In case you thought the assault on our school boards was over, Ryan Girdusky, the New Yorker who leads a PAC using culture war issues to take over school boards is coming to Kansas this month. The filing deadline for nonpartisan school board races is today at noon. The following is from the Sunflower State Journal, which we highly recommend subscribing to.

“Political strategist Ryan Girdusky, founder of the 1776 Project PAC, will give the keynote address at the Kansas Republican Party’s annual Bob Dole Dinner in Lenexa in mid-June.

While from New York, Girdusky gained some notoriety in the Blue Valley School District when his PAC targeted school board races there in 2023.

He engendered the ire of some parents when he promised in 2021 that his group would be “taking over school boards.”

The PAC considered races in the Blue Valley School District among its top targets nationally in 2023, and Girdusky went on Fox News to highlight the Johnson County campaign.

At one point, Girdusky was featured in a digital ad by Stand Up Blue Valley, which opposed the 1776 candidates.

The Stand Up Blue Valley ad zeroed in on Girdusky, noting that he lived in New York and said that Blue Valley was the place to “reclaim lost ground in the culture war.”

Girdusky said at the time that he believed opposition to the 1776 PAC was limited.

“It’s the same 20 people,” Girdusky said. “It’s the same ones over and over and over again. It feels like a mob is out to get you. But really they wouldn’t fill an Arby’s.”

He said he created the 1776 Project “to change public education by reforming school boards and electing reform-minded conservatives who wanted to improve public education in this country.”

In 2023, the 1776 Project PAC won just two of the 13 Kansas school board races it played in and was shut out in Johnson County.

Two years earlier, the PAC had won eight out of 13 races in Kansas.”

Originally posted to Facebook on 6/2/2025.