👽 Amie here. Files were released this weekend! (Ope, not the files we really wanted released, though.)

In this issue: Candidate events and protests, this week’s viral post, and reader soundoff.

Featured protests and rallies:

I don’t know who came up with the phrase “every accusation is a confession,” but it just keeps ending up correct:

Just hours before Vice President JD Vance took the stage last week in Des Moines, an ethanol lobbyist with deep connections in the Reynolds administration offered money to contacts willing to attend the rally. ISL’s Zachary Oren Smith got the scoop.

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On Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate turning over confidential voter rolls to Trump:

• “I never imagined my own home state would hand over my voter rights for nefarious purposes to steal elections. …”

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