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Christina Bohannan Says She Backs the Blue. Her Voting Record Says She Defunded The Police
Christina Bohannan had a real, concrete opportunity to protect the health insurance of the officers who run toward danger so the rest of us don’t have to. She said no. That’s not a messaging problem for her campaign to manage — it’s a paper trail Iowa law enforcement can read for themselves.
Rob Sand Is Running Against Des Moines Insiders. His Whole Career Has Been One
Newsweek caught him back in 2008 as a former Deaniac, tracing his political awakening straight back to writing Howard Dean a check in 2004 — a caucus he skipped that year to model menswear in Milan, of all things — before caucusing for Obama and telling the magazine he was “more excited about Obama than I was about Dean.” An outsider doesn’t have a Dean-to-Obama origin story. A lifelong Democrat does.
Updated: Turek’s “No Corporate PAC Money” Line Stops at the Memo Field
f the principle were “corporate money doesn’t belong in my race,” the answer would be easy: don’t take the money, no matter which Democratic senator’s committee rewrites the check. Turek didn’t do that. He took the LPAC route — the version of the pledge that survives a debate stage and melts under an FEC download.
So here’s the honest reading of the slogan. “No corporate PAC money” rejects a corporate PAC stamp on the contribution. It does not reject corporate PAC money washing through Democratic leadership committees first. Voters who thought they were buying a grassroots purity test got a paperwork distinction.
Turek’s New Ad Says He’ll Work With Trump on the Border. His Primary Record Tells a Different Story.
At an April forum hosted by Progress Iowa and End Citizens United, Turek called federal immigration enforcement “inhumane” and “unjust.”
“I cannot believe that right now in the United States of America, I’m having to tell my wife to keep her passport with her at all times,” Turek said, according to Iowa Capital Dispatch.
He then made his position on border enforcement funding clear: “At the United States Senate, I would not support any DHS funding without serious reforms to ICE.”
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AAN Rolls Out New Ad Highlighting Miller-Meeks’ Wins for Iowa Families and Rural Health
“Mariannette Miller-Meeks secured the largest tax cut for working families in American history and delivered $209 million for Iowa’s rural health care,” said AAN President Chris Winkelman. “Mariannette is fighting alongside President Trump every day to deliver results for Iowa.”
One Rulebook, Not Ninety-Nine: How Iowa Can Cut Red Tape and Keep Energy Affordable
Our legislature has created an environment where businesses want to invest because they know there is a stable, fair and reliable business environment. But that reputation is at risk if we allow a growing tangle of local rules, moratoria, and ad-hoc restrictions to take the place of a coherent statewide policy – especially at a time when President Trump and many red-state governors are prioritizing permitting reform.
Grassley: Working Families Tax Cuts Law Puts Money Back in People’s Pockets
Touring local factories allows me to learn about the high-quality products made right here in Iowa. I particularly enjoy conversations with workers on the shop floor. For example, in Indianola, I met with more than 100 workers who are part of a 100% employee-owned company that manufactures mobile concrete carriers for customers around the world. In Eddyville, I met with Iowans who produce a value-added corn product used in the food and pharmaceutical industries. In Panora, I learned about a homegrown business started by Iowa State graduates who turned their dream into a thriving tunneling business that employs 40 people and runs large-scale projects around the country.
“Instagram is Not Safe”: AG Bird Sues Meta for Deceiving Iowa Parents and Addicting Children
The core of the state’s case centers on a massive discrepancy between Instagram’s self-assigned safety ratings and the reality of the content available on the platform. While Instagram rates itself as “suitable for teens 17 and under” (12+, 13+, or T), the Attorney General’s office asserts that the platform is a gateway to high-risk material. According to the filing, Meta’s internal moderators and algorithms allow “rampant” exposure to…
Miller-Meeks Delivers: $209M Investment Recharging Southeast Iowa Rural Hospitals
Iowa is leading the nation in a massive effort to save rural hospitals. As the first state to tap into the new $50 billion federal Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP), Iowa is deploying an initial $209 million to stabilize small-town clinics and bring specialty...
Iowa’s Voter Map by the Numbers: The GOP Lead and the Rise of the Independent
Republicans still hold the high ground in Iowa with 701,962 active voters, barely breaking a sweat with only a tiny dip since late 2024. The real momentum is in the middle, where “No Party” registrations have surged by 37,160 to become the state’s fastest-growing group
Opinion: Iowa’s Role at the Intersection of Trade and Security
These risks are not hypothetical. They include the potential for cyberattacks that expose sensitive networks, compromise credentials, introduce malicious code, or exploit weaknesses in existing
hardware and software. China has also demonstrated the ability to embed backdoor access in certain technologies and communications devices, including drones. Against this backdrop, the executive order seeks to safeguard Iowa’s critical infrastructure by ensuring the security of systems that support public health, the power grid, drinking water, and
the food supply, areas where vulnerabilities could have far-reaching consequences.
Homecoming for a Trailblazer: Iowa Senate Honors U.S. Senator Joni Ernst
First elected to the Senate in the 2014 Republican wave, Ernst has been a fixture of Iowa’s political landscape for over a decade. While her influence in Washington has remained formidable, she shared in September 2025 that she would not seek reelection in 2026, choosing instead to focus on her growing family. The Senate’s tribute today felt less like a standard greeting and more like a definitive “thank you” to a leader.
Rob Sand’s Plan to Import California’s Election Chaos to Iowa
After nearly a year on the campaign trail, the State Auditor has finally unveiled his first major policy proposal. It’s a radical plan to “tear down” the state’s gold-standard election system and replace it with a chaotic, California-style experiment.
