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No limits on campaign contributions in Missouri. Here’s what that looks like.

August 26, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Campaigns, Missouri region Leave a comment

Missouri is one of only 12 US states that impose no limits on campaign contributions for in-state offices. [In Missouri, we don’t limit gifts

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Is the Clinton campaign serious about Missouri?

August 18, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Activism, Campaigns, Missouri region 2 comments

I stopped by the brand new Hillary Clinton campaign HQ in St. Louis yesterday. It’s a small-ish storefront on a busy street in the

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The truth about the good guys and the bad guys with guns

August 15, 2016 Willy Kessler Crime/Violence, Guns, Missouri region Leave a comment

You know how the NRA types are always telling us that the antidote to a bad guy with a gun is a good guy?

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A critical time for clemency in Missouri

August 8, 2016 Hafsa Activism, Charity & Justice, Missouri region, Prison Leave a comment

The criminal justice system is, by the admission of many liberal politicians, in desperate need of change. Prisons are overcrowded as a result of

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Missouri primary ads: All guns, Islamophobia, no issues

August 2, 2016 Steve Sorkin 2016 Election, Missouri region Leave a comment

The Republican primary commercials in Missouri are incredible.     Apparently one candidate supports bringing Islamic terrorists to Missouri, because he supported a plan

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Gun crazy: Senator Roy Blunt edition

June 27, 2016 Willy Kessler Guns, Missouri region Leave a comment

We’ve all heard the tragic stories about parents who just look away for one distracted second while disaster strikes their helpless toddler. There’s the

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MO candidate’s first TV ad is a gun-totin’ spectacle

June 8, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Guns, Missouri region, People 7 comments

Eric Greitens is blasting his way into the public eye—and not in a good way. Most candidates’ first TV ads are homey affairs, introducing

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Legislative pickpockets: What 2016 right-wing laws cost MO taxpayers

May 26, 2016 Willy Kessler Government, Missouri region, Politics, Republicans, Taxes One comment

Paul Waldman described Donald Trump’s “flexibility” in regard to the right-wing gun culture as “a perfect expression of the larger Republican bargain, where the

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Trump candidacy threatens MO’s Blunt

May 11, 2016 Willy Kessler 2016 Election, Missouri region 3 comments

Wanna know how lots of GOP politicians feel about their 2016 presidential candidate, Donald Trump? That’s easy. He scares the bejesus out of ’em.

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MO legislator wants names of women who’ve had an abortion

April 11, 2016 Gloria Shur Bilchik Missouri region, Reproductive rights, Republicans Leave a comment

If you had an abortion in Missouri between 2010 and 2015, you’re on Missouri State Senator Kurt Schaefer’s hit list. Schaefer, a Republican, demanded

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