The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled lawmakers had the authority to pass a new congressional map last year, left intact the state’s photo-ID requirement for voters and struck down limits on voter-registration and absentee-ballot outreach. #moleg #mogov

“Matt Walsh podcast is not appropriate for children” is the first feedback I’ve ever left for an uber driver. It was a long drive from the airport

What are the most important missions that the US is drawing resources from to expand the war in Iran?

How Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt learned to stop worrying and love regime change missouriindependent.com/2026/03/09/h...

"These endless attempts to deceive and delay are not just politics — they are a scorched earth attack on democracy."

1/2 This 2-line bill is so poorly written it will hurt other women. It could have been easily fixed & I did everything I could to explain that. Multiple reps told me they understood the problems, then voted for it anyway. I'm most mad about the indifference from dems/purportedly pro-repro people.

Me on one of the 10 lawsuits involving the Trump-demanded gerrymander of Kansas City. Also: Missourians, vote no on Amendment 4 and tell your friends. missouriindependent.com/2026/03/10/r...

My latest, via a GIFT LINK: Eric Schmitt and Josh Hawley kind of noticeably silent about a war launched from Missouri soil! Jerry Moran, meanwhile, is asking for a "briefing" which is weak sauce. www.kansascity.com/opinion/read...

My colleague: www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Lol’d

Both the Christian Nationalist Ohio bill and the Missouri copycat one include major historical errors listed as “examples” of the “positive impact of religion.”

I somehow missed that Andrew Bailey was at the Georgia ballot raid.

I wrote (without swearing!) about Missouri AG Catherine Hanaway's ugly and ridiculous lawsuit seeking to redo the 2020 census to exclude non-citizens. There is more effed up about this lawsuit than I had space for: missouriindependent.com/2026/02/10/m...

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

Another one bites the dust. (Unless AG Hanaway appeals, in keeping with the Missouri tradition of burning as many tax dollars as possible on junk harassment lawsuits) www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Kill a mother in cold blood, kidnap the cutest little kid I have seen all week in a fucking pokemon hat, the cutest possible hat, then arrest a bunch of clergy members?! Of multiple kinds of faith practices? Do they have a comeuppance kink or something? like wtf do they think is going to happen??

Math not mathin'. Kehoe doesn't care.

“it appears Thao was taken half-naked in 10 degree weather simply because he’s Asian.”

I can’t even muster a giggle for The Onion anymore

Pregnancy is being attacked nationwide. Missouri must defend its constitutional protections. 📰: @bridgettedunlap.bsky.social: missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/p...

The Insurrection Act does require an actual insurrection. The violence in Minneapolis is almost exclusively one-sided. People yelling at you, calling you names, and recording you on a cell phone isn’t violence. And if the courts let Trump say it is, we’re in a lot of trouble.

Opening day of Missouri abortion-rights trial focuses on decades of state restrictions missouriindependent.com/2026/01/12/m...

this is how you do anti-fascism and affordability.

I wrote about how important the protections against criminalization of reproductive care that we put in Missouri’s constitution in 2024 are. Our legislature has put a new initiative on the ballot to take them away:

After the assassination of Melissa Hortman it’s not hard to understand why a woman in Minnesota would be afraid of a man in a mask who says he’s a cop.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Our goodbye from CBS News:

Josh Hawley launches new anti-abortion group as Missouri gears up for 2026 vote #moleg #mogov www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

I disclose my face off anytime I write about anything I’m involved with, and I am a nobody with no interesting conflicts of interest. How could the NYT let this happen?

The distance between pregnancy and care in Missouri missouriindependent.com/2025/12/04/t...

Too little, too late, but something:

I wrote about our new MO Attorney General doubling down on the remnants of the federal lawsuit attacking access to mifepristone in a filing filled with misinformation:

Nor could that boat, before it was bombed, reach the United States. That’s important because it refutes the laughable claim of “imminence” necessary to wrap the strikes under the auspices of a lawful armed conflict.

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

This is another heartbreaking and horrifying story of a woman killed by an abortion ban. These legislators who continue to deny the effects of the laws they pass are despicable. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

I received the deceptive text from the RNC. It’s carefully worded, but looks like other election fraud cases to me. RNC may have crossed a legal boundary, confident that our AG won’t do anything. See eg.:

This is unbelievable.

See also this misleading text I and probably thousands of others got yesterday that is meant to scare us into removing our signatures. I think it might be illegal despite the carefully deceptive wording. But the RNC knows our AG won’t do anything

wow. WOW.

I wrote about the Missouri GOP's attempt to lie to voters about the ballot measure to re-ban abortion. It's particularly egregious that they are lying about incest victims, that is, child rape victims:

I’m the most rigid person about how unconsented touching of any kind is illegal. and yet, I lol’d: “The jury determined that the launching of the 12-inch deli sandwich from what the government described as “point-blank range” was not an attempt to cause bodily injury, preventing a conviction.”

No one ever asks him why he couldn’t accomplish the same thing by arresting these people instead

Last night was huge rejection of Trump's plan to rig midterms: -CA passes prop 50, giving Dems up to 5 new seats -VA elects Dem gov & leg, boosting redistricting chances -ME voters defeat voter suppression initiative -Dems retain majority PA Supreme Court www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I’m rooting for Mandami and hope his crazy difficult job goes okay. I will NEVER EVER EVER forgive the Democratic Party for failing to kill the possibility of Cuomo.

Go see a play. It at least read this excellent column.

I saw a play! Go see a play. Me being me, I wrote about about how the characters' legal situation should be different: missouriindependent.com/2025/10/24/t...

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something