Rep. Ashley Aune
@Ashley4MO
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🇺🇸 MO State Rep., District 14 – Platte County 🗣 It's pronounced /AHH-nee/ (rhymes with Pawnee) 🧡 I want to talk about gun violence
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Just voted!
The poll worker who took my ID was wearing elephant earrings, so I called my local election board.
I need y’all to know that’s not okay and as a voter, you have every right to call it out.
MO voters: If you have an issue at the polls today, call 314.499.2939
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I’ll be honest, I never thought my first national interview would be about what I can and cannot wear as a female lawmaker, but it was an honor and a privilege to speak with
@AlisynCamerota
and
@VictorBlackwell
this afternoon on
@CNN
.
#moleg
#sweatergate
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The MO House just killed a Parents Bill of Rights bill that would have put misleading language in front of voters & added 4 new pages to our constitution. As a Democrat in a deep red state, there are few things more invigorating than watching a bad bill die on the floor 💙
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@JLamarCrabbe
Do I think supporting free and fair and elections is worth my constituents’ time? Yes. Believe it or not, it’s one of the reasons they vote for me…
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To the LEO who emailed me this morning to harass me about Missouri’s extreme abortion law and put “rape” in quotation marks as if all victims are liars: you asked how I got elected in this area.
This is how. 1/
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This is a fake video that deceives voters into thinking a candidate spoke to a room full of excited voters, when in reality, it was soccer fans cheering for a match...
We just passed a bill out of the house that would make this kind of fake campaigning illegal.
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A bold, conservative Missouri is one where we eliminate personal property tax. I am THE ONLY candidate for Missouri governor that supports eliminating personal property tax.
My opponents are status quo establishment politicians who only say why Big Red Republican things "can't
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@ChrisLonsdaleKC
Seems like your time would be better spent familiarizing yourself with our laws instead of attempting to troll your future colleagues on Twitter.
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We did it!!!!! Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen!!! Can’t wait to head down to Jeff City and get back to work.
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Advocating for common sense gun laws does NOT mean I'm coming for your 2nd amendment rights. It means I want to find practical solutions for keeping deadly weapons away from ppl capable of slaughtering children.
18 little beds in TX are empty tonight. We cannot live like this.
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@bangs_drums
That was not the case. She knew what she was doing. I know that from our initial interaction. And I also addressed it directly with my contact at our board of elections.
I made it public because I want to educate voters about what is and is not allowed with poll workers.
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“Please stop taking away my choices.”
-Dan, a really fucking brave trans kid who has been here all day just to defend his right to exist
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Yesterday was my first day back in the Missouri House since last Wednesday’s shooting. I wanted to talk about gun violence.
The response from Republicans?
“I think she should just sit.”
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They’re still going, folks! Your senate Dems are holding the floor—standing up against hateful anti-LGBT bills.
As usual, I’m proud as hell to be a Missouri Democrat.
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#ProtectTransKids
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THE ACTUAL FACTS:
1) The site was ENCODED but not ENCRYPTED. This is cybersecurity 101. The incompetence is staggering.
2) A journalist brought it to your attention & DELAYED POSTING THE STORY so you could fix it before going public & opening the site up to actual hackers 1/
We want to be clear, this DESE hack was more than a simple “right click.”
THE FACTS: An individual accessed source code and then went a step further to convert and decode that data in order to obtain Missouri teachers’ personal information. (1/3)
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You will continue disparaging women’s experiences and treating us like livestock only here to produce your offspring, and we will continue building power, running for office, and delivering compassionate, well-informed representation to our constituents.
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To clarify, he met with REPUBLICAN representatives… no Dems were invited.
#moleg
Today, we met with some representatives from Kansas City & Northwest Missouri to discuss our plan to hold a special session to CUT TAXES for all working Missourians.
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Today I filed HB 1256, which would essentially codify the Federal Voting Rights Act in MO. It establishes protections for minorities by preventing local election authorities from implementing any law or policy denying the right to vote to any member of a protected class.
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IT’S 👏🏼THE 👏🏼 GUNS 👏🏼
Without unfettered access to deadly weapons, this would have been a fistfight. Instead, parents in Dadeville, Alabama have to BURY THEIR CHILDREN.
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My god. Imagine pulling a gun on a teenager *AND SHOOTING* just for ringing your doorbell… what the hell is going on???
ICYMI: A KC teen was shot after going to the wrong house to pick up his siblings Thursday night.
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🧵Alright,
#moleg
colleagues, who's ready to put politics aside and have some big, bipartisan conversations about how the hell we fix this? 1/
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I sure hope all the folks laughing at
@Mark__McCloskey
this week on the internet are planning on working to help us organize and elect more Dems in 2022... it’s all fun and games till people like him end up in office. Please get involved! If you don’t know how, ask!
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Starting tomorrow,
@DollyParton
's Imagination Library will be available to children in Missouri!
Every child from birth to age 5 can receive one free book per month delivered to their home—just sign up at .
Enjoy! 📚
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Kansas City, we don’t have to live like this.
Join us Sat @ 3 to show the world how serious we are abt making meaningful changes to our gun laws. I ran for office as an unapologetic
@momsdemand
member & I’ll never stop fighting to make KC safer & free from gun violence.
#moleg
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I’m not mad about an insurrectionist resigning. I am mad I have to listen to the long-winded goodbye speech about his disdain for the media, disappointments with our state’s constitution, and why he thinks Florida is better than Missouri. Good riddance. Let’s get to work.
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Imagine being in the supermajority for two decades and blaming the minority party for your own failures…
#moleg
#mogov
Missouri is stagnating.
The center-left fiscal coalition of Dems,
@GovParsonMO
and
@MikeLKehoe
—which focuses on crony capitalism and bigger government—is suffocating the Show-Me State.
We are behind CA, IL, and NY.
Jefferson City needs a Reckoning.
#letsgomo
#mogov
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Missouri does too.
Georgia needs a governor who can protect second graders and protect the Second Amendment at the same time.
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Republicans policy got us here. Are y’all ready to vote them out yet?
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‘Stand your ground’ law gone wrong: Both Chiefs rally shooters can claim self-defense | Opinion
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Watching male colleagues argue against a bill that will increase access to breast cancer screenings is absolutely wild…
Congrats to Rep. Brenda Shields for filing & moving her bill forward in the face of willful ignorance.
This is why we need more women in office.
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In 2020, as a
@MomsDemand
volunteer & step-parent, I finally realized nobody is coming to save us. We must be the change we want to see in our communities.
Thoughts & prayers do nothing. You have to vote like our children's' lives depend on it. Because they do.
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Looks like I’ll be joining the
@katiephangshow
on
@MSNBC
tomorrow morning to discuss what female lawmakers are allowed to wear at work in Missouri 🙃 Tune in at 6:50 a.m. CT to watch!
#moleg
#sweatergate
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Today, we are one step closer to taking back our bodily autonomy in Missouri.
November is coming, friends, and we won’t quit until every woman in our state has reclaimed her reproductive freedom from the fascists who stripped us of our rights just a few years ago.
#lfg
This morning,
@Missourians4CF
and the
@aclu_mo
dropped off more than 380,000 signatures to the secretary of state’s office in hopes of asking voters later this year to overturn Missouri’s abortion ban.
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So to clarify, the GOP’s position is…
Parent = has rights (but not if they seek gender-affirming care for kid)
Child = no rights (also maybe property?)
Pregnant seeking abortion = no rights
Fetus = has rights
Gun owner = has rights
Victims of gun violence = no rights
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It's time to put our kids first. This one size fits all model of education does not work. Parents shouldn't be handcuffed to the school assigned to their zipcode, especially if they cannot afford it. School choice shouldn’t be an option only for the rich. Pass SB 226!
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Who wants to tell
@GovParsonMO
that he was literally elected to be the manager… of the state, of the pandemic, all of it?
When asked about rising number of
#DeltaVariant
cases in southwest MO,
@GovParsonMO
says there should be no shortage of ventilators.
"The state has a stockpile of ventilators. When somebody says we're out of ventilators, that's more of management problem than anything."
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NBD just a gun show in KC this weekend. Friendly reminder: Missouri doesn’t require background checks at gun shows 🙃
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There is a scary trend in this country of straight, white conservatives silencing lawmakers who are people of color, trans, or even the parent of a trans kid… simply for speaking truth to power.
This is not democracy. This is fascism.
Where is the 1st amendment more sacred than on the floor of a state legislature?
I am an optimist about America’s future & I normally push back on Doomsday-type friends but this trend of silencing opposition is scary shit.
Let the lady speak. Good lord.
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To all the trans kids in Missouri: I’m so sorry for what this legislature just put you through and for how the votes taken today will affect your lives. I see you, I love you, and you matter to me. The fight continues...
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I can’t believe we’re at the point in our democracy where I need to point out our president is happily providing desperately needed resources to a state that *gasp* didn’t vote for him.
Because that’s what leaders do.
Florida, your nation has your back.
We’ll be with you until the job is done.
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I just cried reading this.
Missouri is currently sitting on a budget surplus while a woman slept in the snow, practically frozen to the concrete.
We must do better.
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To everyone traveling to Jeff City today to testify against hateful policy, please know your friendly House Dems stand with you in solidarity.
You are seen. You are loved. You belong.
My office is always a safe space: 109-E
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I feel very strongly that Missouri is more purple than our votes suggest. If we want to win more races across the state, we need to engage and activate voters—make sure everyone feels as if they are part of a movement to make Missouri better for future generations...
#moleg
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St. Luke’s North is in MY DISTRICT in Kansas City. 70 miles is an insane travel expectation for laboring mothers…
This is precisely what we predicted when MO Republicans passed the most extreme abortion ban in the country… 1/2
It only took a year from overturning Roe to see hospitals stop delivering babies in Missouri. Seems counterintuitive to “pro-life” but this is exactly what we said would happen. Obstetricians will struggle to ethically practice in red states. Moms and babies will suffer.
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Today I filed HCR 38, which would establish a Joint Committee on Gun Violence to address the epidemic of gun violence in our state. Fact: Missouri has the 7th highest gun violence rate in the United States...
#momsdemandaction
#MomsAreEverywhere
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This is how my Republican colleagues view Missourians. “Regular athletes” vs Special Olympics athletes.
During this weeks debate, I heard things like “normal kids” vs trans kids.
What is “regular” or “normal” anyway?How about we just let kids be kids?
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So, no big deal but I get to spend some time with the incredible
@shannonrwatts
today IRL and honestly I just hope I don’t embarrass myself by fan girling too hard…
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I’ll be on
@KCURUpToDate
tomorrow morning around 9:25, and I’m going to talk about common sense gun laws.
I was a
@MomsDemand
member before I was a politician, and I will never shut up about passing laws that could prevent tragedies like these.
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Psssst,
#moleg
, he’s talkin’ to us. We can’t count on Missouri Republicans to do anything about gun violence, so our only option is to win more elections and restore some balance to our state government.
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Just a reminder that our governor and AG had the chance to release Mr. Strickland but chose cruelty instead.
I’m so proud of my city. Here, empathy, kindness and justice are celebrated—at least our local leaders understand this…
VIDEO: Recently exonerated Kevin Strickland helped light the Kansas City Mayor’s Christmas Tree at Crown Center tonight. Strickland was released from prison after more than 40 years.
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I always wonder if it makes the majority party feel more powerful when they loudly scream “NO” at
@Bridget_for_MO
’s suggestions that we make the peoples house more accessible for folks with disabilities. It’s wild.
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There’s nothing more disappointing than watching a colleague participate in hateful political theater while simultaneously texting me asking for an opportunity to explain.
It happens CONSTANTLY.
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One of the things I love about being a Missouri Democrat is that I never feel the need to apologize for my public votes or public remarks in private.
We are on the right side of history 🏳️🌈
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Twice in the past three weeks a male Republican has told a female Democrat to sit down because we dared to mention that gun violence is plaguing our communities.
#moleg
#MoHouse
speaker
@deanplocher
shuts down
@MaggieforMO
&
@DebLavender
as they try to discuss gun violence during reconsideration of a child protection bill as
#GOP
members object
#moleg
#mogov
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I haven't filed a single bill that would restrict firearm access in any way, but I did file a resolution to simply form a joint legislative committee to *discuss* rising gun violence in MO. The Speaker practically laughed me out of his office when I asked for a hearing.
#moleg
Hug your babies, pray for those families and traumatized children, then vote for people who will stop this insanity.
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To my trans sisters, brothers & others: I’m so sorry. Your Missouri Legislature has failed you.
I promise I’ll never stop fighting for you and lifting up your experiences. You matter, and it’s the honor of a lifetime to be your voice in this body.
This is not the end.
#moleg
#BREAKING
| A bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors is headed to
@GovParsonMO
’s desk. This allows patients who are receiving care to continue once the law goes into effect. Parson previously said if this wasn’t passed he was going to call a special session.
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Y’all. This is what I mean when I say MO Republicans are too extreme. They want to bankrupt our state—putting taxpayer $ in the pockets of out-of-state big business—even though we already have the second lowest corporate tax rate in the country…
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I’m the lady who screamed…
It’s me. I’m the problem. 😒
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Another day in the Missouri House when the elected women are told to "sit down" while speaking.
When the Speaker refers to an elected woman as, "the lady who screamed".
When elected women are treated like our voices don't matter, they should remember November is coming.
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Last April,
@PeterforMO
offered an amendment to simply prohibit all children under eighteen years of age from carrying a firearm on public property….
Here was the vote. (Spoiler alert: it failed on party lines)
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As information comes forward today about underage shooters at Chief’s event yesterday…remember Missouri Republicans passed laws making it LEGAL FOR MINORS TO OPEN CARRY WEAPONS IN PUBLIC.
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Buckle up, y’all. Next week is gonna be rough.
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Not content with already being one of the worst states for transgender people with horrific legislation last year, Missouri legislature has announced that there will be 7 anti-trans bills heard in a SINGLE day on Wednesday of next week.
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The absolutely egregious Parents Bill of a Rights bill just *barely* passed the House. Rs were short a few votes, then one yelled PRIMARY VOTERS LOVE THIS BILL & enough flipped to yes to get it across the finish line.
Once again, cynicism & politics is driving policy in
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It would cost the state of Missouri zero dollars for them to listen to those of us—electeds and constituents—who are screaming this information at
@GovParsonMO
at the top of our lungs... infuriating
#mogov
#moleg
Missouri is using a third-party consultant to help it identify COVID-19 vaccine deserts.
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So damn proud of my colleagues who are fighting so hard to protect one person = one vote here in Missouri. Rep. Joe Adams is schooling the legislature about the history of concurrent majority and its roots in slavery and voter suppression.
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When
#moleg
debates the existence and validity of trans kids, we put missouri children at risk of self harm, bullying and increased discrimination. Period.
I will always stand up for Missouri kids. Always.
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I said goodbye to one of the first true loves of my life today. Since the moment I met him, Cyrus was an enormous presence in my world—and not just because he was enormous. I was so lucky to call him mine for 11 incredible years. Run free, big boy. 💙
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Currently debating reducing unemployment benefits to just 8 weeks.
“I won’t mince words. I hate this bill.” -
@PeterforMO
Couldn’t agree more.
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What MO needs:
✅ Better infrastructure
✅ Workforce development
✅ Improved teacher pay
✅ Criminal justice reform
What MO gets:
❌ Culture wars
❌ Gaslighting
❌ A supermajority that can’t figure out how to run our state
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The senate has undone the House Republicans sad little library vendetta 🙌🏼
After House Republicans in the
#moleg
ELIMINATED LOCAL LIBRARY FUNDING, Senate Democrats fully restored library funding today in the senate’s version of the budget. Full Senate vote expected next week. Thank you
@SenLaurenArthur
@KarlaMayMO4
@beedubyah1967
@BrianWilliamsMO
!!!
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Just placed another sign in another Republican yard because bipartisanship and common sense are desperately needed jn Jefferson City—not divisive rhetoric and viscous attacks.
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5) This year, I partnered w/ Rep. Bill Hardwick to pass the MO Cybersecurity Act which creates a commission of public & private experts to collaborate on best practices & ultimately protect MO from cyber attacks
@GovParsonMO
has not yet appointed anyone to the commission... 3/3
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@BenBakerMO
Your party controls literally every aspect of debate in that chamber—from what is discussed to how long we can talk about it. So I gotta ask: who staged what, Ben?
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If y'all missed Dougie's white nationalist I Have a Dream speech, here's part of it.
He claims equality was present at our country's founding...
Prob worth remembering that European settlers colonized land occupied by indigenous people & several founders had slaves...
#moleg
We must put a stop to the woke, marxist, DEI ideology that’s striving to divide…& destroy western ideals. Taxpayer $’s should’t be funding the very effort to destroy our civilization. Here’s a portion of my comment during debate re budget language prohibiting DEI expenditures.
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3) The fact that this kind of sensitive data lived on the site AT ALL is an egregious oversight
4) Instead of graciously receiving this info & acting swiftly to fix the oversight,
@GovParsonMO
lashed out at a member of the press with threats & accusations of malicious intent. 2/
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The
#moleg
Republican supermajority has been in complete disarray over the past few days in a desperate attempt to flip enough votes to pass a huge education bill that expands charters & vouchers, decreases transportation funding & creates unfunded mandates for teacher pay. 1/2
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All week, I’ve watched accounts for State rep CANDIDATES across Missouri get
@verified
without even asking for it. Meanwhile, I’ve been an elected official for 2 years and Twitter has rejected my verification request multiple times now… here’s the latest 😆😆😆
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You know what is poisoning the minds of our children? The
@MissouriGOP
’s decades-long assault on quality public education and a commitment to grandstanding and misinforming voters on the issues that actually matter.
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Oh man, this post really triggered some folks today.
Thoughts and prayers to those affected.
To the rest of y’all, see ya Saturday at 3! ❤️
Kansas City, we don’t have to live like this.
Join us Sat @ 3 to show the world how serious we are abt making meaningful changes to our gun laws. I ran for office as an unapologetic
@momsdemand
member & I’ll never stop fighting to make KC safer & free from gun violence.
#moleg
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If you’re an elected official invited to a school where the children are all too young to be vaccinated, and they ask you to wear a mask, WEAR A MASK. Or don’t come in. But to come in unapologetically maskless while the delta variant is spreading, that’s despicable…
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again:
Missouri Democrats don’t know who this guy is and we certainly don’t want him to run.
@crystal_quade
is our candidate because she’s been here doing the work her entire life.
Mike didn’t even bother to live here… GTFO
#mogov
“Mike Hamra was registered and voting in Illinois as recently as 2020,” said
@crystal_quade
. “I believe it’s clear that Mike Hamra does not meet the constitutional residency requirement to run for governor of Missouri."
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Happy
#transdayofvisibility
to all guys, gals and non-binary pals in the great state of Missouri! You are seen, you belong, and I’m proud to represent you in the peoples house. 🏳️⚧️
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#moleg
🧵
Currently debating a public safety omnibus bill and once again, I can hardly believe what I’m hearing from my colleagues…
Not only has this process been absolutely the opposite of fair and transparent, it’s been downright infuriating.
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Yesterday, I had the absolute honor of spending some time with
@shannonrwatts
, founder of
@MomsDemand
… 1/
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Proud to watch my colleagues stand up to support reproductive freedom in Missouri. The constant attacks are frustrating—but what’s worse is when they come from folks who genuinely don’t understand the biology involved.
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So many conservative men with big feelings about me and my colleagues in my mentions today. Bless their hearts. ❄️
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Weird. I guess the Secretary of State’s platform is so small he needs to testify in House committee hearings to have his bigoted opinions on trans kids heard loud and clear.
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An Extreme Risk Protection Order (red flag law) could’ve prevented the school shooting @ CVPA in STL last fall. Unfortunately, current MO law doesn’t give law enforcement the authority to remove firearms from dangerous individuals—even when family members are begging for help. 1/
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“In the 2021-2022 school year, only five transgender students applied to the Missouri State High School Athletics Association, or MSHSAA, to compete according to their gender identity.”
FIVE KIDS. But we’ll spend countless hours in
#moleg
this year debating their existence…
There are more bills prefiled for the 2023
#moleg
session regarding
#transgender
athletes than there are transgender athletes currently competing according to their identity
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via
@AnneliseHanshaw
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An
#sb8
🧵:
I am a rape survivor who was lucky enough to not be impregnated by the man who assaulted me. But during the period of uncertainty after my attack--before I knew if I was pregnant--I knew that no matter the outcome, I would have a choice of how to proceed...
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Y’all. I’ve never been so excited for a campaign announcement in my life.
I’ve spent several years watching this incredible woman stand up to extremism & lead with compassion.
There’s nobody I’d rather see in the Governor’s Mansion than my friend Crystal Quade 💙
#lfg
#mogov
Missouri doesn’t need more of the same.
I’m running for Governor so the people working extra shifts today can make life better for their kids tomorrow.
Join me and let’s beat the odds, together:
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And this, my friends, is just one more reason we’re fighting to end the Republican supermajority.
Here’s how you can help:
#moleg
Bill to ban all child marriages runs into resistance from Missouri House Republicans
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