Issues

Affordable Housing

Iowa is experiencing a housing crisis. The situation varies from community to community – but has one thing in common. Many Iowans struggle to pay ...

Civil Rights

Our state and country are experiencing a regression in civil rights. There’s no other way to say it. President Trump’s tacit support of the Alt-Right ...

Gun Sense

The gun debate has become one of the top issues in the upcoming election due to the involvement of the Parkland students who survived the ...

Iowa’s Workforce Crisis

During their 2010 campaign, Terry Branstad and Kim Reynolds campaigned on creating 200,000 jobs and raising Iowans’ household incomes by 25%. Their record shows that ...

Abortion Rights

The U.S. Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent with its June 24, 2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson ruling. It’s now up to each State Legislature to ...

Education

In 2016, Senator Claire Celsi became one of the co-founders of Iowans for Public Education, a public education group run by grassroots activists. The other ...

Clean Water

In 2010, my daughter Bailey and I voted together at the Polk County election office. It was her first election and since we lived in ...

Healthcare

Iowa is in the midst of a healthcare crisis – on multiple fronts. The national discussion about the Affordable Care Act and the Trump administration’s ...

Climate Change

Climate change is already adversely affecting Iowans. Changing weather patterns, catastrophic rain events, heightened crop failure potential, floods, droughts and failing infrastructure are all critical ...