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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

5 days

Defunding Planned Parenthood in a state that has banned abortion lets you know exactly who the GOP is out to harm…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 months

Yuuuuuuup.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 months

Ashley Hinson's husband’s company had $143,043.18 in PPP loans cancelled.

Ashley Hinson

@RepAshleyHinson

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If you take out a loan, you pay it back. There’s no such thing as “canceling” student loan debt.

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Jess Piper

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2 years

I was a hungry kid. My dad never filled out any paperwork to get free or reduced lunch so that meant I just went without lunch. Some days were excruciating. We should feed every kid every day in school. They are required to be in school—feed them.

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Jess Piper

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2 years

Y’all notice the “mama bears” who pitched fits at school board meetings about books become super silent on the topic of school shootings? We see you…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

3 months

If forcing a young boy to have a vasectomy to prevent a pregnancy is too extreme, forcing a girl to deliver a pregnancy is too extreme.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

We banned lawn darts after 3 kids died in accidents. We banned a dresser from IKEA because it was flawed and killed 8 children. Meanwhile, 22 kids are shot every day with guns—5 will die every single day. The Republicans refuse any measures to curb the violence. They don’t care.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 months

Them: responsible moms make sure their children eat. Okay, well I’ll need SNAP and free lunch. Them: That’s not responsible! You shouldn’t have kids! Okay, but you banned abortion. Them: Don’t have sex! Okay, then I won’t date Them: See? Women create incel culture!

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

11 months

I’ve seen a miscarriage at 9 weeks. It looked like a blood clot. There was no form detectable by the human eye. It was a clot. This is bullshit. A flat lie. Propaganda👇🏻

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This is what a "clump of cells" looks like 7-weeks after fertilization.

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Jess Piper

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1 month

That’s kind of the point of being pro-choice, friend.

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@piper4missouri If you can't afford kids, don't have them. It's not fuckin rocket science.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 months

Wait, can folks who don’t plan to have children, freeze embryos, and then claim them as dependents for life? Ladies, this might work out for us…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I had a picture of my husband and kids on my desk, wore a wedding ring, and my students referred to me as Mrs. Piper…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

25 days

Just wait until she sees the bathroom on the plane…

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Welcome to Kansas City where they have ALL GENDER bathrooms…I hate this.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

“i WOnDEr WhY tHe KidS ArEN’t VOtiNg FOr RepUBliCAnS”

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

11 months

I keep seeing folks saying that a trans lifestyle is being shoved down their throat. I have never had a trans person knock on my door and try to convert me. I have never had a trans person leave lit on my car. I’ve never had a trans person threaten me with fire if I don’t agree.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

“I don’t want universal healthcare because they have long waits to see a doctor.” Me, on the phone with the dermatologist: it looks like we can get you in sometime in November…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

I just had a man tell me that if a woman dies from an ectopic pregnancy, that’s God‘s will. He’s voting on November 8. Are you?

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I have never been groomed by anyone from the LGBTQ community, but I can’t say the same for the churches I attended. I was taught to be meek and submissive to men. That my body caused men to sin. That a woman was responsible for the fall of man. That women were meant to be led.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I'd love to give y'all some examples of what I heard at doors in rural Missouri to help you understand what folks out here say when confronted with a progressive message. I will say that we knocked over 5k doors and made as many calls. Also, we had near zero data to go on...

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

3 months

Ashley Hinson's husband’s company had $143,043.18 in PPP loans forgiven.

Ashley Hinson

@RepAshleyHinson

3 months

I’ve said it before, and Biden is forcing me to say it again: you can’t cancel student loan debt! Hardworking Iowans who have already paid off their student loans or never took them out in the first place shouldn’t be on the hook for other’s debt.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

4 months

That part…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

Here’s the thing, if you don’t like AP Black History, don’t enroll your kid. Don’t like a certain book? Don’t read it. Don’t like abortion? Don’t have one. Don’t like drag shows? Don’t attend. Why do they have to screw it up for all of us?

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

If your private school accepts public money then you should have to accept all kids.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

10 months

Fun fact: pregnant teachers who can’t time their delivery with summer break and who can’t save up enough sick days (usually 10 per year) pay for their substitutes while on maternity leave.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

When I started teaching I made $38K. I had one degree. I went back to school and got another degree, taught for 16 years, and I left making 41K. After inflation, I made much less in my 16th year than I did in my 1st. That’s what’s happening to teachers across the country.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

4 months

When you see the Republican politicians saying that school shootings are due to mental health, remind them that they voted against mental health access in schools.

The Democrats

@TheDemocrats

2 years

205 House Republicans voted against a bill to increase access to mental health care in schools. Let's hold them accountable on Election Day.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I was a hungry kid. Once, my dad, sister, and I did our laundry in town and walked the baskets out to our car. In the back seat, there were grocery bags full of food. We weren’t made to feel ashamed, no hoops to jump through, and no one filmed our reaction to having food.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

4 months

The first time I had access to breakfast and lunch, every single day no matter if I had the money or not, was in a school on tribal land in Oklahoma. I was never hungry in grades 4-7 thanks to the Cherokee Nation. They’ve always shown compassion to native and non-native kids.

Cherokee Nation

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Cherokee Nation’s summer food program is open to all children — Native or non-Native — who live within the Cherokee Nation Reservation and are eligible for free or reduced lunches. Stay tuned for more information as applications open this spring.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

America: where middle schoolers are too young to learn about slavery, but old enough to deliver a pregnancy.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

As a rural person, it’s really condescending that these politicians keep acting like farmers and ranchers don’t have educations. Have you ever visited an ag center at a university? These folks go back and work on farms and ranches…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I was married at 18, pregnant at 19, and a mom by 20. I am from rural Arkansas and I am not an anomaly. I was actually proud to say I wasn't a teenage mom. I was able to get out of poverty with Pell grants and Medicaid, but these social safety nets are under attack. They want...

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

I don’t know how loud I need to say this, but rape victims are not incubators for folks who want an infant.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

There is no age requirement to carry a loaded gun in Missouri.

Josh Hawley

@HawleyMO

1 year

Today I’m introducing legislation to set an age requirement of 16 to open a social media account. Protect kids online

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

11 months

I was talking to a relative about the need for universal healthcare. She disagreed wholeheartedly, specifically talking about “government healthcare.” This person also has an abscessed tooth that she regularly drains herself while taking antibiotics meant for her dog…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

Can you imagine a world where women shot someone every time we felt unsafe?

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

10 months

Young folks, the Republicans cancelled student loan forgiveness. They took away your bodily autonomy. They won’t address climate change, wage stagnation, or gun violence. They promote racism and they are anti-LGBTQ. Don’t vote for them.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 months

They will call an embryo a child and protect it, but turn away federal dollars mean to feed hungry kids. They will ban abortion and kick kids off Medicaid. They will force children to bear children, but defund schools and roll back child labor laws. Not pro-life. Forced birth.

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Jess Piper

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9 months

Missouri, where a 12-year-old can be forced to give birth, but she’ll need parental approval to check out a book…

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@stltoday

9 months

Although libraries now require teens as old as 17 to have adult permission to check out materials, many youth patrons don't need new library cards immediately.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

I knew several girls who received gender affirming care by way of breast augmentation. I knew boys who were on hormone therapy because of a lack of growth and height. Not one GOP lawmaker has said a word about these kiddos. You know why…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

5 months

Do folks not know that women miscarry in toilets every single day? You better start building bigger jails if you’re sending us all to jail for flushing the toilet.

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Jess Piper

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3 months

I was just making my bed and pulled the fitted sheet too tight, lost my grip, and accidentally punched my own face. This must be what it feels like to be a woman voting Republican…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I talked to a libertarian once who told me he just didn’t want his money stolen in the form of taxes. He was a cattle farmer. He received a huge lump sum from the government in the form of a PPP loan. He had also received Ag aid. He uses the public roads to transport cows.

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Jess Piper

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8 months

I see a lot of folks saying that minimum wage jobs are just intended for students. I wonder who they think makes their egg McMuffin at 8am or their chicken McNuggets at lunch? Folks who work a full-time job should be able to afford housing and food. It’s not that hard.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

I wonder if Florida officials realize that women/girls who participate in sports often don’t have periods for months or years at a time. A lack of body fat often results in a loss of menstration.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

Forcing someone to stay pregnant to provide someone else with an infant is the definition of human trafficking.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

4 months

I get why rich, white dudes vote for Republicans, but wtf are the rest of y'all doing?

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

Watching conservative women use faux outrage about the government coming for their gas stoves while state legislators are already inside their uteruses is wild, y’all…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

9 months

This tweet brought to you by pinkeye, headlice, and hand, foot, and mouth disease.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I can't walk away...I live here. So, I am now organizing those that put in the work with me. My campaign brought out a silent minority who has decided to be silent no longer--we found each other and we will continue the work. Every. Day.

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Jess Piper

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8 months

Women who need an abortion in a later stage of pregnancy often have nurseries set up, strollers, baby clothes, and names picked out. Folks who attack these women are ghouls.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

11 months

The conservatives think the gusset in bathing suits is to tuck in a penis? Folks, suits for women and girls have always had extra lining. Bottoms are lined so you can’t see all our business when wet. It’s a pocket because a seam there would cause much uncomfort. Good god.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 months

Senator Britt did something that no Republican man could’ve done…. she pulled the curtain back and showed all of us what white Christian nationalism looks like. The visceral reaction you are seeing from women across the country is an opposition to that. So, thank you, Katie.

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Jess Piper

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10 months

On this platform, I’m regularly called a fat cunt, a bitch, and a r #tard , but cis is a slur? K.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

The fact that Missouri Senator Mike Moon said that 12 year olds can be married off to adults just sickens me. My daughter is nearly 11 and still plays with Barbies and her baby dolls. We are living in a hellscape in Missouri under a GOP supermajority.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

You can give me all the school vouchers you want—there aren’t any private/religious/charter high schools within 60 miles. You just defunded my kid’s school.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

The folks who are saying “it’s not mandatory for girls to report menstrual cycles to Florida officials yet, so calm down” are the same folks who told us not worry about Trump’s judges because Roe was law. Y’all can have a seat…

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Jess Piper

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1 year

A story of my three sons: One is a carpenter, one is a teacher, one is a soldier. All three of them completed apprenticeships. Only one was not paid for his time and work. Take a guess which one it was.

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Jess Piper

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8 months

Grown men father a large percent of children born to teens, but teen moms are presented as the problem. Weird.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

I don't know what the future holds, but I will keep working in my community while our roads continue to crumble and our teachers flee and healthcare gets more scarce. The Dirt Road Democrat didn't start with me and it won't end in my failed run. I am rural. These are my people.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

Ladies, when speaking truth to power you’ll be called fat. If not fat, ugly. If not ugly, old. If not old, stupid. It doesn’t matter what they call you, talk back. Encroach on the misogynists. Take up space. Solidarity, friends.

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Jess Piper

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2 years

For those in the back, there is no “school choice” in rural America. There is only defunded public schools.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

My friend is a history teacher in the Bronx. I just got a text from her…her students didn’t learn CRT in class today, but two of them were shot while she and other kids hid from the shooter. The real danger in schools isn’t history—it’s unfettered access to loaded guns.

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Jess Piper

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4 months

Ope!

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Jess Piper

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1 year

Men saying they’d put the life of a fetus over the life of their pregnant wife is seriously effed up…

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Jess Piper

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2 months

An IVF clinic is on fire across the street from a house fire. There are thousands of frozen embryos in the IVF clinic. There is one toddler in the housefire. You can only go into one building. Which is it? Even the insane Alabama Supreme Court knows the correct answer…

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

@LauraPowellEsq As a Gen Xer, I know exactly why. Many are dead. Do better, Laura.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

3 months

that I remembered why I don’t attend a church like this. Dolly Parton has given away much of her fortune to poor children but is “immoral.” Donald Trump has been accused and indicted on 91 felonies and admitted to sexual assault, but he is “their president.” Nah. I’m good.

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Jess Piper

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3 months

I know this seems insignificant, but after 20 years as a football mom, I noticed that Travis Kelce hugged his mom first last night. Taylor stood behind his mom and waited for her boyfriend. I’m not that creepy boy mom, but that says a lot about both Travis and Taylor.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

11 months

with Missouri roads, or schools, or hospitals, or living wages, or affordable housing, or affordable childcare. It confuses Rs when you keep the conversation local. And that’s my advice to you, friends. Keep bringing them back to state politics. Their party has tanked the state.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

Daddy, a Navy veteran, said, Jessie you’re not going to that recruiting office and give me the name of the recruiter. I never heard from the Air Force again. This is the story of how I ended up in 25k of college debt, but was saved from who knows what by my daddy.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

2 years

If they say "CRT" you say "define it". If they say "parents rights" you say "please open your school handbook and find which rights you're missing". If they say "1619 Project" you say "Which poem offended you and why?" Push back every time.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

Republicans ran and won on reducing grocery and gas prices and within the first few weeks in Congress they put forth a plan to raise both of those things by 30%. WTF.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

Every ounce of me and my energy went into a campaign that swayed 4% of non-Democratic voters. Hundreds of thousands of dollars went into 4%. Grassroots is HARD work and it takes more than just me knocking doors. It's very long game. Folks can walk away and say it wasn't worth it.

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

20 days

When are men forced to travel across state lines because healthcare is banned in their state?

Biden-Harris HQ

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Top Trump advocate: If women have to travel to another state to get an abortion it’s not the worst thing in the world

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Jess Piper

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11 months

I substituted in an elementary before I received my teaching degree. I once had a sweet kiddo with his head shaved for lice while his legs were covered in flea bites. He slept with a litter of puppies. He’s successful 20 years later due to a free and fair public education…

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Jess Piper

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3 months

It’s National “school choice” week and I’m here to remind y’all that it’s a scam. Fund public schools!

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Jess Piper

@piper4missouri

1 year

If it’s not safe for an honor student, a child who is a 2022 Missouri Scholars Academy Scholar and All-State Band qualifier to innocently knock the wrong door, it’s not safe for any Missouri child. We demand that our children be safe from gun violence. Now.

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Jess Piper

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A study of Arkansas’s new school voucher program showed that 95% of the applicants were already in a private school. Their parents now receive a coupon for tuition. Vouchers are welfare for the well-to-do.

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Jess Piper

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10 months

Finding out my daughters and granddaughters lost their bodily autonomy in a decision made by lifetime judges who have been paid off in fishing trips makes me unspeakably angry. This court is rotten at the core.

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Jess Piper

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Here’s another thing…you shouldn’t have to carry a dead fetus for weeks while waiting for your body to expel it when we have modern treatments that can remedy the situation. The way we treat pregnant women in this country is fking shameful.

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Jess Piper

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3 months

Watching the “Christians” get behind drowning kids at the border…

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Jess Piper

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1 month

If you are a man concerned about abortion, I suggest a vasectomy. They are fairly inexpensive and an easy way for you to prevent abortion. Everyone can do their part 🫡

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Jess Piper

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I don’t care if you homeschool your kid. I don’t care if you send your kid to a private school. Not my business. I care when lawmakers siphon money from public schools to funnel it into homeschools or private schools. There’s a big difference.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

There is a massive amount of misinformation out here and folks not only hear it on Fox, but also in church. They share it on Facebook and it came up at so many doors. Our papers lean conservative and elected Republicans are given space every week to preach their message in papers

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Jess Piper

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6 months

Every former fundamentalist instantly recognizes the fundie baby voice…

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Jess Piper

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7 months

With the Discord chat leaked, we can now all agree Moms for Liberty is most definitely a hate group.

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Jess Piper

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2 years

There are four (4) trans children competing in sports in Missouri. There are over 13k kids in foster care in Missouri. Guess which group MO Republicans are concerned about?

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Jess Piper

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1 year

Let me break this down for the “school choice” folks. You’re right: a zip code shouldn’t decide how well kids are educated, so FUND EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL EQUITABLY. My god…this isn’t rocket science. These folks muddy the water with rhetoric to privatize our schools. Period.

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Jess Piper

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6 months

Oh, I’m still teaching. Apparently.

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Jess Piper

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3 months

Please don’t ever let yourself be lectured about abortion by people who refuse to feed or house or educate children. They are hypocrites.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

The point: while we are overwhelmed with misinformation, many have quit listening. They drive the roads, they see the sschools are defunded, they knew COVID was real. Those folks are out here too along with reasonable Republicans and Independents. We are all here.

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Jess Piper

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3 months

For those of you who don’t know, I’m a recovering Southern Baptist.

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Jess Piper

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To all the angry white men in my comments today…shhh. You look prettier when you smile.

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Jess Piper

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Me: Pregnancy and childbirth are often dangerous Men in the comments: Actually…

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Jess Piper

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11 months

There was a very proud Republican in the group of Democrats that I spoke to last night. I assume my talk was a little upsetting to him so he came to talk to me afterwards. I am accustomed to speaking to devout Republicans, so it went fine, but let me tell you something…

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Jess Piper

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10 months

GOP, baby…

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Jess Piper

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2 years

In Missouri, At 19, you can’t rent a hotel room. You can’t rent a car. You can’t smoke a cigarette. You can’t drink a beer. But, at 19, you can buy a gun and hundreds of rounds of ammo with no background check from a private seller.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

This is just to say that you can give this holiday season in anonymity and without hoops and the recipient of your compassion will remember it for decades.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

Conservative women, when you vote for Republicans, and they cut Social Security, your mother and mother-in-law will be living with you, but you’ll need the extra help for the 10 kids you had after the Republicans outlawed your birth control…

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Jess Piper

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1 year

Vouchers for religious schools are a scam to redirect public tax money into churches that pay no taxes. They are double-dipping on their tax exempt status.

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Jess Piper

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1 year

US student: I can’t believe they let you drink at 16 in your country. Exchange student: I can’t believe they let you carry a gun at birth in your country.

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