Democrats in Missouri looking to block the state’s new congressional districts hit a key deadline on Tuesday, organizers say, getting a step closer to freezing the map drawn by the Republican-controlled Legislature to create an additional GOP-leaning district in the 2026 midterms.
People Not Politicians, the committee organizing to block the new map, said it submitted over 305,000 signatures to Missouri’s Secretary of State Denny Hoskins on Tuesday, more than double the 107,000 valid signatures needed to trigger a referendum process that could put the map in front of voters next year.
Hoskins’ office will now process the signatures and…
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