Hapless Missouri Democrats STILL Unlikely To Advance Against GOP Super Majority

Context . . . 

Missouri Republicans are cancelling free and fair elections and rebuking the majority of the electorate AND YET it's still very unlikely that Missouri Democrats will gain much ground against the super majority.

The Missouri GOP is more than confident in continued victory as they anger voters IF ONLY BECAUSE Missouri Democrats are so repellent to residents outside of smallish progressive urban enclaves.

Here's a nicer view of this truism . . .

Republicans have held a two-thirds supermajority in both chambers of the Missouri legislature since 2012. This year, Democrats held 10 of 34 Senate seats and 52 of 161 House seats.

Even so, this session was marked by considerable bipartisan cooperation — a stark contrast from previous years, when Republican infighting dominated the Senate and made it difficult to get much of anything to the governor’s desk.

And then . . .

After a session considered uncharacteristically productive and bipartisan by recent standards, the Missouri Senate, on the second-to-last day of the 2025 session, broke with its own longstanding tradition and overrode a filibuster.

To do it, Senate Republicans pulled out a rarely used procedural tool called a “previous question,” or PQ, to close debate and force votes on the abortion bill and a bill to repeal paid sick leave protections.

Again . . .

This would all be much more important if Missouri Democrats had candidates who could garner votes outside of STL or KC city limits. 

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

Missouri Democrats ponder options after Senate breaks down over abortion and paid sick leave

Is bipartisanship dead in Missouri? After months of improving cooperation and goodwill, a single move brought it all crashing down.