Candidate · November 3, 2026

Adam Hamilton

On the ballot for U.S. Senate · Kansas

DemocraticChallenger
raised through Oct 14, 2026
$19M
cash on hand
$2.9M
issues with public statements
23
outside spending for or against
$32M

§1On the ballot

Why this matters: This is exactly how the candidate appears on your ballot, from the state's official candidate list.

OfficeU.S. Senate · Kansas1,2,3
Party on the ballotDemocratic1,2,3,4
StatusChallenger
Also on the ballot

§2Who they are

Why this matters: Background and experience help you judge how someone might do the job. These come from public records and the candidate's own materials.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Adam Hamilton grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas.5 In 1990 he and his wife, LaVon, started a church in the Kansas City area, and he has served as its pastor for 36 years.5

Why they say they're running

His campaign website says he is running because Washington is not listening to Kansans and is making their lives harder, and it says tariffs and foreign wars, among other things, have raised the cost of food, medicine and gas.5 It says his campaign focuses on listening to Kansans, lowering the costs of food, energy and health care, working with Democrats, Republicans and independents, and restoring decency in government.5

Websites and accounts

§3What they've said on the issues

Why this matters: These are positions the candidate has stated publicly — on their campaign website or in public statements — summarized in plain words with a link to where they said it. Issues they haven't spoken about publicly are left out.

Drafted by AI from the public sources cited. Each sentence links to its source.

Each issue has its own range of views. A position is marked on that range only when the candidate's own statement clearly matches one option; there is no overall left–right score.

Economy, Jobs and Trade

His campaign website says he would require Congress to approve new tariffs before they take effect and require their cost to families to be published first.7

  1. Give the president broader power to impose tariffs without a vote of Congress, such as under emergency powers
  2. Keep current law, which lets the president impose tariffs under specific trade laws but not the emergency-powers law
  3. Let tariffs start, but end them unless Congress approves within a set time
  4. Require Congress to approve new tariffs before they take effect
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would end the current across-the-board tariffs, which it says are raising costs for farmers, home builders and families.7

  1. Lower or remove most tariffs
  2. Targeted tariffs on some countries or goods
  3. Broad tariffs on most imports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would restore the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's 2024 limits on bank overdraft fees.7

  1. Strengthen rules and consumer protections, such as limits on overdraft fees and tougher oversight of large banks
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Ease rules on how companies raise money from investors, and let more people invest in private companies
  4. Ease rules further, including closing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would strengthen workers' right to organize, starting with the Faster Labor Contracts Act, which it says would require employers to begin bargaining within 10 days after workers vote to form a union.7

  1. Make it easier to form a union (for example, the PRO Act)
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Add requirements such as a secret-ballot election before every union is recognized
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Energy and Climate

His campaign website says he would propose binding rules and legislation requiring data centers to cover their own electricity costs instead of passing them on to other ratepayers.7

  1. Encourage new data centers with tax breaks and faster approvals
  2. Require data centers to pay the full cost of the power plants and lines they need
  3. Pause or limit new data centers
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would restore the energy production tax credits that were repealed and that he supports producing energy from all sources.7

  1. End the remaining clean energy credits
  2. Keep the credits as the 2025 law left them
  3. Restore the credits the 2025 law ended or cut back
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Social Security and Medicare

His campaign website says he would expand Medicare to cover vision and dental care.7

His campaign website says he would expand the number of drugs whose prices Medicare negotiates, speed up the process and extend the negotiated prices to private insurance plans.7

  1. Repeal or scale back negotiation
  2. Keep the program as it is
  3. Expand it to more drugs and to people with private insurance
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would address what it describes as overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans and change prior authorization rules so insurance paperwork cannot delay or deny care that doctors say patients need.7

  1. Expand Medicare Advantage and encourage more private plan options
  2. Keep current rules
  3. Tighten rules on what these plans are paid and when they can require approval for care
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Housing

His campaign website says he would close loopholes in the new federal limit on large investors buying single-family homes, which it says lets the biggest firms split into smaller companies to keep buying.7

  1. Tighten the ban, such as by covering smaller investors or ending exceptions
  2. Keep the 2026 law as passed
  3. Loosen or repeal the ban
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would create tax credits for first-time homebuyers and for firefighters, police officers and teachers buying a home.7

Health Care

His campaign website says he would reverse the federal cuts to Medicaid.7

  1. Reduce federal Medicaid spending further, such as by giving states fixed yearly amounts (block grants or per-person limits)
  2. Keep the funding rules set by the 2025 law
  3. Reverse the 2025 changes or increase federal funding
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would restore the enhanced ACA premium tax credits, whose end it says has raised premiums for Kansans who get help paying for marketplace coverage.7

Abortion and Reproductive Health

His campaign website says he would protect a woman's right to choose and prevent further government involvement in personal decisions.7

His campaign website says he would write access to contraception into law and require insurers to cover over-the-counter birth control the way they cover prescription contraception.7

Agriculture and Rural Life

His campaign website says he would change the H-2A farmworker program to allow year-round visas, lower compliance costs and give existing workers a path to legal status.7

  1. Make the program easier and cheaper for farms, including for year-round work like dairy
  2. Keep the program as it is
  3. Raise required wages and worker protections
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports year-round sales of E15 gasoline and says the Senate should pass the year-round E15 bill the House approved.7

  1. Expand biofuel use, such as by allowing E15 sales all year
  2. Keep the current requirements
  3. Lower the requirements or end the Renewable Fuel Standard
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Elections and Government Reform

His campaign website says he would bar members of Congress and their households from buying or selling individual stocks, requiring them to use a qualified blind trust or sell, and would extend the ban to cryptocurrency and other digital assets.7

  1. Ban members and their spouses and dependent children from owning or trading individual stocks
  2. Ban members themselves from trading individual stocks
  3. No ban; keep the reporting rules, with stronger penalties for late reports
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he supports a constitutional amendment setting 18-year term limits for members of the House and Senate.7

  1. Shorter limits, such as three House terms (six years) and two Senate terms (12 years)
  2. Longer limits, such as 12 to 18 years in each chamber
  3. No term limits
Marked: the option their statement matches.

His campaign website says he would end what it calls dark money spending in elections by billionaires and special interests.7

Courts, Rights and Civil Liberties

His campaign website says the constitutional amendment on 18-year term limits that he supports would also cover the Supreme Court.7

  1. Set fixed terms, such as 18 years
  2. Keep lifetime appointments
Marked: the option their statement matches.

Taxes and Budget

His campaign website says members of Congress should not receive their pay during a government shutdown.7

Technology, Privacy and AI

His campaign website says he supports the No Robot Bosses Act, which it says would require human review of decisions on hiring, firing and promotions instead of leaving them to AI alone.7

  1. Require government testing or licenses for the most powerful AI systems before they are released
  2. Set rules for specific risks and uses, such as deepfakes, hiring decisions and safety disclosures
  3. Rely mainly on existing laws, without new rules written for AI
Marked: the option their statement matches.

§4Money

Why this matters: Campaigns report where their money comes from and how much they have left. Outside groups that spend on their own, without coordinating with the campaign, report that too.

Reported to the Federal Election Commission for the 2025–2026 election cycle, through October 14, 2026.8

Raised$19,175,044
Spent$16,300,681
Cash on hand$2,874,364
Debts owed by the campaign$50,000

Where the money came from

Individual donors$17M · 86%
PACs and other political committees$246K · 1%
Political party committees$600 · 0%
The candidate's own money (gifts and loans)$50K · 0%
Transfers from the candidate's other committees$2.3M · 12%
Other receipts (other loans, refunds, interest)$40K · 0%

Outside spending

Groups spending independently reported $8,406,021 supporting and $23,400,530 opposing Adam Hamilton this cycle, primary and general combined, in the 24- and 48-hour reports the law requires for larger expenditures, filed through October 25, 2026.9

Largest independent spenders, as named in their FEC filings.
GroupSupportingOpposing
SLF PAC—$11,156,340
Lower Costs Now$4,483,254—
MAIN STREET FUND—$3,501,724
Club for Growth Action—$2,456,460
Government That Works PAC$1,775,709—
Americans for Prosperity Action, Inc. (AFP Action) DBA CVA Action and DBA LIBRE Action—$1,616,447
PLAINS PAC—$1,593,350
Win it Back PAC—$1,539,253

Smaller expenditures that appear only on a group's regular monthly or quarterly report aren't in these totals, so the full amounts can be somewhat higher. When a group amends a report, only its latest version is counted.

§5Financial disclosures

Why this matters: Federal candidates and members of Congress must report their assets, income, debts and outside jobs, and members must report stock trades. These filings show possible conflicts of interest.

Senate candidates and senators file with the Senate's own disclosure system, which asks each visitor to agree to its terms before searching, so we can't link straight to a filing. You can search for Adam Hamilton at efdsearch.senate.gov10.