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Mar 2025 10

WATCH: Iowa still has the fastest growing rate of new cancer diagnoses

By Amie Rivers | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Amie Rivers

But sure, trans people are the source of Iowa's problems.

Mar 2025 5

WATCH: How to help trans and nonbinary Iowans

By Amie Rivers | LOCAL VIDEO, COMMUNITY, Amie Rivers

After Gov. Kim Reynolds signed an Iowa law that actually takes away trans and nonbinary folks' rights, you might be wondering what you can do to help. Here are a few suggestions.

Mar 2025 3

Iowa Republicans’ bill to criminalize vaccine providers advances amid funnel week chaos

By Zachary Oren Smith | HEALTHCARE, Zachary Oren Smith

MRNA vaccines were key to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Iowa Senate Republicans cooked up a bill to criminalize the providers of numerous widely-used immunizations. But at the last minute, the...

Feb 2025 24

Iowa Republicans advance bill to strip trans civil rights

By Zachary Oren Smith, Avery Staker | LGBTQ, Zachary Oren Smith, Avery Staker

Iowa House Republicans advanced a bill to remove gender identity from the list of protected classes under the Iowa Civil Rights Act. This has wide-ranging impacts on protections from...

Feb 2025 23

WATCH: Advice for Democrats running in rural districts

By Staff Reports | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Staff Reports

We can't win races we don't compete in. On a new Cornhole Champions podcast, an honest conversation about that costs and why Jess Piper of Blue Missouri did it anyway.

Feb 2025 21

WATCH: Change has always come from the people

By Staff Reports | POLITICS VIDEO, POLITICS, Staff Reports

Our leaders may be throwing up their hands—but we don't have to. There actually ARE things you can do, right now.

Feb 2025 20

Iowa House Republicans renew effort to strip transgender protections from Iowa civil rights law

By Zachary Oren Smith | LGBTQ, Zachary Oren Smith

House Republicans want to remove Iowa’s discrimination protections for transgender Iowans. The bill is a long list touching on bathrooms, birth certificates and introduces a new phrase “gender...