Marc Powers

Chief of staff for the Missouri House Minority Leader’s Office and former statehouse reporter.

[David Roland @dave_roland]

The Governor is absolutely correct to be outraged that the Secretary of State refused to quickly deny certification of the referendum and insisted on holding primaries using disputed ditricts!

Wait... I'm now being told the Governor is okay with all of that?

[Tony Messenger @tonymess]

The reason @AGCHanaway is inventing a fake constitutional crisis is because she knows she lost badly on the law. There is no crisis. The Missouri Supreme Court took @DLHoskins behind the woodshed and punished him for violating state law and the Missouri Constitution. Period.

[Eric Woods @EricWoods]

YOU disenfranchised Missourians by supporting the scheme to block putting a fully legal referendum on the ballot before the voters. Everything that has happened to this point is because MO Republicans prioritized Trump’s gerrymander over democracy and the law. Shame.

[Rep. Ashley Aune @Ashley4MO]

🚨BREAKING: Unelected, ultra partisan attorney general making stuff up to interfere with Missourians' constitutional right to hold politicians accountable. #moleg

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over!

All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure. https://t.co/0Ofdxgpdcu

[Chuck Hatfield @chuckhatfield]

“What happened?”
“I don’t know, I think it mighta been you.”

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

The closing message for the GOP's midterm campaign: It's hilarious when people try to assassinate political leaders.

[Roy Temple @roytemple]

Beware of a man who lies so effortlessly.

[Scott Faughn @scottfaughn]

- @GovJayNixon on the passing of Gene Oakley:

[Marc Powers @marcppowers]

Spot on.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Satire by Alexandra Petri: Anyone who calls the Supreme Court too imposing is a heretic who should perish https://t.co/lRgpVbeJ3V

[Rep. Peter Merideth @PeterforMO]

These GOP reps and lobbyists are now spinning in circles to say that “just because the last big income tax cuts in MO and the cuts in KS didn’t help our economies at all doesn’t mean they won’t help this time! We KNOW tax cuts MUST be a good thing ALWAYS, RIGHT?!” 🫣 #MOLEG

[Greg Razer @gregrazer]

This is actually true! If you make $35k & get paid every other week, you get a little over $3 extra in your paycheck.

A Big Mac at my nearest McD’s is $5.09.

So a sack by the Chiefs is LITERALLY more valuable to you than the work this week of the MOGOP. #moleg #ChiefsKingdom

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

Bazinga! The S.T.U.P.I.D. defense!!

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

So far Arizona has spent $4m on migrant buses to DC.
Texas has spent $12m.
Florida appropriated $12m.
If this is really about “sharing the burden” of cost of absorbing migrants — wasting money on pranks is a strange way to demonstrate state fiscal duress. https://t.co/ArP6gBnzy3

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

The DOJ brief criticizing the Special Master ruling is a work of art. I’ve read some great DOJ briefs but this is among the best. Garland brought the A team

(Now admittedly, it was an easy target. But still, just in tone & sophistication &clarity & law)
https://t.co/LHJaai5T2v

[. @GregTSargent]

The correct answer to fake GOP outrage about Biden's speech is: The leader of your party just openly declared that if elected president again, he'll corruptly grant mass immunity to the people who tried to violently overthrow the US government, and you said nothing. So STFU.

[Claire McCaskill @clairecmc]

This is the Republican candidate for US Senate in MO. He was proud to sign into law government forced births on rape and incest victims. And proud to take freedoms away, and put government in charge. #mosen

[Tony Messenger @tonymess]

When Missouri Republicans say:

We didn’t mean to ban abortions in cases of rape …

We didn’t mean to criminalize homelessness …

We didn’t mean to censor schools and libraries …

We didn’t mean to make it impossible for taxpayers to follow the money …

They are lying.

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Let's take a step back, and review what's happened in recent months:

- Trump steals nation's secrets, lies about it to FBI. Historic security breach.

- Trump's CFO pleads guilty to 15 felonies.

- Trump takes the fifth 440 times in an investigation into his crooked finances.