Who are we talking about? Who is the next Kris Kobach? To tell you the truth, we don't know, but if you'd known what his future held twenty years ago, when Kris Kobach won his first elected position, do you think you would have voted, worked, and donated to his opponent?

We won't bury the lede any longer. In 1999, Kris Kobach was elected to the City Council for Overland Park, Kansas. It was his first elected office, and it helped lay the path for his future. In 2018, he did not win the Governor's race, but in those twenty years, his policies and programs have wreaked havoc on voting rights and the lives of immigrants to this country. He continues to make noise on a national level with voter suppression tactics and immigrant discrimination policies.

Imagine if he had not won that race. You can stop the next Kris Kobach, by voting this year, in your own local elections. Here is how:

• Contact your county elections office to see who is on your ballot
  • Douglas (.pdf)
  • Johnson: Primary and General
  • Sedgwick
  • Shawnee (.pdf)
  • Wyandotte (.pdf)
  • Other county election offices
    
    
• Learn everything you can about the candidates, and pick someone to support
  
  
• Put your all into that race, because local elections matter!
  
  
• Register to vote by July 16, 2019 at ksvotes.org
  
  
• Vote in the local primaries on August 6, 2019

Remember, in Kansas we now vote every year in August and November. Do more than vote.