Kansas Helen Podcast

If you’re a Republican primary voter considering candidates for governor, I urge you to vote for Stacey Rogers. You can learn more about her People Over Politics, grassroots campaign at: www.stacyrogersforks.com While I personally wouldn’t vote for her due to disagreements on several key issues, I still recognize her genuine motivation for entering this race. Furthermore, I admire the immense effo...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. The conversation closes with voter education, local elections, and the value of a vote. Moreland says she has heard people say their vote does not count, but local elections matter more t...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. Moreland talks about money in politics and why voters should pay attention to where candidates get their campaign funding. She says her donations have come from people, not corporations,...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. This section focuses on rural crisis, small towns, farm loss, and corporate ownership. The conversation covers unincorporated communities, rural areas losing resources, families watching...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. The conversation turns to what happens when leaders make decisions without listening to the people affected. Moreland says that kind of leadership changes people’s lives without understan...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. This section looks at what it means to work within the system without becoming part of the problem. Moreland and the conversation focus on learning how government actually works, understa...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. Moreland talks about why Kansas needs more everyday people in office. She says the Legislature needs people who are not lifetime politicians, millionaires, or insiders, but regular people...

Taylor Moreland for Kansas House District 7 is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. This section focuses on homelessness in Parsons and Moreland’s work with the local homeless shelter. She says homelessness is a real issue in the community and argues that cities and coun...

Taylor Moreland is running the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 7 is in rural southeast Kansas and includes Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. The conversation starts with a campaign update. When we last spoke she had no opposition, now she has a primary opponent, and hopefully will be facing the general opponent. Regardless of Tuesday’s outcome, I am conf...

Taylor Moreland is running in the primary for Kansas House District 7, a rural southeast Kansas district including Parsons, Chanute, Altamont, and surrounding communities. In this follow-up conversation, Moreland discussed her campaign’s evolution since filing in September 2025, lessons learned meeting voters, and why she believes everyday people with real-life experience are essential in the Kans...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. The conversation closes with accountability, Kansas history, and the kind of campaign Campsey is running. Campsey says he welcomes being held accountable and talks about loving Kansas, its history, its culture, and the possibility that the state can keep ma...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. Campsey and I talk about the possibility that 2026 could be a major year for political change in Kansas. The conversation connects the current moment to the 2022 abortion amendment vote, when Kansas shocked the country, and to the state’s long history of be...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. Campsey and I talk about the possibility that 2026 could be a major year for political change in Kansas. The conversation connects the current moment to the 2022 abortion amendment vote, when Kansas shocked the country, and to the state’s long history of be...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. This section focuses on precinct committee positions and the missing foundation of grassroots party power. Campsey agrees that politics has too often become something people consume from the couch instead of something they participate in. He says politics i...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. Campsey argues that this is a moment when the left has to put forward a real alternative for working people. He talks about the right trying to cement power, including through redistricting and attacks on democratic rights, and says institutions alone will...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. This clip focuses on the campaign’s ground game and what Campsey is hearing from voters. He says the campaign has knocked doors thousands of times, including going back through Democratic primary voters more than once, with volunteers helping every weekend...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. Here, Campsey explains why he decided to challenge the incumbent. He says the incumbent was elected in 2024, had worked as a lobbyist in Topeka before taking office, and had not yet faced what he considers a real race. Campsey frames the challenge as health...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. This section moves from District 10 into the broader question of organizing in places where voters often have few real choices. Campsey talks about the value of finding people in uncontested areas, talking with them, and building organizing capacity beyond...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4th Democratic Primary. Kansas House District 10 is in southeastern Lawrence. The conversation opens with TJ Campsey introducing the district and the message behind his campaign. Campsey talks about southeastern Lawrence as a city district and describes District 10 as one of the most progressive districts in Kansas. He connects his c...

TJ Campsey is running for Kansas House District 10 in the August 4 Democratic primary. The southeastern Lawrence district offers fertile ground for his bold working-class message. Campsey rejects weak solutions and refuses to wait for moderate Republicans to agree. He believes this political moment demands something stronger. Campsey argues that Democrats should not weaken their demands to appeal...

Sarah Preu is running for Kansas 3rd Congressional District in the August 4th Democratic Primary. The closing section focuses on accountability, campaign money, and who elected officials actually work for. Preu says the people of the district should be the boss, not the party and not the donor list, and the conversation closes with the message to vote for Sarah Preu and vote no on Amendment 1. See...

Sarah Preu is running for Kansas 3rd Congressional District in the August 4th Democratic Primary. This section digs into party politics, Citizens United, corporate money, AIPAC, ICE votes, Israel, Gaza, and what bipartisanship is actually being used for. Preu says the issue is not whether a vote is bipartisan, but what a candidate chooses to cross the aisle for and whether they are willing to answ...

Sarah Preu is running for Kansas 3rd Congressional District in the August 4th Democratic Primary. This section focuses on activists who have been warning about surveillance, policing, immigration enforcement, and state power for decades. Preu talks about seeing older progressive activists and young organizers in the same room, with the same energy, and says that connection across generations made...

Sarah Preu is running for Kansas 3rd Congressional District in the August 4th Democratic Primary. In this section, Preu lays out why she supports abolishing ICE. She says the agency has not existed for very long, was considered redundant when it was created, and has become a public safety issue because of dangerous raids, chases, shootings, and aggressive enforcement over paperwork issues. See the...

Sarah Preu is running for Kansas 3rd Congressional District in the August 4th Democratic Primary. This section gets into why Preu is challenging Sharice Davids in the Democratic primary. Preu says democracy means she can run, and she argues that voters should not be told to be grateful for a blue seat when the votes, money, and policy choices do not match the values of the people being represented...