Missouri Voters Reject GOP Tax and Amendment Plans | Kansas City News

Kansas City News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 5, 2026 · 1m

Missouri voters delivered a resounding rejection to two major Republican-backed initiatives on election day, shutting down both Amendment Four and Amendment Five in every single county across the state. Despite being pushed by Governor Mike Kehoe and GOP lawmakers, the proposals—aimed at overhauling the state’s constitutional amendment process and eliminating the income tax—barely scraped by with less than 20% support, even in traditionally Republican areas. Analysts see this as a major political defeat, signaling broad voter opposition to both the structural changes and the tax shift, which…