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A Missouri House committee approved a new map that would split Kansas City's 5th Congressional District into three separate districts.

The proposed redistricting, endorsed by President Donald Trump, aims to create an additional Republican-leaning seat in the state.

The Missouri NAACP has filed a lawsuit to block the new map, which relies on old census data.

If a new Missouri congressional map endorsed by President Donald Trump is put into place, voters living on Kansas City’s east side will share a congressional district with people living nearly four hours away in Osage County.

Anyone living in downtown Kansas City would be in a district stretching south nearly to Springfield. And Kansas Citians living north of the Missouri River would be in a district running t

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