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Republican lawmakers in Missouri are asking voters to approve a measure during Tuesday’s primary election that would limit Missourians’ own ability to propose and vote on amendments to the state constitution.
A Missouri state judge has handed Republicans yet another delay in a months-long battle challenging a partisan gerrymander that the GOP passed last year. The postponement in this case increases the likelihood that the GOP will defeat opponents of the new map by simply running out the clock.
After months of legal battles, Missouri redistricting opponents are asking a court to stop state officials from using delay tactics to put a new gerrymander in place for the 2026 midterms.
When the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the state does not have to pause implementation of a pro-GOP gerrymander despite a pending challenge to the map, it sent a clear message: Republicans have the greenlight to drag their feet and deny voters a chance to weigh in on the gerrymander.
The Missouri Supreme Court has upheld a gerrymandered congressional map passed by the Republican-led state legislature and backed by President Donald Trump.
The Missouri Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in three challenges to a Republican gerrymander that aims to not only flip a congressional seat to the GOP, but also to override the will of Missouri voters.
If Democrats’ remarkable victory in the Virginia referendum election tells us anything, it’s this: President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to use mid-decade redistricting to maintain control of Congress in the 2026 midterms has not gone according to plan.
In a bruising blow to direct democracy, a court has ruled that Republican leaders in Missouri can use a new, gerrymandered congressional map in the 2026 midterms before voters weigh in on the plan.
Efforts to oppose a Trump-backed gerrymander in Missouri cleared a major milestone Monday, when pro-voting activists announced that they had logged enough signatures to put the new pro-GOP congressional map to a statewide vote.
This was the week when MAGA Republicans finally got what they’d been demanding for so long: A full Senate debate on the SAVE America Act, President Donald Trump’s monster voter suppression bill.