This week on the podcast: Catelin Drey wins Western Iowa special election. Plus, highlights from Ashley Hinson’s annual fundraiser and Bernie Sanders in the Quad Cities.
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Campaigns & Elections Aug. 26, 2025 2:22 pm39d ago
Former Pine Lake State Park manager Don Primus, of Steamboat Rock, unsuccessfully ran for Hardin County supervisor in 2020.
Campaigns & Elections Aug. 18, 2025 5:34 pm47d ago
U.S. Senate candidate Zach Wahls, a state legislator from Coralville, is connecting with union workers and reaffirming his support for the federal PRO Act and expanded labor rights as he looks to distinguish himself ahead of the Democratic primary election next summer.
Campaigns & Elections Aug. 19, 2025 8:00 am46d ago
More than 2,000 fairgoers participated in the nonscientific straw poll conducted by the Iowa Secretary of State’s office
Campaigns & Elections Aug. 18, 2025 7:18 am47d ago
J.D. Scholten is dropping out of the crowded Democratic primary in Iowa’s U.S. Senate election, and endorsing fellow Democratic state legislator Josh Turek, who just announced his candidacy this past week.
Campaigns & Elections Aug. 18, 2025 9:38 am47d ago
Iowa Democrats’ campaign speeches sound different this year as the party attempts to win back voters they have lost in the state over the past decade.
Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
Campaigns & Elections Aug. 18, 2025 2:42 pm47d ago
Iowa’s crowded field of Democrats running for U.S. Senate in 2026 pitched themselves and their campaigns to an audience of party members as they gear up for next year’s primary.
Federal Government Aug. 14, 2025 5:25 pm51d ago
Amid federal budget cuts, the U.S. Energy Secretary on Thursday in Iowa provided assurances that the Ames National Laboratory that he was touring will continue to receive financial support but said wind energy production will need to start standing on its own.
Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
Campaigns & Elections Aug. 12, 2025 5:00 am53d ago
State Rep. Josh Turek, who announced his candidacy for U.S. Senate on Tuesday, said the best thing for Iowans is for lawmakers to “move away from this party over country mentality.”
Federal Government Aug. 11, 2025 4:18 pm54d ago
U.S. Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler participated in a small business roundtable discussion hosted by the Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and attended by Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst and U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson on Monday.
Staff Columnists Aug. 4, 2025 4:58 pm61d ago
If their true motivations were to organize troops of angry demonstrators to wave signs, shout chants and sing songs, two …
On Iowa Politics Aug. 25, 2025 4:53 pm40d ago
This week on the podcast, we have more Congressional candidates jumping into the fray. Plus, we discuss the Rescissions Act of 2025.
Campaigns & Elections Jul. 24, 2025 9:29 am72d ago
Iowa state Rep. J.D. Scholten, a Democrat running for U.S. Senate, described himself as a “baseball-playing, monopoly-busting, beer-drinking, Bible-reading, working-class proud prairie populist from Sioux City, Iowa, and a sixth generation Iowan” when he spoke with dozens of people who turned out for a Cedar Rapids campaign event Tuesday evening.
Maya Marchel Hoff, Gazette-Lee Des Moines Bureau
National Politics Jul. 21, 2025 8:31 am75d ago
The bill will immediately cut 10 percent of Iowa Public Radio’s budget, and 18 percent of Iowa PBS’. Rep. Ashley Hinson, of Marion, celebrated the bills’ passage Friday, accusing public broadcasting of having “pushed biased narratives and forced inappropriate content on children."
On Iowa Politics Aug. 25, 2025 4:53 pm40d ago
This week on the podcast, more on the deportation of an Eastern Iowa man, what happened at the Family Leader’s annual event, and another batch of new Congressional candidates.