Who We Are
The Political Action Working Group exists to translate the priorities of tenants, workers, and ordinary Flint Hills residents into sustained pressure on the elected officials who claim to represent us.
What We Do
We track and resist the broader rightward agenda of the Kansas Legislature. Attacks on protest rights, criminalization of boycotts, restrictions on public education, anti-Trans bills, and the steady erosion of civil rights protections all arrive on the same legislative calendar. The bills being passed in the Kansas legislature reflect a coordinated effort to discipline dissent and protect the prerogatives of capital, and they call for a coordinated response.
City and county commissions make decisions about land, water, utilities, and tax breaks that shape daily life in the Flint Hills, usually with developers in the room and residents nowhere in sight. We track these agendas and bring organized pressure to bear, with particular attention to the corporations and billionaires now eyeing our region’s resources. Data center developers are a clear example: they consume enormous amounts of water and electricity, drive up costs for residents, and collect public subsidies while answering only to shareholders. We research these deals, show up to the meetings, and make sure they face real questions before they are signed
Electoral and legislative engagement is one tactic among many. We hold no illusions that the existing state will deliver socialism. Fighting bad bills, defending tenants in law as well as in their buildings, and refusing to cede public deliberation to the right are necessary parts of building working-class power. If you want to research bills, write testimony, lobby legislators, or pressure local officials, we want you with us.