According to Kansas Reflector opinion editor Clay Wirestone, a bipartisan coalition of Kansas leaders has shown unrelenting hostility to free speech since the session began this year. (iStock/Getty Images)
From the first day of 2025 Kansas legislative session, a bipartisan coalition of leaders has shown unrelenting hostility to free speech.
In proposed legislation, during hearings and through executive action, lawmakers have torn down one of our nation’s foundational freedoms. That would be the right, as shared in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to freedom of speech, assembly and religion. While advocates have been quick to protest, others have been slow to recognize the wider pattern…