Kansas

After Kansas Shocker Biden To Sign Major Executive Order Protecting Access To Reproductive Healthcare

After Kansas Shocker Biden To Sign Major Executive Order Protecting Access To Reproductive Healthcare

The timing may be a coincidence, but on the day after pro-choice Americans got a big victory in deep-red Kansas,…

2 years ago

Republican Senate Candidate Kris Kobach: Coronavirus Numbers Are “Being Cooked” to Harm Trump’s Reelection

Kris Kobach has claimed Coronavirus numbers are being falsified in order to harm Donald Trump's reelection chances. His comments come…

4 years ago

Opinion: McConnell’s Opposition to Providing Relief to States Will Starve Americans

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently announced his opposition to any kind of relief packages for states, advising instead…

4 years ago

A Democrat May Become Governor of Kansas as Many in GOP Won’t Back Kobach

The Kansas City Star newspaper recently asked 95 Republican members of the Kansas House and Senate where they stood on…

6 years ago

Kansas Govt Didn’t Tell People About Chemicals In Water For Over 6 Years

There’s something that happens in red states where Republicans take over state government and run it like a business. What…

6 years ago

Rachel Maddow Explains Why The GOP Should Be Terrified Regardless Of The Final Kansas Results

No matter what happens, this is a good night for Democrats in Kansas and across the country.

7 years ago

Opinion: Sam Brownback Vetoes Republican Medicaid Expansion Legislation

"We have the ability to help people who truly need it the most. We have the ability to make a…

7 years ago

Opinion: Kansas’ Brownback Slammed by Supreme Court a Third Time For Underfunding Schools

It seems completely illogical that the state can argue that a reduction in education funding was necessitated by the downturn…

7 years ago

Trump Continues To Lose Support As New Poll Shows Kansas In Play For Hillary Clinton

In a state Mitt Romney won by 22 points, Clinton and Trump are in a tight race.

8 years ago

Kansas Republicans Waste Taxpayer Money To Fly For Pleasure, Religion and Destroy Democracy

While Republicans slash education, transportation, and social services, Republicans use a taxpayer-funded aircraft for personal pleasure.

8 years ago

Kansas Republicans Starting to Rebel Against ‘Trickle-Down’ Brownback

'If Governor Brownback won't reconsider any of the tax cuts, he will have to figure out for himself how to…

8 years ago

Barely Alive, Kansas Public Schools On the Verge Of Brownback’s Death Blow

The Kansas bill creates private school savings and funding programs by diverting public education funding to private and religious schools

8 years ago

GOP Rift Grows as Trump Dumps CPAC to Campaign in ‘Witchita, Kanasas’

Donald Trump knows CPAC is not Trump country so he's going to Kansas, if he can find something he can't…

8 years ago

Republican Failures Are Distracting Voters Again With A Secret Weapon

Ohio’s John Kasich and Sam Brownback of Kansas are just the latest Republicans to use abortion to distract their residents…

8 years ago

Kansans Despise Gov. Sam Brownback’s Policies But They Voted For Him Anyway

Only 18 percent of Kansans are satisfied with Governor Sam Brownback, despite electing him twice to be their governor.

9 years ago

Kansas Secretary of State Fires State Employee For Not Attending Church

A former Kansas state employee has filed a federal wrongful termination lawsuit targeting Kansas' Secretary of State and assistant secretary…

9 years ago

Kansas Issues $840 Million Debt Certificate To Cover Brownback’s Trickle Down Catastrophe

After a record-setting tax hike on the poor and middle class and truly Draconian social service cuts, the state is…

9 years ago

Dorothy is Wrong – We ARE in Kansas – And it Sucks

Not only have the wheels started to come off democracy everywhere Republicanism reaches, but they have sold the damn wheels.

9 years ago

Gov. Sam Brownback Will Eliminate Kansas’ Judiciary If It Fails To Rule In His Favor 

Republican Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill into law that eliminates the state's entire judicial system if the Supreme…

9 years ago

Kansas Republicans Finally Admit That Their Tax Cuts For The Wealthy Have Failed

With the state budget forecast to have a 400 million dollar shortfall, Kansas Republicans are finally acknowledging that the massive…

9 years ago

Scott Walker’s Koch Economics Is Decimating Wisconsin

Kansas has received its share of attention for its epic trickle down failure typical of conservative economics, and it is…

9 years ago

With Koch Funding, Kansas Republicans Pass Nation’s First Abortion Procedure Ban

Kansas' religious Republicans are so intent on proving they will go to any length to protect a fetus that they…

9 years ago

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback Stealing Is From Welfare Recipients To Enrich Banks

Brownback's Republicans have imposed an inordinately cruel measure to steal taxpayer money from welfare recipients and hand it to the…

9 years ago

Bully Sam Brownback Stomps On The Poor While Living Off Of His Wife’s Millions

The Kansas legislature is about to pass a bill that is a piece of paper-hate directed at the poor. Hate…

9 years ago

Another Blue State Outperforms A Typical Koch Fueled Red State Failure

Republicans claim businesses love and demand the conservative economic agenda, but according to states like California and Minnesota that is…

9 years ago

Massive School Layoffs, Healthcare, Food Stamp Cuts Populate Scott Walker’s Koch Budget

Scott Walker's budget epitomizes the Koch-Republican "vision for America" and not at all unique among states ruled by Koch-governors with…

9 years ago

John Boehner’s Defense of the GOP Budget is Pure Fiction, if Lies Can be Called Pure

John Boehner wants you to believe the demands of ideology over demonstrable facts, the same recipe that led us to…

9 years ago

Media Intentionally Hides Republicans’ Economic Failures And Democrats’ Success

t is true that Republican policies are why Americans are rapidly losing economic ground to the few wealthy elites, but…

9 years ago

GOP Governors Slash Education To Grow Their Ignorant Base 

Because Republicans depend on "the widespread ignorance of objective reality," their fascist threat to democracy is only succeeding due to…

9 years ago

The Koch Agenda Brings Pain And Woe To People In Republican Controlled Red States

Because they own most of the Republican state's governors and legislatures, it is there that the Kochs' ideology is doing…

9 years ago

Republicans Claim Obama’s “Quasi-Amnesty” Will Create An Epidemic of Non-Citizens Voting

During an appearance on Fox & Friends Friday morning, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach told host Steve Doocy that…

9 years ago

Supply Side Nightmare As Bobby Jindal Pushes Louisiana Into The Fiscal Abyss

Bobby Jindal's Louisiana is facing a 1.6 billion dollar budget shortfall next year, and comparable deficits for the years to…

9 years ago

How Koch-Republican Governors Rob Pensions And Slash Wages

Since most Americans are not like the Kochs, Republicans came up with a devious plot to garner support for taking…

9 years ago

Anti-Tax Republican Governors Are Raising Taxes On The Poor and Middle Class

Even though most Republican governors are wary of going all-in on tax cuts for the rich and corporations like trickle-down…

9 years ago

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback Is Stealing More From Children And Retirees To Fund Tax Cuts

Brownback's latest trickle down approach to make up for gross revenue shortfalls "crippling the state's finances" include cutting classroom funding…

9 years ago

Obama’s Brilliant State of the Union Wasted On Stupid Anti-Government Americans

For the past seven years President Barack Obama has delivered prescient State of the Union speeches that should appeal to…

9 years ago

Despite Kansas’ Continuing Economic Disaster, Sam Brownback Promises To Abolish Taxes

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback touted his trickle down tax cutting experiment would produce a bonanza in jobs, revenue, and economic…

9 years ago

Despite Obama’s National Economic Success Republican State Economies Are Failing   

Republicans ran on, and won big with, their claim that the GOP is "the party of solutions" founded on conservative…

9 years ago

Kansas Tea Party Experiment Fails As Brownback Supports New Tax Hikes

Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's attempt to make his state a model for Tea Party governance has ended in abject failure.

9 years ago

GOP’s First Step To Inflict Kansas Economic Woes On America

There is nothing as evil, mean-spirited, and pathetic as a mature adult who sees firsthand that something is inherently dangerous…

9 years ago

2nd Court Slams Brownback For Underfunding Education To Expedite Kochs’ Tax Cuts

  Now that Republicans control both houses of Congress, Americans should brace themselves for a serious Koch-style assault on revenue…

9 years ago

The Koch Wall Street Crusade To Rob Pensions Is Underway

This is the class war billionaire Warren Buffet admitted his class was winning, and if any American doubted that the…

9 years ago

Paul Ryan Plans A CBO Rubber Stamp For Trickle Down Disaster

Paul Ryan is quietly working behind the scenes to make sure the next head of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO),…

9 years ago

The Likes of Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Leave America a Bleaker Place This Morning

We are the victims of voter suppression and intimidation. Our votes were overridden with dark money and corporate-funded propaganda

9 years ago

Republican Georgia Senate Candidate Wants To Prosecute Obama For His Success

According to Georgia Republican Senate candidate David Perdue, his only reason for serving is to prosecute Democrats and President Obama…

9 years ago

Mitch McConnell Admits Republicans Want Kansas’ “Conservative Hell” Enacted Nationally

McConnell is anxious to lead the Senate and join House Republicans in enacting Brownback's Koch brother model at the national…

10 years ago

The Media Finally Catches On That Democrats Are Running The Better Senate Campaigns

Don't look now, but even the mainstream corporate controlled media are catching on that Democrats are running more effective Senate…

10 years ago

Kansas Is a Portent of Republican Medicare Privatization Disaster

Democrats have a living, breathing example of privatizing Medicare, and frankly everything in the Path to Prosperity budget, that has…

10 years ago

GOP Takes One On The Chin As Kansas Court Rules Dems Don’t Need To Name Senate Candidate

A Kansas district court ruled on Wednesday that the Democratic Party does not need to name a Senate candidate to…

10 years ago

Kansas Rebels,”Going to see Sarah Palin would be the equivalent of having your teeth cleaned.”

Sarah Palin gave her usual pep talk -- including the requisite Palinism of "invicted" -- to the "a couple hundred"…

10 years ago

Sam Brownback Insults Kansas Voters By Treating Them Like They Are Gullible and Stupid

It is beyond dispute that Republicans take advantage of their supporters' stupidity, and Brownback must believe Kansas voters are the…

10 years ago

Pat Roberts of Kansas Goes All Tea Party and Warns of National Socialism

Losing at the polls in Kansas to independent candidate and X-Factor Chad Orman, incumbent Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is pulling…

10 years ago

Republicans Sweating As Democrats Hold Leads In Georgia’s Senate And Governor Races

All the talk of a Republican takeover of the US Senate after this year's midterms may have been a bit…

10 years ago

Republican Economic Policies Are Creating a Downgrade Frenzy In States Across The Country

The pattern is unmistakable; Republicans are ill-prepared to manage finances or an economy whether it is at the state or…

10 years ago

Kansas Ready To Dump GOP Governor As Democrat Is Up 6 Points On Sam Brownback

Democrat Paul Davis leads Republican Sam Brownback 47-41 in the latest poll, as voters express their dismay with Brownback's policies.

10 years ago

Ted Nugent’s He-Man Bromance with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach

Nugent claims, "Kris Kobach is our ass kickin BloodBrother & on the frontlines taking on the America hating ObamaGang at…

10 years ago

Liberal States Outperform Conservative Ones as Republicans Push More Trickle Down

It is beyond question that after over thirty years, the Republican "trickle down" economic experiment continues providing the same empirical…

10 years ago

Missouri GOP Shows a Special Degree of Stupid By Passing Kansas’ Worst Tax Cuts In the Country

Missouri Republicans are stupider than congressional Republicans because they carefully studied Kansas Republicans' economic policies that created a budget nightmare…

10 years ago

If Republicans Don’t Want to be Compared to Nazis, They Should Stop Acting Like Nazis

Republicans, like the Nazis, want to enforce through legislation obedience to and a belief in a mythical white paradise

10 years ago

Voters say Republican Governor Sam Brownback is ‘What’s the Matter with Kansas’

A new PPP poll finds that voters disapprove of Sam Brownback's job performance. He trails Democrat Paul Davis in his…

10 years ago

Kansas Republicans Violate The Constitution By Passing Anti-Gay Segregation Law

The Kansas House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a piece of legislation crafted to legalize anti-gay segregation under the guise…

10 years ago

Republicans Might Learn How to Talk to Women But They Don’t Care What They Think

"We control 30 governorships, we control 26 state houses and senates chambers. You know, we, in fact, know how to…

10 years ago

The Republican Plan to Violate the First Amendment by Establishing Religion

Tim Huelskamp's Federal Marriage Amendment is not only bad politics bad religion, it's against the law of the land

11 years ago

The Koch Brothers War On Renewable Energy Is Killing Jobs and Destroying Our Air

With ALEC supplying Republicans Koch legislation to end renewable energy standards, Americans will lose jobs, clean air, inexpensive electricity, and…

11 years ago

Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp Put the Fool in April Fool’s Day

Kansas Republican Tim Huelskamp says marriage equality is unpatriotic and will destroy the family and motherhood - and even your…

11 years ago

Republican Congressman Says He’s Not Convinced Sandy Victims Need Relief

Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp told AFA Director of Issues Analysis Bryan Fischer that he saw no real need for…

11 years ago

A Win for Planned Parenthood with Kansas Prosecutor’s Decision to Drop Remaining Charges

Prosecutors in Kansas dropped the remaining 32 charges against Planned Parenthood bringing an end to, anti-choice zealot, Phill Kline's witch-hunt…

12 years ago

The Response To Stir Up Extremists in Kansas City

After underwhelming Houston, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida, The Response is bringing its brand of extremist Christianity to Kansas City…

12 years ago