On December 23, some Missouri voters filed a lawsuit in state court to stop the new U.S. House district boundaries. The suit depends on Missouri precedents going back to 1914 to establish that when a referendum petition is filed against a new law, that new law is not in effect until the voters approve it. The new lawsuit is an ACLU case. The Secretary of State and the Attorney General have been declaring that a referendum petition has no legal effect until after the signatures have been approved, which could take until June 2026.

The case is Maggard v State of Missouri, Cole Co. Circuit Circuit Court, 25AC-CC09120.

The New Mexico Forward Party has finished its petition for party status. It has collected 5,000 signatures, and needs 3,560.

Chris Powell, a Libertarian Party activist in Oklahoma, has this article explaining the damage top-two systems do to minor parties and the voters who want to vote for minor party candidates. The article is published by the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs.

An initiative petition for a top-two system is currently circulating in Oklahoma.