03/16/26 Missouri Mondays - Actions to take while MO lawmakers are on Spring Break! Stop Sales Taxes on Everything! Join “Fighting for MO”
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Join “Fighting for MO” Emergency Mass Meetings statewide to demand a FAIR Peoples Budget! Make your voice heard!
Welcome to Missouri Mondays!
📣 It’s Spring Break for Missouri lawmakers but there’s no shortage of ways to get involved and make your voice heard this week—
✅ Join “Fighting for MO” Emergency mass meetings near you to STOP THE SALES TAX ON EVERYTHING and DEMAND a FAIR STATE BUDGET that respects the will of the people!
💻 Join Missouri Voter Protection Coalition meeting on Zoom TODAY at 10am.
🗳️ Absentee voting is underway for the April 7 Municipal Election. Make your plan to vote using our voter resources below.
📞Use 5 CALLS - https://5calls.org/ - to make your voice heard on urgent federal govt issues!
📅 Check out “UPCOMING EVENTS” for meetings and opportunities to get involved! 🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Jg3kHk6l5FbBkfD8hKuWYWwxkQn44EivPkGB6lPAQMg/edit?usp=sharing
📣 Help us spread the word by sharing this email and the link to sign up for our weekly Missouri Mondays e-newsletter: https://www.moactionalliance.com/signup.
🌐 FOLLOW US on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MOActionAlliance, on Bluesky @moaction.bsky.social, on Instagram at moactionalliance, and check out our website at http://www.MOActionAlliance.com
📣 CALLS TO ACTION / UPCOMING EVENTS
MON MARCH 16 - STATEWIDE (ONLINE)
MISSOURI VOTER PROTECTION COALITION (MOVPC) MEETING
🗓️Monday, March 16
⏰10AM Online (Zoom)
✔️To sign up text “MOVPC” to 66866 or register here: bit.ly/protectmovoters
Join MOVPC's weekly call for more on bills moving in Missouri and D.C. and how you can weigh in with your lawmakers.
✔️Follow MOVPC Voting Rights Legislative Tracker here: bit.ly/movotingbills
✔️Learn more about Missouri Voter Protection Coalition (MOVPC) and help fund our critical work for voting rights!
🌐 Website: https://www.movpc.org/
👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ProtectMissouriVoters
MON MAR 16 - STATEWIDE (ONLINE)
📌MISSOURI VOTER PROTECTION COALITION - ACCESSIBILITY WORKGROUP MEETING
📅 Monday, March 16 - Meets monthly every 3rd Monday
⏰ 1:30PM
💻 Virtual
🗣️Organizer: Vincent Heitholt
📩 Email vincent@heitholtlaw.com to join this group and for more information
The Missouri Voter Protection Coalition Accessibility Workgroup meets virtually every 3rd Monday. Join us to help identify voting barriers and improve voting accessibility across Missouri. Email Organizer Vincent Heitholt vincent@heitholtlaw.com to join this group and for more information.
MON MARCH 16 - JACKSON COUNTY / KANSAS CITY
📌JACKSON COUNTY LEGISLATURE MEETING
📅 Monday, March 16
⏰ 3PM
📍Jackson County Courthouse, 415 E 12th Street, 2nd Floor Legislative Assembly Area, Kansas City, MO 64106
Our Jackson County legislators manage our county budget and make decisions about spending our tax dollars funding our county health department, county correction facility, municipal courts, parks & rec, public works department, and so much more. They hold public meetings every Monday at 3pm.
✔️Attend Jackson County Legislature meetings in person
✔️Contact Jackson County legislators about issues important to you. https://www.jacksongov.org/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/county-legislature/legislator-contact-list-2.5.26.pdf
🔎Find your legislator here: https://www.jacksongov.org/Government/County-Legislature/Who-Are-My-County-Legislators
🗓️Jackson County Legislative Calendar / Meetings & Agendas here: https://www.jacksongov.org/Government/County-Legislature/Legislative-Calendar
🗓️ Jackson County Legislature Activity Calendar 3/13 - 3/16: https://www.jacksongov.org/files/sharedassets/public/v/1/county-legislature/activity-calendars/03-11-2026-activity-calendar-updated.pdf
Current Jackson County Legislature Members:
Manuel (Manny) Abarca IV (Chairman), 1st District
Sean E. Smith (Vice Chairman), 6th District
Jalen Anderson, 1st District at-Large
Donna Peyton, 2nd District at-Large
Megan L. Smith, 3rd District at-Large
Venessa Huskey, 2nd District
Charlie Franklin, 3rd District
DaRon McGee, 4th District
Jeanie Lauer, 5th District
Phil LeVota is the current Jackson County Executive.
MON MARCH 16 - STATEWIDE (ONLINE)
📌Democratic Legislative Network - Hosted by the Missouri Democratic Party
📅 Monday nights (Online)
⏰ 7:00PM
💻 Via Zoom
🔗Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/bGhQ7xqeQdaASSPycnD-Bg
The Democratic Legislative Network call is hosted by the Missouri Democratic Party. MO Democrats celebrated a record number of candidates filing for office for 2026! Join this call to get key updates, action items, and upcoming events across the state. Find out how to get involved and make your voice heard! We win when we organize. We organize by building trust. We build trust by showing up.
WED MARCH 18 - STATEWIDE (ONLINE)
📌 People Not Politicians MO Coalition Partner Updates
📅Wednesdays
⏰ 10AM
💻 Zoom
📩 Email Jamie Johnson to join the coalition Zoom - jamie@peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org
People Not Politicians MO still needs your help in the fight against Missouri's gerrymandered maps. Email Jamie Johnson jamie@peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org
to join PNPMO Coalition Partners across the state every Wednesday at 10am on Zoom for the latest legal updates and upcoming actions.
For the latest news about People Not Politicians MO
Website: https://peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org/
What’s happening: https://peoplenotpoliticiansmo.org/whats-happening-in-missouri/
WED MARCH 18 - KANSAS CITY
📌 FIGHTING FOR MO - KC Emergency Spring Break Community Townhall
📅 Wed March 18
⏰ 6:30PM - 8:00PM
📍 Central Presbyterian Church, 3501 Campbell St., Kansas City, MO 64109
🔗 RSVP here: https://secure.ngpvan.com/PKsPkaqmmEaTHeE1MZDuGw2
🔎 Find Fighting for MO mass meetings statewide: bit.ly/FIGHT4MO
It's been a hard year for a lot of Missourians -- from rising grocery costs and electricity bills to uncertainty about healthcare access and threats to basic community goods, like public education. Our state budget should support regular Missourians -- funding our schools, roads, and senior services. But some politicians in Jefferson City are gutting the state budget to make the rich richer at the expense of the rest of us. Last year, these politicians prioritized overturning voter-approved paid sick days, and abortion access, instead passing unprecedented tax cuts for the wealthy, and gerrymandered congressional maps and an attack on citizens initiatives to rig the rules in their favor.
‼️Now these same politicians are trying to eliminate the state income tax to give even MORE tax breaks to the wealthy, forcing the rest of us to bear the burden in higher 💲SALES taxes -- and higher costs, and creating an existential crisis for funding our schools, roads, and senior services.
‼️But what we DO NEXT could change what happens next.
✔️Join us 6:30-7:30pm (with an optional organizing breakout 7:30-8pm) for an emergency community townhall to learn what's on the line and what we can do about it. Childcare, Spanish language translation, and family dinner at 6:00 avaiable with RSVP.
THURS MARCH 19 - BLUE SPRINGS
📌 FIGHTING FOR MO - Eastern Jackson County Emergency Spring Break Community Townhall
📅 Thurs March 19
⏰ 6:00PM - 8:00PM
📍 The Table, 3609 MO-7, Blue Springs, MO 64014
🔗 RSVP here: https://secure.ngpvan.com/LPIJqlAQ3k2i0uCOZJHnKQ2#
🔎 Find Fighting for MO mass meetings statewide: bit.ly/FIGHT4MO
✔️ Here in Missouri, we show up for each other, no matter what we look like, who we love, or how much is in our wallets. But certain politicians have shown us that they care more about corporate welfare than the welfare of the people.
❌ Last year, politicians like Gov. Kehoe and House Speaker Jon Patterson stole away our paid sick days, forced another tricky ballot to ban abortion all over again and undo our votes from 2024, froze the minimum wage, tried to dismantle the People's Initiative Petition process, gerrymandered our congressional districts to silence Black, Brown, and working class voters, and have been doubling down on their attacks on trans and gender expansive young people.
❌ Now they want to hike up 💲taxes on working families so the elite minority can get even richer at the expense of the everyday services we need to make a good living.
‼️WE ARE WORTH MORE.
✔️Join us for an emergency legislative town hall in March. Together — regardless of races, genders, or backgrounds — we will demand a state budget that respects the will of the people, invests in our futures, and makes the welfare of the people the supreme law.
NOW - STATEWIDE
✅ MO Voter Important Election Dates
Municipal Election - April 7, 2026
Last Day to Register to Vote - March 11
Absentee Voting with an Excuse (In-Person) Begins - February 24
No-Excuse Absentee Voting (In-Person) Begins - March 24
Absentee Ballot Request Deadline - March 25
Absentee Ballot Return Deadline - April 7
Absentee Ballot Return Deadline (Military & Overseas)* - April 10
*All valid military and overseas ballots received by noon on the Friday after the election must be counted, provided the voter has declared under penalty of perjury that the ballot was submitted no later than midnight on Election Day.
✔️Kansas City / Jackson County Voter Resources:
Kansas City Board of Elections (Jackson County voters in KC): https://www.kceb.org/elections/
Jackson County Board of Elections (Jackson County voters outside KC) : https://jcebmo.org/
✔️Missouri Voter Resources:
MO Secretary of State Elections & Voting information https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/showmovotes
Check voter registration: https://voteroutreach.sos.mo.gov/portal/
GoVote Missouri voter and candidate resources (what’s on your ballot, find your polling place, candidate filing info, more): https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri
Voter Accessibility Resources: https://www.sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote#Accessible
NOW - STATEWIDE
🚨NO TAX HIKES!
📣Tell your MO State Senator to VOTE NO on HCS HJRs 173 & 174!
🔎Find your legislator here: https://www.senate.mo.gov/LegisLookup/Default
Last week the MO House passed HCS HJRs 173 & 174 and now it will go to the MO Senate. “Upon voter approval of HCS HJRs 173 & 174, if under current law, income tax rate falls below 1.4%, state income tax will be eliminated by 2031, and sales tax may be increased/expanded to make up for the income deficit.”
🚩The proposal is to phase out the state’s individual income tax and replace the revenue by expanding the sales tax base.
🗳️Voter Approval Required: If passed by the legislature, the plan would go before voters on the August or November 2026 ballot.
🚩Gradual Phase-Out: The individual income tax (currently 4.7%) would be reduced based on revenue "triggers".
🚩The rate would drop by 0.01 percentage points for every $20 million increase in net general revenue over the 2025 base year.
🚩The tax would be fully eliminated once the rate falls below 1.4%, with a target end date as early as January 1, 2032.
‼️ Expanded Sales Tax: To offset the loss of income tax revenue, lawmakers would be authorized to tax more services and digital goods (e.g., streaming services, accounting fees) that are currently exempt.
❌Raising revenue by sales tax is a regressive tax because it burdens those with less income equally to the burden on those more able to pay
❌ Life will be more $$expensive for nearly ALL Missourians
NOW - STATEWIDE
RESPECT MISSOURI VOTERS
WHO WE ARE - Respect Missouri Voters is a grassroots, volunteer-led campaign working to protect the citizen initiative process and make our government work for everyday Missourians. Our goal is straightforward but vital - pass a state constitutional amendment to protect majority rule in Missouri. Join our campaign to pass a ballot initiative for a state constitutional amendment that will BAN politicians from:
Overturning initiatives that voters have already passed
Attacking citizens' ability to use the initiative process
Deceiving voters with confusing ballot language
*Website: https://respectmovoters.org/
*TAKE ACTION / Volunteer Resources: https://respectmovoters.org/take-action#convo
NOW - NATIONAL
🚨TELL SEN. HAWLEY & SEN. SCHMITT - VOTE NO ON THE NEW S.A.V.E. ACT!
☎️ Phone: (833-346-1779)
🔥The new S.A.V.E. Act already passed the U.S. House and is now in the Senate. This law could keep millions from voting!
If passed, the new S.A.V.E. Act would:
❌Require Americans to provide documentary proof of citizenship - either a passport or an original copy of their birth certificate - when registering to vote, and any time they update their voter registration. More than 21 Million American citizens don't have access to those documents.
❌ Especially burden military voters, tribal voters, rural voters, survivors of natural disasters, communities of color, and married women who have changed their last names.
‼️Read the Campaign Legal Center updated fact sheet “The SAVE Act Threatens All Voters” 🔗https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Updated%20CLC%20Fact%20Sheet%20on%20the%20SAVE%20Act%201-29-26.pdf
‼️Read the Brennan Center analysis - “New SAVE Act Bills Would Still Block Millions of Americans From Voting - The “show your papers” requirement is an attack on the freedom to vote”: 🔗https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-save-act-bills-would-still-block-millions-americans-voting
SAVE THE DATE! VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
SAT MARCH 28 - KANSAS CITY
📌 INDIVISIBLE KANSAS CITY - ❌👑 NO KINGS 3.0
📅 Saturday, March 28
⏰ Noon
⏰Speakers beginning at 1 pm. March begins at 2 pm.
📍Mill Creek Park (Plaza), Kansas City, MO
🔗 SIGN UP to volunteer for No Kings 3.0: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSddd5l9rFzbG7GDSXa2HD_lI3vUz1IJp17xdEu-SyXcRrZkVg/viewform
Last October's No Kings 2.0 at Mill Creek Park had over 18,000 rally goers and this NO KINGS 3.0 we expect to double that amount of attendees. The No Kings 3.0 Rally is fast approaching --- Saturday, March 28th --- and we need many IKC volunteers to help make this a successful event.
ONGOING NATIONAL RESISTANCE ACTION FROM ANYWHERE
📞 5 CALLS
📣 Make your voice heard. 5 Calls is the easiest and most effective way for U.S. constituents to make a political impact. We’re the team making advocacy accessible. 5Calls makes it easy for you to reach your members of Congress and make your voice heard.
✍️ We research issues, write scripts that clearly articulate a progressive position, figure out the most influential decision-makers, and collect phone numbers for their offices. All you have to do is call. For more information: https://5calls.org/
🔥Sample Issues Week of March 16
No War With Iran - https://5calls.org/issue/stop-iran-war/
Impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth - https://5calls.org/issue/impeach-pete-hegseth/
Demand Full Epstein Case File Release and Public Hearings (UPDATED 3/10) - https://5calls.org/issue/release-epstein-files/
Block the Paramount/WBD Media Monopoly - https://5calls.org/issue/paramount-wbd-merger-media-monopoly/
Oppose Markwayne Mullin as DHS Secretary - https://5calls.org/issue/markwayne-mullin-dhs-secretary/
Oppose the SAVE America Act - PASSED HOUSE (UPDATED 2/11) - https://5calls.org/issue/save-act-voter-suppression/
Fight the Trump Administration's Election Interference - https://5calls.org/issue/state-voter-records-election-interference/
Oppose Anti-Vax Influencer Casey Means for US Surgeon General - https://5calls.org/issue/casey-means-us-surgeon-general/
Stop ICE’s Aggressive Attacks on Immigrants, Citizens, and Children (UPDATED 2/24) - https://5calls.org/issue/ice-raids-abuse-detention/
Constituent Services: Report Your Concerns to Your Representatives - https://5calls.org/issue/constituent-services-concerned-voter/
See All active topics - https://5calls.org/all/
ONGOING NATL RESISTANCE / EDUCATION / VOLUNTEER ACTION - KC AREA (KS & MO)
📣 INDIVISIBLE BOOTS ON THE GROUND MIDWEST
✔️ Website / Resources: https://bootsonthegroundmidwest.org
📩 Email: info@bootsonthegroundmidwest.org
📅 Check out their VERY comprehensive calendar of events MO & KS: https://bootsonthegroundmidwest.org/#calendar
We’re a grassroots organization that mobilizes and motivates our community in response to the crisis in our federal government. A grassroots organization supporting economic, social and racial justice issues in the Heartland. Action is power.
MARCH ACTIONS - JEFFERSON CITY & STATEWIDE
🇺🇲 WE STAND UNITED MISSOURI
We Stand United Missouri is dedicated to promoting freedom and democracy by empowering Missourians to embrace truth, build community, and take action.
✔️Website: https://we-stand-united.org/
✔️Sign up for weekly newsletter: https://we-stand-united.org/contact
✔️Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WeStandUnitedMissouri/
📣 March 13 Newsletter & Events Calendar:
📰 MISSOURI MONDAYS NEWS SUPPLEMENT
📅 MISSOURI MONDAYS UPCOMING EVENTS SUPPLEMENT
THANK YOU! for staying informed and taking action to make a difference!
✔️Invite your friends and neighbors to join us and sign up for Missouri Action Alliance and this Missouri Mondays weekly email at bit.ly/3pF99Uw
🌐Follow us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MOActionAlliance, on Bluesky @moaction.bsky.social, on Instagram at moactionalliance, and check out our website at http://www.MOActionAlliance.com
In solidarity,
Missouri Action Alliance
“Salus Populi Suprema Lex Esto” - “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.” –State of Missouri Motto
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