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

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) — The ACLU of Missouri sued the Missouri Attorney General and Secretary of State on Tuesday, claiming they have evaded the state constitution’s rules on the referendum process. The group, representing two Kansas City voters, is asking the Cole County courts to suspend House Bill 1, a bill passed during a special

Updated: 4:57 PM CST Dec 23, 2025 | by Chloe Godding  A new lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Missouri is asking a court to halt the use of new congressional maps until voters can weigh in. The ACLU filed the lawsuit in Cole County Circuit Court on Tuesday, claiming that the state of Missouri

Republicans’ mid-decade gerrymander cannot be used in the midterm elections unless the secretary of state deems the 305,000 signatures a group gathered to be insufficient. By Paul Blumenthal | Dec 11, 2025, 02:17 PM EST A Missouri group opposed to a new congressional map devised by state Republicans to eliminate a House seat held by Democrats turned in 305,000 signatures

by Alix Breeden, Daily Kos Staff | Thursday, December 11, 2025 at 3:30:10p CST When President Donald Trump pressed Missouri’s GOP to help him rig the 2026 midterm elections, they passed a map that is expected to give the party one more seat in the U.S. House. But everyday Missourians have put their foot down. People Not Politicians,

By Madison Stuerman | Published December 11, 2025 2:27 PM COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Missouri’s new congressional maps are now state law.That is, according to the Missouri attorney general and secretary of state. However, the group fighting the maps says that’s not true, and that the map was suspended from going into effect when they submitted more than 300,000 signatures on a

How ordinary residents of Missouri are rising up with extraordinary efforts to uphold justice Qasim Rashid, Esq. and  People Not Politicians MO Earlier this week I published a piece about the powerful work of ordinary residents of Indiana to prevent an illegal gerrymandered map from becoming law. Today, Let’s Address This publishes this guest post by Richard

Daily Kos Staff | Wednesday, December 10, 2025  Republicans’ efforts to rig the 2026 midterm elections by gerrymandering House maps hit a potential snag in Missouri on Tuesday, when organizers submitted hundreds of thousands of petition signatures calling for a referendum on the state’s new, GOP-skewed map.  The new map, passed in September, seeks to flip control

By Jen Rice | December 10, 2025 Opponents of Missouri’s GOP-backed congressional gerrymander cleared a major goal Tuesday, handing in more than 300,000 voters’ signatures in support of putting the measure to a statewide referendum. But despite that victory, voting advocates remain locked in a high-stakes showdown with Republican state officials who aim to slip the map through by weaponizing the administrative

Marie Moyer | Dec 9, 2025 Updated Dec 9, 2025 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KMIZ) — More than 305,000 signatures on a petition to put a new congressional map to a vote were being scanned and counted by the secretary of state’s Elections Division on Tuesday after months of collection by People Not Politicians. If approved, the signatures would put

St. Louis Public Radio | By Sarah Kellogg | December 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM CST Attorneys for People Not Politicians said in court Monday that a judge should rule against Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ actions on the proposed congressional redistricting referendum. Attorneys for a group attempting to undo Missouri’s congressional redistricting are asking a

By  DAVID A. LIEB and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM | 1:32 PM CST, December 9, 2025 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Opponents of Missouri’s new congressional map submitted thousands of petition signatures Tuesday calling for a statewide vote on a redistricting plan backed by President Donald Trump as part of his quest to hold on to a slim Republican majority in next year’s elections.