St. Louis, MO – Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 4, turning back an attempt by politicians to rewrite the rules of democracy in their own favor. The result caps a campaign that brought together Republicans, Independents, and Democrats from every corner of the state around a single, simple idea: Missourians — not politicians and their donors — should decide what becomes law. "Politicians thought they could trick voters, and they lost. Voters won - big time,” s

By The Kansas City Star Editorial Board | July 23, 2026 On Aug. 4, Missouri voters will be asked to give up their powerful constitutional right to propose or change state laws and constitutional amendments directly. On the ballot is Amendment 4, a proposal that would make it much more difficult to approve a citizen-led initiative petition to place the matters most important to Missourians in front of voters. Opponents of the measure argue — and we agree — that Amendment 4 is

July 23, 2026 For more than a century, the League of Women Voters of Missouri has fought for one simple idea: the people’s voices and their votes play a critical role in democracy. They should be heard and respected. That’s why the League has stood against every attempt to weaken Missourians’ constitutional right to change laws through the initiative petition. Citizens have used the initiative petition to go around legislators and directly to each other, collecting signatures

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July 9, 2026 KSHB 41 reporter Charlie Keegan covers politics in Kansas, Missouri and at the local level. Amendment 4 would change the requirement for ballot measures to pass. Instead of requiring a statewide simple majority of 50% plus one, Missouri would become the first state to use a concurrent majority. This means voters in each of the state’s eight congressional districts would have to pass the measure. The rule would only apply to constitutional amendment initiatives th

Loring Bullard, Bob Kipfer, Barbara Lucks, Todd Parnell and Tim Smith Springfield News-Leader June 28, 2026 Pay close attention to the Missouri constitutional amendments on the Aug. 4 ballot. There is one that is good, and two that are very bad. Amendment 1 is good. It would extend the existing 1/10th of one cent sales tax for Missouri’s state parks, historic sites, and county soil and water conservation districts. Missourians love their fish, forests, wildlife, farms, rivers

By Kacen Bayless June 30, 2026 5:00 AM When Gov. Mike Kehoe ordered lawmakers to return to the Missouri Capitol last year, he claimed that “out-of-state special interests” were deceiving voters into passing “out-of-touch policies.” “It’s time we give voters a chance to protect our Constitution,” Kehoe, a Republican, said at the time, calling on lawmakers to overhaul the state’s main form of direct democracy. The first-in-the-nation solution that Kehoe unveiled — and later pla

by: Mark Zinn Posted: Jun 16, 2026 / 05:56 PM CDT JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The campaign is heating up for a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder to amend the state constitution itself. Amendment 4 would raise the threshold needed to pass a proposed amendment that originated by a signature campaign. Currently, such amendments only need a simple majority from a statewide vote. Under Amendment 4, however, petition-based amendments would need a majority of the

By Kacen Bayless and Jack Harvel | May 22, 2026 Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe on Friday moved to the Aug. 4 ballot a pair of proposals that seek to replace the income tax with expanded sales taxes and overhaul the state’s form of direct democracy, a major decision that could determine the measures’ chances of passage. The Republican governor made the announcement in a news release Friday afternoon. The decision effectively shapes Missouri’s upcoming elections and also solidifies t

Judges increasingly find official summaries fail to tell voters what ballot measures would actually do. Republicans say courts are overstepping. By: Jason Hancock | June 12, 2026 As Missouri secretary of state, Denny Hoskins is often responsible for reducing complicated ballot measures to a few sentences voters can understand. In his first year and a half in office, judges have repeatedly found those sentences unfair, insufficient or misleading. Courts have rejected or rewrit

WEBSTER-KIRKWOOD TIMES | Jun 15, 2026 It’s easy to mistake the wording on Amendment 4 as pushing for a more democratic amendment process and less interference by “foreign nationals,” but that would be wrong. The current process for citizen-initiated amendments requires getting over 170,000 valid signatures from two-thirds of Missouri’s congressional districts sent to the secretary of state for review and approval within the allotted time. Only then is the amendment placed on

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 22, 2026 Contact: press@protectmajorityrulemo.org Protect Majority Rule MO Launches Campaign to Defeat Amendment 4 St. Louis, MO – A broad coalition of Missourians — Republicans, Independents, and Democrats — launched a campaign to defeat politicians’ power grab and effort to effectively strip citizens of their ability to shape state policy via the ballot initiative process. The campaign is uniting voters from every corner of the state around one si