Cover the Independent Running for Congress in Missouri's 7th District
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Campaign Press Releases
Heidenreich Launches Petition Drive to Put New “Missouri 99 Party” on the Ballot
September 25, 2026
Independent congressional candidate aims to collect 20,000 signatures — double the state requirement — to qualify a new party in Missouri. Volunteers now being recruited statewide to circulate petitions.
Springfield Cab Driver Alexander Heidenreich Launches Independent Campaign for Congress in Missouri's 7th District
September 25, 2026
Formerly incarcerated working man runs on anti-corruption platform: “Not left. Not right. Forward.” Term limits, an end to insider trading, no corporate PAC money — and a new independent party being built in Missouri.
Campaign Statements
CoxHealth Is Walking Away From Southwest Missouri — and I’m Not Staying Quiet About It
September 25, 2026 — A statement from Alexander Heidenreich
Cox HealthPlans is quitting the ACA marketplace in 2027, leaving families across eight southwest Missouri counties scrambling. “No corporation should be able to yank your health insurance because the math stopped working for them.”
In the News
“Presidential Oddities #2: Alexander Js Heidenreich” — Debate Politics
Debate Politics forum
Alexander's 2024 Independent presidential run gets the “Presidential Oddities” treatment at Debate Politics — one of the internet's longest-running non-partisan political debate forums.
An Open Invitation to the Press
Members of the media are welcome — and encouraged — to cover this campaign.
Reporters and producers at CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, NPR, PBS NewsHour, the Associated Press, Reuters, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Politico, The Hill, Newsmax — and Missouri outlets including the Springfield News-Leader and local TV and radio — are invited to request interviews, cover campaign events, and tell this story. Independent candidates rarely get a fair shake from national political news coverage. Help change that.
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Why This Campaign Is a Story
The Cab Driver Running for Congress
Alexander went from CEO of Yellow Cab in Topeka, Kansas to an independent owner-operator driving a cab in Springfield, Missouri — and he still drives today. He is a working man, not a career politician: the 9-to-5 America that Washington keeps forgetting, running to represent it.
17 Years in Prison — and a Comeback
Alexander served 17 years behind bars and came home in 2017 a better, more grounded man. His story is living proof of the campaign's core conviction: your past shouldn't block your future. America loves a comeback — and this one is running for the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Independent Who Ran for President
In 2024, Alexander ran for the U.S. House in Missouri's 4th District and for President of the United States as an Independent — registering with the Federal Election Commission, with a public record at Ballotpedia. Now he's running for Congress in Missouri's 7th District in 2028 — and building a brand, I'm for the 99, designed to outlive any single race.
No PAC Money. No Lobbyists. No Party.
This campaign takes no corporate PAC money, no lobbyist dollars, and no special-interest checks — and its platform would ban the whole game: term limits for all of Congress, an end to insider trading, cut and capped congressional pay, an end to lobbyist influence, and an end to big-business campaign donations. An anti-corruption independent in a safe-seat district: that's a story about what American politics could be.
Building a New Political Party in Missouri
Alexander is forming a new political party in Missouri — the Missouri 99 Party (working name) — gathering the 10,000+ valid voter signatures state law requires to get it on the ballot. A working-class independent building a party from scratch: the petition drive alone is a story.
Request an Interview
Alexander is available for interviews by phone, video, or in person in Springfield, Missouri — including nights and early mornings around his driving shifts. For the fastest response:
Press Contact
Heidenreich for Congress — Press Inquiries
Phone: 417-300-1865
Email: [email protected]
Press Resources
Press photo: Alexander J. S. Heidenreich. Free to use with coverage of the campaign.
"Not left. Not right. Forward."