Articles Tagged: Iowa Democratic Party

The national party grants waivers to South Carolina, New Hampshire, Nevada, Georgia and Michigan to hold their presidential primaries ahead of the rest of the country.

Brenna Bird this week signs on to GOP letter from 200 Republican attorneys general to Walgreens and CVS

The party is looking to bounce back from several consecutive poor showings in recent election cycles.

Steering committee members vote Saturday on new chair and a proposal to establish a committee focused on winning elections.

With the commencement of the legislative session in the Iowa Statehouse, the debate over one of its focal issues, education …

Iowa Democrats face a rocky road ahead as the party looks to rebuild after another election cycle that saw Republicans expand their control over the state lawmaking process -- and the loss of its first-in-the-nation presidential caucuses.

Democrats remain in the minority in the upcoming legislative session, having lost seats in both the House and Senate in the 2022 election, with Republicans gaining a two-thirds supermajority in the Senate.

State party seeks a conditional waiver from national party

The Iowa Democratic Party said it is “looking into” the donations from leaders of a now-bankrupt cryptocurrency company.

Linn County Democrats gathered at their monthly meeting last week to discuss the 2022 midterm election results -- what went well and what the Iowa Democratic Party needs to do better to avoid future drubbings.

Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Ross Wilburn will step down as leader of the party, after Democrats faced a drubbing in the midterm elections and a vote by national Democrats to strip Iowa of its first-in-the-nation caucuses.

“It has been a lonely process,” said Scott Brennan, the only Iowan on the DNC rules committee and one of only two members to vote against the proposal.

Displeased or not, most can agree that the fate of Iowa Democrats’ leadoff status was sealed three years ago on Feb. 3, 2020

The move, designed to give people of color a more prominent role in the presidential nominating process, could have huge ramifications for Democratic politics in Iowa and the national campaign process.

Iowa’s Scott Brennan said at first it felt like national Democrats sought only to punish Iowa over the botched reporting of the 2020 caucus results