密苏里州共和党州长迈克·凯霍(Mike Kehoe)周五宣布，他呼吁召开一次特别立法会议，其中包括重新绘制该州的国会地图，为德克萨斯州之后该州十年中期的重划奠定基础刚刚做完同样的事情.
将于周三开始的特别会议还将重点讨论改革该州的投票倡议请愿程序。
“今天，我呼吁大会就国会重划选区和倡议请愿改革采取行动，以确保我们的选区和宪法真正将密苏里州的价值观放在第一位，”凯霍周五在一份声明中说。
凯霍还公布了一个提议的国会地图他称之为“密苏里第一地图”，他说该地图比该州目前的地图更少地划分了县和镇，并保留了两个区。
“密苏里州的保守、常识性价值观植根于信仰、家庭和自由，应该在各级政府——地方、州和联邦政府——得到真正的代表，因为代表不仅仅是一张地图上的地区和线条，”凯霍说在一段视频中说道伴随着公告。
唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)总统推动了德克萨斯州十年中期的重划，并表示他将支持其他州也这样做，他上周在社交媒体平台上发布了“伟大的密苏里州现在已经加入。我并不惊讶。这是一个伟大的州，有着令人难以置信的人民……我们将再次赢得密苏里州的中期选举，比以往任何时候都更大、更好!”
在周五的视频中，凯霍对特朗普表示感谢，他说:“我感谢唐纳德·特朗普总统提高了在这件事上的对话水平，因为他在全国范围内的领导作用凸显了这一时刻对密苏里州的重要性。”
特朗普周五在随后的社交媒体帖子中称赞地图提案“更加公平，也有了很大改善”...这将为密苏里州令人难以置信的人民提供巨大的机会，在2026年的中期选举中再选举一名共和党人——这是我们“美国第一”议程的巨大胜利，不仅是在“展示我的州”，而是在整个国家。”
密苏里州目前的国会代表团由六名共和党人和两名民主党人组成。
凯霍提出的国会地图大幅重划了第五国会选区——由民主党众议员伊曼纽尔·克里弗(Emanuel Cleaver)代表，他于2004年首次当选为美国众议院议员——以包括该州的更大范围。
在一个声明周五，克里弗猛烈抨击了重新绘制地图的提议。
“特朗普总统史无前例地指示在2015年中期，在没有更新人口普查的情况下，重新绘制我们的地图，这不是民主行为——这是对民主的违宪攻击。他写道:“这种试图重新划分密苏里州的做法不仅会改变地区界线，还会压制声音。”。
克里弗说，如果地图重划向前推进，他和他的选民不会“让步”:“第五选区的人民和我将不懈地斗争，以确保密苏里州永远不会成为一个反民主的州，在那里政治家选择他们的选民，而不是选民选择他们的代表。在法庭上和投票箱前，我们将要求维护法治，我们的声音被听到，民主占上风。”
国家民主党人也抨击凯霍的声明。
民主党全国委员会主席肯·马丁在一份声明中说:“另一名共和党州长刚刚屈服于唐纳德·特朗普的要求，牺牲了密苏里州的家庭和美国的民主。”“密苏里州州长迈克·凯霍一次又一次地削弱了密苏里州选民的声音。现在，他正试图通过剥夺密苏里州人反抗这种夺权的能力来彻底削弱他们的权力。”
密苏里州的立法者过去一直在为是否尝试一个有七个共和党席位的地图而斗争。
2022年，密苏里州共和党人就是否追求7-1共和党主导的地图爆发了内斗，这需要将堪萨斯城选民分成邻近的农村地区。立法机构最终推动了现有的6-2地图，因为人们担心这一变化可能会适得其反，使几个共和党控制的地区更具竞争力。
Missouri's GOP governor calls special session to redraw congressional districts
Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe announced on Friday that he was calling for a special legislative session that will include redrawing the state's congressional map -- setting the stage for mid-decade redistricting in the state after Texasjust finished doing the same.
The special session, which will begin Wednesday, will also focus on reforming the state's ballot initiative petition process.
"Today, I am calling on the General Assembly to take action on congressional redistricting and initiative petition reform to ensure our districts and Constitution truly put Missouri values first," Kehoe said in a statement on Friday.
Kehoe also unveiled aproposed congressional mapthat he called the "Missouri First Map," which he said splinters counties and towns less than the state's current one and preserves two districts as they are.
"Missouri's conservative, common sense values rooted in faith, family and freedom, should be truly represented at all levels of government – local, state and federal, because representation isn't just about districts and lines on one map," Kehoesaid in a videoaccompanying the announcement.
President Donald Trump, who pushed for mid-decade redistricting in Texas and has said he'd support it being done in other states, had posted on his social media platform last week, "The Great State of Missouri is now IN. I'm not surprised. It is a great State with fabulous people… We're going to win the Midterms in Missouri again, bigger and better than ever before!"
In his Friday video, Kehoe thanked Trump, saying, "I appreciate President Donald Trump for raising the level of conversation on this matter, because his leadership on this nationally underscores just how important this moment is for Missouri."
And Trump, in a subsequent social media post on Friday, praised the map proposal as "much fairer, and much improved... that will give the incredible people of Missouri the tremendous opportunity to elect an additional MAGA Republican in the 2026 Midterm Elections — A HUGE VICTORY for our America First Agenda, not just in the "Show-Me State," but across our Nation."
Missouri's current congressional delegation is made of six Republicans and two Democrats.
Kehoe's proposed congressional map significantly redraws the 5th congressional district -- represented by U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Democrat, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 2004 -- to include a significantly larger swath of the state.
In astatementon Friday, Cleaver slammed the proposed map redrawing.
"President Trump's unprecedented directive to redraw our maps in the middle of the decade and without an updated census is not an act of democracy – it is an unconstitutional attack against it. This attempt to gerrymander Missouri will not simply change district lines, it will silence voices," he wrote.
Cleaver said that he and his constituents would not "concede" if the map redrawing moves forward: "The people of the Fifth District and I will fight relentlessly to ensure Missouri never becomes an antidemocratic state, where politicians choose their voters instead of voters choosing their representatives. In the courts and at the ballot box, we will demand that the rule of law is upheld, our voices are heard, and democracy prevails."
National Democrats also slammed Kehoe's announcement.
"Another Republican governor just caved to the demands of Donald Trump at the expense of Missouri families and American democracy," Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin said in a statement. "Time and time again, Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe has undermined the voice of Missouri voters. Now he is attempting to dilute their power altogether by removing the ability of Missourians to stand up against this power grab."
Missouri legislators have struggled in the past over whether to try for a map with seven Republican seats.
In 2022, infighting erupted among Republicans in Missouri over whether to pursue a 7-1 Republican-dominated map, which would require splintering Kansas City voters into neighboring rural districts. The legislature ultimately pushed forward the existing 6-2 map, amid concerns that the change could backfire and make several GOP-held districts more competitive.
