Kansas

The Stakes

The rightwing supermajorities in both chambers of the Kansas state legislature have used their governing power to override Governor Laura Kelly’s veto and enact extreme policies that will harm Kansans including:

• Promoting misinformation about abortion care to patients, and making it easier to sue doctors who provide abortions, both of which could deter access to essential reproductive healthcare services. 
• Restricting voter registration, and making it easier to purge Kansans from voter rolls, including automatic removal if a voter hasn’t cast a ballot over the previous four years;
• Limiting food assistance programs, making it more difficult for Kansans to put food on the table. 

This November, Kansans have the opportunity to elect a new governor.  Breaking the rightwing supermajority in the Kansas House will restore the Governor’s veto power.

The Opportunity

In 2024, Donald Trump won Kansas by 16 points. But we came extremely close to breaking the rightwing supermajority in the House: if just 568 votes had changed across 5 seats, the supermajority would have been broken, and the governor would have had the veto power needed to block some of the worst of the rightwing’s MAGA agenda. 

Every seat that was won or lost within 5 percent of the vote across both chambers was a seat we invested in — margins came down to as few as 31 votes.

This year, momentum is on our side. We need just 6 seats to flip to break the rightwing supermajority in the Kansas House to restore the governor’s veto power.