The statement by House Majority Leader Jon Patterson came as he tries to defuse a challenge for speaker from his right flank.

Missouri voters reject the idea of charging people fees to cover government's responsibilities. Are lawmakers listening?

Missouri's Republican Party continues to hold a supermajority in both the House of Representatives and Senate. Several Kansas City-area legislators are among the new leadership teams.

The vote, in response to contributions to the Amendment 6 campaign by pension funds for prosecutors and sheriffs, will be followed by legislation to ban donations from any state operated retirement fund.

Some Republican lawmakers want to limit — or possibly overturn — Amendment 3, which legalizes abortion, and Proposition A, which raises the state’s minimum wage to $15 by 2026.

While passing Amendment 3 safeguards abortion rights in Missouri for now, health care providers say people are still worried about access to reproductive care under the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Trevor Hawkins, an attorney at Legal Aid of Arkansas, remembers how busy his job got when the state for a time imposed work requirements on Medicaid recipients: His office was swamped with frantic phone calls from people who said they couldn’t comply with the new rule because they weren’t healthy enough to work or had

The Missouri Republican is known for advancing arguments made in Project 2025, including that the Comstock Act should prevent the mailing of abortion pills.

The not-for-profit group originally set up to pay for Gov. Mike Parson's 2021 inauguration gave $150,000 this week to the political action committee that helped get him elected.

Election reform advocates raised about $110 million for the statewide ballot measures, vastly outpacing their opponents, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance figures that could grow even larger as post-election reports are filed. Still, their promotional push wasn't enough to persuade most voters.

Thousands of activists convened for a racial justice conference and vowed to continue to fight against inequities