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Fox News: Schmitt unveils BOASBERG Act to stop ‘rogue’ judges from handpicking Trump cases

St. Louis Public Radio: Overland mayor says he wasn’t told about ICE operation that led to Guatemalan alien deportation

KFVS (Cape Girardeau): Congressman Jason Smith tours southeast Mo. farm, discusses fuel & fertilizer prices

Dexter Statesman: At Fodge Farms, Jason Smith cites three “f’s” of food, fuel and fertilizer in farm economy struggles

Columbia Missourian: Missouri megadonor Rex Sinquefield keeps his hand in federal politics

St. Joseph News-Press: 6th Congressional District candidates written Q&A

St. Louis Public Radio’s Jason Rosenbaum: Bell-Bush rematch could be critical test for where national Democrats are heading

The Times (UK): Missouri native Evan Barker raised $50m for the Democrats before abandoning them in 2024. Now she’s written a book damning the party that lost middle America

Amazon.com: Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative; Evan Barker on her path from union family in the Kansas City heartland to raising cash for AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Cori Bush and others (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

P-D: Controversial comedian Rob Schneider set for November performance in Kirkwood; Emmy-nominated actor faces backlash for “tilt into right-wing politics” (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Kehoe touts income tax amendment a week before election

KSHB (Kansas City): Missouri Amendment 5 vote has some Kansas City-area parents worried about school funding

Jason Rosenbaum’s Politically Speaking: Rep. Don Mayhew (R-Crocker) on his state Senate campaign

This Week in Missouri Politics #TWMPDaily: Missouri Senate District 6 Republican primary candidate Todd “Ike” Skelton

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour: Rep. Raychel Proudie (D-Ferguson) on her state Senate campaign

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour: Rep. Steve Butz (D-St. Louis City) on his state Senate campaign

JCNT: Missouri Senate District 6 candidates enter final week of primary season; Q&A with candidates

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: Missouri House District 160 candidate Chris Wright (R)

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour: Rep. Ray Reed (D-St. Louis) on his re-election campaign

KMIZ (Columbia): State Sen. Rick Brattin, Secretary of State Denny Hoskins hold news conference to call out Columbia library queer story hour

Columbia Missourian’s Justice Covert: Columbia library defends LGBTQ+ themed ‘Rainbow Story Time’; “Hoskins and state Sen. Rick Brattin … continue their attacks”

KRCG (Jefferson City): Hoskins, Brattin target Daniel Boone Regional Library for Rainbow Story Time in probe

KOMU (Columbia): Library maintains LGBTQ-themed kids event was lawful as state official threatens funding

Columbia Daily Tribune: Funding threats expand after Daniel Boone Library’s Rainbow Story Time

Missouri Independent: Missouri Republicans threaten library funding over ‘rainbow story time’

SNL: Exclusive: Springfield Planned Parenthood offers medication abortion

JCNT: Ameren requests approval for 2,100 megawatt gas facility

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf: News Tribune coverage of Senate Bill 4 and what it means for utility customers (link opens at 15:27 mark)

The Beacon (Kansas City): Vast produce supply chain complicates tracking cyclospora in Kansas and Missouri

KBIA: What to know about Missouri’s growing cyclospora outbreak, according to a Missouri DHSS epidemiologist

KC Star: KC-area prosecutor denies allegations of inappropriate relationships, fights removal

JCNT: MoDOT takes feedback on U.S. 54 project at open house

Washington Missourian: Several lane configurations proposed for Highway 47

JCNT: State grant provides $3,000 raise for Cole County Sheriff deputies

P-D editorial: Read beyond Amendment 5’s misleading promises (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D op-ed: Aaron Hedlund: The status quo doesn’t work for Missouri. Vote ‘yes’ on Amendment 5 (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D op-ed: Maryville University political science professor Alden Craddock and sociology professor Kent Bausman: What the data says about shifting tax from income to sales (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

P-D op-ed: Bayless School Board member Stephanie McCreary: Amendment 5 tax cuts would come at a high cost to Missouri schools (avoid stltoday paywall by reading archived version here)

JCNT op-ed: Tom Sadowski: Amendment 5 will make things worse for Missouri

The Missouri Times op-ed: Missouri Soybean Association Board Member Ryan Wilson: Vote “Yes” on Amendment 4, because every Missouri community deserves a voice

Missouri Independent op-ed: Missouri Association of Rural Education’s Kevin Sandlin: Rural Missouri’s future depends on its public schools

The Marshall Project’s Katie Moore, via Missouri Independent: Since death penalty’s return 50 years ago, Missouri executes prisoners at high rate

P-D: Missouri execution leaderboard since 2000: Jay Nixon (21), Bob Holden (15), Mike Parson (13), Matt Blunt (5), Mel Carnahan (4 in 2000, 38 over two terms), Roger Wilson (1), Eric Greitens (1), Mike Kehoe (1) (avoid stltoday paywall by reading Combest-archived version here) (Wikipedia entry here)

St. Joseph News-Press letter: Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins explains endorsement of Nathan Willett for Congress

Yesterday’s (Tuesday, July 28, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

Amazon.com: John Combest: Stalking, Harassment, Internet Trolling: A Guide to Recovering and Rebuilding After Online Attacks – available in paperback and Amazon Kindle (note: As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

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