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18 Missourian candidates completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey since July 7

Below are a selection of responses from the candidates who filled out Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey since July 7. To read each candidate’s full responses, click their name at the bottom of the article.

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What is brain-eating amoeba and why does it kill

Only five people are known surivors of rare disease

The Independent UK

Ex-Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens scheduled to testify on abuse allegations in custody case

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is scheduled to testify Wednesday in his ongoing child custody dispute with his ex-wife Sheena Greitens.

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Missouri’s average gas price falls to $4.35

As of July 14, Missouri’s average gas price according to AAA was $4.35 for regular gas, which was below the national average of $4.60. Gas prices fell from the previous week’s average of $4.58 but remained above the June average of $4.48. On July 14, 2021, the state’s average price…

Ballotpedia

Kansas City struggles with Missouri over police funding

A power struggle over control of the Kansas City’s police department is going before Missouri voters

The Independent UK

Hawley is the ‘most respected’ Republican in Missouri, Hartzler says after Trump snub

Rep. Vicky Hartzler said Thursday that Sen. Josh Hawley, who has endorsed her Senate campaign, is the most respected Republican in Missouri after former President Donald Trump said he won’t back the GOP congresswoman.

Tribune News Service

Missouri governor rejects special session on birth control, ectopic pregnancies

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s governor on Thursday shot down a call for a special session by two Democrats seeking to protect access to contraception and a physician’s ability to treat ectopic pregnancies, which are not viable.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Michael Hiltzik: Threats to criminalize out-of-state abortions are a scary reminder of 1850s America

The Fugitive Slave Act was perhaps the most detested law in all American history.

Los Angeles Times

Missouri AG says FBI ‘illegally’ seeking local concealed carry permit information

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Schmitt said Wednesday the FBI was planning to illegally “harvest” information on Missouri concealed carry permits next month through a series of audits at county sheriff’s offices.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Warden not buying angler’s odd excuse for illegal bass catch

A Missouri angler has been cited for catching an over-limit of mostly undersized largemouth bass, apparently, for the sake of a social-media photo.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Republican Josh Hawley accused of transphobia at Senate hearing

Berkeley professor Khiara Bridges says Missouri senator’s line of questioning ‘opens trans people up to violence’

The Guardian - US

Can a populist Missouri Democrat win back rural and working-class voters?

Marine veteran Lucas Kunce is running for Missouri's open Senate seat as a Democrat unafraid to go on conservative talk radio.

Roll Call

Editorial: Missouri’s anti-abortion law is vague and open to abuse. Lawmakers can fix that

Democrats are asking Gov. Mike Parson to call a special legislative session to clarify that Missouri’s stringent new anti-abortion law doesn’t prohibit other treatments and medication. It’s a reasonable ask, because the new law is so vaguely worded that medical providers are uncertain about the legality of even routine birth…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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McClatchy Washington Bureau

Missouri politics awash with firearms as Greitens, rivals provoke with ‘hardcore’ gun ads

As mass shootings grip the country with lethal regularity, Missouri politics is swimming in firearms.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Hartzler is the latest Republican to see Trump loyalty repaid with humiliation

If there is one lesson that Republican politicians should have learned well by now, it’s that Donald Trump will blithely betray those who have sold their political souls for him the moment it suits his self-interest. Yet they keep not learning that lesson. The latest failing grade goes to Missouri…

Tribune News Service

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‘Horrified’ former House Speaker Paul Ryan wept during Jan. 6 attack on Capitol, book says

Reason

Court Rejects Lawsuit Against China over the COVID Pandemic

From Missouri ex rel. Schmitt v. People's Republic of China, decided Friday by Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. (E.D. Mo.) (fun fact: he's the late Rush Limbaugh's cousin): Amidst the wreckage of the COVID-19 pandemic, plaintiffs across the United States have filed civil suits seeking damages against the People's Republic…

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Citing Supreme Court ruling, appeals court reinstates Missouri’s Down syndrome abortion ban

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last month to strike down Roe v. Wade, a panel of federal judges on Friday ruled in favor of an appeal that allows Missouri to prohibit abortions that are based solely on whether a baby was diagnosed with Down syndrome.

The Conversation

Militant white identity politics on full display in GOP political ads featuring high-powered weapons

Republican Eric Greitens, a candidate for Missouri’s open U.S. Senate seat, shocked viewers with a new online political ad in June 2022 that encouraged his supporters to go “RINO hunting.”

Daily Mirror

Pregnant woman's heartbreaking Google search before she was murdered by husband

Beau Rothwell, from Missouri, US, killed his wife of four years, Jennifer Rothwell, who was six weeks pregnant at the time

The Independent UK

Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat

Eric Greitens resigned as Missouri governor in 2018 amid criminal charges and legislative investigations

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Trump says he won’t endorse Hartzler in Missouri’s GOP Senate contest

ST. LOUIS — She has the strong support of Missouri’s soon-to-be senior U.S. senator, but Rep. Vicky Hartzler won’t be getting the endorsement of former President Donald Trump in this year’s Senate race.

Salon

"Woke maps": The right's enemies list

"Woke heat map" documents instances of "wokeness" to fight back against "critical race theory" and "grooming"

The Guardian - US

‘If I’d not got help, I’d probably be dead’: Jason Kander on PTSD, politics and advice from Obama

He was a rising star in the Democratic party and ‘sorta ran for president’ but, as he recounts in his new book, haunted by his experiences in Afghanistan

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