Yesterday was a busy day in Missouri.

Yesterday at the Missouri Ethics Commission:

C264382 09/08/2026 Yes on Amendment 6 We Are Missouri 131 E. High Street Jefferson City MO 65101 9/8/2026 $500,000.00

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We Are Missouri

Respect Missouri Voters:

…Amendment 6 protects and strengthens our freedom to pass laws through the citizen initiative petition process. Written by everyday Missourians, AMENDMENT 6 protects your vote from being overturned, guarantees clear ballot language, and protects your right to use the initiative process…

Denny Hoskins (r) doesn’t like that.

Denny Hoskins (r) is a pre-eminent legal scholar and final arbiter of the Missouri Constitution, said no one ever… (August 4, 2026)

Heh.

Missouri voters will decide limits on lawmakers rewriting ballot measures
The Missouri Supreme Court overturned a decision that the measure, which will appear as Amendment 6, unconstitutionally included more than one subject
By Rudi Keller
September 3, 2026 6:04 pm

An effort to restrict the legislature’s ability to rewrite laws and constitutional amendments approved by voters through the initiative process will be on the Nov. 3 ballot, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

In a unanimous decision overturning Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green, the court ruled Secretary of State Denny Hoskins improperly declared the proposed Amendment 6 insufficient. The judges also rejected the constitutional objections Hoskins relied on to keep it off the ballot. .

Hoskins on Aug. 4 issued a “certificate of insufficiency” and based it on constitutional violations identified in an opinion letter from Attorney General Catherine Hanaway. Attaching that letter and adopting its findings as his own by reference was not the way it should have been done, Judge Ginger Gooch wrote for the court.

“Because his certificate fails to identify any reason the petition is insufficient under the

Missouri Constitution, it does not comply with (Missouri statutes) and preserves nothing for this

court’s review,” Gooch wrote. “Even if the secretary had preserved his claims, nearly all assert constitutional violations that may or will occur if the petition is approved. These hypothetical claims are not ripe for review. The two pre-election claims-violation of the single-article and single-subject requirements…lack merit.”

A political action committee called Respect MO Voters circulated petitions and obtained more than 350,000 signatures to put Amendment 6 on the ballot. It comes on the heels of voter rejection in the primary of Amendment 4, which would have made it more difficult to amend the Missouri Constitution by initiative petition.

Immediately after the ruling, Respect MO Voters announced it would immediately begin its advertising campaign to pass it.

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Let the ads begin.

Denny Hoskins (r) [2025 file photo].