Exclusive video shows the horrific slaying of Black nineteen-year-old Saveion McConnell by Missouri police. Shot nine times.

A secret contract. No policy protecting riders' data. The Defender obtained the deal KCATA signed to harvest bus riders' faces for AI.

A survival guide under neo-fascism and neo-confederates. Everything on your ballot is here. Everything behind your ballot is here. August 4. November 3.

Three years of organizing brought a Chicago landlord to a table in the Historic Northeast. Two hours and three languages later, the tenants of North Lawn walked out with frozen rents, erased debt, rep...

Still workshopping its position on chattel slavery, the NPR affiliate invites you into the conversation.

Still workshopping its position on chattel slavery, the NPR affiliate invites you into the conversation.

A cable signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio directs every U.S. embassy worldwide to suppress "anti-American propaganda" using Pentagon psyops units and recruited local influencers. Weeks earlier,...

Your government launched an illegal war, bombed 66 schools, killed 165 schoolgirls, and is asking you to pay $200 billion for it. Here is everything Western media won't tell you.

Leavenworth was founded by pro-slavery settlers and became the epicenter of Bleeding Kansas. That same city votes today on whether to resurrect a CoreCivic detention facility — a company that has already killed people in its custody — and open a 1,000-bed ICE camp to kidnap, cage, and disappear immigrants from our region. The shackles have always looked different here. This morning, Leavenworth decides what they look like in 2026.

They killed 165 schoolgirls on a Saturday morning, bragged about obtaining "complete control of Iranian skies," and plunged the planet into its most dangerous military crisis since 1945. A radical examination of American empire's suicidal hubris, the intelligence operations that manufactured the pretext, and the media apparatus selling civilizational destruction as foreign policy.

Corporations control the internet, so grassroots media workers are creating in-person spaces to build collective power.

The department has received $1.2 billion since 2022. Now it claims it can't afford basic services while an officer who has killed three people remains on patrol. A Kansas City Defender investigation.

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ICE is moving on plans to make Kansas City one of seven "mega centers" in its unprecedented concentration camp network. A local real estate company, Platform Ventures, “sold out” Kansas City by sellin...