Kansas Liberty News

Friday, August 14, 2026

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Marion Raid Payouts Mushroom, Still Nobody Takes Blame

GUN RIGHTS

Federal Judge Guts NFA, Kansas Gun Owners Win

THE COURTS

Courts Keep Fusion Voting Banned, United Kansas Party Fights On

El Dorado Data Center Fight Lands in Court Today

Revealed: Loophole Leaves Homeowners Ripe for the Taking

Wichita Will Text You Your Court Date

CITY HALL

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Sedgwick County Tells Landowners No on Solar, Twice

Kansas Town Demands a Vote on Data Center Ban

Emporia Petition Against Battery Site Makes the Ballot

Kansas Town Votes Away Your Fireworks

Koch Foundation Wants Out of Boathouse, Wichita Could Pay

THE STATEHOUSE

GOP Supermajority Hangs on the KC Suburbs

Bet on It: Horse Racing Gallops Back to Kansas

Kansas Sticks With Science on Vaccines, Bucks Trump Order

Senate Boss Masterson Steps Back From GoCreate

Kansas Needs Water Markets, Not More Water Bureaucrats

Protecting Kids Online Without a Privacy Grab

POLICE & SURVEILLANCE

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Kansas Man Sues to Rip Out 200-Camera Dragnet

Salina Spent $198,000 to Watch You Drive

After Cop Misuse, Flock Rewrites Its Own Rules

Alarm at City Hall: Cameras Aimed at Wichita Schoolkids

Two Suicide Attempts Inside Sedgwick County's Jail

TAXES & SPENDING

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Your Turnpike Toll Jumps Sept. 1 for $500 Million Plan

Kelly's $1M Band-Aid as 'Detrimental' Medicaid Cuts Loom

Chiefs' $300M Olathe Play, Eight Months Later...

Evergy to Regulators: Keep Our Secrets Safe From AI

SCHOOLS

Five New Faces Set to Remake State School Board

State Board Starts Writing Screen Rules for Every School

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

Mark Monoscalco on The Forbidden Idea, Individual Liberty, and Taking Back Our InstitutionsRon Muhlenkamp on Investing, Capitalism, and the Freedom to Build Wealth Joel Trammell on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Becoming the CEO Your Company Needs Rob Arnott on Adam Smith, Free Markets, and Why Capitalism Creates Prosperity Kelley Paul on Raising the Next Generation to Love Liberty

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote Jerry Rawls Built a Billion-Dollar Company by Solving Problems, Not Chasing Money How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Douglas La Rose on Why Consumer Choice Matters More Than Government Control

WAR POWERS

Bessent readies Iran siege 'like the world has never seen'^NEW

Ron Paul: Did Israel feed false intel on Trump's plane?

Photo: libertarianinstitute.org

Tehran official: war may run through Trump's whole term...

Hegseth's new motto: 'We do bad things to bad people'^NEW

SPEECH POLICE

Arrested in Texas... for cussing at a county meeting^NEW

Student punished for 'blasted' comment beats his school in court

Court tosses DOJ's Title VI case against Harvard

Free speech dying a slow death in Europe^NEW

GUN RIGHTS

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'Monumental': judge reverses decades-old gun restrictions

First unregistered silencer sold as NFA injunction bites

TAXES & REGULATION

Court blesses Trump's end of duty-free small imports; shoppers pay^NEW

America paused the Jones Act. Americans won

Surf instructor beats Newport Beach's ban on teaching waves

STATES PUSH BACK

The 17th Amendment broke the founders' kill switch

THE FED

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Rand Paul checks Fort Knox: 'Yes, the gold is there'^NEW

Prices climb again: inflation stuck at 3.4 percent, your paycheck isn't^NEW

'The ingredients are coming together for a US financial crisis'

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Mises: the fairy tale of Fed 'independence'

SPENDING & DEBT

DSA wish list rings up at $200 trillion... and you're the tab^NEW

Merkley rides to big government's rescue^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

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Flock camera flags the wrong car; seven months of legal hell follow

Docs: feds ran surveillance op on Minnesota unions, activists^NEW

Flock admits its cameras need reform. Too little, too late

Meta patents glasses that name every face at your dinner party^NEW

Watch: the coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon^NEW

DUE PROCESS

Texas prosecutors stretch teen shooting spree into 'terrorism'

ICE goes shopping for stun gloves^NEW

Fifth Circuit shrugs off Alien Enemies Act case as 'moot'

AIER: the FCC denies the right to a fair trial^NEW

CRONY CAPITALISM

JPMorgan debanks Polymarket over 'regulatory concerns'^NEW

Trump Media sells early peek at president's posts: $100,000 a month

Paramount dangles toothless CNN 'oversight board' to buy merger blessing^NEW

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Trump hauls his ballroom fight to the Supreme Court^NEW

FEDERAL FAILURE

Larison: the Pentagon's sickening cover-up

Watch: inside the USS Lincoln crisis, 'the military's shame'^NEW

FBI downplayed 14 informants flagging Biden corruption

Webb: military academies get an 'F' every time. Why are we paying?^NEW

Fauci's diary sheds new light on EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab