While true, I think everyone is missing the fact that Kansas City is in Missouri.
But there is a Kansas City, Kansas. The references to "Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Mao Zedong, the Kim family, the Castros" sounded like right wing hysteria found in Kansas to support their oppressive regime toward the middle class. The paper may be Missouri but the nonsense is Kansas, unless Missourians share the same right wing lunacy.