In Missouri, the Republican-led government is moving quickly to redraw state election maps to secure its political grip on the state, continuing a national trend of anti-democratic gamesmanship that one Democratic lawmaker from the state says will leave the nation’s democracy “with only cinders remaining.”

On Aug. 29, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called the state legislature together for a special session after prodding weeks earlier from President Donald Trump. In that session, he advanced plans for congressional redistricting, namely a map that would give Republicans one more seat in the House. Dubbed the “Missouri First Map“, the plan significantly expands the blue bastion of the Kansas City-area District 5 in three directions, into more rural, GOP-voting counties, with the hope of dilutin

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