1. United States
2. Mo.
3. Letter

I am writing as your constituent to demand that you publicly oppose the unconstitutional congressional gerrymander currently being forced on Missouri voters — a gerrymander that directly affects the composition of the United States Senate's sister chamber and the legitimacy of federal representation from this state. This is not a distant or abstract concern. Missouri Republicans rushed a new congressional map into law and, when voters lawfully gathered signatures to trigger a citizens' veto referendum under the Missouri Constitution, the GOP responded not by respecting that process but by slow-walking it through the courts. The stated goal, according to referendum leader Richard von Glahn, is to "lose slowly enough so that they may conduct an illegal election and provide President Trump a congressional seat against the requirements of the Missouri Constitution." Let that sink in: Missouri Republicans are openly strategizing about how to conduct what their own opponents are calling an illegal election — one that would send a member of Congress to Washington under a map that may be ruled unconstitutional. That affects the legitimacy of every vote cast in the U.S. House. It should concern you deeply. You have built your careers on the rhetoric of election integrity and constitutional fidelity. Here is your chance to prove that those words mean something. I am asking you directly: - Will you publicly call for Missouri elections to be held only under a map that has been ruled legally valid by the courts? - Will you condemn the strategy of deliberate delay designed to circumvent a constitutionally guaranteed referendum? - Will you acknowledge that seating a congressman elected under an unconstitutional map would be a stain on Missouri's federal delegation? Your silence on this issue is itself a statement. Missouri voters are watching, and they will remember who chose party over constitution.