As the state's chief elections officer, it is my job to make sure that only eligible voters vote, but also that every eligible voter has the opportunity to vote.

Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.

Whether it's intentional or not, Trump regularly makes news for unprecedented and nonpresidential behavior.

I'm proud to be a Democrat, and I feel pretty strongly that the country would be better off with Democrats in charge.

To me, serving wasn't uncommon, and my service paled in comparison to so many of my friends who had done so much more. In my world - as a citizen soldier - I was surrounded by other soldiers just doing their jobs.

Democrats fell in love with the idea that winning elections was a matter of talking to voters about the one issue we think impacts them, instead of our plan to move the country forward as a whole.

Voting in our country has never been easy, and unfortunately, it has never been guaranteed for everyone. But through the work of brave civil rights leaders, some of whom died for the cause, by the early 2000s we were at a point where most, but still not all, people who wanted to vote could do so.

You can protect the integrity of elections without stopping anyone from voting.

Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.

As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

The men and women of the American military have the courage to follow orders. They deserve a commander-in-chief with the courage to give them.

Because President Obama had an overall strategy, military and civilian leaders under his command could make reactive decisions that advanced the president's goals. In the military, we call that commander's intent: When there's a decision to be made and you don't have exact guidance at that moment, you at least know overall what your boss wants.

The president is in charge of the military so that a single individual - accountable to Americans - is responsible for its successes and failures.

When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.

Voters are smart. They know the difference between a Democratic Party that wants their vote and a Democratic Party that believes in making their life better. They'll forgive you for pushing a policy they don't like as long as they believe you're doing it because you genuinely believe it's what's best for the country.

Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.

Frankly, a lot of candidates have no problem being sold to the highest bidder if it means they will win.

The sacrifices our warfighters make for us is simply astonishing in modern American society.

I signed up for military service in the months following 9/11, and later, as a military intelligence officer, I felt called, like so many others, to volunteer for deployment and service in Afghanistan.

My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.

No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.

I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

Americans are struck by lightning with greater frequency than they commit voter impersonation fraud, and that's the only kind of fraud that photo ID requirements could have any hope of preventing.

Trump is doing the country a disservice making things up about the integrity of our elections.

My wife is gorgeous and brilliant, and my son True is my best little buddy in the world.

I love this country, and I won't let losing an election force me away from the process.

To truly care about this country is to demonstrate that you care about her politics the same when you're winning as when you're losing.

Anyone can be something. Leaders want to do something.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

Very few things in life are more fulfilling than being part of a team and knowing you're a part of something bigger than your own self-interest.

I launched more formal elections investigations than any secretary of state in Missouri history, and we didn't get a single complaint about voter impersonation fraud - not one.

We should be doing everything we can to make it as convenient as possible for eligible Americans to cast a ballot. People fought and died for the right to vote.

That's a compliment reserved only for politicians. You never hear someone say, 'You know what I love about my accountant? He's just a normal guy.' That's how low the bar is for people in politics.

He's like a bizarro me. One of us is working for good, and the other is Kris Kobach.

Voters are okay with you believing something they don't believe, as long as they think you genuinely believe it, and you believe it because you care about them.

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

The option to recall elected officials is an important one. Our representatives should always be mindful that they answer to their constituents, and if they act in malfeasance, their job may be on the line. But using the recall as a way to reverse the results of an election, or to hold a snap election, is simply undemocratic.

You don't get to recall a senator just because you don't like her or just because you want the seat for your own party.

With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.

No one seriously believes that cutting the minimum wage is good for workers.

Unions continue to be important for raising the standard of living for working Americans, whether or not they happen to be in a union.

To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

A lot of states that pass voter ID laws have little to no evidence of in-person voter impersonation fraud, which is the only kind of fraud that voter ID laws could guard against.

In order to change Washington, we're going to have to change the people that we send there.

Senator Blunt genuinely sees everything through the lens of partisan politics.

What we believe is that health care should be a right in this country; I happen to believe that means that we should be for single-payer.

A lot of millennials really want a company that signs their paycheck, or whoever it is that signs their paycheck, to be an entity that reflects to them in a way that is consistent with their personal idea of who they are.

I think that it's a good thing that you want to be part of making the world a better place, including between nine and five.

I believe that if you make it harder to vote, then we should make it harder for you to get reelected.