“Kansas, get ready to learn what a polycule is,” read one Tuesday night tweet. All in due time. Let Kansans rest up. (This includes the ethically nonmonogamous community in Lawrence.) Kansas must be exhausted. It swung left 21.06 points Tuesday. As everyone now knows, the state elected Adam Hamilton, a recent Democratic convert and founding pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, as its first Democratic U.S. senator since...

Over the last 12 years of midterm elections, Tuesday's had the second highest voter turnout in the five-county area.

Democrats secured at least 54 Senate seats after Tuesday’s midterm elections. While some newly elected Democratic senators, including Adam Hamilton in Kansas and Troy Jackson in Maine, said during their campaigns that they would not vote for Schumer as majority leader,

There was no love lost between term-limited Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and gubernatorial hopeful Cindy Holscher during the Democratic primary, when Kelly supported a different Johnson County state senator.

There are just four races for U.S. Senate and governor that The Associated Press has not yet called as of Thursday. Contests in Alaska, Kansas and Mississippi have narrow margins with votes still outstanding even as the scale of Democrats’ midterm victory across the country comes into focus,

But even on a night filled with remarkable results, the victories of James Talarico in Texas and Adam Hamilton in Kansas stood apart. It’s not simply that a Texas Senate seat went Democratic for the first time since 1988,

Voters in Kansas, Alaska, Arkansas, South Dakota and West Virginia approved noncitizen voting bans by wide margins, but key Supreme Court case looms.

The 2026 midterms reflected a shift among millions of Latino voters across the country, from the border counties of Texas and the meatpacking towns of southwest Kansas to Miami-Dade, Colorado and Arizona.

The midterms Blue Tsunami flipped Texas statewide for the first time since 1992 and saw Kansas elect a Democratic senator for the first time in 94 years.

Republican gov. candidate Ty Masterson trails Dem. Cindy Hoelscher; late mail ballots he voted to outlaw are the only way he could catch up.