Democrat · U.S. Senate candidate
Sources for Anne Parelkar
44 public sources used in researching this candidate. Every claim in the profile traces back to one or more of these URLs.
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Primary Records
17 sources- Open
Federal Election Commission · 2026-05-19
PARELKAR, LOIS ANNE ELIZABETH LEA - Candidate overviewfec.gov
- Parelkar is listed as a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Kansas, candidate ID S6KS00239
- FEC lists the candidate as a challenger
- Statement of Candidacy was filed July 26, 2025
- Anne for Kansas is an active quarterly Senate principal campaign committee
- Committee ID is C00913293
- Registration date is July 24, 2025
- Amended statement of organization filed Sept. 30, 2025
- Committee is a principal campaign committee for Parelkar
- Committee address is in Overland Park, Kansas
- Homepage identifies Anne Parelkar as a Kansas attorney running for U.S. Senate
- Homepage says elected officials should answer to the people rather than party leaders or political donors
- Homepage links Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok, and YouTube campaign accounts
- Biography says Parelkar was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas and raised in White Hall
- Biography says she attended Lyon College and the William H. Bowen School of Law
- Biography says she is licensed in Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas
- Issue index lists healthcare, farmers, immigration/workers, government reform, education, price manipulation, ownership, local communities, environment, and foreign policy
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Anne for Kansas campaign · 2026-05-19
Build a Healthcare System That Works for Everyoneanneforkansas.com
- Campaign calls for Medicare for all children as an incremental step
- Campaign calls for ending surprise billing and requiring price transparency
- Campaign supports reproductive care and protecting women's right to choose
- Campaign calls for humane, orderly border enforcement
- Campaign calls for modern processing and lawful pathways
- Campaign calls for independent investigation of ICE operations
- Campaign calls for stronger antitrust enforcement in seed, fertilizer, meatpacking, and equipment markets
- Campaign calls for fair producer prices, contract protections, local processing, credit, crop insurance, and disaster support
- Campaign calls for antitrust enforcement, lobbyist and stock-trading restrictions, congressional tariff authority, Citizens United reversal, public financing, and House expansion
- Campaign calls for higher teacher pay, pension protection, stopping vouchers, smaller classes, less testing and paperwork, academic freedom, collective bargaining, and full IDEA funding
- Campaign supports the PRO Act, wage-theft enforcement, labor standards, Job Corps/retraining, and transportation support
- Campaign calls for one clear price, a ban on data-driven price discrimination, subscription protections, and Robinson-Patman protections
- Campaign calls for a national right to repair, plain-language user agreements, digital-purchase protections, and a ban on planned obsolescence
- Campaign calls for local business competition, simpler grant processes, revitalization, local-media grants, and local flexibility in federal programs
- Campaign calls for cleanup of polluted sites and waterways, cleanup bonds, conservation payments, drought/flood/wildfire/grid resilience, and domestic power-component manufacturing
- Campaign release says Parelkar launched a statewide listening tour while exploring a U.S. Senate run
- Release says the tour would include town halls and one-on-one meetings
Reporting and Public Context
10 sources- Open
Kansas Reflector · 2026-05-19
Democratic immigration lawyer wants to fix broken system with run for U.S. Senate in Kansaskansasreflector.com
- Kansas Reflector profiled Parelkar as an Overland Park immigration attorney running for U.S. Senate
- Article reports 2026 is her first campaign for elected office
- Article ties her campaign to immigration-system concerns and a Roger Marshall town hall
- Kansas Democratic Party lists Anne Parelkar under U.S. Senate candidates with her campaign website
- Page cautions readers to reference the Secretary of State for filed candidates
- Page says candidate list is from the Kansas Secretary of State
- Page lists Parelkar among U.S. Senate candidates with FEC ID S6KS00239 and March 31, 2026 FEC totals
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American Immigration Lawyers Association lawyer directory · 2026-05-19
Ms. Anne Lea Parelkarailalawyer.com
- Directory lists Parelkar Immigration Law LLC in Overland Park
- Directory lists AILA member since 2016, bar admissions in Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas, and case types including family, general, and naturalization
- ImmiRail: Anne Parelkar profile
- Within Reason with Mike Matson (News Radio KMAN, March 2026)
- KMAN Radio - Anne Parelkar Interview (Mar 2026)
- KMAN Radio: Within Reason interview
- Kansas Reflector podcast interview
- Anne Parelkar - Ballotpedia
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Public Online Activity
17 sources- Profile had 109 followers, 35 follows, and 131 posts at API readback
- Profile was created March 26, 2025
- Profile bio identifies Parelkar as an attorney licensed in Kansas, Arkansas, and Missouri and as a 2026 U.S. Senate candidate
- Parelkar posted on May 15, 2026 about Nakba Day, U.S. weapons to Israel, and Palestinian self-determination
- Engagement at API readback was 1 like, 0 reposts, 0 replies, 0 quotes
- Parelkar invited Kansans to a virtual campaign roundtable
- Engagement at API readback was 0 likes, 0 reposts, 0 replies, 0 quotes
- Parelkar promoted weekly Wednesday coffee meetups in Johnson County
- Engagement at API readback was 0 likes, 0 reposts, 0 replies, 0 quotes
- Parelkar posted a message of support to trans Kansans on March 31, 2026
- Parelkar posted on Transgender Day of Visibility about solidarity, understanding, and equality
- Parelkar posted on National Ag Day and linked to the campaign farmers page
- For Kansas-specific policy, Parelkar's feed combines statewide stops with issue planks on agriculture, health care, public schools, local communities, and worker protections. On March 25, 2026, she posted, "Happy #Natio...
- Parelkar posted about subscription practices and linked to The People's Deal
- Parelkar posted that she joined Women for Kansas in Lawrence to give an immigration-law presentation
- Parelkar posted an Easter/faith reference and said she discussed faith in an upcoming podcast clip
- Across the captured period the feed contains no standalone posts centered on gun policy, Fort Riley, or water policy including the Ogallala Aquifer. The captured Bluesky feed contains one agriculture post and a linked c...
- On national and foreign-policy questions, Parelkar posts less often than she posts about campaign events and public access, but the captured feed includes immigration enforcement, voting, Russia, Iran, Gaza, federal lab...
- Parelkar's public alignment network centers on county Democratic organizations, Kansas civic events, and campaign-controlled media. She tagged the Miami County Democratic Party account in an April 6, 2026 post: "See you...
- Audience response on Parelkar's measurable Bluesky feed is small and concentrated around party independence, health care, and campaign-media clips. Her highest-engagement Parelkar-authored Bluesky post in the captured s...
- Across the 51 Parelkar-authored Bluesky posts cataloged in the harvest, her most frequent subject is in-person contact with Kansans: roundtables, coffee meetings, county Democratic gatherings, candidate forums, and list...
- Parelkar tagged or mentioned @miamicoksdems.org in a 2026-04-06 Miami County meeting post.
- Social Media: LinkedIn
- LinkedIn: Anne Lea Parelkar
- LinkedIn: Anne Lea Parelkar — profile identified in existing candidate source file; no public activity harvested.
