The ‘We Ain’t Buying It’ campaign hopes consumers use their wallets to hurt companies complying with ‘threats on democracy.’
News briefs for the Iowa working class for the week of Nov. 20, 2025:
The kidnapping goon squad gutting our workforce keeps rolling to more cities across the US. Its newest target is Charlotte, North Carolina, and soon ICE and Border Patrol will bring their terror to New Orleans. But deportations of immigrant workers continue to...
Case New Holland says it will close its Burlington plant by the middle of next year. Workers say it's not because of money—which the company has plenty of—but because they want to break the union.
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Iowa’s winters may be cold, but there’s plenty to warm your hands and your heart at these beautiful winter festivals across the state.
In 2018, Ashley Hinson turned on Iowans for a $1500 donation. Now she's running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, where lobbyists push harder with more money.
Iowans deserve leaders who cannot be bought by special interests.
Trump promised more jobs, economic gains, and thriving local communities. Iowa is feeling quite the opposite.
Iowa Rep. Mariannette Miller Meeks’ first in-person town hall all year probably didn’t go as she had hoped. Miller-Meeks was booed when she blamed the Biden administration for farmers’ current struggles.
She also said she supports the Trump administration’s tariffs, which have strained farmers.
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As part of the deal to end the federal government shutdown, most hemp products with THC will become illegal again, meaning the burgeoning hemp industry in Iowa—and across the nation—could soon go up in smoke.
