Missouri voters head to the polls on August 4, 2026 for the state primary election, and this year the stakes are much higher than most primaries.
Here is what is on your ballot and what it means.
Aaron Joseph Metzger is not a career politician. He is a CT technologist who has worked the night shift at a Joplin hospital for 13 years, scanning patients through car wrecks, heart attacks, strokes, and every emergency that does not wait for daylight. Now he is running as the Democratic candidate for Missouri House District 161, which covers most of Joplin north of the Newton County line.
