Heads Up, Missouri!

By MO House and Senate Dems

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Based in Jefferson City, Heads Up, Missouri! brings state policy to the fore. The core five hosts are Sen. Jill Schupp, Sen. Kiki Curls, Rep. Deb Lavender, Rep. Lauren Arthur, and Rep. Tracy McCreery.

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Bring Your Own Chair

03.12.2020

In this episode Senator Jill Schupp and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery are joined by Representative Ashley Bland Manlove, ACLU Policy Director Sarah Baker, and lobbyist Sharon Jones to discuss the suffragette movement, their experiences as women in politics, ...

Heads Up, Missouri! episodes:

03.12.2020 Bring Your Own Chair In this episode Senator Jill Schupp and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery are joined by Representative Ashley Bland Manlove, ACLU Policy Director Sarah Baker, and lobbyist Sharon Jones to discuss the suffragette movement, their experiences as women in politics, ...
03.12.2020 Keeping the "Public" in Public Education In this episode Representatives Deb Lavender and Paula Brown discuss public education, and dig into the details of charter schools and voucher programs.
04.18.2019 Tax Table Troubles In this episode, Senators Jill Schupp and Lauren Arthur, and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery discuss the recent investigation into the Department of Revenue by State Auditor Nicole Galloway, efforts by the Missouri Legislature to expand charter schools, and ...
03.14.2019 Banding Against the Ban In this week’s episode, Senator Jill Schupp and Representatives Deb Lavender, Tracy McCreery, and Keri Ingle discuss their insights into a dangerous anti-choice bill moving through the legislature. Warning: this episode contains discussions over potentially triggering topics including sexual violence ...
03.12.2019 Wins and Worries for Women In this episode, Senator Jill Schupp and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery discuss their insights on the budget, dangerous gun and abortion bills moving through the legislature, two of Senator Schupp’s bills heard in committee and the upcoming deadline ...
03.05.2019 Tort, Tampons, and Title IX In this episode, Senator Jill Schupp and her Chief of Staff Megan Price and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery discuss their insights on the budget, Moms Demand Action Lobby Day, potential changes to Title IX, forced arbitration, and menstrual ...
02.25.2019 Overbooked and Underwhelmed In this week’s episode, Senators Jill Schupp and Karla May and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery discuss their insights on the budget, a potential prescription drug monitoring program, Medicaid legislation and low income housing tax credits.
02.08.2019 27 Letters Too Many In this episode, Senators Jill Schupp and Lauren Arthur and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery discuss inequality in the legislature and their committee hearings during the third week of the 2019 Legislative Session. SNAP Bill - Senate Bill 4 ...
02.01.2019 Week 2: Session in Full Swing Senate Website, Senate Hearing Schedule House Website, House Hearing Schedule National Council of Jewish Women
01.22.2019 Priorities and Possibilities: 2019 State of the State In this mini-episode, Senator Jill Schupp and Representative Tracy McCreery react to Governor Parson’s first State of the State Address and provide their perspectives on Missouri’s progress and future. Governor Parson’s State of the State Address Senate Minority Leader Gina ...
01.17.2019 2019 Session Preview State Senators Jill Schupp, Lauren Arthur, and Karla May and State Representatives Tracy McCreery and Deb Lavender discuss the first week of the 2019 Missouri Legislative Session followed by their hopes and expectations for the next four months.
08.31.2018 Breaking the Cycle of Mass Incarceration in Missouri State Senator Jill Schupp and State Representatives Tracy McCrery and Deb Lavender join issue expert Samanth Stangl to discuss the magnitude and ramifications of mass incarceration in Missouri followed by a conversation on the more economically viable and moral policies ...
07.21.2018 A State in Transition In this mini-episode, State Representatives Tracy McCrery and Deb Lavender discuss their reactions to Governor Parson’s first address to the General Assembly and talk about their interim projects and responsibilities.
06.12.2018 The end is nigh: Session wrap-up In this mini-episode, State Representatives Tracy McCreery, Deb Lavender, and Lauren Arthur discuss what happened in the House during the final days of session. Also discussed are some of the positive and negative aspects of the state’s 2019 budget.
03.22.2018 We Won't Vouch for This In a two-part episode, Reps. Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery give updates on the House of Representatives. Then, Sen. Jill Schupp is joined by Rep Judy Morgan to discuss the atrocious school voucher legislation debated in the Senate.
03.08.2018 Sun's out, guns out Emboldened by warm weather the Republican-led Missouri legislature is unleashing all sorts of crazy gun bills. Senator Jill Schupp and Representative Tracy McCreery compare their reasonable, measured gun control policies with the mess of dangerous gun bills moving through the ...
02.28.2018 Heads Up Missouri: Back in Action After a brief reprieve from the podcast, Senator Jill Schupp and Representatives Deb Lavender and Tracy McCreery catch up on what's been happening in the Missouri Legislature.
01.23.2018 Oh SNAP! Empower Missouri Executive Director Jeanette Mott Oxford joins Senator Jill Schupp, Representative Deb Lavender, and Representative Tracy McCreery to discuss the latest assault on food security programs for vulnerable Missourians.
01.16.2018 Week 2: And the State of the State is...? The crew talks with Representative and House Minority Leader Gail McCann Beatty about their reactions to Governor Greitens' State of the State Address
01.07.2018 Week 1 is Done The 2018 legislative session has officially begun and the whole crew is back together to discuss some of the bills they're proud to be sponsoring this year. From Paid Family Leave, to Senior Farmer's Market Nutrition Program and much more, ...
01.03.2018 2018 #MoLeg Preview Senator Jill Schupp, Representative Deb Lavender, Representative Tracy McCreery, are joined by Ellen Alper from the National Council of Jewish Women to discuss their hopes and expectations for the upcoming legislative session. What attacks are forthcoming? What are the chances ...
10.05.2017 Veto Session: An Epic Failure Senator Jill Schupp, Representative Tracy McCreery, and Representative Deb Lavender are joined by freshman State Representative and newly elected Assistant Minority Leader Crystal Quade from Springfield. The electeds lament the legislature's failure to save in-home health care services for 8,300 ...
09.13.2017 Special Session 2: The Fate of Repro Rights Senator Jill Schupp, Representative Tracy McCreery are joined by guests Alison Dreith of NARAL Missouri and M'Evie Mead of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Missouri to discuss the fate of reproductive health care in Missouri after the conclusion of the second ...
06.07.2017 Rep. Martha Stevens on Rural Health Policy Representative Martha Stevens, of Columbia, is joined by Missouri Rural Crisis Center's Dina Van Der Zalm for a discussion on realities of rural health policy. They cover economics, opioid epidemic, and how to get involved.
05.30.2017 Heads Up in the Interim The legislative session has wrapped and here's what you can expect of Heads Up, Missouri! in the interim.
05.30.2017 Special Session: Utilities The Governor called special session to push controversial utilities legislation. This legislation is weedy and deserved more than rushed debate. Senator Schupp, Representative McCreery, and Representative Lavender sit down to discuss the bill and it's potential implications.
05.15.2017 Week of May 10, 2017 Midweek update on the last week of session featuring: PDMP, circuit breaker, and REAL ID. It gets a little emotional at the end, and we wouldn't have it any other way.
05.01.2017 Week of April 26, 2017 Sens. Curls, Schupp and Reps. Arthur, Lavender, and McCreery give a quick update about the situation in the Senate (particularly around Sen. Schaaf and Gov. Greitens), and then discuss the state of the budget and minimum wage legislation.
04.26.2017 Week of April 19, 2017 Rep. McCreery and Sen. Schupp are joined by Jill Kline and Alex Townsend to discuss industrial hemp, CBD, and diversity in the Democratic Party. If you're in STL and are interested in becoming a long lasting participant in Missouri progressive ...
04.19.2017 Week of April 12, 2017 Sen. Schupp, Rep. Lavender, and Rep. McCreery discuss the dangerous state of gun legislation in statute and the legislature, the whole litany of conflict of interest legislation (ranging from veterinarian statute of limitation to discrimination tort), and we start on ...
04.14.2017 Week of April 5, 2017 (pt 2) Sen. Schupp discusses the House budget with Reps. Lavender, Arthur, and McCreery. They delve into reproductive rights, how the budget process looks (weedy), and DACA support.
04.12.2017 Week of April 5, 2017 (pt 1) Sens. Kiki Curls, Gina Walsh, and Jill Schupp discuss the petty and mean spirited comments about reproductive rights on a... zoo tax bill, the actual St. Louis zoo, and the prescription drug monitoring program.
04.03.2017 Week of March 22, 2017 This week delves into the budget and public defender funding, PDMP, and Medicaid expansion.
03.23.2017 Week of March 15, 2017 This week, the conversation is centered around the budget - and who it truly impacts, the repeal of the circuit breaker tax cut, paid family medical leave in the executive branch, and charter school legislation
03.22.2017 Special Episode: Are Puppy Mills Making a Return? ft. Amanda Good Amanda Good, the Missouri State Director of the Humane Society of the United States, discusses HB 384 and SB 331, the recent history of puppy mill ballot initiatives and legislation, and how these bills impact animal rights.
03.13.2017 Week of March 8, 2017 This week, the officials discuss blocking a minimum wage hike, paid earned family medical leave, the Governor's 501c(4), and the solar eclipse in August
03.02.2017 Week of March 1, 2017 Rod Chapel, the President of the NAACP MO, comes by to talk about SB 43 and HB 552. Sens. Schupp and Curls go into detail about their 12 hour filibuster.
03.01.2017 Week of February 22, 2017 The legislators discuss SB 98, a so-called "bathroom bill", REAL ID, and House education legislation.
02.22.2017 Special Episode: What is SB 28? ft. Sidney Watson Sidney Watson from Saint Louis University joins Sen. Schupp and Rep. McCreery to discuss the impact of SB 28 and what Medicaid, Medicare, and the state of health care looks like in Missouri. For more information or queries, check out ...
02.21.2017 Week of February 15, 2017 There's a full house this episode, with Rep. Gina Mitten joining in on the conversation. Conversation meanders from the impact of budget cuts on the elderly, children, and disabled, what tort reform under the guise of "arbitration" looks like, availability ...
02.12.2017 Week of February 8, 2017 This week, the discussion focuses on SB 182, HB 66, SB 28, and what the budget process looks like. The elected officials also break down how to truly make your voice heard in a committee hearing.
02.09.2017 Special Episode: What is Tort "Reform" Exactly? Sharon Jones from Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys comes on the show to discuss the dangers of tort "reform" legislation.
02.04.2017 Week of January 30, 2017 Rep. Lavender and Sen. Curls come together to discuss HCR 4 -- raising legislator pay and ethics legislation. Apparently, the Governor thought he needed to involve himself in passing through a house concurrent resolution.
01.12.2017 Week of January 9, 2017 It's the first week of legislative session, and it's already busy.
01.12.2017 Week of January 2, 2017 Two Missouri Senators and three Representatives introduce themselves