By Jason Hancock | Editor-in-Chief
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Missouri voters approved paid sick leave in 2024. Republican lawmakers repealed it the next year.
Now the organization that led the campaign to pass it is putting money into changing who sits in the legislature.
Missouri Jobs with Justice Action and a coalition of labor and progressive groups are launching a $1 million effort aimed at flipping Republican-held seats this fall. It’s one more sign that Missouri’s legislative races could draw significant money and attention between now and November.
Rudi Keller has the details.
(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
by Rudi Keller
The coalition says it will target Republican lawmakers who last year helped repeal voter-approved paid sick leave.
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by Anna Spoerre
Abortion access in Missouri continues to expand under the constitutional amendment voters approved in 2024 — less than three months before they’ll be asked to undo it.
(Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent)
COMMENTARY
by Michael Wolff
While the nation faces various stress tests for the rule of law, Missouri courts are facing their own stress test in the hot mess of our current congressional redistricting.
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