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Warning Shot From Iowa: Progressives Rising— Courage Beats Caution in Cedar Rapids
Angel Ramirez Wins Very Big in Iowa Special Election Travis Terrell is the progressive Democrat running in Iowa’s swingy first...

Howie Klein
8 hours ago2 min read
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Thanks To Trump, Iowa Appears To Be On The Verge Of A Major Red To Blue Flip
In 2024, Iowa continued to be a dead zone for Democrats. Trump beat Kamala 927,019 (56.0%) to 707,278 (42.7%). Both houses of the state...

Howie Klein
5 days ago5 min read
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Is Iowa Ready To Send A Progressive To Congress Again? Meet Travis Terrell
Travis Terrell is a working class Iowan who grew up in Ottumwa. A full-on progressive , he’s taking on Trump-supporting Republican...

Howie Klein
Apr 184 min read
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How Long Before MAGA Voter Regret Becomes Real And Deep... And Dangerous For Republican Candidates?
On Wednesday evening, NPR interviewed two distraught Palestinian-Americans in Dearborn. I feel terrible about saying this but, though...

Howie Klein
Feb 284 min read
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Resistance To Trumpism Has To Be More Than Just Press Releases And Law Suits— Political Organizing
Schumer And Jeffries Will Never Be The Leaders Of The Grassroots Click to see which members of Congress are leasing the resistance This...

Howie Klein
Feb 175 min read
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More Senators Should Impose Term Limits On Themselves The Way Gary Peters (D-MI) Just Did
Also: Democrat's Big Surprise Win In Iowa Special Election Yesterday Gary Peters hasn’t been a terrible senator… kind of run of the mill....

Howie Klein
Jan 294 min read
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Patrick Toomey: Are The Democrats Staggering Towards 270?
-by Patrick Toomey As of this writing, there are reasons to, at last, feel a sense of optimism about an election that cannot be over soon...

Patrick Toomey
Nov 4, 20243 min read
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Is Iowa On The Verge Of Flipping Blue— Or At Least Purple— Again?
The DCCC Thinks Dems Could Win Back 2 House Seats There In 2016 Iowa gave Trump a thumping 10 point win over Hillary. He won all but 6...

Howie Klein
Sep 21, 20243 min read
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Back In 2015 Trump Asked, On Television, “How Stupid Are The People Of Iowa?”
Yesterday a Des Moines Register poll seems to have finally and definitively answered that question. In 2016, Trump beat Hillary 800,983...

Howie Klein
Jun 18, 202410 min read
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New Jersey Primaries Today— The End Of The Road For The Menendez Dynasty?
Iowa's Fringe Right Is Trying To Beat 2 GOP Incumbents Today It’s primary day in New Jersey today— and Garden State residents had already...

Howie Klein
Jun 4, 20244 min read
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Will Abortion Ballot Measures Help Many Democratic Candidates In November?
In November, abortion will on the ballot in New York and Maryland and may be on the ballot in Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Montana. Will...

Howie Klein
Mar 31, 20246 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Yes, Iowa Republicans Really Did Vote For A Convicted Rapist!
by Noah And a traitor and white supremacist, too! I wonder which aspect of their man they like the best! Can we have a vote on that?...

Noah
Jan 18, 20242 min read
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After Last Night, Will Americans Ever Trust Iowa Again To Start The Presidential Selection Process?
Forget Kansas-- Iowa Flipped Out Too Iowa has 4 congressional districts, all of which are in Republican hands, primarily because the...

Howie Klein
Jan 17, 20244 min read
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New Yorkers Reject Trump-- A Born & Bred New Yorker-- So What's Wrong With The Rest Of The Country?
When Trump descended that escalator for the 2016 election, most Americans only knew him— if at all— from a (un)reality TV show. But not...

Howie Klein
Jan 17, 20247 min read
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Looking Back At The Iowa Wreckage For The Good News
Ramaswamy dropped out. Trump told him the game was over, his services were no longer needed… and poof— gone. Hated by all the other...

Howie Klein
Jan 16, 20245 min read
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Tonight’s Frozen Ugliness-- Trump Demanded His Supporters Vote Even If They're "Sick As A Dog"
A few years ago Trump asserted that Iowa voters are stupid (his choice of words). He’s spent a lot more time there than I have so we’ll...

Howie Klein
Jan 15, 20247 min read
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Midnight Meme Of The Day! Trump The Igniter
by Noah Well, here we are. It's the eve of the Iowa caucuses and word has it that Iowa Republicans are all brain-rotted, soul-rotted...

Noah
Jan 15, 20241 min read
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Tomorrow Is GOP Caucus Day In Iowa-- Utterly Meaningless, But The Conservatives Spent $300 Million
All Losers, No Winners My grandfather’s rural village, in what is now Ukraine, had been decimated by Cossacks. He was a teenager— and a...

Howie Klein
Jan 14, 20243 min read
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Ron DeSantis-- Dead Man Crawling-- Will Likely Drop Out After Losing Iowa
Mike Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses in 2008… and lost the GOP nomination to John McCain, who had come in 4th in Iowa. Four years later,...

Howie Klein
Jan 5, 20243 min read
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Will Chris Christie Make It All The Way To Super Tuesday? Will Any Of Them?
Ironically, Christie Could Doom Haley's Chance To Go One On One Against Trump Super Tuesday is March 5— Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa,...

Howie Klein
Dec 22, 20234 min read
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