Dan Schaefer for Missouri

The right to petition our government is for sale The Missouri Legislature recently passed House Bill 1 (HB 1), a new congressional map pushed by Donald Trump and engineered to give Republicans an additional U.S. House seat. Instead of waiting for the next census, lawmakers redrew the lines mid-decade in a special session, carving up Kansas City and turning seven of Missouri’s eight districts safely Republican. Missourians are fighting back. A citizens’ group called People No

Conservative lawmakers want to gut the public school system, strip it for parts, and hand it over to private interests. Meanwhile, the U.S. is falling behind the rest of the world in academic performance.