MO-04 Democratic nominee?
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AUG 5, 2026Primary Election
Party selects its nominee.
Overview
Current roleRadio host
PartyDemocratic
Political ideologyProgressive Democrat
LocationMissouri
BackgroundRadio host
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Notable personal detailsHartzell Gray III is a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Missouri’s 4th Congressional District in the 2026 election cycle. He is a Kansas City-based media personality and progressive activist with experience as a radio host and tenants’ rights/housing advocate. His campaign has emphasized issues including affordable housing, health care, labor and wages, civil rights, and gun violence prevention.
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Positions
Economy & Taxes
The candidate supports policies to transfer economic power toward working families, including higher burdens on extreme wealth and a tax system that makes millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share. He backs expanded social programs and public investments such as Medicare for All, a $25 federal minimum wage, and large investments in housing and jobs. He rejects corporate PAC money and advocates government spending priorities that fund social programs over military/war spending.
Healthcare
Supports universal healthcare and positions healthcare as a right, advocating for expanded public healthcare access. Campaign materials and progressive endorsements list universal healthcare as a campaign priority. No sources found indicating support for market-based or conservative healthcare policies.
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Immigration & Border
Supports a humane immigration system that simplifies naturalization, creates a pathway to citizenship, codifies and expands DACA, upholds asylum rights, ends private detention, and abolishes ICE.
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
Supports codifying and protecting reproductive rights including access to abortion; participated in and helped organize rallies and petition drives aimed at placing a reproductive-rights/amendment (Amendment 3) on the Missouri ballot to enshrine abortion and other reproductive care up to fetal viability.
Climate & Energy
Supports an aggressive, government-led climate agenda including a nationwide 100% clean renewable energy target by 2035, ending fossil-fuel subsidies, major clean-energy investment and grid modernization, expanded public transit and EV infrastructure, funded climate resilience, and a just-transition for fossil-fuel workers.
News
Hartzell Gray III is in the news because Missouri is moving ahead with its 2026 House primary under a disputed congressional map. The legal fight over the new districts is still unresolved, and that could affect whether the districts used to nominate candidates in August are the same ones used in the November election. The situation leaves Gray and other candidates facing uncertainty about which map will ultimately apply.
Endorsements
Endorsers of Hartzell Gray III for MO-04 Democratic nominee?
Progressive Victory
Political organization
Progressive Victory endorsed Hartzell Gray's campaign for Congress.
Kansas City Democratic Socialists of America
Public endorsement
The Kansas City Democratic Socialists of America endorsed Hartzell Gray for Congress.
Fundraising
Latest report: Cycle 20262026
LatestCycle 2026
Source: FEC
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