Videos
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Cornhole Champions #13: The abortion pill and its discontents
Iowa’s near-total abortion ban is in effect. Nonetheless, Iowans are still getting abortions. It’s just harder and more expensive, often requiring travel outside the state. On this episode of Cornhole Champions, hosts Zachary Oren Smith speaks with Iowa Abortion Access Fund’s Lyz Lenz about the crisis unfolding six months after Iowa’s six-week abortion ban took…
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WATCH: Advice for Democrats running in rural districts
We can’t win races we don’t compete in. On a new Cornhole Champions podcast, an honest conversation about that costs and why Jess Piper of Blue Missouri did it anyway.
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WATCH: Change has always come from the people
Our leaders may be throwing up their hands—but we don’t have to. There actually ARE things you can do, right now.
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WATCH: Iowa Republicans in lockstep
Who is responsible for Iowa Republicans being in lockstep?
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WATCH: What exactly is Trump suing the Des Moines Register for?
Legal historian and defamation law expert Samantha Barbas breaks down Miller-Meeks and Trump’s lawsuit against the Iowa Poll. Toss some bags with us.
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WATCH: Rural voters are key for Democratic wins
Blue Missouri’s Jess Piper tells the Cornhole Champions crew that winning the top of the ticket starts down ballot. And rural voters are key.
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Cornhole Champions #12: Forget grassroots, forget the top of the ticket (with Jess Piper)
You don’t win races you don’t run in. And because we’ve made getting involved such a slog, no one wants to run. On this episode of Cornhole Champions, hosts Zachary Oren Smith speaks with Blue Missouri’s Jess Piper about what happens when a party decides not to compete in our rural states. In 2022, over…
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Cornhole Champions #11: The Lutheran crime syndicate (with Samantha Barbas)
“I absolutely do not think that Lutheran Services (of Iowa) is a money laundering organization.” Gov. Kim Reynolds took some heat last week after getting asked if she agreed with billionaire Elon Musk that Lutheran Family Services and its member organizations were laundering money. In a press conference, she blamed it on being taken out…
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WATCH: Rep. Miller-Meeks piles onto Trump’s suit against Register pollster
In 2024, Republican Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks encored her razor-thin margin from 2020. Despite winning, she’s calling foul and blaming a poll that didn’t mention her name.
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Cornhole Champions #10: Is education really our priority? (with Cindy Yelick)
In 2020, Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks won her seat by one of the closest margins in US history. This past year, she repeated, winning by less than point two percentage points. Leading Iowa political writer Laura Belin to say “there may be no luckier person in Iowa politics” than Miller-Meeks. But apparently getting lucky isn’t enough…
