A group called People Not Politicians announced that it's gathering signatures to prevent Missouri's new congressional map from going into effect until there's a statewide vote. Voters will also have to approve of a Republican plan cracking down on citizen-led constitutional amendments.

Missouri's new congressional map carves up Kansas City into three separate districts, fulfilling the wishes of President Donald Trump. The ACLU filed a lawsuit Friday, and Kansas City Council recently passed a resolution authorizing legal action of its own.

In Missouri, the Republican-led government is moving quickly to redraw state election maps to secure its political grip on the state, continuing a national trend of anti-democratic gamesmanship that one Democratic lawmaker from the state says will leave the nation’s democracy “with only cinders remaining.”

A newly-gerrymandered congressional map and limits on voters’ ability to amend the state constitution cleared the Missouri Senate Friday, capping two weeks of contentious debate that drew national attention.

Opponents immediately announced a referendum petition that could force a statewide vote on the new map. Missouri is the third state to take up congressional redistricting ahead of the 2026 elections.

Missouri’s Republican-controlled Senate on Friday passed a new congressional map, taking final legislative action to eliminate one of the state’s Democratic seats in the US House and boost the GOP’s chances of retaining its fragile majority in the chamber.

The Missouri state House advanced a new congressional map Tuesday targeting the district of one of the state’s two Democrats, the latest escalation in tit-for-tat partisan gerrymandering in states ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Opponents could force a public vote if they can gather roughly 106,000 signatures within 90 days of the bill being signed into law.

Two Missouri county clerks said they were contacted by the DOJ seeking access to election machines made by Dominion Voting Systems.