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Will Westmoreland – Johnson County Democrats – Warrensburg, Missouri – June 18, 2026

22 Monday Jun 2026

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Will Westmoreland (D): ….I want people to remember until the day they die that something that robbed health care from millions of Americans, took the food out of the mouth of children, and closed schools all over this country, those horrible things happened, and all they could think to name it was ‘The Big Beautiful Bill’….

Will Westmoreland, spoke at the regular monthly meeting of the Johnson County, Missouri Democratic club lats Thursday evening in Warrensburg. There were over sixty individuals in attendance, some from neighboring counties.

Will Westmoreland (D).

Will Westmoreland (D): …I went on to social media before the last election and, uh, we have 700,000 people following BackForty Action now. And I’m gonna tell you what I think it was and you tell me if you agree. I don’t think it’s because I’m super good at this. I think people would flip across a social media channel and they’d see this fifty-something year-old white farmer with a red Cardinals hat on….and I think they thought they were gonna get one message and when they got the completely opposite message I think it rewired their brain. And maybe they said I want to hear a little bit more from this guy….

Will Westmoreland (D): “….Have any of you ever read about the Grange movement? [voice: “No.”] Do you know what it is? If you, if you don’t know don’t be embarrassed ’cause most people don’t. Raise your hand if you’ve never heard of it.

The Grange movement was a political movement in the late eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds, even before the great depression, and farmers and rural people, tell me if this sounds a little familiar, they got fed up with monopolies. They got fed up with prices for all the inputs on their farm and their businesses in rural America being set by monopolies in the big cities and in other countries.

They got fed up because their kids didn’t have school books and textbooks. Not that they weren’t up to date, they weren’t funded at all unless the local community paid for it. And when you were dealing with the economic crisis they were dealing with in the late eighteen hundreds communities didn’t have the dollars in a lot of cases to do that.

Things were bad.

It was also the largest progressive political movement in the history of our country. It was so progressive that in the late eighteen hundreds they had African-Americans and women on their leadership boards across the country.

It was the largest per capita political movement ever to exist in the United States of America. And it started on the streets of Kansas, and the streets of Missouri, and the streets of Nebraska, and the streets of Iowa. In little towns of fifty people, ten people, a hundred people.

We did it once before, we can do it again. But we gotta get fired up. And if ever there was a time to get fired up it’s right now while our way of life is under attack. And I’m not talking ‘way of life’ the way the Republicans talk about it, which is the more white people walking down the street in rural America who foster the same Christian values as us, the better off we’re gonna be.

I’m talking about our real values. The values of diversity, and when people get sick they can get care in our little rural towns, and kids regardless of where they go to school in this country get the same opportunity, and you can open a small business and employ people and be prosperous, and foster, in a small town, just like you can in a suburb or a big town.

We can do that again if we have the willpower to do it. And I think we do and I think you think we do, too. But we’ve got to start today. We don’t have the time to sit back and wait for somebody else to do it for us….

Previously:

Will Westmoreland – Lafayette County Democrats – Higginsville, Missouri – August 9, 2025 (August 11, 2025)

4th Congressional District Democrats – Truman State Park – Will Westmoreland – October 5, 2025 (October 5, 2025)

Cass County Democrats – Back to Blue Dinner – Belton, Missouri – April 25, 2026 (April 26, 2026)

Choice in Missouri

18 Thursday Jun 2026

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Not your body, not your choice”

This evening:

Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment Delivers: Medication Abortion Restored and Procedural Abortion Access Affirmed in Missouri Following Court Ruling
For Immediate Release: June 18, 2026

Missourians are free to once again access medication abortion in their home state, after a Jackson County Circuit Court judge issued a permanent injunction today striking down several state abortion restrictions. The ruling affirms the preliminary injunctions, allowing procedural abortion to continue, and making medication abortion available in Missouri for the first time since 2018. Missouri is the first state in the nation to reverse a total abortion ban and restore access for both procedural and medication abortion.

The judge’s order found that most of Missouri’s complex web of abortion restrictions violated Missouri’s Right to Reproductive Freedom. Since 2025, Planned Parenthood health centers have been providing procedural abortions in the state under a preliminary injunction, but the state’s medication abortion complication plan requirement and other medically unnecessary rules that exclusively target abortion providers prevented Missourians from obtaining the medical care they need. Today’s ruling allows Missourians to once again access the most common form of abortion using safe and effective medications.

Starting next week, abortion patients will be able to receive medication abortion in Missouri for the first time since 2018. Starting immediately, patients seeking an abortion can book their appointment online at plannedparenthood.org. Starting Monday, patients may call 1-800-230-PLAN to schedule their appointments.

“This monumental win for reproductive freedom and abortion access is possible only because of the Right to Reproductive Freedom Amendment that Missouri voters passed in 2024,” said Gillian Wilcox, director of litigation at the ACLU of Missouri. “Today’s decision is a reminder that politicians are trying to strip us of our right to reproductive freedom, and Missourians must reject Amendment 3 at the ballot this November or we could lose the access we gained today.”

“This decision brings compassion and common sense back to Missouri health care,” said Emily Wales, president and CEO of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains. “For too long, politicians forced patients to leave the state for an evidence-based and trusted form of abortion care. Now, that care is coming home and with it, we move closer to fulfilling the promise of reproductive freedom Missourians demanded.”

“Once again, the courts have affirmed Missourians’ constitutional right to access abortion without interference or delays from their government,” said Margot Riphagen-Dunn, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Rivers. “The truth is, medication abortion is the most common form of abortion care, and has been proven to be safe and effective for the past 25 years. Yet, since Missourians voted for abortion access in 2024, it has been impossible to access the full spectrum of abortion care in our own state. That ends today.”

The fight for reproductive freedom is not over, as Missourians will be forced to vote on an abortion ban, a new Amendment 3, once again this November.

The original lawsuit was filed the day after a majority of Missourians voted to amend the state constitution to provide the right to reproductive freedom in November 2024 on behalf of Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers-Missouri. Plaintiffs are represented by attorneys from Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, and Crowell & Moring.

Emily Wales, Planned Parenthood Great Plains President and CEO [2024 file photo].

Campaign Finance: promising us high regressive sales taxes

14 Sunday Jun 2026

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Yeah, that’ll go over really well. Like the cost of health care, gas, and groceries.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the right wingnut controlled super majority in the Missouri General Assembly and Governor Mike Kehoe’s (r) scam to abolish the income tax in Missouri and shift revenue to regressive sales taxes:

C264249 06/13/2026 Missouri Promise PAC Secure Missouri 308 East High Street Suite 300 Jefferson City MO 65101 6/12/2026 $1,500,000.00

[emphasis added]

Earlier:

C264249 05/11/2026 Missouri Promise PAC Missouri Promise Inc. 701 Market Street Suite 110 St Louis MO 63101 5/7/2026 $16,000.00

C264249 05/28/2026 Missouri Promise PAC Missouri Promise Inc. 701 Market Street Suite 110 St Louis MO 63101 5/27/2026 $1,900,000.00

[emphasis added]

A new PAC, in May:

Insulting propaganda commercials coming to a television set near you. Soon.

No on Amendment 5 (HJR 173).

“The Many will beat the Money. Resist.”

Previously:

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

Campaign Finance: every little bit counts (June 2, 2026)

Bait and switch (June 3, 2026)

Can play with AI, can’t be bothered to certify petition signatures

07 Sunday Jun 2026

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“….If the Secretary [of State – Denny Hoskins] continues to delay certification while moving forward with implementation of HB1, he will be proceeding under a map that will be shown to have been legally suspended as of December 9, 2025. Because a sufficient referendum means HB1 was never in effect, any attempt to treat the HB1 maps as operative would silence the voices of more than 300,000 Missourians and risk conducting an illegal election….”

“Gerrymander This”

“….despite the Secretary of State’s own data showing the referendum met the required thresholds as of March 23….”

Denny Hoskins (r).

Denny Hoskins (r) [2022 file photo].

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, CPA @DLHoskins
Thank you to the @BurgChamberMO for the opportunity to give an update at the annual Legislative Luncheon! I enjoyed visiting with folks about election integrity and the great things my Securities Division is doing to combat investment fraud. Scammers are using AI to prey on innocent investors. Case in point, I used AI to “update” 😉 the signs and photos of my personal protestors/fan club outside of the Chamber luncheon yesterday.
[….]
9:27 AM · Jun 6, 2026

Go figure.

Do your job.

Denny Hoskins (r) was at a luncheon.

There was a demonstration outside the Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Warrensburg on Friday against Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskin’s (r) refusal to certify, in a fair, timely manner, the initiative referendum which would allow Missouri voters to weigh in on the right wingnut Missouri General Assembly’s mid-term gerrymander of congressional districts. Over 300,000 voters signed the petition.

“Help Wanted: Nonpartisan Public Servants
For all the people of Missouri”

“Denny,
You work for all Missourians
We pay you to do your job!
Certify the signatures”

Apparently the subject of the referendum certification wasn’t mentioned at the luncheon. The reminders where outside the venue. Go figure.

BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court Issues Ruling in Fair Map Case as Secretary of State’s Own Data Shows Referendum Is Sufficient
Press Release / May 12, 2026
Today, People Not Politicians Missouri called on the Secretary of State to immediately declare the HB1 referendum sufficient, after the Secretary’s own data showed the referendum has easily surpassed the required threshold statewide and in the necessary congressional districts.

If the Secretary continues to delay certification while moving forward with implementation of HB1, he will be proceeding under a map that will be shown to have been legally suspended as of December 9, 2025. Because a sufficient referendum means HB1 was never in effect, any attempt to treat the HB1 maps as operative would silence the voices of more than 300,000 Missourians and risk conducting an illegal election.

“The Secretary of State’s own data confirms what more than 305,000 Missourians already made clear: this referendum is sufficient, and the people have a right to vote,” said Richard von Glahn, Executive Director of People Not Politicians Missouri. “Today’s ruling from the Supreme Court confirms this fact. A sufficient petition suspends the law the day it is turned in. Unnecessary delays by politicians do not change this fact. If he continues to delay then he is moving forward under a map that has been suspended by the people.”

Officials have suggested the review process could continue until July, despite the Secretary of State’s own data showing the referendum met the required thresholds as of March 23. The threshold has been met even without counting a single of the approximately 100,000 signatures arbitrarily dismissed by Secretary Hoskins and subject to ongoing litigation. People Not Politicians Missouri said that delay only adds to the tactics of obstruction politicians have used all along to silence the voice of the people.

The referendum effort, backed by more than 305,000 Missourians, continues moving toward final certification and placement on the November ballot.

December 9, 2025 to June 7, 2026 (so far). Do the math.

“….Case in point, I used AI to “update” 😉 the signs and photos of my personal protestors/fan club outside of the Chamber luncheon yesterday….”

Someone never got out of junior high school.