{"id":10347,"date":"2026-05-02T14:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:43:44","slug":"democracy-scores-a-win-in-gerrymander-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/democracy-scores-a-win-in-gerrymander-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy Scores A Win In Gerrymander Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fight to reverse the Missouri GOP redistricting effort scored a win with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcur.org\/politics-elections-and-government\/2026-04-30\/missouri-redistricting-vote-congressional-map-referendum-language\">Missouri appeals court rewrites ballot language for congressional map referendum.<\/a>  This is important because this is what voters like you will actually read in the voting booth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">If the referendum qualifies for the November ballot, Missouri voters would be asked whether to approve the redistricting plan passed by Republican lawmakers. A citizen group sued Secretary of State Denny Hoskins accusing him of writing a biased summary, and two courts have now agreed.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">A Missouri appeals court on Thursday rewrote the ballot summary for a proposed referendum on the state\u2019s newly gerrymandered congressional map, ruling Secretary of State Denny Hoskins\u2019 description&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=234693\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still included unsupported claims<\/a>&nbsp;about the map approved by lawmakers last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"723\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tumisu-election-4745282_1920-1024x723.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tumisu-election-4745282_1920-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tumisu-election-4745282_1920-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tumisu-election-4745282_1920-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tumisu-election-4745282_1920-1536x1084.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tumisu-election-4745282_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/tumisu-148124\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4745282\">Tumisu<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4745282\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fight to reverse the Missouri GOP redistricting effort scored a win with Missouri appeals court rewrites ballot language for congressional map referendum. This is important because this is what voters like you will actually read in the voting booth. If the referendum qualifies for the November ballot, Missouri voters would be asked whether to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10349,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10347\/revisions\/10349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}