A Republican tax law is projected to strip as much as $500 million from Missouri’s budget next year, a loss critics warn could force painful cuts to essential public services across the state.
After the group People Not Politicians submitted more than enough signatures for a referendum to repeal Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins (R) says the map will still go into effect.
People Not Politicians Missouri has submitted more than 300,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office for the referendum to remove the Republican-drawn congressional map from the 2026 midterms.
Last Friday, U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO) went on an anti-California rant on X, while unknowingly responding to a post from a newspaper in her own state.
As the effort to petition against Missouri’s new gerrymandered map ramps up, the latest Republican attempt to preserve the new map saw Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) get Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involved.
A provision in the deal to end the government shutdown allows several Republican senators to sue the government for as much as $500,000 when their phone records are obtained without their permission.
Missouri’s new congressional map is likely going to require approval from voters next year before being implemented, and Republicans in the state are gearing up to defend them.
Last Saturday’s “No Kings” rallies garnered an estimated 7 million people to rally against President Donald Trump and his administration’s monarch-like control of power. Much of the attention has been on the largest rallies in cities like New York City, Chicago, Washington D.C. and San Francisco.
