Guest op-ed from Josh Smith, a law student at the University of North Carolina School of Law. I drove over 2,000 miles to work for Montana Gov. Steve Bullock in the summer of 2018. And more significant than that, in Montana’s 129 years of statehood, I am likely the...
Guest op-ed from Terry Philips, former IDP Veterans Caucus Chair. I initially became interested in Mayor Pete’s campaign primarily because he was a fellow Navy Veteran. As I watched him talk to the reporter in French about the fire in the Notre Dame Cathedral, I...
Guest op-ed from Adam Kenworthy, a Des Moines attorney. All pivotal movements in our nation’s history draw from the principles enshrined in the very first line of our founding document that reads: “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more...
Guest op-ed from Dennis Cole of Shenandoah, Iowa, past Page County Democrats chair. As Iowans, we have a very important responsibility in our democracy. The first-in-the-nation caucuses bestow upon us a great opportunity to lead America in the political and moral...
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...
Guest column from Sue Dvorsky, former Iowa Democratic Party chair. Thirty million people in this country don’t have access to health care. And the rest of us? Too many Americans have such inadequate plans they can barely afford to take their kids or parents to see...
Guest column from Dr. Jill Biden on Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Cancer has been a dark thread throughout my life. Both my parents died of it, and in 2015, Joe and I lost Beau to glioblastoma. Cancer is a brutal disease; it shatters our hearts and steals our joy....
Guest piece from five Montanans who moved to Iowa to organize for Governor Steve Bullock -- Bullock for President Iowa Organizers Rio Aagaard-Shively, Alice Boyer, Shelby Fisher, Korbin Bragstad, and Harry Child. Montana has been a home that’s given more than we...
Guest column from Drake University student Samantha Bayne. I re-registered to vote on Constitution Day, September 17th, 2019. I know that because I registered myself, before an event I led to introduce first-year Drake University students to the world of Iowa...
Guest post from State Representative Andy McKean, who became a Democrat earlier this year during the legislative session. Amy Klobuchar now has the backing of both Iowa legislators who left the Republican Party during Donald Trump's presidency (former State Senator...
