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.

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

Democracy only survives when people believe it works for them, providing justice, opportunity, and dignity. When those promises are broken, faith in democracy collapses.