01/27/20 - Tell State Senators to reject threats to Medicaid benefits and the petition process!!
Last week in DC the GOP Senate majority, including Missouri’s Roy Blunt and Josh Hawley, rejected all amendments to subpoena witnesses and documents in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial. Meanwhile in Jefferson City, the GOP Senate majority were busy working on alarming legislation that would threaten Medicaid healthcare benefits and the citizen petition initiative and referendum process. So for this week’s Missouri Mondays, tell State Senators to reject Senate Joint Resolutio
01/20/20 - Missouri Mondays - On This MLK Day We Will Not Be Silent About Things That Matter!
As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day of Service, we must speak up for “things that matter” to us and to our fellow citizens. In his State of the State speech, Governor Parson claimed that the state could not afford Medicaid Expansion without cuts to education and infrastructure. He claimed that it would require a “massive tax increase that Missourians cannot afford,” although research has found that expanding Medicaid actually resulted in lives saved and substantial state
01/13/20 - Missouri Mondays - Tell State Senators, “Hands off Clean Missouri!
Let the will of voters stand!” KC Star Photo Illustration Missouri GOP Senate leaders are wasting no time in the first days of the 2020 legislative session on their stated priority...undoing government ethics reforms in the Clean Missouri constitutional amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters. The Joplin Globe editorial board wrote, “We urge lawmakers to listen to what Missourians had to say barely a year ago” and we couldn’t agree more! So for this week’s Missouri Monda
01/06/20 - Missouri Mondays - A New Year and a New Legislative Session. Time for action!
“Not to Be Served But to Serve” - MO State Capitol Senate chamber entrance It’s time for our first Missouri Mondays of 2020! The Missouri legislative session starts this Wednesday, January 8 but hundreds of bills have already been pre-filed that once again curtail our freedoms, ignore or do harm to our most vulnerable citizens, skew prosperity toward corporations and the wealthy, further deny women control of their own bodies, and dangerously expand guns everywhere. We also
