Josh Hawley

Missouri's Sunshine Law was written to ensure that the public could have access to all sorts of government records — including emails, meetings, votes and deliberations. But do the use of self-destructing text-messaging apps sidestep the reach of the state's open records law?

The state of Missouri is defending itself with an argument that could deliver "fatal blows" to the Sunshine Law: As long as officials don’t bother to keep records in the first place, they can’t be held responsible for refusing to turn them over to the public.

Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office argues that even though private emails pertained to public business, they were not public records.

Federal officials are responding to Tuesday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Texas, the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. Many Democrats have called for more restrictions on gun access. While Republican lawmakers have condemned the shooting, critics were quick to point out the tight relationships these lawmakers have held with the NRA.

Candidates such as Eric Greitens, Herschel Walker, and Max Miller have been accused of abusing partners and, in some cases, children. But some party leaders aren't convinced voters will reject them.

The far-right internet only began to obsess about Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson after a series of misleading tweets from Sen. Josh Hawley echoed themes used by conspiracy theorists.

Taken as Hawley entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the image shows Missouri's junior senator raising his fist in support of demonstrators who had gathered to protest the certification of Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.

Danforth, who left the Senate in 1994 after three terms, enlisted a polling firm and an emerging political group, the Serve America Movement, to gauge whether Missouri is ready for an alternative in November.

‘If we give up a Republican seat in Missouri,’ Hawley said, “it’s going to be hard to retake the Senate.’

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-St. Louis County, is hoping that GOP members of Congress who aided the Capitol insurrection are held accountable.

Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley was one of several Republicans to dispute President Joe Biden’s victory, despite no evidence of election fraud, and raised his fist in support of insurrectionists who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. One year later, the senator has faced no major political backlash in his home state.

The once relatively unknown lawmaker voted against certifying Joe Biden as President on Jan. 6, 2021. A year later, Josh Hawley's poll numbers are high in Missouri and he’s raising millions from people in his home state and around the country.