{"id":1056283,"date":"2025-09-29T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1056283"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T13:00:45","slug":"dnc-announces-new-investment-organizational-support-in-missouri-to-stop-trumps-rigged-maps-from-taking-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-announces-new-investment-organizational-support-in-missouri-to-stop-trumps-rigged-maps-from-taking-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Announces New Investment, Organizational Support in Missouri to Stop Trump\u2019s Rigged Maps From Taking Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Missourians deserve the chance to vote on Republicans\u2019 rigged maps<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, a day after Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/local\/missouri-new-congressional-map-gov-kehoe-to-sign-sunday\/63-9ada5f81-a9ae-47e2-8cc4-f02ce15be2a2\">signed gerrymandered congressional maps<\/a> into law, the DNC announced a new investment to help Missourians on the ground obtain the required signatures necessary to activate a citizens\u2019 referendum that will put the congressional maps directly in the hands of Missouri voters.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Missouri, it takes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksdk.com\/article\/news\/politics\/missouri-voters-likely-deliver-final-verdict-congressional-map-initiative-changes\/63-0dff6f64-3174-4bec-8630-9f4709019b23\">117,000 signatures<\/a> for a citizen referendum. If the required signatures are collected, the new, Republican-gerrymandered map will not go into effect unless there is a statewide vote to approve them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the behest of Donald Trump, Missouri Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/fox2now.com\/news\/missouri\/controversial-mo-congressional-map-faces-opposition\/\">rigged<\/a> their congressional maps to avoid accountability for Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill, which kicks hundreds of thousands of Missourians off of health care. They did this by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcur.org\/politics-elections-and-government\/2025-09-26\/missouri-redistricting-congressional-map-kehoe-courts-lawsuit\">drawing out<\/a> Democratic Congressman Emanuel Cleaver, the former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With this investment, the DNC is supporting Missouri Democrats\u2019 work to collect the required signatures for a citizen referendum, which would force a statewide vote on fair maps, stopping Republicans&#8217; unilateral power grab.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The DNC\u2019s investment will support the Missouri Democratic Party\u2019s on-the-ground efforts to collect the necessary signatures, including by:<\/strong><strong><br><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hiring organizing staff to run signature-collection efforts statewide.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Supporting volunteer organizing efforts to collect signatures across the state.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deploying our volunteer organizing team of 41,000 volunteers across the country to send texts to Missourians to sign the petition.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>DNC Chair Ken Martin issued the following statement:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter passing Trump\u2019s Big Ugly Bill that kicks 230,000 Missourians off their health insurance and puts four rural hospitals at risk of closing, Missouri Republicans are scared they will lose in 2026 and beyond. That\u2019s why they are trying to cheat. The DNC won\u2019t stand idly by as Republicans try to take the power away from the people \u2014 that\u2019s why we\u2019re partnering with Democrats on the ground to ensure Missourians choose their maps, not Trump or his Republican enablers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missourians deserve the chance to vote on Republicans\u2019 rigged maps Today, a day after Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe signed gerrymandered congressional maps into law, the DNC announced a new investment to help Missourians on the ground obtain the required signatures necessary to activate a citizens\u2019 referendum that will put the congressional maps directly in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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