Bluebird News: What we’re reading, sharing, thinking about (June 25, 2026)
Amendment 4 would take away your power and end majority rule in Missouri
Nested in this edition of the Bluebird, we’re…
⛹️♀️ Sharing: Julie dunking on the A4 galaxy-brain logic.
🤨 Questioning: Why won’t Mike Kehoe and politicians play by their own rules?
🗳️ Reading: The effects of giving up your right to pass legislation.
🤔 Thinking About: Just 5% of voters blocking citizen-led laws.
🏀 Under A4, the Spurs would have won the NBA title
Here in reality, the Knicks won the title because they won the best-of-seven series 4-1. But using the crazy logic of Amendment 4, San Antonio would have won because New York didn’t sweep. Insane, right?
That’s the near-impossible standard that Amendment 4 would place on citizen-led ballot measures, requiring that they sweep all eight of Missouri’s congressional districts in order to pass.
On Aug. 4, Missourians can block this politician power grab and protect majority rule by VOTING NO on Amendment 4.
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🥴 Rules for thee, but not for me
Missouri politicians supporting the Amendment 4 power grab are claiming the amendment is necessary to stop “out-of-state special interests” from influencing Missouri laws.
A new investigation from ProPublica has found that their own ballot measure has received $1.9 million in dark money from, you guessed it, an out-of-state dark money special interest group headquartered in Delaware.
It’s the central theme of the Amendment 4 supporters: We should be the only ones making the rules, and they shouldn’t apply to us.
The double-standard coming out of the Jeff City bubble shouldn’t shock anyone, but it is a stark reminder of just how little they regard the opinions — and needs — of us regular Missourians.
🤴 A4 would take your power and give it to politicians
When you can’t win fair and square, just change the rules.
At least that’s what some politicians in Jeff City think, who are upset that the same voters who elected them also want policies that they disagree with.
Missourians like Tim Bowers of Lee’s Summit see the ruse for what it is and are calling out their behavior:
“It changes the fundamental foundational law, allowing and permitting citizens of Missouri to step up and go, wait a minute, this is clearly overreach into something that we care deeply about. What (Amendment 4) basically is going to do is strip away majority rule.”
You can read more about this attempt to rig the rules and trick Missouri citizens into giving up their power in this feature from the Kansas City Star.
🧮 A4’s math isn’t adding up for Missourians
Amendment 4 requires a sweep of all eight of Missouri’s congressional districts in order for a citizen-led measure to pass. A new analysis from the Missouri Independent shows that just 5% of voters could sink something 95% of Missouri citizens want passed.
This isn’t an exercise in theory either, as the story demonstrates. In 2016, Missouri’s sales tax cap passed with 57% of voters approving and a winning margin of 375,000 votes.
Under Amendment 4, though, it would have failed because District 1 (St. Louis City) voted against it by a 31,500 vote margin.
How is this fair or democratic?
The real tell is that politicians aren’t holding themselves to this same standard. They simply want to take your power all for themselves.
