It's happened in other states. Conservative Republican candidates appealing to tea party activists have defeated party-establishment candidates. But can it happen in Missouri?

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The "Purgabuster' is over.

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Missouri senators stayed up all night debating legislation to give Ford Motor Co. tax incentives to keep its assembly plant near Kansas City, but a filibuster continued to prevent a vote Wednesday.

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Sen. Chuck Purgason is still trying to derail economic incentives for automobile manufacturers, even though he lost his ability to use his committee chairman to hole up legislation.

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Senate President Pro Tem Charlie Shields' time in the Missouri Senate is drawing to a close. But the St. Joseph Republican is flexing his legislative muscle to get an automobile incentives package through the General Assembly.

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Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt has started airing television ads about a month before Missouri’s primary election. In the advertisement that began running Tuesday, Blunt discusses his family history and prior jobs as a teacher and college president. He ...

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File this one as a "lighter" news item in the Missouri political universe.

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Some health insurers would be required to cover up to $45,000 annually of intensive therapy for autistic children under legislation passed Thursday by the Missouri Senate.

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