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Let's talk about millions spent on Missouri’s map....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 December 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about millions spent on Missouri’s map....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people it spell again.

0:06.0

So today, we're going to talk about millions spent on Missouri's map.

0:13.0

As Republicans see voter backlash to Trump's policies and the economic chaos that has accompanied his policies, they're more and more nervous about the midterms.

0:24.7

Now that they've seen a once deep red district in Tennessee

0:28.1

dropped to having a single-digit lead, there's downright panic.

0:33.3

But instead of reversing course,

0:35.4

they seem to be doubling down on the idea of ruling rather than

0:40.4

representing. Missouri was one of the six states that have redistricted ahead of the midterms.

0:48.0

Republicans in the state appear to have sought to create a map that would help them override voters

0:53.9

upset by Trump's policies.

0:57.1

As soon as the map that eliminated a Democratic-leaning district passed the legislature,

1:02.5

a campaign committee called People, not Politicians, started putting together a referendum

1:10.1

that would repeal the Republican map.

1:13.9

They need 107,000 valid signatures before the deadline next week.

1:20.8

Organizers seem confident they'll get what they need.

1:25.1

Republican groups are dumping millions into trying to defeat the referendum,

1:30.6

which is really weird when you think about it, right? The general idea of most of these

1:37.2

redistricting efforts was that they just had to do it. Not because voters were turning against

1:43.7

them, because their policies are

1:46.0

causing a constant state of disorder and damaging their lives, but because the people of the

1:52.1

state needed better representation. Why would you want to defeat a referendum that would

1:59.2

prove that's the case? Unless, of course,

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