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KZRG (Joplin): Morning News Watch: U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison on midterm elections, Ilhan Omar, Missouri’s Amendment 3

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: U.S. Rep. Bob Onder on midterm elections, the economy, Amendments 3 and 6

Cook Political Report: Updated 2026 ratings: All 8 Missouri congressional races “not considered competitive”

Cook Political Report: 19 more U.S. House races shift away from the GOP – but zero (0) “flip” seats in Missouri

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: Former Missouri Republican Party Executive Director Jean Evans on MO-02, Amendment 3, state legislative races

P-D: Republicans spent millions fighting vote on Missouri map. Now there’s no effort to pass it (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

KCMO (Kansas City): Pete Mundo in the Morning: Faughn Media LLC’s Scott Faughn on what to expect from Missouri’s midterms

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour with Scott Faughn – Mile 1,175 with House Superminority Leader Ashley Aune (D-Kansas City)

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour with Scott Faughn – Mile 1,250 with state Sen. Maggie Nurrenbern (D-Kansas City)

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour with Scott Faughn – Mile 1,255 with state Rep. Mike Jones (R-Kansas City)

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour with Scott Faughn – Mile 1,280 with Northwest Missouri Labor Council President Zach Dunn

This Week in Missouri Politics #F150CampaignTour with Scott Faughn – Mile 1,300 with state Sen. Tony Luetkemeyer (R-Parkville)

The Missouri Times’ Jake Kroesen: Missouri Democrats’ statewide bench: Stephen Webber, Ashley Aune and others

Missouri Independent: Campaign finance data: Summary of MEC and FEC reports filed by HRCC & HDAF, statewide ballot measures, Wagner vs. Wellman, and legislative races

KSDK (St. Louis): St. Louis mayor holds up police chief’s raise as Kehoe asks the AG he appointed to investigate the board he appointed

P-D: Missouri AG to investigate potential open meeting violations by St. Louis Police Board (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

P-D: From hemp to high-tops: Missouri smoke shops scramble to survive new ban (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

P-D: New camping, shooting rules to take effect next year on Missouri conservation land (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

Southeast Missourian: MoDOT: Parts of I-55, other rural interstate segments granted 75-mph speed limit

P-D: St. Louis mayor says city won’t pay chief’s new salary until state review complete (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

The Leader (Jefferson County): Local women want federal, state, local officials to pay attention to hematite cancer claims

ABC News: What to know about changes to Medicare plans as open enrollment begins; Washington University health care policy analyst @jeffreyjonesmo Timothy McBride says changes will be “pretty profound and are going to have a pretty big effect”

The Missouri Times: Combest (10/21/21): Predicting future liberal media narratives: Missouri expanded Medicaid in 2021, but experts are still “worried”; “Media coverage to include third-party quotes from health care advocacy organizations, ironically overweight health care policy analysts from liberal universities”

Gregg Keller on X: “Missouri politicos will remember (Timothy) McBride as a paid Missouri Democratic Party staffer who trolled all non-commie electeds behind an anonymous account for years until he was caught, became a running joke to Rs and Ds alike.”

SNL: Temporary restraining order denied in Springfield data center lawsuit

SNL op-ed: Paul Simpson: Eric Burlison’s health care plan nothing but old-time snake oil

P-D’s Aisha Sultan: Think about our country’s dead pregnant women, then vote “No” on Amendment 3 (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

SNL letter: Queer activist/Missouri State University department head Kyler J. Sherman-Wilkins: In District 132, Rep. Jeremy Dean works for Springfield

Yesterday’s (Friday, October 23, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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