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Turnaround Political Report — February 19, 2026

26 Feb, 2026

The 2026 session has been a fight from day one. We've been in the Capitol daily — monitoring committees, testifying on bills, mobilizing our affiliates. Here's where things stand. Solidarity Day at the Statehouse We kicked off the session with hundreds of union members filling the Capitol rotunda

KS AFL-CIO Weekly Legislative Update - Week 4

06 Feb, 2026

Week of Feb 2-5, 2026 If you'd prefer a condensed video version its on YouTube. RED ALERTS Public education under attack -- The legislature is coming at public schools from multiple directions. HB 2468 (voucher expansion) passed out of House Education Committee on a voice vote, expanding private

Legislative Update Week 3 - Misplaced Priorities

30 Jan, 2026

See the short video version on youtube. Misplaced Priorities This week, the Kansas Legislature spent five and a half hours debating a bathroom bill targeting transgender Kansans—less than 1% of our population. Meanwhile, working families face real threats that demand legislative attention. Federal

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Let’s Rebuild the Middle Class by Rebuilding Our Infrastructure

The middle class has been on a steady slide for decades.

18, Jan, 2018

Working People Are Watching, Mr. President

To Washington, D.C. insiders, this month’s budget negotiations are just the latest partisan exercise in a series of manufactured crises that too often result in short-term solutions. But for those who live and work outside of the Beltway bubble, much more is at stake.

17, Jan, 2018

Protect Us From Voter Purges

Imagine this: It's Sunday morning and you walk into the church you grew up attending. You have not been to service in a few years.

12, Jan, 2018

Trump May Force 200,000 Salvadorans to Leave the U.S.

The Trump administration announced Monday that it will terminate the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them to face deportation.

09, Jan, 2018

Northeast Semi-Supersonic Train to be Union Built

The developers of a train that would travel nearly half the speed of sound and get passengers from New York to Washington, D.C., in about an hour signed a memorandum of understanding to only use union labor on the project.

03, Jan, 2018

Tax Plan’s Biggest Cuts Could Be in Living Standards

A decade ago or so, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center and the liberal-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that making the Bush tax cuts permanent — rather than letting them expire in 2010 — would increase the after-tax

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