Kansas U.S. Senator

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Kansas City election guide 2026: What Kansas and Missouri voters need to know about their ballots

Madeline Fox

On Aug. 4, voters in Kansas and Missouri will decide multiple, consequential ballot issues, vote in primaries for U.S. House and Senate seats, plus decide local and county-level races on both sides of the state line.

Arch Naramore of rural Lawrence is competing in the Aug. 4 Republican primary election against U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall for the right to represent the GOP on the November ballot. Marshall is considered a favorite in the showdown against Naramore.

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‘I’ll feel better about myself’: Kansas Republican makes second U.S. Senate run against an incumbent

Tim Carpenter

Campaign email address teases voters about being a ‘Republican in name only’

U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he will commit to serving at least two years of a six-year term if reelected to the U.S. Senate in November. This is an image of Marshall during an April 2026 ceremony at a military armory in Kansas City, Kansas.

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U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas promises to refuse Trump administration appointment

Tim Carpenter

Senator under scrutiny because of state law on picking replacement if he resigns.

Adam Hamilton, pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the country, holds the polling lead among 11 Kansans seeking the Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. Senate. In the three-way race among Democrats for the gubernatorial nomination, state Sen. Cindy Holscher is in the lead. This is an April 30, 2026, image of Hamilton at a campaign stop in Prairie Village.

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Kansas poll of likely Democratic voters favors Holscher for governor, Hamilton for U.S. Senate

Tim Carpenter

Poll also reveals deep indecision in gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns

U.S. Senate confirmation of Kansas Solicitor General Anthony Powell, photographed during oral argument of a Kansas Court of Appeals case, completes addition of three new U.S. District Court judges in Kansas. President Donald Trump nominated Powell, Kansas Bureau of Investigation Director Tony Mattivi and Great Bend attorney Jeff Kuhlman to vacancies in Kansas.

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U.S. Senate votes to fill all Kansas federal district court judge positions with Trump nominees

Tim Carpenter

The three other slots on the federal bench in Kansas were filled during Trump’s first term.

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, is part of a bipartisan coalition in Congress seeking adoption of legislation transforming the duty-status system for National Guard and Reserve members by reducing approximately 30 classifications to four basic categories. In this photo, he speaks at an April 4, 2024, cybersecurity conference at the University of Kansas.

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U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran seeks to alter bewildering National Guard, Reserve duty-status system

Tim Carpenter

Bipartisan coalition of lawmakers introduce legislation in U.S. Senate, U.S. House