Author Archives: Trish Nelson

Watch This Week’s Blue Statehouse Alert

Iowa House Dems are committed to keeping everyone informed of what is going on in the House this legislative session. Watch on FB and click on the links to sign up for a weekly newsletter and updates from Jennifer Konfrst.

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Iowa Republicans Have Given Up On Democracy And Public Schools

Democrats are proposing a $300 million dollar investment in public education. Kim Reynolds and Republicans are proposing a $300 million dollar corporate tax give away. Any questions, Iowa? “Since Republicans took over the governorship and house in 2011 over 134 … Continue reading

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Iowa Is Better Than This

Iowa is Better Than This! A statewide event Feb. 16 on lamenting Iowa’s discriminatory legislation During the past year, the Iowa Legislature proposed, and even codified into law, bills that attempt to normalize discrimination, reduce voting access and hurt many … Continue reading

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Republicans Want To Repeal Every Iowa Law

Easy to see where this is going. Republicans envision they can get rid of every law they don’t like and keep only the laws they like.  To borrow a phrase from Art Cullen talking about the GOP book banning nonsense, … Continue reading

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Tucker And The Bolshevik Factory

It really is progress that we are now finally talking on TV about Fox News being a propaganda network. For a long time it was a taboo topic. It wasn’t that long ago that Elizabeth Warren shocked everyone by saying … Continue reading

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Watch This Week’s Blue Statehouse Alert Live

We were tempted to post Bobby Kaufmann embarrassing himself but why waste perfectly good blog space on a state rep. at an extreme right wing event giving the finger to people who disagree with him. Was that on the taxpayer … Continue reading

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Joni Ernst Allowed To Lie On “This Week”

This is from an excellent article by Jennifer Rubin.  Mainstream press could expose and dispense of a lot of the right wing lies if they would just ask a single follow up question. But they don’t and the Iowa press … Continue reading

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Help Sarah Trone Garriott Defeat Jake Chapman

Sarah Trone Garriott is running against Jake Chapman. That is all you need to know to support her campaign. Even though I was elected to a four-year term in 2020, I am required to stand for re-election in 2022, because … Continue reading

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Ari Berman/Marc Elias On The GOP’s Assault On Democracy

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Miller-Meeks v Bohannan In IA-01 An Easy Choice

IA-01 do you want this person to represent you in congress? Or do you want this person to represent you in congress?

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