Craig Phelps

Union Member | Comms & PR Strategist | Turning working-class voices into political power

[Craig Phelps @Craig_Phelps]

@MeidasTouch The boo heard around the world.

[Craig Phelps @Craig_Phelps]

@BigElad @FPWellman 👀 Liberty Belle vs. Wellman

[Senate Democrats @MoSenDems]

Kehoe & Jon Patterson’s plan to replace the income tax with HIGHER SALES TAXES is losing in every poll. They are desperate to point fingers and blame someone else for its inevitable failure.

Looks like they’ve decided on three Republican-appointed judges to take the blame.

[Craig Phelps @Craig_Phelps]

CC: @AnnLWagner

[Progress MO @ProgressMO]

Inflation now outpaces wages for the first time. Do Hawley and Schmitt think that's good?

[Jason Hancock @J_Hancock]

The ballot summary, the court ruled, needs to make sure voters know they are giving lawmakers authority to impose new sales taxes without current constitutional restrictions. #moleg #mogov
https://t.co/djnfpL3Qe2

[Progress MO @ProgressMO]

Amendment 5, the Everything Tax, means seniors would start paying higher taxes every time they get their hair cut, fill prescriptions or go to the grocery store. They worked their whole lives and deserve to retire with dignity.

[Craig Phelps @Craig_Phelps]

@AndrewSolender Copy & paste version of @KatAbughazaleh's ad
https://t.co/Gt2xVf7NEg

[Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie22]

On her livestream tonight, #IL09 candidate Kat Abughazaleh teased what appears to be a new 60-second-long campaign ad

[Craig Phelps @Craig_Phelps]

This video is the equivalent of Mike Jones spending 8.5 straight hours reheating fish in the break room microwave.

[Mike Rogers War Room @RFSWarRoom]

Haters will say it’s AI😤

[Progress MO @ProgressMO]

Great read from @Kacen on dark money pouring in to replace Missouri’s income tax with new sales and service taxes

[Kathryn Watson @kathrynw5]

President Trump calls reporters to the Oval Office:

[Craig Phelps @Craig_Phelps]

Jon Patterson is running for a promotion to the State Senate. But as Caitlyn Adams, a Kansas City mother of two, writes:

[Progress MO @ProgressMO]

"Families across our community are already paying more for groceries, utilities, housing, health care, child care and just about everything else imaginable. Yet the priorities coming out of Jefferson City are more focused on pushing a national political agenda — one that is dictated by billionaires, corporate lobbyists and out-of-state political interests — than helping everyday Missourians."

[Mark Maxwell @MarkMaxwellTV]

The premise of your tweet is that “they didn’t buy insurance.” Cool. Let me introduce you to Kim Holt. Real estate agent. Twenty-five years in the business. She bought insurance. Her policy paid $81,000 against a $250,000 rebuild. FEMA gave her fourteen hundred bucks.

[Jason Hancock @J_Hancock]

The last case that could overturn Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map w/o a statewide vote went before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, w/attorneys for the NAACP arguing lawmakers should never have been called together in the first place. #moleg
https://t.co/Ftm0abJkiS

[NO on 3 - Stop the Ban Missouri @stopthebanmo]

In 2024, we voted to end the abortion ban and protect reproductive freedom. Now, politicians are using a new Amendment 3 to overturn our vote, repeal the right to Reproductive Freedom, and ban abortion. But we won't let them. Join the fight: organize, volunteer, donate.

[Progress MO @ProgressMO]

It's not a "Golden Age of American manufacturing" for the the Missouri workers losing their jobs @GovMikeKehoe @RepMarkAlford @RepJasonSmith

[NO on 3 - Stop the Ban Missouri @stopthebanmo]

The politician-referred abortion ban, Amendment 3, will be the Nov 3rd ballot. A3 will overturn the 2024 voter-approved Right to Reproductive Freedom while banning abortion in Missouri. Join the fight against this abortion ban & protect the will of voters. NO on 3 #StopTheBanMO

[Chuck Hatfield @chuckhatfield]

Here is Denny Hoskins’ official “fair ballot language” about the governor’s tax proposal, which proponents claim lowers taxes: “At this time, the impact on taxes is unknown.”

[Chuck Hatfield @chuckhatfield]

BREAKING: Auditor @FitzpatrickMO out with his fiscal note on Governor’s tax plan. Confirms it “has no direct impact on tax revenue.” So it doesn’t lower overall taxes. The note conflicts with GOP messaging, but math is math.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Jeff Bezos paid $500M for his super-yacht and $75M for his super-yacht’s mini-yacht — both of which he’s allowed to write-off on his taxes.

That alone would cover $180 in classroom supplies for every public school teacher in the U.S.

[Chuck Hatfield @chuckhatfield]

Right now you don’t pay sales tax on gas (it’s an excise tax) and the legislature cannot impose a sales tax on gas, but if HJR173 (amendment 5) passes, the legislature could tax gas sales without a vote of the people.