Election 2026: Latest 最新杏吧原创 and Missouri coverage
Follow the latest Post-Dispatch coverage of the Nov. 3 election, including Missouri ballot measures, local and congressional races
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One wants to shrink county government. The other dreams of drone hubs and Missouri-grown school lunches. Meet the candidates battling for a 最新杏吧原创 County Council seat.
Aside from well-publicized Ann Wagner-Fred Wellman contest for U.S. House, races for seven other area Congressional seats will be decided on Nov. 3.
Retired Missouri Supreme Court Judge Mike Wolff is challenging a federal court's jurisdiction in a yearslong dispute between Missouri and China.
SPRINGFIELD 鈥� Melanie Stinnett and Betsy Fogle have more in common than their political affiliations might suggest. Both came to politics after careers helping Missourians navigate a complicated healthcare system. Both have made improving access to services for people with disabilities a priority. And both worked this year to restore proposed cuts to funding that [鈥
Proposition S would add a tax of 5 cents for every $100 of a property's assessed value, or about $20 per year on a house appraised at $200,000.
Mark Matthiesen, a state representative from O'Fallon, said this weekend that while his family has moved to Thailand, he is committed to his district and remains up for reelection in November.
"Where the courts really start to get into trouble is when their rulings don't have neutral explanations."
GOP Gov. Kehoe says Missouri will follow the court's order.
"Now we can get down to work and it doesn鈥檛 seem like there is a cloud hanging over our heads anymore," said one 最新杏吧原创 County election official.
Since 2017, a D.C.-based nonprofit called the Fairness Project has poured more than $13 million into Missouri campaigns.聽 Every campaign it backed that has reached Missouri voters has won. And now it is making its biggest investment yet in the state. In 2024, The Fairness Project gave more than $4.5 million to a citizen-led ballot [鈥
The Missouri Supreme Court had barely settled the immediate question of which congressional map is legally in effect before some Republicans began looking ahead to drawing another one. Minutes after the court ruled unanimously against use of a gerrymandered map drawn by Republicans last year, GOP state Sen. Nick Schroer posted 鈥�8-0 2027鈥� on social [鈥
Hundreds of thousands of Missourians will vote in different districts than they did in August. "Everybody gets to vote. It鈥檚 just that the lines have changed."

