Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Teamsters endorse Harris-Walz ticket
The endorsement is a departure from the national union, which refused to endorse either presidential candidate
By Anna Kaminski, Kansas Reflector - September 26, 2024The endorsement is a departure from the national union, which refused to endorse either presidential candidate
By Anna Kaminski, Kansas Reflector - September 26, 2024When Kansas passed a law requiring all voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote, the effects were swift.
By Ethan DeWitt, New Hampshire Bulletin - September 23, 2024Thirteen counties in Kansas ceased to offer obstetric care services from 2013 to 2023 — a statistic that points to a shrinking availability of maternal care in Kansas, the lack of which can cause poor outcomes in pregnancy and delivery, overburdened hospitals and long drives for women seeking adequate care.
By Cami Koons, Kansas Reflector - July 25, 2024In Arizona, the state’s highest court upheld a Civil War-era abortion ban. Florida and South Carolina moved to restrict abortion to six weeks — before many people know they are pregnant.
By Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Idaho Capital Sun - June 24, 2024Reddy is running to represent Kansas’ third congressional district.
By Jesse Valentine - March 14, 2024Anti-abortion organizations are pushing state lawmakers to promote a controversial and unproven “abortion reversal” treatment — flouting the objections of medical professionals who point out it is not supported by science.
By Anna Claire Vollers - November 30, 2023Kentucky's ban on gender-affirming care went into effect, a Michigan salon owner says transgender people are unwelcome, and more.
By Will Fritz - July 17, 2023While Republican candidates waffle over a federal abortion ban, hundreds of doctors stand behind an Indiana OB-GYN punished for speaking publicly about abortion care she provided to a 10-year-old.
By Rebekah Sager - June 09, 2023'Twenty years ago, when I started in politics, obviously, our community was being used as a punching bag to juice Republican turnout,' the End Citizens United president recalled, 'And we're seeing that history repeat itself right now.'
By Will Fritz - May 31, 2023The state Legislature overrode Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a bill restricting the rights of transgender athletes on Wednesday, one day after passing a bathroom ban.
By Associated Press - April 08, 2023Anti-abortion lawmakers have increasingly tried to normalize a practice in recent years that most medical professionals deem unethical and non-scientific.
By Rebekah Sager - March 23, 2023Four states — California, Kentucky, Michigan, Vermont — voted in favor of abortion rights in November 2022, joining voters in Kansas that did the same in August.
By Associated Press - March 12, 2023Former Kansas Republican Party Chair Amanda Adkins says she opposes a federal law banning abortion, but she backs a GOP budget plan that explicitly proposes one.
By Josh Israel - October 14, 2022Republican nominee for Kansas governor Derek Schmidt, the state’s longest-serving attorney general, has troubling ties to the fiscally disastrous governorship of Sam Brownback and faces a popular Democratic incumbent in November.
By Adrian Cole - October 03, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - August 08, 2022The heavy turnout for an August primary that typically favors Republicans was a major victory for abortion rights advocates.
By Associated Press - August 03, 2022Kansas state Sen. Mark Steffen told an audience of Republicans, ‘We’ll be able to make further laws, further refinement, with my goal of life starting at conception.’
By Adrian Cole - July 20, 2022A proposal approved by the GOP-controlled Kansas Senate would cut the number of drop boxes statewide by more than 40% from the 2020 elections.
By Associated Press - March 27, 2022Marshall has invested tens of thousands of dollars in mutual funds with Chinese holdings.
By Josh Israel - January 18, 2022Former Trump economic adviser Stephen Moore is bringing his regressive tax philosophy to the Virginia governor’s race.
By Nick Vachon - October 14, 2021Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) continues to make false claims about the effectiveness of masks against COVID spread.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - August 10, 2021A 14-year-old Kansas student was punished by her school in January for saying she was a lesbian.
By Casey Quinlan - August 02, 2021Sens. Joni Ernst and Roger Marshall want to ban nonexistent ‘meatless Mondays’ at federal agency cafeterias.
By Josh Israel - April 19, 2021Republican state lawmakers are introducing bills that would give them the power to control future elections.
By Emily Singer - April 02, 2021They say they want to ‘preserve safeguards for women.’
By Lisa Needham - January 28, 2021The same actors appear in attacks ads placed in Maine, Kansas, and Iowa.
By Amy Lieu - October 27, 2020Kansas state Senate President Susan Wagle is taking aim at the House seat held by Democrat Sharice Davids.
By Josh Israel - October 09, 2020Barbara Bollier would be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Kansas in 88 years.
By Amy Lieu - September 30, 2020Also: Kansas could elect its first transgender lawmaker, and the Supreme Court upholds a decision to make voting easier in Rhode Island.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 14, 2020Rep. Steve Watkins is accused of three felony counts of voter fraud.
By Josh Israel - August 05, 2020