. No money for SNAP benefits.
ā€œAT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THE BALLROOM IS REALLY THE PRESIDENT’S MAIN PRIORITY.ā€
Karoline Leavitt, verbatim
YES REALLY ~

OMG …. Let’s keep focus on issues Mark, time to take accountability and stop blaming others.

Now you pretend to get outraged? What a dick head you are,

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

What a joke! Accountability? Hypocrite.

The Trump administration has transferred or reallocated $1.25 billion in federal funds to the Board of Peace, alongside a total announced U.S. pledge of $10 billion

Does little Mark know that almost every abuser is Republican? Is he about to ask Cushner to repay, or Chuck Grassly to repay the $1.5M he took for tuning up his hubby farm?

What the fuck does this mean? Please interpret. Let’s talk about DJT

I would like answers from this administration. What are you going to do to help with health insurance? Did you not see what is going on with Children’s Mercy?

Hear it comes I saved the fiscal responsibility request but new that you would circle back to your circus, let’s see 468 million for a Minnesota jail that they have had listed for 75 million the word among locals is they would have taken 25 to unload it, then you have cor civic in Leavenworth empty for decades they where trying to bull doze it 238 million maybe you should try toilet seats seems to be more up your alley, never mind tearing up healthcare offering nothing cutting 180 billion then adding 50 billion to claim you where doing something besides helping the 1% another not yours joke, finally we got the tearing up a 1.2, billion dollar NATO agreed upon with international inspectors with Iran šŸ‡®šŸ‡· to spend 50 Billion to attack Iran using 2 million dollar missiles to take out 200 dollar drones more fiscal Alford alfalfa math gymnastics. Finally the farmers market buddy diesel fertilizer through the roof we could have purchased the diesel from Canada according to Ford and Carney and most of the fertilizer at 1/4 of the cost and delivered almost immediately if we did not turn are backs on Canada South America Europe and buy oil from Marks fascist Communists friends Putin congratulations you are now seeing real political politicians that want to reach across the aisle and serve all constituents read this and absolutely do not say you support this or actually understand The Fake Press book burning šŸ”„ diplomatic former television host dipstick if it fits scum bag wear it

Oh, that’s rich. Now apply this to your beloved felon.

How about impeachment? Ending the war in Iran? How about working on affordability?
Stop being a lapdog for Trump. It’s embarrassing

Audit the grifter in the Whitehouse.

You have no sense of reality about what is going on!

And just like that Mark Alford is pretending he cares about fiscal responsibility after 2 years of writing blank checks for Trump. Classic Alford so full of šŸ’©

How much was spent on Trump’s failed campaign rallies?

Use RICO laws to indict the entire Trump crime family. Be a fucking hero instead of a loser.

Not likely.

Good luck, with Democrats owning Congress now. (Thanks to Trump’s screwy priorities.)

Just shut up Mark! You’re the minority now and I’m really happy republicans got their collective azzes kicked!

You work for trump. Buzz off.

Stfu

Previously:

Mark Alford (r): manufacturing hysteria (November 7, 2026)

Mark Alford (r): manufacturing hysteria

07 Saturday Nov 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

FBI Crime Data Explorer

Reported U.S. Violent Crime Trends, July 2025 – June 2026
-8.6%

Murder -18.2%
Rape -10.3%
Robbery -19.0%
Aggravated Assault -5.8%

Reported U.S. Property Crime Trends, July 2025 – June 2026
-12.2%

Burglary -16.5%
Larceny -9.7%
Motor Vehicle Theft -21.5%

Crime in Missouri

Violent Crime

Violent Crime consists of Murder (consisting of murder and non-negligent manslaughter), Robbery, Aggravated Assault and Rape. Victims are always individuals and one crime will be counted for each victim.

-25.27% Compared to 2025

Burglary

The unlawful entry into a building or other structure with the intent to commit a felony or a theft

-28.29% Compared to 2025

Motor Vehicle Theft

The theft of a motor vehicle (defined as a self-propelled vehicle that runs on land).

-44.26% Compared to 2025

Fraud

The intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another person or other entity in reliance upon it to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.

-28.11% Compared to 2025

Arson

To unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal property by fire or incendiary device.

-33.97% Compared to 2025

Larceny (Theft)

The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession, or constructive possession, of another person.

-32.33% Compared to 2025

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Mark Alford (r), yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 6, 2026]

American families deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities. That starts with holding violent criminals accountable, especially repeat offenders who continue to put innocent lives at risk.
This Congress, I joined @HouseGOP in passing the Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act to increase accountability for bail funds and help protect American communities.
Do you support tougher penalties for repeat violent offenders to keep our communities safe?
šŸ‘ YES – tell me why
šŸ‘Ž NO – tell me why not
[…..]

There is skepticism in the responses:

Mark, how do you feel about congressman who enable illegal wars, tariffs, and corruption?

What about penalties for 34x felons?

You mean like all the January 6th criminals Trump pardoned and they then committed more crimes?
[….]

Let’s start at the top of the list Trumpstien that work for you Alford

Perhaps many of your constituents support tougher penalties for repeat offenders (especially sexual offenders) to keep our White House safe?

You’ve done nothing the last 2 years, why would the next 2 be any different?

Your bill? Sitting in the senate since MAY… going nowhere.

Laws haven’t mattered for decades, unless you’re middle class or worse.

You’re talking about cops that keep getting excessive force charges, right?

May justice be done, without fear or favor – agreed?
No one is arguing others are above the law, the hypocritical GOP is arguing that Trump is.
[….]

Yes, I support tougher penalties for Donald J. Trump and all of the weak, spineless, cronies who have coddled and enabled him to commit the atrocities he has against our country and our Constitution.

I love your “let’s talk about it” especially since you never come to Columbia to “talk about it”…70% of Columbia that you represent here voted against you why don’t you ever come here mark? Why don’t you ever come&stand in front of us&lie to us face to face mark? Are you too much of a coward to face the base that sees you for who you truly are? Come on mark, come to Columbia where the vast majority of the population despises you and “talk about it”

Belton, Missouri:

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo].

Do you realize just how,stupid you sound? Your orange leader who is a 34 count felon in his own right pardoned 1500 violent criminals,who stormed the capitol on J6 and wiped their shit on the walls. He pardoned the leader of one of the biggest drug scams in the history of,the US. He hired people convicted of sexual abuse and pedophelia. The trump family is running one of the biggest grifts right in front of our eyes and no one stops him. You are so inconsequential.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

About 1300 criminals participated in an insurrection January 6th and your rapist felon president pardoned them.

Could you go back to doing nothing? We’re tired of you posting photo ops , and we can’t keep pretending your opinions matter.

If it’s Trump and your corrupt buddies we’re talking about…. Then let’s go!!! You may not be violent but you’re destroying more families and businesses than any single person… oh… and does that mean we get to lock up all the criminals Trump pardoned?

Plan on being miserable for the next two years, and you deserve it, goddamned Trumpsucker!
[….]

Manufactured fear. Manufactured distraction. Apparently it’s the current and future strategery of right wingnuts in Congress.

Squirrel!

Campaign Finance: bad money after bad

06 Friday Nov 2026

Posted by Michael Bersin in campaign finance, Congress

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the failed anti-choice, anti-trans, bigoted, anti-women’s health care Amendment 3 pushed by the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly and Missouri’s right wingnut governor and his spouse:

C253648 11/06/2026 Her Health, Her Future PAC Jason Smith for Congress PO Box 1324 Cape Girardeau MO 63702 11/5/2026 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Yeah, that must have been an interesting conversation…

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 ā€œNOā€ (October 2, 2026)

Campaign Finance: ā€œā€¦and they shall sow the public right of way and all the empty lots across the land with their yard signsā€¦ā€ (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: ā€œā€¦It’s the only way to be sure.ā€ (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: ā€œWe will not go backā€ (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 – ā€œNOā€ on Amendment 3 (October 23, 2026)

Bigots and Anti-choice lunatics spend millions to lose…again (November 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: more on Her Future, Her Health PAC – anti-abortion – Amendment 3 (November 4, 2026)

Missouri republicans: an eternal incapacity to learn (November 5, 2026)

Eternal Vigilance: They will not stop (November 6, 2026)

The Fall (of Fascism) is in the air

06 Friday Nov 2026

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It may only be the beginning of the end.



Hope.

The NBC News Decision Desk is continuing to project races. Our estimate indicates Democrats will ultimately wind up with a 83-seat majority.

259 Estimated Democratic Seats
176 Estimated Republican Seats

Latest seat count

250 Democratic seats – Flipped 42 seats (+40 net gain)
162 Republican seats – Flipped 2 seats
[23 seats yet to be determined]

2026 Senate Results: Democrats retake control

Democrats have clinched the Senate after romping to a majority in the House earlier in the night, winning several states that Donald Trump won by double digits in 2024 as voters vented their strong disapproval of the president. States such as Texas and Kansas elected Democrats to the Senate for the first time in decades as Republicans struggled across the country.

54 Democratic seats
44 Republican seats
[1 seat each in Alaska and Mississippi yet to be determined, with the Democratic candidates currently holding leads]

Something is definitely in the air.

Like tears in the rain

04 Wednesday Nov 2026

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Remember this, from 2022?:

Rick Brattin (r) ran in the primary for the 4th Congressional District.

Some right wingnuts with money really hate Rick Brattin (r) (July 25, 2022)

A Federal PAC, funded by individuals in Clinton, Missouri and other locations spent a chunk of change on mail attacking Rick Brattin (r) and in support of Mark Alford (r) before the 4th Congressional District republican primary.

Rick Brattin [2016 file photo].

Late last night:

Statement from Rick Brattin on Election Results

State Senator Rick Brattin has released the following statement regarding today’s election results:

‘I want to thank the people of Missouri for the honor of being the Republican nominee for Congress in the 5th District, and I want to thank President Trump for his endorsement. Unfortunately, the Missouri Supreme Court chose to make an unprecedented decision to benefit Democrats, swapping the congressional map after primary votes had already been certified, disenfranchising 1.2 million Missouri voters in the process and making it nearly impossible for a Republican to win this district. In the future, I hope that the people of Missouri will be served by a Congressional map like the Missouri First map that better represents our state. The 5th District deserves a Congressman who will fight for them.’

Some of the responses:

Cry harder. Cheater.

MAGA tears are delicious! šŸ˜‹

Cry baby bitch

You could have taken this time to just thank your supports but instead you had to blame the loss on the Missouri Supreme Court, which isn’t some liberal Mecca. Loser behavior. Nobody was disenfranchised you just lost.

Ricky Trump! So glad you lost! Maybe Missouri & USA can straighten itself our without negative tRumpers!!

Two plus million people voted on the propositions and amendments here in Missouri. One the other hand, approximately 70k to 80k voted down the ballot…

Rick, there’s something rather extraordinary about blaming your loss on a congressional map that Missouri’s Republican-controlled legislature drew in 2022.
Republicans managed to win six of Missouri’s eight congressional seats under that map. Apparently, it only became unfair when you couldn’t win under it.
And let’s not overlook what happened yesterday. Missouri voters rejected the replacement map you wanted by approximately 62% to 38%.
The Missouri Supreme Court didn’t invent a new map to help Democrats. It ruled that the Republican legislature’s 2025 replacement never legally took effect because of a valid citizen referendum.
You were running against Emanuel Cleaver in a district that has elected him repeatedly since 2004. The new map would have transformed that heavily Democratic district into one much more favorable to Republicans.
Then Missourians got their say and overwhelmingly rejected that plan.
You call that disenfranchisement. But isn’t the purpose of elections to let voters choose their representatives, rather than letting politicians choose the voters most likely to elect them?
Perhaps instead of blaming the courts for your defeat, you should acknowledge that Missouri voters just rejected the very map you say would have delivered your victory.

It is not unprecedented for the Missouri Supreme Court to follow the law. Following the law does not favor either party. It is unprecedented for the Secretary of State to use a primary map he knew could not be used in the general election. You don’t disenfranchise the general election voters from using a correct map by using an invalid primary map.

The people of Missouri have also spoken to the Supreme Court ruling on the redistricted map (see the results of Proposition A), and they agree with the decision of both the Missouri and the US Supreme Courts. . Just once could you take the loss without complaints and excuses that you were not treated fairly??

nope. This party takes no accountability. They are a cruel, soulless party with no policy that actually benefits Missouri or America. And when they are constantly shown how unpopular this track is, they look for someone to blame. What a joke.

You did this to yourself. Congratulations.

Well when the Supreme Court of Missouri and the United States rejects your map because they say it was unlawful and the State voters voted against you enacting that map in the future in a landslide victory what does that tell you???

Thank your buddy Hoskins.

Since they couldn’t trick it up for me, it was unfair.

Uhhhhh did you see Dist 2?

That’s a lot of words to say “I lost.”

“…I want to thank president trump for his endorsement…” Yeah. That sure helped, didn’t it…

Missourians overwhelmingly rejected that map tonight

It’s awfully illuminating that despite the People of Missouri—the people you were running to represent—defeating that map by a long shot, you still fall in line with MAGA republicans and blame anything and everything for your embarrasing, wide spread losses across the Nation except for your own actions
The level of willful ignorance, arrogance, and selfishness is exactly why people abandoned you and other MAGA Republicans.
If you’re half the man you think you are, its time for a little self reflection. Maybe have a spine and stand for something instead of being a MAGA puppet, and while youre at it, learn some humility and how to lose gracefully.

He said I lost because the supreme court wouldn’t let me cheat. Good riddance.

Your plan bacvkfired. Instead of earning the spot on your credentials, you wanted it handed to you on a silver platter. The voters didn’t think you would make a good representative for them. Plain and simple.

Sour grapes from loon who shouldn’t be anywhere near office.

They got a congressman who will fight for them. That’s why you lost and so did your gerrymandered map.

It’s always someone else’s fault, isn’t it? Maybe, just maybe, Missouri decided that they were done with you. Go away.

Ok.. First off we just put Prop A to bed( no redistrict for you.) And we changed it to a 5-3… Keep crying though

The 5th District has a Congressman who fights for us and represents us without hateful rhetoric and kissing Trump’s rear. If Hoskins had done his job, we would still have ended up here.

Rick, stop trying to undermine the will of the people of Missouri. This wasn’t about a map. This was about what YOU represent.

You tried to steal our votes and lost

Wow sounds like a sore loser

SCOMO, SCOTUS, and the overwhelming majority of people rejected your dumb map. You’re going to put this out on the night that Missouri voters overwhelmingly voted against HB-1? Clown. No wonder you lost.

The map we voted down 62-38 better represents our state? Good thing he didn’t win, clearly the will of his constituents don’t matter to him at all.

General Assembly should have never tried to stack the deck and redistrict in midstream against the missouri constitution.

Voters weren’t disenfranchised just because the map didn’t go your way. Republicans tried to redraw the map to give themselves a political advantage, and now you’re upset that the courts and voters had something to say about it.
Democracy doesn’t mean you get to pick your voters.
Sorry bud, that’s not how it works.

How do those sour grapes taste? Loser.

Another post and ghost statement made by a trophy child. You got beat by trying to cheat your way in. Maybe spend the day reflecting on the real issue at hand and stop blaming the Supreme Court. The constitution is there to protect us from people like you. Now get out and pick up your signs.

ā€œDisenfranchisingā€ā€¦ you mean putting it back the way it was because you all violated the state’s constitution by changing it? K.

The voters rejected your gerrymandered map.

Cry me a river.

The voters have spoken on that map. If you can’t represent the will of the people, public office is not for you.

TL,DR: “I didn’t have a shot at this seat without illegal gerrymandering and I’m going to cry about it.”

This may be one of the funniest things you’ll read today!
If this guy genuinely means what he wrote here, he is entirely unfit to serve at pretty much any level. He clearly doesn’t understand what his own party was trying to do!

Stop whining. The voters rejected YOU. You don’t get to pick your voters.

Read the room Rick, engage that brain housing group. Missourians voted to keep the 2022 map that you lost against. The MO Supreme Court had to make an “unprecedented decision” because the Governor and the Legislature decide to make an unprecedented early map change. Cause and Effect my guy. And the GOP still lost an additional seat.

Imagine crying about how cheating didn’t work. Insane.

“we tried to cheat and they wouldn’t let us and I lost cause the big mean democrats followed the rules”

It is the poor carpenter who blames his shoddy tools
It is the poor politician that blames his shoddy maps

You can’t even lose with dignity.

Thank you for losing like a child.
Thank you for showing what the Republican Party is.
We showed you last night how deep our disgust runs for you and your kind.
Accept it or don’t.
I don’t really care about you anymore.

Don’t blame the map when the people choose the map. If you really wanted to win you would have campaigned for the role. I didn’t see any advertisement for your campaign after the map changed. I live in the district.

What an ungraciously terrible concession. Instead of it being the will of the voters, you throw blame and have the attitude of a toddler. Thank goodness you lost. It’s obvious you lack the qualities of a good leader.

The MO Supreme Court did what they were obligated to do, not what tRump wanted them to do, not what Kehoe wanted them to do, not what YOU wanted them to do.

No, they made the ā€œunprecedentedā€ decision to follow the constitution, were backed by the US Supreme Court, and then the voters of Missouri overwhelmingly sealed the deal. What you and fellow lawmakers did was highly unpopular and probably one of the biggest reasons you lost. Not the map itself, but the making of the map/attempted gerrymandering. It’s on your party, this loss. I mean, the results of Prop A and Amendment 6 should help you understand this, right?

So what I am hearing from your statement is you are blaming your loss on the Missouri Supreme Court, that followed the law, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, then reaffirmed by the voters regarding the amendment that would have allowed the redrawn the congressional map. I would argue that your refusal to listen to the voters is the reason you were defeated. It had nothing to do with a map.

Translation: I couldn’t win without cheating.

That map is a joke. The KC Metro area has a large population that shouldn’t be split up so that Republicans can gain another seat for the idiot president to continue railroading bad legislation through the house. The supreme Court was right to deny that map. There was no reason for it to have been made in the first place, especially in the middle of the census cycle.
The people of Missouri spoke. The map was denied and so were you. Stop whining.

We rejected the map your party tried to use. You are an idiot and a liar.

Check those Prop A results.

Yes, blame the map that Missourians chose last night (the old one). That’s like getting beat twice.
Take the L like a man.

You sound like such a sore loser.

Could this guy be any more obtuse? Missourians overwhelmingly rejected that nonsense’

Oh, so you’re sad you couldn’t handpick your voters? So sad that cheating can’t hand you a win. Good riddance. The people spoke and they voted against you and they struck down Prop A.

Yes the map made it where you didn’t win. But it also made it where your buddy Mark Alford did. One (or possibly both) of you losing either way.

They might not be buddies.

We want someone who fights for the people, not who fights for trump. Nice try though.

Stop crying about the problem that you and Hoskins created. Hopefully you finish your term and go away.

Dude, 63% of voters rejected that map. Obviously you’re the problem 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Read the room, Rick. Instead, you are talking over it.

Did you notice we the people rejected the map your political allies drew hoping to be able to select your constituents for you? Of course you did. That’s not how it works. We select you guys… not the other way around.

What a self-serving tool. Democracy has spoken. Display a little class. Of course, if you feel honored to have the most corrupt, immoral man in the history of the presidency endorse you, you’ve spoken volumes.

Same lack of self awareness got you here. Missourians are tired of leaders who think all they need is an R next to their name to get our vote.

Come on, Rick. You know better. By ā€œunprecedentedā€, you mean the Missouri Supreme Court chose to follow Missouri law which you and Hoskins attempted to circumvent. Also, look at the ballot measures. Clearly, you were not representing the people of Missouri. You were representing yourself. You have become the career politician that you’ve complained about.

It’s crazy that you wrote all this and still didn’t take accountability for the mess you and the rest of your ilk caused. This is entirely your fault and you can’t even own it. What a sore loser and it’s embarrassing you’re raising your kids to see this. The fact you were counting on a gerrymandered map to hand you a win vs actually winning on merit and policy is exactly why you were unfit for the job.
Personally I’m really looking forward to have you off the Edu Committee – maybe we’ll get someone who actually calls constituents back or advocates for all students instead of ridiculous culture wars.

What a nice way to concede a race where obviously the people of the district chose someone they felt would better represent them. Stop making excuses for the real reason you lost – you follow Trump whom most decent citizens are tired of the tirades, the nasty rhetoric and the lack of class and integrity. Wise up- our nation was built on fundamental morals which the basis is ā€œLove thy Neighborā€. Words matter, associations matter, and decent treatment of humans matter. That is why you lost- not because of a map.

We didn’t want you or the map. FAFO

Better represents the state? Are you that stupid or just that dishonest? Based on voting numbers, Missouri us 60/40. 7-1 doesn’t sound like a fair representation. Missouri voters just handed you a closer representation, Karen.

Republicans drew the current map, picked the judges you’re mad at, and you would have lost in any map. Go away now.

Learn some grace. The sore loser look is so unbecoming.

Typical maga, cries foul when there was none. Never takes responsibility, always blames others for their loss.

Look at the vote Rick. The people didnt want the map you and Denny Hoskins tried to force on everyone. You missouri republicans need to learn to listen to the people.

Previously:

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): overwhelming (November 4, 2026)

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D): overwhelming

04 Wednesday Nov 2026

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Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) [2026 file photo].

Victory.

State of Missouri – State of Missouri – General Election, November 03, 2026
Unofficial Results
as of 11/4/2026 8:26:35 AM

U.S. Representative – District 5 201 of 201 Precincts Reported
Rick Brattin Republican 72,572 28.133%
Emanuel Cleaver, II Democratic 179,256 69.491%
Randall (Randy) Langkraehr Libertarian 6,128 2.376%
Total Votes: 257,956

[emphasis added]

Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

Previously:

HB 1: Gerrymander this (September 9, 2025)

Can play with AI, can’t be bothered to certify petition signatures (June 7, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r) is a pre-eminent legal scholar and final arbiter of the Missouri Constitution, said no one ever… (August 4, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court: ā€œHB 1 congressional redistricting, yeah, no.ā€ (September 3, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court: ā€œHB 1 congressional redistricting, yeah, no.ā€ (September 3, 2026)

Favorite whine (September 3, 2026)

Gov. Mike Kehoe (r) thinks we’re all ignorant and stupid (September 3, 2026)

What the Missouri Supreme Court said (September 3, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court slaps down Denny Hoskins (r)….again (September 4, 2026)

Tears in the rain (September 4, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r): ā€œā€¦unclean handsā€¦ā€ (September 7, 2026)

Justice Brett Kavanaugh – SCOTUS: ā€œYeah, no.ā€ (September 8, 2026)

Missouri Supreme Court order to Denny Hoskins (r): ā€œā€¦show causeā€¦ā€ (September 9, 2026)

Missed it by that much (September 9, 2026)

Salus populi suprema lex esto (September 10, 2026)

Stupid is as stupid does (September 10, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r) and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (September 10, 2026)

So sad (September 10, 2026)

Judicial contempt has a way of making one focus (September 11, 2026)

Denny Hoskins (r) and friends whiff at the U.S. Supreme Court (September 25, 2026)

A paragraph for Missouri history (September 25, 2026)

Rick Brattin (r) slept through his civics class (September 25, 2026)

Rick Brattin (r): Public Education? Not so much… (October 29, 2026)

Missed it by that much.

No Kings, if we can keep it that way

04 Wednesday Nov 2026

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ā€œNo Kingā€
(2025)
Posterboard. Permanent marker, acrylic. 22 x 28.
(Thank you, Tom Tomorrow)

The U.S. Senate – 54 D (2 more pending – AK, MS)

The U.S. House of Representatives – 258 D (estimated)

United States Constitution
Article I
Section 1

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.

[….]

Section 8

The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Section 9

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed.

No Capitation, or other direct, Tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.

No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State.

No Preference shall be given by any Regulation of Commerce or Revenue to the Ports of one State over those of another: nor shall Vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay Duties in another.

No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Section 10

No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it’s inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.

No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.

Now, make it so

Official statement from incoming chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

03 Tuesday Nov 2026

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Rep. Robert Garcia @robertgarcia.house.gov

LAWYER UP.

9:19 PM Ā· Nov 3, 2026

Mark Alford (r): baseless scare tactic

01 Sunday Nov 2026

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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. šŸŽƒ šŸ‘»
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. āœ…
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 šŸŽ–ļøšŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øšŸ—³ļø

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

Like you?

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

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? šŸ‘ šŸ‘ šŸ‘

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

You are such a useless idiot šŸ™„

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 ā€˜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 ā€˜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!
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