I was just told by my Republican congressman’s staffer in DC that Rep Sam Graves hasn’t had a town hall since 2012 because he is scared for his safety… So, he has been avoiding his constituents for 13 years because he’s scared of us? I’m confused.
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Should be part of the job. Meet with constituents, or lose the job. Simple.
aug 26, 2025, 6:24 pm • 17 0 • view
Yes, like a tracked requirement. If you don't show up to "x" amount of face to face meetings without political entry rules, you lose your position and a special election triggers.
aug 27, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
That… or he doesn’t give a shit and is just in DC to serve himself and be around people who pretend to like him.
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
So, he's afraid of his constituents, but please keep voting for him?
aug 26, 2025, 6:32 pm • 3 0 • view
Apparently his policies are so bad he had to hide from his constituents who somehow keep voting for him-let me guess no one runs against him?
aug 26, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like he needs to resign. Y’all need to stop voting for him
aug 26, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
13 years?! Sounds like he needs to be voted out and vote in someone who will have town halls & communicate with constituents. Wow! 🤦♀️
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 am • 0 0 • view
I don't believe any of these sycophants are scared enough of us! If you can't meet with the people you're elected to represent then, gtfo!
aug 26, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Republicans know their horrible policies are unpopular with their voters. Its why they have to cheat so hard.
aug 26, 2025, 8:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Sadly, his constituents reelected him for the last 6 elections🤨 This is why we’re in the current political nightmare: citizens blindly voting for an incumbent who hasn’t been working for their benefit, and voters not taking elections as a serious responsibility for self governance🙄
aug 26, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Nah, the average voter cannot provide him with the $$ he needs for reelection. He’s spending his time where he can get his hands on the money and of course then providing them with the votes they request. The system has been compromised.
aug 26, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
And they keep re-electing him? Why?
aug 26, 2025, 10:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Why do they vote for someone who doesn’t want to talk to their constituents!
aug 26, 2025, 7:32 pm • 3 0 • view
That'd be a great campaign slogan! "Keep me in Congress because I'm scared to face you at home! "
aug 26, 2025, 6:47 pm • 4 1 • view
🎶"I will do anything for votes, but I won't do THAT!"
aug 26, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
And why would he be scared of constituents who voted for him over and over? He sounds like a big screaming wimp.
aug 26, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Bernie needs to go after that weakling✔️
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 2 0 • view
If someone yelled at them, half of them would piss themselves
aug 26, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
And yet maga party voters keep voting him in.
aug 27, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
Did you tell him his boss should look for a different job, perhaps?
aug 26, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I’d be afraid to vote for that motherfucker
aug 26, 2025, 7:53 pm • 0 0 • view
That makes no sense. If that were the case, why wouldn’t he resign and find another line of work? Yes $$ is the answer, and his answer is BS.
aug 26, 2025, 11:29 pm • 0 0 • view
I’ll let you guess how he has voted for over two decades on common sense gun laws…
aug 26, 2025, 6:24 pm • 229 14 • view
Common sense to me when we support bill,s that most constituents in your district kinda agree with! Know can’t keep everyone happy and understand! Natural if scared of what’s behind you then we fear what’s ahead like town hall,s JMO good luck
aug 26, 2025, 10:41 pm • 0 0 • view
He doesn’t support bills most of his constituents support. He has a bunch of rural hospitals that are at risk. And even when you have to take an unpopular vote you owe it to your constituents to explain why. Blaine L was bad but Graves is worse.
aug 26, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely agree ! If he put his signature on bad bills and he is aware what constitutes think of it though he did anyway! Definitely owes explanation to them constituents! Why I say scared to look behind to his constituents!
aug 26, 2025, 11:08 pm • 0 0 • view
District 7 hasn’t had one since 2011 at least
aug 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I wish we'd stop voting for people who are scared of us My district is not immune (We, of course, is the large group of voters. Not you and me)
aug 26, 2025, 8:05 pm • 10 0 • view
I continue to be ashamed of grown conservative men who are scared to hold meetings, walk in DC, visit Chicago, or any of the other “scary” things this men might have to do
aug 26, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
192 = Executive Orders signed by DJT in 7 MONTHS. 162 = Executive Orders signed by Biden in 4 YEARS. 277 = Executive Orders signed by Obama in 8 YEARS. Amazing the MAGAs used to call President Obama a "king" for issuing Executive Orders. MAGAs are literally the least principled people I've seen
aug 26, 2025, 6:35 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet… he keeps …getting …elected…PATHETIC.
aug 27, 2025, 4:18 am • 0 0 • view
Well. Seems time to vote him out if he can't do that single basic function in his JOB.
aug 26, 2025, 11:13 pm • 0 0 • view
That kind of statement coming from him leads into a question: how do we know he actually lives in MO at this point?
aug 26, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Susan Collins from Maine has not held one in 25 years. 25 years. She is running for reelection. We cannot keep electing people too afraid to oppose Trump. Anything Red must be gone
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 pm • 6 2 • view
National Guard time?
aug 26, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Fear of constituent cooties?
aug 26, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Why do people keep voting for these losers Jess. Are they so afraid that Democrats will allow the Hatians to come and eat their pets. You talk to them....why do they vote against their own interests so often?
aug 26, 2025, 10:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Single party voting, I'm in southeast Missouri we have the same thing with Jason Smith, as long as they have an R next to their name they get the vote. They don't look at candidate platforms etc. Just straight R down the ticket no matter who or what is on it.
aug 27, 2025, 12:02 pm • 0 0 • view
The question is "why?"
aug 27, 2025, 12:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly they believe Democrats are satanic. Idk why Dems in rural spaces don't run as indies. Satanic baby killers I've been called multiple times.
aug 27, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you think this started with that QAnon crap that the GOP glommed onto or maybe GOP started it anonymously?
aug 27, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Part of its Qanon, but it started way before that. Started with the churches and abortions.
aug 27, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
But he wants your votes
aug 26, 2025, 7:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Why did they vote him back in? Surely there has been an election in 13 years!
aug 26, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
From the party of “manly men”?
aug 26, 2025, 7:11 pm • 0 0 • view
In Utah we have Burgess Owens who was elected as a direct result of the 2020 gerrymandering that this state legislature illegally bestowed upon the constituents of Utah….
aug 26, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
But miraculously he has been nominated for all those 13 years what the hell
aug 26, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Dave Reichert in Washington State pulled the same crap in his district. Wouldn't hold town halls because 'it wasn't safe enough.' He bailed during trump's first midterm, though, laid low a few years. Then ran for governor last year, relying on his macho sheriff image. What an idjit.
aug 26, 2025, 11:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The Staffers Third Cousin on his Mothers Side Was Unavailable For Comment?
aug 26, 2025, 9:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m sure Graves is one of those liars who says J6 was a peaceful day of normal tourists visiting the capitol.
aug 26, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Remind him that it’s only the MAGA faithful that have a propensity for gun violence against those who viewpoints they oppose. #FACT
aug 26, 2025, 6:55 pm • 0 0 • view
So he’s not doing his job? Get rid of him.
aug 26, 2025, 6:58 pm • 1 0 • view
He sure sends out a lot of misleading information, in my opinion. I'm not in his district but I do get his emails.
aug 26, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like a real hummer.
aug 26, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Such is the case with the Low IQ voter who votes "party ticket" only. Run a test next election. Get a potted plant. Call it a republican and see how many vote is gets.
aug 26, 2025, 8:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Time to canvass and ask the hard questions. I hope your community will join you.
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 am • 1 0 • view
It’s all a manufactured facade. That’s why a carnival barker is our White House.
aug 27, 2025, 2:11 am • 0 0 • view
The money flow doesn’t run through his district, only his pockets, I can imagine. 🤔
aug 27, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
Well fuck this guy, who's challenging him for his seat?
aug 27, 2025, 12:00 am • 0 0 • view
I'm afraid of his supporters.
aug 26, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
A man of and for hiding from the people!
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 3 0 • view
Doesn't seem to affect the votes does it...
aug 26, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I was surprised that Alford showed up for a town hall.
aug 26, 2025, 6:32 pm • 5 0 • view
I can’t stand Mark, but at least he’s showing up to take the abuse he deserves.
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 pm • 8 0 • view
That is true.
aug 26, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Iowan republicans are also cowards.
aug 27, 2025, 1:35 am • 0 0 • view
Don’t be confused. It is all crystal clear in his political party affiliation-Republican.
aug 27, 2025, 4:40 am • 0 0 • view
Who keeps voting him in? Sounds like dereliction of duty.
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Is he by chance related to Minkowski? Another scared sellout
aug 26, 2025, 9:34 pm • 0 0 • view
Murkowski
aug 26, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The staffer knows they're lying. They know you know they're lying but don't care. Won't change until the voters change.
aug 27, 2025, 12:25 am • 0 0 • view
13 years ago was a whole different ball of wax. He's just lazy and doesn't give a damn.
aug 26, 2025, 11:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Graves did send me a newsletter where he’s investigating “why is the Post Office so slow” and “how the Big Beautiful Bill will save the working class”. Anything to avoid real issues although the BBB is going to get really real shortly.
aug 26, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Should not be surprised from the party of hypocrisy. If a DEM or independent had done the same thing, the REPUBs would quickly removed them from office. But the DEMs leaders don't do anything close to that.
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Hmmm...based on the data, I am going go with the conclusion that he is a huge pu$$y.
aug 26, 2025, 6:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Vote the fucker out in Nov 2026. It’s that simple.
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 4 0 • view
And yet they continue to get voted into office. Should be a requirement.
aug 26, 2025, 6:23 pm • 22 1 • view
aug 27, 2025, 12:17 am • 0 0 • view
Crock of shit
aug 26, 2025, 8:57 pm • 0 0 • view
He knows he's Fascist scum, and he knows what happens to all Fascist scum in the end. He's terrified that someone is going to carry out sentence on him.
aug 26, 2025, 6:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Well Missouri is an open carry state and he contently votes again his constituents.
aug 26, 2025, 8:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Holy shit, what sort of district has Sam Graves created over the past dozen-plus years?
aug 26, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
And yet they keep voting for him!!!
aug 27, 2025, 5:16 am • 0 0 • view
He should fucking lose his job I don't care how many times he's voted for common sense gun laws
aug 26, 2025, 6:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like that little fella's in the wrong line of work.
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Who keeps voting for him???
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 4 0 • view
People who put Party over country. They vote for the (R), knowing nothing about the individual.
aug 27, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
And in that time how many women have died because he voted to rob us of basic liberty? He literally has murdered women with his politics and he’s afraid of us?? 🤔 www.propublica.org/article/pors...
aug 26, 2025, 6:59 pm • 0 0 • view
What is more confusing is why y’all have continued to vote for a man who’s not held a TH in 12 years🤔.
aug 27, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
Why do they keep voting for him?!?!?
aug 26, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Because he supports the kind of bigotry they like. It doesn't matter that he keeps most of them poor and sick. As long as he attacks the people they hate and stays in line with Trump, he's got the golden pass.
aug 27, 2025, 5:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Wait I thought all MAGA were alphas? Sounds like a beta to me!
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
So why do his constituents keep voting for the coward?
aug 26, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
If he’s that scared of the public, maybe he should find another line of work?
aug 26, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
If he's scared for his safety, then he should quit the job since it's clearly too stressful for him to perform his duties.
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 17 1 • view
If it’s so dangerous, why haven’t they called in the National Guard?
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 pm • 7 0 • view
If a democrat gets voted in, they will.
aug 27, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
Why hasn't he asked trump to send the national guard there then if it's so dangerous
aug 26, 2025, 7:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow! Wake Up Missouri
aug 27, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
Well he is a RepubliCON, therefore a coward by association
aug 29, 2025, 2:08 am • 0 0 • view
If you recorded this conversation, Jess, there's a fruit basket in it for you! It's not some crappy Wal-Mart thing. I'm talking about Harry and David!
aug 26, 2025, 6:47 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s happy to collect his big fat paycheck, his insurance, his pension but he doesn’t care about his constituents
aug 26, 2025, 9:04 pm • 0 0 • view
The same people who reelect him every two years? Six times over? Wut?
aug 26, 2025, 10:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Why is he still in office? 🧐
aug 26, 2025, 8:11 pm • 4 0 • view
I thought only blue states were scary?
aug 26, 2025, 6:24 pm • 16 0 • view
If only there were some kind of security force that could put safety measures in place, and protect the congressman.... 🤔
aug 26, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 0 • view
If he's that scared, perhaps he should leave the game. I would imagine he's avoiding his constituents...they pretty much all are. Time to start voting these spineless losers out. I have to deal with Hawley on one side, but lucky to have Cleaver on the other, even if he won't take my emails.
aug 26, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
and yet.. he keeps getting re-elected (not by you.. because you wouldn't vote for him) but by the rubes who don't care about what happens in DC.
aug 26, 2025, 6:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Why do people vote for him, FFS?!
aug 26, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not confused. They are spineless cowards. Who else would kneel to a fascist Orange slob. So why do people keep putting these fools in charge? Ohhh…that’s a the confusing part. My apologies. On the same page now 😉
aug 27, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
Does anyone ever run against him?
aug 26, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Is he scared of his donors too?
aug 26, 2025, 9:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Then quit fucking voting for him
aug 27, 2025, 2:13 am • 1 0 • view
What a spineless POS
aug 26, 2025, 6:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Unfortunately his constituents are f**ls and very idiosyncratic… How can you not have had a town hall in your district for 13 years and you keep getting reelected ?? Pls can anyone make it make sense to me.
aug 26, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
It that his campaign slogan? 😇
aug 26, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Total wuss snowflake coward. Typical republican.
aug 26, 2025, 6:26 pm • 3 0 • view
A staffer for Pete Stauber in MN told me the same thing. When I asked why he was afraid and if he’s still doing other private events despite the risk he said I was trying to catch him in a lie 🤷♀️
aug 26, 2025, 10:32 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 12:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Craig Goldman, US Congressional District 12 (Fort Worth TX) who won Kay Granger’s seat, hasn’t had town hall either. HE MUST BE SCARED OF US TOO! He hasn’t done a damn thing for his district, because like Kay Granger, his only constituents must be Lockheed Martin & Bell Helicopter.😏
aug 26, 2025, 7:14 pm • 1 0 • view
That's just pathetic. Is he afraid of the dark too?
aug 26, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
imho - the correct response to that is 'bullshit.' he has the resources to secure whatever site he might wish to use. maybe he doesn't want to meet and talk with the people he is supposed to represent? maybe he should have a different job?
aug 26, 2025, 6:29 pm • 2 0 • view
And you still vote for him. Amazing, isn’t it?
aug 26, 2025, 6:49 pm • 1 0 • view
He's not scared of the votes that got him there obviously. What a coward he is.
aug 26, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Follow the money. He’s getting something out of it if he’s not responding the folks who elected him.
aug 27, 2025, 9:32 am • 0 0 • view
I am confused by those who would vote for him under those circumstances.
aug 27, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
That guy should've been voted out years ago! WTF is wrong with people voting for a congressman they don eve get to see or hear unless is time for re elections ! #Congress #TermLimits
aug 29, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
Obviously, no reason to vote for him.
aug 26, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Billboard idea: Every Representative or Senator who says they’re “afraid of their constituents” gets their face on a sign: “Scared of voters, never scared of donors.”
aug 26, 2025, 6:28 pm • 45 2 • view
Ohhhhh… listen, if we use your idea, I will send you a picture
aug 26, 2025, 6:34 pm • 18 0 • view
Sounds like he knows he hasn't done right by his constituents.
aug 26, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
JFC.
aug 26, 2025, 6:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe do a better job and he would have nothing to fear.
aug 26, 2025, 7:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Lots of gun violence in the world 🤷🏼♀️
aug 27, 2025, 5:37 pm • 0 0 • view
I would also fear for my safety if I were enabling this evil.
aug 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
📍
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
One must ask at this point: WHY ARE YOU STILL VOTING FOR HIM IF HE'S NOT SERVING YOUR INTERESTS, BECAUSE HE'S AFRAID OF Y'ALL?????
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 am • 0 0 • view
13 yrs? He's not scared, he's just doesn't care with some laziness thrown in.
aug 26, 2025, 8:59 pm • 0 0 • view
What dedication he has towards the people who elected him and who also let him get away with hiding all this time. Way to go Missouri!
aug 26, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow! Okay to hit the campaign trail, not okay to do townhalls. I thought these people were “alpha” or something.
aug 26, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
At that point just quit and live life as a hermit. People are such cowards, they’d rather hurt everyone else than to just leave
aug 26, 2025, 8:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I heard the same thing from senator tillis's office......cowards!
aug 26, 2025, 6:25 pm • 2 0 • view
Maybe he shouldn't do shit that makes people want to hurt him. Like being a traitor.
aug 26, 2025, 7:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Well...he keeps getting elected.
aug 26, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
So wrong
aug 27, 2025, 1:37 am • 0 0 • view
13 years living in "fear" of his OWN CONSTITUENTS?!??! WRONG job for the WRONG "manchild"... JFC
aug 26, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Wondering how he gets repeatedly elected if he’s so afraid of voters.
aug 26, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Vote him out ASAP
aug 27, 2025, 7:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow. Why does he keep getting elected then. Cognitive dissonance is real!
aug 26, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
People , come on , vote his ass out
aug 26, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Shouldn’t he be making his state safer? (And people really need to stop voting for him if he’s that cowardly)
aug 27, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeeeeaaahhh ... That predates the Trump era. Who exactly was he afraid of 13 years ago?
aug 27, 2025, 3:48 am • 0 0 • view
He should not be in public office. Voters need to hold him accountable and not elect him. That’s how it should work
aug 27, 2025, 2:11 am • 2 0 • view
Maybe if he were better at his job people wouldn't hate him so much
aug 26, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Probably should be scared of you.
aug 26, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
You shouldn't be confused. He's afraid because he's screwing you over and wonders if he will receive deserved violence if enough people figure it out🤡🤡🤡🤡
aug 26, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
But yet he keeps getting elected. So, his constituents don’t seem to mind. What does that say about them…
aug 26, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Take a short trip over to Tarkio and knock on his door. You’ll recognize the biggest house on Pine. I’d go with if I were in town.
aug 26, 2025, 7:05 pm • 0 0 • view
… and I thought my MAGA/GOP Congress-person was bad, he hasn’t had one in six years! We protested outside his office last Friday about it.
aug 26, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view