Missouri elections be like: Hitler (R) 79% - Christ (D) 21% And then the ballot initiative: Amend the Missouri constitution to require the state to own the means of production and work towards full communism? Yes 92% - No 8%
Matt Calcara
@mattcalcara.bsky.social
Lancer, Trojan, friend of Dorothy, substitute teacher, tech project manager, fmr travel writer, ran for office once, dog Dad to Zuvvy.
Woo-hoo! Zero write-ins! Thanks, OP 4-03! Although it is slightly odd that I somehow managed to get one more vote than my Precinct Committeewoman Megan. Nevertheless, congrats to Megan, too! She has been such a huge help canvassing our precinct. #PrecinctCommitteeman
Fix our broken healthcare system...by working with Republicans on it? The people who tripled my premiums in a single year? The people who strung Obama along for months & then none of them voted for the ACA? (And that was before Trump made them all into fascists) Oh Adam, honey, no. No, no, no, no.
Adam Hamilton@hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 20h agoAdam’s first statements after becoming the nominee: End the tariffs. Get out of the war. Fix our broken healthcare system.
We know have 40+ results updated from key elections and primaries that happened yesterday. Just startled by how much is important. If you want to get a really full picture of what's happening around the country — make sure to read @boltsmag.org's guides. boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...
And for our next trick, Kansas voters will elect Democrat Cindy Holscher for Governor while breaking the GOP supermajority in the #ksleg. www.kmbc.com/article/kans...
Kansas Supreme Court election amendment defeated overwhelmingly by voters
Kansas voters rejected a proposed constitutional amendment to elect Supreme Court justices, according to an AP projection, keeping the current appointment process in place.
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Today in "Mamdani does stuff every politician should do and WSJ or NYT insists it's bad, somehow"....
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 21h agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Oh f&ck. This is exactly what the Leavenworth City Commission was trying to avoid, and what CoreCivic had threatened to do had they not been allowed to reopen. Never, ever trust a company that jails people to make money. Ever. Under any circumstances. Poor Leavenworth, and Kansas.
matt🌻✌️@28tauri.net · 6h agoI wonder if all the conditions that the Leavenworth Commission insisted on will still be adhered to, now that it's a federal government installation? This is why you can't negotiate with companies like CoreCivic. You don't know their end game. www.kctv5.com/2026/08/05/c...
I am a little sad that Rep. Ford "When they go low, we take their a$$ to the f&cking basement" Carr lost his primary. Wichita voters also turfed out Rep. Henry Helgerson in favor of former Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple, who had repped an earlier iteration of that seat. Interesting primary!
Thank you, Kansas! Today, Kansans protected the state’s fair and independent Supreme Court. We did it tougher. We joined with over 80 organizations and thousands of volunteers committed to protecting abortion rights, education funding, and impartiality in our courts.
The Heritage Foundation asserts that women never needed sports in the first place. To prove that Title IX has become a tool of “feminist social engineering.” To demonstrate that women don’t need sports and that “clubs, intramurals, and exercise classes” is enough. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Give Them an Inch...
And they'll take away women's sports...
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Waking up to Sharia Law in NYC is crazy. Knicks won, crime is down, 2,000 toddlers are going to school for free, parents got “date night” with nyc babysitters, they’re building housing on city land, small businesses are saving money and selling ice cream. Its sunny out i should go get one.
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Congratulations, Kansas! Kansans rejected an attempt to allow billionaire political donors to buy our courts. This was a resounding victory for civil liberties for generations to come!🥳
“Mr. Hamilton, who has been campaigning across the state, will face Mr. Marshall, who comes from a more rural part of Kansas.” Wrong. Marshall comes not from a more rural part of Kansas. He comes from Florida. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...
Pastor Adam Hamilton Wins Kansas Democratic Senate Primary
The Rev. Adam Hamilton will be a serious underdog against Roger Marshall, a Republican, but Democrats think the state could be competitive if the November environment is favorable enough to them.
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That, uh, is a little alarming. Honestly, WTF, WyCo, can you all just have a normal election for once? Seems like every time there's a big vote, something mysteriously goes horribly wrong there, like the effing ballot envelopes with the wrong return address!
matt🌻✌️@28tauri.net · yesterdayWyandotte county election office is guarded by multiple sheriffs at the moment. never seen that for an election before.
Update: I actually didn't do too bad! I overestimated Holscher a tiny bit, but got fairly close. I guessed win-place-show in the Senate race correctly, and the %s weren't too far off. All in all, possibly the most accurate predictions I've yet made! (Which is not saying much!)
Matt Calcara@mattcalcara.bsky.social · yesterdayKansas Primary Election Predictions! Because I am a masochist who loves to embarrass myself on the internet, it's time for me to make some predictions about the results of the Kansas primary elections! Be sure to check back to see how poorly I did! 🧵
Rare opportunity to say with total sincerity: great work Kansas and Missouri.
NEW: Cindy Holscher has won the Democratic nomination for Kansas governor! Congrats, Cindy. Onward!
LOLOLOL, Curt Skoog somehow managed to win Greeley County in far western Kansas. He won with 4 votes, to Holscher's 3, and Corson's 2 votes. And yes, it is totally believable that Greeley County has less than a dozen Dem primary voters. As far as I know, Skoog has no connections to Greeley.
It's always a happy day for Kansas when Kobach has a sad. So I'll just be over here with my kazoo.
Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector editor in chief@journalist-sherman.bsky.social · 21h agoKobach, speaking at a GOP watch party in Wichita, has acknowledged the amendment failed: "It certainly creates more certainty as to court cases that are working their way up to the Supreme Court right now" #ksleg
Tons of media here to cover the victory speech of Kansas's next governor, Cindy Holscher!
Lots of love here for both of Cindy's daughters, Sara & Maddy. Sara inspired Cindy's first run for office, while Maddy is the campaign's TikTok-er.
I--an avid supporter of Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism--am sitting here at Cindy Holscher's Victory Party right next to the quasi-Republican Stand Up Blue Valley people. And tbh, they are screaming louder than anyone for Cindy! Quite the coalition!
Voters in Kansas saw through a blatant political power grab and sent a message — our courts are not for sale.
