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The Latest Breaking News from Kansas

On Aug. 2, staid, conservative Kansas gave the United States one of the biggest jolts in an election season in which Democratic disaster and Republican ascension had been such an accepted fact that left-wing media’s denial of inevitability sounded more like prayer. President Joe Biden’s approval rating was lower than…

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Activist offers to pay for Kansas' recount of abortion vote

An anti-abortion activist who heads a small hard-right Republican group said he’s offered to pay the expected $229,000 cost of a hand recount of votes from every Kansas county after a decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights

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‘Super-legislature.’ Ballot question asks Kansans to empower Legislature over governor

After Kansas voters last week rejected one attempt to give the Republican-controlled Legislature more power, GOP lawmakers will try once more in November.

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Kansas plans to recount abortion amendment vote, despite proposal’s landslide defeat

Kansas election officials plan to conduct a statewide recount of the vote rejecting an amendment to remove abortion rights from the state constitution after a citizen posted a $200,000 bond for the recount, the state Secretary of State’s Office said.

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Kansas to recount abortion vote, despite large margin

Kansas’ elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount of votes from every county after last week’s decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights, even though there was a 165,000-vote difference and a recount won’t change the result

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You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Party, in Wichita

And the Kansas Supreme Court may well be on your side.

Reason

Kansas abortion vote shows limits of GOP's strength

Last week, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed state lawmakers to tighten restrictions on abortion

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Editorial: Sen. Roger Marshall compares the FBI to Nazi police. What ever happened to ‘Back the blue’?

A year ago, Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas seemed pretty clear: An uptick in national crime rates was the Democrats’ fault.

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After the fall of Roe, Republican pursuit of abortion bans appears to falter

The stunning defeat of the Kansas referendum and internal divisions have undercut an all-out assault on reproductive rights

The Guardian - US

US Democrats gain ground before midterm elections as Kansas voters reject attempt to ban abortion

On June 24, the US Supreme Court denied a constitutional right to an abortion, overturning its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973. I covered this and two other late June right-wing decisions by the court in an early July article.

The Conversation

GOP fascism rises, despite Kansas vote

In Pennsylvania and Arizona, Big Lie supporters have won GOP nominations for governor and other key races

Salon

A Florida license plate has reopened the debate over the 'Don't tread on me' flag

Gov. Ron DeSantis says a plate featuring the Revolutionary War-era Gadsden flag sends a "clear message to out-of-state cars." Others say the flag symbolizes a dangerous far-right extremist ideology.

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Editorial: Abortion rights are still in danger from radical politicians, Kansas voters be damned

Last week, Kansas state Sen. Mike Thompson sent an email to supporters and constituents, bemoaning the landslide victory for abortion rights on Aug. 2.

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Water park accused of racism for cancelling Black teen’s party as 250 guests arrived

Officials of Summit Waves water park outside Kansas city reportedly said they were ‘uncomfortable’ hosting the party

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Missouri AG Schmitt says he’ll take a ‘wrecking ball’ to DOJ as Republicans react to Trump raid

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Missouri, decried an FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, calling it an “unprecedented weaponization” of the Department of Justice against one of President Joe Biden’s political opponents.

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‘Let us live our life': Why the Kansas abortion amendment failed in some rural counties

SCRANTON, Kan. — Meetings of the local Democratic Party in deeply Republican Osage County, a largely rural area where former President Donald Trump won 71% of the vote in 2020, typically draw about a dozen people.

Chicago Sun-Times

Kansas voters turned out to save abortion rights. That’s a good sign for the rest of America.

That victory for privacy, freedom and bodily autonomy was driven by huge voter turnout and the organizers who worked to achieve it.

Roll Call

What the national analysis of Kansas left out - Roll Call

The defeat of an anti-abortion referendum was a surprise, but Democrats have found Kansas opportunities since a GOP civil war in 1990s.

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Los Angeles Times

Abortion rights activists want a national leader. Is Kamala Harris up to the job?

WASHINGTON — As Democrats celebrated an abortion rights win last week, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke confidently from the center of an ornate room at the White House compound, surrounded by Cabinet secretaries and other top officials, with President Joe Biden chiming in remotely while sidelined by the coronavirus.

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Editorial: Kansas’ message to Florida on abortion

Kansas voters surprised the nation and reframed the midterm elections by voting overwhelmingly against removing abortion rights from the state constitution. It was a sharp rebuke in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s reversal in June of Roe v. Wade, the court’s landmark abortion decision, and while it’s premature…

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Police: Suspect in slayings of 4 in Ohio arrested in Kansas

A suspect in the shooting deaths of four people in Ohio has been arrested in Kansas

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Abrams sees Kansas abortion vote as new hope for Georgia Democrats

ATLANTA — The decisive vote in Kansas to protect abortion rights was quickly embraced by Georgia Democrats as evidence that the backlash to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade could alter a midterm election climate that favors the GOP.

Salon

What happened in Kansas: It's big

Right-wingers thought they had a foolproof game plan in Kansas. It fell apart, and that could change everything

WEKU

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

Los Angeles Times

Jackie Calmes: The abortion vote in Kansas shows that populism can work for Democrats too

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. seemed to enjoy the yucks he got from a friendly audience abroad when he recently mocked foreign leaders by name, and Prince Harry, too, for criticizing the Supreme Court opinion he wrote robbing Americans of their federal constitutional right to abortion.

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