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Brownfield Ag News: At State Fair, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith says China making progress on U.S. soybean purchases

93.9 The Eagle’s Wake Up Missouri (Columbia, Springfield, Cape Girardeau): U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt on the State Fair and Mizzou stadium renovations

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison on Flock cameras and his tourism tour

KOAM (Joplin): Burlison tours historic 66 Drive-In Theatre in Carthage

AP: Trump loyalist Ed Martin is leaving the Justice Department to focus on election ‘legal battles’

POLITICO: Ed Martin leaving DOJ for outside legal work tied to elections, Trump says

Instagram reel: H.A.M. Breakfast by Jay-Z and Kanye West, featuring Kehoe, Parson, Chris Chinn, Chris Koster, Lis Smith, Claire McCaskill, Matt Blunt and others

Missourinet: House Superminority Leader Ashley Aune predicts “change election” in November, lists “flip” targets (2:25); Democrats rejecting progressive candidates like Cori Bush (4:45); “A Missouri Democrat does not look like the Democrats that you see on MSNBC” (5:15 mark)

FLASHBACK: Ashley Aune in October 2024: “I fully predict … we’re going to flip 3 to 7 seats” (opens at 5:07 mark)

KC Star, Wednesday: Missouri House Republicans’ fundraising dwarfs Democrats’ ragtag effort; comments from longtime Missouri Republican strategist/current House Republican Campaign Committee Executive Director Hannah Beers Sutton, Missouri House Democrats’ visiting interim short-term out-of-state contractor Jake Kljaich (avoid KC Star by reading free syndicated version on MSN here)

Missourinet: August primary shows growing support for Libertarians in Missouri, St. Louis County party chairwoman says

Southeast Missourian: Jamie Burger seeks Majority Leader post in Missouri Senate

KMIZ (Columbia); Missouri school districts to get ‘first look’ at new A-F grading system this fall

St. Louis Public Radio: Proposed charter school could be a first for Riverview Gardens, set to open next year

KWTO (Springfield): The Elijah Haahr Show: Rep. Jeff Vernetti (R-Camdenton) on banning Flock cameras

KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: State Treasurer Vivek Malek on unclaimed US saving bonds, and the impact ARPA money’s exit will have on Missouri

KZRG (Joplin): Billions in forgotten savings bonds could be waiting for you; highlights of Malek interview

Missouri Independent: Missouri placed diabetic teen in a foster home not licensed to take him. He died 24 days later

Joplin Globe: Missouri Department of Conservation offers fly fishing classes this fall (avoid Joplin Globe paywall by reading archived version here)

Wall Street Journal op-ed: Dalibor Rohac: The Lindsey Graham Act – co-sponsored in the House by U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner – has a dangerous tariff provision

KC Star op-ed: High school social studies teacher Robert P. Barnidge, Jr.: Missouri should vote yes for compromise on abortion, gender transition (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! News here)

Yesterday’s (Friday, August 21, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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