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Dion Lefler
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Opinion editor and columnist at The Wichita Eagle in Kansas.
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Oklahoma pols hate initiatives; Kansas we can't do them at all. This bites on both sides of the border.
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Democracy’s under fire in Oklahoma and they’re still better off than we are | Opinion
The Oklahoma Legislature is trying to cripple the state’s ballot initiative process; Kansas doesn’t even have one.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Disgusting racists doing disgusting racist things.
Kansas Republican Party unplugged.
Or more accurately, unhinged.
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KS GOP’s fake post of Gov. Kelly in sombrero crosses the line to blatant racism | Opinion
Kansas Republican Party shows its white-supremacist underbelly in Facebook post on SNAP, mimicking President Trump’s racist online antics.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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My "day after" column. It's up to us to solve the problem of political violence.
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Trump needs to tamp down Charlie Kirk fire, not pour gasoline on it | Opinion
In dealing with crisis of the Utah shooting, the president should take some cues from Wichita mayors, past and present. | Opinion
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September 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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Time to stand up and step up. . .
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I learned about battling dictatorship from a PBS show. Now let’s go save PBS Kansas. | Opinion
Federal cuts in public broadcasting slashed a quarter of the budget at KPTS Channel 8; emergency pledge drive coming Wednesday. | Opinion
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July 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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In Kansas, we have seen the future, and it bites
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‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passes: Kansas has seen this movie and knows how it ends | Opinion
Donald Trump’s budget bill has passed Congress, essentially repeating Kansas’ disastrous Brownback Tax Experiment at the national level.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Read the story before commenting. It may not be what you think ... 😉
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I was paid to attend Democratic rep’s town hall in Wichita last weekend | Opinion
Truth revealed about the Chris Murphy - Maxwell Frost town hall at Wichita State University on Sunday. I was paid to go to it; so were others.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Wichita has to borrow congressmen to have a decent town hall...

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Wichita town hall draws huge crowd to hear a Florida(!) congressman | Opinion
While Kansas Republicans are hiding out from town halls, a Florida Democrat visits Wichita to field voter questions.
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July 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Was any of this necessary? I don't think so.
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Wichita PR video of police dog mauling junkyard burglary suspect is sickening | Opinion
Creepy video for WPD’s “Well Done Wednesday,” on X, shows suspect screaming under attack by police German Shepherd, set to pulse-pounding techno music.
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June 27, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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It's embarrassing that Wichita needs to borrow congressional representation, because our own electeds won't give us the time of day.
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When your own US reps and senators won’t talk to you, borrow someone else’s | Opinion
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy and Florida Rep. Maxwell Frost to hold town hall in Wichita Sunday, because Ron Estes, Roger Marshall and Jerry Moran won’t.
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June 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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It seems I may have stirred up a few bigots with today's column...
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Wichita honors LGBTQ Pride while Hegseth’s Navy tries to sink it | Opinion
I’m proud of Wichita passing a Pride Month proclamation; ashamed of Washington plot to strip gay rights icon Harvey Milk’s name off a Navy ship.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Call me Ishmael, for I alone have lived to tell thee all . . .
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Wichita City Hall ignored warning signs on Ken-Mar project risk from the start | Opinion
Project fails to uplift economically challenged neighborhood; developers sold property, leave city holding the bag on $1.8 million of $2.5 million loan.
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May 23, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Democracy is not a bad word.
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Why does the MAGA right hate the word ‘democracy’ so much? | Opinion
The right loves to argue we’re a republic, not a democracy. What’s the difference?
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May 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Beretta and Bass Pro Shops get a free pass in case where ESU football player accidentally shot a teammate while stopped at a red light.
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Beretta and Bass Pro can’t be sued in Kansas college football shooting. Why not? | Opinion
The Kansas Supreme Court excused a gunmaker and gun dealer from lawsuit in a shooting that cost an athlete his leg.
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April 25, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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There's a big difference between Christianity and Christian Nationalism.
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How Trump and the Sedgwick County GOP tried to steal Easter | Opinion
The holiest day on the Christian calendar is not the time for political attacks and fundraising.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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This is so out of hand.
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Wichita councilwoman’s censure case reflects badly on county GOP | Opinion
Sedgwick County Republican Party stalwarts are wrong to go after Wichita City Council member Becky Tuttle over a vote on transgender proclamation.
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April 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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This guy. First he runs away from constituents. Now this.
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Make America Gangsters Again: Sen. Roger Marshall wants to bring back sawed-off shotguns | Opinion
Short-barrel shotguns and rifles were banned in the 1930s; why would anyone, much less a senator, want them back?
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April 2, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Sometimes the picture IS the story...
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Maggie Ballard goes to Washington and cold-shoulders MAGA Sen. Roger Marshall in photo op | Opinion
Hilarity ensues when Wichita City Hall posts awkward photo of council members and senator posing together at D.C. gathering.
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March 15, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Mr. Roger's town hall
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Senator Marshall, you’re no Dwight Eisenhower. And neither is Donald Trump | Opinion
Sen. Roger Marshall misappropriates the spirit of Eisenhower to justify President Donald Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine.
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March 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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It's ridiculous that in this day and age, women still have to fight for voting equality. But here we are.
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Washington attack on women’s voting rights mirrors Kansas mistake of 14 years ago | Opinion
The SAVE Act’s “proof of citizenship” nonsense is the same play as Kris Kobach’s SAFE Act, which disenfranchised 30,000 Kansans.
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February 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Gettin' pretty tired of this kind of stuff...
If you're proud of what you advocate for, tell the truth.
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Kansas congressman hails actions of Trump, Musk and DOGE, but with errors | Opinion
Wichita Rep. Ron Estes distorts international USAID projects and Social Security issues in Republican Party meeting.
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February 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Just keeps popping up...
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Bowling for (tax) dollars with Michael O’Donnell — what could go wrong, Kansas? | Opinion
Disgraced Wichita politician’s bill to give tax breaks to bowling alleys shows why lobbyists shouldn’t be able to introduce legislation.
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February 8, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Sen. Roger Marshall comes out as racist and sexist with DEI take on D.C. plane crash | Opinion
Following President Trump’s lead, Marshall blames women and minority hiring for tragic crash that killed 67 people.
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February 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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We work for the people of Wichita, not the city of...
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We don’t need City Hall’s advice on how to cover air tragedy | Opinion
City government overstepped with ill-informed Facebook post on coverage of last week’s D.C. plane crash.
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February 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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If they gave an Emmy for most contemptible performance by a lead actor . . .
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As Kansas mourns tragic crash, Trump’s talking points are DEI and dwarfs | Opinion
If President Donald Trump was trying to comfort Wichitans and others rocked by Flight 5342 D.C. plane disaster, he missed the mark.
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January 31, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Up all night covering Wichita's plane crash tragedy.
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‘I just saw a fireball and then it was gone; I haven’t seen anything since they hit the water’
Reagan National Airport traffic-control recordings tell part of the story of the Wichita to Washington plane crash and response.
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January 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM