Iowa Rep. Ashley Hinson is trending nationally online today, and not in a good way. Reaction to Hinson taking credit for funding for locks and dams coming from President Joe Biden's Infrastructure plan—which she voted against—was swift, angry and often mocking. Her...
Sen. Chuck Grassley holds the distinction as being the only still-serving legislator who cast a vote in the US Senate against making Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday back in 1983. The ranks of those members have dwindled in recent years, though Grassley...
The first question Sen. Chuck Grassley faced at his opening public town hall forum of 2022 in Oelwein was whether, in his heart, he felt the 2020 presidential election was “honest” or “cheated.” “Biden was elected president, I said that on December 16th [2020] when...
Last fall, people in the Des Moines suburbs started showing up at school board meetings to read, without any context, sexually-explicit passages from books they thought should be banned from school libraries. Not coincidentally, this was happening all across...
Gov. Kim Reynolds began her Condition of the State tonight with an inspiring story of a California couple who relocated to Iowa, bought a restaurant and built a new life here. Their resilience through the pandemic was used by Reynolds as an example of how Iowa kept...
Senate President Jake Chapman kicked off the new 2022 legislative session with a series of attacks and accusations against teachers and the media, accusing them of a "sinister agenda" that they're pushing upon Iowa school children. "The time has come to take a...
In a surprising development today, the Republican Party has come out against the UAW strike and has begun to attack striking workers. The National Republican Senatorial Committee, which fully backs and works closely with Sen. Chuck Grassley's reelection campaign,...
Elections for local office often come down to who voters feel have the best judgment to lead, especially when the candidates are relative newcomers and don't have a voting record from past service. Good judgment on important school decisions is what the four...
Sen. Chuck Grassley gave a stirring, 25-second explanation of why he was accepting former President Donald Trump's endorsement last night: solely because it would help him politically. The 88-year-old senator briefly took the stage with Trump before a crowd of...
Democratic activists and candidates gathered on a sunny, hot field on Saturday for the Polk County Democrats' annual Steak Fry, which returned to an in-person setting this year (with plenty of COVID precautions). Illinois Rep. Lauren Underwood keynoted the event to...
