What Missouri politicians approved while nobody watched — the 2026 Missouri legislative session moved an extraordinary volume of consequential legislation while national attention was consumed by the Iran war. In late-night and early-morning votes with minimal media coverage, Missouri lawmakers voted to eliminate the state income tax through a constitutional amendment that replaces it with expanded sales taxes — a move critics call the largest tax increase in Missouri history targeting working families, retirees, and disabled veterans who currently pay no income tax. They passed a ballot measure to repeal abortion protections voters approved just months earlier. They banned intoxicating hemp products to protect licensed marijuana dispensaries from competition. They restricted SNAP and Medicaid eligibility to US citizens despite no documented fraud. The Supreme Court upheld the legislature’s authority to redraw congressional maps at will and preserved the state’s voter ID requirement.

Every action taken — what was passed, when the votes happened, who voted and how, what Democrats tried to block and why they failed, how the late-night procedural tactics were used to bypass filibuster, which bills directly contradict what Missouri voters already approved at the ballot box, and why a legislative session this consequential received almost zero national coverage while the same state’s residents were watching bombs fall on Iran.

Key questions covered:
What did Missouri politicians approve during the 2026 session while nobody watched?
How does Missouri’s income tax elimination plan raise taxes on working families?
Why did Missouri Republicans override voter-approved abortion protections?
What SNAP and Medicaid restrictions did Missouri pass without evidence of fraud?
Why did Missouri’s 2026 legislative session receive almost no national coverage?
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