Well folks, the last few weeks have been a whirlwind. First, there was the primary election. And I still don’t quite have the words to adequately thank everyone who believed in this campaign and helped us win the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives in Kansas’ Fourth District. We won with 66%...

When I was a kid, music was my happy place. So many nights after dinner, my dad would pull out his acoustic Martin guitar while my mom grabbed her fiddle. I’d join in singing along to country classics like “Poncho & Lefty,” “Hey, Good Lookin’,” and “Deep in the Heart of Texas.” That last one was always my favorite...

It started with Executive Order 14399 back in late March, which mandated that federal agencies compile and transmit "State Citizenship Lists" to local election officials and directed the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to restrict mail-in balloting strictly to voters who are pre-approved by the federal government....

Sometimes thinking about all of the challenges facing American democracy can feel overwhelming. It’s not just one problem to solve. It’s a whole litany—the growing gap between rich and poor, the rising cost of healthcare, the influence of money in politics, attacks on voting rights, attempts to rewrite our history,...

Those were the opening words of a letter my grandfather wrote to Republican Party leaders on August 18, 2000. My grandfather grew up in Wichita and spent the last forty years of his life in Leon. He was a lifelong Republican who believed in personal responsibility, fiscal discipline, and individual freedom. He...

It’s no secret that a large part of why I was asked to run for Congress here in Kansas’ Fourth District was due to my work with the civic engagement organization Leading Kansas. Two of the core tenets of Leading Kansas are defending freedom and championing truth. Those principles have carried over into my campaign...

One of the most frequent questions I get asked on the campaign trail is where I stand on the Israel-Palestine conflict. Early on, I dodged the question or relied on familiar talking points: “Benjamin Netanyahu is a warmonger, but Israel had a right to defend itself after the horrors of October 7, 2023.” While there...

When I joined this race, I promised my kids that they’d still get a summer vacation. So we’ve spent the last week visiting my in-laws in Maryland. Yesterday, we journeyed into DC to see some of the sights. My kids had never been to the national mall so we started there. As I walked around the WWII memorial, I was...

Kansas is an agricultural state. We grow wheat, corn, soybeans, sorghum, and cattle. We feed the country and we used to help feed the world—before the Trump Administration threw USAID’s Food for Peace program out the window alongside a complicit Congress. Yet one in seven Kansas children lives in a food-insecure...

Four hundred thirty-seven days ago, Leading Kansas formally requested a meeting with Senator Jerry Moran in the public forum of his choosing. We sent similar requests to Representative Ron Estes and Senator Roger Marshall. In Senator Moran’s case, we never received a response. The others declined. Let me tell you...

Over the past 48 hours, the news cycle has thrown a few headlines at us that deserve some attention. Yesterday afternoon, Attorney General (and former personal lawyer to President Trump) Todd Blanche told a congressional committee that the Department of Justice will not be moving forward with plans to create a...

Since launching my congressional campaign back in March, one thing has become increasingly clear to me: there are two kinds of people in politics right now. First, there is the “politics as usual crowd” — the people who continue to perform, play political games, and treat this moment like any other in modern...