MEDIA ADVISORY   The Kansas Republican Party will kick off a six-day, statewide bus tour beginning Monday, October 12, carrying the GOP ticket to communities across Kansas ahead of the 2026 general election. The tour will start with a press conference on Oct. 12 in Wichita. The tour will visit more than 20 cities from Wichita to the Kansas City metro before closing in Kansas’s 4th Congressional District.   WHAT: The “Take Back Kansas” statewide bus tour, featuring press conferences, rallies, and community stops highlighting Kansas agriculture, energy, manufacturing, education, healthcare and public safety.   WHO: The tour is expected to be

Topeka — (May 18, 2026) — The Kansas Republican Party is calling on all Kansas students in grades K-8 and their families to participate in Second Lady Usha Vance’s Summer Reading Challenge, running June 1 through September 4, 2026. The nationwide effort aims to transform summer vacation into a season of discovery, helping children explore new worlds, meet favorite authors, and develop a lifelong love of reading alongside their families, schools, and local libraries. As part of the Summer Reading Challenge, Second Lady Usha Vance is urging all children in grades K-8 to read at least 12 books. Once complete,

The idea that people should rule themselves was central to America’s founding. It’s something the Declaration of Independence makes clear, noting how governments derive “their just powers from the consent of the governed.” But although our Founding Fathers had no use for King George III, they understood that pure democracy is nothing more than mob rule, and mobs can be just as tyrannical as any foreign despot. James Madison highlighted this danger, writing, “In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control