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93.9 The Eagle (Columbia): Wake Up Missouri: U.S. Sen Eric Schmitt on SCAM Act and denaturalization; Congressional Baseball Game charity event and pre-game insights; America 250 celebration

St. Louis Public Radio: Activist group holds party to celebrate helping detained aliens

KC Star: Josh Hawley is warning about AI dangers. But regulations languish in Missouri

KSGF (Springfield): Mornings with Nick Reed: U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison on Chinese government funding anti-data center campaigns in the United States; thoughts on Los Angeles vote counting

KSIS radio (Sedalia): Pettis County Republicans host McKinley Day celebration; attendees include SOS Denny Hoskins, State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, 5th Congressional District candidates, many others

Obituary for Matthew Alsager, chief of staff to Secretary of State Denny Hoskins: Prayer service, visitation, and Mass details

KHQA (Hannibal): Overview: 6th Congressional District Republican and Democrat primary candidates

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Revised income tax ballot language cleared for August ballot

Gray Local Media (KMOV, KFVS, KY3, KCTV): Missouri Supreme Court rejects calls to change August ballot question on income taxes

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri Supreme Court declines to hear case about tax issue on August ballot, just before deadline

Missouri Independent: Missouri Supreme Court declines to hear appeal over Amendment 5 ballot summary

P-D: With less than 60 days to go, campaign for Missouri income tax phaseout gets underway (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

93.9 The Eagle (Columbia): Wake Up Missouri: Missouri Budget Project’s Tom Kruckmeyer on dangers of “extremely regressive” Amendment 5

P-D: Evidence ‘not even close’ to proving state Rep. Mike Costlow (R-Dardenne Prairie) is ineligible, judge says (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Court to decide whether Janae Mosley stays on August ballot for Missouri House race against incumbent Democrat Kem Smith (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf for Tuesday, June 9: State Board of Education appointments and questions around the school funding formula; MSHSAA oversight; Missouri corn farmers face rising costs; Missouri Dept. of Conservation annual wild turkey survey

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf for Monday, June 8: Ameren Missouri’s request to add more solar generation and battery storage; sweeping health care changes awaiting Gov. Mike Kehoe’s signature; more

KC Star: Missouri Attorney General expects surge in human trafficking at World Cup in KC

KSHB: Hanaway announces partnership to prevent human trafficking during FIFA World Cup 2026

Fox4 KC: Cannabis companies seeing green as KC begins welcoming World Cup fans (link via TonysKansasCity.com)

KC’s 2026 World Cup games: Official FIFA merch, clothing, collectibles, kids’ stuff and keepsakes (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

P-D: Sports betting to end at Illinois’ Fairmount Park horse track as online gambling grows; Missouri has no operating horse tracks, as state laws bar locals from betting on horse racing (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Fox 2 St. Louis: Missouri bill would let married minors divorce on their own

P-D editorial: Helping Sen. Hawley with the facts about the SAVE Act (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D letter: St. Charles man says passing Amendment 5 would be “a colossal mistake” (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Columbia Missourian letter: Columbia woman renames Missouri First Map the “Missouri Rigged Map”

Yesterday’s (Monday, June 8, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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