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The public is one step closer to learning who funded a sophisticated messaging effort to re-elect Senator Joni Ernst in 2020.

Iowa group that backed Ernst fights to block donor disclosure By: Clark Kauffman - July 21, 2021 1:05 pm Sen. Joni Ernst celebrates her re-election at the Iowa GOP’s election-night party in Des Moines on Nov. 3, 2020. (Screen shot from event livestream) A group that supported U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst’s 2020 re-election bid is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit it says would give “the wolf the keys to the henhouse” and allow others to “rifle through” records pertaining to its donors. The Clive-based group Iowa Values allegedly spent close to $1.5 million supporting the Iowa R...

SPM NEWS 2.16.21 - 3:04PM A second day of Arctic temperatures across Middle America have prompted rolling power outages Tuesday morning in Nebraska and a call for energy conservation in Iowa. Residents in Nebraska experiences some of the coldest weather they've seen early Tuesday, putting a strain on the power grid that saw the state's power utilities implementing rolling outages. Nebraska’s largest utilities — the Omaha and Nebraska Public Power Districts — said the planned power outages were over by midmorning and they were working to restore power to all customers. But more outages c...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An election watchdog group has filed a federal lawsuit that...