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A review of high-profile endorsements for Ras Smith and Deidre DeJear, the two leading challengers to Governor Kim Reynolds.

Get ready for the most expensive state auditor race in Iowa history. Republicans will spend heavily against Rob Sand.

Get ready for the most expensive state auditor race in Iowa history. Republicans will spend heavily against Rob Sand.

‘Have you no shame?’ Biden frames voting rights as a moral reckoning. -0:00 ‘The 21st-Century Jim Crow Assault Is Real,’ Biden Says President Biden spoke out forcefully against Republican efforts to curtail voting rights across the country and vowed that his administration would seek to limit their impact. Some things in America should be simple and straightforward. Perhaps the most important of those things, the most fundamental of those things, is the right to vote. The right to vote freely. The democratic threshold is liberty. With it, anything’s possible without i...

By Jason Taylor Jan 19, 2021 IOWA - A Latino civil rights group is adding its support for the legislative demands from the Iowa BLM Coalition. The League of United Latin American Citizens backs the agenda, which includes legalizing marijuana and repealing several laws. Other priorities include a constitutional amendment to protect voting rights of people convicted of a felony. Some state lawmakers also support some demands from the BLM Coalition, which is made up of Black Lives Matter groups from across the state. Waterloo State Representative Ras Smith, in particular, backs one of the deman...