The person behind the name
Rick Brattin’s public career runs from a Marine Corps enlistment to four terms in the Missouri House, a county auditor’s office, two terms in the Missouri Senate and a Republican nomination for Congress in a district whose boundaries were still being litigated after the primary.
His official Senate biography calls him a native-born son of Cass County who grew up in Greenwood; Ballotpedia and reporting place his home in Harrisonville. ABC 17 News gave his age as 46 when he won the primary in August 2026. The official biography names his wife, Athena, and five children, Mariah, Kayla, Rick, Garrett and Hannah; the campaign biography adds that the family recently welcomed its first grandchild. [1][12][19][10]
Education and professional preparation
Both biographies report a Lee’s Summit High School diploma and six years in the United States Marine Corps, which he left as a sergeant; the campaign dates the enlistment to the period after the September 11 attacks. The official biography says he then founded a small construction business and lives on a 40-acre property he describes as a hunting paradise; Ballotpedia lists a construction company and a farm. Neither biography states a college degree, and degree records, discharge papers and business filings were not part of this review. [1][10][12]
A public life that began in the House
In 2010 he unseated a Democratic incumbent in the 124th House District with 8,100 votes, 51.3 percent, and after redistricting represented the 55th District, winning re-election in 2012, 2014 and 2016. His official biography records service as majority floor whip and chairman of the Special Committee on Government Oversight; The Missouri Times describes the whip post as deputy majority floor whip. Term limits barred a fifth House term in 2018, and he served as Cass County auditor, an office his official and campaign biographies name without dates and to which, the Missouri Independent reported, he was elected once. [12][1][22][10][21]
In 2020 he won the Republican primary for the 31st Senate District with 14,012 votes, 49.6 percent, over Jack Bondon and Bill Yarberry, and the general election with 71.4 percent. In 2022 he ran for Congress in the 4th District and finished second in a seven-way primary with 22,509 votes, 21.4 percent, to Mark Alford. In 2024 he was renominated with 47.0 percent against two challengers and re-elected with 60,541 votes, 68.5 percent. [17][12][16][14][15]
He entered the 5th District race on February 26, 2026, in Jefferson City, after the General Assembly’s 2025 redistricting moved Johnson County, part of his Senate district, and other counties where he had campaigned in 2022 into the 5th District. President Trump endorsed him on August 3, the day before the primary, and on August 4 he defeated five Republicans, leading with 44 percent in the unofficial election-night returns reported by KCUR and ABC 17 News. The Secretary of State certified him on August 25, 2026 as the Republican candidate against Representative Emanuel Cleaver II and Libertarian Randy Langkraehr on November 3. [21][20][18][13]
A note on the primary figures. The Secretary of State’s live results site refused automated requests, and at the time of this review the Secretary of State’s results page listed no canvass document for the August 4, 2026 primary, so no official vote total or percentage is given here. The 44 percent figure is the share KCUR reported from unofficial returns on election night and ABC 17 News reported with about half of precincts counted; the Associated Press called the race at 9:10 p.m., KOMU reported. An attorney for the referendum campaign told reporters on September 3, as KCUR reported, that the Board of State Canvassers had certified the nominees the previous week, and the Secretary of State’s August 25 certification names Brattin as the nominee without vote totals. The 2020, 2022 and 2024 results in this profile are the official returns announced by the Board of State Canvassers; the House-era results are as Ballotpedia recorded them from the Secretary of State. [18][19][47][27][13][14][12]
Life & public service
From the Marine Corps to the Missouri House and Senate and into a congressional race fought partly in court, the documented milestones show how his record was built.
House Bill 813 and the food-stamp list
His bill would have let Missouri’s waiver of the SNAP work requirement for able-bodied adults expire and barred the use of benefits for cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak. [40]
A House floor remark
Arguing against an amendment adding sexual orientation and gender identity to Senate Bill 43, he said from the House floor that “there is a distinction between homosexuality and just being a human being,” The Kansas City Star reported; the amendment was withdrawn and the bill passed 98–30. [43][41]
A first run for Congress
Finished second of seven in the 4th District Republican primary, 22,509 votes to Mark Alford’s 36,981. [16]
The Freedom Caucus year
Joined the Freedom Caucus filibuster of the Medicaid provider tax that ran 41 hours; spoke against rape and incest exceptions on February 7; was sued in April over posts about the Chiefs parade shooting; renominated with 47.0 percent and re-elected with 68.5 percent. [34][35][36][37][38][14][15]
Which map: the courts decide
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled on September 3 that the 2022 map governs the general election; on September 4 he and Representative Bob Onder sued in federal court to keep the 2025 lines, won a restraining order on September 8, and saw it stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court on September 10. [27][30][29][28]
Accomplishments, in the record
Legislative documents, the Senate Journal, court filings and campaign-finance records establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another legislator’s bill.
Chairman of the Senate Education Committee
The Missouri Senate’s member page lists him for 2026 as chairman of the Education Committee and of the Joint Committee on Capitol Security, vice-chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Protection and DEI, and a member of the Gubernatorial Appointments, Local Government, Elections and Pensions, and Veterans and Military Affairs committees, the Joint Committee on Education and the Select Committee on Property Taxes and the State Tax Commission. Ballotpedia’s record of earlier sessions shows him as vice-chairman of the Education Committee in 2021–2022 and of the Education and Workforce Development Committee in 2023–2024. In the House, his official biography records service as majority floor whip and chairman of the Special Committee on Government Oversight. [1][12]
Senate Bill 22, signed into law
Brattin sponsored Senate Bill 22 of 2025, carried in the House by Representative Ben Keathley and co-sponsored by Senator Mary Elizabeth Coleman. The Senate’s summary of the act as passed: challenges to a ballot summary statement must be filed in Cole County by the 22nd Tuesday before the general election; a court that finds a statement insufficient or unfair must order the Secretary of State to write a new one, up to three times, before writing its own; the word limit for legislative summaries rises from 50 to 100; signatures gathered under a later-altered ballot title remain valid; and the Attorney General may appeal preliminary injunctions against state law. Governor Kehoe signed it on April 24, 2025, and it took effect August 28, 2025. It is the one enactment under his own sponsorship that this review verified. [4][5][3]
Presenting the bill to the House elections committee, he described the rewrite process as “Three bites of the apple, so to speak, of rewriting the ballot language of having to go back and forth with the Secretary of State,” adding that his original language would have removed the courts’ rewriting power altogether. The Missouri Voter Protection Coalition’s director told the same committee that the bill “strips those critical checks and balances and would allow ballot summaries that would be biased and argumentative, unfair and manipulative.” [6]
The vote for House Bill 1, the 2025 congressional map
The Senate Journal for September 12, 2025 records Brattin among the 21 senators voting to pass House Bill 1, which redrew Missouri’s eight congressional districts, over 11 nays; he also signed the previous-question motions that cut off the Democratic filibuster and voted for HCS HJR 3, the proposed amendment on initiative petitions, which passed by the same margin. The bill was Representative Dirk Deaton’s and was handled in the Senate by Senator Rusty Black; Brattin’s part was a recorded vote and the signatures. The day before, he said the 2022 map had been “the wrong decision to do a 6 to 2 map.” [7][8][31]
Fifty-four measures in 2026, and the 2025 file
The Senate’s tracking system lists 54 bills and joint resolutions under his name for the 2026 session. Among them: SJR 98, to replace the property tax on real property with a sales tax; SB 947, on foreign ownership of real estate near military installations; SB 948 and SJR 69, on parents’ rights over their children’s education and upbringing; SB 1221, a Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act; SB 1265 and SB 1772, on illegal immigration; SB 1616, restricting public benefits to citizens; SB 1372, the “No Shari’a Act”; SB 1770, requiring state materials to say Judea and Samaria rather than West Bank; SB 1769, creating an Office of Public Defense authorized to transfer machine guns to residents; and SB 1617, on state funding for low-earning degree programs. [2]
His 2025 file included SB 23 on the right to bear arms, SB 114 on illegal aliens, SB 250 on foreign ownership of agricultural land, SB 296, the Foreign Unmanned Aircraft Law, SB 702, a Born-Alive act, SJR 7, the property-tax replacement, and SB 10, a stadium-financing bill styled the No Taxation, All Donation Act. Apart from SB 22, this review did not trace the disposition of each measure; the campaign’s own materials describe them as bills he filed or sponsored rather than as laws. [3][11]
SB 1617 was heard by the Senate Education Committee, which he chairs, in February 2026. As the Columbia Missourian described it, the bill would cut state aid and operating funds for programs whose graduates do not out-earn workers without a degree in two of three years; the fiscal note estimated savings above $25 million, and the legislative director of the Associated Students of the University of Missouri testified against it. [42]
The stadium vote and the Freedom Caucus chairmanship
In June 2025 the Senate passed, 19–13, a plan directing state taxes generated at Arrowhead and Kauffman stadiums to bond payments for a renovated Chiefs stadium and a new Royals stadium, at a cost reported near $1.5 billion over 30 years. Brattin and Senator Brad Hudson, both Freedom Caucus members, voted for it after a provision was added capping increases in property-tax bills in most counties, with no increase allowed in Cass County. The caucus had called the plan a “handout to billionaire sports team owners.” Brattin resigned as its chairman days later, citing the vote in his statement, and defended himself on video: “if we’re going to be giving handouts to millionaires and billionaires, we need broad-based tax relief for people.” [33]
Forty-one hours against the Federal Reimbursement Allowance
In April and May 2024 five Freedom Caucus senators filibustered renewal of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, the provider tax that funds about a third of Missouri’s Medicaid program, demanding first a resolution raising the threshold for constitutional amendments and the Governor’s signature on a bill, already passed by the legislature, barring public funds to abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood. Brattin, as reported while the filibuster passed 29 hours: “I don’t see why this is a fight, why we’re having to stand up on this floor, why we’re there requiring Republicans to have to stand up and raise the issue of the number one priority.” The filibuster ran 41 hours; the majority leader said the caucus sat down when told a previous-question motion had the votes, while Senator Bill Eigel described a deal on the order of business that leadership then broke. [34][35]
Onder and Brattin v. Missouri: the suit to keep the 2025 map
On September 4, 2026, the day after the Missouri Supreme Court held that the 2022 congressional map governs the November election, Brattin, Representative Bob Onder and two voters, Patricia Thomas and Debra Havens, sued the State and Secretary of State Hoskins in the Eastern District of Missouri, No. 4:26-cv-01424, arguing that changing maps after the primary would violate Article I, Section 2 and the Equal Protection Clause. Chief Judge Stephen Clark granted a temporary restraining order on September 8 directing the State to use the 2025 map; the Eighth Circuit denied a stay the same day. On September 10 the U.S. Supreme Court, on the application of People Not Politicians, stayed the order pending appeal, with no noted dissents, and the Secretary of State directed election authorities to use the 2022 map. The Eighth Circuit set argument in the appeal for September 17, 2026. [30][29][28][31]
What the FEC filings show
Rick Brattin for Congress registered with the Federal Election Commission on February 18, 2026, under the candidate identifier first assigned for his 2022 run. Through July 15, 2026 the committee reported receipts of $331,764.08, of which $292,677.53 came from individuals and $39,086.55 from other committees, disbursements of $109,254.25 and cash on hand of $222,509.83, with no loans or debts. [26][25]
Two House bills that drew national attention
House Bill 131 of 2015, introduced by Representative Brattin, would have added to Missouri’s informed-consent statute a requirement that no abortion be performed until the father of the unborn child gave written, notarized consent, with exceptions where the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest and an affidavit where the father was deceased. House Bill 813 of the same session would have let the state’s waiver of the SNAP work requirement for able-bodied adults without dependents expire and provided that a recipient “shall not use such benefits to purchase cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood, or steak.” The bill pages show the introduced texts; HuffPost reported that the consent bill never left committee. Neither became law. [39][40][41]
Family & community
His official Senate biography names his wife, Athena, and five children, Mariah, Kayla, Rick, Garrett and Hannah, and says he lives on a 40-acre property he calls a hunting paradise; the campaign biography adds a first grandchild. Ballotpedia and reporting give his home as Harrisonville, and The Missouri Times places it in Cass County. [1][10][12][21][22]
The community roles documented in the record are his public offices and his service in the Marine Corps. The official biography says he is active in several groups and organizations across the 31st Senatorial District without naming them; the campaign calls him a proud NRA member; and Club for Growth PAC identified him as a member of the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2024 Fellowship class. The sources reviewed here do not supply a verified record of charitable board service, and none is asserted. [1][11][23]
His official biography states his religion: the family are “devoted Christians and members of Abundant Life Church in Lee’s Summit,” and the campaign biography likewise describes the couple as members of Abundant Life. Beyond his own biographies, this profile makes no claim about his faith. [1][10]
Mission & priorities
“I spent six years as a United States Marine, and I’ve spent years in the Missouri Senate fighting for Missouri families. Now I’m ready to take that fight to Congress to help President Trump secure our border, restore energy independence, cut wasteful spending, and advance the America First agenda that puts hardworking Americans first.” {9}
The following summarizes the agenda on Brattin’s campaign website and in his campaign statements. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [11][9]
01A fighter for President Trump
The website’s first plank: “Rick has a strong record of sponsoring legislation to advance President Trump’s goal to Make America Great Again. In Congress, he will be a strong ally for the administration.” The record shows his vote for the 2025 congressional map, drawn at the President’s urging, and the President’s endorsement on August 3, 2026, which Brattin called an honor. [11][7][8][20]
02Defend the Second Amendment
“A proud NRA member, Rick has a proven record of protecting our Second Amendment rights in Missouri.” The campaign says he voted for the Second Amendment Preservation Act; KCUR notes that the 2021 law was struck down by a federal judge in 2023 and that the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up the law. His own bills on the subject, SB 23 in 2025 and SB 858 and SB 1099 in 2026, are in the record; the roll call on the 2021 act was not retrieved for this review. [11][18][3][2]
03Protect the right to life
“Endorsed by Missouri Right to Life in every legislative race he’s run, Rick is 100% pro-life with a consistent record to prove it.” Missouri Right to Life’s PACs listed him among their 2026 endorsements; his bills include HB 131 of 2015 and Born-Alive acts filed in 2025 and 2026; and on February 7, 2024 he argued on the Senate floor against rape and incest exceptions to the state’s ban. The campaign’s statements that he voted for the 72-hour waiting period and a parental-notice bill are its own claims; those roll calls were not retrieved. [11][24][39][3][2][36]
04Secure the border and support ICE
“In the Missouri legislature, he sponsored legislation imposing real penalties on companies that hire people under the table without checking immigration status and fought to ban sanctuary cities.” The bill lists show SB 114 in 2025 and SB 1265 and SB 1772 in 2026 on illegal immigration and SB 1616 on limiting public benefits to citizens; the campaign describes them, and their disposition was not traced. When ABC 17 News asked how he would address affordability, he answered with immigration, arguing that reducing illegal immigration would lower costs because immigrants are taking jobs and housing. [11][3][2][19]
05Make life more affordable
The campaign cites “a proven record of opposing tax hikes in the Missouri legislature and fighting for legislation to place real limits on property taxes.” In the record are SJR 7 and SJR 98, which would replace the property tax on real property with a sales tax, personal-property-tax bills in both sessions, and the 2025 stadium vote he cast after a property-tax cap was added. Club for Growth PAC cited a 90 percent lifetime rating on the Club for Growth Foundation’s Missouri scorecard when it endorsed him. [11][3][2][33][23]
06Stand up to China
The campaign says he filed legislation to bar foreign ownership of land near military installations and “voted against a bill that would have subsidized a Chinese air cargo hub at the St. Louis airport.” The bill lists show SB 250 on foreign ownership of agricultural land and SB 296, the Foreign Unmanned Aircraft Law, in 2025 and SB 947 on real estate near military installations in 2026; the air-cargo vote is a campaign claim this review did not locate in a roll call. [11][3][2]
07Get the woke agenda out of government and schools
“Rick will fight to ensure our schools focus on teaching children how to think, not indoctrinating them with a radical political agenda.” As Education Committee chairman he has filed SB 948 and SJR 69 on parental rights, SB 1028 on elementary and secondary education and SB 1029 on education, SB 1617 on low-earning degree programs, SB 1164 on adult cabaret performances and SB 1264, removing the expiration date on certain provisions relating to gender transition. Announcing his candidacy he said, “I have done everything I possibly can to protect the innocence of children, stop the woke indoctrination that’s going on.” [11][1][2][42][21]
08Ballot measures and the initiative process
The campaign website does not list this subject, but the record does: SB 22 of 2025 rewrote how ballot summaries are challenged and gave the Attorney General a right to appeal injunctions; he voted in September 2025 for HJR 3, which would require initiative amendments to pass statewide and in all eight congressional districts; and the 2024 filibuster he joined was aimed at forcing a vote on a threshold increase. [4][7][8][34]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism.
Which district, and where he lives
Brattin lives in Harrisonville, in Cass County, and did not live in the 5th District as drawn in 2025, which the Missouri Independent noted is not a legal requirement to run; he told the Independent at his announcement, “If I am victorious in this, and I believe I will be, I definitely will live in the district that I do serve.” He also said, “This is the Missouri First map, and will remain that.” The Missouri Supreme Court, which KCUR reported had upheld the legislature’s right to redistrict mid-decade in March, held on September 3, 2026 that because the referendum petition against the 2025 map was sufficient, the map has been suspended since December 2025 and “There is only one valid congressional redistricting in effect — the congressional redistricting the General Assembly established in 2022.” Under the 2022 lines the district lies within Clay and Jackson counties, which KCUR describes as all but ensuring Cleaver’s re-election; the referendum on the 2025 map is on the November 3 ballot, and a judge had already rewritten the Secretary of State’s summary of it in March. The Eighth Circuit appeal in his own suit was scheduled for argument on September 17, 2026, and its outcome is not part of this review. [21][22][18][27][32][31]
The Chiefs parade posts and the Loudermill lawsuit
After the February 14, 2024 shooting at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade, Brattin reposted an anonymous account’s photograph and claim identifying Denton Loudermill, an Olathe, Kansas resident briefly detained at the scene, as a shooter and an undocumented immigrant, adding “#POTUS CLOSE THE BORDER”; the post was later deleted. Loudermill sued Brattin and Senators Denny Hoskins and Nick Schroer for defamation in April 2024. On October 21, 2024 U.S. District Judge John Broomes dismissed the Kansas suits for lack of personal jurisdiction, without ruling on the senators’ claim that their official positions made them immune; Attorney General Andrew Bailey had defended them, over Governor Parson’s objection to paying for it. The case was refiled in Missouri, withdrawn and refiled in February 2025 against Hoskins and Brattin only, pleading false-light invasion of privacy. Loudermill died in April 2025, and his family said it would substitute as plaintiff. In October 2025, KSHB reported, Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie Epps Jr. denied the senators’ motions to dismiss, which had argued legislative immunity under the Communications Decency Act and the Speech and Debate Clause, and the suits were proceeding; no later ruling was found by this review. Brattin did not respond to the Independent’s or KSHB’s requests for comment. [37][38][46]
Remarks that drew national coverage
Three statements are in the record. Interviewed by Mother Jones in December 2014 about House Bill 131, he said of its rape exception, “Just like any rape, you have to report it, and you have to prove it,” adding, “So you couldn’t just go and say, ‘Oh yeah, I was raped’ and get an abortion. It has to be a legitimate rape.” He told the magazine he was not using the phrase as former Representative Todd Akin had; the bill’s text excepted pregnancies resulting from rape or incest without setting a standard of proof. On May 8, 2017, arguing against adding sexual orientation and gender identity to Senate Bill 43, he said from the House floor that “there is a distinction between homosexuality and just being a human being,” prefacing it with a reference to “the tenets of religion, of the Bible, of the Qu’ran, of other religions,” The Kansas City Star reported; the Star’s editorial board called the statement deplorable and wrote that he did not return its call asking him to explain it. On February 7, 2024, opposing rape and incest exceptions to Missouri’s abortion ban, he said, “If you want to go after the rapist, let’s give him the death penalty. Absolutely, let’s do it,” and, “But not the innocent person caught in-between that, by God’s grace, may even be the greatest healing agent you need in which to recover from such an atrocity.” No retraction from him appears in the sources reviewed. [45][39][43][44][36]
The stadium vote and the charge of selling out
The Freedom Caucus he chaired had vowed to oppose the Chiefs and Royals financing plan; he voted for it after the property-tax cap was attached and resigned the chairmanship within days. Bill Eigel, a former Freedom Caucus leader in the Senate, wrote on social media that Governor Kehoe “is getting conservatives to vote as badly as the moderates” and pointed to a severability clause that could preserve the stadium funding if a court struck the tax provisions; the caucus’s state director said there was “some buyer’s remorse.” Brattin said he kept hearing that he “sold out” but called the bill a win: “On the stadium, they were going to get the votes, whatever it took. So I tried to weigh this out and make lemonade from the lemons we were given.” The 19–13 vote and the resignation are the record; the severability question Eigel raised is an argument, not a ruling. [33]
Leverage over the budget
The 2024 filibuster put roughly $4.3 billion of Medicaid funding, about a third of the program, at risk to force action on the amendment threshold and Planned Parenthood funding, and it ended after 41 hours, by the majority leader’s account under threat of a previous-question motion; the session produced fewer bills than any in living memory, KCUR reported the following year. Majority Leader Cindy O’Laughlin wrote that the caucus was using the budget deadline as leverage to force a debate on the amendment threshold ahead of the budget; Brattin’s own account, quoted above, was that the threshold was the number one priority. In September 2025 he signed the previous-question motions that ended a Democratic filibuster of the map and the initiative-petition amendment, the same tool leadership had threatened to use against his caucus. [34][35][33][7]
Endorsements and the 2026 field
President Trump’s Truth Social endorsement came on August 3, 2026, calling him a “MAGA Warrior” with the President’s “Complete and Total Endorsement”; Governor Kehoe endorsed him on June 15, calling him “a proven conservative who always puts Missouri first”; Club for Growth PAC endorsed him on April 2 and Missouri Right to Life’s PACs on June 15. KOMU also listed Representative Jason Smith among his endorsers. He defeated Taylor Burks, Brad Patty, Brett Hueffmeier, Micah Beebe and Berton Knox in the primary; KCUR reported that only Patty lived in the district as drawn. Endorsements establish political support; they are not evaluations of the record above. [20][22][23][24][18][19][47]
Questions & answers
Who is Rick Brattin?
Rick Brattin’s public career runs from a Marine Corps enlistment to four terms in the Missouri House, a county auditor’s office, two terms in the Missouri Senate and a Republican nomination for Congress in a district whose boundaries were still being litigated after the primary. His official Senate biography calls him a native-born son of Cass County who grew up in Greenwood; Ballotpedia and reporting place his home in Harrisonville. ABC 17 News gave his age as 46 when he won the primary in August 2026. The official biography names his wife, Athena, and five children, Mariah, Kayla, Rick, Garrett and Hannah; the campaign biography adds that the family recently welcomed its first grandchild. [1][12][19][10]
What office is Rick Brattin running for in 2026?
Who is Rick Brattin running against?
He entered the 5th District race on February 26, 2026, in Jefferson City, after the General Assembly’s 2025 redistricting moved Johnson County, part of his Senate district, and other counties where he had campaigned in 2022 into the 5th District. President Trump endorsed him on August 3, the day before the primary, and on August 4 he defeated five Republicans, leading with 44 percent in the unofficial election-night returns reported by KCUR and ABC 17 News. The Secretary of State certified him on August 25, 2026 as the Republican candidate against Representative Emanuel Cleaver II and Libertarian Randy Langkraehr on November 3. [21][20][18][13]
What are Rick Brattin's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the agenda on Brattin’s campaign website and in his campaign statements. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [11][9] The campaign lists: A fighter for President Trump; Defend the Second Amendment; Protect the right to life; Secure the border and support ICE; Make life more affordable; Stand up to China; Get the woke agenda out of government and schools; Ballot measures and the initiative process.
What does the public record show?
Legislative documents, the Senate Journal, court filings and campaign-finance records establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another legislator’s bill. The Missouri Senate’s member page lists him for 2026 as chairman of the Education Committee and of the Joint Committee on Capitol Security, vice-chairman of the Select Committee on Equal Protection and DEI, and a member of the Gubernatorial Appointments, Local Government, Elections and Pensions, and Veterans and Military Affairs committees, the Joint Committee on Education and the Select Committee on Property Taxes and the State Tax Commission. Ballotpedia’s record of earlier sessions shows him as vice-chairman of the Education Committee in 2021–2022 and of the Education and Workforce Development Committee in 2023–2024. In the House, his official biography records service as majority floor whip and chairman of the Special Committee on Government Oversight. [1][12]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed September 17, 2026. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions, and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; the Senate Journal was read for the September 12, 2025 special-session votes and other roll calls are cited from reporting. The 2021 Second Amendment Preservation Act vote, the 72-hour waiting-period vote, the air-cargo vote and the disposition of the bills he filed in 2025 and 2026, other than SB 22, were not traced. Degree records, discharge papers, business filings, the dates of his service as Cass County auditor, personal financial disclosures and independent expenditures in the primary were not part of this review. No canvass document for the August 4, 2026 primary was published on the Secretary of State’s site at the time of this review; the figure given is the unofficial election-night share, so labelled. The Missouri Independent’s site, the Missouri courts’ site and the Associated Press could not be reached by automated request, so their reporting and the Missouri Supreme Court’s opinion are cited through KCUR, St. Louis Public Radio and PBS; The Kansas City Star’s 2017 report and editorial are cited from Internet Archive copies. The Loudermill litigation was traced through reporting to October 2025 and not beyond. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution. Historical sources do not imply current positions. A campaign’s description of its own record is labeled as such. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings, court dockets and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Missouri Senate’s member page, bill pages and Journal, the Secretary of State’s official returns and certification, the Federal Election Commission’s filings and the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket. Official and campaign biographies establish attributed background and stated positions; original reporting supplies scrutiny and responses. Ballotpedia is cited, as an analysis source, for earlier election results and committee history where the live site could not be reached.
- 01Senator Rick Brattin — official member page, 31st DistrictMissouri Senate · Accessed September 17, 2026
Official biography: Cass County native raised in Greenwood; Lee’s Summit High School; six years in the Marine Corps as a sergeant; construction business; four House terms, 2010–2018, including service as majority floor whip; former Cass County auditor; wife Athena and five children; Abundant Life Church; 2026 committee assignments including the Education chairmanship.Government record - 02Bills sponsored by Senator Rick Brattin, 2026 session (54 measures)Missouri Senate (bill tracking) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The 2026 file: SJR 98 (property tax replaced by a sales tax), SB 947 (foreign ownership near military installations), SB 948 (parental rights), SB 1221 (Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act), SB 1265 and SB 1772 (illegal immigration), SB 1616 (public benefits limited to citizens), SB 1617 (low-earning degree programs) and others as listed.Government record - 03Bill search: measures sponsored by Senator Brattin, 2025 sessionsMissouri Senate (bill tracking) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The 2025 file: SB 22 (ballot summaries, with a House handler), SB 23 (right to bear arms), SB 114 (illegal aliens), SB 250 (foreign ownership of agricultural land), SB 296 (Foreign Unmanned Aircraft Law), SB 702 (Born-Alive), SJR 7 (property tax replaced by a sales tax), SB 10 (stadium financing) and others.Government record - 04SB 22 (2025) — Bill information: summary statements for ballot measuresMissouri Senate (bill tracking) · 2025; accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Brattin, co-sponsor Coleman, House handler Keathley; status recorded as a letter of approval from the Governor; effective August 28, 2025; the summary of what the act does to challenges of ballot summary statements and to the Attorney General’s appeal rights.Government record - 05Governor Kehoe Signs Two Bills Supporting Efficiency, Structure, and Fairness in Civic and Legal ProcessesOffice of Governor Mike Kehoe · April 24, 2025
The signing of SB 22, which the release attributes to Senator Rick Brattin and Representative Ben Keathley, on April 24, 2025, with the Governor’s description of the act.Government record - 06Bill to change the writing of ballot language moving through Missouri LegislatureMissourinet · April 3, 2025
Brattin’s committee explanation of SB 22 (“Three bites of the apple”) and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition’s testimony against it. The article misspells his surname in places.Independent reporting - 07Journal of the Senate, Second Extra Session, Third Day — Friday, September 12, 2025Missouri Senate · September 12, 2025
HB 1 (congressional redistricting) read the third time and finally passed 21–11 with Brattin among the yeas; HCS HJR 3 passed 21–11 with Brattin among the yeas; his signature on the previous-question motions that ended debate.Government record - 08Missouri voters may get final say on gerrymandered map and constitution changesKCUR / St. Louis Public Radio · September 12, 2025
The 21–11 Senate votes, the previous-question motion, the referendum drive announced the same day and Brattin’s statement that the 2022 map was “the wrong decision.”Independent reporting - 09Rick Brattin for Congress — home pageRick Brattin for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign’s mission statement quoted in this profile and its summary description of the candidate. Self-description.Campaign or advocacy material - 10Meet Rick | Rick Brattin for CongressRick Brattin for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Campaign biography: enlistment after September 11; four House terms as Majority Floor Whip; Cass County Auditor; Senate 2020 and 2024; Education Committee chairman; the votes and bills the campaign credits to him; family and church. Self-description.Campaign or advocacy material - 11Issues | Rick Brattin for CongressRick Brattin for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The seven campaign planks quoted in this profile. Proposals and self-described record, not verified outcomes.Campaign or advocacy material - 12Rick Brattin (Internet Archive copy captured February 27, 2026) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2026)Ballotpedia (Internet Archive copy) · Captured February 27, 2026
Residence in Harrisonville; committee assignments by session; certified results of the 2010–2024 elections as recorded by Ballotpedia from the Secretary of State; the 2018 term limit. Used because Ballotpedia’s live site refused automated requests.Independent analysis or rating - 13Certification of Candidates and Party Emblems — General Election, November 3, 2026Missouri Secretary of State · August 25, 2026
Secretary Hoskins’s certification to election authorities: District 5 — Rick Brattin (Republican), Emanuel Cleaver, II (Democratic), Randall (Randy) Langkraehr (Libertarian).Government record - 14Official Election Returns — Primary Election, August 6, 2024Missouri Secretary of State (Board of State Canvassers) · Canvassed August 26, 2024
State Senator, District 31, Republican primary: Brattin 11,034 (47.0 percent); Haffner 6,445; Houx 6,013.Government record - 15Official Election Returns — General Election, November 5, 2024Missouri Secretary of State (Board of State Canvassers) · Canvassed December 5, 2024
State Senator, District 31: Brattin 60,541 (68.5 percent); James 27,825 (31.5 percent).Government record - 16Official Election Returns — Primary Election, August 2, 2022Missouri Secretary of State (Board of State Canvassers) · Canvassed August 26, 2022
U.S. Representative, District 4, Republican primary: Alford 36,981 (35.2 percent); Brattin 22,509 (21.4 percent); Bruce 16,677; Burks 10,624; Irwin 9,648; Campbell 4,642; LaBrue 4,026.Government record - 17Official Election Results — Primary Election, August 4, 2020Missouri Secretary of State (Board of State Canvassers) · Canvassed August 24, 2020
State Senator, District 31, Republican primary: Brattin 14,012 (49.6 percent); Bondon 12,467 (44.1 percent); Yarberry 1,774 (6.3 percent).Government record - 18Trump’s pick in new 5th District wins Missouri Republican primary to challenge Emanuel Cleaver IIKCUR (Celisa Calacal) · August 4, 2026
Unofficial election-night result (44 percent of the vote over Burks, Patty, Hueffmeier and Beebe); the Trump endorsement the day before; the residency of the field; the Second Amendment Preservation Act’s fate in federal court; Secretary Hoskins’s rejection of the referendum the same day.Independent reporting - 19Trump-backed Rick Brattin wins GOP nomination in reshaped 5th DistrictABC 17 News (KMIZ) · August 4, 2026
Decision Desk HQ projection at 44 percent with about half of precincts reported; his age given as 46; his emphasis on immigration when asked about affordability.Independent reporting - 20Trump endorses Rick Brattin in Missouri 5th Congressional District raceKMBC (Nick Sloan) · August 3, 2026
The Truth Social endorsement (“MAGA Warrior,” “Complete and Total Endorsement”), Brattin’s response, and the six-candidate primary field.Independent reporting - 21Missouri’s gerrymandered 5th District attracts even more Republicans to challenge CleaverKCUR / Missouri Independent (Rudi Keller) · February 27, 2026
His February 26, 2026 announcement in Jefferson City; that he does not live in the district and would move if elected; his 2022 primary finish; the field; his statements on the map litigation.Independent reporting - 22Kehoe Backs Brattin in CD 5 BidThe Missouri Times (Jake Kroesen) · June 15, 2026
Governor Kehoe’s endorsement statement and Brattin’s response; a career summary that describes him as deputy majority floor whip in the House.Independent reporting - 23Club for Growth PAC Endorses Rick Brattin in MO-05 RaceClub for Growth PAC · April 2, 2026
The endorsement; a 90 percent lifetime rating on the Club for Growth Foundation’s Missouri State Economic Scorecard; membership in the Foundation’s 2024 Fellowship class. Advocacy material.Campaign or advocacy material - 24Missouri Right to Life State and Federal PACs release August 4, 2026 primary election endorsementsMissouri Right to Life PACs · June 15, 2026
U.S. Congress, District 5: Rick Brattin (R) among the endorsed candidates. Advocacy material.Campaign or advocacy material - 25BRATTIN, RICHARD — Candidate overview, H2MO04199 (2026 cycle)Federal Election Commission · Coverage through July 15, 2026; accessed September 17, 2026
Rick Brattin for Congress (C00939710): receipts $331,764.08; individual contributions $292,677.53; other-committee contributions $39,086.55; disbursements $109,254.25; cash on hand $222,509.83; no loans or debts.Government record - 26Candidate search: Brattin (openFEC API)Federal Election Commission (openFEC API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Candidate id H2MO04199, first filed October 25, 2021 for the 4th District; principal committees Rick Brattin for Congress, C00939710 (registered February 18, 2026) and C00792473 (2022 cycle).Government record - 27Missouri Supreme Court puts referendum to overturn new congressional map on ballotKCUR / St. Louis Public Radio (Jason Rosenbaum) · September 3, 2026
The unanimous September 3, 2026 decision (Judge Gooch): the referendum is valid, the 2025 map has been suspended since December 2025, the 2022 map governs the November 3 election; the Secretary of State’s and Attorney General’s responses.Independent reporting - 28Supreme Court blocks Missouri’s attempt to use Republican-drawn congressional mapNBC News (Lawrence Hurley) · September 10, 2026
The September 10 stay of Judge Clark’s order with no noted dissents; the state’s direction to use the 2022 map; the federal suit, which the report says was filed by Brattin, Representative Bob Onder and two voters; the contempt finding against Hoskins.Independent reporting - 29Docket No. 26A326, People Not Politicians, et al. v. Robert Onder, et al.Supreme Court of the United States · September 9–10, 2026
The application for a stay, the responses, and the September 10, 2026 order granting the stay of the September 8 order of the Eastern District of Missouri in No. 4:26-cv-1424 pending appeal and certiorari.Government record - 30Opposition to Application for Stay, No. 26A326 (State of Missouri and Secretary of State Hoskins)Supreme Court of the United States (docket filing) · September 10, 2026
Caption naming Congressman Robert Onder, Richard Brattin, Patricia Thomas and Debra Havens as the plaintiffs in E.D. Mo. No. 4:26-cv-01424-SRC; the September 4 filing, the September 8 temporary restraining order, the Eighth Circuit’s denial of a stay (No. 26-2797) and the district court’s reasoning as the State describes it.Government record - 31Missouri Republicans ask federal court to revive gerrymandered map and block referendumKCUR / Missouri Independent (Rudi Keller) · September 16, 2026
The Eighth Circuit argument set for September 17, 2026 in the Onder–Brattin appeal; the three map changes in seven days; the county clerks’ brief; the parties’ arguments.Independent reporting - 32Ballot summary for statewide vote on Missouri’s new congressional map gets judge’s rewriteKCUR / St. Louis Public Radio (Jason Rosenbaum) · March 21, 2026
Cole County Judge Stumpe’s March 20, 2026 rewrite of Secretary Hoskins’s summary for the redistricting referendum, striking phrases the court found argumentative.Independent reporting - 33Missouri deal to pay for Chiefs and Royals stadiums fractures far-right Freedom CaucusKCUR / Missouri Independent (Jason Hancock) · June 9, 2025
Brattin’s vote for the stadium incentive plan after a property-tax cap was added, his resignation as Freedom Caucus chairman days later, the 19–13 Senate vote, and his video defending the vote.Independent reporting - 34Far-right Missouri Freedom Caucus is filibustering the tax that funds state Medicaid systemKCUR / St. Louis Public Radio · May 1, 2024
Five Freedom Caucus senators’ filibuster of the Federal Reimbursement Allowance, the caucus’s demands, and Brattin’s statement on the floor.Independent reporting - 35Missouri Senate quickly stalls out after 41-hour filibuster by far-right membersKCUR / Missouri Independent · May 7, 2024
The filibuster’s 41-hour length, how it ended, the caucus’s January loss of committee chairmanships and the session’s factional fighting.Independent reporting - 36Missouri Senate votes against allowing abortion in cases of rape and incestPBS News / Associated Press (Summer Ballentine) · February 7, 2024
The party-line defeat of rape and incest exceptions and Brattin’s floor remarks quoted in this profile.Independent reporting - 37Judge dismisses defamation case against Missouri senators over Chiefs parade shooting postsKCUR / Missouri Independent (Rudi Keller) · October 22, 2024
Judge Broomes’s October 21, 2024 dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction; the content of Brattin’s deleted post; the Attorney General’s defense of the senators and the Governor’s objection to paying for it.Independent reporting - 38Family remembers Denton Loudermill, man wrongly identified as Chiefs rally shooter, amid ongoing legal battleKSHB 41 (Fernanda Silva) · May 4, 2025
The suit’s history through May 2025: dismissed in Kansas, refiled in Missouri, withdrawn and refiled against Hoskins and Brattin in February 2025; Loudermill’s death in April 2025; the family’s intention to substitute as plaintiff.Independent reporting - 39House Bill No. 131, 98th General Assembly — introduced version (0411H.01I)Missouri House of Representatives · 2015
“Introduced by Representative Brattin.” Subsection 13 would have required the father’s written, notarized consent to an abortion except in cases of rape or incest.Government record - 40House Bill No. 813, 98th General Assembly — introduced version (1395H.01I)Missouri House of Representatives · 2015
“Introduced by Representative Brattin.” Would have let the SNAP work-requirement waiver expire and barred SNAP purchases of cookies, chips, energy drinks, soft drinks, seafood or steak.Government record - 41Lawmaker Says There’s A ‘Distinction’ Between Being Gay And ‘Being A Human Being’HuffPost · May 11, 2017
His May 8, 2017 House floor remark during debate on Senate Bill 43 as relayed from The Kansas City Star, the Star’s editorial, and the report that HB 131 never left committee. Relay source; the Star originals are sources 43 and 44.Independent reporting - 42Senate looks at funding cuts for ‘low-earning’ degreesColumbia Missourian (Noah Symes) · February 24, 2026
The Senate Education Committee hearing on SB 1617, the bill’s mechanism, the fiscal note’s estimate and the student testimony against it.Independent reporting - 43Missouri bill making it harder for workers to win discrimination cases goes to Greitens (Internet Archive copy, captured 2017)The Kansas City Star (Jason Hancock; Internet Archive copy) · May 8, 2017
The original report of his House floor remark on the Engler amendment to Senate Bill 43, the amendment’s withdrawal and the 98–30 vote. The Star’s own site refused the connection, so the Internet Archive copy is cited.Independent reporting - 44Editorial: Intolerance in Missouri — lawmaker says there’s a ‘distinction between homosexuality and just being a human being’ (Internet Archive copy, captured 2017)The Kansas City Star editorial board (Internet Archive copy) · May 9, 2017
The editorial calling the statement deplorable and recording that he did not return the Star’s call. Opinion, cited for the newspaper’s response and his non-response.Independent reporting - 45This GOP Lawmaker Wants a Woman to Get Permission From the Father Before Having an AbortionMother Jones (Molly Redden) · December 17, 2014
The original interview on House Bill 131: the December 3 filing, the “legitimate rape” remarks and his statement that he did not mean the phrase as Todd Akin had.Independent reporting - 46Federal judge allows case filed by man falsely identified as Chiefs rally shooter to proceedKSHB 41 (Alyssa Jackson) · October 9, 2025
Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Willie Epps Jr.’s denial of Hoskins’s and Brattin’s motions to dismiss the false-light suits; the immunity arguments; no response from the senators.Independent reporting - 47Rick Brattin wins Republican primary for 5th Congressional District seatKOMU 8 (Emma Becker and Taylor Bowman) · August 4, 2026
The Associated Press call at 9:10 p.m., Burks’s concession, the field, and the endorsements the station listed (Trump, Kehoe, Representative Jason Smith, Club for Growth PAC).Independent reporting
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Voting in Missouri: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Missouri Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadlineOctober 7, 2026, for the November 3, 2026 General Election — the “Last Day to Register to Vote” on the Secretary of State's “2026 Missouri Election Calendar” (the fourth Wednesday before the election). The Secretary of State's FAQ says the deadline for new voter registration applications is the fourth Wednesday prior to an election; a voter who has moved within the same county may change the registration address on Election Day at the new polling place or the central polling location. The entries below show how the deadline is measured by mail and in person. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/calendar/2026cal
- Registration by mailPostmarked by October 7, 2026. The Secretary of State's Register to Vote page says a mailed voter registration form must be postmarked by the fourth Wednesday before the election. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/register
- Registration in personOctober 7, 2026. The Secretary of State's FAQ says you need to be registered by the deadline shown on its election calendar, or by the normal close of business of any public building where registration is allowed, whichever is later, on the fourth Wednesday prior to the election; the page prints no clock time. You can register in person at your local election authority's office, a driver's licensing office, designated state agencies or a library, and must present a form of personal identification. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/votereg
- Absentee voting period beginsSeptember 22, 2026 — the sixth Tuesday before the November 3, 2026 election. The Secretary of State prints this as a rule, not as a calendar date: the absentee voting period begins on the sixth Tuesday before the date of the election. Before October 20, 2026, in-person absentee voters must give one of the reasons the state lists; a voter who requests a ballot to return by mail must give a reason at any time. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/govotemissouri/votingquestions
- Early voting (no-excuse absentee voting in person) startsOctober 20, 2026 — the second Tuesday before the November 3, 2026 election. The Secretary of State prints this as a rule, not as a calendar date: from the second Tuesday before an election to the day before the election, you may vote a no-excuse absentee ballot in person at a location designated by your local election authority. With one of the state's listed reasons, in-person absentee voting is available from September 22, 2026. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote
- Early voting (in-person absentee voting) endsNovember 2, 2026, 5:00 p.m. — the day before the election. The Secretary of State says voters can vote absentee in the office of the local election authority until 5:00 p.m. the night before the election. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote
- Deadline to request an absentee ballot by mailOctober 21, 2026, 5:00 p.m. — the second Wednesday before the November 3, 2026 election. A mailed or faxed request must be received by your local election authority by then. The Secretary of State prints this as a rule, not as a calendar date. It is the deadline to request a ballot, not to return it. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote
- Deadline to return an absentee ballotReceived by your local election authority by the close of polls on Election Day, November 3, 2026 (polls close at 7:00 p.m.). The ballot must be received, not just postmarked, by then. Military and overseas voters have a separate deadline, shown in the next entry. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/govotemissouri/votingquestions
Rules to know
- What to bringTo vote in person, show one of these forms of photo identification and sign the poll book: a nonexpired Missouri driver or non-driver license; a nonexpired military ID, including a veteran's ID card; a nonexpired United States passport; or another photo ID issued by the United States or the state of Missouri that is either not expired or expired after the date of the most recent general election. A registered voter who has none of these may cast a provisional ballot; it counts if the voter returns to the polling place on Election Day with a photo ID, or if the local election authority determines that the signature on the provisional ballot envelope matches the signature on the voter registration record. The Missouri Department of Revenue provides one non-driver license at no charge to Missourians who need a photo ID for voting purposes and do not already have one; for help, call the Secretary of State toll free at (866) 868-3245. Read from: sos.mo.gov/voterid
- Voting absentee by mailMissouri requires a reason to vote absentee by mail. The Secretary of State lists six: absence on Election Day from the jurisdiction where you are registered; incapacity or confinement due to illness or physical disability, or primary care of such a person at the same address; religious belief or practice; work for an election authority away from your polling place, or as a first responder, health care worker or member of law enforcement; incarceration, with voting qualifications retained; and certified participation in the address confidentiality program. Request the ballot from your local election authority — in person, by mail, by fax or by e-mail — not from the Secretary of State's office. A mailed or faxed request must be received by 5:00 p.m. on October 21, 2026; the voted ballot must be received by the election authority by the close of polls on November 3, 2026. The page says the notary requirement for absentee ballots does not apply to overseas voters, those on active military duty and immediate family living with them, or voters who are permanently disabled and their caregivers. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote
- Early voting (no-excuse absentee voting in person)Missouri's early voting is no-excuse absentee voting in person. From the second Tuesday before the election to the day before it — October 20 through November 2, 2026 — you may vote an absentee ballot in person, without giving a reason, at a location designated by your local election authority; voting at the election authority's office ends at 5:00 p.m. on November 2. Before October 20, in-person absentee voting requires one of the state's listed reasons. When voting an absentee ballot in person, you must show an acceptable form of photo ID. The Secretary of State's site has a county-by-county finder for local election authorities. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote
- Accessible votingVoters with limited mobility can vote “curbside,” outside the polling place: go to your polling place and ask someone to go in and ask poll workers to bring a ballot out to you. Every polling place must have an accessible voting system for individuals with disabilities, with an audio ballot or the ability to enlarge the on-screen text. A voter with a permanent physical disability may ask to be placed on a list so that the local election authority automatically mails an absentee ballot application before each election. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/howtovote
- Voting after a felony convictionThe Secretary of State's FAQ says that, upon completion of your sentence and probation or parole, you are eligible to vote in elections. To vote, a person cannot be imprisoned or be on probation or parole after conviction of a felony. Individuals who have been convicted of an election offense, whether a felony or misdemeanor, are not allowed to vote. Read from: sos.mo.gov/elections/goVoteMissouri/votingrights
Read from: Elections & Voting Division · 2026 Missouri Election Calendar · Register to Vote · How to Vote · Voter ID · FAQs Voter Registration — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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