Party Labels, Saving Democracy, MO GOP gaslights Missourians, Dark Money Is Running Your State House, 2022 Midterms realities

Adam Sommer kicks off with an update on the POD feed. Then an Opening Statement about the labeling of party politics, and why he uses “pragmatic progressive” to label his politics.

Then Rachel Parker joins in for this week’s Talkin’ Politics, including:

True or False: I was too mean to the Mo Dem Party last week

• Rachel’s article: https://www.patreon.com/posts/missouri-party-61512787?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copy_to_clipboard&utm_campaign=postshare

Yeah…no: Covid is over in Missouri and everything is fine

• Mo Gov Parson declares mission accomplished over Covid

• Min. Leader Quade hits back: Kids are a the capital instead of school BECAUSE of Covid

• AG Schmitt suing all the schools - even some that don’t even have a mandate

• Claim is psychological damage for having to wear a mask

• Pretty tall hill to climb

Buy or Sell: At some point voters will realize their states are big run by corporations and PACs

• Heritage foundation writing legislation to suppress the vote

• https://twitter.com/andrew_rudick/status/1484310206448234498?s=21

• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/01/how-republicans-are-taking-over-election-system-big-lie/

• Alec https://alec.org/

• Show Me Institute https://showmeinstitute.org/

• Not to leave out - Americans for Prosperity the Koch arm of it all

• THIS IS NOT EVEN AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST it’s like an iceberg

THE BIG ONE

Mid-Term Polling Numbers Look Bad for Dems - deep dive for the episode with some “call to action”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/poll-numbers-are-pointing-midterm-shellacking-democrats-n1287624

https://theintercept.com/2022/01/21/koch-missouri-senate-eric-greitens/

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