The "political revolution" returned to Iowa on Friday with Senator Bernie Sanders holding two rallies in the state, but the Vermont senator would argue it never left. Stumping for his former adviser Pete D'Alessandro's congressional campaign in Des Moines, Sanders...
In a bit of ominous news for Governor Kim Reynold's election hopes this year, her campaign manager has left the campaign. The Associated Press reported this morning that Phil Valenziano had stepped down from his role of running Reynolds' campaign and that they...
A guest post from Linn County Supervisor Stacey Walker One of the greatest screenwriters of the modern era developed a political television series called The West Wing. While the series came to an end over a decade ago, it has become required watching not only for...
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...
