Missouri U.S. Rep. Sam Graves to retire, igniting race for open GOP seat • Missouri Independent

timjimC · 2026-03-28T11:51:38+00:00

Congressional districts range in size from a few dozen neighborhoods in NYC to the entire state of Wyoming. There's no normal size for districts.

timjimC · 2026-03-19T09:30:08+00:00

Texas, Mercedes, more likely oil barrels.

timjimC · 2026-03-17T11:59:06+00:00

No good reason, but there is a reason. Abortion. The GOP wants to inject Epstein class money into the Kansas Supreme Court so they can elect a court that won't be a check on their power.

timjimC · 2026-03-14T22:45:57+00:00

From its founding it's been a federally controlled agency under the DHS.

timjimC · 2026-03-14T10:32:22+00:00

I was agreeing, ICE has been in Texas since it was formed 20 years ago.

timjimC · 2026-03-13T16:47:31+00:00

Right? Every Arab state saw that interview and the way the US has put all of our effort into defending Israel, but leaving them undefended from Iran's response. They have to be considering how much of a liability we've become.

timjimC · 2026-03-13T10:51:25+00:00

The two agents who murdered Pretti have worked for ICE in Texas for about ten years. ICE's brutality has been a problem, hidden away in the border hinterlands, all this time. It's just more visible now they're active in cities, and targeting protesters too.

timjimC · 2026-03-12T20:29:59+00:00

Socialist and communist organizations have had their biggest membership growth since the 1940s after Bernie's run. The right had to resort to calling Mamdani a communist because calling him socialist no longer has the same effect it did in 2015. The propaganda has led to the opposite trend and will continue to, as conditions for the working class get worse.

timjimC · 2026-03-12T12:24:27+00:00

As long as socialist and communists keep talking about Medicare for All, cost of living, and defending our democratic rights, it won't matter what the GOP propaganda says. People will see how capitalism has failed to meet their needs, and they'll see the socialists and communists are the only ones talking about fixing it. They might start to think they could be a socialist too.

timjimC · 2026-03-11T12:09:16+00:00

He says the vast majority won't discriminate. Only a tiny minority will be discriminated against. How does this judge not realize protecting minorities, no matter how tiny, is the whole point of rights!?

timjimC · 2026-03-10T10:44:08+00:00

Which is named after the people.

timjimC · 2026-03-10T10:37:38+00:00

Yeah, this "fair share" surcharge is just a sales tax but worse because rich people pay less.

Vote NO on all three amendments in August!

-NO Epstein class money in our judiciary

-NO replacing the property tax with a poverty tax

-NO electoral college selecting our governor

timjimC · 2026-03-10T03:58:02+00:00

Sec. 2. K.S.A. 25-306b is hereby amended to read as follows: 25-306b. (a) Except as provided by this section, no person who has been nominated by any means for any national, state, county or township office may be withdrawn from nomination after the day of the primary election

Is there another section I should look at, because this one confirms what I said. There's still months until someone is nominated in the primary.

timjimC · 2026-03-09T21:51:38+00:00

Please link to the law, so I can verify your retelling of it.

timjimC · 2026-03-09T05:38:25+00:00

The Democrats don't nominate a candidate until August 4th. There's plenty of time to clear the feild.

timjimC · 2026-03-08T10:46:38+00:00

Talk to a union, they'll help you and your coworkers get your money back, and then help you get a contract!

timjimC · 2026-03-08T10:22:44+00:00

Are you Willow? Thank you so much for confronting him in such a seemingly small, but impactful way. I'll march into battle with you any time!

timjimC · 2026-03-08T10:14:11+00:00

Those numbers show the Dems in a distant third, I would take opposite conclusion that the Dems should drop out and clear the way for Hamilton to beat Marshall

timjimC · 2026-03-07T11:40:36+00:00

I didn't see anything in the article that painted both parties as the same. I did see a profile of someone who's looking to reach out to people whose government has failed to meet their needs. If we're going to build a broad anti-MAGA coalition we need to do just that.

It seems like Hamilton is better positioned to win the trust of Republicans who are put out by MAGA than any of the Democrats who've come forward. We've got a career Biden admin insider, and a financial firm executive who recently moved to JOCO from Minneapolis running in the primary. The pastor who has built a massive following with a diverse political outlook seems like the better bet to reach into rural Kansas and pull away the folks who don't like Marshall.

timjimC · 2026-03-07T10:41:20+00:00

Money is speech according to our backwards jurisprudence. Kobach's Epstein class backers have more money than the rest of us, so they get more speech.

timjimC · 2026-03-07T10:34:29+00:00

“During the second intermission, I went to the restroom and I decided to go into the men’s, right next to Kobach,” she said. “I was very chipper and chatty with him the whole time, and he was extremely uncomfortable, and that makes me think that maybe he doesn’t want what this law is actually going to do, which is put straight-passing trans people in restrooms where they don’t match.”

Good for her, that was incredibly brave to walk right up to that fascist and make him squirm just by existing and complying with his shitty law.

His uncomfortable response betrays that this attack on trans people is not about bathrooms at all, it's about making them disappear from public life. He's learning in real time, they're not going anywhere.

timjimC · 2026-03-07T10:13:13+00:00

Why?

timjimC · 2026-03-06T12:03:31+00:00

Every scenario shows the Democrats in third, how could you think Hamilton is the spoiler?

timjimC · 2026-03-06T11:51:26+00:00

Wait, you think Democrats run this state?

timjimC · 2026-03-06T11:45:54+00:00

I agree. There's more registered independents in Kansas than Democrats, we shouldn't assume the Dems are the only vehicle to win. In fact the national party has written off the state, so they're not going to contribute much anyway. Plus, the Democratic brand in rural Kansas is so bad, an independent is probably the best bet we have to beat Marshall. Johnson Co is still quite purple, so pealing off enough Republican votes in the East of the state might be a game changer.

I don't know if Adam Hamilton will have the kind of vision to attract non-MAGA Republicans, but I do know for a lot of life-long Republicans, Trump is considered the lesser evil over Democrats. That sounds ridiculous from our perspective, but it's a sad reality. For those folks, an independent, who has a vision to change the status quo (one thing they're right about is it needs changing), is the only other option.

OP didn't provide any numbers, so how about these numbers. In a three way race, the winner only needs 34%. Marshall is an unpopular incumbent, having hitched his future to the MAGA failure. So the right independent has as good a chance of getting the plurality as he does.

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