“Here’s my pitch,” J.D. Scholten said in a video posted online Monday, in which he announced he’s running for U.S. Senate. “I’m a baseball-playing, monopoly-busting, beer-drinking, Bible-reading, working-class proud prairie populist, who is sixth-generation Iowan from right here in Sioux City. And I fundamentally believe that we deserve more than a GoFundMe broken healthcare system, […]
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Sen. Ernst mocks critics of her ‘Well, we all are going to die’ remark, suggests they seek Jesus
After capturing national headlines on Friday for her response of, “Well, we all are going to die,” to an Iowan worried cuts to Medicaid in the Republican budget bill will cause untimely death, Sen. Joni Ernst decided to respond to critics of her dismissive response by mocking them in a passive-aggressive video posted as two […]
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‘I want clean water. I want clean air’: Democrat Nathan Sage brings Senate campaign to Iowa City
“At the end of the day, we’re all pissed off and we’re tired of what’s going on and we need a change,” Nathan Sage told the packed room at Big Grove Brewery and Taproom in Iowa City on Monday night. A steady drizzle of rain that grew into a booming thunderstorm didn’t discourage people from […]
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‘We are entering a new Gilded Age — and it’s time to fight back’: Democrat Nathan Sage launches a run for Joni Ernst’s Senate seat
“I’m Nathan Sage, dad, mechanic, sports radio host, vet, child of a trailer park in Iowa,” the first Iowa Democrat to enter the 2026 U.S. Senate race says in a video posted online Wednesday morning. “And I’m going to kick corporate Republican Joni Ernst’s ass next November.” Sage, the executive director of the Knoxville Chamber […]
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Ethical concerns surround Sen. Joni Ernst’s relationships with top military officials who lobbied her committee
This story was originally published by ProPublica, Earlier this year, the Air Force revealed that the general who oversaw its lobbying before Congress had inappropriate romantic relationships with five women, including three who worked on Capitol Hill. Maj. Gen. Christopher Finerty’s colleagues told investigators the relationships were “highly inappropriate” as they could give the Air […]
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Trump’s blanket J6 pardons include 10 Iowans, some who chased, assaulted officers
Ten Iowans are included in President Trump’s mass clemency for the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The attack, which was intended to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, injured more than 140 police officers. Property damage to the Capitol from […]
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Sen. Joni Ernst tells Storm Lake students not to worry about Trump’s plans for mass deportations and detention camps
Sen. Joni Ernst told Storm Lake High School students on Friday they don’t need to worry about President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. “Ernst insisted potential deportations wouldn’t impact employees at Tyson Foods or the rest of Storm Lake,” the Storm Lake Times Pilot reported. Ernst’s meeting with students in the […]
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Sen. Joni Ernst rallies Pennsylvanians for Trump in lead-up to Nov. 5
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst told a group in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on Friday that she was on the national campaign trail supporting Donald Trump because Iowa was already guaranteed to support the former president. The Iowa Republican has been on the campaign trail in Pennsylvania since Wednesday, holding events alongside other surrogates across the state as […]
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Brenna Bird continues crusade against non-English voting materials once fought by Steve King
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is trying to prevent people from getting access to official voting forms – such as voter registration forms, absentee ballot request forms and ballots – in any language other than English. In June, a Polk County District Court judge struck down Iowa’s English-only restriction on voting materials that had been […]
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Iowa Republican leaders line up behind Trump after FBI raid: ‘We’ve got a right 2b skeptical’
Iowa’s leading Republicans once again followed Donald Trump’s lead and used social media on Tuesday to suggest corruption led to FBI agents executing a search warrant at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Monday. Not corruption on Trump’s part, of course. Iowa GOP leaders have consistently ignored or avoided acting on evidence of Trump’s corruption, whether personal, […]
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Report: Ernst to push for nationwide abortion restrictions as Supreme Court prepares to overturn Roe v. Wade
Hours before Politico published an apparent leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade and declaring there is no constitutionally protected right to choose an abortion in the United States, the Washington Post reported a group of Republican senators plan to introduce a nationwide restriction on abortions after the Supreme Court […]
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As McConnell calls Jan. 6 ‘a violent insurrection,’ Grassley and Ernst avoid giving direct answers on the issue dividing Republicans
The Republican National Committee’s attempt to whitewash the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as “legitimate political discourse” while condemning two Trump-critical party members has led to pushback from GOP senators, Politico reported on Tuesday. That pushback does not include Iowa’s two Republican senators, Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst. The RNC, the governing […]
