If passed, Amendment 4 could make it substantially more difficult for citizen-led constitutional amendments to succeed.

For nearly a century, Missouri was considered a bellwether — a leader or indicator of the political trends of the nation. If you wanted to take the nation’s pulse, there was no better place to look than the heart of our country. Between 1904 and 2004, Missouri’s electoral votes reflected the winning presidential candidate in every single election minus Eisenhower’s re-election in 1956. Today…

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