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

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