Tyranny of the Majority is a problem that must be considered with the adoption of any new public policy
VOTE NO ON AMENDMENT 6
Don’t Let The Radical Left Silence OUR Votes
Why Amendment 6 Must Be Defeated
The Progressives want to gaslight you into believing Amendment 6 is about “protecting voters’ rights.” That is the opposite of what it does. It takes the vote you cast for representatives, and the power of future voters to correct bad policy, and locks both behind an 80 percent wall. One election becomes a gag order on every election that follows.
Missouri has always used two tools at once: representative government (you elect people to write, revise, and repeal laws) and the citizen initiative process (citizens can propose laws or amendments by petition). Amendment 6 does not merely “protect” petitions. It tilts the whole system toward petitions, courts, and well-funded campaigns, and away from the people you elect and the voters who come after you.
The Core Threat: Amendment 6 Silences Your Vote
When you elect a senator or representative, you are voting for someone who can fix a law that is not working. Amendment 6 strips that vote of meaning for a long list of policies already in the Constitution and for anything special interests passed by petition after this measure takes effect.
Gives special interests control and prohibits the legislature from amending any covered citizen-initiated law or amendment unless 80 percent of both chambers refer the change back to the voters.
Also blocks the legislature from passing, proposing, or referring any law or constitutional amendment “similar in effect” to a law voters already rejected by referendum—again unless 80 percent of both chambers send it back to the people.
Turns every petition fight into a race for a friendly judge by writing into the Constitution that courts may immediately rewrite official ballot titles and fiscal notes, and that no current or future statute may stop them.
Declares initiative and referendum “fundamental rights,” then applies strict scrutiny to any law regulating those rights—making ordinary reforms of the petition process far harder to defend in court.
Prohibits the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers at all and preserves today’s low signature thresholds and simple statewide-majority rule so they cannot be raised by ordinary amendment of statute.
Applies the new lock retroactively to covered voter-approved measures on or after January 1, 2010—including marijuana, abortion, sports betting, Clean Missouri, and Medicaid expansion—and potentially blocking future efforts to prohibit abortion, ban transgender surgeries for children, and protect women’s health standards.
In the House, 80 percent is roughly 131 of 163 members. In the Senate, it is about 28 of 34. A little more than 20 percent of either chamber can block even a statewide vote on a fix. That is not “protecting voters.” That is letting a minority of legislators, and the special-interest machines behind petitions, silence the rest of Missouri.
What the Official Ballot Title Says—and How it Silences Your Vote
The title certified September 9, 2025, and ordered onto the November 3, 2026 ballot asks whether the Constitution should be amended to:
expand the initiative and referendum petition process by making it a fundamental right;
allow courts to revise ballot summaries through lawsuits;
prohibit the legislature from weakening initiative or referendum powers;
prohibit the legislature from changing or repealing laws enacted through the initiative process, or passing laws similar to those rejected by referendum, without approval from at least 80% of both chambers; and
preserve existing majority vote and signature requirements for initiative and referendum petitions?
The title estimates “no costs or savings.” It does not tell voters that the 80 percent lock looks back to 2010, that it creates two different amendment processes inside one Constitution, or that it constitutionalizes judicial rewriting of ballot language.
What Could Be Passed Next While the Legislature Is Helpless
The consequences of never being able to fix past petitions are severe. Think about what could be passed—either as a constitutional amendment or by statutory petition—while the people you elect cannot protect your rights:
Elimination of parental choice in education, including the elimination of homeschooling.
Permanent red-flag laws that could infringe on your Second Amendment rights.
Government-run health care and the elimination of private insurance coverage.
Forced masking and vaccination requirements to keep your job or keep your business open.
Unsustainable green energy regulations that threaten our safety and our economy.
Job-killing regulations, like $20 to $30 minimum wages, that would decimate small business and force small manufacturers out of state.
This may sound extreme. They are the agenda of groups such as the Democratic Socialists of America: turn America into a socialist nation by petition, then lock the result so your next vote cannot undo it.
A Circuit Court Judge Already Said Amendment 6 Violates the Missouri and U.S. Constitution
In August 2026, Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel R. Green ruled in Harris v. Hoskins that Initiative Petition 2026-106—the measure now labeled Amendment 6, pushed by Respect MO Voters—violates the Missouri Constitution and the United States Constitution.
Judge Green named Missouri Constitution Article III, Section 50; Article I, Section 3; and U.S. Constitution Article IV, Section 4 (Guarantee Clause). He found the petition is not a single reform. It rewrites petition rules, court review of ballot language, legislative power, and how past voter measures can be changed—then asks for one Yes.
He also held that the 80 percent lock violates the anti-entrenchment principle: one generation of voters cannot handcuff the next by making laws nearly impossible to change or repeal. Green wrote that the measure bars the General Assembly from changing citizen-initiated laws or even referring to a similar question to the people unless each chamber first hits an unprecedented 80 percent vote.
The Missouri Supreme Court later ordered the measure onto the November ballot on procedural grounds tied to the Secretary of State’s certificate. The Court rejected pre-election single-subject and single-article objections and held several arguments about what could happen if the amendment passes are not ripe before the election. Placement on the ballot does not erase what Judge Green mapped in the text. If Amendment 6 becomes part of the Constitution, the lock he described is the law.
What Judge Green Warned Voters Are Not Being Told
One vote, many subjects. It rewrites petition rules, court review of ballot language, legislative power, and how past voter measures can be changed—then asks for one Yes.
A silent lock on 2010–forward policy. The look-back would shield years of prior initiative and referendum outcomes—Medicaid expansion, marijuana, sports betting, Clean Missouri, abortion policy, and more—without clearly telling voters what is being locked in.
80 percent to reopen a question. Lawmakers could not change a covered citizen-initiated law or amendment—or even send a similar question back to voters—unless each chamber hits an 80 percent vote.
It binds the next generation. Today’s majority would make it unusually hard for future legislatures or future voters to reconsider those policies.
Who is Behind Amendment 6 - Follow the Network
RespectMOVoters.org markets a "volunteer-led, cross-partisan" campaign.
Respect MO Voters Not A “Grassroots” Organization. It Is a Show Me Integrity Project
KQ2 reported the campaign as "an initiative by the group Show Me Integrity." Missouri Ethics Commission and IRS records reviewed by Liberty Alliance USA tie Respect Missouri Voters PAC to Show Me Integrity, the Show Me Integrity Education Fund, and the same University City address (725 Kingsland Avenue, Suite 100). The PAC has paid the Education Fund for campaign work. Show Me Integrity was also an early cash donor. This is not a spontaneous neighborhood committee. It is the latest vehicle of a professional ballot-measure network.
Benjamin Singer — The Operative, Not a Bystander
RespectMOVoters.org lists Benjamin Singer as Co-Founder and Campaign Director. In his own bylines he is CEO of Show Me Integrity, the 501(c)(4), and principal officer of the related 501(c)(3) Education Fund. That is the same person running the "grassroots" amendment and the professional reform shop that built it.
2018: Communications director for Clean Missouri (Amendment 1) — the statewide redistricting / ethics rewrite that professionalized Missouri petition politics.
2020: Helped lead St. Louis Proposition D — nonpartisan city elections with an approval-voting primary (vote for as many candidates as you "approve") and a top-two runoff. Approval voting is the close cousin of ranked-choice / alternative voting systems Missourians later rejected statewide.
2022: Proposition R in St. Louis — aldermanic conflict-of-interest and redistricting rules, again via the Show Me Integrity model.
2024: Show Me Integrity opposed Amendment 7, the statewide ban on ranked-choice voting (Missourians passed the ban roughly 68 to 32). Singer called Amendment 7 a "trick measure" and pledged to "reverse Amendment 7 and bring more accountable elections for ALL Missourians." He also wrote that if voters want ranked-choice voting, approval voting, or open primaries, Amendment 7 takes that choice away — the agenda he is still carrying.
Show Me Integrity fundraising pages have solicited money to "pass approval voting in Missouri" and put "nonpartisan election reform on the ballot." Amendment 6 would make those future election-system petitions far harder for the legislature — or later voters acting through their representatives — to unwind.
Who Is Endorsing the Lock — Read the Coalition
From RespectMOVoters.org and the campaign's own endorsement sheet. This is the political neighborhood that wants an 80% padlock on voter-passed initiatives from 2010 forward:
Show Me Integrity (Singer's own shop)
Missouri National Organization for Women Missouri NAACP
Veterans for All Voters Metropolitan Congregations United
St. Louis Association of Community Organizations Missouri Women's Political Caucus
NCJW St. Louis
Missouri Sierra Club
Missouri Coalition for the Environment Missouri Indivisible Coalition
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Former House Minority Leader Crystal Quade (D)
Former Secretary of State Jason Kander (D)
