Bridgette Dunlap

Me on our representatives’ refusal to represent us as Trump and Musk burn everything down: missouriindependent.com/2025/02/17/w...

Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill is already hitting Missouri hard, but it was designed so that the bulk of the pain won't be felt until after the midterms. Me on the OBBB: missouriindependent.com/2026/10/20/p...

Here I explain that the purported "exceptions" in the Amendment 3 abortion ban for rape and incest are useless as written and the pro-Amendment 3 campaign isn't even pretending the legislature would do anything to attempt to make them mean anything. Gift link:

TODAY is the last day to register to vote in Missouri. If you are already registered, double check your registration. Here is the link, please forgive the big pic of Hoskins, our anti-democracy Redcoat secretary of state. www.sos.mo.gov/elections/go...

Eric Schmitt’s Hawks-Hawkeyes blunder and the politician he’s become

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

So much of what we are confronting today is best understood by the actions undertaken by white communities in response to integration orders. White supremacy is a form of democratic nihilism. Every institution, norm, and value of democracy will be sacrificed for it. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

The decision ends, for this election at least, Republicans’ effort to use a gerrymandered map to improve their chances of winning a seventh Missouri seat in the U.S. House. #moleg #mogov

"What part of 'stayed' don't you understand? For the last time use the gd 2022 map." #Missouri #MOleg

Heidi Overton said yesterday of Mifepristone that “according to FDA standards, the drug is safe and effective as labeled today.” She said something similar about vaccines. Don’t be fooled. That’s exactly the same as Brett Kavanaugh saying Roe v. Wade “is settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court.”

sometimes you've gotta put the watercoloring brush down and give ruining the world another go

Why in the world are these judges pretending they can’t read a boilerplate order so SCOTUS can smack them down again? They have lifetime tenure, no need to perform for Trump. Unless they’re all going to do crazy things to audition for scotus?

Hanaway dropped this lawsuit today. I wrote about what offensive trash it was when she filed it:

This is a great read.

It wasn’t just an unprecedented attack on democracy and the rule of law — it was also a colossal waste of resources for a gambit Rs must have known would fail. Lighting on fire our constitution, their credibility with the MO courts, and a whole lot of tax dollars all to perform for Trump:

My Catholic high school's library had a Gloria Steinem book on the shelves and that's how I became a feminist.

I spend a lot of time and words being sad about Missouri, but we do have a branch of government that operates like they believe laws still exist.

Missouri has spent years trying to fix its child welfare system. As backlogs return and lawmakers prepare another hearing, two stories ask whether reforms are working. #moleg #mogov

I wrote about some of the women who have been working on abortion access in Missouri since the first clinic in the state opened in 1973. all the “out of state interests” accusations around Amendment 4 were infuriating bc these women have been doing this work right here for a looong time #NoOn3

The absurdity is matched only by the meanness.

Finally collected all 4. Signgarden complete.

Early voting starts today! Vote no on Amendment 4 and Amendment 5 to protect our voice and protect our wallets!

Republicans across the country are trying to make it harder for citizen-led ballot initiatives to succeed. The Missouri legislature put Amendment 4 on the ballot to make it impossible. Gift link to me on Amendment 4 - Vote No in August!

Missourians - vote No on Amendments 4 & 5 next month and tell your friends! Here’s the KC Star on the mess that is Amendment 5. I’ll have a piece up tomorrow about Amendment 4

"They are changing the rules of the game and hoping we don't notice." Amy Jones, SEIU Healthcare We notice and we are going to show them who has the power by voting NO on Amendment 4 and 5 💪

"Stop criticizing us or will keep murdering people" is just a jaw-dropping thing for a government official to say.

Missouri and Kansas have only a few more months to lower their SNAP payment error rates or face millions in new costs for food assistance benefits.

*all the jackhole moderates who lined up behind sexual predator cuomo to try to stop mamdani, rn*

Anti-abortion government officials are coming for online speech, targeting websites that do nothing more than tell people what their options are, how to find a doctor, and where abortion remains legal. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Just a reminder, if you deface the Reflecting Pool you will be arrested…. Oops wrong picture

Fine. This one made me laugh out loud.

News: Cardinal Robert McElroy, Archbishop of Washington, celebrated Mass for 500 participants (some pictured here) at the Outreach conference for LGBTQ Catholics at Georgetown today. We will post his homily, which moved many in the congregation to tears, later. We are so grateful to His Eminence.

NEW: Almost a year after Trump’s domestic policy bill passed, at least 770,000 children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits. In Arizona, the number of children receiving SNAP has dropped by more than 200,000 since July 2025 — a 55% decline.

I wrote about Republicans' red tape strategy: missouriindependent.com/2026/06/15/m...

TSA selected me for extra screening again in December and exposed to my husband and kids that I was carrying 12 writing utensils in my purse. Happy to report, I'm down to 9 pens, 3 pencils, and 2 crayons.

How am I supposed to declutter my house when it is full of art?

Republicans knew this would be a huge problem and did it anyway:

Inside the Ebola Epicenter, the Virus Rages With Little to Stop It

"The move came after a transgender student who was part of Boise High School’s Sexuality and Gender Alliance died by suicide, and another stopped attending the school, the group’s lawyers wrote in a legal agreement reached Wednesday requesting the case be dismissed."

Lawsuit asks judge to force decision on Missouri gerrymandering referendum missouriindependent.com/2026/05/18/l...

Google sucks so bad now. I googled “stl airport” and all it will give me are results about Miranda Lambert. (I have been delayed at Lambert for 8 hours)

I wrote about the cruel so-called “born alive” bill the Missouri legislature passed. Don’t know how these people look themselves in the mirror making life worse for grieving parents in service of a propaganda campaign

8-yr-old *sang* the whole wiki page of JJ Wetherholt for bedtime reading.

No, I am not doing dishes to get out of Mario Party!

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

this is also one of my hobbyhorses. you want a better caliber of lawmaker? you want to reduce the odds of corruption? pay them more. a lot more.