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Tuesday after Democrats pointed out the appointments were based on a congressional map that Republicans contend is no longer valid.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,