KS-04: 'People are hurting': Kansas Democrat takes aim at Republican incumbent's congressional seat
TOPEKA — Katy Tyndell’s path to politics began with a meeting last March at Groover Labs, a makerspace in downtown Wichita, where dozens of people gathered to talk about how they were going to hold leaders accountable.
They were bothered by what they saw after President Donald Trump reclaimed office, Tyndell said on the Kansas Reflector podcast. There was the way Elon Musk’s DOGE took “a chainsaw to federal government,” the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development without congressional authorization, and the devolution of relations with Ukraine, she said.
The meeting gave rise to a nonpartisan civic engagement group called Leading Kansas, which Tyndell cofounded. Earlier this year, at the behest of group members and local officials, Tyndell decided to switch her party affiliation from independent to Democrat and enter the 4th District congressional race. Her goal is to unseat U.S. Rep. Ron Estes, a Republican who has held the office since 2017.
“People are hurting, right?” Tyndell said. “Kansans aren’t the only ones that are wondering how they’re going to be able to afford their health care now that the ACA subsidies have gone away, or whether or not their kids are going to have access to good schools, and now we’ve got the war in Iran looming over all of this. And so I think people are hungry to get back to some semblance of normal, and right now we have a lawmaker who isn’t showing up and isn’t providing leadership on any of these issues.”
https://kansasreflector.com/2026/03/30/people-are-hurting-kansas-democrat-takes-aim-at-republican-incumbents-congressional-seat/
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