Republican leaders are known for trafficking in myths and alternate realities: "Climate change is a hoax. Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden were classmates and best friends in the 3rd grade. John McCain would make a good president." The usual...
CNN reported late last night on massive Democratic turnout across the country. Some of these figures are based off of incomplete returns, like Arizona for instance, who broke the previous record by 80,000 with 67% percent in at the time....
Senators Jim Webb (D-Virginia) and Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) spoke about the need for a "modern day Truman Commission," and last year introduced an amendment to that effect. The commission was signed into law by the President as part of the...
Senator Kit Bond (R-Missouri) threatened to withhold much needed federal money for the city of St. Peters because the Republican Mayor, Len Pagano, reportedly spoke too nicely of a local Democrat who happens to be running against a former Bond...
Republican Governor Matt Blunt shocked Missourians when he announced that he would not seek another term. In a statement that shocked political leaders in both parties, Blunt released a TV address "announcing that having achieved virtually everything he set out...
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Today, President Bush will bring his failed ‘stay the course’ policy on Iraq to the Midwest. With even the most ardent Republicans fed up with President’s failed strategies, Bush will appear at rallies in Missouri and Iowa in a last ditch attempt to help the struggling campaigns of Republicans on the ballot this November. Instead of going on the offensive during these midterm elections, Republicans who have rubber-stamped Bush’s disastrous agenda are now playing defense.
Poll results for the Senate seats in Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee, and Virginia.
A day after Donald Rumsfeld told the American people to "relax" about the war in Iraq, Vice President Cheney brought the Bush Administration's fear and smear tactics to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri.
This year Americans have a choice between those who believe in crafting public policy based on extreme idealogical beliefs, and those who believe in making decisions based on the best evidence available and the advice of experts.
This week, the Missouri Supreme Court dealt yet another blow to the Republican Party's efforts across the country to win elections by making it harder for Americans to vote. In a decisive 6-1 vote, the Missouri state court declared that the Republican-engineered voter ID law would have imposed a "heavy and substantial burden on Missourians' free exercise of the right of suffrage."
Missouri Senate candidates, GOP incumbent, Jim Talent, and Democratic nominee, Claire McCaskill, took a spin on Sunday's Meet the Press for a colorful debate: On Talents close tie to Bush: Tim Russert, who moderated the debate on NBC's "Meet the...
Yesterday, The Hotline posted a compilation of recent polling across the United States. According to these polls, Democrats can win back the Senate. Listed below are the six Senate seat pick ups projected by polling. Keep in mind that these...
Democratic leaders in Missouri have a plan to educate low-income and disabled voters on how to obtain proper photo identification for the November election because of a new state law that requires all voters to have a form of state...
An editorial in today's
New York Times outlines how Republicans in Missouri and other states are using discriminatory voter ID laws to suppress voting and disenfranchise minorities, poor people, and elderly people who are less likely to have driver's license.
Across the country, primary voters last week sent a powerful message: Democratic voters from Connecticut to Missouri are energized as we head to the November elections. High voter turnout was a testament to how Democrats will win by standing up for what we believe in and not taking a single vote for granted. As we look towards November, the message is clear: Democrats offer a new direction for America.
Jim Talent is so desperate to make Claire McCaskill look bad that he has to make things up....
Missouri Republican Governor Matt Blunt is being criticized for his political appointments. "Governor Blunt is using government to reward his friends and family and to trade campaign contributions for gubernatorial appointments," said Democratic Party spokesman Jack Cardetti. The current governor,...
This week, Claire McCaskill, Democratic Candidate for United States Senate in Missouri, delivered the Democratic Radio Address. To listen to her address, click here. Good morning. My name is Claire McCaskill and I am running for the United States Senate...
In Missouri, advocates for the disabled are calling for a special session of the state legislature in the fall. They are seeking to restore funding for the Medical Assistance for Working Disabled program. The session would be used to restore...
The Washington Post has offered up some quick Senate race rankings. A couple that caught my eye: #2 Montana Democrats are higher on state Sen. Jon Tester than any other candidate in the country. His farming background, flattop hairdo and...
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement in response to Republicans pushing restrictive voter ID measures in Missouri.
Didn't they have a phrase for this in 2004? Talent’s stand on stem-cell research has taken some confusing twists. For four years, he voiced support for federal legislation that would ban all human cloning, including that used in early, or...
Today, while as many as 20 states still await reimbursement for the cost of covering prescription drugs, President Bush travels to Iowa and Missouri to pitch his failed Medicare Prescription Drug plan during two different stops at seniors centers and a “Conversation” on Medicare.
President Bush visited Missouri today in attempt to quell concerns that his disastrous Medicare Prescription Drug Plan has failed seniors. The President's failed prescription drug plan has left many seniors across the country and in Missouri vulnerable and confused, because of numerous conflicting plans and a large gap in drug coverage.
During today's Democracy Bond event in Kansas City, I had an opportunity to sit down with two bond-holders, Justin and Chere, and talk about why they decided it was so important to invest in the bond community. Video: Justin Talks...
This morning at 8 AM, about seventy-five Democrats gathered for coffee, doughnuts, and a side of inspiration from Governor Dean at the first ever Democracy Bond-Holder meeting in Kansas City. The event lasted about an hour and a half, starting...
Gov. Dean commemorating a great leader at St. Stephen's Baptist Church in Kansas City, Missouri on the evening of the Martin Luther King holiday.
Dean: "The principles in which he believed and to which he dedicated himself flowed from a fundamental respect for the dignity of each human being. Dr. King gave voice and vigor to a movement and to a dream of his beloved community. In doing so he gave back to America its founding promise."
What's a Democracy Bonds event? It's a chance for individuals who have invested in the Democracy Bonds program to meet with Governor Dean and discuss how their resources have been allocated during 2005 and the plan for victory in 2006....
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from anonymous big-money donors in 2000 and then distributed the excess cash to his political allies, including his replacement Roy Blunt, Blunt's son's campaign for Missouri Secretary of State and the consulting firm that employed DeLay's wife, Christine.
Despite underfunding veterans’ benefits and opposing health care for our troops, the Bush White House has dispatched Vice President Cheney to Springfield, Missouri today to speak to the 73rd national convention of the Military Order of the Purple Heart.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today urged Vice President Cheney to use his visit to Missouri to explain why the Bush Administration has failed to fully fund veterans benefits for the brave Missourans fighting on the front lines of the war on terror.
Fresh off his resounding failure on Social Security and in the thick of the mess he's failed to deal with in Iraq, new numbers from Survey USA show that the least popular lame-duck president in modern history can still find...
Missouri Democratic Party 208 Madison Street Jefferson City, MO 65102 573-636-5241 573-634-8176 (fax) http://www.missouridems.org/ Chair: Roger Wilson Vice Chair: Mattie Moore Executive Director: Ken Franklin...
Little Rock, AR -- Speaking before the Association of State Democratic Chairs (ASDC) today, Gov. Howard Dean announced that the Democratic National Committee (DNC) invest nearly half a million dollars to strengthen the state Democratic Parties in Missouri, North Carolina,...
The Democratic Party is committed to winning elections at every level in every region of the country.
