Long story short: Preserve democracy by pulling our money from businesses that fund White Supremacists Christian Nationalists companies broadcasting lies to end Missouri's separation of church and state.

The main way to restore sanity and democracy in the Missouri and the US is to pull the plug on AM and FM White Christian Nationalist talk radio that reaches all areas of our state. It gets into the areas even without affordable satellite and internet connection. Next we provide space and basic necessities for free the hearts and minds of people trapped in their pews dependent on the cult's charity to remain in the good graces so they won't be shunned from small town jobs and social events. Greed and cult peer pressure is why Missouri's GOP keep cutting our social safety nets. They use the excuse of "immigrants" "welfare queens" "persons faking disabilities" "lazy poor" to further culture wars and then misuse our taxes for the richest class. They say people of other faiths are demonic yet they are protecting a criminal in the White House and the Epstein class. They are promoting the destruction of our State and National constution again and again by supporting the same State Government that has been in power for twenty years or so that keeps ingnoring Missouri Citizens legal petitions and passed ballot measures. Increased wages, expanded healthcare, body autonomy, accountability for lobbyist money, fair maps. On and on and on.

We are empowered.

Here are some ideas for ending White Christian Nationalist talk radio.

Media and Broadcasting Accountability

• Monitor and Report Content: Document and report broadcasts that cross legal lines into incitement to violence, hate speech, or harassment. Write down the station call letters. Location and phone number. Website. The program, date and time it aired. 1. Notify the public and let them know who the advertisers are so they will hold advertisers accountable. 2. Optional: Report to the appropriate broadcast regulators (such as the Federal Communications Commission [FCC] for public airwaves) or platform hosts.

• Support Counter-Narratives: Promote media literacy and amplify alternative voices—including mainstream, progressive, and historically Black or multi-ethnic Christian traditions—that challenge the theological and political claims of Christian nationalism. Use these alternatives. Repost and quote these alternatives. Sponsor and donate to these alternatives. Other media is NPR, Democracy Now! you can find others.

• Expose Funding and Sponsoring Networks: Track and publicize the financial backers, advertisers, or syndication networks supporting specific talk radio programs to encourage public accountability.

Spreading memes, sound bites and videos feels good to share and gives us a burst like we are doing something and spreading awareness.

Ending the cycle of hate brings results. This is the first step. Let's bridge the rural urban divide. There are toxic radio stations in urban and rural areas. Cut off funding to the major advertisers and the little stations will dry up. They can not survive on mom and pop ad dollars. It is more propaganda to keep Missourians fighting each other instead of uniting to kick the authoritarians out.

Additional information:

The Bott Radio Network (BRN) is an American Christian radio network headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas. Established in 1962 by Dick Bott, the network specializes in a "Christian Talk and Teaching" format, broadcasting a curated schedule of evangelical programming across more than 130 stations in 16 states. The network's reach extends through the Midwest and into parts of the South and West, complemented by digital streaming and satellite distribution.

The Bott Radio Network (BRN) is a commercial-free Christian talk and teaching radio network founded in Kansas City, Missouri. While the network primarily describes its programming as "Quality Bible Teaching, Christian News and Information", critics and media analysts characterize its role and commentary as part of a broader conservative and right-wing media landscape. [1, 2, 3]

Overview of Bott Radio Network in Missouri

• History: Founded in 1962 by Dick and Shirley Bott when they purchased a struggling Kansas City station and flipped it to Christian programming as KCCV (Kansas City's Christian Voice). [1, 2]
• Footprint: Expansive coverage across Missouri (including St. Louis, Kansas City, Columbia, Jefferson City, and regional FM/AM signals like Sedalia, Warrensburg, and Cape Girardeau) through over 130 stations nationwide. [1, 2]
• Core Programming: Features nationally syndicated conservative evangelical speakers and public affairs commentators (such as James Dobson, Tony Perkins of Family Research Council, David Barton of WallBuilders, Robert Jeffress, and Jay Sekulow) alongside traditional Bible teachers. [1, 2]

Critiques and Public Perception

• Political & Social Messaging: Media observers and critics, such as analyses in national publications, place BRN within an ecosystem of conservative Christian and right-wing broadcast outlets that shape political mobilization, voter alignment, and social stances on issues like abortion, elections, and cultural values in Missouri. [1, 2, 3]
• Content and Editorial Control: The network maintains strict internal standards over its broadcasted speakers. For example, BRN has historically cut off or dropped syndicated programs when hosts diverged from its theological or social guidelines—such as dropping Hank Hanegraaff or interrupting a broadcast featuring speaker Mark Driscoll over explicit content. [1, 2]
• Stance on Public Policy: BRN regularly features special programming and interviews tied to Missouri legislation and ballot measures (such as organizing opposition to pro-choice constitutional amendments like Amendment 3) from a self-described "pro-family" and "pro-life" perspective. [1]

Long story short: Preserve democracy by pulling our money from businesses that fund White Supremacists Christian Nationalists companies broadcasting lies to end the separation of church and state.

I said White Christian Nationalism. If you heard every church, that is on you. There are people who follow the word of Jesus and then there are White Christian Nationalists destroying the separation of Church and State for authoritarian control based on racism, sexism, and greed. Those are the people controlling MO who are ignoring your legal citizen petition initiatives ballot votes. Those are the MO Attorney Generals who became Senators and the other Representatives who went to DC to do the same thing to end our civil and human rights.

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One of public education’s most pressing issues is persisting in Missouri: a shortage of K-12 teachers. But according to a University of Missouri education researcher, the problem is fixable — and it’s essential to American society that it is.
“A nation that doesn’t support teachers is on a losing track,” said Tuan Nguyen, a Mizzou Forward associate professor in the College of Education and Human Development. “We are no longer going to be able to compete globally or have people who become professors, invent the next big thing, cure cancer or become an astronaut.”
Nguyen’s new book, “Ending Teacher Shortages,” aims to help policymakers, other researchers and interested citizens understand what teacher shortages are, what they mean for the country and what can be done about them.

The book, published Sept. 29 by Johns Hopkins University Press, was written with Christopher Redding, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Florida. It incorporates their research as well as that of other education scholars.
Based on the research and his own experience teaching middle and high school math, Nguyen believes the most important ways to attract teachers are improving working conditions, increasing pay, raising the public perception of the profession and encouraging students to pursue teaching careers.
Shortages and vacancies
Over the past four years, Nguyen and Redding have scrutinized teacher labor markets and what drives teachers in and out of the classroom. The findings show the teacher shortage landscape nationally and in Missouri, and he draws conclusions about what will happen if they aren’t addressed.

“A few years ago there were around 50,000 vacant position in the United States, with more than 300,000 under-qualified teachers,” Nguyen said. “More than 10% of the entire U.S. (education) workforce don’t have standard certification in their subject area of teaching. The number of people who have entered the teaching profession has decreased by 30% in the past 10 years.”
In Missouri, shortages are particularly acute in rural parts of the state, especially in special education and STEM, Nguyen said. For the 2025 hiring season, there were 161 vacancies unfilled within 20 days in special education and 746 vacancies overall, according to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
Data for the 2024-25 school year from the National Conference of State Legislatures cited special education and early childhood education as two hard-hit areas.

The teacher shortage has challenged school districts’ willingness to hire under-qualified candidates out of necessity, especially in rural areas.
Like many public school districts across the country, Missouri districts struggle with low pay and high interference from parents, Nguyen said. That matters especially when teachers who live near state lines are able to cross them in any direction and earn up to $15,000 more, he said.
“There will be teachers who will make the sensible decision to drive an hour to make more money,” he said. “Arkansas has increased their minimum teacher salary to $50,000, so that decision seems effortless.” In comparison, Missouri’s minimum teacher salary is $40,000, up from $25,000 in 2024-25, according to DESE.
Hand in hand with the teachers shortage is the drop in prestige, and even basic respect, that teachers and the profession of teaching experience. Nguyen said his research has shown education is held in “very low regard.” Intergenerational families of teachers are ceasing to exist.

Keeping qualified teachers

Repercussions from teacher shortages are huge, Nguyen said. One concern is that under-qualified teachers who were hired to fill a gap can’t offer students adequate support and well-managed classrooms, he said.
Putting teachers in situations in which are they aren’t fully prepared to succeed is bad for them, too.
“Previous research has shown that teachers who don’t have standard certifications and time to learn the craft of teaching only stay for a year or two then leave,” Nguyen said. “It creates this churn over time of teachers coming in and out of the classroom, districts always working to replace those teachers. It’s expensive.”
It’s even more important to retain qualified teachers, he said.
To understand what’s driving educators out of the profession, Nguyen is partnering with DESE to implement a statewide working conditions survey. The survey will ask teachers at the start of the school year whether they plan to leave teaching. One goal of the survey is to give districts ways to get critical feedback and potentially make their educators more inclined to stay.

Findings from the survey are translated into reports, briefs and policy recommendations to improve teacher retention across Missouri and the nation.
“If we don’t work hard recruiting teachers and improving working conditions for them to stay, we’re going to have the same issues,” Nguyen said. “Nobody’s going to want to come into professions where they hear terrible things about the working environment and pay.”
Nguyen taught for seven years at middle and high schools in St. Louis before earning master’s and doctorate degrees in education-related fields. His research has been used by PBS, NBC’s Today Show, The New York Times, NPR, CNN, USA Today, Washington Post and other publications.
Documenting why teachers matter
Nguyen also has a documentary in the works, “Why Teachers Matter.” He is working with Outpost Worldwide to showcase how teachers have made a difference in the lives of athletes, musicians and others with varying degrees of accomplishment while also reconnecting them with those teachers.

“These projects paint the picture of the importance of teachers but also the reality, challenges and joys of being a teacher in this current time,” he said.
Nguyen is looking for suggestions of teachers or celebrities who might make a great subject for the documentary. He can be reached at [tuan.nguyen@missouri.edu](mailto:tuan.nguyen@missouri.edu).
Nguyen still has hope for the future of teaching. He believes it is one of the most rewarding things a person can do.
“It will always be a noble profession, one where you can push students to try something totally out of their comfort zone and watch them grow from it,” Nguyen said. “If we recognize the important role teachers play for society, I think that will drive perspective teachers back into the profession in the first place.”
Data editor Mariia Novoselia contributed to this article.

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Last month was the hottest September in Missouri since the National Weather Service began collecting data in 1890.
That applies to Columbia, which had 16 days that registered 90 degrees or above in September and an average high temperature of 87.2 degrees.
Statewide, the average temperature was 77 degrees, which breaks the previous September record of 74.8 degrees set in 1931.

Southwest Missouri was hotter and drier than other parts of the state, with recorded temperatures 10 to 12 degrees above average, said Brad Charboneau, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in St. Louis.

Columbia’s average temperature in September was also 77 degrees, surpassing the average of 75.8 degrees recorded in both 1897 and 2019, according to the National Weather Service.
The average high temperature in Columbia last month was 87.2 degrees, more than 7 degrees higher than the typical average high of 80.1 degrees. It was also higher than last year’s average of 84 degrees.
The 16 days when temperatures reached at least 90 degrees in Columbia this year surpassed the seven days with 90-degree temperatures in 2025. Normally, there are only three days in September that hit at least 90 degrees.
Also in September, 13 days never dipped below 70 degrees, tying the record set in 1895 in Columbia. Additionally, four days in September tied or set records for the warmest overnight low temperatures in Columbia.

September was also unusually dry, with only 1.57 inches of rain during the entire month. The normal amount is 3.83 inches, according to the National Weather Service.
Similar conditions are forecast for the rest of October, Charboneau said. The last half of the month is not likely to be as hot as the first half has been, but above-average temperatures are likely.
Jet stream patterns and southwesterly winds have contributed significantly to the high temperatures in Missouri, he said.
“If you have that pattern day after day, it just compounds on itself, and you end up with these extended stretches of really warm temperatures,” he said. “We just have not been able to break out of that pattern.”
The lack of precipitation has also contributed to daily temperature swings, he said. Drier air allows temperatures to cool more at night and warm more during the day, resulting in a wider range of highs and lows. These swings are more prominent in the fall because of lower humidity.

The increased frequency of cold fronts during the fall transition season also adds to inconsistent daily temperatures, Charboneau said. These fronts can cause double-digit temperature changes from one day to the next.
“We have this kind of clash between like air masses,” he said. “The colder air is starting to come down from Canada and pushing out the warmer summer air, so that’s why, in the spring and in the fall in particular, we have these bigger day-to-day swings.”

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