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Facebook posts
stated on December 15, 2024 in Facebook posts:

Residents in states across the U.S. are eligible for a $2,200 holiday stimulus payment.

By Sofia Ahmed • December 20, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on September 24, 2024 in an Instagram reel:

"Missouri registered 78,421 in just one week of February of this year. Out of that number, 23,253 were dead people!"

By Andy Nguyen • October 4, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on June 24, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Photo shows a missing child in Pike County, Missouri.

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 2, 2024
Facebook posts
stated on June 8, 2024 in a Facebook post:

Kansas City Chiefs said they refuse to participate in Pride Month because ‘it’s extremely woke.’

By Jeff Cercone • June 10, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on March 3, 2024 in an Instagram post:

A new Missouri bill “would put teachers on the sex offense registry if they ‘contribute to social transition’” of transgender students, including by using gender-affirming pronouns.

By Grace Abels • March 11, 2024
Instagram posts
stated on September 18, 2023 in an Instagram post:

Video shows Republican Missouri state senators using flamethrowers to burn books.

By Sara Swann • September 21, 2023
X posts
stated on April 18, 2023 in a Tweet:

Missouri’s attorney general has a website “where people can report trans individuals and the people who help them.”

By Grace Abels • April 20, 2023
Team PAC
stated on February 7, 2022 in an ad:

Eric Schmitt “sponsored a bill to spend $480 million of your tax dollars” on cargo hub for airlines "owned by China's Communist Party” and "voted to let China buy up Missouri farmland."

By Tom Kertscher • February 9, 2022
Facebook posts
stated on October 23, 2021 in a post:

A Kansas City tourism sign had a terrible typo.

By Jeff Cercone • November 17, 2021
Missouri House Democratic Caucus
stated on March 22, 2021 in a tweet:

"An average of nearly 5,000 Missourians were contracting COVID every day in November."

By William Skipworth • April 24, 2021
Roy Blunt
stated on April 4, 2021 in remarks on "Fox News Sunday":

The proposal by President Joe Biden would put the U.S. “No. 2 in the world” for the highest corporate tax rate.

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2021
Roy Blunt
stated on March 21, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Under H.R. 1, the Federal Election Commission “for the first time ever, instead of being an equal number of Republicans and Democrats (would be) three of one side and two of the other."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2021
Eric Greitens
stated on March 2, 2021 in an interview on 97.1 KTFK:

By ending the Keystone XL Pipeline project, President Joe Biden “imperiled one of Donald Trump's most significant achievements, which was that we had achieved American energy independence.”

By William Skipworth • March 19, 2021
Roy Blunt
stated on February 25, 2021 in a tweet:

Says his amendment on a budget bill “would have helped get kids back in school after teachers were vaccinated. Every single Senate Democrat voted against it.”

By William Skipworth • March 10, 2021
Josh Hawley
stated on January 6, 2021 in a U.S. Senate speech:

“Last year, Pennsylvania elected officials passed a whole new law that allows universal mail-in balloting, and did it irregardless of what the Pennsylvania Constitution said.”

By Amy Sherman • January 8, 2021
Josh Hawley
stated on January 4, 2021 in a tweet:

Says activists threatened his family and “screamed threats, vandalized, and tried to pound open our door.”

By William Skipworth • January 8, 2021
Mike Parson
stated on November 12, 2020 in a press conference:

“Schools that are consistently implementing COVID-19 mitigation strategies remain among the safest places for our students.”

By Simone Esters • December 17, 2020
Roy Blunt
stated on November 24, 2020 in an Interview with the Southeast Missourian:

“The president got the highest percentage of minority votes of any Republican candidate for president in over 100 years."

By Simone Esters • December 8, 2020
Liberty Alliance
stated on October 14, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"Beware - George Soros is starting a Fake News site in Missouri”

By William Skipworth • December 4, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
stated on November 6, 2020 in a tweet:

Unemployment report shows “America is bouncing back.”

By Veronica Mohesky • November 18, 2020
Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
stated on October 23, 2020 in a web ad:

Says Ann Wagner’s campaign "has taken millions of dollars from special interests, more than almost anyone else in Congress.”

By Paul Schloesser • October 30, 2020
Nicole Galloway
stated on September 26, 2020 in a campaign ad:

"Mike Parson opposes protections for pre-existing conditions.”

By William Skipworth • October 30, 2020
Jill Schupp
stated on September 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner “voted five times against protecting pre-existing conditions."

By Noah Crider • October 29, 2020
Cheri Toalson Reisch
stated on October 6, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The Columbia school buildings in my district have the lowest test scores in all of Boone County.”

By Veronica Mohesky • October 29, 2020
Nicole Galloway
stated on October 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says "Gov. Parson’s administration purged 100,000 kids from Medicaid rolls."

By William Skipworth • October 23, 2020
Vicky Hartzler
stated on September 2, 2020 in an interview with FM 93.9 “The Eagle”:

“We're starting to reach almost herd immunity in this nation, so we'll be on the downside of this virus very soon."

By Benjamin Brink • October 23, 2020
Caleb Rowden
stated on September 22, 2020 in an online campaign ad:

Says he “fully funded Missouri K-12 education for the first time in state history.”

By Minh Connors • October 16, 2020
Uniting Missouri PAC
stated on September 2, 2020 in a campaign ad:

Says Nicole Galloway's campaign “is being bankrolled by the same extremists who want to defund our police."

By William Skipworth • October 14, 2020
Mike Parson
stated on August 18, 2020 in a press conference:

“All Missouri’s high-risk areas have mask mandates in place.”

By William Skipworth • October 6, 2020
Kelley Dragoo
stated on August 27, 2020 in a YouTube video:

Ranked-choice voting “increases voter turnout and voter engagement."

By Noah Crider • September 29, 2020

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