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Medicare for All

12 Thursday Nov 2026

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“Medicare for All”

Today, from Senator-Elect Abdul Al-Sayed (D):

Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social

This is a message for Donald Trump.

Donald, this is on the table. Guarantee healthcare for every American, from cradle to grave.

[….]

11:53 AM · Nov 12, 2026

Some of the responses:

It’ll be cheaper than what we’re doing now.

#MedicareForAll

Absolutely brilliant.

Thank you Abdul. As Churchill said, Americans can always be relied on to do the right thing after everything else has failed. You impress me greatly and thanks for stepping up.

Hmm…the bastard might be tempted.

Playing on T****’s desire for adoration and praise, but using it for the common good.

Checkmate.

Fuck yeah. This is the way to do it

Love your creativity, energy, and commitment, Senator!

Bold strategy. Asking a man who views the world as a series of luxury real estate acquisitions to suddenly appreciate the concept of a “public utility” is a high-stakes gamble in socio-economic translation.

Sweeten the pot. There’s a Nobel in it for him

This is the way!

Genius.

I see what you did there.

Best part is, if it were to somehow happen…..we’d change the name Jan 2029 anyways.

Genius

If it had “war” in the name it’d surely be approved now.

As long as we drop the name as soon as he’s gone.

And on and on….

Josh Hawley (r): “historic response”

09 Monday Nov 2026

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Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].

Today:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO

🚨What happened last Tuesday was shocking and historic. It calls for a historic response. Christians need to gather and seek the Lord. I’m going to host a time of fasting and prayer for the nation on Tuesday, December 15 from 12 to 1 at the Capitol. Meet me there!

1:52 PM · Nov 9, 2026

Running for something?

Mark Alford (r): you can smell the desperation

07 Saturday Nov 2026

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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! 🇺🇸
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?

👏take me to your leader

We will see how tough you will be in January?

We showed you results on Tuesday.

“Washington” — “held to a standard.”
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 “ballroom,” 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.
“Upholding standards,”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 🙄

$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.
“AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THE BALLROOM IS REALLY THE PRESIDENT’S MAIN PRIORITY.”
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 🇮🇷 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 🔥 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 💩

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

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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?
👍 YES – tell me why
👎 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!

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 · Nov 3, 2026

An early take

03 Tuesday Nov 2026

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Jason Kander (D) [2016 file photo].

This evening:

Jason Kander @jasonkander.bsky.social

When we wake up victors tomorrow, don’t rest long.

Press the advantage.

Pour it on.

Make it count.

5:57 PM · Nov 3, 2026

Responses

Charge, convict, confiscate, extradite, THEN reform.

Double-up, triple-up on the congressional investigation teams. Let’s eliminate unemployment in DC!

As my grandma would say “Take this election and shove it all the way up Trump’s corrupt fat ass!”

A-fucking-men.

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. 🎃 👻
Missourians deserve elections decided only by legal American citizens. The House has already passed the SAVE America Act to require proof of citizenship and photo ID so every vote is protected. ✅
It’s time to give America the election security it deserves.
[….]

Wait, then how did you get elected?

Some of the responses:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

me too!!!

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

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

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

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

Like you?

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

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

Yes on 6 no on the rest

As usual, no facts just hypocrisy

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

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

So your election 2 years ago was compromised?

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

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

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

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

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

You still on that BS bandwagon?

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

Still yapping about the Big Lie

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

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

You are such a useless idiot 🙄

Maga gaslighting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

You’re the horror story.

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

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

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

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

You are embarrassing

Republicans do what Russia wants

“Make America Great Again” – in Russian.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Mark Alford (r): Is somebody going to tell him?

30 Friday Oct 2026

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They did.

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 30, 2026]

For far too many rural Missourians, getting routine checkups, seeing a specialist, or handling an emergency means burning gas, taking time off work, and driving hours away from home.
@HouseGOP is taking action to strengthen our rural health infrastructure—boosting investments in local clinics, expanding telehealth access, and keeping critical medical care right here in our local communities.
Should Missouri families be able to get quality healthcare without driving hours from home?
👍 YES – tell me why
👎 NO – tell me why not
[….]

Some of the responses:

They should get what their representative voted for: cuts to rural healthcare in exchange for billionaire tax cuts

That’s exactly what happened.

Should Missouri families be able to AFFORD healthcare?yes, but they can’t because you passed your big bogus bill. Somw ^success^.

Cool. Didn’t you vote to cut Medicaid?

lies

WWJD? He’d advocate for universal Healthcare
[….]

You voted for the big bullshit bill. You have no leg to stand on, here. Missouri deserves better.

You’re doing what Trump does. You’re saying the exact opposite of what you’re doing.
Anything to divert attention away from the Epstein scandal

Absolute falsehood!! My GOD – have you NO shame??!?
YOUR tax law last year cut nearly $1 trillion from Medicaid, the federal health insurance program for low-income people, over the next decade. Right AFTER the midterms…

The BIG BOGUS BILL states…THAT IS A LIE!!!

To bad you voted for the BBB that killed them

Sure is a shame you voted for a budget to cut funding for them, ain’t it?

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is how republicans have acted my entire life. Create a problem, then convince stupid people that the ones who created the problem are the only ones who can “fix” it. And they keep getting away with it, because they know their constituents are stupid.

YEP! So, why did you vote to cut the funding for rural hospitals?
You are an idiot Congressman Mark Alford.

They use to be able to. Now this is the nearest thing to that healthcare measure we waited 2 weeks for 10 years. Nice job Republicans the only ones you fool are yourselves.
[….]

funny how you only post asking what we the people need or want, a few days out from the election….. I never even saw a post or heard anything from you until just a few months ago… buzz off! You do not give a rip about anyone unless it keeps you in your seat…

Really, you need someone to tell you??

Sadly, yes.

They should! And you voted to cut funding for our rural hospitals. What a silly goose!!

What we should get is a congressman that doesn’t spend 63,000 dollars on dinners and bars. While we are out here struggling you are paying for 2000 dollar dinners. 1000 dollar lunches and bar tabs that could pay someones rent. That’s sick

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Mark Alford (r): “Ask me no more questions, I’ll tell you no more lies…”

28 Wednesday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 28, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
After visiting nearly every rural hospital in Missouri’s Fourth District, I’ve seen firsthand just how important these facilities are to the communities they serve.
That’s why I introduced the Sustaining Rural Healthcare Act to give hospitals like Bates County Memorial a new pathway to Critical Access Hospital status, helping them remain financially stable and continue caring for families in MO-04. 🏥
We’re fighting to protect our rural hospitals and make sure Missouri families continue to have access to emergency care close to home!
#ShowMeResults #WorkingForYou
[….]

Some of the responses:

Congressman, your voting record appears to have wandered out of the photo.
On July 3, 2025, you voted YES on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. That law was projected to cut federal Medicaid spending by $911 billion over ten years, including approximately $137 billion in rural areas.
Now you’re posing at a rural hospital under “SHOW-ME RESULTS” and asking us to admire your commitment to keeping the doors open.
Some of us read the roll calls between photo opportunities.
Your proposed Medicare reimbursement fix could help Bates County Memorial. Good. Pursue it. But explain how that squares with your vote for Medicaid reductions that put additional financial pressure on rural healthcare providers.
And before the predictable response about the $50 billion rural health fund: that money lasts five years, serves purposes beyond hospitals, and doesn’t fully replace the projected rural Medicaid losses. Putting some money back doesn’t make the larger reduction disappear. Arithmetic remains stubbornly unimpressed by campaign graphics.
Your post says you introduced legislation. Introducing a bill is a step. It isn’t evidence that a hospital has received additional reimbursement or that you’ve saved one from closure.
So here’s the question your post conveniently avoids:
How much funding do hospitals in your district stand to lose under the law you supported, and how much would your proposed bill actually restore?
Show us those numbers, Congressman.
You brought the photograph. Bring the accounting.

Over the last 10 years (2016–2026), 12 to 14 rural hospitals have closed in Missouri (out of 21 total hospital closures across the state during that span). Recent 2026 reports indicate that roughly 50% of Missouri’s remaining rural hospitals are considered at risk of closing due to workforce shortages, inflation, and federal funding pressures, with a significant percentage projected to face severe jeopardy within the next few years. Medicaid cuts are a major contributing factor.
Whats taken you so long to notice?
Herrera for Congress!!!

hmm, seems like maybe the Trump admin shouldn’t have dismantled all of the oversight bodies. We need to eliminate and prosecute fraud, not cut healthcare

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion

ACA was implemented 16 years ago! I don’t understand why people keep blaming everything on it and not doing anything to change it!!

Before the BBBill they were in good shape
You broke them

Congressman Mark Alford
Bullshit MAGA Kool-Aid!
What about your vote and support for The Big Bullshit Bill?
I cast my vote today for Herrera for Congress 🗳 🇺🇸
Be sure to look both ways before you go fuck yourself!

Did you tell them you voted to cut their funding???

Mark Awful, liar.

How did you vote on the big beautiful bill that takes away healthcare? Munchausen by proxy? I’ll make healthcare sick then pretend to nurse it back to health in an election cycle.

Markey Poo 💩,
Do you ever read the comments after you post this garbage? You and your ilk are going down.
Vote Blue
Flush this turd down the toilet!

AGAIN INTRODUCED. That gets us nowhere. You’ve not stayed in session long enough to get anything done.

Revisionist history! Fox TV personality Marky Asswipe voted to cut healthcare for Missourians. Vote him out!!

Mark Awful, why don’t you tell your constituents what happens to Medicaid on Jan 1, 2027. Come on Mark, you voted for it.

Funny how Alford wants applause for introducing a bill to help rural hospitals after voting for Trump’s legislation that included Medicaid cuts which will expedite rural healthcare facilities closings.
You don’t get credit for putting out a fire while helping start it.
Vote for Jordan J Herrera.

Alford voted with Trump to cut Medicaid Medicare and insurance premium subsidies causing rural hospitals to close. This post is a lie . Vote him out vote Blue everybody.

So..
Bailing out hospitals your trump supporting agenda wrecks?..?
Weird.

This guy has such a dominant maga voter base that he just lies right to our faces

Bla,Bla,Bla lil’ boy!!!🤡🤡🤡🤮🤮🤮

I think Mark Alford didn’t read the Big Beautiful Bill before he voted on it.
One of the changes that Republicans won’t talk about is going to create an even worse doctor and nurse shortage in rural Missouri:
Graduate Medical Loan Changes
• Beginning July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans will be eliminated for new borrowers and new
lifetime borrowing caps will apply for medical school and nursing students.
[….]

Big Beautiful Bill? Remember voting for it and cutting healthcare? I remember!

Good morning to everyone except the incumbent politicians suddenly knocking on doors and begging for votes:
Years of ignoring your constituents. Seven days of pretending to give a fuck.
We’re voting you out.

Why are we inviting criminals into the United States?
A senior State Department official says Brazilian opposition candidate and Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro and his family will be granted U.S. visas after his weekend presidential election loss.
Bolsonaro had been ordered in Brazil to surrender his passports and said yesterday that he had no plans to leave his country, amid an investigation into alleged corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
[….]

Fascists get in for free.

How about holding Marco Rubio accountable?
On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School, former investment banker, and affiliate of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. At the time, Lewin’s appointment drew criticism because of his lack of experience in government, diplomacy, or foreign assistance. But for career staff inside the agency, the issues surrounding Lewin’s new role were much more alarming than his thin résumé.
For at least two months, USAID senior staff had no knowledge of how Lewin, who appeared at the agency one day as a policymaker on an obscure detail from the General Services Administration, could have suddenly begun wielding the powers of the agency’s top official.
Internal USAID emails reviewed by WIRED reveal that during the three-week period of March 18 to April 4, during which Lewin began canceling lifesaving aid programs and personally signed off on the termination of thousands of USAID employees, he did not sign the paperwork typically required by law to begin work at the agency, despite repeated requests. In fact, his appointment was so mysterious that USAID security was unable to issue him an ID card because they had no records of his employment.
[….]

Where’s my DOGE check? Can you check on that for us? Christmas is coming up soon.

expect it in about two weeks along with that healthcare plan they’ve been promising for 10 plus years😂

I wish you and all the government officials could live my (or any middle- or low-income people) lives. Then maybe you would understand what you and your buddies have done to the US!!!!! Shame on you.

You’re a little late. Our hospital has already shut down several departments and laid off lots of people!!!! Just because you want votes, you’re saying this!!!!!

Visiting another rural hospital for a photo op that you voted to close in the big bullshit bill?… Way to go sleepy mark!
[….]

Is that why you voted to cut millions from them through Medicaid and Medicare cuts?

After the midterms the $500 billion cuts to Medicare begin! The Republican Big Beautiful Bill is stealing your healthcare! 😔

Wwjd?
[….]

That’s super fantastic.
So, anything on the crippling prices of gas, diesel, groceries, health insurance or housing? How about a plan to help OUR farmers instead of enriching Argentina’s farmers with their uninspected mystery meat. Maybe a check on the out of control corruption? Perhaps a sound plan to stop the needless war that trump started? Epstein files? Anything at all?
[….]

So, is everybody ready for the 2026 version of “Stop The Steal”? I wonder if Gym Jordan and the other maga dirtbags have their bullhorns and posters out of storage yet. I do hope they try it again, would love to see what happens this time.
[….]

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Mark Alford (r): they ain’t buying the spin

26 Monday Oct 2026

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

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 26, 2026]

Under Republican leadership, we’re putting the safety and security of the American people FIRST! 🇺🇸
Illegal southern border crossings dropped 95% in FY2026 compared to Biden level-eras. 📉
President Donald J. Trump is backing our Border Patrol agents, enforcing our immigration laws, and taking action to secure our southern border.
A secure border means safer communities, stronger national security, and greater protection for American families. That’s what we’re fighting for! 🇺🇸
[….]

Some of the responses:

Congressman Mark Alford, there is always more than one way to interpret data. And MAGA Republicans have become notorious for spinning valid data points into propagandized poppycock.
[….]

Where does the war in Iran fit into the program?

You should visit your buddies in northeast Vernon county. 🖕🤡

How does Trump 1 term compare to Biden?

As an Independent voter, I used to believe that Republicans were honorable, honest, moral, had integrity, and were devoted constitutionalists. MAGA changed that belief. Until MAGA is fully extinguished, I will not vote for a Republican.

Beware of the desperate unarmed brown people!! Their misery will be transferred to you! To exterminate your troubles theirs must be ignored!!
They’ve actually convinced you that the presence of a POOR person is what is making you poor ~ NOT the fat rich guys? The ones with ALL THE CAPITAL?? That pay no taxes???
That their proximity has made you financially less somehow, or in some manner denied you some important thing…??
Really?? The people with nothing are the ones ripping you off??
“Your enemy isn’t carrying all their belongings in a plastic bag. Your enemy is carrying an investment portfolio. Wake the f*ck up!”
– Liam Cunningham, Irish actor
But you never read a single word the GOP tax bill or the Mueller Report, or any of those indictments after that, nor paid any attention to where the money is actually going, have you?
For gods sake, a woman with three kids didn’t walk from Guatemala to break into your double-wide and steal your jewels…She didn’t come up here to sell you meth…
She isn’t stealing your underpaid job.
She came up here to survive.
CBO Director Phill Swagel wrote in a note accompanying his economic forecasts: As a result of these immigration-driven revisions to the size of the labor force, “we estimate that, from 2023 to 2034, GDP will be greater by about $7 trillion and revenues will be greater by about $1 trillion than they would have been otherwise.”
Got that? The surprise increase in immigration has led a multitrillion-dollar windfall for both the overall economy and federal tax coffers.
The truth is: the only truly corrupt and dangerous minority is the rich.
In the unlikely event that the facts matter:
Undocumented immigrants don’t receive food stamps, live in public housing, enroll in non-emergency Medicaid coverage or receive supplemental security insurance or cash assistance. They are eligible to receive emergency medical services, enroll in public schools and participate in meals programs there, and participate in Head Start or WIC. There is no federal program that directly gives cash to immigrants in the country illegally.
Look it up…
AND…it is not a violation of any US law to arrive at a port of entry seeking assistance and asylum – those that do are NOT HERE ILLEGALLY.
[….]

President Trump and the Republicans have made America the least safe it has been in over 80 years by trying to end alliances which have kept us safe. This is a travesty and you are complicit.

White House propaganda.
What they aren’t telling you is that Trump’s boarder policies are cutting strategic LEGAL immigration far more than illegal immigration.
What they aren’t telling you is how much MAGA inferiority complexes are costing American citizens.
Missouri has had enough.

and how many folks had their due process violated? american citizens killed?

Keep lying Alford. It’s all you have left.

Please explain how this helps the cost of living to hard working Americans. Is this what the GOP is hanging their hats on? Get real!

Trump has made 81 million off gas aka Iran war

I don’t care about undocumented immigrants!!!!
I am not afraid of undocumented immigrants!
Undocumented immigrants are not destroying my life!
Undocumented immigrants CONTRIBUTE TO OUR ECONOMY.
Undocumented immigrants are NICER than any MAGAs I know!
STOP with FUCKING SCARE TACTICS regarding undocumented immigrants!
Stop with the INHUMANE and ILLEGAL detention of undocumented immigrants!
COME UP WITH A BETTER PATH TO CITIZENSHIP!
THAT…IS WHAT WE WANT!

You’re a joke….. TRUMP invites Iran to bomb US cities…. Said it’d be ok. Any citizen saying that would have been arrested and locked up.
He took a $400 million jet from Middle East countries.
And you’re worried about the border?? Vote BLUE

You mean the safety of Rich White Men….

WWJD? Welcome yhe stranger!!

In Two months the Big Medicaid cuts come into affect
[….]

Meanwhile, how many citizens have we shot?

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Previously:

Mark Alford (r): Quick, look over there! (October 26, 2026)

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