Elizabeth Meyer

Iowa’s U.S. Senate election is over a year out, yet we already have the first candidate TV ad up of the cycle. Democratic candidate Michael Franken, a retired three-star Navy admiral, launched his first television ad today criticizing Republican Joni Ernst for her “dereliction of duty” as a senator and veteran. “As veterans, Joni and…

Since Iowa’s House Democrats announced their support on Sept. 24 for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, the Republican National Committee has blanketed congressional districts with TV ads slamming their decision. One 30-second ad even targeted Rep. Dave Loebsack, who isn’t running for re-election in 2020. “Instead of fixing health care and lowering prescription…

When introducing herself to voters at a Fort Madison sandwich shop, Theresa Greenfield didn’t just highlight her youth on a farm in Minnesota or her successful professional career. Greenfield got personal, telling the small group about the day, at 24 years old, she found out her husband had been killed at work. A union electrician…

While most candidates were consumed with end-of-quarter fundraising in September, U.S. Senate candidate Kimberly Graham volunteered her time to help a young asylum seeker prepare for his immigration hearing. Graham, a children’s rights attorney from Indianola, spent five days in Brownsville, Texas, working with migrants to craft applications for asylum. She observed first-hand the hundreds…

Congresswoman Cindy Axne told constituents Tuesday the United States had hit a “crisis point” in its health care system. “Suffice it to say, you’ve got a group of people in Congress who truly understand we’re at a crisis point,” said Axne, Iowa’s 3rd District representative, at a roundtable health care discussion in Des Moines. “Whether…

Theresa Greenfield earned the endorsement today of the League of Conservation Voters Action Fund, described by the climate action group as a candidate “committed to investing in the Hawkeye State’s clean energy economy.” “Iowans are already feeling the impact of extreme weather fueled by the climate crisis, and they deserve a Senator who will take…

As Iowa’s ethanol industry suffers at the hands of President Donald Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency, Sen. Joni Ernst continues to complain about the Cabinet official she helped to confirm. “I would assess that there are a lot of people within this administration, particularly EPA, that have that bent or that feel to support…

State Sen. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, a physician from Ottumwa, has announced her campaign to try for a fourth time to represent Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District. Miller-Meeks, in the midst of her first term representing Senate District 41 in the Iowa Legislature, launched her candidacy Tuesday morning. “My campaign is about securing your future,” said Miller-Meeks, in…