You can tell a lot about my state by our roads. Our rural highways look like the people in charge. They are broken and skimmed with a chip and seal veneer that wears thin as soon as the election is over.

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March 17, 2026 - 11:29 UTC

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My sign would be: Tired of winning? The pedo 👑 and his cabal are bringing corruption to a new level while enriching their 🏦 accounts. Fix Noise never tells them so they don't believe it. Insane times. At least the late 90s were kind of quiet.
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You nailed it, Jess! I live in a rural area, and the tricks I have to pull just to keep my car out of the deepest potholes make me qualified to be a Hollywood stunt driver.
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Thank you, Jess for all that you are doing. After reading this and the comments, it brought me to tears. My ex is from Missouri and extreme right. I was young and naive (I can save him). I know what you are up against. God bless you, and for non believers, please send her all the good vibes you can!
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Fighting the good fight!
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Same with the neighboring states as well.
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Jess, thank you for the rays of hope…
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There's large parts of the Kansas city area that are more pothole than street.
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Being from perhaps only slightly better Iowa I hesitate to be too critical, but I live close to the border and have spent considerable time on the rural highways of northern Missouri, and yes there is a noticeable difference when you cross the state line.
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The same as if you cross over from Illinois. However, Illinois has a higher gas tax, so Illinois has better roads. You get what you pay for, I guess
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Yours are a big step above Iowa’s gravel roads.
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This reminds me of what my friend Cathy Kott is doing, running in the ruby red 6 Georgia State House District 6.
Keep up the good work!
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I drive on those roads for my job. They are in bad shape and getting worse.
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Jess, I love your newsletter so I hate to be a nitpicker but trump is NOT mentioned 3,500 x in the Epstein files!
You're missing a zero! It's over THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND TIMES!
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just in the files they released. they spent $ over Xmas with 1000 people culling Donald's injustice in the files
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I don't know who took the photo, but it's a goodun, fo' sho'!
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Indiana says hold my beer 😂
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True! Come to the city and our roads are crumbling too
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I think you can tell much more about MO by the quality K-12 education. 49th in funding, last in school safety, 60% behind pre 2019 levels in math and reading. I moved 2 step daughters to Colorado in 2002 and they were both 2 full grade levels behind CO and MO has only become worse.
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I feel compelled to add that I moved both daughters from a school district considered to be good (Nixa) in southwest MO to one considered to be average (Broomfield) in CO & still two grade levels behind. They had to work so hard to catch up. Shameful of MO.
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