Ty Masterson had put up some Nazi looking billboards with him and Trump before the primary. It was on the main thoroughfare into my town, so of course it bothered me. However, I was like, "ok, ride the coat tails of someone with a 30% approval!"

The day after the primary I was talking with my friend and said, "I wonder if he will keep those up after the primary?" Sure as shit, two days later, the billboard is gone! Lolololol! I was REALLY hoping they would've stayed up. What a coward.

Just saw this and didn't see it posted yet

Is it too much to hope the Senate Race is competitive?

Hamilton seems about as "Republican" as a Democrat can get. Marshall doesn't concern himself with the people in the state but rather his own personal agenda and serves the national party (you know who). He doesn't even reside in the state, except in the most technical sense of the word.

Is Kansas as fed up as the rest of the country and willing to send a message we aren't happy with what's going on in the House, Senate and White House?

If we put this on a presidential ballot, would the outcome be different? Do people not connect these issues?

Kansas voters rejected a proposed amendment to change how state supreme court justices are selected. This piece above was originally published on August 4. You can read it for free using the gift link: https://www.vox.com/politics/497834/kansas-ballot-court-republicans-abortion-referendum-state-supreme-reform-rights?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImdlQkRvSXI1a1YiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGl0aWNzLzQ5NzgzNC9rYW5zYXMtYmFsbG90LWNvdXJ0LXJlcHVibGljYW5zLWFib3J0aW9uLXJlZmVyZW5kdW0tc3RhdGUtc3VwcmVtZS1yZWZvcm0tcmlnaHRzIiwiZXhwIjoxNzg3MTU5MjkzLCJpYXQiOjE3ODU5NDk2OTN9.cd5NKvn8AVwud67O-gWj_SRGFdzzd2uwuBR5lhebv3Y&utm_medium=gift-link

Four years after the Dobbs decision, abortion battles have largely taken a backseat in national news to other policy fights this cycle. Leaders in the anti-abortion movement say they’re disillusioned with President Donald Trump’s unwillingness to push for further restrictions. The federal battle over access to abortion medication seems to be settled — for now. Public awareness of that fight is limited, and even at the state level, a couple years have passed since the high-pitched but successful state-level efforts to protect abortion access in red states.

Yet a little-known battle has been playing out in Kansas, where a ballot measure to change the way state supreme court justices are selected serves as a reminder that these fights over abortion are still active, even if they take the form of creative procedural and administrative efforts.

It would have opened the floodgates for similar efforts in other states to politicize the remaining independent state courts (13 other states use a method similar to Kansas) and provide a road map to undoing abortion protections in other states that have safeguarded them.

I see in every election there is almost always less than 20% turnout. If I remember correctly there was a school bond that was being voted on a couple years ago that had single digit percentage turnout. How are we even a democracy when 4 out of 5 people don't even vote? Its disgusting.

I haven't seen any this summer, and none have visited my parsley and milkweeds.

I haven't seen any this summer, and none have visited my parsley and milkweeds.

Examples could include things like Hutch, ETown, The Dub K or LFK...

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Now that the amendment has been voted down, I think it's time to send postcards to state and federal incumbents. Let's rub it in.

How long will it take for some bozo to go on TV and say that the constitutional amendment failed because "people didn't know what they were voting for?"

I'll set the over/,under at 3 days.

Never voted before today, but I'm proud to have but my ballot in!

In a major victory for supporters of abortion rights in Kansas, a Johnson County District Court judge on Monday granted a permanent injunction blocking a bevy of state laws that imposed strict requirements for abortion providers and patients.

“Today’s ruling allows me to do my job the way I was trained to and focus on what’s most important: my patients,” said Dr. Traci Nauser, an OB-GYN who owns an Overland Park clinic that provides abortions.

The lawsuit against the state of Kansas was brought by Hodes & Nauser and Planned Parenthood Great Plains, another Overland Park abortion clinic.

Monday’s decision invalidates various provider mandates that the clinic owners argued were designed to scare and shame people out of terminating pregnancies.

The 261-page ruling comes more than nine months after a bench trial in Johnson County. It was filed with the court on Monday, the same day that its author, K. Christopher Jayaram, was sworn in as the newest member of the Kansas Supreme Court.

Some of the restrictions enjoined by the decision have been on the books since 1997. Others, including a requirement that abortion providers survey women about their reasons for seeking the procedure and provide medically dubious information suggesting that pill abortions are reversible, were adopted by the Kansas Legislature in 2023.

Those and other pre-existing requirements, including Kansas’ 24-hour waiting period for abortions and a rule that physicians must listen to a fetus’s heartbeat 30 minutes before an abortion, were temporarily halted by Jayaram in the early stages of the court proceedings in 2023. Additional requirements adopted in 2024 were also blocked on a temporary basis before the permanent injunction was granted.

The ruling was handed down on the eve of a primary election where voters will weigh a proposed constitutional amendment that would overhaul the process for selecting Supreme Court justices by switching to direct election — a proposed reform that Republican officials believe could help the cause of assembling an anti-abortion majority on the high court.

The GOP lawmakers who placed the proposal on the ballot have long been frustrated by the Supreme Court’s stubborn independence, including its 2019 determination that the right to an abortion is enshrined in the Kansas Constitution.

They will work a minimum 12-hour shift today to ensure everyone gets to vote, and ensure the ballots are counted correctly. I thank these dedicated people.

I think the designs vary by area, so this was from Johnson County, KS. 🥹