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Sunrise Endorsement Adds To Sanders’ Momentum In Iowa
As the importance of climate change climbs in the polls, a recent endorsement from the national Sunrise Movement might drive home Sen. Bernie Sanders’ new leading spot in Iowa. At an Iowa City climate rally on Sunday, for the first time since the group’s Thursday announcement and his leading placement in the Jan. 10 Des Moines…
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New Des Moines Redlining Exhibit Draws Presidentials, Iowans
Des Moines has opened a new exhibit linking current political and social issues with historical housing discrimination in the city, and 2020 Democratic candidate John Delaney was one of its first guests. “Undesign the Redline” opened earlier this week at Franklin Junior High School and examines how government policy from the 1930s to current day…
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How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends
As Bernie Sanders’ campaign entered the new year, they touted a host of impressive field numbers: 200,000 doors knocked in Iowa in 2019, with 4 million attempted voter contacts. That’s for a state with around 3 million people. And in conversations with Sanders volunteers at events around the state, many talk about how they work…
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How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends
As Bernie Sanders’ campaign entered the new year, they touted a host of impressive field numbers: 200,000 doors knocked in Iowa in 2019, with 4 million attempted voter contacts. That’s for a state with around 3 million people. And in conversations with Sanders volunteers at events around the state, many talk about how they work…
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How Sanders’ Iowa Grassroots Army Is Converting Family, Friends
As Bernie Sanders’ campaign entered the new year, they touted a host of impressive field numbers: 200,000 doors knocked in Iowa in 2019, with 4 million attempted voter contacts. That’s for a state with around 3 million people. And in conversations with Sanders volunteers at events around the state, many talk about how they work…
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Youth For Palestinian Rights Take Their Protests To Caucus Events
If presidential candidates’ events get interrupted through Jan. 11 by large signs and chants supporting Palestinian freedom, it’s because a group of youth activists are touring the state to confront and engage candidates with hopes they commit to cut military funding to Israel. A group of 14 students have flown into Iowa from around the…
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Booker Back To D.C. For Iran Debrief, Has “Healthy Skepticism” On Justifications
Sen. Cory Booker’s trip to Iowa this Tuesday was a short one, as he cancelled several planned caucus events amid the United States’ developing situation with Iran. He headed back to D.C. to attend a congressional briefing — the candidate sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was able to hold two events today…
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Booker Back To D.C. For Iran Debrief, Has “Healthy Skepticism” On Justifications
Sen. Cory Booker’s trip to Iowa this Tuesday was a short one, as he cancelled several planned caucus events amid the United States’ developing situation with Iran. He headed back to D.C. to attend a congressional briefing — the candidate sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was able to hold two events today…
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Two Dubuque Voters, Three Caucus Events, One Big Decision
Dubuque residents Tom Townsend and Dave George have a big decision to make Feb. 3. As current and former business managers of local labor unions, they’re not only caucusing for their own interests but considering the needs of each of their chapter members. Townsend and George take the job seriously — they went to three…
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How The Iran News Is Changing Things At Iowa Caucus Events
An issue that’s gotten little attention in Iowa this Democratic primary cycle — foreign policy — is suddenly front-and-center in the country. And over the past two days, some attendees at caucus events had the latest crisis in the Middle East on their minds. Iowans at former Vice President Joe Biden’s first campaign event on…
