Americas PAC, a Marion-based super PAC, largely is funded by a wealthy Illinois man who has made dismantling labor unions a key focus of his campaign donations. Todd Dorman, a columnist with the Cedar Rapids Gazette, wrote this week about Americas PAC and how it is...
Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst gave several problematic answers in a recent Fox News interview, in which she watered down Turkey's invasion in Syria, defended the president's relationships with authoritarian leaders and parroted Republican talking points on impeachment. Here...
Iowa Republican David Young is running for Congress in a swing district with the kind of large suburban population that is quickly moving away from Donald Trump. But based on the way he answered questions in a recent radio interview, one might assume he was trying...
The impeachment hearings of President Donald Trump went public this week, a move presidential candidate Tom Steyer has called for since he first spoke out on impeachment in 2017. In his first Need To Impeach ad, on Oct. 21, 2017, Steyer said: "He has brought us to...
On the campaign trail, U.S. Senate candidate Eddie Mauro hits many of the issues important to Democratic voters like health care, gun safety and climate change. But beyond his stump speech, it is apparent Mauro has a deeper connection to these issues than political...
Iowa Congressman Steve King drew a "Pants On Fire!" rating today from the fact-checking website PolitiFact, for pushing a conspiracy theory that the whistleblower who spoke out against President Donald Trump is George Soros' son. King, who often buys into viral...
The American Principles Project ran TV ads in Kentucky this year warning residents a vote for a Democratic governor could lead to transgender youth openly participating in sports. The man behind the conservative think tank is Terry Schilling, son of 2nd...
NARAL Pro-Choice America announced its endorsement today of Theresa Greenfield, one of four Democrats vying for the chance to unseat GOP Sen. Joni Ernst. In a press release, the abortion rights group called the Iowa race "crucial to flipping the Senate and...
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...
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...
