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The People’s Ballot: Kansas City’s Voter Guide for November Elections

The Kansas City Defender’s voter guide breaks down every measure and race on your November 3 ballot in plain language, from Prop A to Amendment 3 to COMBAT.

By Ryan S.

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Politics

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October 22, 2026

Announcement · The Kansas City Defender

The People’s Ballot Is Here

Your guide to Missouri’s November 3 election, in plain language.

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Early voting is open now through Monday, Nov 2. Polls are open 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Nov 3.

Missouri votes on Tuesday, November 3, and this ballot will shape Kansas City for years. Abortion rights, the congressional map that splits Kansas City at Troost, the power of voters to pass their own laws, and ten more years of COMBAT are all on it.

So we built a guide for it. The People’s Ballot is The Kansas City Defender’s guide to the November 3 election: every statewide measure, Jackson County’s COMBAT question, and the races on your ballot, explained in plain language and rooted in the history this state would rather you forget.

What’sInside

🗳️Your ballot at a glanceOne screen with every measure and where we stand. Screenshot it for the group chat.See it → 🧠Every measure, broken downProp A, Amendments 3, 6, 7, and 8, and COMBAT, each with The Defender’s Everyday Language Breakdown.Start with Prop A → 🗂️The races, by the recordCounty executive, the 5th District, state auditor, the County Legislature, and the judges. Records, votes, donors, dollars, and dates. The judgment is yours.Open the files → 📍How to voteEarly voting sites, ID rules, polling place lookups, and sample ballots, all in one place.Make a plan →

Where we stand

As a nonprofit newsroom, we don’t endorse candidates. On ballot measures, we can take a side, and we do. Tap any measure for the full briefing.

Vote No

The abortion ban

Vote No

Respect the vote

The tax cut time capsule

Vote No

The sheriff amendment

Vote No

Jackson County Question 1

On COMBAT, we lay out the whole ledger, every dollar to the jail and every dollar to treatment, and explain why the real fight starts after the vote.

Vote early. Don’t vote alone.

Bring three people. Drive an elder. Text your group chat your polling place. Then send them the guide.

Read The People’s Ballot →

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Ryan has a diverse background including working at one of the nation’s most esteemed Black think tanks, one of Chicago’s top B2B Tech PR agencies, a top 3 global PR firm, and founding Kansas City’s largest Black-led direct action group during the 2020 uprisings. During Ryan’s professional career he’s consulted brands such as Facebook, Samsung, Amazon and Google.

He is a recipient of the Civil and Human Rights Award recognized by the Urban League of Kansas City, Southern Christian Leadership Conference and NAACP. He has also engaged in a number of public talks as a prison industrial complex Abolitionist thinker including on; NPR, PBS, a Kansas City Art Institute Lecture, a lecture at University of the Arts London, the Annual International Symposium (Digital Ethics for a Sustainable Society), as well as the T-Mobile Speaker Series.