When President Donald Trump pressed Missouri’s GOP to help him rig the 2026 midterm elections, they passed a map that is expected to give the party one more seat in the U.S. House. But everyday Missourians have put their foot down.

People Not Politicians, a political action committee, swiftly began gathering signatures to force a statewide referendum that would allow voters to get the final say on the gerrymandered congressional map. And on Tuesday, the group showed up at Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskin’s office with 691 boxes containing the signatures of over 300,000 residents who want to put the referendum on next year’s ballot.

According to Richard von Glahn, the group’s executive director, getting residents to sign the petition didn’t take much convincing. All the group had

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