Erik Richardson

Erik Richardson

@richardson4mo.bsky.social

freelance writer | rural community & economic development | Democratic candidate for Missouri in 2024 | (he/him)

1,015 Followers 742 Following 85 Posts Joined Jul 2023
6 months ago

Sincere question I'd like to hear your thoughts on: If these people don't have the courage or feel the demand of honor to stand up to Trump, who will?

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6 months ago
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Retired U.S. Admiral say the U.S. “Needs a Plan” in the Face of Shanghai Cooperation Progress YouTube video by The Cipher Brief

Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander @admiralstav.bsky.social highlights that Trump is not only strengthening Russia-China axis, but also setting America up to lose the military lead to China in AI, which will grow to be the most important factor in coming decades.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8FD...

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6 months ago

Sent. Thank you!

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6 months ago
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These aren't Missouri values Governor Mike Kehoe's move for a mid-decade gerrymandering and crushing direct democracy has nothing to do with our values and everything to do with keeping power

Insightful and inspiring article from @fpwellman.bsky.social on remembering who we are and what we stand for here in MIssouri.
fpwellman.substack.com/p/these-aren...

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6 months ago

Thank you for keeping up the fight, @markhamillofficial.bsky.social. You and @markhertling.bsky.social are the two best Marks on social media, and you give such hope to so many!

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6 months ago

I know from watching interviews that mentoring others is one of your greatest opportunities, and I would love to be able to ask you a couple questions for a book I'm writing to help people level up their careers. How could I win you over on that?

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7 months ago
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Garden of Democracy Getting Dirty as Resistance

Last week's post on my Pioneerpunk substack. One of the ways we fight back against being stuffed in a cubicle and reduced to a cog in the machine: open.substack.com/pub/erikrich...

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7 months ago
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Welcome to the Resistance Even if you have been here all along

New Pioneerpunk substack is live! Where democracy meets Blade Runner. erikrichardson.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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8 months ago
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What's at stake if the Big "Beautiful" Abomination Bill passes.

The top 1% don't need their taxes lowered at the expense of the rest of us, who pay more taxes than billionaires. 💰😠

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8 months ago
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Mark Hamill : Bullseye with Jesse Thorn The one and only Mark Hamill joins us this week. He chats with us about his latest role in the epic, life-affirming drama The Life of Chuck. He also tells us about what inspired him to take his acting...

There was a fabulous interview with @markhamillofficial.bsky.social on Wisconsin Public Radio earlier today. Hear about Life of Chuck, Star Wars, and more!

www.npr.org/2025/06/24/1....

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8 months ago

I hate when I go to bed early on a Saturday night and wake up Sunday morning only to discover we’ve gone to war in the Middle East without the consent of Congress. 😡

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8 months ago

Same to you, Admiral.

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8 months ago

Most of my fighting for democracy and blue candidates happens behind the scenes right now, but I want to give a shout out to people like @genmhayden.bsky.social and @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, because I work like hell to live up to the trust they placed in me. #challengeaccepted

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9 months ago
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Happy Star Wars-versary to all of you fans and to the still heroic @markhamillofficial.bsky.social! May 25, 1977.

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10 months ago

Have you seen any Republicans from Congress or the exec branch speak out to condemn this or express concern for this family?

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11 months ago

Election day! It's is almost surreal how much school board elections can spell the difference between success and failure for the whole community in rural towns and yet how small voter turnout usually is.

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11 months ago

Trump can never be a man of substance or honor, so he does all he can to tear down and trample on those who are.

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11 months ago
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See, it's funny cuz it's true. 🤣

(also: #sad) 😞

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11 months ago

Love seeing some of our Dems like @aoc.bsky.social, @repjasmine.bsky.social, and others fighting back like they get how many lives depend on it (and how many children's futures).

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11 months ago
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We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

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1 year ago
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💤

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1 year ago

@piperformissouri.bsky.social @randimccallian.bsky.social @heskethforcongress.bsky.social @bethanymann.bsky.social

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1 year ago

Need to highlight here, as I did on the other site, on other days of this appeal: we have amazing fighters here, including strong women running for Congress for their 2nd/3rd/4th time and a firecracker activist getting national attention! This would be a great boost for these awesome women Dems —

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1 year ago

overlooked farm towns are worth rallying behind!

Just say the word, @aoc.bsky.social, and I'll get you set up with venue, lodging, travel, speaker's honorarium, and an avalanche of voters wanting to be heard!

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1 year ago

that we are seen, that our voices matter, and that Democrats know we are worth spending time and effort to help lift up.

You could send a message to rural voters everywhere, light up candidates and volunteers, and prove that Dems are taking the fight to a new level, where uphill candidates and

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1 year ago
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Appeal for Day 3 to get @aoc.bsky.social to come for a MO town hall out beyond the metro areas.

We have 4 out-state reps to congress who do not care about the struggling families and business owners in their districts.

It would send a powerful a message to rural voters everywhere,

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1 year ago

@aoc.bsky.social @frost.house.gov @petebuttigieg.bsky.social @jerilryan.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

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1 year ago

We don't just need plans for clever campaigns for next year and lawsuits that will take 6 months or a year to wrap up.

We need a whole new paradigm of engagement and we need leaders with the tactical capacity to roll it out tomorrow.
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1 year ago

• and the plagues ripping through the populace will create an advantage Cortes could only have dreamed of when he overwhelmed the Aztecs.
This is no longer a conventional political war, and the asymmetry of scale will be off the charts.
4/5

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1 year ago

Starlink, the assimilation of NASA and the NOAA satellite networks, and so on.)
• not to mention other players stepping out of the shadows, like Ellison who funded much of Musk's rise (70,000 companies around the world run on Oracle, including 96 of the Fortune Global 100 companies).
3/5

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