United Kansas Party

06/11/2026

06/04/2026

A few people have messaged to ask me about the tweet posted by the KS Secretary of State disqualifying my candidacy.

🦬 I was nominated as the candidate for the United Kansas Party in addition to my filing as the Democratic candidate. The United Kansas Party strives to support moderates and is building as a party to fight against two party extremes. I appreciate their work and am proud to be nominated. 💜

The Secretary of State does not allow a candidate to be nominated by two different parties (aka fusion voting). Because I had filed as a Democrat, they disqualified my nomination for United Kansas. We think we have a state constitutional right for fusion voting, and hope the KS Supreme Court will agree.

Fear not though! I will remain on the ballot as the democratic candidate in both the primary and general elections in 2026. 🫏

You can learn more about United Kansas platform here: https://www.unitedkansas.com/

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05/29/2026

Kansas was once one of the most fusion-friendly states in America.

Long before our modern political divisions hardened, Kansans regularly built coalitions across party lines. Republicans, Populists, independents, and reformers often united behind common candidates and common causes. Even Abraham Lincoln’s rise to the presidency depended on fusion politics, bringing together anti-slavery voters from different political movements who understood that principles matter more than party labels.

By the 1890s, fusion politics was thriving in Kansas. It gave voters more choices, encouraged cooperation, and allowed political movements to grow without forcing people into one of two boxes.

Then, in 1901, Kansas banned it.

For more than a century, Kansans have been denied a political freedom that previous generations exercised openly. Voters can support multiple causes. Citizens can belong to multiple organizations. Groups can work together on shared goals. Yet political parties are uniquely restricted from jointly supporting the same candidate.

That restriction remained largely unquestioned until 2024.

Today, a legal challenge is asking a simple but important question: Does the Kansas Constitution protect the right of political association strongly enough to allow fusion politics once again?

This is not really about Democrats or Republicans. It is not about left versus right.

It is about whether Kansans are free to organize politically in the way they choose.

The Kansas Constitution recognizes that political power originates with the people. Political parties are voluntary associations of citizens. If citizens wish to work together across traditional party lines, government should have a very good reason before telling them they cannot.

Fusion voting is not a radical idea. It is not new. It is part of Kansas history.

For decades, it helped shape our state. It encouraged coalition building, rewarded consensus, and gave voters more meaningful choices.

Whether you agree with fusion voting or not, the constitutional question deserves serious consideration. Rights that disappear for 125 years are still rights worth examining.

Sometimes progress is not about inventing something new.

Sometimes it is about restoring something we lost.

🌻 Kansas once trusted its citizens to build political coalitions as they saw fit. Perhaps it is time to ask whether that trust should be restored.

05/23/2026

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Morgan, who previously sought the statewide office as a Republican in 2014, said his goal was to make certain the state’s chief elections officer put interests of Kansas voters ahead of any attempt to create partisan advantages in politics.

05/23/2026

Once again, The New York Times Opinion Section columnist Jamelle Bouie calls out the immediate and longer-term dangers we face as a result of the Supreme Court's Callais decision and suggests "legalizing fusion voting" as a political reform. We agree! creates more competition and accountability, helping to address our hyperpolarization.

05/20/2026

Scott Morgan, a former Lawrence Republican, will run for secretary of state in 2026 as centrist nominee of the newly formed Kansas United Party.

05/16/2026

The core dispute in the litigation between the United Kansas Party and the State of Kansas is over “fusion voting” — whether a candidate can legally appear on the ballot as the nominee of more than one political party at the same time.

Kansas has had an anti-fusion law on the books since 1901. That law prevents candidates from accepting nominations from multiple recognized political parties for the same office.

In 2024, after United Kansas Party became an officially recognized political party in Kansas, it nominated several candidates who were also Democratic or Republican candidates, including:

* Jason Probst
* Lori Blake
* J.C. Moore

The Kansas Secretary of State’s office, led by Scott Schwab, informed candidates they would be forced to choose only one party designation for the ballot under existing Kansas law.

In response, United Kansas and several voters/candidates filed lawsuits in Reno and Saline County district courts in July 2024 arguing that Kansas’ anti-fusion law violates the Kansas Constitution’s protections involving:

* free speech,
* political association,
* equal protection,
* and voting rights.

Their broader argument is that fusion voting:

* allows coalition-building,
* gives moderates and smaller parties more influence,
* reduces the “spoiler effect,”
* and creates alternatives to the two-party system without forcing voters to abandon major-party candidates.

The State of Kansas has argued the election system is governed by statute and that Kansas law clearly prohibits dual nominations. The state also argued courts should defer to the legislature rather than rewrite election law judicially.

A Saline County district court dismissed the case in 2025, siding with the state procedurally. United Kansas appealed.

By early 2026, the case had moved to the Kansas Court of Appeals, where judges reportedly questioned whether courts or the legislature should decide the issue. Oral arguments occurred in February 2026.

So at this point:

* the anti-fusion law is still in effect,
* United Kansas has not yet won the right to cross-nominate candidates,
* but the constitutional challenge remains active on appeal.

The litigation is significant because, if United Kansas ultimately wins, Kansas could become one of the few states allowing fusion voting again — potentially changing how centrist or third-party coalitions operate in Kansas politics.

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04/24/2026

The Free State Party and United Kansas Party are joining forces to form an alternative party drawing support from the center-right and center-left.

04/21/2026

https://www.unitedkansas.com/
We are excited to announce our merger with the Free State Party. Now an even stronger political voice for Kansas moderates!