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People Not Politicians Missouri, the group behind a ballot measure that would let voters veto the GOP-controlled legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map, is laughing off a federal lawsuit filed to block their efforts.
Missouri state officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday aimed at blocking voters’ efforts to invoke their constitutional right to veto the state legislature’s new gerrymandered congressional map.
Missouri voters are organizing to use their constitutional right to veto the GOP-controlled state legislature’s new gerrymandered map. But while they cleared one administrative hurdle Wednesday, the Republicans who run the state are trying to place yet another stumbling block in their path.
This week, a federal court in El Paso, Texas has been hearing a case that could determine who controls Congress after next year’s elections. And Democracy Docket has been one of the very few national news outlets to cover it.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe (R) signed House Bill 1 into law, approving a Trump-ordered gerrymander made to guarantee Republicans a 7-1 advantage in the state’s U.S. House delegation.
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) Friday rejected a referendum petition aimed at overturning the GOP’s extreme gerrymander — escalating the state’s power grab into an outright attack on Missourians’ constitutional rights. The pro-voting coalition People Not Politicians filed the referendum with the Secretary of State earlier this month to give voters the chance to […]
Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed last week by Republican state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect.
This week’s biggest story for democracy didn’t happen in a courtroom, a legislative chamber, or a government agency. It happened on a college campus in Utah.
Missouri voters filed a lawsuit that challenges the GOP’s new congressional map, calling it an unconstitutional gerrymander thats dismantles Kansas City’s Black Democratic representation and rigs the 2026 elections.
The Missouri Senate gave final approval Friday in a 21-11 vote to a gerrymander designed to rig the 2026 election by creating an additional Republican seat in Congress, at the expense of Kansas City voters.
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