Harold Schaitberger is the international president of a 320,000-person union and leads the ninth-largest federal union PAC in the United States, but he has one thing on his mind come caucus night: where to put the Joe Biden posters so voters can easily see them as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Zach Simonson, chair of the Wapello County Democrats, began his introduction Saturday afternoon of Tom Steyer by lamenting Americans' lack of progress on fighting the effects of climate change. "I get really excited when I think about the opportunity that we have...
Hundreds of people and eight 2020 Democratic presidential candidates showed up to Iowa Congresswoman Abby Finkenauer's inaugural fish fry in Cedar Rapids Saturday afternoon to discuss issues important to unions. The Fish Fry was co-hosted by the IBEW PAC, the...
