Dan Schaefer for Missouri

When you're at the bottom, you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by tearing it all down. People know the game is rigged against them. And they're not wrong.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is attempting to move election enforcement in a dangerous direction: toward striking voters from the rolls without judicial oversight.

The right to petition our government is for sale The Missouri Legislature recently passed House Bill 1 (HB 1), a new congressional map pushed by Donald Trump and engineered to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat. Instead of waiting for the next census, lawmakers redrew the lines mid-decade in a special session, carving up Kansas City and turning seven of Missouri’s eight districts safely Republican. Missourians are fighting back. A citizens’ group called People No

ICE is deploying sophisticated tools to spy on people. Today the look for illegal migrants, but this technology can be turned against the entire population.

When the government is doing its job, it protects citizens from real threats to life and property. But when lawmakers are distracted by endless culture wars, it leaves ordinary people vulnerable to real criminals who undermine our safety and our way of life.

It is tragically fitting that Cheney, late in life, expressed alarm at Trump’s autocratic tendencies. Metaphorically speaking, Dick Cheney built Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, giving unchecked power to a megalomaniac who could not be controlled.

The moral test of our time is not whether we can avoid conflict, but whether we can face it with courage. Each time we fail that test, the moral line retreats a little farther into the darkness, dragging democracy with it.

The Trump Administration is preparing to provide $20 billion in assistance to help prop up the Argentine government. This may sound like a noble gesture, but behind the scenes, Argentina is actively competing with American soybean farmers. In essence, we’re funding our competitors!

Politicians lecture voters about outside money while raking it in

Medicare was created to protect seniors from financial ruin. It has evolved into a lifeline for tens of millions of Americans. But it faces threats — from insolvency, from predatory drug pricing, and from private insurers who exploit its brand while undermining its mission.

Are we willing to let our government decide who belongs in America based on how they look, how they sound, or what they believe? Today, the victims are immigrants. Tomorrow, it could be any one of us.

A quiet experiment is about to transform Medicare, and if we don’t pay attention, it will destroy America’s most trusted healthcare program.

When politicians answer to their wealthy donors instead of their voters, democracy becomes a privilege of wealth, not a right of the people.

The conflict between the wealthy elite and the working class isn’t a polite debate. It’s a street fight for the American dream we once cherished. It’s time we started acting like it.

Texas is in a standoff. Greg Abbott wants to redraw the maps. Democrats fled the state. No quorum, no gerrymander. It's Texas Hold ’em—with democracy on the run.

The Epstein scandal may be a moral flashpoint, but it’s a temporary one. Confusing the moment for the movement would be a profound strategic mistake.

One has to stand in awe at the mental distance traveled over the decades; a voyage that began with Reagan calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire,” and ended with American conservatives crawling on their knees in Red Square.

Conservative lawmakers want to gut the public school system, strip it for parts, and hand it over to private interests. Meanwhile, the U.S. is falling behind the rest of the world in academic performance.

America doesn’t lack housing. It lacks affordable housing.

Josh Hawley’s theology of governance isn’t just wrong. It’s dangerous. It replaces pluralism with dogma, justice with hierarchy, and democracy with dominion. His vision may not wear jackboots, but it marches in the same direction: toward a society where dissent is sin, where rights are contingent on obedience, and where government is no longer of the people—but of the chosen.