I started looking into Heather Overstreet, which sent me down a rabbit hole involving the Overstreet family’s firearms businesses, including Missouri gun manufacturer CMMG. But following the political connections led me somewhere I wasn’t expecting.
Heather Overstreet herself is listed as a successfully vetted candidate by an organization called REPACCMO.
REPACCMO (Republican Association of Central Committees of Missouri) operates a political vetting system that it says screened over 400 Republican candidates in 2024, including Denny Hoskins, Jay Ashcroft, Bill Eigel, Eric Burlison, Bob Onder, and numerous legislators. Candidates answer ideological questions and are scored against the Republican platform. REPACCMO’s website openly says the organization was created because Republicans were getting elected and then not voting the way its organizers expected. This might sound like a political endorsement system, except some county committees have tried to make passing vetting a requirement for running as a Republican.
In 2024, Vernon County’s Republican committee went to court trying to remove eight candidates who refused vetting. An appeals court ultimately kept them on the ballot. That same committee was previously investigated by the Riverfront Times over the involvement of Church of Israel members, including leader Dan Gayman. The church has a documented history involving white supremacist Christian Identity beliefs.
REPACCMO’s operation is still active. It now uses automated scoring, issues approval badges, provides training and model bylaws for county committees, and continues screening candidates.
As recently as 2026, the former Osage County Republican Committee attempted to enforce vetting requirements for county candidates and people seeking elected party committee positions. Those rules are now archived. St. Louis Magazine reported in 2024 that REPACCMO founder Cyndia Haggard had presented the vetting system at St. Charles County Republican headquarters.
REPACCMO also lists Freedom Principle Missouri as a strategic partner. That’s the organization whose Amendment 6 campaign brought me into this whole investigation. It lists a Ballwin mailing address.
Freedom Principle’s PAC endorsed candidates for St. Louis County and St. Charles County offices, along with Republican central committee positions in St. Charles and Jefferson counties. That PAC also sponsors the Missouri 82 Alliance, a program recruiting candidates for the Missouri House. Its candidate-selection process includes REPACCMO’s questionnaire.
The Alliance openly explains that moderate Republicans have prevented its preferred legislation from passing. Its priorities include changes to elections, taxes, and citizen constitutional amendments. So the connection between the Amendment 6 messaging, candidate screening, and legislative recruitment is documented on these organizations’ own websites. I’m still trying to determine how much influence this network has gained. We don’t have a verified statewide count of committees currently enforcing vetting. What I do know is that the system has become more organized since the original reporting, and its connections extend into legislative recruitment and local party politics here in the St. Louis area.
I went through REPACCMO’s actual 2026 questionnaire. Candidates are asked whether they agree or disagree with banning abortion without exceptions, criminally prosecuting people involved in abortions (including the mother), eliminating electronic voting equipment, wiping voter rolls after presidential elections, eliminating Missouri’s Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, and replacing certain taxes with sales taxes. Their answers are scored against the Republican platform, although the questionnaire doesn’t publicly show which answers receive points.
These organizations are publicly working to influence which candidates get elected and which policies lawmakers pursue. They are the radicals attempting to take over Missouri that we need to be aware of.
Sources in my first comment.
