Missouri GOP Attacks Judge Selection Process After Failed Redistricting Push — ProPublica

For 86 years, Missouri has held on to a nonpartisan system of selecting its top judges. But after the state Supreme Court overruled the GOP’s redistricting push, some Republican lawmakers are calling for the system to be overturned…

 https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-plan-judge-selection-republican-attacks

‘Undistilled cheating’: Missouri voters furious in aftermath of Trump bid to rig electoral maps

Now, some voters across the state are furious at Denny Hoskins, Missouri’s Republican secretary of state, and other Republicans who played key roles in allowing the chaos to unfold. They say the Republican effort could backfire against them, and energize people to come out.

 “Everybody wants to motherfuck the secretary of state,” said Bernie Ryan, a 64-year-old electrician in St Louis…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/08/missouri-voters-confusion-trump-backed-maps-midterms

 

SCOTUS Smacks Down MAGA Map of Missouri – Mother Jones

In a final ruling, the Supreme Court has blocked Missouri Republicans’ gerrymander…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/scotus-blocks-missouri-map-gerrymander-kavanaugh-republicans-house/

 

Supreme Court appears to kill GOP redistricting hopes in Missouri - POLITICO

The justices’ ruling hands a major win to Democrats, who fought nearly a dozen legal battles with Missouri Republicans over the legality of the GOP-led gerrymander.

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/10/supreme-court-missouri-redistricting-midterms-01070432

Missouri congressional maps thrown into chaos after conflicting court rulings

Federal judge says old maps cannot be used in November election, hours after supreme court blocked redrawn maps…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/supreme-court-ruling-missouri-gop-congressional-maps

 

Missouri supreme court throws out new congressional maps backed by Trump

The decision Thursday marks a rare setback for Republicans in a national redistricting battle. Republicans had hoped Missouri’s new congressional boundaries could help them win an additional seat and hold on to their slim House majority in the midterms. The ruling still could be appealed to the US supreme court...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/03/missouri-supreme-court-trump

 

Missouri’s Amendment 3 Could Repeal Voter-Approved Abortion Rights — ProPublica

Two years after falsely linking reproductive rights to gender transition care for minors, GOP lawmakers have packaged the two issues into one amendment in an effort to strip away the right to abortion.

 https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-abortion-gender-transition-minors-amendment-3

Missouri rejects citizens’ bid for vote on Trump-backed redistricting plan

Supporters of the referendum had submitted hundreds of thousands of petition signatures in an effort to force a November election on whether to use a new US House map approved by the Republican-led state legislature. But the Republican secretary of state, Denny Hoskins, asserted on Tuesday that the petition was void because congressional redistricting plans cannot be subject to voter referendums… 

“Secretary of State Hoskins is making a last desperate attempt to silence the people’s voice in Missouri,” Richard von Glahn, executive director of People Not Politicians Missouri, said in a statement, while asserting there were more than enough signatures to qualify the referendum for the ballot.

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/04/missouri-redistricting-plan-vote

 

Missouri state House passes Trump-backed congressional map - The Washington Post

The push for a new map in Missouri is part of an unprecedented national battle spurred by Trump to carve up congressional districts five years after the last census. Ordinarily, states draw their districts just once a decade to ensure they have equal populations as determined by the most recent census. How lawmakers draw their lines can give one political party tremendous advantages over the other, and the latest approach to redistricting raises the prospect that partisans could fine-tune their districts after every election to maximize their power in their states...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/09/missouri-redistricting-republicans-trump/

Missouri governor calls special session to redraw maps to aid Republicans | Missouri | The Guardian

State follows Texas's lead in Trump's push to gain more House seats for Republicans in 2026 midterms…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/29/missouri-governor-special-legislative-session-congressional-maps

‘A literal gut punch’: Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave

"If you're not paid for missed days, it literally means food off your table, bills unpaid, rent unpaid, then that can lead towards homelessness. Some of the people I know in the movement are currently homeless but still are fighting back against this," said Thompson. "I was very disappointed and disgusted that hard-working taxpayers this would have helped matters so little to them."Thompson helped gather signatures for the paid-sick-leave and minimum-wage-increase ballot initiative because of his experiences of working through illnesses and losing income when he had to take off to care for his ailing mother...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/aug/12/missouri-paid-sick-leave-repeal

 

Missouri state AG investigating why AI chatbots don’t like Donald Trump | The Verge

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is threatening Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Meta with a deceptive business practices claim because their AI chatbots allegedly listed Donald Trump last on a request to "rank the last five presidents from best to worst, specifically regarding antisemitism."…

https://www.theverge.com/news/704851/missouri-ag-andrew-bailey-investigation-ai-chatbots-trump-ranking 

 

How Republican officials in one state are trying to veto the will of voters (again)

"When Missouri voters were asked last year whether they wanted to increase the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick leave, 58 percent of them said yes. Not long after that vote, the Republicans who control the state government mobilized to unwind those changes. On Thursday, Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican, signed into law a bill that limited the voter-approved minimum wage increase and scrapped the paid sick leave requirement altogether..."

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-officials-one-state-are-trying-veto-will-voters-rcna218639 

 

Missouri Supreme Court Halts Abortion Access, Defying Will Of The Voters | HuffPost Latest News

"This latest attack by the Missouri Supreme Court is unconstitutional, unconscionable, and downright dirty politics," Mini Timmaraju, the president of Reproductive Freedom for All, said in reacting to the ruling. "It is devastating for people across the country to know that even if they organize, vote, and pass measures to protect their reproductive care, extreme GOP actors will still try to take away our constitutional rights."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missouri-abortion-access-halted_n_68373f8be4b004530c698e00 

 

Missouri Republicans Vote To Repeal Sick Leave Referendum | HuffPost Latest News

Unlike other wealthy countries, the U.S. does not require employers to provide sick leave. So an estimated 20% of workers go without it, meaning they lose a day's pay when they have to care for themselves or a loved one who's ill. Those with no access to paid sick days are much more likely to work in low-wage jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/missouri-republicans-repeal-new-sick-leave-law_n_682b9b98e4b0f527e57aa84c

 

BREAKING: Chaos ERUPTS at ANOTHER Republican town hall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8bFe-nAc8

Missouri lawmaker proposes registry of pregnant women ‘at risk’ for abortions

Dubbed 'eHarmony for babies', bill would create connected databases for pregnant women and those looking to adopt…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/missouri-abortion-registry-bill

Missouri proposes registry for pregnant mothers

The bill summary states that, if passed, Missouri would create a registry of every expecting mother in the state "who is at risk for seeking an abortion" starting July 1, 2026. 

The list would be created through the Maternal and Child Services division of the Department of Social Services, but the measure did not specify how the "at risk" would be identified. This registry would also incorporate hopeful adoptive parents who have completed certain screenings, including background checks, home studies and other investigations, according to the legislation...

https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/missouri-pregnant-woman-registry-bill/

Judge strikes down license requirement for abortion providers

The Jackson county circuit court judge Jerri Zhang agreed to halt a number of those laws in December. But Zhang left in place a requirement that abortion clinics be licensed by the Missouri department of health and senior services – a policy that Planned Parenthood said in court papers was "medically unnecessary"...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/judge-strikes-down-licensing-requirement-abortion-providers-missouri

Missouri's abortion ban partially blocked by judge

In his Friday preliminary injunction, Jackson County Circuit Court Judge Jerri Zhang wrote that the state's abortion ban is "directly at odds" with Amendment 3, which voters approved last month, and the statute is "therefore presumptively invalid."…

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5052166-missouri-abortion-ban-blocked/