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This Week in Missouri Politics: Sam Graves: A career retrospective

Fox News: Video: Democrats are coming back ‘with a vengeance,’ Schmitt warns

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Mark Reardon Show: Schmitt on $70 million St. Louis law enforcement grant, midterm fallout, and AI oversight

P-D: U.S. AG Todd Blanche, Schmitt announce St. Louis will get $68 million federal grant for police to modernize tech, improve training; Gov. Kehoe, AG Catherine Hanaway speak at event (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

Missourinet: St. Louis gets $68 million federal grant to fight crime. Feds say, “We need this to be a success”

St. Louis Public Radio: St. Louis police get $68 million in federal funding for tech, recruitment, other support

KSDK’s Mark Maxwell: ‘The entire city’ signed up for $68M in federal police money, the attorney general said. The mayor, the prosecutor, most of the board say they didn’t.

Missouri Independent: Josh Hawley blames GOP losses on abandoning working people, calls for fasting and prayer

KC Star: Harrison Butker’s political action committee is low on cash and seemingly abandoned (avoid KC Star paywall by reading free syndicated version on Yahoo! Sports here)

P-D’s Joe Holleman: Fred Wellman blasts Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, calls for his removal (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

Washington Missourian: After election, Wellman hopes ‘work will speak for itself’

St. Louis Magazine: Clayco’s Bob Clark doesn’t see doom and gloom for data centers in Democratic victory

JCNT: Gov. Kehoe announces more than $55M in rural healthcare funding for Missouri

Stateline, via Missouri Independent: Missouri awarded $218 million in second year of federal rural health grants

KSDK’s Mark Maxwell on X: Gov. Kehoe on Andrew Bailey’s criticisms: “I’m not going to get into a tit-for-tat with what Andrew Bailey thinks”

97.1 FM (St. Louis): Marc Cox Morning Show: Missouri Right to Life’s Steve Rupp on Amendment 3 failure

Fox4 KC: State Rep. Anthony Ealy (D) released from custody in assault case

Washington Missourian: GOP Reps. John Simmons, Brad Banderman reflect on election results

Nexstar (Fox 2 St. Louis, Fox4 KC, KOLR 10): Some Missouri communities rethinking their relationship with Flock

St. Louis Public Radio: Illinois and Missouri Departments of Transportation celebrate impending completion of the third iteration of Chain of Rocks Bridge

JCNT’s NT Daily with Erin Schrimpf: Downtown Jefferson City’s Sip & Shop; local nonprofits feeling the pressure of rising costs; Hy-Vee and veterans

KBIA (Columbia) via KCUR: Missouri wants to stop a deadly deer disease from spreading. Some hunters aren’t cooperating

KSDK (St. Louis): St. Louis attorney Jim Onder accused by ex-employee of assault, smear campaign

P-D editorial: Republicans itching to challenge Amendment 6 are begging for another drubbing (avoid stltoday paywall by reading free archived version here)

Yesterday’s (Monday, November 9, 2026) Missouri political news headlines

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