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MISSOURI, THIS IS WHAT WE WARNED YOU ABOUT. We warned that Amendment 6 would make sweeping changes to Missouri’s Constitution and laws harder to reverse. Now, just days after its passage, 10 new initiative petitions targeting the 2028 election have been submitted to the Secretary of State. And what’s being proposed should concern every Missourian. Here’s a breakdown of what these proposals would do: 🚩001 – Redefining Marriage & Gender Rights: Removes Missouri’s constitutional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman, establishes constitutional protections for gender identity and sexual orientation, and allows minors to seek trans surgery, therapy, or counseling with parental or guardian consent. 🚩002 – Proxy Voting in the Legislature: Allows citizens to assign their legislative votes to individual lawmakers, giving some legislators potentially thousands of votes while others have far fewer. This would fundamentally change how representation works in the General Assembly. 🚩003 – Overhauling Missouri’s Legislature: Repeals multiple constitutional provisions, eliminates legislative primaries, introduces statewide elections for legislators, and radically restructures how representation works in Missouri. 🚩004 – Electronic Initiative Petition Signatures: Allows initiative petitions to be signed electronically rather than requiring traditional paper signatures, raising serious questions about verification, security, and FRAUD. 🚩005 – Stripping the Governor’s Authority: Takes away the Governor’s independent power to issue pardons, commutations, and reprieves, and replaces the line-item veto with recommendations subject to legislative approval. 🚩006 – Ranked-Choice Voting: Introduces ranked-choice voting in Missouri elections with more than two candidates for a single office, replacing our traditional voting system with multiple rounds of vote counting and candidate elimination. 🚩007 – Eliminating Primary Elections: Abolishes primaries for congressional and state legislative races and moves to statewide elections using party lists, stripping voters of their traditional ability to choose their party’s nominees. 🚩008 – Government-Run Healthcare: Creates a state-administered healthcare cooperative funded through income-based membership payments, dramatically expanding government’s involvement in healthcare. 🚩009 – New Taxes for Green Energy: Imposes a new tax on long-term capital gains and qualified dividends to fund a government-administered renewable energy program. 🚩010 – Government-Built Housing: Establishes a state-run housing program financed through government bonds, offering homes at cost with no down payment and no interest over 30–40 years. Make no mistake: These aren’t minor policy adjustments. These proposals would fundamentally reshape Missouri’s government, elections, and economy. We warned about the consequences of Amendment 6, and now we’re seeing exactly why those warnings mattered. Missouri’s Constitution is not a playground for radical political experiments. The fight to protect our state and our representative form of government is far from over. 🇺🇸

I don’t think a lot of people realize how big Pritzker’s victory was. D+24. That’s the biggest margin for a Democrat since 1848! EIGHTEEN FORTY-EIGHT!!!

Politico: The Tech Right Pivots Left Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp, the CEO and co-founder of secretive tech giant Palantir, which bet massively on Trump 2.0 and became an administration darling in the process Inside Palantir’s Manhattan lair, in an exclusive sitdown with Playbook, Karp — who once criticized the Democratic Party as “totally irresponsible” — deployed the word ‘progressive’ eight times to describe his philosophy while acknowledging Democrats ‘absolutely’ corrected in 2026 enough to win back his support in 2028. Karp: “I’ve been a Democrat my whole life. I grew up in a far left environment. I know more about being a progressive than almost anybody on the planet, and I absolutely believe Palantir— all of our products are essentially progressive.” Link to article: politico.com/newsletters/pla…

The AP Poll vs the CFP Rank... Who got it right this week?

The Guardian: White Supremacist Linked to College Republican Group A college Republican coalition claiming 31 affiliated student groups in 14 states that attacked the Trump administration from the right routed its email through the same Microsoft 365 account as a company controlled by white nationalist Nick Fuentes theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Miller Lite is $5.50 per pint and wing “specials” are a dozen wings for $27.99. It’s just financially not worth it anymore.

SECRETARY RUBIO on CUBA: Ultimately, our goal is for Cuba to have a better future. We're going to do everything we can to help put it on that path, but in the end, it will require them to wake up and realize that there is no future on the path they are on right now.

I mean I know I for one am only getting more right wing so I can only imagine how the leftists feel

Ahmed Moor, a Gaza-born Palestinian American writer and businessman, launched a 2028 Democratic primary challenge Monday against Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, one of Israel's most fervent backers in Congress. Moor, 42, of West Philadelphia, calls Israel's assault on Gaza a genocide that killed members of his family. He wants to end US military aid to Israel and impose sanctions modeled on the 1986 law that targeted apartheid South Africa until Palestinians have equal rights. A DSA member, Moor is also running on ending the war on Iran, Medicare for All, free childcare and abolishing ICE. Fetterman hasn't said whether he'll seek a second term. 🎥 In a December 2024 interview with Democracy Now, Moor spoke about his family in Gaza, including his cousin's 19-year-old son, whom an Israeli sniper killed in Rafah, and laid out the conditions needed for moving towards resolution in Palestine. He said settlements have made a Palestinian state impossible, Hamas is an ordinary Palestinian party that won't simply disappear, and any real negotiation has to move past Jewish supremacy in Palestine.