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Tony Messenger
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Metro columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Pulitzer Prize winner. Author. Order my book: us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
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    Tony Messenger
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    May 5
    There is something about seeing the cover of your book for the first time that makes it real. The Ferguson Decade: How One City’s Uprising Opened America’s Old Wounds, published by @StMartinsPress, comes out Feb. 2, 2027. Please pre-order it here: us.macmillan.com/books/97812503…
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    Tony Messenger
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    Sep 27, 2022
    Missouri was the only state in nation that canceled free grab-and-go food program for poor kids this summer. Pretty lights, though.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Jan 29, 2022
    A whole new generation that might have never known who they are/were is going to be introduced to Toni Morrison and Harper Lee and Neil Young and Joni Mitchell and that’s cool.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Jan 29, 2022
    When I grow up, I want to be an Irish fisherman.
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    Tony Messenger
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    May 24, 2023
    If you play the DeSantis launch backwards, you hear Mickey Mouse drinking a Bud Light while walking through Target looking at PRIDE shirts.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Sep 3, 2022
    This is fascism. Not semi-fascism. Just fascism.
    Missouri attorney general seeks journalism school records
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    Tony Messenger
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    Oct 27, 2022
    The family did the right thing. The teachers and students and security guards did the right thing. Police did the right thing. And still, Alexzandria Bell and Jean Kuczka are dead. Why? Guns, and Missouri Republicans refusal to do anything about them. @MomsDemand #CVPA #moleg
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    Tony Messenger
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    Nov 5, 2020
    Watching all the white Democrats talk on @twitter about how they need to do a better job attracting white Republicans to their party while Black voters in Detroit, Atlanta and Philadelphia elect @JoeBiden is something.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Aug 5, 2020
    Black women won St. Louis tonight. The candidates. The strategists. The voters. That is the story.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Jun 29, 2020
    Forget the debate over statues. This is St. Louis right here in one tidy little metaphor.
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    Laurie Skrivan
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    Jun 29, 2020
    An armed couple came out of their house and pointed guns toward BLM protesters in the Central West End #KrewsonResign #CloseTheWorkhouse #DefundPolice
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    Tony Messenger
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    Sep 28, 2023
    Dear America, We are sorry. Sincerely, Missouri
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    No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
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    Sep 27, 2023
    Oh my God this is incredible.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Jun 12, 2016
    The thought of 1 transgender person one day entering a bathroom spurs emergency legislation. Mass shootings day after day? Crickets.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Jan 6, 2021
    In light of today’s events, I have been thinking about the 23 Black pastors in Missouri who were arrested and prosecuted for peacefully singing and praying in the Missouri Capitol. All they wanted was health care for poor people.
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    Messenger: Mixed verdict in Medicaid 23 trial sends message of division in 2016's America
    Mixed verdict in Medicaid 23 trial sends message of division in 2016's America.
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    Tony Messenger
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    Jul 31, 2024
    ‘St. Louis, we did it!’ Christopher Dunn exclaimed from the steps of the courthouse where a judge set him free after spending 34 years in prison on a wrongful murder conviction. He is innocent and free, and he loves his mother.
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