WATCH: How Iowans can push back this Banned Books Week
Have a favorite banned book? Share it with us in the comments! We promise not to report you to Kim Reynolds.
Oct
2025
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Oct
2025
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WATCH: The “Iowa Wave” is about hope. NIH cuts threaten that.
The Trump administration has cut $2.7 billion from NIH funding, canceling hundreds of research grants nationwide. These cuts will slow cancer research, limit access to lifesaving care, and weaken Iowa’s ability to respond to those in need.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: UnityPoint spends millions on union-busting instead of safer workplace policies
2,000 nurses at UnityPoint Health are unionizing in what is considered the largest union effort in Iowa's history. They're also facing a multimillion-dollar union-busting campaign.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: Different states, different justice (w/ Sarah Hedlund and Diana Mondragon) – Cornhole Champions #42
On this episode of Cornhole Champions, Zachary Oren Smith sits down with the co-hosts of "Blooming After Grooming" to explore how a predator moved from Iowa to Illinois after a relationship ended, and how state laws either support or fail survivors seeking accountability.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: Why aren’t Republicans holding town halls?
Yet another one of Iowa’s members of Congress was caught in a major gaffe. Here’s what to take away from this one.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: Iowa GOP Rep. Miller-Meeks says she’ll hold a town hall ‘when hell freezes over’
Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks told Johnson County Republicans at an August meeting that she would hold a town hall “when hell freezes over.”
A video of the full meeting was uploaded to YouTube, but the county party took the video down this week.
GOP congressional leaders told members in March not to hold public town halls, Politico reported. Constituents have been asking Rep. Miller-Meeks to go against party bosses.
The congresswoman has opted for closed door meeting with select groups instead of public town halls with her constituents.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: Individual factors don’t fully explain Iowa’s cancer crisis
Several of Shannon Huey's family members have had cancer, many at young ages. Though genetics and personal choices can play a role in cancer risk, she thinks her family's long list of diagnoses means there's more to the story.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: How are you caring for Iowa’s environment?
Over the last few weeks, our team has been drawing connections between pesticide usage, nitrate-contaminated water, a severe lack of regulations, and our state's cancer crisis. The reaction may be to freeze or flight, but the one that will make things better is fight.
How are you fighting for Iowa's environment? How can we build a system that values humans and nature over profit? Send us your videos of the actions you take or post them with #IowaActs to inspire other Iowans to do the same.
Oct
2025
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WATCH: Big Ag corruption is ruining Iowans’ health
Corporations have plenty of strategies for manipulating government regulations, but how does it impact the governed?
On the latest episode of Cornhole Champions, investigative journalist Carey Gillam answers your question on how Big Ag is casting Iowans' health aside to make a profit.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/fovhopStD0c?si=E3tOIxZeh_CeCsmU
Oct
2025
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WATCH: Trump float booed at Iowa City homecoming parade
Parade attendees expressed their frustration amid immigration crack downs in Iowa.
