Missouri voters in recent years have used the ballot initiative process to rein in the worst instincts of an increasingly radical-right state Legislature. Voters have amended the state constitution to expand Medicaid coverage, to legalize recreational marijuana and sports wagering and — most crucially — to restore reasonable reproductive rights, reversing the Handmaid’s Tale hellscape that lawmakers imposed on Missouri women after the fall of Roe v. Wade.

In each of those cases, the issue was put on the ballot by activists collecting signatures, generally over the opposition of the state’s ruling Republicans, and then passed by voters statewide.

You would think the GOP supermajority in Jefferson City, pondering this clear evidence that they are too far right for even the decidedly cons

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