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By Richard Eberwein – 1/28/26 Missouri’s annual State of the Judiciary address was canceled on Wednesday after Senate Republicans announced a boycott in response to a recent state Supreme Court decision. State Sen. Rick Brattin (R-Harrisonville) appeared in a video posted to the Missouri Senate Republicans X account, where he accused the Supreme Court of overstepping. “Folks, we have […]

By:Jason Hancock-January 27, 20267:30 pm Gov. Mike Kehoe withdrew two nominees to the Missouri Ethics Commission Tuesday after Democrats pointed out the appointments were based on a congressional map that Republicans contend is no longer valid.  Senate Democrats have refused to allow any gubernatorial appointments to come up for a vote for the past two weeks, arguing

By Sarah Motter | Published: Jan. 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM CST JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Missouri’s Supreme Court unanimously struck down a law that gave politicians control over ballot initiative language. The Friday, Jan. 23, ruling invalidates Senate Bill 22. Critics called it the “Let Politicians Lie Act.” What the court decided On Friday, the Supreme Court said

By Jazsmin Halliburton, Marie Moyer | January 20, 2026 3:04 PM COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Lawyers for the ACLU argued in court Tuesday that voters’ rights under the Missouri Constitution are being trampled if a new mid-decade congressional map is active. The ACLU and the State of Missouri met in the Cole County Circuit Court on Tuesday for

Jazsmin Halliburton | Jan 20, 2026 Updated Jan 20, 2026 COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) — The ACLU is set to have a motion hearing in Cole County Tuesday over a lawsuit against the state of Missouri, asking for a preliminary injunction to pause the redistricting map. The ACLU, which is representing two Kansas City voters, is asking the Cole

By Matthew Kupfer, Jen Rice | January 16, 2026 When opponents of Missouri’s new, GOP-backed congressional map began gathering signatures to advance a ballot measure to veto the map, they faced an onslaught of opposition from Republicans. GOP officials filed lawsuits, attempted to get signatures disqualified, wrote biased ballot language to confuse voters, sent out intimidating text messages to

January 11, 2026 | James Low, Jefferson City Dear Editor, Today we live in a country where young mothers are gunned down in the street by marauding government goon squads. If Americans don’t take to the streets now, we have no right to the freedoms that generations of patriots gave their lives to protect. Having

The secretary of state’s attorney told a judge Friday that the original ballot summary is “inherently argumentative” and should be revised By: Rudi Keller-January 9, 202612:50 pm Secretary of State Denny Hoskins admitted Friday that he wrote a ballot summary “likely to create prejudice” against a possible referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional district map. Hoskins’ lawyer,

January 9, 2026, 3:24 | by Rick Hasen Missouri Independent: Signatures on only two-thirds of the petition pages submitted to force a statewide vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map will go through the verification process, new filings in a Cole County court case show. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins delivered 33,068 pages to local election authorities out of 49,773 pages with

By KY3 Staff | Published: Jan. 8, 2026 at 9:49 AM EST SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – A Missouri state representative introduced a resolution on the first day of the legislative session to begin impeachment proceedings against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins. State Representative Will Jobe directed the House to initiate an investigation into Secretary of State Hoskins’

Jan. 8, 2026, 5:05 PM EST | By Ja’han Jones A legal filing shows the Republican secretary of state blocked a third of signatures in support of a referendum on new, Trump-backed, gerrymandered districts. Missouri’s Republican secretary of state is refusing to count nearly a third of the pages of petition signatures his office received from

By Jen Rice | January 7, 2026 State officials have sorted through more than 300,000 signatures gathered to block Republicans’ new Missouri congressional map, as the fate of the GOP gerrymander remains in legal limbo. The officials rejected one-third of signatures as invalid based on the date they were collected – a decision that referendum organizers

By Shawn Griffiths | Jan 05, 2026 People Not Politicians (PNP) submitted over 305,000 signatures last week to freeze a congressional gerrymander passed by the Missouri Legislature in September. However, state officials are doing everything they can to pretend this citizen revolt isn’t happening. “The citizens of Missouri have spoken loudly and clearly: they deserve fair

Here’s where each state’s gerrymandering push stands as we head into 2026.  by Khaya Himmelman | 12.31.25 | 7:00 am For months now, the Trump administration has been aggressively pressuring red states around the country to gerrymander their congressional maps. It’s part of a sweeping and unprecedented scheme for which President Trump has often been a

December 29, 2025 5:25 PM | Stories by Kansas City Star journalists, with AI summarization The curated articles all focus on recent conflicts involving political decisions, immigration, and communication issues in Kansas City and surrounding areas. Each article highlights actions by local or state actors that have stirred debate and legal scrutiny. One article describes