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Republican Rep. Mark Alford addresses attendees at a town hall, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, in Bolivar, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

And now for something different, civility unfolds in a Missouri GOP congressman’s town hall

August 25, 2025

One of the few Republican U.S. House members making in-person appearances embarked on a town hall tour of his district to meet with constituents, and a civil conversation broke out. Rep. Mark Alford and an audience of about 100 in west central Missouri on Monday spent an hour bantering about Medicaid, the national guard being deployed in Washington, D.C., and certainly the deluge of action being taken by President Donald Trump. But gone from the slightly Democratic-leaning audience in the small auditorium on Southwest Baptist University campus in Boliver were the screams of “liar!” that have marked other Republican town halls, notably Nebraska Rep. Mike Flood’s in Lincoln on Aug. 5.

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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., speaks during a town hall meeting, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, in Davenport, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Hundreds cheer Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego as Democrats take offensive against Trump’s tax bill

August 9, 2025

Hundreds of Democrats cheered Sen. Ruben Gallego in eastern Iowa as the Arizona Democrat criticized President Donald Trump’s tax bill at a town hall meeting in Davenport. Democrats have been searching for months after last year’s election defeat to gain traction in opposing Trump’s second term in the White House. The massive tax-break and spending-cut bill he signed last month appears to have galvanized Democrats. Democratic activists believe the measure’s political vulnerabilities could make it hard for Republicans to protect narrow majorities in Congress in next year’s midterm elections. At Saturday’s town hall, Gallego said the massive, Republican-backed tax-break and spending-cuts bill likely will make “America poorer and sicker.”

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CORRECTS DATE PHOTO WAS TAKEN TO AUGUST 4 - Rep. Mike Flood speaks and takes questions during a town hall meeting on the University of Nebraska campus, Monday, August 4, 2025 in Lincoln, Neb. The second-term Republican braved a Democratic-heavy audience of roughly 700, most of whom booed and chanted in opposition to the GOP-backed tax-break and spending-cut bill President Donald Trump signed last month. (AP Photo/Thomas Beaumont)

GOP congressman faces heated town hall where hundreds boo him for supporting Trump’s big bill

August 5, 2025

Republican congressman Mike Flood has gotten an earful during a Nebraska town hall held to defend his support of President Donald Trump’s tax breaks and spending cuts law. Flood braved the ire of a Democratic-leaning college town audience dominated by hundreds of people intent on expressing their displeasure chiefly with cuts to Medicaid benefits and tax reductions tilted toward the wealthy. Flood described the law Monday in Lincoln as less than perfect but stood firm on its Medicaid and tax provisions, fueling a barrage of jeers and chants from the hostile audience. How voters receive the law could go a long way to determine whether Republicans keep power in next year’s midterm elections.

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