IDD Staff

Former President Donald Trump planned to direct a mob of angry, armed supporters to the Capitol on Jan. 6 but wanted it to appear spontaneous, according to new testimony revealed during Tuesday’s House hearing on the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. According to documents from the National Archives, Trump drafted a tweet prior to Jan. 6…

President Joe Biden on Friday signed an executive order that aims to protect access to reproductive health care and those who seek and provide abortions in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, eliminating the constitutional right to an abortion. Biden’s executive order attempts to protect and expand access to…

Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, testified Tuesday that former President Donald Trump knew there’d be violence on Jan. 6, 2021, didn’t care, encouraged it, and even wanted to go to the US Capitol to join the armed mob as they attacked the Capitol and sought to…

One by one, former top officials in Donald Trump’s Department of Justice (DOJ) testified Thursday that the former president did everything in his power to manipulate and misuse the DOJ to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in order to try and stay in office. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack…

Donald Trump’s lies ruined Americans’ lives. The devastating impacts of Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election were on full display Tuesday, when one witness after another detailed how Trump’s “Big Lie” affected them and their loved ones. The story of Wandrea “Shaye” Moss took center stage, as the former Fulton County, Georgia elections worker…

“Bullshit.” “Idiotic.” “Bogus.” “Incorrect.” “Completely nuts.” “Absolutely rubbish.” “Detached from reality.” These are just some of the words that nearly a dozen former Trump campaign officials, White House lawyers, US Department of Justice leaders, Republican attorneys, and Republican election officials used on Monday to describe the former president’s false claims about voter fraud following his…

The first of six hearings revealed that former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka accepted that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, that multiple Republican members of Congress asked Trump for pardons after Jan. 6, and that Trump approved of his supporters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” Ivanka believed Barr—that was one of the key revelations of last…

Did you know that the Republican senator in charge of winning back control of the Senate for his party introduced a plan to increase taxes on one-third of Iowans and put Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the Affordable Care Act in jeopardy? If you answered ‘no,’ you’re not alone. According to a new Courier Newsroom/Data…

The 2017 blizzard continues this summer, not with blowing snow, but with political maneuvering taking place in Washington on ‘healthcare reform.’ For the record, it is really not ‘healthcare’ that is being addressed by the Republicans, but a ‘health insurance’ makeover – specifically for non-employer coverage purchased by individuals and Medicaid (for low-income Americans). Real…

An open letter to the governor from State Senator Joe Bolkcom Dear Governor Reynolds: [Last week], you will have had an opportunity to speak one-on-one with President Trump in Cedar Rapids. I support your announced plan to raise the issue of Iowa’s failing individual insurance market.  However, that issue is only one part of Iowa’s…