Farm kid from Salem. Christian, Rancher, Small Business Owner, PROUD American. Champion of the working class, the unborn, veterans, families, & gun owners #MO8

MO 8th Congressional District
Joined March 2009
Thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts, Missouri took home an extra $133 million more in ARC and PLC payments this past year. These payments insure our nation’s farmers from disasters, therefore securing our nation’s food supply. usda.gov/about-usda/news/pre…
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Happy Columbus Day! The people of MO-08 recognize Christopher Columbus’s extraordinary contributions to history, including the discovery of the new world and the American continent. Today we commemorate his legacy, and we are not ashamed of it.
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When people show you who they are - believe them.
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On a day when we should come together to remember the innocent Jewish people who were brutally tortured, kidnapped, and murdered by Hamas terrorists, this is what the Left’s rising star has to say. This is gross and every Democrat should denounce it. – at Missouri, USA
This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes. Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.
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We just commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 and now the liberal media are watering down what was clearly an attempted hijacking of a commercial aircraft by a radical terrorist. Disgusting.
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This is border security. By any means necessary, we must ensure we’re using every measure to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl and violence across our border and into our communities – at Missouri, USA
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In 2024, Republicans campaigned to lower taxes, put more money in your pockets, and cut runaway Washington spending. In the Working Families Tax Cuts, President Trump and Republicans passed the LARGEST tax cut in American history. Protecting the majority will deliver more money for working families.
American families are reaping the benefits of @POTUS’ pro-growth tax policies. This past filing season, the average tax refund reached over $3,400, thanks to the Working Families Tax Cuts. American taxpayers are keeping more of their hard-earned income, strengthening household finances and giving families greater confidence to save, invest, and plan for the future.
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Whether it’s stealing benefits from vulnerable Americans or intercepting them before they even go out, fraud hurts all Americans. The Trump Administration has aggressively tackled waste, fraud, and abuse in our government, recovering nearly $60 BILLION. Stopping these fraudsters and holding them accountable, ensures programs meant to serve Americans actually do.
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Nearly 1/3 of surveyed Democrats said they’d view a sitting President being assassinated positively. The Democrat party has become the party of lawlessness and violence.
Replying to @StratPolitics
We polled five routes for Trump to leave office before the end of his term. A plurality of Dems support four of them, including a military coup and death by natural causes. The only one underwater, an assassination, is still supported by 29%.
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I applaud the Eighth Circuit for reinstating the 2025 Missouri First Map. I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again: changing the map in the middle of the election cycle disenfranchises voters and would send Missouri into a constitutional crisis. The voters voted for the 2025 map, and have already voted in primaries under it. Any reversion is a blatant move by rogue liberal judges to subvert the will of the voters.
BREAKING: The Eighth Circuit ruled that Missouri must use its 2025 congressional map in November, holding that switching to the 2022 map after the August primary violates the Constitution. The court ordered entry of a permanent injunction, but paused it for one week.
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Under the Trump Administration, over $250 million in entitlement program fraud was taken down just this week. And this same week, 72 Democrats voted to give states the ability to obstruct fraud investigations and enable fraud. If Democrats take control of Washington, they will fight the Trump Administration every step of the way to stop them from clawing back this money and getting it to the Americans who it was intended for.
.@AAGMcDonald: "Under @POTUS and @VP's leadership, just this week we took down $240 million of SBA fraud on Monday; on Tuesday we brought down $10 million of ghost daycare fraud in San Diego; and on Wednesday we took down homeless fraud — those defrauding our homeless — in Los Angeles."
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This socialist wants to repeal the Second Amendment to pay for their Medicare for All scam. Shall. Not. Be. Infringed.
Detroit News rips Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed for scrubbing roughly 100 YouTube videos and thousands of social media posts as he runs for one of the most critical Senate seats in the country. The newspaper endorsed Republican Mike Rogers, calling El-Sayed a candidate who "has worked so hard covering his tracks leading up to this Senate race that it's impossible to know who he really is or where he would stand in the Senate." The deleted content includes posts questioning America after 9/11, support for defunding the police, and a suggestion to replace the Second Amendment with a "right to have health care." The Michigan race to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is a must-win for Democrats trying to recapture the Senate majority — and the latest Fox News poll shows Rogers holding a four-point edge.
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Democrats aren’t even hiding their agenda if they take back the House. 147 of them voted to impeach President Trump simply because they don’t like him. They won’t lower costs, they won’t put more money in your pocket, everyday will be an impeachment witch hunt – at Missouri, USA
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Democrats are fighting for control. Control of your finances, your health care, your family, every aspect of your life. This November, we MUST protect the Republican majority and resist the socialist takeover – at Missouri, USA
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Here we go again… Democrats admitted they have no plans to lower costs for working families, and would use control of Congress to put on more show trials. This is why we MUST keep the majority – at Missouri, USA
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How many billionaires are tipped employees? How many billionaires work overtime? How many billionaires live on Social Security? When Democrats are in charge, they give out tax breaks to their wealthy well-connected billionaire donors. When Republicans are in charge, we deliver tax breaks to the working class. The contrast is clear – at Missouri, USA
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I grew up in a single wide trailer in Southeast Missouri. My fight for the working class is because I am a product of the working class. And I am a Republican, because the Republican Party is the party of the working class – at Missouri, USA
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25 years ago today, tragedy stuck the homeland, when terrorists hijacked 4 commercial airlines, crashing 2 into the World Trade Center, 1 into the Pentagon, and 1 into a field in Pennsylvania. On this solemn day, we are reminded of the thousands of innocent Americans who lost their lives to this heinous act of terrorism and the first responders who risked their lives in the face of danger to save their fellow Americans. My prayers continue to be with the families who lost a loved one on September 11th, 2001, may we never forget. – at Missouri, USA
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Missouri Congressman @JasonSmithMO, and House Ways & Means Committee Chairman on putting working class Americans first during his chairmanship: "When I was selected by my colleagues to chair the House Ways and Means Committee, I told them that we were done writing tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires. Our priority was going to the working class men and women we represent in Washington. That is who we wrote the Working Families Tax Cuts Act for."
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As VP @JDVance has called himself a hillbilly from Appalachia, Trump-endorsed @JasonSmithMO calls himself a hillbilly from the Ozarks and shares why he is a Republican: "I am a Republican because the Republican Party is the party of the working class."
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