Iowa governor threatens people afraid to return to work before it’s safe
Gov. Kim Reynolds will force workers to choose between their health and their livelihood.
By Emily Singer - April 29, 2020Gov. Kim Reynolds will force workers to choose between their health and their livelihood.
By Emily Singer - April 29, 2020The Nevada Democratic Party confirmed it would not use apps developed by the vendor Shadow Inc., which was behind the technology used in Iowa.
By Associated Press - February 08, 2020The Associated Press says irregularities in the process and the tight margin between Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders make it impossible to declare a winner of the Democratic caucuses.
By Associated Press - February 06, 2020It’s the latest in a long history of Trump and his supporters promoting unfounded theories about election rigging.
By Josh Israel - February 04, 2020Pete Buttigieg declared victory. Bernie Sanders released unverified partial results. And we still don’t have a winner.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 04, 2020Trump claims he won ‘the largest re-election vote in the history’ of Iowa. He didn’t.
By Oliver Willis - February 04, 2020How the process works and why the Iowa Democratic Party will release three sets of results following the Feb. 3 caucuses.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 31, 2020Iowa’s Des Moines Register warned Sen. Joni Ernst’s that voters might remember her commens ‘when they go to the polls in November to decide whether she deserves a second term.’
By Dan Desai Martin - January 28, 2020Sen. Joni Ernst said the quiet part out loud when she suggested the point of Trump’s obsession with ‘corruption’ was about hurting Joe Biden.
By Kaili Joy Gray - January 27, 2020McCarthy also accused Speaker Nancy Pelosi of hurting the presidential campaign of Sen. Bernie Sanders.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 14, 2020‘I think the success in the midterms kind of made people on the Democratic side believe that ‘we can do it.”
By Associated Press - December 27, 2019Republican Skyler Wheeler called the Transgender Day of Remembrance tribute ‘one of the most egregious acts of political aggression I’ve ever seen.’
By Josh Israel - November 25, 2019The Iowa Republican wants to omit gun violence protections from the Violence Against Women Act, along with along with protections for LGBTQ people and Native Americans.
By Josh Israel - November 22, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst blames her vulnerability on the fact that Iowa has gone from 91.3% white to 90.7% white over the last eight years.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 29, 2019The nine-page report outlines Trump’s illicit activities related to Ukraine and 2020 election interference.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 26, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst previously said she would like Congress to meet ‘behind closed doors’ to talk about Social Security.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 12, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) used a Wednesday town hall to make excuses for why she won’t support any laws to reduce gun violence.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 15, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) ignored the American Psychological Association, which said ‘blaming mass shootings on mental illness is unfounded and stigmatizing.’
By Dan Desai Martin - August 14, 2019Trump may cause farmers to ‘lose all of what was a $9.1 billion market in 2018’ thanks to his escalating trade war with China.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 07, 2019Sens. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) don’t want to cancel August recess to address the gun violence crisis, despite being willing to skip their vacations in previous years.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 06, 2019The host of the event blamed mass shootings on ‘idiotic far-left ideology.’
By Oliver Willis - August 06, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) compared the humanitarian crisis at the border to having too many people show up for a holiday dinner.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 25, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) is proud of her attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, which provides health care for thousands in Iowa.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 15, 2019Trump is deeply unpopular in half a dozen must-win swing states ahead of the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - June 05, 2019Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst thinks Trump’s trade war is the right thing even as farmers across her state, and the country, suffer.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 28, 2019Iowa state Rep. Andy McKean blasted Trump for his ‘frequent disregard for the truth, and his willingness to ridicule or marginalize people for their appearances, ethnicity, or disability.’
By Dan Desai Martin - April 23, 2019Iowa’s Democratic attorney general has joined in lawsuits against the Trump administration — and the state GOP can’t stand it.
By Lisa Needham - April 23, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst wants to keep ramming through the Republican Party’s radical right-wing agenda and ignore the report that shows Trump repeatedly tried to obstruct justice.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 22, 2019Sen. Joni Ernst’s support of the Trump shutdown is not going over well with her constituents.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 23, 2019Iowa’s Joni Ernst thought it was more important to defend Trump’s racist border stunt than to treat military families with dignity.
By Dan Desai Martin - November 20, 2018