Thread 🧵 1/3 Roger Marshall’s problem with the truth didn’t start with Adam Hamilton. His record stretches across multiple campaigns. 2008: The conviction. His reckless-driving conviction was replaced with a lesser traffic offense after intervention by a prosecutor whose father was Marshall’s business partner. The judge said he had been told the original entry reflected an error. Marshall’s campaign later refused to release the case affidavit. kansas.com/news/politics-gov… 2016: Misleading ads against Tim Huelskamp. The Hutchinson News responded: “Here’s a real headline for Roger Marshall: His campaign ad is misleading.” KWCH found that his ad presented older editorial comments as though newspapers were responding to Huelskamp’s latest attack. It also made the Wichita Eagle appear to have published something it hadn’t. kwch.com/content/news/FF12-C… kansasreflector.com/2020/09/… 2016: The ACOG explanation. KWCH reported that Marshall said he had to belong to ACOG to practice as an OB-GYN. ACOG’s own April 2016 statement described membership as voluntary. It wasn’t a general licensing or board-certification requirement. kwch.com/content/news/Submit… acog.org/news/2016/04/acog-s… 2018: Dismissing Alan LaPolice. A contemporary Rod Haxton column challenged Marshall’s portrayal of LaPolice as a “perennial joke” and criticized his limited willingness to debate. This was an opinion rebuttal to a personal attack, rather than a fact check establishing a false policy claim. alpha.creativecirclecdn.com/… 2019 to today: Changing biographical claims. His congressional newsletter claimed 10,000 baby deliveries. His campaign website now headlines “Five thousand babies,” while the text says “more than five thousand.” The campaign should clarify its count; “more than 5,000” can include 10,000. archive.hayspost.com/2019/01… kansansformarshall.com/about… The accompanying screenshots also show Wichita disappearing from the heading and the Wesley residency sentence being removed. His physician profile and earlier campaign biography place his residency in St. Petersburg, Florida. doximity.com/pub/roger-marsh… d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.ne… 2020: Manipulating Barbara Bollier’s words. His campaign took her promise to ban surprise medical bills and used it to suggest she wanted to ban guns. AP documented the unrelated context of her original remarks. apnews.com/kansas-republican… January 6, 2021: His first Senate vote. After the Capitol attack, Marshall supported the objection to counting Arizona’s certified presidential electoral votes. senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r… #KsSen #RogerMarshall #Election2026 #Kansas #lies #hypocrite #VoteForChange #AdamHamilton

While Kansans pay more for health insurance and property taxes, insurance-linked donors and Koch-linked groups are helping finance politicians asking for even more power. Through 2025, Kansas’s average annual employer-sponsored family health insurance premium increased about 162% since Ty Masterson entered the Legislature in 2005. Total statewide property-tax levies increased about 115% over that period. Since Dan Hawkins entered the Legislature in 2013, those increases were approximately 63% for family health insurance premiums and 66% for statewide property-tax levies. And in 2026, the average ACA benchmark silver premium for a family of four in Kansas jumped another 28.9% before tax credits, a separate measure showing the pressure on families buying their own coverage. Meanwhile, Hawkins’s Kansas Insurance Commissioner campaign has received at least $109,766.60 in insurance-linked contributions from businesses, industry PACs and individuals with identifiable insurance ties. The industry he would be asked to regulate. Groups with documented Koch funding connections account for more than $9 million in reported Kansas election spending and reserved advertising, overwhelmingly benefiting Masterson. With more disclosure reports still coming in. Those financial relationships deserve scrutiny. Whose interests come first when the people paying the bills need protection from the industries helping finance these campaigns? Every Kansan deserves representation, including those who don’t vote for you. That is why the attached October 5, 2025 radio clip matters. Former Wichita Rep. John Whitmer complains that “Lawrence and parts of Leavenworth and Johnson County are running the show.” He then declares, “Lawrence is not Kansas.” Hawkins agrees, then adds, “The People’s Republic of Lawrence?” When Whitmer says communities in NE Kansas don’t represent the state, Hawkins agrees: “No, they don’t.” Lawrence is Kansas. Leavenworth is Kansas. Every community in Johnson County is Kansas. Their residents pay insurance premiums, file claims, own businesses, support schools and pay taxes. Their political views do not diminish their right to fair treatment or representation. Hawkins is asking those same people to trust him as insurance commissioner after three decades in the insurance business. Kansas News Service reports that his financial disclosures list income from multiple insurance companies. He owes voters a clear explanation of how he would put policyholders first when regulating the industry that has provided his livelihood. Masterson campaigns on “Take Back Kansas.” A PAC supporting him is officially named Take Back Kansas Action Inc. Take it back from whom? Masterson and Hawkins have spent six years leading the Kansas Legislature. They owe voters an accounting of the power they have already held and the decisions they have already made. Masterson also owes Kansans transparency about his financial relationships. The Kansas City Star reported that he received more than $1.1 million over a decade for directing GoCreate, a Koch-funded program at Wichita State. He has also held leadership positions in Koch-funded ALEC, whose model legislation has shaped many Kansas laws. Voters deserve to know how those relationships influence his priorities, and whose interests he will serve when those interests conflict. Candidates should explain how they will make insurance affordable, strengthen schools, support communities and improve life across Kansas. They can challenge policies without dismissing entire communities or treating political disagreement as evidence that someone doesn’t belong. Public office carries a responsibility to serve every constituent. Nobody should have to pass a political loyalty test to count as a Kansan. If they are this dismissive while asking for our votes, imagine how they will act with even more power. #KsLeg #KsGov #Kansas #insurance #Taxes #Election2026 #VoteForChange