Senator Mary Ware

Truth and love have been smacked down, so many more times in history before today. Truth, because it’s often inconvenient, and love because it is vulnerable.

But truth is like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse: it’s still there. And love stays alive if you tend it like a flame. If you feel crushed by unkindness today, it’s a time for grieving, reaching out to loved ones, noticing one bright color somewhere in the day. Remembering what there is to love. Starting with the immediate, the place and people we can tend ourselves, and make safe. We can’t save everything all at once, but it’s still worth saving something. Because there are so many of us to do it.

And we are all still here today, exactly as we were yesterday. Like gravity, and carbon, and the sun behind an eclipse.

We have a real shot at taking back control from politicians who aren’t listening to us. We can break the supermajority and make sure our voices are finally heard on issues that actually matter to our families—like protecting our reproductive rights, expanding Medicaid so folks don’t have to choose between rent and healthcare, and ensuring our public schools get the funding they deserve.

Don’t sit this one out—your vote is power. Show up by 7pm, make it count, and let’s get Kansas back on track for all of us, not just a select few. Find your polling place here: https://myvoteinfo.voteks.org/voterview