After the votes were counted in this week’s election, it became clear that voter turnout wasn’t just bigger than it was in Iowa’s last midterm election. The percentage of registered voters was higher than it’s been for any midterm in the last 36 years. Over 1,380,528 Iowans, 63.3 percent of registered voters, cast ballots in […]
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‘No Iowan has to fear their government anymore’: Democrats win race for governor, U.S. Senate and three House seats as voters reject candidates that just feted Trump
It became obvious almost as soon as the polls closed in the midterm election on Tuesday night that voters were electing Democrats and rejecting Republicans in numbers unseen in American politics since 1974. That year, voters rejected Republicans after the Watergate scandal, fed up with their support of a crooked president — the recently resigned […]
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‘I could have won the Vietnam War in a week’: At Dubuque rally, Trump comments on Hinson’s body, calls football ‘boring as hell’; Lahn joins in xenophobia
“This isn’t rambling. This isn’t rambling,” President Trump said 80 minutes into his rambling performance on stage in Dubuque on Sunday. “This is genius, if you want to know.” The event — announced on Oct. 15, canceled on Oct. 29 and reannounced less than 24 hours later — was the longest rally Trump has done […]
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Voting on Election Day? A guide for central and eastern Iowa
Election Day is this Tuesday, Nov. 3. The 2026 general election in Iowa includes races for governor, the U.S. Senate — marking the first time a open seat for governor and Senate have been on the ballot at the same time since 1968 — all four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and every […]
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Trump’s Dubuque rally, canceled on Thursday, is back on; Ashley Hinson tries to sell herself to voters as ‘bipartisan’ to win Iowa’s tight Senate race
On Thursday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) announced that President Trump’s rally scheduled for Sunday in Dubuque was canceled, and so was a rally he was supposed to hold in Kansas on Saturday. Less than 24 hours later, the White House canceled those cancellations. “Rallies are BACK ON! President Trump loves his supporters, and in […]
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Rob Sand encourages UI students to be ‘part of this movement’ and change the direction of the state
“We have one week to change the direction of the state of Iowa,” Rob Sand said at a get-out-the-vote event in Iowa City on Wednesday afternoon. “… So I’m asking you, think about what you’re doing the rest of this week, think about what you’re doing this weekend, think about what you’re doing next week.” […]
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A day at the World’s Largest Truck Stop
It’s a little after 9 a.m. in the Iowa 80 Kitchen. The waitress, dropping my plate of biscuits and eggs on the table, says, “Hope you like gravy,” and boy, is she not kidding. Ahead of me: 12 hours in the 220-acre Walcott truck stop that claims the mantle of “World’s Largest.” Iowa 80 opened […]
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Where to vote early in the last week before Election Day
Early voting in the Nov. 3 election is now in its final week. Early in-person voting will run through Monday, Nov. 2, the day before the election, and all mail-in absentee ballots must be received in the auditor’s office by 8 p.m. on Nov. 3, when the polls close on Election Day. Early in-person voting […]
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Diles Que No Me Maten, playing at xBk on Sunday, specializes in improv music, improv studios and sometimes improv accommodations
Formed in 2017, Diles Que No Me Maten is a Mexico City five-piece collective whose music dissolves genre boundaries. Their songs snake back and forth between post-rock atmospheres, experimental spiritual jazz stylings, indie rock drones, and Cuban- and Krautrock-inspired rhythms. “The whole way we move as a band has always been improvised,” bassist Andrés Lupone […]
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Trump meanders through boasts, racist smears and praise for Vivek Ramaswamy’s attack ad in Iowa, joined by Hinson, Lahn, Bird, Mitchell and McGowan
“Can you believe I’m doing about 34 of these things?” President Donald Trump asked the people gathered in a hangar at the Sioux Gateway Airport for his rally on Thursday night. “Now, I don’t mind, I don’t mind. I don’t mind because I truly like the people here.” The Sioux City rally is part of […]
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Parents of Derek Wulf, Zach Lahn’s running mate, file petition for $275,000 in unpaid rent amid foreclosure on son’s farm, criminal investigation
Derek Wulf was facing three lawsuits over unpaid debts, as well as a criminal investigation into whether some of the collateral to secure a loan had been illegally disposed of, when Zach Lahn chose him as his running mate in June. The following month, the candidate for lieutenant governor of Iowa was able to settle […]
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Zach Lahn outraises Rob Sand in final campaign stretch, with 76% coming from two out-of-state PACs
Republican candidate for governor Zach Lahn raised more money than Democratic Rob Sand during the three months between mid-July and the middle of October, according to campaign finance reports published by the Iowa Ethics and Campaign Disclosure Board (IECDB) this week. It’s the first time Lahn, or any candidate running for any office in Iowa this […]
