Dan Schaefer for Missouri

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.

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.

When some lawmakers stop winning public support, they stop trying to earn it. Instead, they use their power to force their views on the rest of us.

We cling to an 18th-century structure and hope that somehow it will withstand the pressures of a 21st-century society. Clearly, our Constitution has hit a breaking point.

What kind of nation will we become when both our news and our entertainment are held hostage by billionaires eager to please a mafia don? How do we stay connected when our channels of satire, storytelling, and shared truths are weaponized to keep us silent?

The Show-Me Institute claims to champion the cause of liberty. But the only thing they seek to liberate is your money from your wallet.

The white men in the cabal of faux Christianity are not disciples of Jesus. They have taken the language of Christianity and twisted it beyond recognition. In their hands, religion is no longer about compassion and grace; it’s about power and control.