Prairie Progress Civic Action for Kansas Accountability

IN KANSAS‍ ‍| We are a leading nonpartisan grassroots organization working to keep our government and our elected representatives accountable. We give Kansans the knowledge, resources, and voice they need to drive meaningful change. From our rural towns to our large cities, families are working hard to keep Kansas strong. We expect our federal elected representatives to listen to constituents, protect local jobs, strengthen infrastructure, and invest in the future of our state. We need strong leadership that takes responsibility. We need strong leadership that takes responsibility.

So what does accountability actually look like in action? We’ve spent months finding new ways to make sure Kansans are heard. Here’s what we’ve done so far:

A Statewide Effort to Give Kansans a Voice

For more than 500 days, Senator Roger Marshall has gone without hosting a public town hall for Kansans. In response, we launched a statewide accountability effort to make sure Kansas constituents had opportunities to be heard, and to make sure their calls for public access could not be ignored.

Kansans Demanded a Town Hall

We led a statewide petition calling on Senator Marshall to hold a public town hall and answer directly to the Kansans he represents.

More than 3,800 Kansans signed the petition and demonstrated that the demand for public access was not limited to one community or one region. It was a statewide call for accountability, with signatures from 95% of Kansas counties.

Collecting signatures was only the beginning. We twice attempted to personally deliver the petition to Senator Marshall's offices. Our network requested meetings with Senator Marshall’s Wichita and Overland Park Senate district offices, where we hoped to deliver the signatures directly to his team.

Instead, we encountered locked doors and empty offices.

The attempts to deliver the petition generated earned media coverage across four trusted statewide news outlets and four additional published platforms, bringing greater attention to Kansans' calls for their senator to meet with constituents publicly.

We Took the Message Beyond the Petition

The petition was only part of a larger advocacy campaign designed to give Kansans multiple ways to make their voices heard.

We continued showing up by requesting a meeting with Senator Marshall’s Kansas City, Kansas office. This location is within a private building on a private drive and when organizers and volunteers arrived, they were again met with locked doors and empty offices. Security guards confirmed the office is rarely, if ever, staffed and we were asked to leave.

We Hosted Multiple Nonpartisan Opportunities to Engage

Prairie Talk Conversations

For the first part of 2026, our nonprofit entity went on a community conversation tour. We held panel discussions in Pittsburg, Overland Park, Salina, Emporia, and Garden City.

Topics ranged from healthcare, the impacts of industry loss, community development efforts, water conservation, and more. For every conversation we invited the areas’ federal delegation, Senator Marshall never responded.

We Built a Strong Digital Message

We launched our accountability website, dodgerroger.org, to give constituents a one-stop page to see Senator Marshall’s history of not standing up for Kansans. 

Our organic social media presence and partnership with Kansas Coalition for Common Sense has allowed us to connect with Kansans across the state quickly and effectively. Across the campaign, our digital efforts generated more than:

• 3.87 million impressions

• 1.66 million Kansans reached

• 117,000 clicks to our website, advocacy form, or digital petition

• Thousands of Kansans commenting and engaging across social media

Each click provided another opportunity for Kansans to learn more, take action, sign the petition, or contact Senator Marshall directly.

We Took the Message to the Road

Ahead of the GOP winter and summer conventions, we placed billboards calling attention to Senator Marshall’s lack of public access and the need for greater accountability.

The billboards brought the call for a public town hall beyond digital spaces and directly into the communities and corridors where Kansas Republicans were gathering, making sure the message was visible when it mattered most.

We Mailed Postcards to Florida

When traditional avenues for constituent communication remained limited, we created another opportunity for Kansans to reach Senator Marshall.

We invited constituents to write a “Greetings from Kansas” postcard to their senator. More than 100 handwritten postcards were mailed directly to Senator Marshall's Florida address. These were real Kansans with real concerns affecting them, their families, and their neighbors.

Those postcards were refused and returned, demonstrating just how difficult it has been for constituents to establish a direct line of communication with their elected senator.

A Direct Line to His Inbox

We also helped Kansans communicate with Senator Marshall directly through an advocacy form that made it easy for constituents to send emails to his office.

To date, more than 450 emails have been sent through the form.

We Tried Creative Ways to Reach Senator Marshall

When traditional channels for constituent engagement remained closed, we found creative ways to make sure Kansans could still send their message directly to Senator Marshall.

Ahead of Valentine's Day, we created a digital Valentine's Day card for Senator Marshall and invited Kansans to send their own messages. The effort gave constituents a lighthearted way to remind their senator that Kansas was still waiting for him to show up and hear directly from the people he represents. Senator Marshall received more than 330 “valentines” in his inbox.

For his birthday, we took the idea a step further. We created a digital birthday card and invited Kansans to leave their own birthday wishes for Senator Marshall—including a wish for the senator to finally hold a public town hall.

These efforts used humor and creativity to draw attention to a serious issue: Kansans should not have to get creative to get their senator's attention.

Whether through a petition, a postcard, an email, or even a birthday card, Kansans have repeatedly tried to make their voices heard and ask for something simple—a chance to be heard directly by their elected senator.

Silence Doesn’t Stop the Call for Accountability

From a statewide petition with thousands of signatures to billboards, handwritten postcards, digital advocacy, earned media, and hundreds of constituent emails, this effort has consistently focused on one goal: making sure Kansans have a voice.

We have continued to create opportunities for constituents to speak up—even when doors were locked, offices were empty, postcards were returned, and public town halls remained out of reach.

The message from Kansans is clear: public service should include public accountability.

And while petition signatures, emails, postcards, and countless other attempts to reach Senator Marshall have gone unanswered, we are not going away. We will continue to keep the pressure on, create opportunities for Kansans to be heard, and demand that Senator Marshall answer to the people he was elected to represent.

Silence may be Senator Marshall’s response, but it won’t be the end of our efforts to hold him accountable.

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