2015

Donald Trump’s Iowa campaign held a precinct captain training for their volunteers on Saturday afternoon at a hotel in West Des Moines. The first portion was also live-streamed for volunteers around the state, with about 50 people appearing to watch it on YouTube. Reporters from Starting Line and the New York Times weren’t allowed into…

The long-simmering conflict over Ted Cruz’s stance on ethanol erupted into a full-fledged war in Iowa in recent weeks, with Donald Trump putting the exclamation mark on the debate last night. “But with the ethanol, really, he’s gonna come a long way because he’s right now for the oil,” Trump said in his opening remarks,…

Guest Post From Progress Iowa Former Texas State Senator and candidate for Governor Wendy Davis (D-Texas) will deliver the featured address at the 2015 Progress Iowa Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 16th at the Meadows Events and Conference Center in Altoona, Iowa. More information can be found online at: http://progressiowa.org/holiday2015. “Our leaders need to be…

It appears one of Donald Trump’s top Iowa backers and national policy adviser may face some serious blow-back at home over Trump’s new policy on Muslims. The Republican front-runner rolled out his new proposal on Monday that would ban all Muslims from entering the United States, even if they were American citizens traveling abroad (though…

Last night a crowd of hundreds in South Carolina stood and cheered for a leading American politician calling for the banning of an entire religious group from entering the United States. It will likely stand (for at least a week) as the low point of the 2016 election cycle and seemed like a frightening moment…

In case you haven’t heard yet, Donald Trump rolled out a new policy today he thinks will help combat terrorism in America: banning all Muslims from entering the country. Yes, even ones who are American citizens currently living or traveling abroad. He cites as his reasoning a completely debunked and discredited poll that claims large…

Most Iowa Republicans scoff at the idea of Democrats eager to take on Chuck Grassley in 2016. They’re probably right, but the election is going to get held anyway, so we’re still writing about it. Grassley easily won in 2010, the year after he began to take much harder right stances, which Democrats thought might…

Good morning readers! Sorry about that Iowa game, but at least we got a hilariously incorrect Joni Ernst tweet out of it. It was a busy week on the Iowa Caucus trail, so let’s get right into it: Reporting On The Boring This weekend seven Republican candidates were in Iowa on the same day, leading…

The story of an Iowa woman and her son is the center of a new TV ad from Hillary Clinton that just began airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. It’s the newest in a series of well-produced ads from the Clinton campaign that focus in on individual voters’ struggles and how Clinton’s policies could help…

He may hail from a small northern Jackson County community named Leisure Lake, but Pete Hird’s focus in his campaign for State House is all about work and the working people he hopes to represent. The 33-year-old electrical worker is an active volunteer in the small, dirt-road rural neighborhood of about 100 families, and recently…