Mark Alford (r): you can smell the desperation

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Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

The new ultra-minority party in the upcoming U.S. Congress is presenting panic.

This evening:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 7, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS! 🇺🇸
Your tax dollars deserve accountability!
This Congress, as Chairman of the @HouseSmallBiz Oversight Subcommittee, I joined my Republican colleagues in demanding answers from the SBA over allegations that the Biden Administration concealed misuse of pandemic-era relief funds.
Small businesses played by the rules. Washington must be held to the same standard.
[….]

Was this written by a seventh grader using crayons? Just asking.

The responses are lit:

Why wasn’t that done in the last two years?

Audit the pentagon?

“Small businesses played by the rules”—unless you count the millions in forgiven PPP loans that went to wealthy corporations and members of Congress. Funny how “accountability” only matters when it’s not your own caucus cashing the checks.

That left a mark.

Like the reflection pool and ball room!

He is chairman of the “small” biz committee, how fitting.

Not for long.

What bills have republicans passed to help the working men and women of America?

👏take me to your leader

We will see how tough you will be in January?

We showed you results on Tuesday.

“Washington” — “held to a standard.”
This really can’t be being said with a straight face. My word. Is the electorate really presumed to have not been seeing the events of the past two years?
A war that closed the Strait of Hormuz.
The deaths of servicemembers.
The combat missteps.
The waste of weaponry.
Proposed sell-offs of public lands.
Destruction of heritage landmarks.
Federal officials treating individuals as if they deserved to be assaulted, thrown around, or shot.
Rapacious impoundment of federal funds.
Pushing DoD away from political and religious neutrality.
Firing senior military personnel apparently for upholding standards.
The Oval Office, the East Wing, a “ballroom,” the the Reflecting Pool, statues, Kennedy Center, or attempts at changing names of territory.
If I were to actually search for the trashing of standards instead of riffing on the obvious, this list would be interminably long.
“Upholding standards,”indeed —

An investigation of data from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) finds that, in Donald Trump’s final days in office, his administration rushed to eliminate oversight for loans which were flagged for potential fraud or further investigation — and wiped flags from nearly every one of the largest PPP loans.
As the Project on Government Oversight (POGO) revealed in a report published Wednesday, over the course of several weeks before President Joe Biden was inaugurated, the Trump administration went on a spree of eliminating flags on PPP loans, the majority of which went directly to personally enriching the richest Americans. Officials in the Small Business Administration (SBA) eliminated 2.7 million flags between December 2020 and January 2021, as the administration was in its lame duck period.
Special preference was given to the largest loans, which often also went to the largest corporations. On January 16, 2021, four days before President Joe Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s SBA wiped 99 percent of special review flags, which were given out to every loan above $2 million for separate investigatory purposes.

How about focusing on stuff that DIDN’T happen four years ago.

So no more for the war and the bullshit trump has wasted on

Stephen Miller. Dana White. Mark Alford.

Alford definitely doesn’t deserve his paycheck!

I thought after this feckless Muskrumpian shill saw the results of November 3 he would quit being such a feckless Muskrumpian shill. But, I was mistaken because lil Markie Allfraud doubles down on his stupidity and continues to support and worship the sexual predation of women and children, a 34 times convicted felon, serial grifter, and mentally unstable traitor. Such an ignorant twit lil Markie Allfraud is.

Voted for the war voted for BBB no accountability

Like you g.a.s. about fraud and abuse..stop with the propaganda statements 🙄

$1.4 Trillion for socialist redistribution of wealth/voter bribe
(~ although I guess that’s off the table now ~)
$170+B for ICE and Border Patrol
$160B (& counting) in Iran
$40B for Argentina (not incl. beef)
$8B to bail out farmers as a result
$3.8B annually for Israel
$1B to refurbish Trump’s Qatar jet,
which is not in service
$1B to Colombia
$900M+ for DC construction
$495M for an old prison worth 1/10
$464M for unused deportation planes
$230M for Trump’s DOJ
“compensation”
$200M for Kristi Noem’s jets
$185M for Trump’s golf outings
5+M for Liberia
Even $2M + for banners of Trumps face
Etc., etc., etc.
Add: The largest deficit in US history, up almost 30% in only 6 years under trump/GOP
But no money to lower your healthcare costs. No money for SNAP benefits.
“AT THIS MOMENT IN TIME, THE BALLROOM IS REALLY THE PRESIDENT’S MAIN PRIORITY.”
Karoline Leavitt, verbatim
YES REALLY ~

OMG …. Let’s keep focus on issues Mark, time to take accountability and stop blaming others.

Now you pretend to get outraged? What a dick head you are,

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

What a joke! Accountability? Hypocrite.

The Trump administration has transferred or reallocated $1.25 billion in federal funds to the Board of Peace, alongside a total announced U.S. pledge of $10 billion

Does little Mark know that almost every abuser is Republican? Is he about to ask Cushner to repay, or Chuck Grassly to repay the $1.5M he took for tuning up his hubby farm?

What the fuck does this mean? Please interpret. Let’s talk about DJT

I would like answers from this administration. What are you going to do to help with health insurance? Did you not see what is going on with Children’s Mercy?

Hear it comes I saved the fiscal responsibility request but new that you would circle back to your circus, let’s see 468 million for a Minnesota jail that they have had listed for 75 million the word among locals is they would have taken 25 to unload it, then you have cor civic in Leavenworth empty for decades they where trying to bull doze it 238 million maybe you should try toilet seats seems to be more up your alley, never mind tearing up healthcare offering nothing cutting 180 billion then adding 50 billion to claim you where doing something besides helping the 1% another not yours joke, finally we got the tearing up a 1.2, billion dollar NATO agreed upon with international inspectors with Iran 🇮🇷 to spend 50 Billion to attack Iran using 2 million dollar missiles to take out 200 dollar drones more fiscal Alford alfalfa math gymnastics. Finally the farmers market buddy diesel fertilizer through the roof we could have purchased the diesel from Canada according to Ford and Carney and most of the fertilizer at 1/4 of the cost and delivered almost immediately if we did not turn are backs on Canada South America Europe and buy oil from Marks fascist Communists friends Putin congratulations you are now seeing real political politicians that want to reach across the aisle and serve all constituents read this and absolutely do not say you support this or actually understand The Fake Press book burning 🔥 diplomatic former television host dipstick if it fits scum bag wear it

Oh, that’s rich. Now apply this to your beloved felon.

How about impeachment? Ending the war in Iran? How about working on affordability?
Stop being a lapdog for Trump. It’s embarrassing

Audit the grifter in the Whitehouse.

You have no sense of reality about what is going on!

And just like that Mark Alford is pretending he cares about fiscal responsibility after 2 years of writing blank checks for Trump. Classic Alford so full of đź’©

How much was spent on Trump’s failed campaign rallies?

Use RICO laws to indict the entire Trump crime family. Be a fucking hero instead of a loser.

Not likely.

Good luck, with Democrats owning Congress now. (Thanks to Trump’s screwy priorities.)

Just shut up Mark! You’re the minority now and I’m really happy republicans got their collective azzes kicked!

You work for trump. Buzz off.

Stfu

Previously:

Mark Alford (r): manufacturing hysteria (November 7, 2026)

Fall birds – afternoon

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This afternoon in west central Missouri:

Tufted Titmouse. Parus bicolor.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600.
f 6.3, 1/640, ISO 800, 600mm.

Tufted Titmouse. Parus bicolor.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600.
f 6.3, 1/500, ISO 800, 600 mm.

Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Melanerpes carolinus.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600 mm.
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 483 mm.

Red-bellied Woodpecker.
Melanerpes carolinus.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600 mm.
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 483 mm.

Dark-eyed Junco.
Junco hyemalis.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600.
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 600 mm.

Black-capped Chickadee. Parus atricapillus.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600 mm,
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 350 mm.

Tufted Titmouse. Parus bicolor.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600.
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 600 mm.

Dark-eyed Junco.
Junco hyemalis.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600.
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 600 mm.

Black-capped Chickadee. Parus atricapillus.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600 mm,
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 600 mm.

Black-capped Chickadee. Parus atricapillus.
Canon 5D III, Tamron 150-600 mm,
f 6.3, 1/400, ISO 800, 600 mm.

Seed bribery works.

Mark Alford (r): manufacturing hysteria

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

FBI Crime Data Explorer

Reported U.S. Violent Crime Trends, July 2025 – June 2026
-8.6%

Murder -18.2%
Rape -10.3%
Robbery -19.0%
Aggravated Assault -5.8%

Reported U.S. Property Crime Trends, July 2025 – June 2026
-12.2%

Burglary -16.5%
Larceny -9.7%
Motor Vehicle Theft -21.5%

Crime in Missouri

Violent Crime

Violent Crime consists of Murder (consisting of murder and non-negligent manslaughter), Robbery, Aggravated Assault and Rape. Victims are always individuals and one crime will be counted for each victim.

-25.27% Compared to 2025

Burglary

The unlawful entry into a building or other structure with the intent to commit a felony or a theft

-28.29% Compared to 2025

Motor Vehicle Theft

The theft of a motor vehicle (defined as a self-propelled vehicle that runs on land).

-44.26% Compared to 2025

Fraud

The intentional perversion of the truth for the purpose of inducing another person or other entity in reliance upon it to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right.

-28.11% Compared to 2025

Arson

To unlawfully and intentionally damage or attempt to damage any real or personal property by fire or incendiary device.

-33.97% Compared to 2025

Larceny (Theft)

The unlawful taking, carrying, leading, or riding away of property from the possession, or constructive possession, of another person.

-32.33% Compared to 2025

Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Mark Alford (r), yesterday:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 6, 2026]

American families deserve to feel safe in their homes and communities. That starts with holding violent criminals accountable, especially repeat offenders who continue to put innocent lives at risk.
This Congress, I joined @HouseGOP in passing the Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act to increase accountability for bail funds and help protect American communities.
Do you support tougher penalties for repeat violent offenders to keep our communities safe?
👍 YES – tell me why
👎 NO – tell me why not
[…..]

There is skepticism in the responses:

Mark, how do you feel about congressman who enable illegal wars, tariffs, and corruption?

What about penalties for 34x felons?

You mean like all the January 6th criminals Trump pardoned and they then committed more crimes?
[….]

Let’s start at the top of the list Trumpstien that work for you Alford

Perhaps many of your constituents support tougher penalties for repeat offenders (especially sexual offenders) to keep our White House safe?

You’ve done nothing the last 2 years, why would the next 2 be any different?

Your bill? Sitting in the senate since MAY… going nowhere.

Laws haven’t mattered for decades, unless you’re middle class or worse.

You’re talking about cops that keep getting excessive force charges, right?

May justice be done, without fear or favor – agreed?
No one is arguing others are above the law, the hypocritical GOP is arguing that Trump is.
[….]

Yes, I support tougher penalties for Donald J. Trump and all of the weak, spineless, cronies who have coddled and enabled him to commit the atrocities he has against our country and our Constitution.

I love your “let’s talk about it” especially since you never come to Columbia to “talk about it”…70% of Columbia that you represent here voted against you why don’t you ever come here mark? Why don’t you ever come&stand in front of us&lie to us face to face mark? Are you too much of a coward to face the base that sees you for who you truly are? Come on mark, come to Columbia where the vast majority of the population despises you and “talk about it”

Belton, Missouri:

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo].

Do you realize just how,stupid you sound? Your orange leader who is a 34 count felon in his own right pardoned 1500 violent criminals,who stormed the capitol on J6 and wiped their shit on the walls. He pardoned the leader of one of the biggest drug scams in the history of,the US. He hired people convicted of sexual abuse and pedophelia. The trump family is running one of the biggest grifts right in front of our eyes and no one stops him. You are so inconsequential.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

About 1300 criminals participated in an insurrection January 6th and your rapist felon president pardoned them.

Could you go back to doing nothing? We’re tired of you posting photo ops , and we can’t keep pretending your opinions matter.

If it’s Trump and your corrupt buddies we’re talking about…. Then let’s go!!! You may not be violent but you’re destroying more families and businesses than any single person… oh… and does that mean we get to lock up all the criminals Trump pardoned?

Plan on being miserable for the next two years, and you deserve it, goddamned Trumpsucker!
[….]

Manufactured fear. Manufactured distraction. Apparently it’s the current and future strategery of right wingnuts in Congress.

Squirrel!

Campaign Finance: bad money after bad

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission for the failed anti-choice, anti-trans, bigoted, anti-women’s health care Amendment 3 pushed by the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly and Missouri’s right wingnut governor and his spouse:

C253648 11/06/2026 Her Health, Her Future PAC Jason Smith for Congress PO Box 1324 Cape Girardeau MO 63702 11/5/2026 $10,000.00

[emphasis added]

Yeah, that must have been an interesting conversation…

Previously:

Campaign Finance: Next (August 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: bring a nuke to the fight (September 4, 2026)

Campaign Finance: there’s plenty more (September 24, 2022)

Campaign Finance: even more (September 28, 2026)

Campaign Finance: be under no illusion (September 30, 2026)

Campaign Finance: an emphatic “NO” (October 2, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “…and they shall sow the public right of way and all the empty lots across the land with their yard signs…” (October 4, 2026)

Campaign Finance: that about sums it up (October 5, 2026)

Campaign Finance: keep it coming in (October 7, 2026)

Campaign Finance: all that right wingnut money, just to vilify a tiny minority (October 9, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “…It’s the only way to be sure.” (October 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: no quarter (October 14, 2026)

Campaign Finance: keeping it up (October 15, 2026)

The current temperature out there (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: you’re next (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: “We will not go back” (October 16, 2026)

Campaign Finance: Solidarity (October 19, 2026)

Campaign Finance: all-in for the anti-choice propagandists (October 20, 2026)

Wasting all that money (October 22, 2026)

Campaign Finance: – no quarter – “NO” on Amendment 3 (October 23, 2026)

Bigots and Anti-choice lunatics spend millions to lose…again (November 3, 2026)

Campaign Finance: more on Her Future, Her Health PAC – anti-abortion – Amendment 3 (November 4, 2026)

Missouri republicans: an eternal incapacity to learn (November 5, 2026)

Eternal Vigilance: They will not stop (November 6, 2026)

The Fall (of Fascism) is in the air

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It may only be the beginning of the end.



Hope.

The NBC News Decision Desk is continuing to project races. Our estimate indicates Democrats will ultimately wind up with a 83-seat majority.

259 Estimated Democratic Seats
176 Estimated Republican Seats

Latest seat count

250 Democratic seats – Flipped 42 seats (+40 net gain)
162 Republican seats – Flipped 2 seats
[23 seats yet to be determined]

2026 Senate Results: Democrats retake control

Democrats have clinched the Senate after romping to a majority in the House earlier in the night, winning several states that Donald Trump won by double digits in 2024 as voters vented their strong disapproval of the president. States such as Texas and Kansas elected Democrats to the Senate for the first time in decades as Republicans struggled across the country.

54 Democratic seats
44 Republican seats
[1 seat each in Alaska and Mississippi yet to be determined, with the Democratic candidates currently holding leads]

Something is definitely in the air.

Eternal Vigilance: They will not stop

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“They fucking lied…”

“…and I’m fucking pissed”

Missourians rejected another abortion ban. Republicans say they’re not giving up yet.
Voters preserved abortion rights while making it harder for lawmakers to overturn citizen-approved measures. Anti-abortion Republicans are now looking for other ways to restrict access
By Anna Spoerre
November 6, 2026 9:00 am

Missouri Republicans spent two years trying to reinstate an abortion ban. They emerged from Tuesday’s election with fewer ways to do it — and no plans to stop trying.

About 55% of voters rejected Amendment 3, preserving the constitutional right to abortion approved in 2024. Voters also approved Amendment 6, which sharply limits lawmakers’ power to overturn citizen-approved measures, while Democrats won enough legislative seats to end the GOP’s supermajority in the Missouri House.

The results dealt a significant setback to anti-abortion activists who had hoped Missouri could provide a national model for reversing abortion rights victories at the ballot box.

But state Sen. Nick Schroer, a St. Charles County Republican who will become Senate majority leader in January, said abortion will remain a priority for his caucus, even as lawmakers grapple with the new restrictions imposed by Amendment 6.

[….]

They will not learn. Ever.

The the anti-choice, anti-trans, bigoted, anti-women’s health care amendment pushed by the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly and Missouri’s right wingnut governor and his spouse failed miserably:

State of Missouri – State of Missouri – General Election, November 03, 2026
Unofficial Results
as of 11/6/2026 1:01:57 PM

Constitutional Amendment No. 3 3214 of 3214 Precincts Reported
YES 944,084 44.565%
NO 1,174,335 55.435%
Total Votes: 2,118,419

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Rejected by Missouri voters. By over 10 points. By 230,251 votes.

The amendment to preserve and expand Missouri voters’ voices passed by an overwhelming margin:

State of Missouri – State of Missouri – General Election, November 03, 2026
Unofficial Results
as of 11/6/2026 1:01:57 PM

Constitutional Amendment No. 6 3214 of 3214 Precincts Reported
YES 1,253,095 59.920%
NO 838,200 40.080%
Total Votes: 2,091,295

[emphasis added]

Approved by Missouri voters. By almost 20 points. By 414,895 votes.

The right wingnut majority (not super majority now) in the Missouri General Assembly isn’t listening. They will never listen to Missouri voters, nor will they ever get it.

Previously:

Campaign Finance: more on Her Future, Her Health PAC – anti-abortion – Amendment 3 (November 4, 2026)

Missouri republicans: an eternal incapacity to learn (November 5, 2026)

“Mind your own damn business”

“YES on [Amendment] 6…”

The people have spoken.

Missouri republicans: an eternal incapacity to learn

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“It won’t end here”

Today:

Missouri Senate Republicans choose new leaders as election losses reshape chamber
Jason Bean and Nick Schroer will lead a diminished GOP majority facing a larger Democratic caucus, difficult budget decisions and questions about the party’s priorities
By Jason Hancock

November 5, 2026 2:51 pm

[….]

The election also imposed new constraints on the GOP’s legislative agenda.

Voters approved Amendment 6, which sharply limits lawmakers’ power to alter citizen-approved measures and prohibits them from weakening the initiative petition process. Any legislative proposal to change a voter-approved initiative now requires support from 80% of both chambers before going back to voters.

Schroer said Republicans still intend to pursue changes to the initiative petition process and policies aimed at restricting abortion, despite voters rejecting their proposals on both issues.

But he acknowledged Amendment 6 could complicate those efforts, saying attorneys are examining its legal implications and the possibility of a court challenge.

“What happens with Amendment 6,” Schroer said. “I think will dictate what happens with the life issue in and of itself.”

[….]

Do any of them listen to Missouri voters? That was the whole point of Amendment 6.

Campaign Finance: a few days late, a lot of dollars not so short, and an effectively meaningless, if still ironic, committee name…

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Today at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C232552 11/05/2026 Brighter Days for Missouri Rex Sinquefield 244 Bent Walnut Lane Westphalia MO 65085 Retired Retired 11/4/2026 $15,000.00

[emphasis added]

So, what else is new?

And that PAC?

Staci Czar (D) in the 56th Legislative District – flip

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Staci Czar (D) [2026 file photo]

Via the office of Secretary of State:

State of Missouri – State of Missouri – General Election, November 03, 2026
Unofficial Results
as of 11/4/2026 7:12:55 PM

State Representative – District 56 15 of 15 Precincts Reported
Steve Baker Republican 6,244 47.303%
Staci Czar Democratic 6,956 52.697%
Total Votes: 13,200

[emphasis added]

One of 16 seats flipped by Democrats in the Missouri House.

Priorities

If elected, my focus will be to make sure our votes are protected, public schools are properly funded (getting rid of school vouchers and $10,000 home-school grants), have appropriate MODOT funding to expand I-49, make sure income tax stays in place so that we don’t have more income inequality, make sure Right to Work doesn’t get ever put back on a ballot, protect women’s reproductive rights, marriage for all, and support legislation for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Amen.