Michael Bersin
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Show Me Progress.
http://blog.showmeprogress.com
Since 2007 as part of the Fifty State Blog Project.
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ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
We received this from the GOP today: 12:43 PM Texting with (202) 949-8615 (SMS/MMS) This silence will cost you, Michael We will not ask again. Complete your GOP Voter Profile to resolve the problem…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/15/%CE%BC%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%89%CE%BD-%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B2%CE%B5/
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“Crime. Boy, I don’t know.”
Friday: Senator Eric Schmitt December 12 at 9:16 AM Americans do not have to live in crime-ridden cities. We don’t have to accept that anymore. Democrats have condoned violence against law en…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/14/crime-boy-i-dont-know/
about 23 hours ago
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Winter Visitors
A few moments of distraction – of sorts – yesterday in west central Missouri: A flitty little one, never still. Shy. All about the meal. The same.
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/13/winter-visitors-2/
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There is the small matter of those midterm elections in 2026
Today: Congressman Mark Alford [December 11, 2025] 🎪 Democrats tried another desperate impeachment circus today. It collapsed on impact. The American people are tired of political games, & so …
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/11/there-is-the-small-matter-of-those-midterm-elections-in-2026/
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Oil, that is
Trump administration seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast: Reports The United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, where President Donald Trump has been threatening military…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/10/oil-that-is-2/
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đź—˝LOLGOPđź—˝
6 days ago
The fixation on Somali-Americans is just another strategic activation of gutter racism, precisely like the attack on Haitians in Springfield last summer. It's Charlottesville/Unite the Right-level hate, and any decent Americans left should condemn it.
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Matt Ortega
7 days ago
Maniacally evil. I can assure you those countries weren't Scandinavian.
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Just Jack
6 days ago
I have more respect for the Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at George W Bush than any of the cowards in the current White House press pool.
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Jess Piper
7 days ago
The next Democratic administration should expand the court. There’s no other way to redeem SCOTUS at this point.
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Mark Alford (r) knows exactly what he’s doing
“….For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases. What they possess today, t…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/09/mark-alford-r-knows-exactly-what-hes-doing/
6 days ago
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Somewhere in America a woman just earned her PhD.
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“I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing.”
Eric Schmitt (r), this morning: Aaron Rupar ‪@atrupar.com‬ STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support the pardon of the former Honduran president? SCHMITT: I’m not familiar w/ the facts or circumstances …
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/07/i-hear-nothing-i-see-nothing-i-know-nothing/
8 days ago
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Anne Golden
9 days ago
Tr*mp started his career in the public eye by pretending to fire people from fake jobs. Now he’s worked his way up to being in charge of an administration that has murdered* at least 86 people. What do you think is next? *It’s not a war crime, since we’re not at war. It’s just murder.
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Molly Jong-Fast
9 days ago
Loving war crimes is not a sustainable policy in a democracy
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They’re Fascist assholes, but we already knew that
A text from the Missouri GOP, received today: 12:35 PM Texting with (314) 926-9864 (SMS/MMS) [MISSOURI ALERT] [Paid for by the Republican National Committee. Not Authorized By Any Candidate or Cand…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/06/theyre-fascist-assholes-but-we-already-knew-that/
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Karoli
11 days ago
Single issue voter here. And this is the issue.
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Andy Craig
11 days ago
Publishing all the other boat murder videos but refusing to release the one of the two survivors being killed is an admission they know exactly how bad it looks. There's no other distinction to draw there, no reason to publish the others while withholding that one.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his)
11 days ago
The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.
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We haven’t had this much fun since Eric Schmitt (r) was Missouri’s attorney general
A CALL TO ACTION: Submit “Media Bias” Tips The White House December 2, 2025 The White House recently launched a Media Bias Portal as a service to truth and transparency. Its purpose is to combat th…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/04/we-havent-had-this-much-fun-since-eric-schmitt-r-was-missouris-attorney-general/
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What color is the sky in Mark’s (r) world?
Today: Congressman Mark Alford [December 3, 2025] We’re cleaning up the mess Democrats made with Obamacare. It’s time to put YOU back in control of your healthcare — not the insurance companies. [&…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/03/what-color-is-the-sky-in-marks-r-world/
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One useless word among many
Today: Senator Eric Schmitt [December 2, 2025] Narcoterrorists are killing thousands of Americans every year. President Trump & Secretary Hegseth have every right to destroy every narcoterrori…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/12/02/one-useless-word-among-many/
13 days ago
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof
14 days ago
Holy shit
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What it is
Murder. Today: Jason Kander ‪@jasonkander.bsky.social‬ Aside from the extremely dubious question of whether the occupants of the Venezuelan boat even qualified as “combatants,” ordering a second st…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/30/what-it-is/
15 days ago
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Bradley P. Moss
15 days ago
Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven. The hypocrisy is stunning.
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emptywheel
15 days ago
Remember Thomas Jacob Sanford, the Iraq veteran who burned up a Mormon Church in September? Remember Nigel Edge, the Iraq veteran sniper who shot up a bar from his boat in Cape Fear, also in September? Keep track of how differently we speak of them than Rahmanullah Lakanwal.
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Venezuela
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump To all Airlines, Pilots, Drug Dealers, and Human Traffickers, please consider THE AIRSPACE ABOVE AND SURROUNDING VENEZUELA TO BE CLOSED IN ITS ENTIRETY. Thank you f…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/29/venezuela/
16 days ago
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Matt Ortega
17 days ago
Arizona Wildcats proving once again why ASUcks, taking the Territorial Cup on the road!
#BearDown
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Chris Geidner
17 days ago
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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How’s that working out for you?
From the Missouri State Treasurer: MOScholars: Tax Credits Under the guidelines established by the Missouri General Assembly in 2021, MOScholars tax credits may be awarded to individuals and busine…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/28/hows-that-working-out-for-you/
17 days ago
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
18 days ago
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! In this time of growing Christian Nationalism, it is important to remember the *real* history of Thanksgiving. The Puritans didn't just come to the New World to flee persecution, they came here so they could be the ones doing the persecution.
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digby
19 days ago
I guess somebody forget to tell Kash that they had the suspect in custody because he kept droning on that they would stop at nothing to find the perpetrator. What an embarrassment he is...
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Charlotte Clymer
19 days ago
I still can't believe these goddamn fools are trying to get into a patriotism dick measuring contest with a guy who was a combat pilot and an astronaut and space flight commander.
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Joshua Reed Eakle đź—˝
19 days ago
If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?
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Truth Social(ist)
20 days ago
Our convicted felon president, who pardoned Enrique Tarrio, the leader of the Proud Boys convicted of seditious conspiracy, wants to charge Mark Kelly, a decorated war veteran and astronaut, with seditious conspiracy. That’s some next-level banana republic shit right there.
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Steven Beschloss
20 days ago
No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.
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And here we are
This morning: Jess Piper ‪@piperformissouri.bsky.social‬ Trump never had a fan base. He had an army of bots who sold his racism and misogyny and xenophobia to uneducated Americans who took voting a…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/25/and-here-we-are-4/
21 days ago
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Matt Ortega
21 days ago
Bankers and private equity wear suits while they rob us blind. Meanwhile volunteers to feed families this holiday season will be in sweatshirts and jeans.
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White Rose Resistance
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LGBTQ Shrink
22 days ago
Prove me wrong.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers
21 days ago
This plaque is posted at West Point. Alcoholic TV talk show chatterbox Pete Hegseth wants to court-martial Arizona Senator Mark Kelly for repeating what is written on it.
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“…drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son…”
Pete Hegseth (r). Weaponization of the law. This morning: Department of War @DeptofWar OFFICIAL STATEMENT: The Department of War has received serious allegations of misconduct against Captain Mark …
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/24/drunk-and-stupid-is-no-way-to-go-through-life-son-2/
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High on his own supply
Yesterday: Congressman Mark Alford [November 23, 2025] Americans are sick of being gaslit. Home prices are out of control right now…but we have full confidence that the One Big Beautiful Bill will …
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/24/high-on-his-own-supply/
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24 days ago
MTG knows what’s going to happen next November…the GOP is toast.
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Steven Beschloss
25 days ago
The question is when will we be rid of this dangerous man who despises our Constitution and democracy. When…and how.
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On the throne
Yesterday: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump [….] It’s called SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. Each one of these traitors to our Country should be ARRESTED AND PUT ON TRIAL. Their word…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/21/on-the-throne/
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Well that didn’t go so well
Today: Congressman Mark Alford [November 20, 2025] Today is National Rural Health Day is a reminder of what’s at stake. I’ve been in nearly every rural hospital across the Fourth District, talking …
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/20/well-that-didnt-go-so-well/
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To your health
Today: Congressman Mark Alford [November 19 2025] · Productive meeting today with Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare CEO Craig Thompson. We talked Medicare, their HRSA grant for developing our own p…
https://showmeprogress.com/2025/11/19/to-your-health/
26 days ago
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Jess Piper
28 days ago
MTG is not a friend or ally. She’s an extremist…a racist antisemite. She harrassed children impacted by gun violence. She’s dangerous.
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