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Fox News: Eric Schmitt rips Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) over denaturalization bill: ‘You’re damn right we’re deporting’ criminals

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Eric Schmitt effort to thwart sanctuary cities included in $71B border bill (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Fox News: Schmitt: Graham Platner just a ‘spoiled rich kid’

KZRG (Joplin): U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison on his “Great American Healthcare Plan” health savings account bill, plus insights into Chip Roy and Thomas Massie campaigns; why conservatives should trust Club for Growth and Americans for Prosperity over fly-by-night upstarts

Missourinet: U.S. Rep. Wesley Bell highlights Missouri mail delivery problems in Washington hearing

KSDK (St. Louis): Wesley Bell criticizes ICE over alien deportation; Bell campaign manager Jordan Blase on Cori Bush’s missed votes vs. Bell’s missed votes

St. Louis Public Radio: ICE successfully deports Nicaraguan alien

JCNT: Rock Island Trail landowners get $1.95M in federal settlement

KHQA (Hannibal): 6th Congressional District candidate Nathan Willett (R) campaigns in Hannibal

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Missouri appeals court rewrites income tax ballot language

KC Star: Judge rewrites ballot language on plan to eliminate Missouri income tax

KMIZ (Columbia): Appeals court rewrites Missouri income tax ballot language

Missouri Independent: Missouri appeals court keeps tax overhaul on Aug. 4 ballot with revised summary

Southeast Missourian: Lawmakers pitch amendments to Cape Chamber; GOP state Reps. John Voss, Barry Hovis and David Dolan favor eliminating income tax (avoid Southeast Missourian paywall by reading archived version here)

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: GOP superconsultant Gregg Keller on Missouri’s Amendment 5 income tax ballot measure, California voting laws, and Jill Biden’s revisionist history

Missourinet: Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance Director Angela Nelson says thousands of Missourians still await checks from tornado insurance claims

KZRG (Joplin): Compass Academy Network’s Senior Director of Government Affairs and Strategic Initiatives Cody Smith on summer learning program for kids

KC Star: Data centers are toxic in KC politics. Here’s what MO lawmakers are – or aren’t – doing (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

KC Star: What can Missouri’s state politicians do to address concerns on KC data centers? (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

Washington Missourian: Pacific aldermen pass data center moratorium

Brownfield Ag News: Missouri initiates New World screwworm plan; insights from Ag Director Chris Chinn

KC Star’s David Hudnall: The good and the bad of Missouri’s American Shaman 7-OH settlement

KC Star’s Derek Donovan: Kratom’s off Missouri shelves. What about all these other dangerous pills?

KC Star op-ed: Freedom Principle MO’s Byron Keelin: Missouri protects electrical utilities as a monopoly. That’s no free market

Washington Missourian’s Bill Battle: MSHSAA must do better on sheltering; a suggestion for Missouri’s new MSHSAA oversight board

P-D’s Aisha Sultan: How a new Missouri law will chill free speech about Israel, Palestine (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Friday, June 5, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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