No Kings – Lee’s Summit, Missouri – March 28, 2026

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The No Kings demonstration today in Lee’s Summit was scheduled to start at 10:00 a.m. By 9:00 a.m. individuals started gathering in the cold to line the right of way along Chipman Road east of Douglas. By 10:15 a.m. over a thousand people were holding protest signs, with more arriving.

“Defend Democracy”

“…Sucker and a Loser”

“We the people…”

There was a significant amount of supportive horn honking from passing traffic. Early on a pair of Karens rolled down the windows on their SUV which was stopped at the the traffic signal to excoriate the protesters. The didn’t seem to be pleased about the large turnout:

Karens.

Nisselue.

“This is not normal”

“Vote them out”

Power to the People.

“No Kings in America”

For all the right reasons.

“No Kings”

“No King, No War, No Ice”

“If only the government cared about the right ice”

“No Concentration Camps”

“Hillary was right about everything”

“Resist while you still can”

Where we’re headed.

“Resist”

“Memories”

“…Go fact yourself”

“We have friends everywhere”

“…Impeach, Convict, Expel…”

“Fascism…”

“If silence is all you bring…”

“No Kings”

“Trump Sucks”

The answer is blowing in the wind…

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Today:

Sam Graves
[March 27, 2026]

When I first ran for State Representative back in 1992, my aspiration was to represent my hometown of Tarkio, Missouri. I was a twenty-seven year old farmer who just wanted to stand up for a way of life and his community. I never could have imagined where that decision would take me.

For 8 years in the Missouri House and Senate, I fought for Northwest Missourians. From deregulating vehicle inspections, to standing for chain gangs, to securing funding for rural schools in the desegregation fight, I never lost sight of why I was sent to Jefferson City. Then, in 2000, the good, hardworking people of Missouri’s Sixth District entrusted me to be their voice in Congress.

For 26 years, I have had the privilege of serving, culminating in becoming the Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and passing some of the most significant legislation in our nation’s history. The responsibility entrusted to me is not something I have ever taken for granted. Not for a single day.

What I’m most proud of is the work my team did when Washington made life harder for the people of Missouri’s Sixth. Together, we stood with hundreds of thousands of Missourians in their toughest moments. We helped them cut through red tape and navigate a system that often felt stacked against them. We got them answers and fought to deliver real results when they needed them most.

I’ve said all of that to say this: After considerable reflection, 2026 will be my final year in Congress. This wasn’t an easy decision, but it’s the right one. I believe in making room for the next generation. It’s time to pass the torch and allow a new guard of conservative leaders to step forward and chart a path forward for Missourians.

That doesn’t mean I’m slowing down, not even close. As I enter the 4th quarter of my life, I have more left in me. As many of you know, I don’t let grass grow under my feet. We’ve still got a lot of work to do. I’m going to fight to protect Missouri interests as we work to shape this year’s Highway Bill. I plan to finish this last term the same way I started, full speed ahead.

Maintaining our strong democratic republic will always depend on good people stepping up to serve from every corner of our great nation. I’m grateful for my colleagues in both parties, for the people I’ve worked alongside, and even for the opponents who challenged me and made me better. Public service isn’t easy. It takes hard work, humility, a thick skin, and a willingness to fight for what’s right
.
At the end of the day, I’m still the farmer from Northwest Missouri. You’ll find me back home on the farm nearly every weekend, after all, it is planting season. In fact, I’ll probably be on a tractor this weekend. And come Monday, I’ll be heading back through Kansas City on my way to D.C. to keep doing the job you sent me there to do.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

It has been the honor of a lifetime.

Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

“…to standing for chain gangs, to securing funding for rural schools in the desegregation fight…”

The 1950s called, they want their cultural hegemony back.

Some of the viewable responses to Sam Graves (r):

You haven’t had a Townhall since 2012. We don’t care.

on to lucrative lobbying. prob farm bureau.

Now let’s replace him with someone who CARES about the WORKING CLASS !!

boot licker

TACO! [blink]

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This evening:

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

The Radical Left Democrats, and their “Leader,” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer, have made it very clear where they stand, and that is, ON THE SIDE OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND NOT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. They are refusing to fund Immigration Enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their Open Border Policies, which will never, ever happen again. They almost destroyed our Country, allowing 25 Million People to enter from Prisons, Mental Institutions, and Insane Asylums, those that are Drug Dealers, and thousands of Murderers, many of whom killed more than one person. Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true National Crisis, I am using my authorities under the Law to protect our Great Country, as I always will do! Therefore, I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne Mullin, to immediately pay our TSA Agents in order to address this Emergency Situation, and to quickly stop the Democrat Chaos at the Airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it! I want to thank our hardworking TSA Agents and also, ICE, for the incredible help they have given us at the Airports. I will not allow the Radical Left Democrats to hold our Country hostage any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

986 ReTruths 3.13k Likes Mar 26, 2026, 5:30 PM

Bad polls will do that.

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

Is someone going to tell him?

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Rick Brattin (r) [2025 file photo].

No ICE at Kansas City Int’l Airport TSA. Here’s why
BY Spectrum News Staff Kansas City
PUBLISHED 4:11 PM CT Mar. 23, 2026

KANSAS CITY, Mo.— ICE agents will not be at Kansas City International Airport since it is one of 20 airports nationwide that uses private screening contractors. [….]

From the Transportation Security Administration [TSA]:

Screening Partnership Program

The Screening Partnership Program contracts security screening services at commercial airports to qualified private companies. These companies run screening operations under federal oversight and must comply with all TSA security screening procedures. [….]

SPP Airports

[….]

Kansas City International Airport

[….]

All IDIQ Holders

[….]

VMD Systems Integrators, Inc.

[….]

From Kansas City International Airport:

Security

Security screening at Kansas City International Airport is conducted by a subcontractor of the Transportation Security Administration called VMD Corp. [….]

Heh.

Rick Brattin for Congress
[March 22, 2026]

I fully support President Trump’s decision to send ICE agents to Kansas City International Airport (KCI) or any other airport across the nation.
While Democrats in Congress — including Sen. Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi & Rep. Emanuel Cleaver — continue to play political games and refuse to properly fund the Department of Homeland Security and TSA, American travelers are facing longer lines, delays, and real security risks.
President Trump is taking action to keep our skies safe and our country secure. It’s time to stop the partisan obstruction and put America First.
[….]

“…I fully support President Trump’s decision to send ICE agents to Kansas City International Airport (KCI)…” To do what? Lean against the wall and get paid?

Uh, it’s MCI.

From the FAA:

Kansas City International Airport (MCI)

Kansas City International Airport (MCI) located 15 miles northwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, predominantly hosts commercial air carrier operations. [….]

From the Kansas City [Missouri] Aviation Department:

[…..] The Kansas City Aviation Department owns and operates Kansas City International Airport (MCI) […..]

Rick Brattin (r) [2013 file photo].

Rick Brattin (r) wants to be in Congress. Go figure.

“ICE is Trump’s Gestapo!”

Gerrymander this, Denny

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Denny Hoskins (r) [2025 file photo].

Missouri SOS Reports Referendum on HB1 Has Enough Signatures to Qualify for Ballot
Press Release / March 23, 2026

Politicians cannot implement gerrymandered map without voter approval

The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office signature verification report today confirms that a sufficient number of signatures were collected, in every required congressional district, to put a referendum on the November ballot giving Missouri voters the final say in the state legislature’s illegally gerrymandered congressional district map.

In a petition drive spearheaded by People Not Politicians Missouri, more than 300,000 signatures were collected statewide to give voters their right to challenge the unprecedented, unconstitutional mid-census redistricting.

Richard von Glahn of People Not Politicians Missouri issued the following statement in response to the SOS report:

“Today’s confirmation is a decisive victory for democracy and for the people of Missouri. Volunteers across the state didn’t just meet the bar, they shattered it, sending a clear message that voters will not stand for politicians rigging the rules mid-game. HB1 must be stopped in its tracks. And in November, Missourians will make the final call. This is what democracy looks like: people, not politicians, deciding who represents them.”

“Gerrymander This”

Previously:

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D) – on Donald Trump’s (r) early redistricting scam (August 29, 2025)

Hey, Brandon Phelps (r), are you going to vote for this gerrymandered bullshit? (August 30, 2025)

Gaslighting and Gerrymandering (September 28, 2025)

Who checks? You, Eric?

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Eric Schmitt (r) [2025 file photo].

Yesterday:

Senator Eric Schmitt
[March 19, 2026]

A civilization that lies about something as basic as the difference between men & women has already begun its death spiral.
The ruling class cheers on boys dominating girls’ competitions in the name of “progress.”
It’s not progress. It’s theft. It’s cruelty.
[….]

A solution in search of a problem. A useless distraction in service to bigotry.

Squirrel!

Some of the responses to Eric Schmitt (r):

I’ll take non issues for $100, Alex.

those Repubs like to punch down on marginalized groups that make up 1% of society

The government needs to stay out of sports. This is a tiny population. These issues can be handled on a case by case basis. Same with trans kids, who are not getting surgery at school. Mind your own business. Illegal voting is also a non issue. Try to focus on something important.

We have more important things to work on. No SAVE ACT, no Gerrymandering Missouri maps and income tax or sales tax on everything.

Games don’t matter. I repeat. Games. Do. Not. Matter. They are structured playing. Enough with the genital checks and whatnot.

Get serious, dumbass ! The president just started a war he has no idea how to end and is attempting to rig the next election through voter suppression and you’re worried about this ? MAGAs a joke !

People are hungry and sick and homeless and have to choose between food and medicine, our country is at war, our infrastructure is crumbling, public services are failing, citizens are being taken off the street and from their homes without warrants or due process, our resources are being recklessly spent by corrupt government officials and so much more…. and yet THIS is where your energies are focused?? Really???

Squirrel!

Please stop, Senator Schmitt. We need politicians in DC who take care of real problems. Have you heard that we need help with healthcare costs? Or making housing and education affordable so young people can live better than the generation before (like it used to be)? Have you heard that men are creating deepfake nonconsensual sexual images of women and children at the rate of one per minute with AI and the government youre part of is doing nothing about it? Time to step up and help Missourians with issues we really face.

The ruling class? Again, you’re talking about the rich magats.

You actually stood up in the Senate and gave a speech about this? Wow!

Resign, Eric. You are a buffoon.

Look in the mirror and you will see the problem. You sir are a liar

How about a civilization that lies about an imminent threat in order to start an unnecessary WAR.

“War [good god!] Is Good [what is it good for?] For Absolutely Nothing [say it again!]”
Circa 2001-2005.
28 x 22, posterboard, permanent marker.

You and your maga boss are going to totally bankrupt this country. You have already spent over $15 billion on this war and the Pentagon wants $200 billion more. Meanwhile, people can’t afford to put groceries on their table or buy gas

Republicans are unable to tell the truth

Eric , what does this have to do with suppressing our vote and the Save Act? 70% of those polled after the 2024 vote are in favor of trans rights. Math may not be your forte, but that is a lot more than the remaining 30%. Start working with us instead of against us.

“Trans Rights = Human Rights”

He’s a trump brown nosing POS!

Educate yourself, on variances on genetics, hormones. sex organs, gender identity and then get a team of medical experts who have studied trans for decades to evaluate what is fair medically and psychologically. In the meantime focus on issues that effect MANY people, the more serious things such as democracy, the rule of law the right to vote, ICE injuring and killing people, budget decisions that leave people malnourished or unable to get health care, warmongering with US bombs that are killing people in various countries, women’s lives that are taken or ruined due to needing an abortion, girls that are raped, tortured, murdered with no consequence to the rich white pedophile men, only lawlessness that brings more of the same, an economy that is failing due to corporate price gouging, taking from the poor and giving tax money to the filthy rich, wasting money on nonsense wars, . NO MORE MONEY FOR WARS!

Eric, wouldn’t it be a lot easier to serve the people?

Good question.

I think you have a problem.

You are bitching and moaning about 0.002 percent of the population! Good god, just like illegal voting, which is about the same percentage, AND usually committted by republicans!
Go sell your shit disguised as a box of chocolates somewhere else.

Trump has destroyed honesty, decency, and integrity.

Another Republican enabler who is speaking up for the save act. What in God‘s name does a person‘s gender have to do with being able to vote. perhaps you could explain why we’re talking sports here. We’re talking voting. Gender issues do not need to be in the Bill. If he just wants a voter ID, I don’t think anybody would have a problem with that. But this is absolutely voter suppression and it includes things that aren’t even necessary or belong in a voting rights bill. When he’s bringing up biological men who have converted to women and are participating in women’s sports does he ever mention that we’re talking about a handful of people. they want to take up time on this issue and make it a major thing. They are talking about a few people perhaps a handful those few people that they are talking about could be handled on a local basis based on the sporting event and based on medical evaluations based on the organization in control of the sport. It doesn’t need to be blown up and made a major issue in voting. Let’s cut the crap and this guy needs to shut up and vote against this voter suppression instead of pushing it. It’s hogwash it’s garbage. We have better things to do like getting the Epstein files out. this is just a distraction and and total garbage.

Bruh…you are the ruling class…

We’re at war and this guy still wants to inspect high schoolers’ genitals – what a fucking degenerate

Another maga bigot

Dude, Trump has the economy in the toilet and the nation at war for no reason. Stop hyperfocusing on these social issues and try to actually do something useful for constituents.

Good grief. Give it a rest. We know, we know, you don’t like trans kids.

You must be refering to your Master Trumpstein. During his first term (2017–2021), fact-checkers at The Washington Post documented a total of 30,573 false or misleading claims made by Donald Trump. That’s not even including his second grift. C’mon Eric how do you sleep at night knowing you’re spewing lies, hate and division!

This man is apparently living in a different universe than the majority of Americans 1) Voter fraud is statistically negligible per Trumps own commissions findings on same. He won. Senator Eric Schmitt won. Senator Josh Hawley won. Are they trying to convince us they actually LOST? 2) Borders were never “open”. More deportations during previous administrations, and without the Trump-created drama and endangerment of citizens and non-citizens alike. 3) There are zero cases of sex change surgeries and/or chemical treatments being administered by public school officials. It’s a distraction. 4) Federal government has no business regulating sports. That belongs solely to the teams and their administrators and financial sponsors. Again, another distraction. Vote NO on this Scheme by Trump to keep control after the midterms.