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Missouri residents denounced a plan to redraw the state’s congressional districts on Thursday as Republican lawmakers pressed ahead with President Donald Trump’s strategy to bolster Republicans in next year’s congressional elections. Dozens of people turned out for the first public hearing on a plan that would split up a Kansas City congressional district to give […]

Missouri Republican lawmakers late Thursday voted to advance a new, gerrymandered congressional map despite hours of fiery public testimony against the proposal. Roughly an hour later, Republicans also advanced a plan that would weaken the state’s process for direct democracy. Both measures are poised to head to the floor of the Missouri House early next

Pushback continues in Kansas City as state legislators continue moving forward with a special session in Jefferson City, where they plan to tackle redistricting. A big target of these proposed maps, Missouri’s fifth congressional district, Congressman Emmanuel Cleaver’s seat. A coalition of advocates met at a park near the city’s East Side, on the corner

Members of a nonpartisan coalition joined forces Tuesday and spoke out against Congressional Redistricting in Missouri. Governor Mike Kehoe announced Friday he called for a Special Session to change Missouri’s Congressional District Map. Members of a group called, People Not Politicians-Missouri, said there was a growing statewide grassroots network focusing on opposing the Governor’s redistricting