As Missouri’s August 6 primary election day rapidly approaches, over $9 million of AIPAC and AIPAC-adjacent dollars have already flooded the race to unseat incumbent U.S. Rep. Cori Bush who represents Missouri’s First District in Congress. The asymmetrical deployment of resources against her may be paying off too as the latest Democratic Majority for Israel poll shows Bush’s challenger, St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell, with a 6-point lead just ahead of election day on August 6.

Bell pulled out of his race against right-wing Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley to primary his fellow Democrat in October 2023 shortly after Bush introduced the Ceasefire Now Resolution into the 118th Congress. With a king’s ransom of cash to spend in St. Louis’s relatively inexpensive media market, the money storm has led to so many false and misleading claims about Bush’s record in ads and campaign literature that they’re outpacing news organizations’ fact-checking capacity. 

Jay Ozier is president of The Coalition of Black Trade Unionist St. Louis Chapter, one of nine labor unions who’ve endorsed Bush’s reelection campaign, and is a seasoned veteran of the rough and tumble of St. Louis politics.

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