“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
So many have now reached this state, or worse, by no choice of their own. Damn them all.
Is there any chance that in the coming blue wave election of 2026 that their supermajority could be broken? This is clearly the result of them not caring what their constituents want.
Wondering the same…. What will it take for the people of Missouri to vote them out? I don’t know how you keep up your energy, Jess, but you are amazing. You are making a difference.
I'm in NC and the last election cycle, our wonderful NCDP Chair Anderson Clayton made that her #1 objective and she got very close to having a Democrat run for every seat.
We barely broke the supermajority due to gerrymandering, BUT we were able to elect Democrats for these statewide races: Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Education. We also reelected Allison Riggs to the NC Sumpreme Court. She was sworn into office just last week after the GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin FINALLY conceded.
The MAGAs are so greedy. In the NC Supreme Court election, Allison Riggs won reelection to her Supreme Court seat. There are now TWO Democrats on the NC Supreme Court. The other five are MAGAts.
If the story Jess told about Republicans overturning the will of the people in a free and fair election were distilled in a short, well-made video and on flyers, and spread far and wide across Missouri, seems like it could be a powerful tool for anyone willing to run as a Democrat.
Very few voters back evil, cruelty and greed when they recognize it running for public office.
I don't have much spare change these days, (and I don't live near Missouri) but I'd contribute to any fund created to pay for advertising on this critical issue in Missouri if Jess said the backers were legitimate.
Yes nameless, I was thinking of possibly The Lincoln Project or The Seneca Project. And whoever makes the ads, Jess should be given major input into which would be successful in her state.
The goal is informing voters of all parties in an effective way, not just getting likes or entertaining those of us fed up with Trump's many horrific traits. https://www.senecaproject.us/
The problem is running for office is expensive, so where will the money come from to support Democratic candidates in a deep red state? Maybe if some of the high profile Democrats doing townhalls in red districts could spend some time in Missouri, there would be a better assessment of grassroots support for Democrats and more people from outside Missouri would be inclined to donate.
This seems like a good time to try, since people are more fired up than usual over Republican cruelty and mismanagement.
Someone somewhere (I have genuinely forgotten where I read it) pointed out, a fraction of the monies raised last year could have been invested in creating grass roots capacity, not just for the last presidential election but as genuine grass roots activity, which could lay the foundation for steady growth.
It might have generated better yields - especially in the longer term - than a n other tv advert.
Exactly what I’m thinking now. I’m feeling your pain and frustration Jess, and yet you just keep on going in your struggles with the GOP state traitors! I have enormous RESPECT for you!💙👏👏👏
Until the Democratic Party starts making a sincere effort to build its party infrastructure in rural areas and invest in recruiting, training, and helping to support candidates for local and state offices everywhere, we will continue to see this happen again and again.
I am fighting this same battle in Texas and have been told many times by state Democratic Party leaders that they will not invest in or allocate resources to races that cannot be won. I have told them repeatedly that the only races certain to be lost are those uncontested. Democrats need to wake the “F” up and invest in rural area local and state races.
I have given up on donating to the DNC. I do donate to the NCDP primarily because the Chair, Anderson Clayton, understands the importance of rural Democrats since she is one!
I also donate to local grassroots groups involved in year-round organizing. Either Robert Hubbell or Jessica Craven put me on to Movement Voter Project (https://movement.vote/) during the last election cycle. MVP operates in swing states which may include TX for the 2026 House race. They identify groups on the ground that are most effective. I've donated to several groups they support in NC.
Texan here, one who grew up in an extremely rural, sparsely populated area of the state (moving back there and running for office are not options for my family). As Jess has written, it's damn near impossible to break through the far-right media and social media bubble in rural areas.
In TX, though, I am curious about non-TDP progressive political orgs' investments in suburban/exurban areas (e.g., Ground Game Texas and Powered x People). Because the TDP is acting as misguidedly as the DNC, so if there is any hope in Texas at all, we'll just have to move forward without them.
I invite you to look at an organization I work with and support, Blue Horizon Texas- https://www.bluehorizontexas.org. I am President of their PAC. In 2024 we travelled over 2000 miles across Texas recruiting and training Democratic candidates to run for local and state offices. As a result 55 counties across Texas had Democratic candidates on their ballots for the first time in over 20 years.
We can do this but it requires sustained efforts and voter support.
Maggie, YES! And we are working on it! You can, too!
Saturday we were leaving flyers on Speaker Jon Patterson’s constituents’ doors and talking to his neighbors . We explained how he betrayed their vote, and how they can hold him accountable.
Jobs With Justice and Abortion Action Mo are working with all like-minded orgs to defeat the politicians that defeated our votes.
I agree ☝️ they need to be voted out, the people even voted and they did not care. How about they get fired for not following their bosses orders (the people)?
Ohio is following the lead of Missouri. We voted years ago to end gerrymandering of state and congressional districts. They don’t care. They keep redrawing severely gerrymandered districts. Ohioans complain about school funding, crumbling infrastructure and any number of issues. But until more them wake up to the fact that Republicans have controlled all branches of government 28 of the last 30 years, we are stuck.
I very much feel and appreciate your distress. I live in Ohio, we voted to stop gerrymandering and to have new maps drawn that weren’t gerrymandered. To make a long story short, the GOP governed state ignored the will of the people. It’s so discouraging.
They were sued and lost multiple cases. Unfortunately the courts do not have a way to enforce their decisions, they rely on the executive branch. In this case, the Republican governor ignored the courts orders.
“In 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled five times that the state’s redistricting maps — proposed by the Ohio Redistricting Commission — violated the Ohio Constitution. These rulings should have resolved the issue. Instead, they were defied.”
'It'd hurt businesses' - that's a very old canard. Trotted out at every opportunity when the slightest bit of social progress in favour of workers are proposed.
Let's look at this particular issue - do you think that a business benefits if workers are turning up at work when they are sick? Do you think that a worker will be able to provide good service to the company if their head is full of wool because they're running a fever?
Or a slightly different example, I noticed the headline about recalling icecream. A few years ago there was a storyline in a soap, where a worker had gone to work despite being infectious with norovirus, they managed to infect a sizeable batch of icecream, creating illness among customers and considerable costs for their employer.
Or much simpler: A business does not benefit from sick workers!
Extreme times call for extreme measures. If/when the governor actually does sign the bill to negate the will of the people, how about being poised to file lawsuits against employers for manslaughter for the deaths cause by their onerous employment policies?
These are civil suits. Anyone can file a civil suit against anyone for any reason. It has to be processed.
Flood the courts with these cases. Play Trump's game.
All of this weighs on my heart too, Jess. And I’m not even in Missouri! But you so eloquently narrow it down to the essence: GOP has "great concerns" about businesses. Dems are concerned with people - especially the least among us.
I’m not sure what (from across the pond) I find more astonishing - the callous mistreatment of the people you relate, Jess, by employers and legislators alike, or that a democratic vote in “the land of the free” to ease that situation should be overturned by the state government. Sorry, words fail me.
It’s very simple, and a sad truth: until enough white women decide to vote not to hurt minorities, transgender people, disabled people, etc. and “the lesser” in their minds as well as proximity to “the superior” in white men, this will continue to be the outcome each and every time in the USA today.
And like everyone else, even including poor to middle class white men not just white women, will all be hurt economically so the top 1% benefit from it all regardless not 99% of us from these culture wars and demonizing of others to propagate the fear they successfully elicit without fail for 10 years now too not just who they view as “inferior” here. Fascist, rich white men see white women as inferior, too, and “the lesser” gender period no matter how much fascist white women see themselves as superior to everyone else but them…aka you can’t vote to only keep your rights and keep others down, which is the story of things here and in many states today in the USA. All rights are intertwined, interrelated, and correlate with each other: until all of us are equal, none of us are equal.
I live in Arkansas. We also have Republican super majorities in our legislature, and many of them seem to be motivated mainly by greed and cruelty. I understand. ..I have part time helpers with my gardens. When people get sick, I give them paid time off. I’m just a nice old grandmother, but I think people have to take care of each other.
They have never cared, it’s something in republicans DNA that cancels the gene for empathy and sympathy. I remember the times that I had to send my girls to school sick because I absolutely could not afford to stay home with them. My husband worked almost a thousand miles away. Those were hard times and remembering them brings so much guilt. Our country is not only failing economically but is also failing morally!
they don’t need to be pregnant to be expected to share parenting, and that means taking off work when your kids are sick, .why is this just up to Moms?
Those parents likely would have been charged with neglect had that baby died. I can see that happening even though they were able to save the baby. I grew up in Missouri, got married and moved to Kansas. I never thought Missouri could be worse than Kansas, but here we are. My relatives vote for these people, against their own needs. It doesn't make sense. None of this does. It's easier to understand how things happen in other countries when we see things happening in the US that we never thought possible. This retired teacher thanks you for your efforts to stop the nonsense.
I worked in a children's emergency department for years and saw similar situations to this which left me saddened and advocating for the patient's parents even as the medical providers did not necessarily see the full picture .
I'm surprised CPS wasn't calledk. I ran into situations like this often -families that had to work low wage jobs where there were no benefits such as paid time off for their own illness or for their children. I remember seeing the pleading in their eyes. They were between a rock and a hard place . It is so messed up.
Those who are on the lower wrung of ladder, are often blamed for that place. It is seen as some sort of deficiency of their character while others, by their massive good fortune are able to hold jobs and professions that allowed for such benefits or had enough family members to help out in emergencies.
It is always heartbreaking to hear how our neighbors in Missouri don’t have a governor who abides by the will of the people. This is more than a state issue and should be a national one. I hope someday that the people will stop electing folks who don’t have their best interests at heart.
Debra, citizens who voted for tRump don't do their due diligence in researching the candidates. Most of them are lazy, and are pretty much NOT known as readers.
Too many have listened to Fox for decades and Rush Limbaugh radio, hate they have for others is baked in. Fear is real. Trump just added them to his entourage.
Jess, I’ve read enough of your posts to know that in the next election cycle, you’ll be reminding Missourians of those elected officials who vote to overturn the will of the people. I hope you hammer away at them at every opportunity. The Regressives use the excuse of helping “business” for so many policies that screw over the middle class and poor. We have to keep calling attention to this, over and over and over.
I am so sorry, I emailed Governor Kehoe, stating that I had heard for a heartbroken Missouri resident stating
“A few days ago, the Missouri GOP rolled back the earned sick time for Missouri workers. The earned sick time we just approved on a ballot in November. Workers began receiving it on May 1, 2025. Earned sick time will be signed away by our Governor on August 28.”
I used a James Baldwin quote,,
“There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people.” I asked him to not break faith with the people he governs and betray the Missourians who want and voted in paid sick leave. I urged him not to sign such a cruel bill, I don’t know if it will help, but maybe if everyone emails him
It might make a difference, It can’t hurt, and I do believe
Tyranny cannot be appeased. It never works.
Tyranny only wins when we submit.
Solidarity is how we win.
I know this hurts, but I also know you will find a way to keep fighting authoritarian rule and for the common good, Your courage is contagious. keep reaching out to unite with other like minded groups to fight this tyranny.
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald
So many have now reached this state, or worse, by no choice of their own. Damn them all.
Yes! Damn them ALL!
Is there any chance that in the coming blue wave election of 2026 that their supermajority could be broken? This is clearly the result of them not caring what their constituents want.
Wondering the same…. What will it take for the people of Missouri to vote them out? I don’t know how you keep up your energy, Jess, but you are amazing. You are making a difference.
Democratic candidates. Jess has written in the past about how too many Republicans run unopposed.
https://bluemissouri.org/jessica-piper-democrats-must-contest-every-seat/
I'm in NC and the last election cycle, our wonderful NCDP Chair Anderson Clayton made that her #1 objective and she got very close to having a Democrat run for every seat.
We barely broke the supermajority due to gerrymandering, BUT we were able to elect Democrats for these statewide races: Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Superintendent of Public Education. We also reelected Allison Riggs to the NC Sumpreme Court. She was sworn into office just last week after the GOP candidate Jefferson Griffin FINALLY conceded.
The MAGAs are so greedy. In the NC Supreme Court election, Allison Riggs won reelection to her Supreme Court seat. There are now TWO Democrats on the NC Supreme Court. The other five are MAGAts.
Yes Blue Missouri allots some money to every Democratic candidate running in Missouri.
If the story Jess told about Republicans overturning the will of the people in a free and fair election were distilled in a short, well-made video and on flyers, and spread far and wide across Missouri, seems like it could be a powerful tool for anyone willing to run as a Democrat.
Very few voters back evil, cruelty and greed when they recognize it running for public office.
I don't have much spare change these days, (and I don't live near Missouri) but I'd contribute to any fund created to pay for advertising on this critical issue in Missouri if Jess said the backers were legitimate.
Seems like a perfect opportunity for The Lincoln Project.
Yes nameless, I was thinking of possibly The Lincoln Project or The Seneca Project. And whoever makes the ads, Jess should be given major input into which would be successful in her state.
The goal is informing voters of all parties in an effective way, not just getting likes or entertaining those of us fed up with Trump's many horrific traits. https://www.senecaproject.us/
This shows how pathetic the Democratic party is...our only hope is that never-Trump Republican organizations will create ads to reach voters...
I live in Florida and it's almost as bad here
The problem is running for office is expensive, so where will the money come from to support Democratic candidates in a deep red state? Maybe if some of the high profile Democrats doing townhalls in red districts could spend some time in Missouri, there would be a better assessment of grassroots support for Democrats and more people from outside Missouri would be inclined to donate.
This seems like a good time to try, since people are more fired up than usual over Republican cruelty and mismanagement.
Consider donating to Every State Blue (https://everystateblue.org/about/)
Someone somewhere (I have genuinely forgotten where I read it) pointed out, a fraction of the monies raised last year could have been invested in creating grass roots capacity, not just for the last presidential election but as genuine grass roots activity, which could lay the foundation for steady growth.
It might have generated better yields - especially in the longer term - than a n other tv advert.
Exactly what I’m thinking now. I’m feeling your pain and frustration Jess, and yet you just keep on going in your struggles with the GOP state traitors! I have enormous RESPECT for you!💙👏👏👏
Keep up the good work, Jess. Your posts and your work always inspire me to continue my own efforts to bring about a brighter future.
Until the Democratic Party starts making a sincere effort to build its party infrastructure in rural areas and invest in recruiting, training, and helping to support candidates for local and state offices everywhere, we will continue to see this happen again and again.
I am fighting this same battle in Texas and have been told many times by state Democratic Party leaders that they will not invest in or allocate resources to races that cannot be won. I have told them repeatedly that the only races certain to be lost are those uncontested. Democrats need to wake the “F” up and invest in rural area local and state races.
I have given up on donating to the DNC. I do donate to the NCDP primarily because the Chair, Anderson Clayton, understands the importance of rural Democrats since she is one!
I also donate to local grassroots groups involved in year-round organizing. Either Robert Hubbell or Jessica Craven put me on to Movement Voter Project (https://movement.vote/) during the last election cycle. MVP operates in swing states which may include TX for the 2026 House race. They identify groups on the ground that are most effective. I've donated to several groups they support in NC.
Check out this donor's guide for more infomation: https://movement.vote/donors-guide-to-strategic-political-giving-whats-the-best-place-to-make-a-progressive-political-donation/
Or register for their upcoming National briefing on May 29th:
https://movement.vote/register/l6v5wduz/
Could a person with standing sue the state for overturning the vote? Would any of the donors on the above lists be willing to finance the suit?
Thank you for sharing the link. MVP sounds like a great place to send contributions.
This is awesome. I will only donate to candidates that I believe in.
Texan here, one who grew up in an extremely rural, sparsely populated area of the state (moving back there and running for office are not options for my family). As Jess has written, it's damn near impossible to break through the far-right media and social media bubble in rural areas.
In TX, though, I am curious about non-TDP progressive political orgs' investments in suburban/exurban areas (e.g., Ground Game Texas and Powered x People). Because the TDP is acting as misguidedly as the DNC, so if there is any hope in Texas at all, we'll just have to move forward without them.
I invite you to look at an organization I work with and support, Blue Horizon Texas- https://www.bluehorizontexas.org. I am President of their PAC. In 2024 we travelled over 2000 miles across Texas recruiting and training Democratic candidates to run for local and state offices. As a result 55 counties across Texas had Democratic candidates on their ballots for the first time in over 20 years.
We can do this but it requires sustained efforts and voter support.
Love to see it. Thanks for your work!
Agreed from Appalachia. D is for disaster
The local legislation and judicial elections must go blue as well. All republicans are corrupt vote them out!
Stop voting Republican
They’ve been so successful with gerrymandering that they don’t need a majority anymore.
In NC, elections are rigged with surgical precision because of gerrymandering. Gerrymandering IS rigging and election; it is cheating.
if no Democrats or Independents run the Republicans still "win". that's the problem.
Exactly!
Jess Piper and Blue Missouri are attacking that problem.
Maggie, YES! And we are working on it! You can, too!
Saturday we were leaving flyers on Speaker Jon Patterson’s constituents’ doors and talking to his neighbors . We explained how he betrayed their vote, and how they can hold him accountable.
Jobs With Justice and Abortion Action Mo are working with all like-minded orgs to defeat the politicians that defeated our votes.
Join us and make them pay the consequences!
I agree ☝️ they need to be voted out, the people even voted and they did not care. How about they get fired for not following their bosses orders (the people)?
Ohio is following the lead of Missouri. We voted years ago to end gerrymandering of state and congressional districts. They don’t care. They keep redrawing severely gerrymandered districts. Ohioans complain about school funding, crumbling infrastructure and any number of issues. But until more them wake up to the fact that Republicans have controlled all branches of government 28 of the last 30 years, we are stuck.
I very much feel and appreciate your distress. I live in Ohio, we voted to stop gerrymandering and to have new maps drawn that weren’t gerrymandered. To make a long story short, the GOP governed state ignored the will of the people. It’s so discouraging.
Sue them!!
They were sued and lost multiple cases. Unfortunately the courts do not have a way to enforce their decisions, they rely on the executive branch. In this case, the Republican governor ignored the courts orders.
“In 2022, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled five times that the state’s redistricting maps — proposed by the Ohio Redistricting Commission — violated the Ohio Constitution. These rulings should have resolved the issue. Instead, they were defied.”
- https://www.clemetrobar.org/?pg=CMBABlog&blAction=showEntry&blogEntry=125073
This is a travesty. "It would hurt businesses." That's the new "Send it back to the states," but worse since voters approved it.
Keep speaking up. Love your courage and light.
We need to write all of our representatives to make paid sick leave a federal law. I will write to mine now,
'It'd hurt businesses' - that's a very old canard. Trotted out at every opportunity when the slightest bit of social progress in favour of workers are proposed.
Let's look at this particular issue - do you think that a business benefits if workers are turning up at work when they are sick? Do you think that a worker will be able to provide good service to the company if their head is full of wool because they're running a fever?
Or a slightly different example, I noticed the headline about recalling icecream. A few years ago there was a storyline in a soap, where a worker had gone to work despite being infectious with norovirus, they managed to infect a sizeable batch of icecream, creating illness among customers and considerable costs for their employer.
Or much simpler: A business does not benefit from sick workers!
Exactly!
Extreme times call for extreme measures. If/when the governor actually does sign the bill to negate the will of the people, how about being poised to file lawsuits against employers for manslaughter for the deaths cause by their onerous employment policies?
These are civil suits. Anyone can file a civil suit against anyone for any reason. It has to be processed.
Flood the courts with these cases. Play Trump's game.
All of this weighs on my heart too, Jess. And I’m not even in Missouri! But you so eloquently narrow it down to the essence: GOP has "great concerns" about businesses. Dems are concerned with people - especially the least among us.
I’m not sure what (from across the pond) I find more astonishing - the callous mistreatment of the people you relate, Jess, by employers and legislators alike, or that a democratic vote in “the land of the free” to ease that situation should be overturned by the state government. Sorry, words fail me.
It’s very simple, and a sad truth: until enough white women decide to vote not to hurt minorities, transgender people, disabled people, etc. and “the lesser” in their minds as well as proximity to “the superior” in white men, this will continue to be the outcome each and every time in the USA today.
And like everyone else, even including poor to middle class white men not just white women, will all be hurt economically so the top 1% benefit from it all regardless not 99% of us from these culture wars and demonizing of others to propagate the fear they successfully elicit without fail for 10 years now too not just who they view as “inferior” here. Fascist, rich white men see white women as inferior, too, and “the lesser” gender period no matter how much fascist white women see themselves as superior to everyone else but them…aka you can’t vote to only keep your rights and keep others down, which is the story of things here and in many states today in the USA. All rights are intertwined, interrelated, and correlate with each other: until all of us are equal, none of us are equal.
drops mic
I live in Arkansas. We also have Republican super majorities in our legislature, and many of them seem to be motivated mainly by greed and cruelty. I understand. ..I have part time helpers with my gardens. When people get sick, I give them paid time off. I’m just a nice old grandmother, but I think people have to take care of each other.
How ‘bout you run for Governor?
THIS!
They have never cared, it’s something in republicans DNA that cancels the gene for empathy and sympathy. I remember the times that I had to send my girls to school sick because I absolutely could not afford to stay home with them. My husband worked almost a thousand miles away. Those were hard times and remembering them brings so much guilt. Our country is not only failing economically but is also failing morally!
A lot of this might be remedied if men got pregnant. You know they’d figure out a way to parent and provide.
they don’t need to be pregnant to be expected to share parenting, and that means taking off work when your kids are sick, .why is this just up to Moms?
That is the point I was making, Linda. Remember Gloria Steinem
saying that if men got pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
I've heard it this way "If men could get pregnant abortion would be a god given right".
Those parents likely would have been charged with neglect had that baby died. I can see that happening even though they were able to save the baby. I grew up in Missouri, got married and moved to Kansas. I never thought Missouri could be worse than Kansas, but here we are. My relatives vote for these people, against their own needs. It doesn't make sense. None of this does. It's easier to understand how things happen in other countries when we see things happening in the US that we never thought possible. This retired teacher thanks you for your efforts to stop the nonsense.
Absolutely-
I worked in a children's emergency department for years and saw similar situations to this which left me saddened and advocating for the patient's parents even as the medical providers did not necessarily see the full picture .
I'm surprised CPS wasn't calledk. I ran into situations like this often -families that had to work low wage jobs where there were no benefits such as paid time off for their own illness or for their children. I remember seeing the pleading in their eyes. They were between a rock and a hard place . It is so messed up.
Those who are on the lower wrung of ladder, are often blamed for that place. It is seen as some sort of deficiency of their character while others, by their massive good fortune are able to hold jobs and professions that allowed for such benefits or had enough family members to help out in emergencies.
It is always heartbreaking to hear how our neighbors in Missouri don’t have a governor who abides by the will of the people. This is more than a state issue and should be a national one. I hope someday that the people will stop electing folks who don’t have their best interests at heart.
Debra, citizens who voted for tRump don't do their due diligence in researching the candidates. Most of them are lazy, and are pretty much NOT known as readers.
Too many have listened to Fox for decades and Rush Limbaugh radio, hate they have for others is baked in. Fear is real. Trump just added them to his entourage.
Magas listen to everything Trump says and believe every word of it. DUH
The people are lied to all the time by these crooks and thugs who are on the $ train. And they believe them. Ugh
Just gotta go out.
Sounds just like Florida. DeSatan does this too.
Jess, I’ve read enough of your posts to know that in the next election cycle, you’ll be reminding Missourians of those elected officials who vote to overturn the will of the people. I hope you hammer away at them at every opportunity. The Regressives use the excuse of helping “business” for so many policies that screw over the middle class and poor. We have to keep calling attention to this, over and over and over.
I am so sorry, I emailed Governor Kehoe, stating that I had heard for a heartbroken Missouri resident stating
“A few days ago, the Missouri GOP rolled back the earned sick time for Missouri workers. The earned sick time we just approved on a ballot in November. Workers began receiving it on May 1, 2025. Earned sick time will be signed away by our Governor on August 28.”
I used a James Baldwin quote,,
“There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people.” I asked him to not break faith with the people he governs and betray the Missourians who want and voted in paid sick leave. I urged him not to sign such a cruel bill, I don’t know if it will help, but maybe if everyone emails him
https://governor.mo.gov/contact-us
It might make a difference, It can’t hurt, and I do believe
Tyranny cannot be appeased. It never works.
Tyranny only wins when we submit.
Solidarity is how we win.
I know this hurts, but I also know you will find a way to keep fighting authoritarian rule and for the common good, Your courage is contagious. keep reaching out to unite with other like minded groups to fight this tyranny.