This year brims with opportunities for Democrats.  The president’s party typically loses seats in the midterms, and President Trump’s approval ratings are an abysmal 36%.  Kansas Democrats are fired up because popular Johnson County pastor…

TOPEKA — A coalition of Kansas House Democrats sought passage of a bill Thursday requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating in Kansas to forego warrantless raids, undergo the equivalent of a 14-week law…

As a rule, we oppose federal government shutdowns. When the federal government shuts down, Americans suffer. And there has been plenty of suffering in America during the past six weeks. The nation’s longest federal government…

Sometimes, when you’re angry, you need to take out your aggression on something. Having a punching bag can be therapeutic. And while Chuck Schumer might look useless this week, he is in fact playing the…

President Donald Trump offered no new ideas to end the government shutdown and shrugged off demands by Democrats to address skyrocketing Obamacare insurance premiums in an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes.” Echoing Republican talking…

What if the federal government shut down and few people noticed — or cared? Nearly one month since the lights went out in Washington, most Americans don’t seem all that aware, let alone upset. Perhaps…

Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg dropped a bombshell on Democrats last week, one lost in the chaotic news cycle following Charlie Kirk’s assassination. He was responding to a passage in former Vice President Kamala…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Florida’s Democratic members of Congress are urging Gov. Ron DeSantis to reconsider a new state directive to eliminate school-based vaccine requirements. “We feel it is dangerous to remove this cornerstone of…

After the Trump administration slashed billions in state and local public health funding from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention earlier this year, the eventual impact on states split sharply along political lines.…

TOPEKA — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and more than a dozen other Democratic governors cautioned President Donald Trump against deploying states’ National Guard. Kelly, chair of the Democratic Governors Association, and Democratic governors across the…