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Joshua Hawley, Missouri's Junior Senator, is an autocrat in waiting.

His arrogance and ambition prohibit any allegiance to morality or character.

Thus far, his plan to seize the presidency has fallen into place.

An explanation in photographs.

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 Joshua grew up in the next town over from mine, in Lexington, Missouri. A a teenager he wrote a column for the local paper, where he perfected his political condescension.

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By the time he reached high-school, however, he attended an elite private high-school 60 miles away in Kansas City.

This is a piece of his history he works to erase as he builds up his counterfeit image as a rural farm boy from a small town who grew up farming.

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After graduating from Rockhurst High School, he attended Stanford University where he wrote for the Stanford Review--a libertarian publication founded by Peter Thiel..

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(Full Link: https://t.co/zixs1HazLk)
Hawley's writing during his early 20s reveals that he wished for the curriculum at Stanford and other "liberal institutions" to change and to incorporate more conservative moral values.

This led him to create the "Freedom Forum."

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And that libertarian newspaper? A few years ago it was reported that the Stanford Review is the origin of Peter Thiel's powerful network.

He donated $300,000 to Josh Hawley's Attorney General run, and later donated the maximum to Josh Hawley's Senate bid.

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And 4 days after that max-out donation, Hawley--then the Attorney General for MO--launched an antitrust investigation into Google.

While it's unclear how much contact Hawley had with Thiel as a student, it is clear that he created a valuable political network while there.

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While at Stanford, Hawley's network grew. Later, there were reports from his peers noting his ambition to run for office. As a student, he vocalized his desire to be President of the United States.

That ambition led him to his next stepping stone--Yale Law School.

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While at Yale, Josh was president of the Federalist Society, and supportive of Alito's appointment to SCOTUS.

His conservative credentials earned him a Blackstone fellowship and federal clerkship with appellate Judge Michael W. McConnell + Chief Justice John Roberts.

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In 2008, he published a book, "Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness" based on his undergraduate thesis at Stanford.

Hawley argues that Roosevelt's philosophy centered around "righteousness" and "warrior republicanism."

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In continuing his writings on righteousness and morality that have followed Hawley from middle school student to Yale Law grad, Josh wrote another article on the matter in 2010.

It lays out his view of what the goals of America should be.

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https://t.co/Tpr0OJ2j9z
The next year, Hawley left the ivory tower of the east coast, packed up, and moved back to Missouri where he took a position as a law professor at the University of Missouri.

He continued his moralistic writings.

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This is where Hawley rights one of his most informative paragraphs. He explains that scripture says God rules over an "earthly government." And therefore, "Christians' purpose in politics" should be making the kingdom of God "more real."

Full Link: https://t.co/rqEcPEHFld

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By 2014, Hawley launched the "Missouri Liberty Project" formed to "fight government overreach, defend the U.S. Constitution, and inform citizens about the need for limited government."

In reality, he used the organization to travel around Missouri and discuss court cases.

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In particular, he discussed his involvement in the Hobby Lobby case.

Depending on which speaking event you were at, you'd think Josh Hawley argued the Hobby Lobby case before the Supreme Court.

He made Missourians think he was *the* "Hobby Lobby" lawyer.

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In reality, Joshua Hawley never spoke one word before the Supreme Court.

A former Republican State Rep. confirmed his shock after learning that Josh Hawley lied straight to his face about his involvement in the Hobby Lobby case.

Full Link: https://t.co/EqbZOLA9cN

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Undeterred, Josh Hawley officially launched his campaign to be Missouri's Attorney General for the 2016 elections.

He claims to have "fought Obama at the Supreme Court" even though, as discussed, he wasn't even admitted to SCOTUS when Hobby Lobby was argued.

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But that lie sat in the rearview as he faced ethics complaints against him during his Attorney General race.

The group he founded the "Missouri Liberty Project"--he was using it to campaign before officially forming a campaign committee--a serious violation.

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Within weeks of being sworn in as AG, Hawley went back on his campaign pledge to not climb political ladders to the next job, and began exploring his United States Senate run.

He hired out-of-state political consultants to run his AG office + help with his Senate campaign.

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Those campaign consultants would ultimately run his 2018 US Senate campaign. The ethics issue he faced was conducting state business on private emails and texts.

(He continues to blur the lines between government + political while a US Senator).

https://t.co/eNr0ue5lZ4

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Almost as immediately as deciding to ditch Jefferson City for DC, Hawley met with the Seminar Network in California--a group of donors, chaired by Charles Koch.

There, he laid out a plan to help the new Trump Administration--file lawsuits.

https://t.co/ZjT5cnkREz

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Hawley contended that the federal gov't moved too slowly--but that conservative AGs could speed up deregulation by filing suits themselves.

This plan is what we've seem come to fruition with the ACA suit + more recently the election suit against Pennsylvania.

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So it's no surprise then that Josh Hawley was one of the ringleaders in the lawsuit to dismantle the Affordable Care Act and strip care away from individual with pre-existing conditions.

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https://t.co/iR1XNy8NqS
For his efforts, with fewer than 8 months on the job, Josh Hawley earned the support from the Koch Family who pledged $10M to his eventual Senate run (even prior to him announcing his official Senate bid).

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But there was somewhat of a roadblock--or opportunity depending on how you view Eric Greitens.

Greitens was Missouri's Trumpian Governor who raped and sexually assaulted a woman. Hawley had to make a decision about how, as Missouri's AG, to handle the situation.

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Ultimately, Hawley decided to come down against Greitens. Few have discussed this point, but there's considerable evidence that Eric Greitens--a Navy SEAL and Rhodes Scholar--with a similar conservative populist bent was Hawley's most serious competition for higher office.

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So Hawley investigated him, suggested that he resign from office, and although he thought Greitens committed impeachable offenses--he didn't want to "put Missouri through" such an ordeal.

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Greitens was never convicted of any crime. Earlier this year after help from Pence's office he was reinstated in the US Navy.

Greitens is the pre-Trump. He's looking for a comeback. He is what happens when you don't hold corrupt politicians accountable for their crimes.

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But Hawley faced legal problems of his own as Attorney General.

State law required Hawley to live in Jefferson City as AG--but he never moved there. This would be the beginning of a long line of "where does he actually live" questions for Hawley.

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https://t.co/WNcKxpapir
And he'd start to turn those railing against him for breaking the law and for dismantling social programs as "elites" who just didn't understand an "everyman" like himself.

And in that, he began echoing Donald Trump.

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https://t.co/p1c5Uj3SUS
But, Hawley struggled.

It's unclear whether he knows what a flatbed truck is in 2020--but this sent a clear message to many in rural Missouri that Joshua Hawley is counterfeit.

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Needing to convince rural Missourians of his credibility as a working man from a farming family, Hawley dropped images of his in-laws' ranch in New Mexico--knowing full well that many would assume he was in Missouri--and allowing them to believe the lie that benefited him.

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Hawley rarely showed up for events when he ran for US Senate. And he rarely answered questions from the public--even of Republicans.

Long-time GOP operatives in the state were turned off by Hawley acting as the heir-apparent, entitled to the seat.

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https://t.co/iwzbkvgOM6
His arrogance was on display for all to see--by not showing up to events he should have--and by forcing his "righteousness" and "Christian principles" on others....like his assertion that the sexual revolution led to sex trafficking.

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https://t.co/2L1qhUofY0
In fact, he abandoned much of what a *typical* Missouri Republican successful (think Danforth, Bond, Blunt, Ashcroft, etc.) and instead chose to embrace the principles of Donald Trump.

Nothing made that more clear than his campaign literature. This is predominant photo.

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And when it became obvious during the Kavanaugh hearings the kind of threat Josh Hawley posed as a United States Senator, his classmates from Yale Law School spoke out and drafted a letter to the citizens of Missouri.

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https://t.co/E6DWZVQrlo
In the letter, his former peers pointed out his hypocrisy in
railing against the coastal elite class of which he is a part.

They note that his dishonesty goes beyond simply the phony story he is telling about himself on the campaign trail--that he abandoned his principles.

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They write that Josh Hawley should know how despicable Donald Trump is--and that perhaps he know he cannot speak out against him if he hopes to win election.

Sadly, we know now that Hawley does not find Trump reprehensible, but representative of future politicking.

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But despite the truth coming out, Josh Hawley climbed that political ladder that only two years ago he disavowed--and he went to Washington, D.C.

And during his first speech on the Senate floor he rails against elites + notes the loss of family and church in ppl's lives.

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These are the same themes you see in his Lexington newspaper days--the same concerns he wrote about at Stanford--solutions he found in Teddy Roosevelt--and line up with his belief that scripture mandates that he as a Christian use politics to make a Christian kingdom real.

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This is one reason why he makes statements about only appointing jurists on the Supreme Court who will overturn Roe v. Wade.

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It's why he discusses "judicial imperialism" and "judicial activism" as if Justices like Coney Barrett haven't attempted to rewrite the law from the bench.

(Wrote a full thread on this here: https://t.co/wZHtTcdaoW)

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When speaking to Evangelicals--he turns up the religion and "earthly government' bit. When speaking to MAGA--he turns up the populism.

He always point the finger at "the elites" --the group into which he was born and from whom he wants respect.

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https://t.co/Ensygj2nO7
That's one of the reasons he's writing another book. So people know he's more than a talking head on Fox New or OANN.

And to begin his pre-campaign tour across America--similar to what he did with the Missouri Liberty Project, sans illegality.

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https://t.co/aRJZiMGUrw
Speaking of legal issues, Hawley has faced hard residency questions since taking office in the Senate.

He sold his Missouri home--and then used his father's address in Springfield on his voter registration--despite not living there.

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https://t.co/27N8cR9swq
In 2020 he faced more questions when he changed his voter reg to his sister's address, while owning a home in Virginia.

He + his extended family are building a vacation home at the Lake of the Ozarks which he'll use to pretend he lives in MO.

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https://t.co/s0GIQxBhtw
He also violated Senate rules when his office received an email to its official inbox + he took that correspondence to post on his personal Twitter.

You might remember his big fight to help Missourians by attacking the NBA.

I wrote about it here (https://t.co/4zHcv3cdlS)

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He stages useless meaningless fights like this all the time. He does it for attention. He does it to put in fundraising emails. He does it to score segments on Fox and OANN.

He does it to increase his profile, while decreasing the legitimacy of the US Senate.

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Of course, when one of his plans falls carefully into place--like installing his former General Counsel to the Federal Elections Commission--to make sure he has protection across agencies.

Like Trump--the chaos masks the crime.

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Joshua Hawley violates the law. He lies as easily as breathing. And he has positioned himself as the much more effective heir to Trump.

This vote against the election is a test of his influence + leadership over the GOP.

He is an autocrat.

And we must defeat him.

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Dear Senator Hawley's Staff--

I'm sure you're loyal to your boss, but this man incited violence and you helped him. There is no "following orders" defense that will save you. You are part of this now.

And it is so much more serious than him simply "raising concerns."

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Prior to November 3rd, Joshua had nothing to say about Pennsylvania's vote by mail legislation.

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In fact, Joshua didn't have squat to say about election integrity either.

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By November 4th, when it was apparent that Trump would likely lose the election, Joshua--as a sitting US Senator--started tweeting out that Michigan was hiding secrets from the public.

Sowing doubt. Fanning the flames.

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So Joshua started this fake call for election integrity--a call he'd never made before.

At first he threw the whole kitchen sink out there--BigTech, ballot harvesting, poll watchers, counting, etc.

Sowing doubt. Fanning the flames.

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Lindsey Simmons
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@LynzforCongress
When I was 25, I worked as a legislative assistant in the Missouri General Assembly.

It was a dream job, honestly.

But that dream dissipated the day the #MoLeg decided to name Rush Limbaugh as an “honorable Missourian” and place his bust in the “Hall of Famous Missourians.”

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The Hall of Famous Missourians sits in the Missouri State Capitol.

There are busts of Mark Twain, Dred Scott, Josephine Baker, Harry Truman and other legends of history.

The day I learned Rush Limbaugh would join their ranks, I thought it was a joke.

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We received phone calls from constituents appalled that Missouri would honor a man who had become infamous that year for calling a college student a “slut.”

And who just that week had continued spreading the racist birtherism lie about our then-President, Barack Obama.

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What I learned that day is that it wasn’t *despite* his racism, but because of it that he received this award.

It’s because he created a universe where it was permissible to lynch with language America’s first black President.

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Several State Representatives and their staffers intended to protest the vote and the selection.

By the time we made it to the doors of the House Floor, we weren’t allowed in. It was Republicans only. The doors were locked and secured by the Highway Patrol.

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It’s cute that people think Hawley’s latest autocratic grab is new.

This guy left DC, moved to MO + from the moment he stepped foot in Boone County he’s violated ethics laws, lied to the public + positioned his pawns in places of power to achieve his endgame—the Presidency.

Every single thing he does is for one singular purpose—power.

He tells lies like most of us breathe. Using photos of him in New Mexico at his in-law’s ranch to make folks think he’s from a Missouri farming family.

Just like he was caught not living in Jefferson City as AG.

Just like he sold his home in Boone County after winning his Senate seat and pretended his entire family lived with his dad in Springfield.

Just like he now says he lives with his sister when really he’s building a million dollar vacation home on the Lake.

This guy doesn’t believe rules apply to him. It’s why he shops for wine in the afternoon when he’s supposed to be working.

It’s why he formed an organization that he later used for his campaign in violation of ethics rules.

It’s why he violates Senate rules so brazenly.

Like when he took official Senate correspondence sent to him from the public and posted it on his personal Twitter.

This guy DGAF, y’all. And he never has.

He lies. He’s hypocritical. He breaks the law. He’s disingenuous.

But it doesn’t matter. He’s climbing that ladder.
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Lindsey Simmons
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@LynzforCongress
What is happening on the floor of the United States of House of Representatives is tragic.

Tragic because it was preventable. Tragic because most of the Republicans in the House are themselves brainwashed into believing that this is all *just politics.*

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I take no joy in supporting impeachment against the President.

In fact, it pains my soul to know that the Commander in Chief launched an attack on his own people, on the People's House, on democracy.

It is tragic.

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Our checks and balances have failed.

Our institutions of justice have failed.

The only power that has not failed is the power of the American people. We voted and we won.

And that's why Trump attacked it.

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This is an attack on us as a people. It is an attack on those the autocrat cannot control. He has radicalized those who feel disenfranchised and he sent them into the Capitol as his pawns while he watched the attack with glee from afar.

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He was capable of doing this because he has not one or two or even three lieutenants in Congress--but over 150 of them.

Their loyalty to Trump--their thirst for power--their devotion to a political party--and, yes, their fear of exiting the cult--has ruined our country.

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Lindsey Simmons
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@LynzforCongress
I live in a community that never took their Trump signs down.

The kind of place where they hope Trump starts a second government.

I need you to hear me when I say this—these people believe the assault on the Capitol was a great victory for


Early polling after the terrorist attack shows that 45% of Republicans approved of it.

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More alarming is that nearly 70% of Republicans don’t think a terrorist attack at the US Capitol is a threat to democracy.

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And more Republicans would call those who stormed the Capitol “patriots” than “terrorists.”

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For those holding your breath, thinking Trump or Josh Hawley or Ted Cruz will resign—don’t.

There is no incentive for them to do so.

If they manage to stay in power after an attempted coup—they win.

If they are forced out by the “elite Washington establishment”—they win.

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