what the fuck do you mean this is a real goddamn place

Board Bill 88 passed, 12-3! Thank you to Alderman Michael Browning in particular for leading the charge on a much-needed update to St. Louis City’s election code, and to all those who wrote to their Alders in support of clarifying outdated language and strengthening democracy.

with PNP no longer circulating, I’m very proud to say my guide to Missouri’s ballot initiatives was used by so many volunteers across the state that image compression almost pixelated it to death

Honored to receive the Outstanding Leadership & Rising Star award from Indivisible St. Louis for my work shining a light on our political landscape and building the progressive movement. Congratulations to my fellow awardees, and many thanks to the Indivisible team for bringing us together!

🚨 New post now up on Patreon: Who is the Missouri Democratic Party? If you’ve ever wondered how the statewide sausage gets made, consider giving it a read! www.patreon.com/posts/who-is...

Everything they can do, we can do better.

great to be in Jefferson City today for the Missouri Democratic Party’s quarterly State Committee meeting

The missile knows where it is at all times. It knows this because it knows where it isn't, by subtracting where it is, from where it isn't, or where it isn't, from where it is, whichever is greater, it obtains a difference, or deviation. The guidance sub-system uses deviations to

I would say I’m thoroughly enjoying the irony of someone whining about me ‘not doing real organizing’ turning around and taking credit for my work, but the honest truth is that I’m actually just not. I’m rather quite peeved, honestly.

going to the next presidential debate holding signs saying “THE RINGWORLD IS UNSTABLE” just to see what happens

Aftyn Behn lost in Tennessee, but narrowed the gap by 13.2%; losing by just 9% in a Trump +22% district. If Missouri Democrats could come even close to pulling off the same, the results would be staggering: Taking down Ann Wagner, flipping 3 seats in the Senate and a whopping 17 in the House.

my december resolution is to just start smashing shit against the wall until people get out of my way and I can do the work they’ve been failing to even comprehend :)

o - o

snow !!

don’t mind me just being yanked around by a very excited husky’s first snow since he was a puppy :)

Democrats on Labor: “after returning from handing out water at the picket line today, we’re very excited to announce a new multibillion investment that will create thousands of new jobs across a variety of sectors-” Republicans on Labor:

shoutout to all my fellow introverts currently taking a break from thanksgiving to recharge and scroll on their phone

currently eating white rice with rosemary, salt and cracked black pepper in bed while watching bunny videos instead of answering texts on my phone because it’s Thanksgiving Eve and I feel like it

call me ibuprofen and wine the way I am what I eat

Petition campaigns need signatures from rural communities to make it on the statewide ballot - it takes a powerful grassroots effort from every county in the state to deliver real change for Missouri. Find their links to get involved below:

Clay Higgins was the lone vote against releasing the Epstein files. If you’ve forgotten who he is, here’s a helpful reminder:

the Illinois House was once elected by cumulative voting, with each of the 59 senatorial districts electing 3 representatives for a total of 177 in 1980, the Cutback Amendment abolished cumulative voting and cut the House to just 118 elected from single-member districts i think this was a mistake

The 2026 US House election results: - Democrats net 10 seats for a majority of 225 - Republicans only gain from new gerrymanders - 8 incumbent Democrats lose renomination to newcomers, the most such losses since 1992 What's your reaction?

Zohran Mamdani versus Everyone Else Not meant to be a realistic reflection of hypothetical results if Sliwa dropped out, but neat to look at. Worth noting that while Mamdani receives 'only' 50.4% of the vote, he wins a majority in 29 districts, 56.9% of NYC's 51.

2025 New York City Mayoral election results by city council district:

Prediction versus Results: Deeply whiffed on which way undecided Cuomo/Sliwa undecideds would break, not taking Trump's endorsement into account, but was mostly correct on Mamdani - underestimating him a bit among nonwhite voters, overestimating him a bit among white voters.

on one hand, Mamdani only won 50.4% of the vote in a city where Harris won 68.1%, thus a landslide loss in any swing seat on the other, he had to fight tooth and nail against the establishment of our own party, billionaire donors and corporate interests so who’s to say, really

Voters in Mehlville School District, in South St. Louis County, Missouri, overwhelmingly voted to approve 2024’s existing $0.0326/$100 tax and a further $0.0240/$100 for 2025 to offset an expected decrease in debt service levies.

Yikes. Guessed well on Mamdani’s % and the coalitions, but my thought process that many Republicans would still hate Cuomo enough to stick with Silwa in the end was wrong. Those fearmongering ads and Trump’s endorsement likely helped Cuomo, and that’s horrifying.

St. Louis County's biggest election tonight was Proposition S in Rockwood School District, which would have raised its tax levy by 45 cents per $100 of assessed valuation-from approximately $3.7426/$100 to $4.1926/$100. With all polls closed, it was defeated by just 497 votes.

Tossing in my final guess at NYC by council district: A mashup of polls, demographic data, the 2025 primary and recent generals, plus whatever sliver of bias slipped in. Among the main candidates: Mamdani 51.1%, Cuomo 28.3%, Sliwa 20.6%

I collected one signature today stopped by a retirement community for someone in need I had to support the board sideways, they pushed to sign with their one good arm they thanked me told *me* to stay strong we hugged, I tried not to crush them …don’t let the light go out

the BOA really looked at downtown and went “yeah… it’s worth facing a legal battle to turn this block into another parking lot”

Today, St. Louis City's Board of Alders voted 10 against 5 to sell a city-owned green space downtown. That might seem incredibly boring, because it is, but the vote was notably controversial because the city charter requires voters to approve the sale of any city-owned parks.

louvre burglar (jewelry not included)

he doesn’t know he is 1 year old

birthday boy !!!

next protest I go to I’m making a sign that just says “I <3 trains” so I can prove a point idk what the point is but I really want to do it

It’s difficult not to take a side in the Democratic primary between Wesley Bell and Cori Bush when the Israeli government is just openly buying political ads not AIPAC, not the UDP - these ads are paid for by Lapam, the Israel Government Advertising Agency

I’ve often said the House should be enlarged from 435 seats to 695, the cube root of the total US population. If this happened, Missouri would go from 8 seats to 13. Here’s what I think a fair 13-seat map would look like, & some rough guesses at who would hold each seat.

andrew cuomo

this whole “getting better at public speaking by putting yourself out there” thing is incredibly terrifying when you have to follow up Fred Wellman of all people

Rough prediction for the 2026 Democratic primary for Missouri's 4th Senate seat: Home turf advantage aside, I think the coalitions will come down to Gina Mitten performing well in precincts where Amendment 3 outran Prop A in 2024, and Steve Butz where Prop A outran Amendment 3.

one of the earliest pictures in my phone is of a graph I hand-drew on a whiteboard in high school to make a point about wealth inequality haven’t changed a bit have I

What if congressional districts were drawn exclusively with compactness in mind, without regard to race, partisanship, etc? Well, it's an imperfect exercise, but I combined the most compact map for each state published to Dave's Redistricting into a single national map:

least bullshit initiative petition summary

2 months before the 2016 primary, Genise Montecillo dropped her re-election bid. As the filing deadline had passed, a party committee of 2 people from each overlapping township, just 6 in total, voted on the Democratic nominee. Doug Beck, an Affton school board director, was chosen by acclamation:

What if congressional districts were drawn exclusively with compactness in mind, without regard to race, partisanship, etc? Well, it's an imperfect exercise, but I combined the most compact map for each state published to Dave's Redistricting into a single national map:

a misdemeanor election offense for collecting signatures before the deadline? yeah best of luck in court. honestly though I’d be willing to take a couple months in prison and lose my voting rights if it meant guaranteeing Missouri could have fair maps.

for some reason I’m naturally inclined to distrust candidates with Serif fonts in their logos. like who gave you the nerve to use Times New Roman