Liberty+Virtue+RuleOfLaw β’ A republic, if you can keep it β’ 8thGen Missourian β’ fmr shoe shine boy & US Atty β’ USMC Col; combat vet; NatSec advisor β’ 1 Tim 1:15
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Unbelievable display of improvisation. His trumpet gave out in the middle of the national anthem, so he just kept going without it.
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Remarkable statistic:
Prior to Western Michigan, college football teams were 110,352 - 0 when leading after the end of regulation, dating back to 1869.
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βLet the message to the IRGC be clear: If you shoot at two of our ships, we will impose an even higher economic cost βtaking out three of yours. We will not hesitate to defend American forces, and if necessary, destroy Iranβs limited and exposed oil fleet.β β Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander.
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It isn't all DWI & human trafficking & post-conviction relief training. Networking & relationships are critical. Newton Co PA @WilliamLynchMO, Cape Girardeau Co PA Mark Welker, Cass Co PA Ben Butler, & MAPA/MOPS Exec Dir @TimGarrisonMO caught the @MizzouFootball home opener. MIZ!
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2026 Annual Meeting and Fall Statewide Training is almost in the books! Making sure Missouri's prosecutors have the tools and knowledge they need to execute justice and keep our communities safe.
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About 90 minutes after this carjacker used a weapon to take someoneβs vehicle, he found himself in handcuffs.
Officers, along with our Helicopter Unit, worked quickly to find and arrest the violent suspect this weekend. Charges are pending.
ALT Image of a suspect sitting down and handcuffed.
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Racial discrimination is still illegal, folx
Can big 4 accounting firms like @deloitte discriminate on the basis of race and sex in hiring? Nope. Huge win for @TheJusticeDept, @AGToddBlanche, @ASGWoodward, & @AAGShumate. Turns out, illegal secret quotas are still illegal. And turning them in is lucrative!
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Standing among the white crosses at the Normandy American Cemetery is moving. Finding the graves of several sons of Missouri made it personal.
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The Missouri Office of Prosecution Services is hiring a General Counsel! Help us promote justice and the rule of law by supporting Missouri's 115 county and circuit attorneys! prosecutors.mo.gov/files/MOPβ¦
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I've been a prosecutor most of my career, known hundreds of LEOs, and placed folded flags into the hands of grieving widows. The dedication, sacrifice, and risk required of police work deserves our deepest appreciation.
#PoliceWeek #BackTheBlue #ThinBlueLine #RuleOfLaw
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POWERFUL story of survival this morning from Rosalynn McGinnisβkidnapped by her stepfather, who abused her & fathered her nine children while holding her captive for 19 years. Just incredible strength!
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MO Office of Prosecution Svcs is hosting the 20th Annual Family & Sexual Violence Conference! Nearly 300 investigators, victim advocates, prosecutors, & others are in Springfield to network & learn best practices to prevent, investigate, & prosecute these crimes & serve victims.
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BREAKING: First Choice Womenβs Resource Centers, represented by @ADFLegal, has WON its Supreme Court case against the NJ attorney general in a unanimous 9-0 decision.
This outcome isn't just a rejection of lawfare against pro-life pregnancy centersβitβs a win for EVERY Americanβs First Amendment freedoms.
Hostile state officials shouldnβt be able to harass ideological opponents and go after private donor information without accountability.
Thank you to our client, Aimee Huber, and her team for courageously standing up against these intimidation tactics.
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Revealing side note: Trupiano, the Beacon spokesperson in the article, formerly lobbied for Planned Parenthood.
Saying Beacon Reproductive Health Network isnβt in the abortion business or transing kids without their parentsβ knowledge is like saying that someone who doesnβt give you meth, but whose business is to give out the meth dealerβs phone number and address, is somehow not in the drug trafficking business. Their complicity is hiding right in their website.
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The MO Victim Services Academy is underway! MVSA is a joint effort of @MoPublicSafety & MO Office of Prosecution Services. It offers training, technical assistance, & opportunities for information sharing for community- & system-based advocates. dps.mo.gov/dir/programs/cvsuβ¦
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has issued another sole stinging dissent. In a 7-2 decision (with liberal justice Elena Kagan joining the majority), the Court upheld the authority of police to make a stop based on the totality of the circumstances...
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.@MoProsecutors were proud to help refine SB 888 to make criminal sentencing more transparent and improve Missouri's juvenile justice system. Thanks to @SenNickSchroer & @BradChristForMO for carrying this legislation!
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A beautiful start to a great day of promoting justice and the rule of law in Missouri!
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I took this picture on April 5, 2015, the last time my birthday fell on Easter. It was not a great day for me. I fought back tears at church, and not in the overwhelmed-by God's-great-mercy way. Little did I know at the time, my year was going to take much worse turns. But I was newly pregnant with my second child, and though very sick and feeling pretty sorry for myself that Easter morning, I knew I was blessed with this new life and a Savior who loves me. I took this photo because it was a reminder of new life and bread of life, and the light of the world.
Later that year, I would lose my husband while 7 months pregnant. He died in September. My daughter was born in November. A lot of people wonder, and have asked me, how does one keep her faith through those dark days. I always wondered, how could I have made it through without it?
I was angry and scared and so, so thankful I had met Jesus before that moment. I met Him while reading one of those 90s teen study bibles with neon graphics, in my childhood bedroom. In my sad, grey adult bedroom, I woke up panicking in the night, but He was always with me.
I prayed Jeremiah 29:11 to calm myself down: "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord. 'Plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.'" I prayed it even though I didn't really believe it at the time.
It's not that Jesus solved all my problems in this fallen world or fixed my immediate pain right up. But I was in it with Him and with His promises. And he put the kind of brother in my life who would move in with me to help raise the kids for six months. He put parents in my life who showed up every weekend. He put a neighbor in my life who mowed my lawn every week and another who was a SEAL wife and understood grief like few do, and a best friend who could work out my paperwork (death is so much paperwork) when I couldn't.
"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world," C.S. Lewis writes in "The Problem of Pain." I learned a lot while I was being shouted at.
I think about Jeremiah 29:11 and 11 years ago today. I think about how my little girl who was not yet born then baked my birthday cake today. I think about how she has three siblings now and the most amazing dadβ I remarried in 2020 and he adopted the girls. He took all four of our kids to the store to pick out something for my birthday and then let them each choose a walkout song on the karaoke machine as he gave them a Bruce Buffer announcement call when they came down the stairs to present them to me.
I think about how they've gained grandparents and cousins and love and faith. (Our first holiday with Steve's family was Easter, and I took it as a good sign.) I pray they've watched our lives and gained trust in their Lord.
I think about how my patience was tested by them several times today, as the patience of a parent always is, and how infinite my Father in heaven's patience for me must be. I think about how much I love each of them, and how much my heart grew when each was born just to fit it all in, and how much greater still is my Father's love for me. I think about how much I have to learn and how my faith is still not as mature as it should be at this point (occasionally illustrated on this app).
Today in the car, my kids requested "No Fear" by @jonreddick , "Your Way's Better," by @forestfrank , and "Jesus Is Alive, It's a Happy Day" β that one came with sign language by the 3- and 4-year-old, which I recommend for making your heart soar on a Sunday. They listen to secular music, too, but those are their favorites.
One time, reading the Christmas story with my kids, I read "Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people," and my eldest (about 5 at the time) said, "Mom, the angel always says that!"
She's right, the angel always says that! It is so hard not to be afraid, but we have a Good Shepherd. Our lives were touched by death, but He has conquered it.
My kids like new worship songs, but I love the classics, and today as on every Easter, I sang "Blessed Assurance," because Jesus is mine. And in the darkest times, He is new life and bread of life, and the light of the world. I am remembering to rejoice in that every day.
