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Multiple public pushback efforts are underway to stop the new congressional maps passed by Missouri lawmakers. Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas joins Heart of the Matter to discuss what’s being done to try and stop it – and his potential congressional plans if the maps stay in place. Multiple public pushback efforts are underway to […]

Gov. Mike Kehoe defends the bill as properly drafted, while the ACLU of Missouri and Democrats opposed to the plan say the listing is a fatal flaw Gov. Mike Kehoe went on the offensive Wednesday against critics of the new congressional map approved by Missouri lawmakers, issuing a statement seeking to rebut charges that one Kansas City

Just days after Missouri Republicans passed a gerrymandered congressional map that carves up Kansas City, a new campaign is charging forward with a plan asking voters to repeal it. The campaign, called People Not Politicians, began collecting signatures on Monday to force a statewide referendum vote. The group plans to continue gathering signatures in Kansas

A new congressional map designed to redraw Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver into a solidly Republican seat officially passed the Missouri General Assembly on Friday. But the state’s complex ballot referendum process means the GOP’s newfound 7-1 gerrymander is not yet a done deal. Because of the sheer number of possible developments at play, including several

Editorial Board There was something sadly fitting about the fact that Missouri Senate Republicans on Friday shut down legislative debate in order to ram through two momentous measures designed to deprive our state’s citizens of full and fair political representation. So determined were party leaders to re-gerrymander congressional districts in an unheard-of mid-decade stunt —

A group called People Not Politicians announced that it’s gathering signatures to prevent Missouri’s new congressional map from going into effect until there’s a statewide vote. Voters will also have to approve of a Republican plan cracking down on citizen-led constitutional amendments. The Missouri Senate finished off a bitter and consequential special session on Friday

Facing pressure from President Donald Trump, the Missouri Senate on Friday passed a gerrymandered congressional map that dilutes the voting power of Kansas City. The map, sponsored by Rep. Dirk Deaton, a Seneca Republican, carves Kansas City into three Republican-leaning congressional districts. The goal is to push out Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver and allow

Missouri lawmakers have answered President Trump’s call to help maintain the Republican majority in Congress by redrawing the state’s voting map for the midterm election next year. The state Senate voted 21 to 11 to pass a map that would help a Republican candidate win a seat currently held by a Democrat. The move is

The new lines, part of a national push by Republicans to bolster their House majority, would give them an additional seat in the U.S. House after the 2026 midterm elections. Missouri’s state Legislature has passed a plan to redraw the state’s congressional map and turn Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s district into a Republican-leaning seat, the

Voters will decide the fate of changes to the initiative petition process next year, while a campaign to put the congressional map on the 2026 ballot is already underway A newly-gerrymandered congressional map and limits on voters’ ability to amend the state constitution cleared the Missouri Senate Friday, capping two weeks of contentious debate that

Missouri’s Republican-controlled Senate on Friday passed a new congressional map, taking final legislative action to target one of the state’s Democratic seats in the US House and boost the GOP’s chances of retaining its fragile majority in the chamber. The 21-11 vote came just two weeks after the state’s GOP Gov. Mike Kehoe first unveiled the map

The debate over Missouri’s mid-decade redistricting plan and changes to the ballot initiative process took center stage on The Record with Mark Maxwell, which airs Fridays at 12:30 p.m. on 5 On Your Side. Rep. Brad Banderman, a Republican, defended both efforts in his interview on The Record. He argued the state’s initiative petition process should require

Facing a storm of criticism, Republicans in the Missouri House Thursday defended their plan to comply with President Donald Trump’s push to redraw the state’s congressional districts ahead of next year’s mid-term elections. As part of a special session called by Gov. Mike Kehoe, a committee on redistricting heard more than five hours of testimony

A newly proposed congressional map from Governor Mike Kehoe’s office is drawing sharp criticism from local leaders and parents alike — and its impact would stretch far beyond Kansas City. The redistricting proposal, if approved, would significantly alter the boundaries of Missouri’s 5th Congressional District, which currently centers around Kansas City. That district may appear