MISSOURI

SHOW THE RECEIPTS. THEN SHOW US WHO DOES THE WORK.

MUGWUMPS · ATLAS · 2028 U.S. SENATE · FOUR-DOSSIER CONVERGENCE

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2026 · LANGHORNE P. BREEDLOVE · RESEARCH EDITION

EXECUTIVE SYNTHESIS

The four independent Missouri documents report 61, 94, 86, and 66 research entries respectively. These are source-specific counts, not 307 unique people; repeated names and role descriptions were reconciled into a 25-person research-priority shortlist. The goal is to identify unusual public-service records, especially people with comparatively little established electoral experience. Rank is a request for further verification, not an endorsement or a measurement of ideology, electability, qualification or consent.

There are three meaningful additions that a board-only scan would miss: Kailen Trowbridge combines manufacturing work with regional anti-hunger service; Meera Scarrow brings clinical practice and board service; and Indigenous community-service figures in Kansas City supply real institutional representation without inventing a Missouri-based sovereign tribal government. Region labels identify public service connections, not confirmed legal residence.

2028 ELECTION CONTEXT

Missouri elects its Class III U.S. senator on November 7, 2028. Eric Schmitt holds the seat and Devante Dixon appears in the consulted 2028 independent-candidate listing. Schmitt's committee activity should not be conflated with final ballot certification; a fresh statement of candidacy and official Missouri deadlines need verification. Josh Hawley's separate Class I seat is next up in 2030.

2028 MISSOURI CANDIDATE LIST

MISSOURI SECRETARY OF STATE

FIVE SHARED STATE PRESSURES

01 · Family-farm viability: commodity pricing, local processors, land succession and producer independence.

02 · Rural healthcare: hospitals, clinical staffing, maternity access, mental health and telehealth.

03 · Industrial employment: manufacturing, railroad safety, workplace bargaining and local job training.

04 · Housing and food security: regional disparities, household expenses and community distribution networks.

05 · Water and environmental health: river flooding, hazardous sites, conservation and drinking water.

TOP 25 · EDITORIAL RESEARCH PRIORITY INDEX

01 · Kailen Trowbridge  |  Southeast · Cape Girardeau / Sikeston service area

02 · Doug Doughty  |  North-central · Livingston County

03 · Liz Graznak  |  Central · Moniteau / Columbia

04 · Meera Scarrow  |  Southwest · Springfield

05 · Gaylene Crouser  |  West · Kansas City metro

06 · Katie Nixon  |  Rural Missouri · county unverified

07 · Amanda Arnold  |  Rural network · home county unverified

08 · Joey Keys  |  Southeast · Sikeston / Bootheel

09 · Kally Coleman  |  South-central · Current River / Ozarks

10 · Trevor Burk  |  Southwest · Springfield

11 · Christen Commuso  |  East · St. Louis; statewide environmental network

12 · Jennifer Heinlein  |  Southwest · Missouri Ozarks

13 · Sara Camacho  |  West · Kansas City metro

14 · Debbie Njai  |  East · St. Louis

15 · Jessica Fujan  |  Statewide nursing labor · locality unverified

16 · Jason Hayden  |  Statewide transportation labor · locality unverified

17 · Maximus Glamour  |  East · St. Louis

18 · Chad Higdon  |  Northwest · St. Joseph

19 · Sarah Moody  |  Southwest · Ozarks

20 · Kathy Christy  |  Southwest · Springfield / Ozarks

21 · Rebeka McIntosh  |  West · Grandview

22 · Alissa Flanagan-Spiller  |  West · Kansas City metro

23 · Katie Eiken  |  Central · Jefferson City; regional residence unverified

24 · Spencer Bachmann  |  Southeast · Perry County

25 · D’Arlyn Bell  |  West · Kansas City metro

INDIVIDUAL CONVERGED PROFILES

01 · KAILEN TROWBRIDGE

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southeast · Cape Girardeau / Sikeston service area

PUBLIC ROLE · Manufacturing inventory technician; Southeast Missouri Food Bank board member

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Unusual connection between a factory job and regional food access

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

02 · DOUG DOUGHTY

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · North-central · Livingston County

PUBLIC ROLE · Commodity farmer; Friends of Poosey conservation organizer

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Farm operator with concrete local land-use advocacy

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

03 · LIZ GRAZNAK

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Central · Moniteau / Columbia

PUBLIC ROLE · Organic farmer; Missouri Farmers Union board member

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Working farm enterprise and local supply chain perspective

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · REMY · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

04 · MEERA SCARROW

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southwest · Springfield

PUBLIC ROLE · Obstetrician-gynecologist and Ozarks Food Harvest board president

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Frontline reproductive healthcare and community food service

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

05 · GAYLENE CROUSER

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · West · Kansas City metro

PUBLIC ROLE · Kansas City Indian Center executive director

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Indigenous community-service leadership with metro regional reach

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

06 · KATIE NIXON

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Rural Missouri · county unverified

PUBLIC ROLE · Missouri Farmers Union president

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Farm-concentration and independent producer network; stronger institutional visibility

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · REMY · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

07 · AMANDA ARNOLD

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Rural network · home county unverified

PUBLIC ROLE · Registered nurse and Healthcare Collaborative/HCC Network COO

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Rural clinical operations and service delivery, not a career officeholder

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · REMY · ERIKA · LANGHORNE

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

08 · JOEY KEYS

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southeast · Sikeston / Bootheel

PUBLIC ROLE · Southeast Missouri Food Bank CEO

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Regional hunger and logistics in underserved southeast Missouri

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

09 · KALLY COLEMAN

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · South-central · Current River / Ozarks

PUBLIC ROLE · Friends of Ozark Riverways cofounder and conservation advocate

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Local river access and stewardship outside urban institutions

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

10 · TREVOR BURK

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southwest · Springfield

PUBLIC ROLE · Kraft Heinz quality manager; Ozarks Food Harvest board member

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Manufacturing workplace plus volunteer food-service leadership

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

11 · CHRISTEN COMMUSO

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · East · St. Louis; statewide environmental network

PUBLIC ROLE · Environmental policy organizer involved in West Lake landfill cleanup

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Public-health response to radioactive-waste and industrial legacies

IN ORIGINALS · REMY

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

12 · JENNIFER HEINLEIN

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southwest · Missouri Ozarks

PUBLIC ROLE · Missouri Ozarks Community Health COO

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Hands-on regional clinic operations in rural settings

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · REMY · ERIKA · LANGHORNE

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

13 · SARA CAMACHO

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · West · Kansas City metro

PUBLIC ROLE · Kansas City Indian Center nutrition-security coordinator

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Public service in community food access and Indigenous programs

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

14 · DEBBIE NJAI

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · East · St. Louis

PUBLIC ROLE · Black People Who Hike founder and environmental board president

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Outdoor access, entrepreneurial organizing, and land stewardship

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

15 · JESSICA FUJAN

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Statewide nursing labor · locality unverified

PUBLIC ROLE · National Nurses United representative on Missouri AFL-CIO board

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Trade-union connection to clinical workplace conditions

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

16 · JASON HAYDEN

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Statewide transportation labor · locality unverified

PUBLIC ROLE · SMART Transportation trade union representative

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Rail worker network and freight economy, limited partisan visibility

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

17 · MAXIMUS GLAMOUR

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · East · St. Louis

PUBLIC ROLE · Environmental and community organizing professional

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Neighborhood-level public health and public-space work

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · REMY

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

18 · CHAD HIGDON

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Northwest · St. Joseph

PUBLIC ROLE · Second Harvest Community Food Bank CEO

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Regional food insecurity and logistics in northwest Missouri

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

19 · SARAH MOODY

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southwest · Ozarks

PUBLIC ROLE · Rural healthcare association member; Synergy Makers founder

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Entrepreneurial regional health-services work

IN ORIGINALS · REMY · ERIKA · LANGHORNE

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

20 · KATHY CHRISTY

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southwest · Springfield / Ozarks

PUBLIC ROLE · Environmental outreach specialist

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Local water and conservation organizing beyond the St. Louis corridor

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · REMY

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

21 · REBEKA MCINTOSH

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · West · Grandview

PUBLIC ROLE · Missouri NEA president; longtime elementary teacher

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Education and classroom work; established union leadership must be distinguished

IN ORIGINALS · LANGHORNE

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

22 · ALISSA FLANAGAN-SPILLER

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · West · Kansas City metro

PUBLIC ROLE · Kansas City Indian Center board chair, per one dossier; first name needs source verification

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Civic governance within an Indigenous service organization

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

23 · KATIE EIKEN

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Central · Jefferson City; regional residence unverified

PUBLIC ROLE · Missouri Rural Health Association board president

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Rural clinical policy and service systems; political staff background warrants review

IN ORIGINALS · REMY · LANGHORNE

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

24 · SPENCER BACHMANN

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · Southeast · Perry County

PUBLIC ROLE · Farm Bureau young farmers/ranchers advisory leader

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Younger working agriculture, southeast regional roots

IN ORIGINALS · FANCY · LANGHORNE

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

25 · D’ARLYN BELL

GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTION · West · Kansas City metro

PUBLIC ROLE · Kansas City Indian Center civic engagement and advocacy director

RESEARCH RATIONALE · Community-service based civic participation experience

IN ORIGINALS · ERIKA

VERIFY NEXT · Current occupation, home county, public record, any actual past runs for office and direct expression of Senate interest. The listed source is an institutional lead, not comprehensive personal vetting.

SOURCE · Public organizational reference

EVIDENCE RECONCILIATION · FLAGGED DISCREPANCIES

KATIE EIKEN / KATIE REICHARD EIKEN · Dossiers use both forms; verify full name from the current Missouri Rural Health Association roster before merging every reference. JAKE / JACOB HUMMEL · Appears in the labor records with variant given-name forms; do not duplicate. ALICE FLANAGAN-SPILLER / ALISSA FLANAGAN-SPILLER · The Kansas City Indian Center board name is inconsistent in supplied notes; the shortlisted entry is a provisional identity pending first-party confirmation. Some source registers present organizational office locations as if they were home regions; use locality labels cautiously.

BART BROWN · The REMY dossier references a retirement announcement at Ozarks Food Harvest. Verify the effective date before repeating the title as current. DEVANTE DIXON · Listed in a candidate register, so belongs in the actual electoral field, not the civic noncandidate discovery roster. ERIC SCHMITT · Incumbent context, not an outsider lead. Tribal ancestry or community membership must not be conflated with elected sovereign governmental office.

ADDITIONAL BENCH · PRESERVED, NOT DISCARDED

Agriculture: Garrett Hawkins, Andy Clay, Jason Kurtz, Drew Lock, Dana Lane, Katie Nixon's Farmers Union colleagues, and Ozarks independent producers. Education and conservation: Ginny Wallace, Kyle Carroll, Jackson Byrd, Leanne Tippett-Mosby, the Missouri NEA regional board. Labor and trades: Greg Tate Jr., Gina Walsh, Laura Kelley, Justin McCarty, Pat Dujakovich, Amber Gibson. Health and hunger: Kathleen Spears, Lauren Moyer, E. Rachel Mutrux, Lindsay Young Lopez, Bart Brown, Meredith Knopp, Valerie Nicholson-Watson. Local environmental organizing: Makenna Nickens, Jared Opsal, Melissa Vatterott, Jeanine Arrighi and Doug Doughty's regional counterparts.

WHAT THE RESEARCH STILL MISSES

The four registers rely heavily on nonprofit, farm-board and association rosters. Find active loggers and timber workers; Bootheel farm and processing employees; local school staff; former close-race challengers; disability and veterans advocates; Native community organizations; community healthcare workers; and public figures from smaller southeast and northern counties. Verify personal history rather than assigning political suitability from profession or identity.

CANDIDATE STATUS AND EDITORIAL FIREWALL

No person in this civic shortlist is shown to have agreed to a Mugwumps nomination, declared a Senate run, or adopted any Mugwumps faction. Public organizational work is not an endorsement. No subjective Mugwump-match percentages are calculated without independently verified positions and transparent methodology. This is editorial reconnaissance, not a persuasion or recruitment dataset.

FOUR INPUT DOSSIERS · CLICKABLE

LANGHORNE 1.1 · Missouri

REMY 1.6 · Missouri

ERIKA 1.6 · Missouri

FANCY 1.33 · Missouri

Missouri Farmers Union

Missouri Rural Health Association

Missouri Coalition for the Environment

Missouri Food Banks

Kansas City Indian Center

Missouri Policy Atlas

EDITORIAL NOTE · 25 RESEARCH LEADS · NO CANDIDACY, CONSENT OR ENDORSEMENT IMPLIED