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After Big Iowa Trip, Buttigieg Secures New Local Endorsements

After Big Iowa Trip, Buttigieg Secures New Local Endorsements

After another campaign swing through Iowa that saw large crowds turn out for Pete Buttigieg, the South Bend Mayor announced a new set of endorsements from 20 Democratic and community leaders from across the state. Nine local elected officials, along with another four...

Rachel Junck Becomes Youngest Woman Ever Elected In Iowa

Rachel Junck Becomes Youngest Woman Ever Elected In Iowa

Rachel Junck, an Iowa State University student and born-and-raised Ames native, won her runoff race against incumbent Chris Nelson to win the 4th Ward City Council seat. Rachel is a chemical engineering student at Iowa State and will graduate in the spring of 2021....

As 2020 Dems Talk Housing Plans, Iowans Take Notice

As 2020 Dems Talk Housing Plans, Iowans Take Notice

During a significant few weeks for the nation’s widening affordable housing needs, several federal bill proposals and candidate plans were rolled out to address the crisis. In her role as a California senator, 2020 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris introduced last...

Iowa GOP Rep Calls Trans Flag-Flying A ‘Rainbow Jihad’

Iowa GOP Rep Calls Trans Flag-Flying A ‘Rainbow Jihad’

The acknowledgment of transgender Iowans appears to have deeply upset a pair of Republican lawmakers in Iowa. State Rep. Skyler Wheeler called the flying of a transgender flag over the Iowa Capitol for a few minutes "one of the most egregious acts of political...

Elizabeth Warren Lands New Iowa Endorsements After Debate

Elizabeth Warren Lands New Iowa Endorsements After Debate

Elizabeth Warren brought her number of Iowa state legislator endorsements to ten today following last night's Democratic debate. Cedar Rapids State Representative Art Staed announced he'd be in Warren's corner on caucus night, along with 24 other notable Iowa...

Warren Stumps In Iowa As New Caucus Leaderboard Emerges

Warren Stumps In Iowa As New Caucus Leaderboard Emerges

Senator Elizabeth Warren was speaking in Cedar Rapids when the new Des Moines Register/CNN/Mediacom Iowa Poll was released Saturday evening. Nearly 25 percent of Iowa caucus goers favored Pete Buttigieg in the poll. Pollster J. Ann Selzer said the mayor of South Bend...

Don’t Underestimate AOC’s Possible Iowa Impact For Sanders

Don’t Underestimate AOC’s Possible Iowa Impact For Sanders

This past weekend saw what will likely be the largest caucus events for an individual candidate until the last several weeks before February 3. Bernie Sanders turned out crowds of over 2,000 at each of his events with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Council Bluffs, Des...

How Pete Buttigieg Won This Iowa Caucus-Goer Over

How Pete Buttigieg Won This Iowa Caucus-Goer Over

Guest op-ed from Dennis Cole of Shenandoah, Iowa, past Page County Democrats chair. As Iowans, we have a very important responsibility in our democracy. The first-in-the-nation caucuses bestow upon us a great opportunity to lead America in the political and moral...

Meet Maria Ramos, Storm Lake City Council Candidate

Meet Maria Ramos, Storm Lake City Council Candidate

Maria Ramos is a wife, mother, grandmother and first-generation immigrant. Born and raised in Nayarit, Mexico, Ramos came to California when she was 12 and moved to Storm Lake, in northwest Iowa, in 1991. Ramos, 44, is a proud U.S. citizen who has lived with her four...

CA Climate Scientist Urges Iowans To Consider Farm Impact

CA Climate Scientist Urges Iowans To Consider Farm Impact

Jeremy Jackson was part of the Vietnam War youth on picket lines during the nation’s civil rights movement in 1969. On Wednesday, the now 76-year-old professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, California, urged Iowans to follow his lead and get...

Iowa Students Frustrated With Obtaining Voter ID Cards

Iowa Students Frustrated With Obtaining Voter ID Cards

Guest column from Drake University student Samantha Bayne. I re-registered to vote on Constitution Day, September 17th, 2019. I know that because I registered myself, before an event I led to introduce first-year Drake University students to the world of Iowa...

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