“Nowhere in the Kansas Constitution or in statute are non-citizens actually prohibited from voting. So we’ve put a ballot measure on the November 2026 ballot to enshrine in our state constitution the principle that only U.S. citizens can vote in Kansas.”

— Kansas State Representative Pat Proctor, to the Topeka Capital-Journal

(from the July 6, 2025 Topeka Capital-Journal article, “Election integrity efforts are chance to appease disillusioned voters | Opinion”)

Before I became a legislator I spent 25 years in the U.S. Army including tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. I have seen what it looks like when citizens abandoned faith in elections and civil processes and pick up guns to settle their political disputes.

My oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, to protect our form of government and our way of life, didn’t end when I took off the uniform. We have got to bring our neighbors who have lost faith in elections and the sanctity of representative government back into the process if we are going to survive as a nation.

The results of the 2024 presidential election have presented us with an historic opportunity to do this — if we have the courage to seize that opportunity.

Read the entire article here.