Kansas City voters are in the crosshairs of a Republican plan to gerrymander Missouri’s congressional map. When Missouri Republican lawmakers head to the state Capitol starting today, they plan to carve up the Democratic-leaning Kansas City area into three Republican congressional districts amid pressure from the Trump administration. The move would effectively dilute the voting power of Missouri’s largest city, combining the voters in Kansas City’s urban areas with residents living in the rural

Can Missourians stop the state’s new congressional maps that the state legislature passed last week? Several groups of residents are trying. A campaign, called People Not Politicians, began collecting signatures earlier this week to force a statewide referendum vote. The group plans to continue gathering signatures in Kansas City and across Missouri until the Dec. 11th deadline to put the new map on the November 2026 ballot. “Missourians should pick our elected officials,” Richard Von Glahn, the