“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,

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.

Trump asked Kansas voters to treat midterms as a referendum on him, but the strategy backfired as Democrats won many races.

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.

Minnesota Democrats won the governor’s race and took control of both chambers of the state Legislature, setting up full control of state government. Nationally, Democrats won in states that have long been considered solidly Republican, including Texas and Kansas. Democrats flipped the U.S. House and Senate, as simmering discontent over high prices and President Donald Trump’s second term drove ...

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

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,

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.