2016
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Rise Of The Alt-Right: Trump’s Bannon “Most Dangerous Political Operative in America”
This headline came from a 2015 article in Bloomberg News that featured an expose on Steve Bannon, the new CEO for the Trump campaign. Bannon has been the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, one of the far-right’s most vicious media tabloids. Bannon’s choice to run the Trump campaign should scare both Republicans and Democrats since…
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Free Speech Incidents In Waterloo, Calhoun County Teachable Moments
We Americans like to wrap ourselves in the U.S. Constitution as if it were a parchment blanket. We like this – except when someone else wraps themselves in it for reasons we dislike. At the heart of the United States and our democracy is this: Our Constitution protects ideas we gladly support, as well as…
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Labor Unions Endorse Patty Judge Despite Past Misgivings
The AFL-CIO officially gave an endorsement nod to U.S. Senate candidate Patty Judge this week at their state convention in Altoona. That followed AFSCME’s formal backing last week. It’s a notable change in labor’s disposition to the former Lt. Governor, and a sign of continuing unity around Judge in a race Democrats see as a…
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Youth Wage Gets Pushback In Polk County Minimum Wage Proposal
“I’m disappointed.” That was the most common refrain from community members during the public comments section of yesterday’s Polk County minimum wage task force meeting in Des Moines. This gathering of the group focused on a separate youth wage to be implemented along with a new minimum wage in Iowa’s largest county. Many community members…
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The 2016 Election and the Economic War on Women – Part 5
Part 5 of the series. View Part 1, 2, 3, 4 on IDD’s website Reprinted with permission by People for the American Way Major players working to stop women’s economic freedom measures American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) As People For the American Way wrote in a report on ALEC, the organization “is a one-stop shop…
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Voting for All We Can Be
Guest post from Miyoko Hikiji, Iowa State Senate Candidate in District 20, Author of All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq, Army & Iowa National Guard Veteran 1995-2004. Ninety-six years ago today, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution was certified as law, guaranteeing women the right to vote for the first time…
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Right-Wing Lies Adding Up In 2016
By Tim DeLong For quite some time it has been apparent to most that Republicans lie a lot more than Democrats. So I decided to put together my own list of what I consider to be lies told by Republicans, as well as significant policy positions – most of which involved outright lies – that…
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Martin O’Malley, EMILY’s List Stephanie Schriock In Iowa Sunday
Former Maryland Governor and Iowa Caucus competitor Martin O’Malley will return to Iowa this Sunday to headline the Progress Iowa Corn Feed in Des Moines. It’s O’Malley’s second trip back to the state since the February 1 caucus – he was here in June to campaign on behalf of Hillary Clinton at several events and meet with…
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Iowa Republicans Have Gone Trump
A guest post from House Leader Mark Smith As a lifetime resident of Iowa, I am proud of our state’s progressive history. We were vehemently opposed to slavery from our beginning days and we were one of the first states to call for public education for all children. We were one of the first states…
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Republicans Own The Zika Virus Epidemic
Since February Republicans have repeatly been warned by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it was inevitable that the Zika virus would invade America unless Congress provided the CDC the critical funds needed to battle the invasion. Now, six months later, pregnant women and women hoping to get pregnant in South Florida…
