Who Is Behind Respect MO Voters? Public Filings Point to Show Me Integrity
Respect MO Voters says it is volunteer-led. Missouri Ethics Commission and IRS filings tell a bigger story.
Respect MO Voters wants Missourians to think its campaign is a simple grassroots effort to “protect” the initiative petition process.
The filings tell a different story.
Missouri Ethics Commission and IRS records show that Respect Missouri Voters PAC is tied to a standing election-reform network centered around Show Me Integrity, Show Me Integrity Education Fund, and Benjamin Singer.
This is not their first campaign. They’ve spent years working on structural changes to Missouri elections and government, including Clean Missouri, approval voting in St. Louis, and failed attempts to bring alternative voting methods statewide.
Before Missourians are asked to change the state Constitution, they should know who is behind the campaign and what broader political project it belongs to.
What Public Filings Show
The campaign’s branding is simple. The filings are not.
| Public record | What it shows | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Missouri Ethics Commission committee summary | Respect Missouri Voters PAC is active, listed as a political action committee, and has no connected organizations entered. | The campaign is formally separate on paper, even as other filings show ties to the Show Me Integrity network. |
| Missouri Ethics Commission filing | Respect Missouri Voters PAC reported $209,856.41 in monetary contributions and $24,116.57 in in-kind contributions for April 1 through June 30, 2025. | The campaign was raising and spending serious money early in the effort. |
| Missouri Ethics Commission contribution records | Show Me Integrity appears as a contributor to Respect Missouri Voters PAC. | This shows direct financial support from the Show Me Integrity network. |
| Missouri Ethics Commission expenditure records | Respect Missouri Voters PAC reported $89,503.64 in incurred expenditures to Show Me Integrity Education Fund for consulting-related campaign services. | The related Show Me Integrity network was not merely cheering from the sidelines. It was also paid for operational support. |
| 2023 Show Me Integrity Education Fund Form 990 | The Education Fund reported $500,140 in total revenue, $442,716 in expenses, and listed Benjamin Singer as principal officer at 725 Kingsland Avenue, Suite 100. | The paid vendor was part of an existing election-reform operation led by the same public figure. |
| 2023 Show Me Integrity Education Fund program expenses | The group reported $254,320 for “Statewide Voting Reform” and $23,497 for “Protect Initiative Process.” | These issues predate the Respect MO Voters campaign. |
| 2024 Show Me Integrity Form 990 | Show Me Integrity reported as a 501(c)(4), with Benjamin Singer as principal officer at the same Kingsland Avenue address. | This confirms the advocacy arm of the same election-reform network. |
Respect MO Voters is not simply a one-off volunteer campaign. It is tied financially, operationally, and organizationally to Show Me Integrity’s broader election-reform network.
Show Me Integrity Appears on Both Sides of the Ledger
Missouri Ethics Commission filings show Show Me Integrity appearing as a contributor to Respect Missouri Voters PAC. The filings list a contribution from Show Me Integrity at 725 Kingsland Avenue, Suite 100 in University City, with Show Me Integrity Education Fund listed in the employer/company field.
The filings also show Respect Missouri Voters PAC paying Show Me Integrity Education Fund for campaign work. In the April through June 2025 report, the PAC reported $89,503.64 in incurred expenditures to Show Me Integrity Education Fund for services including polling/legal/research, outreach, travel, fundraising, supplies/printing, programs, meetings, marketing, and administration.
Show Me Integrity Is a Related c3/c4 Election-Reform Structure
IRS filings show two related entities.
Show Me Integrity Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) whose stated mission is “cross partisan election reform and voter education.” Its 2023 Form 990 lists Benjamin Singer as principal officer, gives the same 725 Kingsland Avenue, Suite 100 address, and reports $500,140 in gross receipts.
The same filing also shows the Education Fund spent $254,320 on “Statewide Voting Reform,” described as research, organization, and education across the state on possible election policies. It also spent $23,497 on “Protect Initiative Process,” described as educating Missourians on the history of the ballot initiative process and legislative proposals to amend Missouri’s Constitution.
Show Me Integrity, meanwhile, is the related 501(c)(4) advocacy arm. Its 2024 Form 990 describes the organization as “a cross-partisan movement for more effective, ethical government of, by, and for the people.” It also lists Benjamin Singer as principal officer at the same Kingsland Avenue address and reports $389,398 in gross receipts.
That structure matters because the Respect MO Voters campaign is not operating in a vacuum. Public records show a related nonprofit network, led by the same figure, working on the same category of election and initiative-process issues before Respect Missouri Voters PAC became the campaign vehicle.
This Did Not Start With Respect MO Voters
Respect MO Voters may be the current campaign, but the broader project is older.
Benjamin Singer has been involved in Missouri ballot-measure politics for years. His Show Me Integrity biography says he returned to Missouri in 2018 to serve as communications director for Clean Missouri, the campaign behind Amendment 1, which changed Missouri’s redistricting, lobbying, and campaign-finance rules. The same biography says he helped lead the 2020 St. Louis Approves campaign, Proposition D for Democracy, which brought approval voting to St. Louis city elections, and the 2022 Proposition R campaign in St. Louis.
Singer also pushed approval voting beyond St. Louis. That statewide effort collapsed after Liberty Alliance released video from a strategy call where Singer told supporters not to mention a fundraiser with Democrat Jason Kander when talking to conservative voters.
The scammers @ShowMeIntegrity who are trying to takeover Missouri elections and implement ranked-choice voting admitted to lying to voters on a secret strategy call.
— Liberty Alliance (@LibertyAllUSA) June 15, 2023
They don’t want Republicans to know that they are hosting a fundraiser with @JasonKander this week. #MOLeg pic.twitter.com/r358PmlFhV
The current campaign is not just a neutral effort to “respect voters.” It is part of a longer election-reform project that has repeatedly used ballot measures to change Missouri’s political rules in ways favored by the left.
Why the Initiative Process Matters to This Network
For organized election-reform groups, the initiative petition process is the tool that makes their agenda possible.
If a group cannot pass its priorities through the Missouri General Assembly, the initiative process offers another path.
Liberals know they are not winning a majority in Jefferson City anytime soon. That makes the initiative petition process their best path to power.
History has proven them right.
The Bottom Line
Respect MO Voters is tied financially and organizationally to Show Me Integrity’s broader election-reform network. That network includes a related c3/c4 structure, the same Kingsland Avenue address, the same principal figure in Benjamin Singer, prior work on statewide voting reform, and a paid role for Show Me Integrity Education Fund in the Respect Missouri Voters PAC campaign.
Missouri voters should get the whole story before they enter the voting booth.
Andy Bakker
Executive Director
Liberty Alliance USA
For more on the competing proposals over Missouri’s initiative petition process, read our breakdown of Amendment 4 and the Respect MO Voters-backed petition.