Protesters demanded that Republicans halt their efforts to redistrict Missouri and make it harder for voter-led constitutional amendments to pass. After protesting in the rotunda, rally-goers packed the Senate chambers, where lawmakers are set to take up both proposals.

Thousands of people filled the Missouri Capitol on Wednesday to protest Republican-led redistricting. The protest opposed the Republican plan to gerrymander the state and make it harder for voter-led constitutional amendments to pass.

The Missouri House passed both the proposal to make it more difficult to pass some constitutional amendments and the redistricting map that would split the Kansas City metro into three districts and consolidate St. Louis into a smaller district. Both measures are now in the hands of

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