If you've been paying even the slightest attention to politics in the past few months, you're dizzy from your head spinning so much. Between national and local news, broad challenges to civil and human rights, pointed attacks on women's health or transgender children, and a confusing array of competing proposals to fix Kansas, it can be overwhelming. Let us try to sort it out for you.

What just happened?

In a surprise move that feels more than a little bitter, the Kansas Senate has adjourned today without working any of the bills we discussed previously.

Get ready for some politics.

Starting at 8 am today, the first salvo in the Kansas budget fight will be fired. It’s… complicated, but here is the gist.

This week at the Kansas Legislature, the rubber is finally hitting the road, though there's a giant elephant in the room that might derail everything.

This is the written testimony we are delivering at the hearing on HB 2064 in Topeka on Tuesday, February 7. We are supporting the expansion of KanCare to cover 150,000 more Kansans. You can download our testimony here.

This is the written testimony we are delivering at the hearing on HB 2237 in Topeka on Tuesday, February 7. We are supporting the non-partisan Rise Up tax plan. You can download our testimony here.

This is the written testimony we are delivering at the hearing on SB 37 in Topeka on Tuesday, February 7. We are opposing Secretary Kris Kobach's bid to create an unconstitutional two-tier voting system in Kansas. You can download our testimony here.

This is the testimony delivered by MainStream at hearings on campus carry repeal bills, SB53 in the Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs, and HB 2704 in the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs.

You've sent hundreds of emails to the Kansas Senate Committee on Federal and State Affairs, asking for their support in repealing the campus carry provisions in Kansas law. Now, it is time to work on the Kansas House of Representatives.

Our government is getting the message, loud and clear. Last week, hundreds of you made yourselves known, in emails and calls to your state legislators, to your national representatives, at marches and at meetings. The people of Kansas know what they want, and you are not shy about letting your electeds know, too.