Incredibly grateful to @OSCE colleague @JennionJames and rising UK Labour star @kieranpmaxwell for the insightful visit to Portcullis House and Parliament to talk politics, campaigns, trade unions and, close to my heart, @Teamsters @TeamsterSOB

Not leaving yet but taking a break from this site. Join me under bluer skies at mtphillips.bsky.social.

It’s election season around the world! Honored to have been a member of the U.S. delegation for @OSCE’s international election monitoring mission for the Republic of Georgia’s parliamentary election.

Happy Labor Day from the grateful daughter of a Springfield NEA member and granddaughter of a Screen Actors Guild member. Tough careers made bearable by the security and protections in a union contract.

It’s Election Day in Missouri with important local issues on the ballot. You can vote until 7pm tonight. Thank you to the candidates, election workers and you, the voter, who serve as the heartbeat of our representative democracy.

It was a privilege to serve on the international election observation mission to Azerbaijan’s Presidential election and represent the US and the Organization for the Security and Cooperation in Europe as one of the short term observers stationed across this beautiful country.

We’d love to welcome you back to Kansas City or Columbia! And please bring the family this time.

Indeed, you were always very well dressed in the Capitol but one day you had a cute little challenger in @pricephillips1

So tempting to engage with this clearly brilliant young man on the London Tube about the book he is reading-“Stoner”, set in @CoMoGov, Missouri.

Welcome @MizzouTSGPA Fulbright scholars Puti Tuia, Ela Mahmutaj, Mohamed Dadde! I’m proud our program attracted these bright international scholars from Samoa, Albania & Mauritania. And of course no one is more fun to talk foreign policy & public affairs with than @MaryStegmaier