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WATCH: The first candidate forum for the #MO01 race this cycle between Cori Bush and Wesley Bell. We’d like to thank former Rep. Cori Bush for carving time out of her schedule to attend and address the issues important to voters this cycle. While we spent weeks closely working with Rep. Bell’s team to ensure he could attend — including changing the originally planned date, adjusting the evening’s schedule, and beginning to negotiate forum rules to ensure that he would feel comfortable participating — we appreciate his team sending a last-minute surrogate, following a change in the Congressional calendar. Watch the full video of the forum below. Thank you to Wards 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 for hosting the event; acasastl.com for providing the space. Thank you to Committeeman Ben Murray and Committeewoman Inez Bordeaux for moderating, and Alderwoman Jami Cox for introducing the marquee segment of the evening.

🚨Iran Warns Trump Against Any U.S. Military Action in the Strait of Hormuz In response to President Trump’s announcement the US plans to “guide” merchant ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, in an operation CENTCOM says will involve guided-missile destroyers and 15,000 service members, a senior Iranian official told @DropSiteNews that Iran’s leadership rejects any attempt to alter “current conditions” in the Strait and will respond forcefully. Trump’s action “is primarily intended to provoke Iran into taking an initial step toward confrontation, thereby creating a pretext for escalation and enabling him to justify further military action in response to an Iranian initiative,” the Iranian official said. “Our definitive position is that any commercial vessel attempting to transit through designated restricted routes without prior coordination will be promptly intercepted by Iranian forces. Should U.S. military vessels respond, such actions would be met with an immediate and corresponding response from Iran.” "The U.S. military vessels are far from the corridor area. If commercial vessels attempt to move, they would be engaged well before reaching any American ships," the official added. "Trump has effectively turned them into bargaining tools in his political game."