Guest post from Dylan Funk I keep hearing the two major camps in the Democratic Party, the Clinton supporters and the Sanders supporters, say that the opposing camp needs to apologize to the...
Democrats boosted their number of state senators to 20 for the upcoming legislative session tonight, thanks to State Representative Jim Lykam's victory in the Davenport special election tonight....
Iowa, this place we call home, has been a state since it was admitted to the Union 170 years ago next week. In that long arc of history, there has not been an Iowa political figure quite like...
Some people fear a vacuum of power post-election, but the wide-open race for IDP chair has generated some much-needed discussion over what has gone wrong with our party, and what we need to do...
Editor’s note: At the September Iowa Democratic Party (IDP) State Central Committee (SCC) meeting a resolution was introduced to oppose the Dakota Access Pipeline. The resolution failed, but...
Last week seven of the eight candidates for IDP Chair attended a forum hosted by The Political Party, a relatively new group that's encouraging millennial progressives to get more engaged in...
Just one week ago Senate Democrats pressed Iowa officials at an oversight meeting how the state was saving all the money it claimed on the Medicaid privatization system. They were met with vague...
After a year of terrible losses, Democrats around the country have been searching for a handful of silver linings and moral victories to give them hope for the future. Many have looked to Jason...
State Central Committee members heard from eight candidates looking to be the next Iowa Democrats chair at their meeting this Saturday. They also saw speeches from four people hoping to become a...
I have reached the age where I don’t particularly enjoy being reminded I’m getting old. Another reminder came last week and hit close to home --- close to my childhood home. John Glenn, the first...
