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P-D’s Joe Holleman: Cori Bush got 4,600 fewer votes in Tuesday’s primary than two years ago. What happened? (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Brownfield Ag News: Missouri Farm Bureau’s Garrett Hawkins: Congress ‘needs to deliver’ on farm bill

Brownfield Ag News: Missouri’s Richard Fordyce: USDA evaluating temporary service reductions at Missouri FSA offices

Jason Rosenbaum’s Politically Speaking on St. Louis Public Radio: AG Catherine Hanaway on Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’ congressional redistricting decision, “Respect Missouri Voters” lawsuit, video lottery terminals (VLTs), 7-OH, and St. Louis police board

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri Republicans rethink strategy after Amendments 4 and 5 fail miserably

KFVS (Cape Girardeau): GOP Reps. John Voss, Jamie Ray Gragg react to Amendment 5 defeat

JCNT: Battle continues over Missouri First Map

KSHB (Kansas City): Missouri’s 5th Congressional District map faces legal challenge ahead of November election

St. Louis Public Radio: “Respect Missouri Voters” sues Hoskins over rejecting amendment protecting ballot items

KC Star: Lawsuit targets Hoskins after he blocked direct democracy referendum (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

Gray Media (KMOV, KFVS, KY3, KCTV): “Respect MO Voters” to protest outside Secretary of State offices in Jefferson City today

Missouri Independent: Lawsuit seeks Missouri ballot spot for amendment limiting changes to voter-approved initiatives

Missouri Independent: Bloomberg gives $1.25M to Missouri abortion rights campaign as fundraising gap grows

JCNT: Oregon feminist organizes traipse across America, poses for pictures in Jefferson City

93.9 The Eagle’s Wake Up Missouri (Columbia, Springfield, Cape Girardeau): Incoming state Sen. Jake Vogel (R-Columbia) on his primary win, Amendment 5’s defeat, personal property taxes, university funding and more

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo in the Morning: KC Mayor Quinton Lucas says defeat of Amendments 4 and 5 shows “Missouri could go back to being a purple state”

KFRU (Columbia): The Morning Meeting: Former state Rep. Ted Farnen (D-Columbia) on Amendments 4 and 5 and Cori Bush’s defeat

KC Star: Jackson County executive apologizes for ‘stain’ on county, denies charges; former state Rep. DaRon McGee (D-Kansas City) secretly recorded conversation about alleged payoff (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

KMBC: Interim Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota indicted on federal bribery charges

KCUR: Interim Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota charged with bribing rival to drop out of 2026 election

P-D: Was Angela Mosley a spoiler in St. Louis County Exec race? Results show North St. Louis County Democrat cost her Missouri Senate colleague Brian Williams the race. (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

johncombest_com on X: Feds and county executive primary payoffs

SNL: Personal finance marketing company WalletHub claims Missouri’s early education system one of the worst in US

St. Louis Public Radio: Back-to-school sales tax holiday starts now in Missouri. Here’s what’s eligible

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JCNT: Missouri Department of Agriculture opens cost-share grants for urban ag projects

P-D: Missouri added to 15-state parasite outbreak tied to recalled lettuce (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

St. Louis Public Radio: Missouri has third-highest number of cyclosporiasis cases in U.S., CDC says

P-D: Invasive carp, killed by the heat, are floating in the Mississippi River; comments from Missouri Department of Conservation (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT: Ameren’s Callaway Nuclear plant gets clean bill of health from Nuclear Regulator Commission

P-D editorial: Eric Schmitt doesn’t care, so call his D.C. office (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

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The Beacon (Kansas City) op-ed: Mary Sanchez: Deportation campaign in 2025 cost jobs for American workers, including in Kansas City

P-D op-ed: Amherst College (Massachusetts) professor Austin Sarat: The ‘Show Me’ state shows America how to preserve democracy (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Thursday, August 6, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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