Legal AF YouTube interview with Lisa Graves (30 minutes)
From the YouTube blurb:
On Court of History, Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz speak with Lisa Graves, author of Without Precedent, about how Chief Justice John Roberts helped build a Supreme Court that shields corruption, empowers Trump, and dismantles the Constitution. From Bush v. Gore to Trump v. United States, Graves exposes the right-wing network and billionaires behind America’s judicial takeover.
This video just floored me as they talked about how the right has carefully constructed the framework and milieu that has made it possible to change our democracy into an autocracy headed to a dictatorship.
As I listened I noted that the dismantling of our democracy has been a long term project much as some of our great scientific achievements were designed. Built piece by piece, tested and then adjusted, then tested some more. Putting the right amoral people in the right places . And always the lubricant of vast amounts of money was in the mix.
The construction of this project did not focus on just the presidency but all three branches of the federal government plus state and local governments and the press which is now mostly a corporate mouthpiece. Frightening! to say the least.
stolen from the Muscatine County Dems “slice” email
Unless you live in a hole you know that there is another NO KINGS rally across the US. Usually I would list the times and places of the protests in Iowa. However, as I write this there are already such a number of protests across Iowa – IOWA for goodness sakes! – that it makes much more sense to give you the link and let you look up your local protest.
This tells me that Iowans are finally becoming deeply aware of what the Trump regime is actually up to. It could be because of the farm crisis that Trump has created, it could be because of the bogus invasion of America’s great cities for BS reasons, could be the threat of rural hospitals closing and health care insurance becoming prohibitively expensive. Whatever it is, something is awakening a sleeping giant in Iowa.
In the large cities like Des Moines and Davenport to seldom heard of towns like Maquoketa, Clarinda, Red Oak, and Storm Lake protests are planned. From Keokuk in the southeast corner to Spirit Lake in the northwest corner Iowans will be turning out!
On one hand it is great to see, but the reason there will be a huge turnout is sad for Iowa. Trump is screwing the country over big time. Here in 3 minutes one of our favorites, Robert Reich explains why the Trump regime is invading cities and trying to provoke a response which will lead to invoking the Insurrection Act:
Reich doesn’t mention it here but the idea is to keep troops in cities through the elections next year. The presence of troops in cities that often vote for Democrats will act as a deterrent to voting in those cities the Trump regime has reasoned.
The Washington Post reported in September that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is seeking new office spaces in hundreds of places across the U.S., according to sources who spoke anonymously with the Post and records the outlet obtained.
Many, but not all, of the 20 cities that made the list on the September lease proposal have Democratic mayors.
The full list comprises: Birmingham, Alabama; Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina; Columbus, Ohio; Des Moines, Iowa; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Louisville, Kentucky, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; St. Louis, Missouri; and six cities in Florida: Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, Sunrise, Jacksonville, Fort Myers and Naples.
Therefore, the ACLU is offering training for the protest to help you avoid problems. You can sign up at the link provided. Zoom trying is at 6PM CT Wednesday night October 15th.
Here is much of what they are covering:
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 7:00 PM ET
Before you hit the streets- join our know your rights, protest safety, and de-escalation training on 10/15/25 at 7 PM ET.
This October, communities across the country will mobilize en masse for the second No Kings national day of action- a mass mobilization against President Trump’s abuses of power and federal crackdown on our freedoms. Together, we’ll send a clear message: the people will not be silenced.
To prepare, join the ACLU’s Protest Safety, Know Your Rights and De-Escalation Training on October 15 at 7 PM ET. This training will give you the tools to take action safely, confidently, and with key de-escalation strategies in hand. Whether you’re marching, rallying, or supporting from the sidelines, you’ll learn how to protect yourself, your community, and stand up for your rights.
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What we’ll cover:
Know your rights during protests and law enforcement encounters
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Thom Hartmann and Laura Belin answered attendees’ questions in this event hosted by the Heart of Iowa Democrats yesterday. Both Thom and Laura are highly knowledgeable, as you all know. A variety of topics were covered including how we got to where we are now, which Thom, as briefly as possible, explained, and most importantly, what we all should be doing.
Thom opened by discussing the conservative infrastructure that they have been putting in place for the past five or so decades that has enabled our current situation. I particularly appreciated Thom mentioning the Powell memo and not leaving out the right wing propaganda machine’s role, as most analyses of “how we got here” do.
“…This was the tail end of the McCarthy red scare period. And the Kochs got very active in that along with a whole bunch of other right-wing very wealthy people and they built this massive infrastructure which exists to this day. The Charles Koch Foundation became the Koch Institute. They started the Heritage Foundation, the American Legislative Exchange Council…every single state has a state policy center. These are all very very well funded. They funded a couple of universities, Hillsdale College, things like that..
They bought 1,500 right-wing radio stations. They’ve got three television networks. They have a massive media and information machine that has just been cranking crap out since the 80s like there’s no tomorrow… It’s altered American public opinion. Most people will say big government is bad, not even knowing what the hell that means, for example..
This infrastructure was constructed basically to satisfy the desire of morbidly rich mostly men not to pay income taxes and to not have their businesses regulated. And that very mechanism if they just kept it to that would be bad. I mean, that was kind of Reagan bad and George Herbert Walker Bush bad and arguably even George W. Bush bad. But that infrastructure could also be used to basically take over and destroy a nation’s democracy. And that’s exactly what Donald Trump is doing.”
Andrea Pitzer is the author of One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps, Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, and The Secret History of Vladimir Nabokov.
Times being what they are, lately when I read I want to be able to see the practical application, not just take in more bad news. I want it to be hopeful and applicable to moving forward, not just doomsday forecasting. I think this writer does a good, balanced job of that.
Today I would like to share an excerpt from a (very long) piece in her October 7 newsletter. Link to it here.
Two sections stood out for me as particularly useful. But you should follow the link and read the rest if you are interested because there is a lot there.
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For those who want to be sure that engagement and protest are somehow more than just feel-good tactics, I’ve written about several useful studies to keep in mind. No single research result should ever be seen as definitive, but as a whole, they seem to indicate that the value of protest and the possibility of a return to healthy democracy are real.
Many people have cited Erica Chenoweth’s work suggesting getting at least 3.5% of a country’s population engaged in an opposition movement is generally sufficient to demand significant change. A study by Teeselink and Melios on the much-vilified Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder indicates that those protests played a measurable part in Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. The amazing part of that research was that the protests’ largest effects seemed to be in counties with populations that were relatively small, white, and had low levels of education.
More recently, we also looked at the U-turn study that catalogued massive political changes in the direction of a government across more than a century. Researchers at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg and the University of Liverpool found that more than half of all authoritarian shifts were followed by democratization shifts. And in the last 30 years, that number was nearly three-fourths. What’s more, they found that some 90% of U-turns led to greater democratization in the end.
All around the world
Elsewhere, I’ve tried to address why international and domestic examples of oppression and resistance can offer useful models for both diagnosis and action. To pretend that the blight afflicting America today can only be understood through European fascism or Russian autocracy would be foolish—heinous acts of oppression have been part of US history since the country’s founding. But a broader pool of examples of how events might go is helpful in pondering what to expect and what to do next.
Where we stand today
Nearly a year after Trump’s reelection, we are in fact facing an expanding network of domestic and international concentration camps, creating the first global network of camps run by a superpower created through bribery and coercion. I’ve been writing for more than a decade now about the ways in which America was leaning into camps, and despite the apparent win (for now) in the Everglades, we can expect this particular crisis to get worse in other parts of the country during the rest of Trump’s time in office.
It doesn’t help that, with few exceptions, the U.S. Supreme Court has been rubber stamping much of what the administration has demanded. As I (and many others) have noted before, these actions are largely being carried out via the shadow docket, which doesn’t demand legal theory or accountability from the justices, and makes it nearly impossible for lower courts to have a sense of any body of consistent law they can use to rule going forward. Yet I’ve written about case after case in which lower-court judges are trying to uphold the best aspects of constitutional law and democracy.
Congress, as mentioned above, has caved completely to Trump, failing to fulfill even the constitutional framers’ expectation that they could be relied on, if nothing else, to fight to protect their own power in a branch of government. The elected opposition has a few members who have found productive ways to engage. But Democratic party leadership is flailing in the face of relentless overreach by the executive branch.
From the beginning, we’ve seen governors like J.B. Pritzker and Maura Healey defying Trump on immigration. Others have stepped up intermittently. We’ve watched heroic local pushback by protesters in Chicago and in L.A. Some of the biggest collective demonstrations in American history have been building slowly toward civic engagement that could soon be sustained enough to help force to end the current nightmare.
Bohannan: “It’s time to stop hiding from Iowans, come forward, and defend your record of higher prices, chaotic tariffs, and special interest, pay-to-play politics. It’s time you answered to Iowans for once – not just your Washington special interest donors.”
Iowa City, IA – Despite her promise to host in person town halls, a new video shows Rep. Miller-Meeks callously dismissing her pledge to answer to Iowans on recent votes to gut Medicaid, double Iowans’ healthcare premiums, and send the cost of living skyrocketing. Unfortunately, Miller-Meeks meets with her special interest donors day after day, week after week–so that she can collect their corporate PAC checks and vote their way. But when it comes to meeting with Iowans, and tackling our toughest problems, she said she’d get to it “When hell freezes over.”
“It’s time to stop hiding from Iowans and defend your record of higher prices, chaotic tariffs, and special interest, pay-to-play politics,” said Christina Bohannan. “It’s time you answered to Iowans for once – not just your Washington special interest donors.”
Bohannan has been available at town halls the past two weekends.
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Iowa’s 1st Congressional District contains the cities of Davenport, Iowa City, Burlington, and Indianola. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks faces a rematch against Christina Bohannan, who came within 0.2% of defeating the incumbent in 2024. Bohannan lost by just 799 votes out of 413,000 and outperformed the top of the ticket by over 8 points – more than any other Red-to-Blue candidate in the country. National forecasters, including the Cook Political Report, universally rate this district as a Toss-Up for 2026. With Rep. Miller-Meeks showing historic weakness at just 31% favorability and facing growing opposition even within her own party, Bohannan has the best opportunity to flip a Republican seat in the country.
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I noticed while watching an interview of Rep. Miller-Meeks (R-IA-01) on local news station KWQC that she seems to have lost some of her past cheery bravado of late, at least since her appearance on Iowa Press in the 2022 debate with Christina Bohannan. She’s singing the same GOP song but now when she delivers it, it seems lame and ineffective. She doesn’t seem as perky and when answering questions from the press, a little less certain that her mischaracterizations and filibustering are going to be believed.
To illustrate take a look at this twelve-second clip. This was her final parting shot during the Iowa Press debate between herself and Christina Bohannan in 2022. The moderator Kay Henderson asks each candidate what will be their first priority if their party has control of congress after the election. Compare what Miller-Meeks states as her first priority to what Christina Bohannan states as her first priority. Then we’ll discuss.
Here is happy, perky, MMM in 2022:
Wasn’t that adorable? So cute! Great priorities! Well, wouldn’t that be everyone’s very top priority, to get rid of 87,000 IRS employees? She certainly seemed to think so then.
But the most astonishing thing was that she was re-elected. Especially after Bohannan said her first priority would be to save rural Iowa hospitals – and bring more physicians to Iowa! How prescient was that now that we see MAGA on its way to upending our health care system. Hopefully, Iowans have learned our lesson on which party is actually working for people and which party is in it for themselves. We have another chance to get this right.
On the following interview with KWQC just a couple of days ago, Miller-Meeks seems decidedly less untroubled now, compared to 2022, as you will see. She seems a bit anxious about Democrats not obeying, but instead are standing in the way of their evil plan to loot the health care system. Rs didn’t get the sixty votes needed so they are very sad right now, blaming Democrats as they always do, while Trump makes threats that “very bad things” will happen.
The questions asked by KWQC brought up topics of concern that are problems for Republicans. Miller-Meeks was forced to try and defend the indefensible. That’s not new for Rs, but after everything Trump has done and continues to do in 2.0 with the help of the Republican controlled congress, it’s a challenge for her to make it look like the shutdown is the Democrats’ fault. But she gives it her best shot.
On this KWQC broadcast, MMM didn’t particularly help the Rs’ case. Getting too far into the weeds on taxes… probably to obscure the fact that they are taking away health care coverage from Americans in order to continue the 2017 tax cuts to billionaires handed out during Trump’s first term, which would otherwise expire.
Miller-Meeks: “… no one has said not to extend tax credits. And there is some confusion about that. So there are premium tax credits and there’s enhanced premium tax credits that came about during the Covid era. Tax cuts. And then there’s the tax credits for modest income people that were in the original Obamacare. And that can be discussed. There’s plenty of time to discuss that in the regular appropriations process should they wish to do so.
Well, Democrats did wish to do so BEFORE the government shut down but you all wouldn’t talk to them. Trump ghosted Schumer and Jeffries. Democrats have been burned by Republicans not keeping their promises. MAGAs are already paying no attention to whether anything Trump does is legal or illegal. So Dems are supposed to trust you? Haha, very funny. Dems may be slow but we do catch on. KWQC persists.
KWQC: And those aren’t the tax credits that are being discussed. They are also raising concerns about clawbacks, like some that we saw earlier this year when congress approved funding for some programs and then later canceled it. Is that a legitimate concern?
Miller-Meeks: Well, I would say, you know, there are consequences to elections.
Oh, like we didn’t notice. I guess she just ran out of talking points there. She may have been shocked when there was an actual follow up question. She went on to say more, you’ll just have to watch but you wouldn’t be missing anything if you didn’t.
Also, Republicans have been flat out lying when they say illegal immigrants are getting Medicaid. We went through this already during Joni Ernst’s infamous town hall where she said, “well, we all are going to die” when a constituent pointed out that people will die if they make the Medicaid cuts that are in the BUB (Big Ugly Bill).
Rs want their MAGA Fox News watching base to believe that illegal immigrants are receiving Medicaid because that is what their lie is based upon, that it is the REAL reason Democrats are standing firm to block their Big Ugly Bill. They can’t have everyone believing Democrats are fighting so that people can have health care while the Trump regime and the Republican controlled congress take the money to give it to billionaires because no one would vote for them if they knew.
The fact of the matter is under federal law, undocumented immigrants are barred from receiving most benefits, including enrollment in full Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) with two exceptions being emergencies (Rs presumably would prefer to just let them die because we’re all going to die) and state funded programs. Some states choose to fund coverage for children and pregnant women, for example. In Iowa, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for full Medicaid coverage. They can receive limited Medicaid benefits for emergency medical care.
So that’s what they’ve got to fight Democrats with. Lies, lies and more lies. But the truth is somehow breaking through and quite possibly, that is what could be weighing heavy on Mariannette Miller-Meeks’ mind these days.
Note the fake smile.
KWQC also interviewed Rep. Eric Sorensen (D) from Illinois for his take on the shutdown.
Jane Fonda steps up just like her Dad did in a time of crisis! DemocracyNow (13:34)
Jane Fonda has never been a shrinking violet, so it is not out of her character to relaunch a group that her father, Henry Fonda, had launched during another era of Republican led suppression in the early Cold War.
While I don’t believe that we will be hearing any earth shaking news to emanate from this group, this does illustrate that the FIWH and his minions are reaching in to the lives and business of all walks of life in the US and beyond.
From sowing fear throughout cities and towns as Americans declare war on other Americans with the blessing of a felonious President to farmers who will soon be harvesting a crop that they will be unable to sell thanks to royally screwed up policies, all walks of life feel the effects of Trump’s authoritarianism.
Good luck, Jane. And good luck to every American who be facing the effects of Trumpism soon.
She told the Atlantic, “In order to impress rivals, males seeking to rise in the dominance hierarchy perform spectacular displays: stamping, slapping the ground, dragging branches, throwing rocks. The more vigorous and imaginative the display, the faster the individual is likely to rise in the hierarchy, and the longer he is likely to maintain that position.” ….
Years later, in an interview with MSNBC in 2022, she was reminded of her past comments. As the host, Ari Melber, played a clip of Trump hugging and kissing the American flag, calling himself a “perfect physical specimen,” the scientist was at it again.
“I see the same sort of behaviour as a male chimpanzee will show when he is competing for dominance with another,” Jane Goodall said and laughed. “They’re upright, they swagger, they project themselves as really more large and aggressive than they may actually be in order to intimidate their rivals,” Goodall added.
She continued with a comment about her view of the state of the US, saying, “I see that the divisiveness that’s being created in America is a tragedy and it is a tragedy that can have a ripple effect around the world.”
As we start October, Jane Goodall has died, Public TV and Radio has lost its funding and ICE has received a huge bump in funding. Bad, bad, bad.
A) Once again Canada has issued a travel warning for its citizens that are what against traveling in the US?
B) Former Des Moines public School Superintendent Ian Roberts is currently being held in what jail?
C) During a speech to military brass, the FIWH said he would use what as training grounds for the military?
D) Let us have some questions about the life of Jane Goodall. Who was instrumental in steering Goodall into her lifelong study of chimpanzees?
E) Bad Bunny has been selected as the halftime show for the Super Bowl in February. Is Bad Bunny an American citizen?
F) The Qanon Shaman is back in the news as he sues the FIWH for how much?
G) September 30 brought the end of what AOL service that brings up thoughts of a Paleolithic internet?
H) Jane Goodall was one of three women chosen to study primates in their natural habitat. Do you remember the name of the woman chosen to study gorillas?
I) In news of a religious bent, Sarah Mullally has been named to head what protestant religious group?
J) Curtis Sliwa thinks he got a boost last week when Eric Adams dropped out of what race?
K) The governor of what state has asked the FIWH for troops to be sent into its largest city? The FIWH has yet to respond.
L) As US medical care seems to be heading backwards, China is reporting a new what that they claim can heal fractures in a matter of minutes?
M) What was the area where Jane Goodall did her studies of chimps?
N) How will he enforce this one? The FIWH (as usual without congress) placed a 100% tariff on what made outside the US?
O) The head of the ICE force in Chicago, Gregory Biovino, said people will be arrested based on what?
P) What city has the delusional FIWH described as “war ravaged”?
Q) Three types of primates were designated to be studied when Jane Goodall began her career. Gorillas and chimps were already mentioned. What is the third type of primate that was designated to be studied?
R) Who released a new album at 12:01 on October 3rd?
S) As the US government lurched toward a shutdown, US House MAGAs used the time leading up to the shutdown to do what?
T) The FIWH shared an apparently A.I.-produced video of himself promoting which fictional medical device with origins in QAnon circles online?
Trump kept Argentina’s government open with a massive U.S. taxpayer bailout before he shut down our own government. – The Other 98%
{PS – don’t forget that Argentina is selling soybeans to China}
Answers:
A) Trans or have an X for their gender designation
B) Polk County jail after stint in Pottawattamie County and Woodbury County jails
C) US cities
D) Anthropologist Louis Leakey who hired Goodall and two other women to study 3 branches of primates
E) Yes! He was born in Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans are American citizens
F) $4 Trillion! As ridiculous as most FIWH lawsuits
G) dial up service
H) Dian Fossey was picked to study mountain gorillas
I) She was named the new Archbishop of Canterbury and in that office will lead the Anglicans
J) Adams dropped out of the race for Mayor of New York. Sliwa, the Republican expected a bump from Adams voters, but is still in 3rd place
K) Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry has asked the FIWH to send troops to New Orleans
L) bone glue – based on oysters. If true it will be huge
M) In Gombe National Park in Tanzania
N) Movies. Not sure if that includes parts of movies. Not sure if it includes made for TV movies. Watch out Hallmark
O) how they look
P) Portland, Oregon – he’s really delusional
Q) Orangutans. Canadian Birute Galdikis was chosen to study them
R) Taylor Swift!
S) Take a vacation. They had no pressing business that needed to be attended to. I believe they are still on vacation, but Democrats are not.
T) the Medbed – it will cure anything! (Did I mention the FIWH is delusional?)
Elon Musk is now the first person in history worth $500 billion.
For context:
A UN study said ending world hunger would cost just $6 billion.
He could’ve solved it 83 times, but chose to buy Twitter, pump Dogecoin, and lay off workers instead.
Paul Krugman had perhaps the best opening to a column I have read in a long time. It hits the nail squarely on the head. We have a man who wants to be king. We have provisions to deal with such things written in the constitution. What we are lacking is the political will to exercise what we need to do:
“If America still had a fully functioning democracy, Donald Trump’s speech Tuesday to the assembled generals would have ended his presidency. Trump treated the event like a political rally and was clearly taken aback by the refusal of the audience to applaud or laugh at his jokes. Delivering a nakedly partisan speech to a mandated assembly of military officers was a gross violation of the Hatch Act. The content —telling the officers to be ready to use force against U.S. citizens — was clearly an impeachable offense. In an earlier era, Trump’s incoherent ranting would have paved the way for his immediate removal from office under the 25th Amendment.
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So let me return to my opening point: America is no longer a fully functioning democracy. In the good old days of Richard Nixon, the Republican Party had the conscience and backbone to standup to Nixon’s attempt at autocracy. William Rehnquist, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, recused himself from US vs Nixon because of his close prior association with Watergate conspirators? Can you imagine Alito or Thomas having any such sense of fairness and duty?
But like all authoritarian regimes, America’s autocracy is being run by malevolent incompetents. And while our hallowed institutions are utterly failing to rise to the occasion, the sheer incompetence of these hacks is generating pushback that may yet save us.”
When Iowans elected their fully MAGA congressional delegation no doubt one of the criteria was that they expected “serious” people to keep a close eye on the money the government spends but also the people who spent it. After all, one of the biggest issues from last year was the creeping senility of President Biden. (which never materialized BTW)
So here we are a year later and we have a leader who does not show creeping senility but instead shows rampant full blown senility. So why are Chuck Grassley and his band of impotent legislators from Iowa not in a full loud squeal over a man who often seems to be telling BS stories of wars he’s stopped and enemies lurking behind every fishing boat.
Here is the esteemed David Cay Johnston with some examples.(32 minutes)
As Iowa’s pipsqueak congressional delegation looks the other way, even helping to cause the distractions, the Epstein Affair continues to fester. No doubt those who aided in the distractions and those who refused to investigate should be investigated for their part in what will no doubt be the worst political imbroglio ever.
Meanwhile as MAGA congress members continue to provide cover for our president as he sinks into dementia not one MAGA – the “serious” party – speaks a word as the Felon in the White House cements a quid from Qatar – a billion dollar luxury airplane as a “gift” – with a pro quo – a promise to Qatar to guarantee their safety in event of an attack. From dailykos.com:
“In an executive order Monday, Trump declared that “the United States shall regard any armed attack on the territory, sovereignty, or critical infrastructure of the State of Qatar as a threat to the peace and security of the United States.”
“In the event of such an attack, the United States shall take all lawful and appropriate measures — including diplomatic, economic, and, if necessary, military — to defend the interests of the United States and of the State of Qatar and to restore peace and stability,” the order states.
The language creating a pact with Qatar is nearly identical to the Article V pact between NATO nations, which are actual allies of the United States.
And, of course, the Constitution clearly states that any pact between nations must be ratified by Congress. But Trump has shown that he doesn’t give two shits about congressional power, trampling all over constitutionally granted powers to do whatever he pleases.
Still, this new agreement sure sounds like an impeachable offense, giving military support to a nation in exchange for a bribe.
In May, Trump announced that he was officially accepting the jet from Qatar. Now he’s spending billions of taxpayer dollars to convert the jet into his new Air Force One, which he will then ludicrously keep for personal use if he ever leaves office.”
Here is a question to Iowa’s congressional delegation from, I would think, most Iowans:
What does Trump have to do to get you to shed your loyalty (or fear of) him? Will you wait until our very last shreds of democracy are gone? What are you afraid of?
Governor Kim Keynolds: (515) 281-5211 U.S. Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Iowa Members of Congress - Rep. Randy Feenstra (R) - Rep. Ashley Hinson (R) - Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) - Rep. Zach Nunn (R) Iowa US Senators - Senator Joni Ernst (R) - Senator Charles Grassley (R)
Thom Hartmann
I noticed while watching an interview of Rep. Miller-Meeks (R-IA-01) on local news station KWQC that she seems to have lost some of her past cheery bravado of late, at least since her appearance on Iowa Press in the 2022 debate with Christina Bohannan. She’s singing the same GOP song but now when she delivers it, it seems lame and ineffective. She doesn’t seem as perky and when answering questions from the press, a little less certain that her mischaracterizations and filibustering are going to be believed.
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