2019
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Yang’s Nontraditional Supporters Are Real And Ready To Vote
A 33-year-old from Kansas City hitched a ride from a friend in St. Louis to stand in the cold and rain for more than four hours to meet Andrew Yang and experience Yangapalooza this past Friday. Yangapalooza featured several hours of live entertainment from Chef Zoot, Weezer and others. More than 1,200 people showed up…
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Veteran Calls Out Joni Ernst On Health Care In New Iowa Ad
Iowa Voices is running a new ad featuring an Iraq combat veteran named Dan, in which he speaks out against Sen. Joni Ernst’s continued votes to allow insurance companies to discriminate against people based on age and preexisting health conditions. In addition to a long line of votes from Ernst, the ad, titled “Dan,” refers to…
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This Evangelical Iowan Wants Ernst To Act On Climate
Guest op-ed from Megan Gustafson, a student at Iowa’s Wartburg Seminary, who participated in an event for the Evangelical Environmental Network’s Pro-Life Clean Energy Campaign in Waterloo this past week. The effects of climate change are here and the impacts for Iowans are undeniable. Just ask the homeowners of Fremont County, who are still gutting…
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Ep128 Part 2: Second Half of the Liberty & Justice Celebration
On part two of this special episode, we have the second half of Democratic presidential candidate speeches from Friday’s Liberty and Justice Celebration at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Here are some time-markers to skip to particular speeches if you don’t want to listen through 13 full-length speeches (over two-and-a-half hours worth). Michael…
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Ep128 Part 1: First Half of the Liberty & Justice Celebration
On part one of this special episode, we have the first half of Democratic presidential candidate speeches from Friday’s Liberty and Justice Celebration at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines. Here are some time-markers to skip to particular speeches if you don’t want to listen through 13 full-length speeches (over two-and-a-half hours worth). Pete…
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2020 Dems Talk Housing Struggles In Communities Of Color
This weekend, at presidential candidate events and forums throughout central Iowa, economic injustice against communities of color was a reoccurring theme — including discussion of homeownership disparities between black and brown families and their white neighbors. At an NAACP forum in Des Moines and later at town halls and an office opening in Waterloo, the…
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IA-Sen: Franken Draws On Military Connections For Fundraising
U.S. Senate candidate Michael Franken, whose military career took him around the world and to Washington, D.C., has found his background handy in helping fund his race for the Democratic nomination. Franken, a retired Navy admiral, was the last of the four candidates to enter the race against Republican Sen. Joni Ernst. Because he declared…
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How Scholten Works To Unseat King, One Tiny Town At A Time
Democrat J.D. Scholten is looking for supporters in the most unlikely of places — the smallest towns west of I-35. The 39-county congressional district Scholten is trying to win in Northwest Iowa has historically been the most conservative in the state. Residents of the 4th District repeatedly vote for Republican Congressman Steve King, sending him…
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Robin Stone Passes Away, But Her Health Care Fight Lives On
“If I sound a little angry, it’s because I am,” Robin Stone told me, the first time I spoke to her on the phone, just a couple months before she passed away on November 3, ending her battle with thyroid cancer. She had told me her story, a chronological look at the events that fell…
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Rep. Katie Porter Returns To Iowa For Mentor Elizabeth Warren
Congresswoman Katie Porter, a rising star in the Democratic Party and House of Representatives, returned to her home state of Iowa this weekend to support her mentor, Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Porter was born in Fort Dodge and grew up in Iowa before becoming a representative for a historically Republican district in California. She also sat…
