Josh standing in front of the Walt Disney Museum in Marceline

Protecting the Magic of Marceline

I was recently invited to speak at the Linn County Democrats meeting in Marceline. If you have not been to Marceline yourself, you need to go with your family! Did you know Marceline is Walt Disney’s boyhood hometown? Marceline celebrates Disney’s life with the fantastic Walt Disney Hometown Museum located in the beautiful old rail…

The Constitution with a pen

What the Life at Conception Act Really Means

In January 2025, Graves cosponsored the ‘Life at Conception Act’, a piece of legislation introduced in the House that seeks to utilize the 14th Amendment to provide legal protections to unborn children. Graves and his colleagues are seeking to provide legal protections at the literal moment of conception (per the name of the bill).1 Effectively,…

Closed Hospital Marceline, MO

Why Are They Eliminating Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security?

Just a couple of weeks ago, Sam Graves voted in favor of the House spending bill, which supports a ‘concept of a plan’ poised to cut Medicaid. We know Medicaid here in Missouri as MO HealthNet, and about 1.3 million Missourians use it for their medical care. Of that 1.3 million people, almost half are…