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I won’t beat around the bush. I’m dismayed by President Donald Trump’s decision to keep people from entering the United States if they are citizens of one of seven nations where a majority of people are Muslims. I am worried about the message his order sends to our...
The election of 2016 provided many surprising results to longtime Iowa politics watchers, but one county shaded in red stood out most of all: Dubuque. The working class Catholic river town of Northeast Iowa was won by the Republican presidential candidate for the...
The Republican Party of Iowa is playing a tricky game this year in how it promotes their candidates and how they criticize Democrats. Inside Polk County, Republican campaigns like Chris Hagenow's are promoting their support of balanced budgets and assistance to small...
Trump and Republicans are fanning Obamacare fears over rising health insurance rates of 25%. According to Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell, "thanks to financial assistance, most marketplace consumers this year will find plan options with premiums...
Rene Gadelha's campaign to unseat popular Democratic State Senator Liz Mathis is not going so well. In the span of just one week Gadelha's attack ads have gotten two negative fact checks from two of the district's biggest media outlets. First came a column from Todd...
The Republican Party leadership has become obsessed with inventing Democratic scandals by ignoring or twisting the facts. Reality is based on provable facts, which Republicans seem to abhor when it inconveniently conflicts with their beliefs. Their latest tall tale is...
The late July fundraising report for Iowa candidates is often the most important - the next filing deadline isn't until October 19. Many of the state's major PACs and donors use these numbers in determining who to send extra funds to help push over the top. There's...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took some time this past week to visit the all-important swing state of Scotland, during a visit to the opening of one of his luxury golf courses outside Aberdeen. Trump praised his son for his management of the property,...
A little under eight years ago, a crew of Western Iowa Hillary Clinton staff and their best volunteers gathered after finishing their final task in Iowa, corralling Iowans into the Clinton corner at precincts across the county. Crowding around the TVs in a German beer...
Christmas in July is a popular contradiction; have a Christmas party while the temperatures are soaring and lemonade is the beverage of choice. It is an ironic celebration because, as Bing Crosby told us, Christmas should be white, and in July, everything is green. In...
