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U.S. House District 7
2026 Missouri U.S. House — District 7 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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Certification of Candidates and Party Emblems
These are candidates for the General Election on Tuesday, November 3, 2026
August 25, 2026
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
For U.S. Representative
District 7, Missi Hesketh
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Missi is a teacher and former mayor running to represent Southwest Missouri in D.C.
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Missi is a teacher and former mayor running to represent Southwest Missouri in D.C.
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Fund and protect Social Security
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Fund and protect Social Security
Invest in rural education and workforce training
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Invest in rural education and workforce training
Protect U.S. farmland from foreign adversaries
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Protect U.S. farmland from foreign adversaries
Ban Congressional Stock Trading
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Ban Congressional Stock Trading
Oppose AI Data Centers
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Oppose AI Data Centers
Lifetime lobbying ban for members of Congress
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Lifetime lobbying ban for members of Congress
Crop Insurance Reform
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Crop Insurance Reform
Ban dark money, end Citizens United
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Ban dark money, end Citizens United
Close Tax Loopholes to End Billionaire Welfare
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Close Tax Loopholes to End Billionaire Welfare
Supports guaranteeing 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave through a payroll-insurance fund with job protection.
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Paid Family and Medical Leave
Supports taxing carried interest as ordinary income and establishing a minimum tax for billionaires.
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Close Carried-Interest and Billionaire Tax Loopholes
Supports federal restrictions on grocery price gouging and surveillance-based pricing, with FTC, state, and consumer enforcement.
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Ban Grocery Price Gouging and Surveillance Pricing
Supports federal workforce-training grants in rural communities across manufacturing, healthcare, agriculture, and public utilities.
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Invest in Rural Workforce Training
Supports the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act, including restrictions on partisan gerrymandering.
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Voting Rights and Anti-Gerrymandering Legislation
Supports strong data-privacy standards for companies collecting, storing, or selling personal data, with added protections for minors.
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Comprehensive Data Privacy for Children
Supports a federal right-to-repair for farmers, small businesses, and consumers and restrictions on manufacturer parts-pairing practices.
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Right-to-Repair
Supports banning adversarial foreign governments from purchasing U.S. farmland and creating a beneficial-ownership registry to expose shell-company ownership.
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Restrict Adversarial Foreign Ownership of U.S. Farmland
Supports a moratorium on new AI data centers together with federal reporting on water, energy, infrastructure, emissions, wastewater, chemicals, and noise impacts.
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Moratorium and Reporting Requirements for AI Data Centers
Supports increasing crop-insurance premium assistance for beginning and veteran farmers and ranchers.
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Expand Crop Insurance Assistance for Beginning and Veteran Farmers
Supports a lifetime lobbying ban for former members of Congress, banning corporate PACs, donor disclosure, and efforts to overturn Citizens United.
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Lifetime Congressional Lobbying Ban and Campaign-Finance Reform
Supports statutory or constitutional term limits for members of Congress.
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Congressional Term Limits
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FEC candidate totals January 30, 2025 through July 15, 2026.
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Candidate ID: H4MO07156
Name: HESKETH, MISSI
Office: House
State: MO
District: 07
Coverage start: 2025-01-30
Coverage end: 2026-07-15
Total receipts: $50539.85
Total disbursements: $22134.40
Cash on hand: $33543.24
Debts owed by committee: $0.00
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Missouri Secretary of State
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Federal Election Commission
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