David Fortel and Hope Tinker hold homemade signs during a protest last week in the Missouri Capitol rotunda (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). Almost immediately after Missouri Republicans shut down debate last week to pass a newly gerrymandered congressional map, a pair of lawsuits were filed challenging its constitutionality. Meanwhile, a referendum campaign seeking to repeal the…
Sen. Lincoln Hough, R-Springfield, on the first day of the 2024 legislative session (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Senate died at 1:42 p.m. Friday afternoon when Republican leaders refused to allow debate on a measure weakening the initiative petition process, GOP state Sen. Lincoln Hough said in an interview with The Independent. A two-week special…
Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, left, and his Democratic challenger, Lucas Kunce, faceoff on Aug. 15, 2024, at the Governor’s Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. The photo was awarded second place for “best news photograph” by the Missouri Press Association (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). The Missouri Independent’s staff won 28 awards Saturday…
The E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse in Washington, D.C., home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, pictured on July 14, 2025. (Photo by Jacob Fischler/States Newsroom) WASHINGTON — A Friday lawsuit from a civil rights group accused the Trump administration of bypassing deportation restrictions on immigrants slated for removal by sending…
State Sen. Barbara Washington, D-Kansas City, speaks against splitting Kansas City into three congressional districts during Senate debate Friday. Shortly after she spoke, Senate Republicans forced a vote on a gerrymandered map of the state’s congressional districts (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). A newly-gerrymandered congressional map and limits on voters’ ability to amend the state constitution cleared…
Boeing employees hold strike line on Aug. 5 outside of company facility in Berkeley, Mo. (Photo by Rebecca Rivas/The Missouri Independent) Several hundred Boeing workers cheered Friday afternoon at the St. Louis Music Park in Maryland Heights after learning union members voted overwhelmingly to reject a new contract offered by the company. “It was jubilant…
American flags hang alongside the official agency flag at the U.S. Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., in August. The Justice Department is sharing state voter roll data with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. (Photo by Jonathan Shorman/Stateline) The U.S. Department of Justice is sharing state voter roll information with the Department of…
Clinicians are providing medication abortion through telehealth services even to people in states where abortion is banned, thanks in part to shield laws in states where abortion is still legal (Natalie Behring/Getty Images). In state legislatures around the country, medication abortion has emerged as the central focus of the fight over abortion rights. As Democratic…
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Kansas City, testifies Thursday against a redistricting plan that would gerrymander his district in favor of Republicans (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent). U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver warned Missouri lawmakers Thursday that the effort to redraw the 5th District seat to favor Republicans will be long remembered by voters who resent being swapped by…
The exterior of a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Services Center on May 28, 2019 in St Louis (Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images). A Jackson County judge is weighing whether to keep in place two state regulations that Planned Parenthood says are preventing its providers from performing medication abortions in Missouri. Over the course of several hours…
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