The release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of 13 Russians charged with interfering with the American election added extra proof to what many already suspected and knew of Russia's 2016 meddling. The 37-page indictment added plenty of new details to...
The Iowa Democratic Party has released additional information and numbers from the Iowa Caucus held on February 5. While the vast majority of precincts did not break into preference groups for the governor's race or congressional races, some did, and we now know...
Iowa Senator Joni Ernst is a national darling of the NRA's effort to eliminate any and all meaningful gun safety laws that might keep children like those at Parkland, Florida from getting blown to pieces on a regular school day. Ernst received over $3.1 million in...
The nation is coming to terms today with yet another horrific mass shooting at a school, this time in Parkland, Florida. Will anything substantive on gun laws change now that we've had our 18th mass shooting in just the first month and a half of 2018? As long as...
The six Democratic candidates in Iowa's 3rd Congressional District held a forum on Tuesday night this week. the Iowa Starting Line sat down with several of the students involved and who attended to get their reaction to the field. We also...
Governor Kim Reynolds released her wide-ranging tax cut plan earlier today, which included a total of $1.7 billion in tax reductions for Iowa businesses and taxpayers. In-depth details of the proposal have not yet been made public, and the initial plan put out...
Democratic 3rd District candidate Pete D'Alessandro has a big guest coming in to campaign for him later this month: Senator Bernie Sanders will hold a rally with D'Alessandro on February 23. It will be the biggest surrogate of the cycle to come in specifically for...
Senator Nate Boulton is returning to the early themes of his gubernatorial run in a new TV ad that starts running on Saturday. Back is the "stomp/clap" music that gave his campaign kick-off announcement video an energetic feel last year, as well as the senator's...
A guest post from Mark Masterson (pictured on the right) I would like to introduce myself. I'm Mark Masterson, and Monday was my first caucus experience as a Democrat. I work as a state employee (a correctional officer) at the Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility,...
It was, for the most part, the Cathy Glasson party last night at the Meredith Middle School caucus location in Des Moines. Although many caucus goers chose not to outwardly show support for a gubernatorial candidate, Glasson’s volunteers were well-organized, nor...
