Spoke in Carroll, Iowa today. I met up with Catelyn Drey who recently flipped a red senate seat blue. Rural Democrats are here...we’ve always been here.

No shit…

This is not a border crossing. There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior. This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

Hey, friends. I have back-to-back events this weekend! I’d love to see you in Caroll, IA on Saturday or Marshall, MO on Sunday.

“The National Guard’s mostly quiet walks through Washington, D.C., are expected to cost a little more than $200 million…” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.” Trump administration in 2025: We are building a Qatari Air Force facility in the United States.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook) Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Soybean farmers should dump their beans on Capitol Hill…

Is there any precedence in the history of the United States for having a foreign airbase on American soil?

Did you know American farmers made more money with fewer subsidies under the Biden administration? My interview with Dr. Chris Jones -- catch up on farm policies and what we should be doing to preserve our food and farm markets. One word: diversification. jesspiper.substack.com/p/soybeans-a...

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Pennsylvania Republicans are mounting an unusual effort to oust three Democratic state supreme court justices and deprive Democrats of the court majority they’ve enjoyed for the last decade.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Trump has been illegally bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela. Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff forced a vote on reasserting Congress's role over war powers and ending this reckless warmongering. It failed 48-51. Murkowski and Paul voted yes. Fetterman voted no.

If I wanted to watch Nazi propaganda during a sporting event, I would watch the 1936 Olympics…  variety.com/2025/tv/news...

“Row croppers”

A federal judge just asked the government if they're the cause of the violence in Chicago - whether this is of their own making.

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year. The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

I bet no one told you that the Missouri Farm Bureau endorsed the Republican politicians who support Trump’s tariffs and trade war…the two things decimating Missouri soybean farmers. Did you know that the Farm Bureau sends out a list of “farmer-friendly” politicians to each Farm Bureau member?

Just a heads up: lots of Republican women get abortions too.

How much money would it take to sell your humanity? Ask an ICE agent.

I just scheduled a procedure for December because I don’t know if I will be able to afford health insurance in January.

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

The vindictive prosecutions of political enemies are not a distraction from the Epstein files - they’re one and the same: wielding the power of the DoJ to persecute your foes AND to protect your friends.

When tax breaks for billionaires were set to expire in December, Republicans made that priority number 1—because heaven forbid billionaires have to worry about filling up their private jets! But tax credits for families to afford health care? Republicans refuse to talk about it.

THIS is the energy we’ve been waiting for. Credit where credit is due.

I’ve lived in rural America long enough to know that the entire point was to bankrupt farmers… We are all about to find out.

I work with Blue Missouri because our organization writes actual checks to down-ballot Democratic candidates. No one else does what we do. Other organizations give training or advice or texting services. While those things are important, candidates need $ to reach voters. bluemissouri.org

the jangling feeling that's coiling in the back of everyone's heads is the obvious knowledge that this can't keep up for another 3 years

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Portland police need to protect its citizens, not unlawful federal agents trying to intimidate and detain our neighbors.

We told anyone who would listen that boiling learning down to a multiple-choice question assessment at the end of each year would lead to teaching to the test. That teachers would feel forced to teach test-taking strategies rather than teaching life strategies jesspiper.substack.com/p/silencing-...

Trump calls for Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker to be imprisoned

😂

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

What's happening in Chicago is not normal. The arrest of Alderperson Fuentes is just the latest example of how far Noem and Bovino are willing to go to ignore the rule of law. We must all speak up.

If they have the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, they have the power.

I forget-- who controls the White House, Senate, and House?

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files. She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

Kash was begging for a Community Note

Pam Bondi admits she spoke to Apple to "get the ICEBlock app taken down." Sounds an awful lot like coercion to suppress disfavored speech to me. A clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

Yeah, but my history book didn’t tell me that Taylor would drop a new album and sell merch at Target while kids are zip-tied together in Chicago and the Army is sent to Portland and coffee is unaffordable to the masses and I would still need to make supper every night…

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

You want to know what a couple of decades of standardized testing has done to literacy rates? Look around, friends.

Chicago is not the enemy. Fellow Americans are not the enemy. Attorney General Bondi is enabling President Trump’s war on Americans.