Kansas for All will catalyze a powerful grassroots organizing and field operation throughout the state, beginning in Emporia, Lawrence, Manhattan, and Salina, to move communities into the action we need on the path toward more common-sense progressive solutions. 

Kansas has always been a political battleground. From its first days of statehood, when abolitionists and slave owners fought for the future of the nation, Kansas stood on the front line of the struggle for democracy. Today, our state once again occupies that position. In 2022, Kansans overwhelmingly voted against a constitutional amendment to ban abortion, signaling that the Republican supermajority currently in power is more vulnerable than it appears. Together, we tapped into our collective desire to see each other thrive and fought for control over our own destinies. Mid-sized rural cities like Emporia, Salina, and Manhattan were crucial for this landslide, anchoring countywide majorities or supermajorities against the amendments in areas to which no one was paying attention. Now, some leaders of the 2022 effort have identified a gap in the infrastructure, and a key opportunity to close that gap while also winning our next critical state-level fight.

In August 2026, Kansas voters will be met with another watershed amendment. The 2026 ballot measure will determine the balance of the Kansas Supreme Court, which will, in turn, decide redistricting, school funding, voting rights, and abortion rights for generations. This fight will also set the stage for the school-funding budget struggle of 2027 and the legislative races of 2028. Winning those battles requires moving Kansans from one-off mobilization to long-term political engagement and leadership.

We now have an opportunity not only to push back against right-wing power grabs this year, but to eventually organize a durable majority of Kansans around common-sense progressive issues such as school funding, reproductive freedom, and affordability.

Kansas has several effective single-issue nonprofits with strong messaging capacity, but it does not have a statewide base-building organization conducting deep political organizing. As a result, tens of thousands of Kansans will hear about the 2026 constitutional amendments—but there is currently no organization prepared to turn that concern into structured political power. There is no entity focused on developing leaders, organizing neighborhoods, or building the multiracial working-class base needed to contest and take statewide power. We aim to change that in four key cities.

If we do not act now, we risk losing ground in key parts of the state where local grassroots efforts can contribute to a statewide groundswell of progressive political power. By creating a sustainable operation that organizers, nonprofits, and community members can count on, we can change the tides of political power in Kansas. In the years to come, Kansas for All can grow functional leaders across the state who will carry on the fight.