Iowa's three Democratic members of the House of Representatives voted tonight on two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, voting with their colleagues to set up a Senate trial for only the third time in U.S. history. On Tuesday, U.S. Reps. Abby...
Patrick Rowley, the Lee County field organizer for Elizabeth Warren's campaign in Iowa, has an unlikely roommate. Like many young campaign staffers, Rowley lives with a local family in the county where he works. His Fort Madison hosts, however, did not discriminate...
Unlike Sen. Joni Ernst, her Republican colleague, Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, doesn't think Social Security reform should be hashed out "behind closed doors," according to an audio recording provided to Starting Line. Gardner was heard rebuking Ernst's claim...
A second watchdog group announced today it filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in response to reporting about Sen. Joni Ernst's ties to an Iowa-based "dark money" organization. The nonprofit Campaign for Accountability (CfA) asked the FEC in a...
Michael Franken, a retired Navy admiral and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, knows more about foreign policy than most candidates for public office. Since leaving a speck on the map in Northwest Iowa to attend college and join the military, Franken has moved more...
Sen. Joni Ernst's 2014 campaign paid the largest civil penalty ever levied by the Federal Election Commission against an Iowa politician, according to previously unreported commission records. In 2017, the FEC found Ernst's first campaign for Senate broke the law...
The American Democracy Legal Fund sent a letter today to the Federal Election Commission urging the government agency to investigate allegations that members of Sen. Joni Ernst's campaign violated election laws by coordinating with "dark money" group Iowa Values....
On the campaign trail, Sen. Cory Booker is frank with Iowans: "Commit to caucus for us." With just under two months until the first-in-the-nation caucuses, low-polling candidates like Booker are desperate for a breakthrough. During his four-day, 13-stop "Lead with...
Sen. Joni Ernst's reelection efforts took a hit today in the midst of revelations her campaign may have illegally coordinated with the "dark money" group Iowa Values. But this isn't the first time Ernst has skirted the bounds of campaign finance laws. In the fall...
Condemnation came swiftly Friday morning as news broke of Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst's connection to the "dark money" group Iowa Values, and how it has helped raise money to bolster her 2020 reelection effort. The Associated Press reported today on material it obtained...
