Category Archives: 2016 Election Campaign

Dave Loebsack: Rural Broadband Critical In Getting Iowans Back To Work

Take 11 minutes out of your day and check out this KWQC interview with Dave where there is no negative campaigning, just information about the issues.  Topics include rural broadband, mental health and substance abuse, health insurance public option, wind … Continue reading

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Koch Brothers Attempt To Influence Iowa Elections

CMD: Since Republican Governor Terry Brandstad will not face election for another two years, the Iowa GOP’s goal is to hold the House and flip the Senate by gaining three seats. The Kochs are backing 21 candidates for the Iowa … Continue reading

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Watch Tom Vilsack Explain What Hillary Clinton Will Do For Rural America

Thom Hartmann also asked Vilsack why Iowa is the only state where virtually all of the Republican elected officials have come out and aggressively endorsed Donald Trump. Watch the video for Vilsack’s candid response.  

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How Republicans Use “The Big Lie” To Manipulate The Nation

Watch this video, and follow Thom Hartmann, host of the #1 progressive talk show. “The big lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this … Continue reading

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Vote For Hillary And Get Bernie

ICYMI – Passing this on from Michael Moore: One thing that all good political organizers know is that you never, ever celebrate until the polls are closed and ALL of the votes are counted. Yet I’ve been seeing a lot … Continue reading

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Vote Straight Ticket Democrat. Do It Now.

Here is a new Monica Vernon ad.  She is a Democrat running for congress in Iowa’s District 1.   Please vote for her if you live in her district, and all of the other Democrats on the ballot.  It’s not too … Continue reading

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Approach To Voting Tells How Parties View Democracy

One of the quickest and easiest ways to judge how the two major parties in this country view the very fundamental concept of democracy is to simply see how they treat voters. As usual, we see Democrats busting their butts … Continue reading

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Video: Trump Praises Hillary

From 2008: Videos like this make it pretty plain that Donald Trump’s candidacy is purely a lark. He stands for nothing. His motives are personal and profit driven. Trump has no interest in governing, and little interest in even learning … Continue reading

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Impeaching Clinton: One Reason To Vote For Democrats

Republicans have made little secret that they plan to impeach Hillary Clinton almost as soon as she removes her hand from the bible to shake the hand of Chief Justice Roberts. That is if they control one or both houses … Continue reading

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How False Equivalence Distorts Campaign Coverage

“News outlets have paid the same amount of attention to the Clinton emails or the Clinton Foundation as they have to the unprecedented, democracy-threatening dumpster fire that is the Trump campaign.”  

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