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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 15h

once again the Judicial Performance Review committee recommends the retainment of every sitting judge once again I’m not sure if that’s a sign of strength or of weakness for the Missouri plan

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"Do Yard Signs Actually Matter" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

our job would be a lot easier if local news media could just be discerning enough to just use the correct goshdang maps!! St. Louis Public Radio, St. Louis American, I don’t want to place blame on anyone but it keeps happening!

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Archdiocese of St. Louis once called me a “well-known Democratic operative and abortion supporter” in an internal campaign memo. Totally unrelated, here’s the lying literature on Amendment 3 being paid for directly by the Archdiocese:

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I had a genuine nightmare about fighting over something with Robert’s rules. I was sprinting around trying to do something, help people, but nobody was understanding anything. I kept getting frustrated and panicked as things just spiralled out of control. There’s not enough tylenol in the world…

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

missouri republicans are right to point out that changing maps between the primary and general elections is, y’know, bad. because it is. but the politicians obviously don’t actually care about voter disenfranchisement, they put us in this mess and just want to direct their voter base against us

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

spent about 10 hours straight in my vehicle today. not having the best of times.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

nobody is really talking about it but a bunch of Missouri’s state boards require or limit by law a number of appointees per congressional district so this redistricting mess is not only affecting our elections but causing confusion for boardmembers overseeing basic functions of our state government

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

today’s word of the day is “crumple”

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I love this stupid godawful city so much

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday.com · 18/09/2026

Here are some things to know about the mid-decade redistricting fight in Missouri.

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A guide to Missouri redistricting in 5 questions

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

i am not a lawyer but i do know how to read which is pretty cool i think

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

fuck Denny Hoskins (on a personal level)

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

While it was of course far from the most important thing to occur that day, I’ve always been personally fascinated by the fact that 9/11 was New York City’s primary election day. Highly recommend this article on the NYC election board’s disaster response: electionline.org/electionline...

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electionline Weekly - electionline

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

If Missouri Democrats need to reaffirm our nominees for the 2026 elections, we'll be ready: In the event that the primary results are successfully challenged, the party's candidates would be nominated by the party committee members of each congressional district.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“you can’t change district lines between the primary and the general!!” yeah, and that’s why November’s elections will use the 2022 districts. It’s not the voters’ fault that Republicans used the wrong maps for the primary!

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

While the Missouri Supreme Court reaffirmed that our 2022 districts are in effect, they were silent on how the 2026 primary elections will be handled. It's possible the job of selecting our nominees will be left to party committee members like ol' me: www.patreon.com/GavinBena/po...

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MO-01 Special Nomination Election Hypothetical (2022 District Boundaries) | Gavin Bena

While Missouri's Supreme Court has held that the 2022 congressional district boundaries will be used for our November 2026 elections, by my

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

We won! The Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocks the 2025 gerrymandered congressional map from being used in the November 2026 election. Instead, our U.S. House elections will use the 2022 still-bad-but-less-bad gerrymander shown below.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Underrated story: all the 2020 presidential primary candidates who tried to move up but flopped. Seth Moulton joins: - Tom Steyer - Michael Bennet - Andrew Yang - Beto O’Rourke - Tim Ryan - Steve Bullock - Richard Ojeda - Eric Swalwell - Marianne Williamson* - & Kamala Harris** on that list.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

An "eruv" is a ritual enclosure of buildings, fences, and wires that allows practicing Orthodox Jews to carry objects-such as house keys, tissues, medication, and babies-outdoors, which is normally prohibited on Shabbat. The plural is eruvim, and St. Louis has two:

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

can’t stand carpetbagging politicians

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

There’s been a digital ad running since Missouri’s primary elections tying Ann Wagner to housing affordability, paid for by the Saving Liberty Fund pac. Housing affordability is a solid topic for a digital ad, though they don’t connect it to Ann Wagner until after 5 seconds in.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

you know that one Super Mario Galaxy minigame thing where he’s on a rolling ball and you have to balance the wii remote to make him roll? that’s how I feel right now. could not be a more accurate description of my last few days.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

guys literally only want one thing and it's pretty cool

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

totally enamored by these retro corporate annual report cover designs

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

went out walking with the husky and stumbled upon a tattered scrap of trash in the road I think this about sums up just how totally eviscerated Amendment 5 was

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wrote an email to my DNC members encouraging them to vote no on the RCV ban.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Guess who's back! On August 4th, former state representative Gina Mitten resoundingly defeated state representative Steve Butz for the Democratic nod in Missouri's 4th senate district. Facing no opposition in November, Mrs. Mitten will all but officially return to the General Assembly in January.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🚨 Hong pulls ahead by 254 votes, both under 40%

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The election assistance commission has repeatedly prodded states and counties to separate party primaries into different ballots or at least different columns to avoid voter confusion & overmarking. Careful, Wisconsinites!

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

17 years after going radio silent as Governor, sneaking away from his staff and security for a week, traveling to Argentina to have an extramarital affair, Mark Sanford is still hitting 15% all these years later. Fascinating.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

seeing people online say “they wouldn’t let me vote for [Cori Bush/Wesley Bell], my ballot only had a couple amendments and questions on it”

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Today’s map is a colorful one! It’s for the most coveted job in St. Louis: Recorder of Deeds. Alright, I kid-but 4 Democrats filed to run for the open seat, the most-contested and closest primary for City Democrats this August. Read more about it in the full post: www.patreon.com/GavinBena/po...

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St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds, 2026 Democratic Primary Results | Gavin Bena

St. Louis City Recorder of Deeds, 2026 Democratic Primary Results by Gavin Bena on Patreon. Join Gavin Bena's community for exclusive content and updates.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Maybe the most obvious sign he’s guilty-and a psychopath-is not only because of open statements like this but also you’d imagine any feeling person would have given it up by now. I think he did it, and isn’t in denial or lying, he just fundamentally doesn’t understand that what he did was wrong.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Final party ballot choice update: 66.4% Democratic, 26.1% Republican.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

There’s a part of Max Miller’s “response” video where he says ‘If I had beaten her, would she have offered to make me dinner six days later?’ and such along those lines. It makes my skin crawl. Anyone who has ever been in or adjacent to an abusive relationship knows the answer is so often yes.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

EDay update: Republicans began quickly narrowing the gap this morning as expected, but Democrats have so far retained their wide overperformance in ballot choice

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

50,000 ballots have already been cast for St. Louis County's August primary elections, and Democrats have already rallied to a commanding 73% to 21% lead in party ballot choice-and are currently ahead in every state house district, including those that voted for Trump in 2024.

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Gavin Bena 🗳 @gavinbena.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Ballot choice in St. Louis County in 2024 was 62.82% Democratic, 35.85% Republican. Republicans will turn out more tomorrow but as of 1pm today Democrats are leading by a stunning 73% to 21%. Democrats are ahead in every single district-council, senate, state house-even in 88, 89, 95, 110.

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