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Missourinet: Hawley pushes Congress to suspend gas tax

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison (R) on national defense and gas prices

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: U.S. Rep. Bob Onder on Iran, rural health care funding and health care cost transparency

93.9 The Eagle’s Wake Up Missouri (Columbia, Springfield, Cape Girardeau): Mizzou TPUSA President Nate Vass on this week’s viral video of activist celebrating Charlie Kirk’s murder

KC Star: KC man in ‘Red Legs’ group that talked of violence against ICE pleads guilty (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum: U.S. Supreme Court again blocks Missouri from using Trump-backed congressional map

AP: Supreme Court rejects a Trump-backed Missouri congressional map for the third time

P-D: Supreme Court again blocks GOP’s attempt to reinstate 7-1 congressional map (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D: Democrats jubilant, Republicans disappointed at US Supreme Court confirms 6-2 map for November (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KC Star: U.S. Supreme Court again blocks Missouri’s revamped congressional map (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

Columbia Missourian: Supreme Court reinstates 6-2 congressional map

Missouri Independent: US Supreme Court again blocks Missouri’s revamped congressional map

TonysKansasCity.com: Man filling Demoratic ballot slot for Mark Alford’s re-election touts novelty status as Hispanic/LGBT/handicapped veteran

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: Former Missouri Republican Party Executive Director/current consultant Jean Evans and former local NAACP leader John Gaskin III on Missouri redistricting, midterm elections, state Sen. Angela Mosley’s defamation lawsuit, more

P-D’s Joe Holleman: State Sen. Angela Mosley (D-Florissant) files suit over claim she played spoiler in St. Louis County executive race (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Columbia Missourian: Attorney general accuses ActBlue of accepting foreign donations

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Missouri AG Hanaway announces investigation of Democratic fundraising group (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

KBIA (Columbia): Missouri gets more than $45 million federal grant to strengthen rural health care

Missourinet: Fitzpatrick finds repeat problems in federal spending oversight

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: Joplin Superintendent of Schools Kerry Sachetta and Joplin High School Principal Randy Oliver discuss Missouri’s new A-F grading system for public schools

Missourinet: Missouri education and workforce departments partner with Google AI for training; insights from DESE’s Angela Anderson and DHEWD’s Rachelle Sharpe

KFVS (Cape Girardeau): Treatment center: Kratom withdrawal harder than opioids, as concentrated kratom products face Schedule I push; comments from AG Catherine Hanaway

Missourinet: Mizzou think tank publishes first study of wind and solar

KBIA (Columbia): Columbia city leaders respond to AG Hanaway’s safety demands

Columbia Missourian: Environmental group highlights Missouri DNR data on water contamination

P-D editorial: Trump partly responsible for Missouri measles outbreak (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Columbia Missourian’s Ted Farnen: A tale of two jackets separates Jim Kirkpatrick and Denny Hoskins

Yesterday’s (Friday, September 25, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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