Missouri Democrats are confident of gains heading into the election but Republicans have an abundance of cash for defense.

When I was pregnant, my ex-husband pinned me against a wall. I was afraid he would kill me. I survived that violence. I also ...

A day after the resignation of Missouri’s interim commissioner of education, the State Board of Education announced a new interim leader.

After Missouri banned nearly all abortions in 2022, Valerie Weaver began noticing a troubling change in some of the pregnant patients she cared for in Kansas City. They were arriving to her sicker.

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Donald Trump carried Missouri’s 34th Senate District by 11 percentage points in 2024. The incumbent Republican state senator won re-election two years earlier by 18 points. Yet with Election Day ...

The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the legislation President Donald Trump called the “One Big Beautiful Bill” would increase the federal deficit by $3.4 trillion over a decade, despite its ...

Democrats have gained ground statewide, but only one of Missouri’s eight U.S. House races has attracted significant campaign ...

Six years ago, when we launched The Missouri Independent, I made what was probably a pretty lousy sales pitch. Don’t trust us ...

For more than three decades, the federal government released an annual comprehensive report on the state of hunger in America ...