Zach Wahls Substack
Aug 10, 2026

Build the Barn PAC | Building a Better Future

What’s Next: Build the Barn PAC, supporting next-gen leaders in Iowa and across the country. There’s a lot of work to do — join us at www.buildthebarnpac.com

Introducing: Build the Barn PAC

Today, I am launching Build the Barn PAC, which will continue the work we began together in my Senate campaign.

“Build the Barn” was the unofficial motto of my U.S. Senate campaign, a tribute to the classic line often attributed to Sam Rayburn: “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.”

Like the campaign, our PAC will not accept or solicit a single dollar from corporate PACs, and every dollar we raise will be fully and transparently disclosed. I’m not interested in building the thing I spent a year running against.

We will formally launch this new endeavor at my eighth annual birthday brunch fundraiser on Sunday, August 16 at 11:00 AM in Coralville — you are invited to join us if you can be there in person — and if you cannot be there in person, you can support the effort online by donating securely online via ActBlue by clicking on this link or via the button below:

Our first endorsement: Rep. Josh Turek

Josh won our primary, he can win this seat, and I was proud to give him my full support on the night of our primary election — and today, he is the first candidate we are endorsing and whose campaign we are supporting.

As I said on the night of our primary election, Josh and I competed hard against each other, as we should. We had real disagreements. Scripture tells us that iron sharpens iron — and while our primary made us both sharper, it didn’t make us colder. We got to know each other, even as we competed with each other. Josh is a good man. And he will be an infinitely better U.S. Senator than Ashley Hinson.

Between now and November 3, he needs doors knocked in places that are a long drive from wherever you live, and he needs money. So does Rob Sand, and so do the U.S. House candidates who can flip that chamber and put a check on the corruption and chaos in Washington.

That’s the work of the next eighty-five days, and if you’ve been looking for the right time to get involved, today is the day.

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