Bruce Rastetter has spent years fighting to build a carbon capture pipeline across Iowa farmland, using the government’s power of eminent domain if landowners won’t sell.
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"Prior to running for office, Zach Lahn built a 15-year career as a conservative political operative, working for state legislators, Americans for Prosperity, and co-founding a Koch-funded private school in Wichita, Kans"
Bruce Rastetter bankrolling Ashley Hinson, surprise, surprise. iowastartingline.com/news/politic... #iowa #eminentdomain
Pipeline exec Bruce Rastetter is bankrolling Ashley Hinson
Bruce Rastetter's carbon capture pipeline company got the power to seize Iowa farmland by eminent domain. Now he's raising money for Ashley Hinson's Senate campaign.
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Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Jones County Iowa Democrats@jonescountydems.bsky.social · 4d agoEarlier this week, Chris Jones unveiled his F.A.I.R. Farm Plan — the boldest plan any candidate for Iowa Secretary of Agriculture has ever put forward to support local foods from Iowa’s family farmers in Iowa's schools. Read the details at: buff.ly/Fw1RcdR
@katiephang.bsky.social This intro/headline by Katie Phang is the most accurate and contextual of all that I've seen so far. Generally, what is said in the tagline is just click bait and not what actually happened, frequently the opposite.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2d agoDid Todd Blanche pull the wool over the eyes of Tillis and Cornyn? Or did they put on a dog and pony show of acting like they were fighting for some “concessions”?
Marc Elias explains why Rs are the biggest idiots ever.
BREAKING: Federal Court Blocks Trump's Voter Registration Ban
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Ryan Peterman Calls Out Paul Pate For Releasing Iowa Voter Information blogforiowa.com/2026/08/03/r...
Ryan Peterman Calls Out Paul Pate For Releasing Iowa Voter Information
ICYMI – Please support Ryan Peterman, Democrat for Iowa Secretary of State. petermanforiowa.com
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Yesterday, Team Bohannan had a blast knocking doors across Van Buren County! We learned a lot about what Iowans are feeling. One thing we heard a lot was the need for term limits and ethical reform in Congress — which is near and dear to my heart as well.
Rep. Josh Turek holds affordability roundtable, criticizes Hinson for finances iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/07/31/r...
Rep. Josh Turek holds affordability roundtable, criticizes Hinson for finances • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Speakers at the roundtable event for Turek's campaign criticized U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson as out of touch with Iowans because of her wealth.
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Johnson county, #iowa @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Healthy Water! Healthy Iowa! . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/he...
Healthy Water! Healthy Iowa!
In Johnson County, we're working to pass a resolution at the county level that urges our state legislators to take action in two important ways. Fully fund the Iowa Water Quality Information System ...
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"Their goal is to break down any opposition to their absolute control of the apparatus of the state. And they have a model to guide them – the USSR of the 1950s." Returning To The Fifties blogforiowa.com/2026/08/01/r...
Returning To The Fifties
5 minutes: Watching bits and pieces of the show trial of former Center For Disease Control member and NIAID leader Anthony Fauci it dawned on me what the goal of today’s extremist right wing …
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Surprise! MAGAs Choking Medicaid And Drug Insurance blogforiowa.com/2026/08/01/s...
Surprise! MAGAs Choking Medicaid And Drug Insurance
What?! you didn’t think this would happen? 2 minutes: Certainly the Republicans wouldn’t do this to their own voters, would they? Well guess what loyal Republicans! This is only the vanguard of wha…
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#iowa Trump is still trying to get the so-called SAVE Act passed.
Scott County Iowa Democratic Party@scottcountydems.org · 4d agoThe Republican SAVE Act could prevent 21 million Americans from voting, including married women who took their husband’s last name. Find out more here: www.facebook.com/reel/1434805.... And on November 3, be sure to vote (if you’re still allowed to).
Control of the House came down to 7,000 votes in five districts during the last midterms. We can’t take anything for granted this year, especially as the regime threatens mail-in voting, targets registration programs, and even tries to ban states from encouraging people to vote.
Hinson is a phony: A Republican Senate candidate who fought to block the release of the Epstein files has accepted tens of thousands of dollars from billionaires whose names appear in the records, the Daily Beast has learned.
Iowas Niman Ranch participants and similar farms would be negatively impacted by the Save Industrial Bacon Act. Regulate CAFO and their waste as every other industrial operation.
"Wulf supported SF478 which gutted the powers of the Auditor’s Office.The Legislature passed and Kim Reynolds signed the bill into law. Her administration has used the law to hide how your tax dollars are spent and to make it harder to hold corrupt officials and government insiders accountable. "
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Trump's Smithsonian purge follows the same roadmap used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and every strongman who came before… hartmannreport.com/p/that-sign-...
That Sign in Front of the Smithsonian is More Dangerous Than You Think
Trump's Smithsonian purge follows the same roadmap used by Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and every strongman who came before…
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Get in, Democrats are lowering costs for working families.