In the weeks before a consequential midterm election, Missouri finds itself caught between two binding but mutually exclusive court orders — one from the Supreme Court, one from a federal district judge — each commanding a different congressional map be used. The conflict is not merely procedural; it reflects a deeper national struggle over who draws the lines that determine political power, and whether the will of voters expressed through referendum can be overridden by partisan legislative action. At stake is not only one congressional seat, but potentially the balance of the entire House of