Politics
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Iowa AG defends other states discriminating against trans athletes
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird has now joined a group of Republican states to defend laws discriminating against transgender athletes in Idaho and West Virginia.
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Barack and Michelle Obama highlight Harris and Trump’s wildly different visions for America
Former President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama capped off Tuesday’s events at the DNC, where they laid out differing visions of where America will go under a Harris or Trump presidency.
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Joe Biden passes the torch to Kamala Harris on night one of the Democratic Convention
President Joe Biden promised to be “the best volunteer the Harris and Walz campaign has ever seen.”
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Trump a CEO’s dream, worker’s nightmare, labor leaders warn at DNC
The heads of six unions spoke on the first night of the Democratic National Convention to list the many ways the Biden-Harris team has had workers’ backs and how Trump has been hostile to workers’ rights and prosperity.
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Opinion: We must help communities that have been left behind, no matter who wins in November
In this op-ed, Justin Maxson and Sarah Jaynes advocate for prioritizing federal investments to uplift all communities and ensure widespread economic benefits.
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Two years in, the Inflation Reduction Act is lowering health care costs in Iowa
The Inflation Reduction Act ensured that 15,000 Iowans were able to keep their health insurance, reduced the cost of insulin for nearly 19,000 Iowa seniors, and incentivized manufacturers to invest in the state and create more clean energy jobs.
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Biden-Harris administration’s Medicare drug price negotiations secure $6 billion in savings for taxpayers
The White House estimates that these new prices will lead to around $6 billion in savings for the Medicare program in 2026. The new prices will be anywhere from 38% to 79% lower than the drugs’ list prices last year, saving seniors on Medicare an estimated $1.5 billion in out-of-pocket costs in 2026 alone.
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VIDEO: Iowa kid interviews Kamala Harris
Back in 2019, a group of school-age kids interviewed Kamala Harris about her vision for the presidency for a campaign video. One of those kids was from Ames, and she asked a brilliant question about what the now-presumptive Democratic nominee would do to support the country’s public schools. Watch Harris’s response here. @iowastartingline Back in…
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Opinion: Republicans want to repeal the modern family
From Project 2025 and JD Vance all the way down to state lawmakers, a growing number of far-right Republicans are waging war on modern families. Whether it’s attacking child care programs, encouraging women to stay in abusive marriages, or making it harder for same-sex couples to adopt, the modern right is fighting to repeal the…
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Inside Project 2025’s secret training videos
One centerpiece of that program is dozens of never-before-published videos created for Project 2025’s Presidential Administration Academy. The vast majority of these videos — 23 in all, totaling more than 14 hours of content — were provided to ProPublica and Documented by a person who had access to them.
