by Luke Martz | Jul 22, 2022 | Campaigns, Congress
During a Sunday event, Democrat senate candidate Mike Franken called Iowa farmers “stooges” while discussing the current status of the agricultural industry. Farmers are “rather stooges for a process they have no control over,” Franken said. Although farmers in Iowa...
by Senator Joni Ernst | May 20, 2022 | Opinion
Here’s a headline I would never have thought I’d read in America in 2022: “Iowa families scour stores for baby formula.” But that’s the grim reality today under President Biden. In their reporting, the Des Moines Register cataloged the story of one mother who visited...
by Senator Joni Ernst | Apr 25, 2022 | Congress, Law Enforcement, Policy
In March alone, U.S. Border Patrol arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to illegally cross the Southern border. That’s the highest one-month total in 20 years, and follows last year’s record of 1.9 million arrests by border patrol agents. These numbers show no signs...
by Caleb Lillquist | Feb 24, 2022 | Congress, Opinion
As a full-blown Russian Invasion breaks out in Ukraine causing unneeded bloodshed, Senator Joni Ernst has a message for Americans and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is a ruthless thug who seeks to stamp out freedom. He is a brutal autocrat intent on...
by Caleb Lillquist | Feb 24, 2022 | Campaigns, Congress
The first-ever Bastion Institute event was held in Des Moines Wednesday evening covering the dire state of current world affairs. The panel featured former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senator Joni Ernst, and Former Ambassador to China and Iowa Governor Terry...