Millions of dollars pour into Missouri ballot fights over taxes and majority rule ^12.8%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Rudi Keller - 6/28/2026, 9:00 AM

Negativity Bias 17.5% - Appeal to Emotion 14.7% - Framing Effect 12.1%

Missouri voters are being flooded with ads over two constitutional amendments that would reshape how the state taxes income and how citizens amend the constitution. The campaigns for and against amendments 4 and 5 have already raised $14.5 million. Through Tuesday, ballot measure radio and television spending had topped $3.3 million —... more

Local election officials go with Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map despite uncertainty ^17.7%

STLPR - By Rudi Keller - 6/16/2026, 3:27 PM

Pessimism Bias 10.5% - Biased Writer Voice 10.4% - Appeal to Authority 7.1%

Missouri election officials will begin mailing Aug. 4 primary ballots Tuesday to military and overseas voters using the state’s gerrymandered congressional districts, even as the legal status of those districts remains unresolved. Voters in 28 counties have been assigned to a different congressional district than they were in 2024,... more

Missouri Supreme Court keeps in place rewritten ballot language for August vote on state tax plan ^21.6%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Rudi Keller - 6/8/2026, 5:57 PM

Negativity Bias 26.1% - Appeal to Emotion 18.9% - Framing Effect 18.6%

The Missouri Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a last-minute appeal filed by proponents of a measure to repeal the state income tax seeking to revise the summary voters will see on the Aug. 4 ballot. Acting on a request filed Sunday, the court declined to review changes made by the Western District Court of Appeals to the summary for... more

Judge to decide whether Missouri tax overhaul stays on August ballot ^12.4%

KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR - By Rudi Keller - 6/1/2026, 9:00 AM

Appeal to Authority 10.1% - False Dilemma 8.1% - Begging the Question 5.7%

Whether Missourians will vote on a proposal to replace the state income tax with sales taxes — and what the ballot will say if they do — must be decided by June 9, attorneys said last week to a Cole County judge. That is the deadline for courts to order changes to the Aug. 4 primary ballot under Missouri law. Gov. Mike Kehoe last week... more

Missouri Supreme Court rejects challenge to governor’s power to call special sessions ^11.1%

STLPR - By Rudi Keller - 5/27/2026, 9:29 PM

Biased Writer Voice 8.3% - Appeal to Authority 6.9% - Hasty Generalization 5.8%

The Missouri Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld a governor’s power to call lawmakers into a special session at any time, ending the last lawsuit intended to overturn the state’s newly gerrymandered congressional map without a statewide vote. In an unanimous decision issued just a few hours after oral arguments, the court held that the... more

Missouri anti-redistricting campaign says it reached goal to force statewide vote on new map ^2.2%

Missouri Independent - By Rudi Keller - 3/23/2026, 8:24 PM

Backers of a proposed referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional plan believe they have met the minimum number of signatures needed to make the November’s ballot. Updated data, posted Monday morning by People Not Politicians, the political action committee that organized a referendum petition drive, shows that the petition has... more