Great idea. Another great idea is to make cutouts of the absentee congressperson, and list all the corporate sponsors on their clothes, like NASCAR does. I think we need to do town halls for Hawley, too. He’s never around MO unless it’s election time, and he’s pretending to be a country boy.

Had a small group meeting with Hawley’s state deputy chief on Thursday. Our consensus to Hunter Kelly was we need Hawley to have a town hall in our area.

Why on gods green earth is he still in office if he doesn’t do his job for 13 years? Clearly more a voter problem at this point.

primary him!

Neither has Ohio’s “Mr. Bi-partisan” David Joyce.

Why does he get voted back in?

Where can I find the schedule of “Flat Sam” town halls? I really want to attend them. Thanks.

Keep it up, that's how we win back this country!

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Good for you! I'd be mailing him videos each time you had a meeting from several different people. Email it to him and text it, Facebook it, X it etc.

Excellent and send him the footage

We need to meet on the White House steps and effectuate a peaceful transfer of power back to We the People name the date and time we need our country and our white house back they need to be locked up as the criminals they are

What a coward.

Way to go! Let him know you won't tolerate his hiding. Keep holding his feet to the fire.

Good trouble Jess, good trouble

You should have one in front of his house. These people think they're immune from the world, but they have to go home at some point and they likely have family there, too. Make life at home uncomfortable for him. Keep it peaceful and legal though.

GREAT💙🔥💙

Dist. 3 has been awful quiet. I'm hoping to shake some Callaway trees and see what falls. We need better representation desperately.

hoping people will go away doesn't work remember this and stay strong during the midterms!

So he's been in office 13 years without a single townhall and yet people in his district keep re-electing him. I get that Graves simply doesn't care but it begs the question why do people vote for someone who obviously doesn't care?

Good for you!

2012!

Good for you! If he hasn't held a town hall since 2012, how does he communicate with you...hear your concerns? If he is only representing himself and not you, sounds like a good candidate to be primaried. Tee him up!

My god. WHY is your district even re-electing him? 13 YEARS??

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Yet - you kept on voting for him

Hope that dials up at the polls! Bye bye Sam

Why vote for him then?

Term limits are needed for Congress. -E

Same with Ann Wagner - District 2 in StL

Why don’t you vote him out? I wouldn’t put up with that from my representative.

How does he keep getting elected?

I read Susan Collins hasn’t had a town hall meeting in 20+years. Maine it is time to elect Jared Golden to the senate.

He is simply showing you that he Does Not represent You!! He shouldn’t get a pay check. Just sayin

Good Jess ✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼✊🏼

Yes! That’s what we need. More of this.

If your biggest challenge is being a “D” then become an “R”. You have a common sense, good approach to the people of Missouri. It’s about doing what’s right but also being able to be in the place to do right. We need to step away from where political parties are now and just do what’s right.

We can’t wait for midterms! #RecallThemAll

Love this! I am still curious if any of the people that come to these town halls are Republican.

He should be fired by his constituents for not doing his job. Part of his job is interacting with them !

Vote him out

Announcements about these needs to be more visible. Lots of us would love to attend but aren’t aware that they’re even happening.

This is is the biggest mistake of voters their bosses not making them come back for reviews ! This should never happen we dont hire kings and queens !We should be tracking them down and repremanding them ! We dont owe them nothing !

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Thank you, I am sure Sammy appreciates it. Bless his heart.

Rural Missouri is pretty weird. Moved here from St. Louis. The culture shock is ongoing.

And yet, people keep voting for him……

Exactly..smh

He's never gonna do one after all this! Bye, bye Sam Gravely Stupid.

She be one lazy woman.

Graves got to Congress in 2000 (12 @2-yr terms.) In 2005, just 5 yrs in office (less than 3 terms), he vested in the federal PENSION. With NO incentive to work for his constituents, he'll have income up to his last breath. What about your Social Security? Find, fund and promote his next opponent.

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U guys should have stopped electing him! Not one in over a decade? What a POS

Wow. Great turn outs. Congrats.

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Hope they're planning action, like banging on doors, flooding their neighborhoods, every day, all day!

Is it any easier to talk about the issues when there's not an actual politician in the room? I'd suspect it is.

My Senator Thom Tillis has never held a town hall in the 10 years he's been in office. But one is scheduled for 4/24 to which he's been invited. Hoping he'll be there since he's up for reelection next year.

Brilliant. Are you sure he doesn’t have Alzheimer’s and is tucked away somewhere?

It happened in Texas. Some of her staff didn’t even know. It was a big cover-up. Just to hold a GOP seat.

I know. I was thinking of that very instance. 😉

How do you start ? Rep Graves? you went again fishing ? Or what do y'all say ?

Make a life size cardboard cut out of him too, and invite the media

thanks for sharing

You ROCK Jess Piper!

Keep it going. Great job. ✊

Good for you! And I’m glad we know about it.

You go girl!

Why do folks vote for congress people that don’t work for the people who sent them-and pay their salaries?🤷🏽‍♀️ VOTE THEM OUT

He's a NASTY COWARD

The GOP in Congress are not responsive to their own Voters AT ALL

Never were, even when supporters thought in their hearts that they were- it was the democrats that took care of them

Good for you! Time to vote these creatures out!

This is precisely why he has to be voted off the island.

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#VoteHimOutSamGraves

You should all throw paper wads at the (his) empty chair to symbolize your frustration with him. Yes, video it and send it to him.

Why has he been your Congressman since 2012?

Hell yeah!

The work of breaking these folks OUT of the cocoon is a vital service to Democracy. Rural voters -- all citizens in fact -- need to look beyond who their neighbors are voting for and they'll realize they've been "had" for too long.

Hard to believe so long a term!

I hope you are inviting the Dems who will challenge for the seat in the next election. Get them an audience and let their voices be heard!

Hopefully Jess will run for the seat!

Yes! We can no longer allow the Democratic Party or the lobbyists to choose our candidates. We the people must invite the Dems to these rallies and let them earn our vote!

As they should!

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Our (R) congressman ( Issa ) chief architect of Jan.6th has been in hiding for months while his nemesis (D) Mike Levin has multiple public meetings weekly.

Do republicans show up?

As far as I could tell, there were no Republicans at the St Joseph empty seat townhall for Sam Graves. It was standing room only and I am sure we were over capacity for that building.

No ISSA in Escondido office or even on zoom.

ISSA? Are you talking about Somali people?

No, he is a congressman from California

Ah.. Issa. Not ISSA.

Heck, you might be lucky enough to talk to a staffer or an intern of Issa on the phone or get a letter that is a ghost-written response made by a staffer. Darrell Issa has the emotional intelligence similar to the T-1000 in T2. It is like he is a machine programmed to serve Trump no matter what.

Creepy and completely deaf to voters.

Where is Darryl Issa?

Oh the same guy who is a Russian asset was re-elected? What is wrong with these people?

That area near San Diego blindly votes for Republicans—only.

Issa has been such a Can of Coke without the Fizz he resorted to claiming victory for programs he voted against- Infrastructure Bills

He's pretty awful from what I have seen. I can't understand how they thought "hey, let's put him back in!" There was no one better?

A lot of mobility due to California redistricting— Issa won 1 term in District 48, 3 terms in Dist 49, 1 term in Dist 50 and now serving in Dist 48.

As San Diego gets more Blue he has had to move to other districts in order to keep doing his MAGA bs... we voted him out of our district a few years back. He's an evil sycophant...

Not "only". We blue dots scared KGB real estate agent Ken Calvert so badly in 2024, there was "re-districting" and Darrell Issa got a new piece of the pie.

currently his Big legislation is to put Herr von-trumps face on Mt. Rushmore jeeeezusfk'nkrist on a cracker

Hanging upside down somewhere until the sun goes down...

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Pretending he's a lawyer and bringing GOP BS to the floor ie: Codify DOGE, Limit judges and court orders (a big one because it means your presence is required to demand a reason for your detention!) I wonder whose griftroll he's on now?

Issa was our Congressman until booted him out and voted in Levin. Unfortunately for you, Issa then went to your district... he's bad news.

Seriously, Lawn fungus would have been more productive....

It is like he is a rat or a rattlesnake. One moment, a house does mind the rat or rattlesnake living there and the rat or rattlesnake has to move and moves to another house that does not mind the rat or rattlesnake being there. CA-48, please get rid of this corrupt creature before he bites you.

Why do they keep getting elected?

Without con-Don-trump, Putin's number one money launderer, he would have lost the Ukrainian war by now.

Putin is cheating for the alt-right Republican politicians. Putin needs con-Don-trump and will do anything and everything to keep him in the presidency.

'Cause they hate the same people Trump does. It's why Trump won again. Racism killed this country.

Re-districting got Issa his current "job". The same phony christians that vote for trump just vote straight ticket. With no law degree or bar licensure, he's clearly just "the designated flunkie messenger", with experience.

Not to mention, name recognition got him the job in CA-48. If Issa did not have name recognition, he probably would not be Congressman in CA-48. He is similar to Lauren Boebert. When the going gets tough in their old districts, they go to another district so they can win their elections.

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My loser 2. Darrell is pretending he's a lawyer now. "The House passed a bill 04/05/25, sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Escondido), to limit the authority of federal district judges to issue nationwide orders" San Diego Times. Also pushing to codify DOGE. I wonder who's hand is moving his mouth?

Wasn’t ol’ Darrell a criminal in his younger days?

Arrested multiple times on suspicion of grand theft and insurance fraud. Suspected of burning his own business for insurance cash. Only indicted once, settled with other party out of court. So yeah!

How does he keep getting elected?? Hopefully he gets a good opponent soon

How did the county go blue but picked Darrell Issa for Congress

He kept hoping districts to get elected, the reddest one in the county.

Oh, that's how Lauren Bobert got the idea then. It's frustrating because he's a veteran and I think people like that without scratching the surface

Hello! I WISH my district & my county had turned blue. Instead, the GOP just moved some district lines around to dilute blue voters. Voted out in 2018/2019 and "elected" to our redrawn district in 2022. Eight terms district 49, this is his 1st go in #48. Doesn't need his VA bene's, has congress's.🤑

The real bigoted half of the voters were given the green light to go full WhiteywhiteWhite and they ran with it. Kamala was close with 75 million, it was the 30 million who stayed in bed I blame

Lawn fungus would be more productive and ol Darrell

Brilliant link. Has Issa's never here schedule, protest dates, locations, times. Itemizes Issa's flunky chronicle of "bills' including nominating trump for a Nobel! I live in dummy Darrell's district. This is incredibly helpful for resistance!

Why the living hell has he been in Congress so long?

Fire Him!!

Vote. Him. OUT!!! 💙🇺🇸💙

Why is he still your congressman? Vote him out!

What I don't understand is that he and many others that do not hold townhalls keep getting reelected. HOW can this keep happening? WHO is voting for them? There needs to be a method to Recall/replace them for dereliction of their duty to their constituents.

Wow!

Good for you!

Wow! He must hold a record!!!

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And Missouri has always seemed so enlightened.

If elected officials cannot face any and all constituents, they don’t deserve your vote

love it!

He’ll disappear after the mid-terms.

"🎼🎶Has anybody here seen our old friend Sam, can yall tell me where he's gone(MIA)...he's skipped a lot of townhalls because the 💲PAID-triots cower then abscond behind their shadows, and then we looked around and, he was GONE"..."LIke the Wind(swoosh)💨"???

The elected losers in West Virginia are completely invisible...and have been since day one. Too chicken shit to face the people.

Then why is he still your congressman? We have to start holding these supposed leaders responsible!!

FB throws out lies!!

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Yes they are firing people for doing their jobs?

Send him the recording!

If they hide, then vote them out!

So why is he still your congressman? 🙄

Musk and DOGE are declaring SSA recipients dead and making them appear in person to get their benefits. It would be fair to do the same to zombie senators who never appear in their districts outside election years. Miss a town hall, senate vote? PAC given away and snap election to fill the seat.

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This is also the case with TM Senator Marsha Blackburn, who wholeheartedly endorses this administration’s cruelties and enriches herself with mountains of gun and pharmaceutical lobby money.

She suuuuuuks. She’s not my Senator, but she’s just AWFUL.

Cowards

And yet you guys keep voting for him

Get rid of him!

Why does he keep getting elected then?!

That’s just wrong. He probably has no problem campaigning and attending rallies to ask for more money to be elected. Which he seems to do. He should be removed by the voters.

Check on him. He may be in a memory care facility. #wellnesscheck

So how is he reelected?

By the illiterate.

This is great!!!!! Maybe having the hubris to snub those you work for will make a difference in the vote next time

You should take that group, go to their home, politely knock and demand answers. Don't let the politicians hide from the people anymore. Remind them who they work for.

Just as an aside, that venue looks so welcoming. I wish I was there. Way to go, Jess. Keep making Missouri proud!

Yes 👏 really keep making Missouri proud…

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Since 2012? How is it this poor excuse of a representative remains in office?

Good for you! WTF are you paying him for if he’s hiding in the bank counting his I’ll gotten gains.

Afraid to come?

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Mainer here Jess. Hold my coat. #felontrump toady and dupe GOP US Senator Susan “I’m very concerned” Collins hasn’t held a town hall in more than 20 years. She is running again in 2026. Her “use by” date expired years ago.

Of course you do Jess, we would expect no less from your badass self!

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Nice turnout for small towns 💪💪💪

Probably just another Republican traitor.

It should be a requirement!

And he's still in??? Wow

Love this! Keep fighting!

That’s fantastic!

Right up there with Susan Collins who hasn't had one in 20 years! I'm sure she's "concerned".

Hurrah! 💙

@sanders.senate.gov @aoc.bsky.social

Q: Why do yall keep electing a man who refused to talk you for almost 13 years?

Jess...what is the mix of R vs D that come to hear you? Thanks for standing up for all of them...

With "Trumpian Ruler 2.0", I think the loosened rules allow Trial In Absentia, also. They SHOULD have a chance to taste their own medicine. Charges could start with dereliction of duties!

Republican Representatives are spineless that simple

My congressman, Saint Rambeaux, might shoot me I've been woke so long. Signed ex Greenpeace Activist decades ago with battle scars It'll be worse now. Be careful. They're Luigi is psycho.

But it is strange that he keeps getting reelected .

That is how you do it!

Since 2012? 🤦‍♂️

Good for you! Way to go!

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What better sign do you need than to not show up to address the people that pay your salary? Typical 🍊💩 minion tactic !

Then why keep voting for him?

He works for K Street lobbyists not citizens.

EXCELLENT 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Time to empeach him force him resign

And yet he still got elected. All we're doing with talking and talking and talking is just screaming into the void.

Since 2012?? Why do people continue to support a representative who doesn’t support his voters??

Please pass it on 🙏

If you haven’t held a single town hall in 13 years you should not be eligible to hold office. You’re clearly unable to perform the duties of the job.

Vote him OUT!

I think we should start calling them tea parties instead of town halls.😎

Why do people keep voting for him?

Put him on missing posters and milk cartons. Too bad we can’t do an “amber” alert for all these missing cowards.

And how does Sam Graves keep his job? Could it be that the voters in his district are used to having his 🐂💩 over someone else who wants to represent their constituents? Maybe there is no one better to take his place in that Redneck belt of a state.

Is he still alive? Is he in a nursing home? Is he incapacitated? Why isn't DOGE cutting him as a fraud?

So why do you keep voting for him? 13 years????? Stupid is as stupid does.

Bravo Jess!

Maybe send Sam home for good

2012? How does he keep getting elected?

Exactly.

Go & primary him out

He’s a Republican. Unfortunately, Missouri has been completely compromised. No independent media and draining the rural areas of people.

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Well, I guess they should give up on electing someone that listens to and represents them? Yeah. All those people participaing in their citizenship should give up and let authoritarianism take completely over. 😔 SMH.

Um, no, that’s not the logical conclusion. It’s an explanation of how they got to where they are.

Great idea!!!

That one with the round tables looks more like a wedding reception!

@piperformissouri.bsky.social No townhall is called taxation without representation & is against the law.

Outstanding! I love that you and your neighbors don't take this lying down.

All these people. In Missouri. Damn. 👏👏👏

How did he get reelected?

In some places, people have been brainwashed into thinking Democrats are Satan.

But he gets reelected

Vote him Out.

2012? Pathetic.

Vote his butt out

Why do his constituents keep voting for him then? My rep has been in office for a while, but he gets out and talks to people regularly.

They prey on our ignorance. cbwrong.blogspot.com/2025/04/i-ge...

OK, who is the dumbass? You keep voting him in since 2012 and he does nothing

Fire him, who is working for if not YOU

Why do they still draw a paycheck when they refuse to do their job of chks and balances?! Talk about entitlement !

Even better! No one there to drive your car.

That is fabulous, would love to see more younger people participating in our townhall meetings.

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Vote him out!!!

Then why is he even still in office?

And voters keep rewarding him for this 🤦‍♂️

I was just going to say that, must be a very red and/or gerrymandered district

It is. I can’t wait to move out of this state.

But somehow keeps getting elected huh? 🤔

He’s mine too! I remind him often .

Oh, I see he’s not just avoiding answering for the misery he, Trump & loyalists are bringing he’s also plain ole LAZY.

Y’all keep re-electing him, so what does it matter?

Good work! I love your energy!

Good for Missouri. Well done.