Friday File   Tracey Mann United States Congressman, KS-1 “The Big 1st” Every time a Biden Administration official appears before one of my House committees, it’s the same thing over and over again: I hear someone pushing big government socialism, leftist ideology, wasting taxpayer dollars, and backwards policies that will hurt Kansans. It’s a total failure of leadership. Two weeks ago, we learned shocking details of dark business dealings by the President and members of his family. I suspect we are just starting to learn the details, and it’s just the tip of the iceberg. House Republicans can, and will, hold them accountable. Meanwhile, in Kansas, the values that make America great are still alive and well - values like faith, family, freedom, and personal responsibility. Earlier this month, I spent time with over 100 Kansas Ag producers at a wheat farm near Gypsum. Farmers, ranchers, and agricultural producers in the Big First are American heroes. They don’t take any days off and they don’t complain, they just get the job done. On Capitol Hill, however, we are dealing with one problem after another caused by President Biden. Last week, my House Republican colleagues and I passed a bill to force President Biden to secure the border, finish the wall, add border patrol agents, end catch-and-release, and reform the asylum process. His open-door policies have created a total humanitarian crisis and flooded American streets with fentanyl. I’ve been to the southern border, where I saw human heartbreak, scared children, overcrowded facilities, overwhelmed CBP agents, and evidence of crimes committed by Mexican cartels in trafficking people and drugs into the United States. Congress must act now, and this commonsense legislation will bring about meaningful change to a situation that has gotten completely out of control. While the left is always looking for their next opportunity to take away our freedoms and grow the government, I believe that our brightest days are ahead of us because of freedom loving Americans like you, who will never give in and never give up. America, and a brighter future for our children and grandchildren, are worth the fight. Yours in liberty, Tracey Mann     Local Office Candidates Wanted The KSGOP has been busy working with Republican County Party officials across Kansas recruiting candidates for local school governing boards and city council seats. We have many candidates from across Kansas already recruited and signed up to run for local office. If you or someone you know would like to explore the possibility of running for office, contact your county Republican office or the KSGOP! The filing deadline for local office is June 1, 2023. Let's have a private conversation and assess if running for office is right for you.     How to File for Office in Kansas Steps to File as a Candidate in Kansas Each level of public office has unique requirements for filing to appear on the election ballot. To see what each position requires, visit the Kansas Secretary of State's website: CLICK HERE For local elections, you can also get information by visiting your Election Office or County Clerk website via your Kansas County homepage. IMPORTANT DATES For 2023, the filing deadline is June 1st at precisely noon. Primary Election August 1, 2023 General Election November 7, 2023 DECLARE YOUR TREASURER After officially filing for office, fill out the form stating who your treasurer is within ten days of filing. NOTE: This can be you or someone else. The Declaration of Treasurer can be found online CLICK HERE OBTAIN AN EMPLOYER IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (EIN) FROM THE IRS IN YOUR CAMPAIGN NAME: Examples: John Doe For Kansas, Jane Doe for Overland Park Mayor After filing, it is recommended to register an EIN through the IRS website: CLICK HERE NOTE: The are many knock-off sites where you pay a fee to get the EIN... If you go direct to www.IRS.gov the EIN is provided to you for FREE. You may only process this application Mon-Fri and during regular business hours. Your campaign is considered a Political Organization. OPEN A CAMPAIGN BANK ACCOUNT While you can self-finance a campaign, raising funds is critical and you achieve the best campaign finance protection by using a separate bank account for your campaign. This bank account will let you link to Anedot, one of the most common websites for political fundraising or other available platforms such as WinRed. This allows you to automate collection of required details, such as an individual’s address and employment as their donation level requires. This will be critical at finance reporting deadlines! FOLLOW THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE RULES CLICK HERE CANDIDATE CAMPAIGN HANDBOOK GUIDE CLICK HERE FILE YOUR CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORTS CLICK HERE Campaign finance reports are straightforward but are required on time. The Ethics Commission is VERY helpful for explaining any terms or procedures you are not familiar with. Do not hesitate to call: (785) 296-4219 or email: [email protected] Note: Thank you to the Johnson County Republican Party for this guide.     Facts and Figures A Surge At The Border Biden's border crisis continues to rage, and with the ending of Title 42, things are only going to get worse at the border. What you need to know: New Customs and Border Protection data released this week shows 211,401 illegal immigrants were apprehended attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in April. This is the second highest total for April in 22 years. This is the first time in history that monthly apprehensions at the southern border have surpassed 150,000 for 26 consecutive months. With roughly 7,000 daily encounters, this dwarfs the definition of a "crisis" set by Obama's DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson when he said in 2019 that "more than 1,000" apprehensions a day "overwhelms the system." April's 211,000-plus encounters is a 337% increase from the average number of April apprehensions from 2017-2020. 11,478 unaccompanied children were apprehended. 113,319 illegal immigrants were apprehended from countries outside the Northern Triangle and Mexico, showing that Biden’s crisis is global. At least 96 people on the terror watchlist have been apprehended trying to enter the U.S. between ports of entry so far this fiscal year. More than 6.6 million illegal immigrants have crossed the border since Biden took office. This includes the 1.4 million gotaways have escaped past Border Patrol into the U.S. Border officials say that the official number of gotaways vastly undercounts the illegal immigrants who make it into the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations estimates that Mexican cartels are now making $13 billion a year smuggling illegal immigrants into the U.S. Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate with only 5 to 10% being intercepted as border officials struggle to contain the smuggling. 3,236 pounds of deadly fentanyl was seized at the southern border in April alone, with much more getting through. The amount of fentanyl seized in April is the equivalent of more than 734 million lethal doses. With Title 42 ending, the Biden administration has been wholly unprepared for a surge in illegal immigration. Even before the end of Title 42, Border Patrol officials reported that their facilities were already “at capacity .” Biden’s only solution, which has since been blocked by a federal judge, has been to mass release illegal immigrants into border communities. Republican leaders in Congress and in Republican-led states will continue to hold Biden and the Democrats accountable for the humanitarian crisis they created. The bottom line: By removing Title 42, Joe Biden is worsening the crisis his open border agenda created. Biden is empowering drug smugglers and human traffickers, making American communities less safe, and creating the worst border crisis in DHS history, yet he doesn’t care. Debt Ceiling Biden and Democrats refused to negotiate with House Republicans on the debt limit until they passed a plan to address it. So Republicans passed one. What you need to know: It took Biden 104 days to meet with Speaker Kevin McCarthy about the debt limit. Why did it take Biden that long to simply meet with the Speaker and agree to a negotiations structure? While Biden was playing politics, House Republicans stepped up and passed a bill to responsibly raise the debt limit. It is full of commonsense proposals to save taxpayers’ money that even Democrats, including Biden himself, have supported and applauded. Democrats' failed tax and spend policies caused this debt crisis. Since President Biden took office in January 2021, he and House Democrats have increased the 10-year spending trajectory by $10 trillion. This includes ramming through their $2 trillion so-called "American Rescue Plan" that ignited the highest spike in consumer prices in forty years. After passing the "American Rescue Plan," Democrats moved on, passing the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act," which included: $80 billion to the IRS in order to target working families with audits. $400+ billion for Green New Deal initiatives. Biden’s Executive Actions have totaled OVER $1.5 trillion in spending, including Democrats’ student loan giveaway to the wealthy. House Republicans committed to a responsible debt ceiling increase. The Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023: Limits federal spending by: Ending the era of reckless Washington spending. Saves taxpayer dollars by: Reclaiming unspent COVID funds; Defunding Biden's IRS army; Repealing "Green New Deal" tax credits; Prohibiting Biden's student loan giveaway to the wealthy. Grows the economy by: Strengthening the workforce and reducing childhood poverty; Preventing Executive overreach and restoring Article I; Lowers energy costs and utilities. The bottom line: Joe Biden is leaving American workers and families behind, as higher prices on everything from gas to groceries are here to stay under his reckless agenda. Republican-led states are driving the economic comeback with more jobs created and lower unemployment despite the failures of Biden and the Democrats. Republican leadership delivers, unleashes prosperity, and lifts up all Americans. Durham Report Release After nearly four years of investigation, Durham found that the FBI lacked the actual evidence to investigate then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign. What you need to know: The more than 300-page Durham report found that “neither U.S. law enforcement nor the Intelligence Community appears to have possessed any actual evidence of collusion” to begin investigating Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign. The FBI and DOJ “failed to uphold their mission of strict fidelity to the law.” The report found that “there was significant reliance on investigative leads provided or funded (directly or indirectly) by Trump's political opponents.” Individuals at the highest levels of the federal government allowed the Crossfire Hurricane investigation to continue despite any firm evidence of collusion. Simply put - this was the weaponization of the federal government against a political opponent. Democrats and the mainstream media have pushed the Russian collusion hoax for more than 6 years. In 2019, Joe Biden said, “I absolutely agree” when a woman, repeating the Russia collusion hoax, claimed President Trump was an “illegitimate president.” As recently as January 2023, Adam Schiff was still pushing the Russian collusion hoax. Hillary Clinton repeatedly cited the Russian collusion hoax to insist the 2016 election was “stolen” from her. Even the mainstream media has admitted the Durham report is “devastating to the FBI.” The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee has already reached out to the Justice Department to have Special Counsel John Durham testify next week. The bottom line: For our country’s sake there must be honesty, integrity, and accountability.     Numinar Campaign Data Management Training Scheduled Feedback from those who have registered and looked into the new KSGOP data management system from Numinar have been very positive. The first of many training sessions to navigate and utilize the vast resources of Numinar will take place on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 for those signed up. There may still be space available for this training session and other training opportunities will be announced very soon. Sign up for Numinar training by clicking here. Below is additional information about Numinar as published last week in the Friday File. As a result of much due diligence and process testing of various data and voter contact programs, your Kansas GOP team is pleased to announce we have partnered with Numinar Analytics. Numinar is the world’s most advanced platform for campaigns, candidates and volunteers. Powered by world-class artificial intelligence, Numinar gives you a custom, start-to-finish strategy- a key component to helping Kansas Republicans win their races. Data Numinar is a vast and powerful platform with millions of data points, including voter data and commercial data that will power your campaign to big wins through your KSGOP account. Numinar is backed by best-in-class voter files and commercial data representing 400 demographic and socioeconomic data points. Numinar has access to powerful modeling for competitive races that has machine learning with proven accuracy in our Professional and Premium subscriptions. In-platform polling, canvassing, and calling Numinar is placing the ability to build samples, make calls, send text messaging, and conduct online surveys directly in the hands of campaigns to get the job done faster, cheaper, and better. Reaching your voters at scale with Numinar will enable your team to deploy a complete grassroots campaign with reliable, scalable, and intuitive text messaging, live calling, and canvassing – all in ONE platform. Build and manage voter lists, track interactions with voters, cut walk books, create tags, and generate reports. Look up individual voters in your district and see a full report on their engagement with the campaign. Coordinate the ground game Passionate supporters are a force and can multiply our KSGOP voter outreach. This platform gives KSGOP volunteers all the tools they need to reach their friends, family, and neighbors. It also tracks their activity and helps keep them organized, motivated and passionate. Finally, a canvassing app that is fast, simple, and highly intuitive – all built right into this platform so the data is completely integrated. A digital command center for campaign managers – from local races to statewide Powerful reporting enables you to track every voter contacted or tag voters collected across all your users. Simple and fast voter list creation with built-in analytics lets you ask questions about your data. Execute voter contact projects directly in the web platform via a smart phone or tablet through text message or walk book. To sign up for your KSGOP Numinar account, please fill out your information at the link below: CLICK HERE SIGN UP FOR NUMINAR KSGOP covers the cost of Numinar for your data and canvassing. Texting, AI modeling, and phone polling is available at an affordable rate though Numinar for each campaign. Lastly, below are links to the training guides, there are three versions (we will also have zoom trainings bi-monthly for candidates and volunteers): 1. Contents Page for all platform functions CLICK HERE 2. Canvassing Tutorial CLICK HERE 3. Calling Tutorial CLICK HERE 3. General Volunteer Guide CLICK HERE     Conservatively Speaking By Mike Brown, Chairman Kansas Republican Party Dateline: May 19, 2023 Subject: 2023 Kansas Republican Primary Filing, Local Elections (NOTE: Because of its importance, a separate email from me regarding the KSGOP Rules Committee went out this morning. I encourage you to read it and ask questions.) As we approach the Kansas filing deadline of June 1, 2023 for local elections, I encourage you to visit with your friends, neighbors, and family about running for the school board or city council in your community. Republican ideals are tried, authentic, and tested as common sense. Our values have been tempered in political fires like steel and sharpened against the grindstone of American History. We are not perfect, but we learn and adjust, trying to be better in the future. Our party stands for freedom, liberty, and equality. The Republican Party led by President Lincoln ended slavery in America and that same party carried the banner of the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote. We also welcome legal immigrants to America, and we fight for more freedoms and less government interference at every level of government. We stand for the 2nd Amendment, knowing it is what supports and protects the 1st Amendment. Republicans also stand for the essential principles of lower taxes, less regulation, and personal responsibility. The Republican Party is the party of equality, not equity. We believe everyone is created equally and your successes come from education and hard work. When we say the Pledge of Allegiance, we mean every word. I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America , and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The three simple principles, though, that bind us without fail are Smaller Government, Less Taxes and More Freedom. We are the party of individualism, capitalism and free will. In contrast, the Democrat philosophy is, “let the government do it for me.” But a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. Our Republican philosophy of “Government leave me alone. I will do it for myself” is undeniably the more arduous path. It requires critical thinking, a plan of action built on self-reliance, and then the hard work of making it happen. We all know we need less government in our collective lives as Americans and Kansans, and this endeavor begins with those on our local boards and councils. Government closest to the people is the very best government. I know that statement is true because I served as a County Commissioner. It was in this “close to the people” elected position where I interfaced with constituents daily in emails, at the hardware store, in the grocery store and around my district. This gave me the perspective to then ask questions of our government in meetings and to vote they way that got the most people what they needed and wanted. That's accountability and that is good government. I want you to feel what I felt; the joy and pride of shaping your community and leading others. You can do it and we are with you! #LetsRoll         Paid for by Kansas Republican Party Mike Brown, Chairman Alan Townsend, Treasurer If you would prefer to mail your donation, please send a check to KSGOP and include your full name, occupation, and employer. KSGOP P.O. Box 4157 Topeka, KS 66604 Contributions to the Kansas Republican Party are not deductible charitable contributions for income tax purposes. 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