September 22, 2026 — Sioux Center Democratic candidate priorities

KTIV — Sioux Center event brings together Iowa Democratic candidates

Use note: KTIV directly reports candidate remarks from the event. IA Fact Check uses the article to document attributed priorities, not to validate future policy outcomes.

September 23, 2026 — Hinson LARC Access Expansion Act

The Iowa Standard — Hinson introduces bill to improve birth control access in rural Iowa
Rep. Ashley Hinson official site — September 23 release listed in Latest News

Use note: these sources document the announced proposal and its stated mechanics. They do not establish enactment, funding, uptake or eventual outcomes.

September 23, 2026 — Nexstar U.S. Senate debate schedule

Nexstar Media Group — Hinson–Turek debate set for October 13, 9–10 p.m. CT

Use note: primary organizer source for the date, time, moderators, participating stations/platforms and announced issue areas. It is not evidence about candidate performance or election outcome.

September 23, 2026 — Secretary of State election-administration positions

Use note: KCCI establishes the candidates’ quoted positions. Secretary of State materials establish the current voting timetable and described election-administration practices; they are primary-source office materials, not an independent quality rating.

September 23, 2026 — Derek Wulf investigation explainer

KCCI — September 21 investigation update — Independent reporting / sheriff statement; dated criminal-case status.
KCRG — September 4 debt lawsuits and receivership — Independent reporting / civil proceedings and campaign response.
Little Village — September 4 summary of the Register investigation — Secondary reporting / attributed allegations; not an independent court finding.
Gray Media / KTIV — September 8 campaign response — Independent reporting carrying campaign denial and opponent criticism.
Laura Belin — June 16 civil filings and campaign explanation — Iowa political reporting / civil-filing context.
Iowa Judicial Branch — guide to searching court records — Official record-access guide; not a Wulf case decision.

News reports establish attributed reporting and responses. The court guide is a lookup aid, not a case finding. No investigative file or later charging decision was independently obtained for this review.

September 22, 2026 — Sand corrections bargaining proposal

Use note: the reporting establishes Sand’s stated policy direction; chapter 20 establishes the current definition of public-safety employee and the 30-percent bargaining-unit threshold. No unintroduced bill text or automatic unit-status change is inferred.

September 22, 2026 — Iowa House members’ diesel-export positions

Use note: current positions are attributed to the named lawmakers and reporting. No enacted export restriction, tax suspension or quantified retail-price effect is inferred.

September 22, 2026 — Marist Iowa U.S. Senate and governor poll

Marist Poll — Iowa registered-voter toplines and methodology

Use note: Marist reports interviews with 1,050 Iowa registered voters Sept. 17–20, 2026, using live-interviewer phone calls, text and online contacts, with a reported ±4.4-point margin of error. Results are survey estimates, not election results or forecasts.

September 21, 2026 — Lahn first-home income-tax account proposal

Use note: KCCI reports the candidate described a complete state income-tax exemption whose amount would be placed in a first-home down-payment account, while duration, fiscal cost and final eligibility were not specified. Do not treat the proposal as enacted law or infer missing terms.

September 21, 2026 — Hinson Iran-war end-position follow-up

Use note: treat the campaign statement as a current policy position. Preserve the prior roll-call record separately; do not infer a future vote, motive, endorsement or election effect.

September 21, 2026 — Iowa U.S. Senate fuel-relief proposals

Use note: the candidate proposals are attributed to the candidates and contemporaneous reporting. No enacted policy or quantified retail-price effect is inferred.

September 21, 2026 — MAHA Action PAC $1 million Lahn contribution announcement

Use note: the amount is attributed to the PAC’s own announcement. State guidance establishes that Iowa has no contribution cap while disclosure and federal/out-of-state PAC registration rules still apply; this review did not independently verify the transaction in an IECDB filing.

September 21, 2026 — Lahn Big Ag antitrust authority context

Use note: the record distinguishes the existence of statutory antitrust remedies from the office and court process required to pursue them, and does not determine whether a specific agricultural company violated antitrust law.

September 18, 2026 — Trafalgar Iowa U.S. Senate poll

Use note: polling figures are survey estimates, not election results or forecasts. The pollster reports 1,089 likely voters, Sept. 16–18 field dates, a 5.7% response rate and ±2.9-point margin of error.

September 20, 2026 — governor-race farmland ownership policy context

Use note: residency status and legal ownership form are tracked separately. IA Fact Check does not equate all nonresident, LLC, trust or corporate ownership with institutional or foreign ownership.

September 20, 2026 — Sand/Lahn altered face-shield image fact check

AFP Fact Check — specific face-shield image is altered using AI

Use note: AFP traced the image to an original Iowa Capital Dispatch photo and reported a SynthID finding. IA Fact Check applies the finding only to this specific image, notes that authentic photos of Sand wearing facial coverings exist, and does not infer who created the altered image.

September 19, 2026 — Hinson/Turek tips and overtime tax-policy follow-up

Use note: the record separates the candidates’ stated positions from assumptions about a future repeal-and-replace vote and describes the statutory deductions with their current limits.

Iowa delegation — H. Con. Res. 93 / House Roll Call 307

Use note: the Clerk records Nunn and Miller-Meeks Yea; Hinson and Feenstra Nay. AP/IPR report Nunn and Miller-Meeks had opposed two earlier similar resolutions. Treat the switch as specific to this War Powers removal-resolution question and attribute their stated reasons.

Iowa delegation — H.R. 5334 / House Roll Call 308

Use note: the Clerk records Hinson, Nunn, Miller-Meeks and Feenstra all voting Yea. Describe the specific sanctions/tariff-package vote without inferring motives, predicting presidential action or treating projected policy effects as established.

Hinson “Aisle” ad — bipartisan veterans work and health-insurer claim

Use note: the veterans example is supported by bipartisan legislative history and an enacted law. The insurer-transparency bill is a documented proposal; do not treat introduction alone as proof of a realized consumer-cost reduction or quantify a Trump–Hinson cost result without additional evidence.

September 15, 2026 — Rob Sand public-safety / SF 2472 position

Use note: treat Sand’s statements as campaign policy positions. The law and its general local-revenue framework are established; future agency-level budget effects and occupational-exposure eligibility/costs remain unresolved.

September 15, 2026 — Hegseth / Nunn fundraiser Hatch Act complaint

Use note: the filing is a complaint requesting an OSC investigation, not an adjudication. Keep solicitation and government-resource assertions attributed to the complaint unless OSC or another competent authority makes findings.

September 14, 2026 — Iowa governor fuel-cost proposals

Use note: record the campaign proposals as positions, not enacted savings; current tax rates are independently verified from Iowa Revenue.

September 13, 2026 — Zach Nunn / privately sponsored House gift-travel disclosure

Use note: expense totals and sponsorship are anchored to House-filed disclosure material and the indexed filing. The current news report is treated as a research lead, not as authority for an ethics finding. Privately sponsored gift travel is kept distinct from taxpayer-funded official foreign travel, and the filing alone is not treated as proof of misconduct.

September 9, 2026 — IA-02 mobile-home ad / HF 2562 record check

Use note: the official roll call shows both Lindsay James and Joe Mitchell voting aye. The enacted measure added protections including a 90-day notice rule but did not impose rent control; the site therefore treats the ad as a claim about participation in passage, not exclusive authorship.

September 9, 2026 — Rob Sand Decorah / problem-solving ad

Use note: the Decorah/prosecutor/auditor biography is independently supported by official Iowa records. Treat promises to solve costs, corruption and cancer as prospective campaign commitments, and do not infer cancer causation from incidence data.

September 2, 2026 — Iowa PBS U.S. Senate debate schedule

Iowa PBS — official Oct. 7 U.S. Senate debate announcement

Use note: record the announced date, participants, moderator, broadcast/streaming access and no-live-audience format as event logistics; do not infer an outcome or debate performance.

September 10, 2026 — Hinson / proposed $5,000 adult dividend

Use note: record Hinson’s position as a non-commitment pending details; attribute the national cost estimate and do not present it as an enacted cost.

September 10, 2026 — Turek 842 healthcare-entity closure claim

Use note: the audit treats 842 as a broad database closure count and does not convert it into 842 hospital or clinic closures.

September 9, 2026 — Chris Jones water-quality follow-up

Use note: distinguish documented persistence of impairment and the voluntary nonpoint-source framework from the broader evaluative claim that the approach produced no meaningful progress anywhere.

September 9, 2026 — Lahn Medicaid MCO claim audit

Use note: 42-state count is supported for comprehensive risk-based MCO contracting; do not equate every state model with one identical private-insurer system.

September 9, 2026 — POET / Willems Shell Rock ad legal-threat follow-up

Iowa Capital Dispatch / KCRG — Willems refuses to pull ad after POET threatens suit

Use note: distinguish a threatened defamation claim from a filed case or merits ruling; preserve the existing fact-check distinctions on pollution history, referral record, donations and causation.

September 9, 2026 — Chris Jones food-system statistics audit

Use note: evaluate the 97%, $93 billion and 70% figures separately; preserve the table-food definition and do not convert candidate framing into a single undifferentiated statistic.

September 9, 2026 — O’Malley Social Security staffing claim

Use note: the audit separates the supported size of the staffing decline from the broader claim that all affected workers were forced out.

September 8, 2026 — Muhlbauer $1.4B Iowa budget-gap claim

Use note: distinguish the recurring revenue/spending gap from unpaid debt; note carryforward, reserve and Taxpayer Relief Fund financing.

September 8, 2026 — Sand family campaign contributions

Use note: $11.519M supports 'nearly $12M'; explain that the total spans contributions beginning in 2024 and does not represent most current-cycle money.

September 7, 2026 — Rob Sand hypothetical Senate vacancy

Independent-appointee answer

Sand's answer is presented as a hypothetical candidate preference, not an actual vacancy or appointment. Iowa Code chapter 69 supplies the legal appointment framework.

Washington Examiner · Iowa Legislature Code chapter 69

September 7, 2026 — Josh Turek cannabis policy

Federal marijuana legalization position

Turek's federal legalization, regulation and taxation position is documented by direct-quote reporting; Iowa HF 442 supplies primary legislative context for his prior state-level sponsorship.

Marijuana Moment · Iowa Legislature HF 442

September 8, 2026 — Iowa-grown school-food proposals

Use note: distinguish candidate goals from enacted policy; do not treat the 40,000-pound statement as a universal USDA rule without a specific governing source.

September 8, 2026 — Trone Garriott “Hard” ad

Sarah for Iowa — campaign ad release

Use note: preserve the new creative while routing the repeated town-hall allegation to the existing format-qualified audit.

Turek / Hinson — Medicaid cut claims

Ashley Hinson / Josh Turek — Iran/Lebanon War Powers vote-count audit

Use note: the Clerk records seven Nays on direct removal resolutions. Describe the actual vote question before applying campaign language such as “voted for the war.”

Zach Lahn — “largest middle-class tax cut” claim

Use note: distinguish a large tax reduction from an apples-to-apples all-time ranking and from a statutory definition of “middle class.”

Sarah Trone Garriott / Zach Nunn — Iowa manufacturing and GDP claim

Use note: preserve the distinction between contemporaneous/revised employment vintages and between economic correlation and causation.

Christina Bohannan — pediatric Medicaid claims

Use note: distinguish statewide child coverage, special-needs coverage, hospital-specific payer mix, and eligibility pathways. Do not treat diagnosis alone as automatic general Medicaid eligibility.

September 6, 2026 — Ashley Hinson / 2021 budget vote and inflation claim

Use note: distinguish Biden’s presidential budget request from the congressional budget resolution and from enacted spending laws. Attribute inflation to the multiple mechanisms documented by CBO rather than a single bill or proposal.

September 6, 2026 — Derek Wulf / HF 2527 greenhouse-gas climate-liability law

Use note: describe HF 2527 as a material limitation on climate-effect liability tied to defined greenhouse-gas emissions. Do not convert that into blanket immunity from every lawsuit or environmental claim.

Ashley Hinson / Josh Turek — VoteVets and Schumer attribution claim

Use note: distinguish the amount of independent spending from claims about who directed it. Independent expenditure by VoteVets is documented; public evidence reviewed does not establish Schumer control or coordination.

Sarah Trone Garriott / Zach Nunn — campaign-funding claim

Use note: FEC “other committee contributions” is not synonymous with corporate PACs; preserve the distinction between aggregate committee receipts, individual receipts and transfers from authorized committees.

Thomas Laehn — 45Q/45Z and Summit Carbon claim

Use note: distinguish project dependence from guaranteed personal beneficiary claims and inevitable-project-outcome claims.

September 6, 2026 — Derek Wulf / SF 2412 glyphosate-liability support dispute

Use note: the outside-group advertisement proves the coalition publicly attributed advocacy to Wulf. It does not substitute for a Wulf statement or an official roll call; SF 2412 never received a House floor vote.

September 6, 2026 — Ashley Hinson Epstein-related committee vote absences

Use note: the official roll calls establish the committee absences and later final-report participation; they do not establish motive. Hinson’s later Aye vote on the final disclosure bill is material context.

September 6, 2026 — Ryan Peterman fundraising-record claim

Use note: the 2025 dollar totals and fundraising lead are independently reported from filings; attribute the all-time pre-election-year superlative to the campaign absent an official state historical leaderboard.

September 6, 2026 — John Norwood / IPERS protection context

Use note: distinguish the earlier 401(k)-style concept from the narrower final DOGE recommendation and Reynolds’s statement that IPERS was not being eliminated.

September 6, 2026 — Rob Sand / petition-signature record review

Use note: the submitted count and reported historical comparisons support the record claim, but a petition signature is not an endorsement/vote and the Secretary of State material reviewed does not separately certify an all-time historical leaderboard.

September 6, 2026 — Roby Smith / Great Iowa Treasure Hunt record review

Use note: the published totals support the record-return claim; Money Match is a later program and should not be credited for a fiscal year that had already ended.

September 6, 2026 — IA-03 Medicaid / clinic-closure claim audit

Use note: the audit distinguishes verified closures and reimbursement pressure from the stronger political claim that one congressional vote caused each closure.

September 6, 2026 — Iowa SAVE access and federal appellate ruling

Use note: the September ruling is presented as changed legal context for Iowa’s planned modified SAVE use, not as retroactive proof that Iowa’s prior audit figures were false.

September 6, 2026 — Chris Cournoyer government-efficiency savings claim

Use note: the amount matches the state administration’s published savings figure; this audit does not treat that figure as independently reproduced or attribute the full savings to Cournoyer personally.

September 5, 2026 — Dave Muhlbauer / DMACC Dallas County Farm tour

Use note: the sources document the tour, Muhlbauer’s stated agriculture/workforce emphasis, and the teaching farm’s current program. Future market development or young-farmer retention effects remain prospective.

September 3, 2026 — Chris Jones clean-water paddle / nitrate context

The campaign statement is presented with both the federal impairment-list record and newer segment-specific state monitoring context.

September 1, 2026 — Rob Sand preschool expansion proposal

Radio Iowa — Sand preschool expansion report — contemporaneous independent reporting of the candidate proposal and $17 return claim.
Iowa Department of Education — Statewide Voluntary Preschool Program — primary source for current four-year-old eligibility and no-cost program structure.
Governor's Economic Recovery Advisory Board final report — Iowa policy document tracing the “as high as $17 per dollar” early-childhood return estimate to research literature.
Governor Reynolds — March 10, 2026 Continuum of Care grants — primary context for existing full-day preschool/child-care partnerships for four-year-olds.

September 1, 2026 — Miller-Meeks cancer-policy record

Iowa Capital Dispatch — Miller-Meeks Aug. 31 cancer-policy event — contemporaneous independent reporting.
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network — Cancer Promise — primary advocacy-program text and Iowa signer roster; ACS CAN explicitly states the pledge is not an endorsement.
Rep. Miller-Meeks — MCED screening coverage signed into law — official congressional-office record of enacted screening-coverage provision.
Rep. Miller-Meeks — EARLY Act passes House — official congressional-office record of House action.

August 31, 2026 — Hinson/Turek weekend event context

Radio Iowa — two events highlight stakes in Iowa's top 2026 races

August 31, 2026 — governor data-center tax context

Radio Iowa — National Taxpayers Union calls for neutral analysis of data centers

August 31, 2026 — Rob Sand affordability plan

Rob Sand for Iowa — affordability-plan release — primary campaign source; policy proposals recorded without treating projected effects as verified outcomes.

August 31, 2026 — governor drug-cost context

KTIV / Gray Media — Iowa cancer patient presses midterm candidates on drug costs — independent reporting summarizing both governor campaigns’ drug-cost positions; projected effects remain unverified.

August 31, 2026 — Turek “Prove It” bipartisan-vote claim

KCRG-TV9 — independent fact check — independently sampled 2026 Iowa House journals and supplied numerical context for the 700+ claim.
Josh Turek for Iowa — “Prove It” release and transcript — primary campaign source for the ad wording.

August 30, 2026 — Polk County Steak Fry turnout/organizing context

KCRG — Turek, Sand and Trone Garriott remarks at the Polk County Democrats’ Steak Fry

August 29, 2026 — Rob Sand statewide campaign profile

CNN via KTVZ — Rob Sand statewide Iowa campaign profile

Independent reporting with direct candidate quotations used for Sand’s current election-reform, water-quality, cancer-prevention and campaign-positioning record.

August 29, 2026 — Rob Sand Guthrie Center campaign stop

Carroll Broadcasting — Sand scheduled for Aug. 31 Guthrie Center gathering

Local campaign-schedule reporting used only to document the announced stop and RSVP requirement.

August 29, 2026 — Hinson/Turek immigration claim context

August 29, 2026 — Polk County Steak Fry candidate statements

Iowa Capital Dispatch — Turek and Trone Garriott term-limit statements at the Polk County Steak Fry

August 29, 2026 — Ashley Hinson Clive campaign event

KCCI — Hinson campaign remarks on affordability and turnout

August 29, 2026 — Hinson Clive campaign event

Gray Media / KCRG — Republican leaders warn Iowa supporters turnout will decide midterms

August 26–28, 2026 — Lahn ad / Sand tax and wealth claims

The campaign response is preserved as a party source; IA Fact Check relies on the independent KCRG review and the previously collected tax/financial records for the assessment.

August 27–28, 2026 — Brenna Bird / Meta settlement

IA Fact Check treats the settlement terms as documented enforcement outcomes and keeps campaign interpretation separate from the legal terms of the agreement.

August 28, 2026 — IA-01 manufacturing and 2025 tax-law context

Iowa Capital Dispatch — Miller-Meeks manufacturing/tax-law event and Bohannan response

Independent reporting retained as current race context; candidate claims within the report remain attributed and are not automatically converted into verified causal findings.

August 28, 2026 — Hinson direct U.S. Senate interview

KWBG Radio — Ashley Hinson interview and transcript

Direct candidate source used to preserve Hinson’s current wording on insurer transparency, beef imports, E15 and attendance. Independent verification remains in the site’s separately sourced attendance and trade-policy records.

August 27, 2026 — Ashley Hinson spouse / insurance government-affairs report

IA Fact Check uses the House guidance only as general context. It is not a House Ethics finding against Hinson or Arenholz.

August 27, 2026 — Josh Turek water-quality / cancer position

IA Fact Check separates Turek’s policy position from stronger causal claims about any one environmental exposure and Iowa’s overall cancer trend.

August 27, 2026 — Renewable Fuel Standard / refinery-waiver context

IA Fact Check distinguishes EPA’s completed RFS rule from a separately reported refinery-waiver expansion that was still under consideration.

August 26, 2026 — Suffolk statewide governor / Senate poll

Iowa Capital Dispatch — Suffolk University statewide and Muscatine County poll results — Independent reporting / poll methodology and toplines

August 26, 2026 — Josh Turek ACS CAN cancer-policy forum

U.S. Senate · August 25, 2026

Hinson / Turek missed-vote independent fact check

Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau — Aug. 25 attendance fact check

Use note: Gray Media finds Turek absent or not voting on 58.1% of 2026 Iowa House floor votes and Hinson missing 5 of 283 U.S. House floor votes in 2026. Turek’s separate 193-vote comparison uses broader categories across Hinson’s congressional service; keep vote category and time period explicit.

Governor · education claim · August 25, 2026

Rob Sand “Lead” ad / Nebraska ranking context

Rob Sand for Iowa — ad release · Iowa Department of Education — NAEP 2024 · Iowa Legislature — surrounding-state NAEP comparison

August 25, 2026 — Zach Lahn / Wonder stolen-handgun and governance context

KMUW / Kansas Reflector — Aug. 25 investigation — Independent reporting citing Wichita Police Department and nonprofit records
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer — Wonder Inc. IRS filings — IRS-derived nonprofit financial records

Use note: the police record documents a 2023 theft of Lahn’s handgun, magazines and vehicle from Wonder school property; the firearm and ammunition were later recovered. The facts are presented as campaign-relevant firearms/security and school-governance context, not proof of criminal misconduct, fraud, self-dealing or unsafe intent.

August 25, 2026 — John Norwood / IPERS oversight and in-state deposits

Radio Iowa — Norwood says treasurer should be more engaged in IPERS oversight — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations
IPERS — Investment Board governance — Primary official record confirming the state treasurer’s ex officio voting role and board responsibilities

Use note: Norwood’s exact $2.5 billion out-of-state short-term deposit figure is attributed to him; IA Fact Check did not independently reproduce that exact amount from a primary treasury record. The preferred level of treasurer involvement and in-state deposit allocation are policy choices.

August 25, 2026 — Zach Lahn / Wonder school financing

Kansas Reflector — personal loans sustain Wonder school — Independent reporting / nonprofit-finance context
ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer — Wonder Inc. IRS Form 990 filings — IRS-derived nonprofit financial record

Use note: the filings document liabilities, negative net assets and interested-person transactions; they do not by themselves establish wrongdoing. Keep the distinction between disclosed related-party financing and any allegation of impropriety.

August 25, 2026 — statewide absentee-ballot request window

Iowa Voter Ready — 2026 General Election dates — Primary official Iowa election guidance

Use note: August 25 is the first day to file an absentee-ballot request; October 14 is the first day absentee ballots may begin mailing and in-person absentee voting begins.

Auditor of State · August 25, 2026

Taylor Wettach private-school budget-transparency policy context

Radio Iowa — Wettach calls for private-school budget transparency — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations

Use note: the source documents Wettach’s policy proposal and reports current ESA program figures. IA Fact Check does not infer misuse by any school or assume a future auditor would possess authority beyond Iowa law.

August 25, 2026 — VoteVets “Reverse” Hinson health-care ad cross-check

KCRG-TV9 — independent Aug. 24 fact check — Independent local reporting / claim review
Congressional Budget Office — health coverage / reconciliation analysis — Nonpartisan federal analysis
KFF — Medicaid and rural-health context — Independent health-policy analysis
Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform — rural hospital risk data — Health-policy research source

U.S. House District 3 · August 24, 2026

Zach Nunn beef-import policy context

Brownfield Ag News — Nunn response to temporary beef-import expansion (Aug. 24, 2026) — Independent reporting / agriculture and trade policy

Use note: the source documents Nunn’s stated position on the temporary beef-import expansion. IA Fact Check does not infer future retail-price, herd-size, producer-income or farm-bill outcomes from the statement.

Secretary of Agriculture · August 24, 2026

Chris Jones State Fair systemic-change policy context

Iowa Capital Dispatch via Little Village — State Fair remarks — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations
Chris Jones campaign — agriculture and water platform — Primary candidate-policy source
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Naig/Jones policy contrast — Independent contextual reporting

Use note: the sources establish Jones’s stated policy agenda. Future water-quality, farm-income, food-price and rural-economic effects remain prospective.

August 24, 2026 — Zach Lahn data-center / Flock-camera policy context

Iowa Capital Dispatch / KYOU — Lahn ABI candidate-forum remarks — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations

Used to document Lahn’s stated regulatory positions. IA Fact Check does not treat the proposed policies as proof of future economic, environmental, privacy or public-safety outcomes.

U.S. Senate · August 24, 2026

Turek attendance-ad full quote and legislative per-diem context

Bleeding Heartland — Aug. 24 Senate race / attendance-ad reporting — Independent reporting that reproduces Turek’s underlying fundraiser quote and reviews the per-diem issue
Iowa Code 2026 §2.10 — Salaries and expenses, members of General Assembly — Primary statutory source for regular-session per diem
Ashley Hinson campaign — “Matters” release — Primary campaign source for the attack ad

Use note: the underlying Turek quote is now independently sourced. The ad’s categorical “he thinks you don’t care” paraphrase remains context-sensitive, and regular-session per diem is statutory session-day compensation rather than an attendance bonus tied to each roll-call vote.

U.S. Senate · August 24, 2026

Iowa cancer-policy campaign context

Yahoo/The Hill republication — Aug. 24 Hinson–Turek cancer-policy profile — Independent national race reporting
Rep. Ashley Hinson — Cancer Research Trust Fund Act announcement — Primary congressional source
Josh Turek — “Health care is a human right” plan — Primary candidate-policy source

Use note: candidate policy descriptions are documented; future legislative passage, cancer-rate effects, insurance-cost effects and other prospective outcomes are not inferred as settled facts.

U.S. Senate · August 24, 2026

ABA / Iowa Bankers Association supportive Hinson ad

American Bankers Association / Iowa Bankers Association — Aug. 24 ad announcement — Banking-industry trade-group advocacy / primary sponsor source
Congress.gov — H.R. 6644, Housing for the 21st Century Act — Primary legislative record / housing-policy context

Use note: sponsor praise and broad economic/affordability claims are advocacy unless independently quantified; the ad is recorded as campaign context rather than a Hogwash verdict.

U.S. Senate · August 24, 2026

Hinson Pork Tent / Proposition 12 campaign-warning context

Times-Republican / Iowa Capital Dispatch — Hinson touts Save Our Bacon Act at State Fair — Independent reporting — Aug. 24, 2026
Congress.gov — H.R. 4673 introduced text — Primary legislative record
U.S. Supreme Court — National Pork Producers Council v. Ross — Primary legal record / Proposition 12 context

August 24, 2026 — Iowa governor polling-average context

FiftyPlusOne — Iowa governor polling average — Poll aggregation / modeled race context; current snapshot refreshed 10:30 AM CDT: Sand 49.2%, Lahn 43.5%
FiftyPlusOne — methodology — Poll inclusion, weighting and averaging methodology

U.S. Senate · refreshed August 24, 2026

FiftyPlusOne polling-average context

FiftyPlusOne — Iowa General Senate Election polling average — Poll aggregation / modeled race context
FiftyPlusOne — methodology — Poll inclusion, weighting and Bayesian averaging methodology

U.S. Senate · August 23, 2026

Wall Street Journal Hinson–Turek national battleground profile

Wall Street Journal — “The Former Local News Anchor in the Political Fight of Her Life” — Independent national reporting / race context

Use note: the profile is treated as contextual reporting about race competitiveness, not as a poll, Hogwash verdict or election forecast.

U.S. Senate · August 23, 2026

WinSenate Hinson missed-votes / wealth attack

American Journal News — Hinson missed almost 200 votes — Independent reporting / congressional-record review
American Journal News — June 24 fundraiser and seven-of-11 amendment votes — Independent reporting
U.S. House Clerk — Ashley Hinson member profile / disclosure resources — Primary record
House Clerk — Hinson 2020/new-filer financial disclosure, Filing ID 10043160 — Primary financial disclosure
House Clerk — Hinson 2024 annual disclosure filed Aug. 13, 2025, Filing ID 10066620 — Primary financial disclosure
Heartland Signal — household wealth / private-equity analysis — Independent/advocacy-oriented reporting based on disclosures
PolitiFact — WinSenate PAC background — Independent fact-check organization
Senate Majority PAC — additional $17 million Iowa investment — Outside-group primary source

August 23, 2026 — Lindsay James 2023 gender-care remarks

Iowa PBS — Iowa Press interview with Lindsay James and Steven Holt (March 17, 2023) — Primary media record / original transcript
Iowa Legislature — Senate File 538 bill history — Primary legislative record / chamber votes and enactment
American Liberty News — Aug. 23 resurfacing — Claim source used to document current circulation; not relied on as independent verification

Auditor of State · August 22, 2026

Taylor Wettach / SF 478 auditor-access policy context

Daily Nonpareil / Des Moines Register — State Fair remarks — Independent reporting
Iowa Legislature — Senate File 478 enrolled act — Primary record / enacted law

August 22, 2026 — U.S. Senate beef-import policy response

Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau — Hinson and Turek react to Trump beef-import plan — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations
Reuters — Trump temporarily eases beef-import tariffs / expands lower-tariff quota — Independent reporting / federal trade-policy context
Iowa Cattlemen’s Association — response to foreign beef-import announcement — Primary industry-group statement / Iowa producer context

August 22, 2026 — Taylor Wettach / auditor-access restrictions

Iowa Capital Dispatch — Aug. 22 report on Wettach auditor-access policy remarks

Independent Iowa reporting added as a stronger direct source for Wettach’s pledge to seek reversal of the 2023 auditor-access restrictions; the enacted law remains separately linked as primary statutory context.

Attorney General · August 21, 2026

State Fair voter-ID / election-enforcement positions

Gray Media — State Fair attorney-general candidate remarks — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations
Iowa Secretary of State — Voter ID FAQs — Primary election-administration guidance / current Iowa voting requirements

Attorney General · August 21, 2026

Willems pollution-enforcement attack on Bird

IA-02 health-coverage claim · August 21, 2026

Lindsay James — “nearly 27,000” coverage-risk review

Gray Media / Iowa Capital Dispatch — Aug. 21 State Fair remarks — independent reporting
Iowa Public Radio — earlier publication of the same 27,000-risk claim — independent reporting
Joint Economic Committee minority — district-level health coverage impact table — congressional minority-staff estimate; IA-02 total 25,100
Congressional Research Service — Health Provisions in P.L. 119-21 — nonpartisan federal analysis
FactCheck.org — July 29 implementation-timing review — independent fact-check

August 21, 2026 · IA-03 campaign ad

Nunn girls’ sports / locker-room ad

August 21, 2026 — Secretary of Agriculture campaign-sponsored poll context

Bleeding Heartland — poll report and candidate-description text — Independent reporting on campaign-sponsored polling
Change Research memo for Chris Jones campaign — Campaign-commissioned polling memo; July 28–Aug. 1 field dates, n=1,071 likely voters, stated ±3.1-point margin of error

U.S. House forecast context · August 20, 2026

Silver Bulletin FLIPR Iowa House ratings

Silver Bulletin — FLIPR 2026 midterm election forecast — Model/forecast source; IA-01 Lean Democrat, IA-02 Toss Up, IA-03 Likely Democrat as reflected in the Aug. 20 forecast table

Use note: model ratings are kept separate from polls, candidate claims and IA Fact Check Hogwash verdicts. They can change as model inputs change.

Attorney General · candidate-position / election-administration context

August 20, 2026 — Bird / DOJ voter-data remarks

Gray Media — U.S. Attorney General Blanche says administration is not giving up pursuit of voter information — Aug. 20 State Fair reporting documenting Blanche’s remarks and Bird’s presence/context.
Des Moines Register — Why Attorney General Todd Blanche was grilling meat at Iowa State Fair — independent report quoting Bird’s public defense of preventing illegal voting and documenting her support alongside Blanche.
Iowa Public Radio — Iowa shares sensitive voter data with the Department of Justice — May 5 primary background on the transfer, data fields and Secretary of State Paul Pate’s stated legal rationale.
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Peterman seeks records on voter data shared with DOJ — July 22 reporting on the continuing Iowa political/legal dispute.

Governor · campaign ad / tax claim

August 20, 2026 — Lahn $7,500 Sand tax-increase claim

Breitbart — original report carrying the Lahn ad and quoted $7,500 claim — campaign-ad source; used to establish exactly what was said.
ITR Foundation — July 10 Sand/Lahn tax-agenda comparison — reports Sand’s targeted revenue proposals and his statement that broader tax increases were not necessarily needed.
Iowa Capital Dispatch — June 4 budget/tax interview — independent reporting on Sand’s view of recent tax cuts and structural deficits.
Radio Iowa — May 12, 2025 campaign launch — contemporaneous reporting of Sand’s comments that high earners might need to revisit recent tax cuts if deficits persist.
Rob Sand campaign — Aug. 4 data-center plan — primary campaign source for ending the equipment sales-tax exemption.
Iowa Public Radio — conservation tax-credit proposals — independent reporting documenting tax credits that cut qualifying farmers’ taxes.

Governor · candidate-position context

August 20, 2026 — Zach Lahn term-limit exception

Gray Media — Iowa governor’s race puts term-limits debate in spotlight — Aug. 6 independent report quoting Lahn as supporting term limits for “many things” but not governor.
Heartland Signal — Lahn backs term limits except for governor — Aug. 20 report with direct quotations from Lahn’s May interview and Barn Talk podcast; outlet framing is treated separately from the quoted statements.
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Sand Accountability for All / term-limit proposal — opponent/race context.

U.S. House — District 2 · race rating

August 20, 2026 — Cook rates IA-02 Lean Republican

Cook Political Report — IA-02 race listing — Primary ratings listing showing IA-02 as Lean Republican.
Iowa Starting Line — Aug. 20 Iowa ratings roundup — Independent Iowa reporting that Cook shifted IA-02 from Likely Republican to Lean Republican.

U.S. Senate · race rating

August 20, 2026 — Cook moves Iowa Senate race to Toss Up

Axios — Aug. 20 Cook rating change — Fresh independent reporting that Cook Political Report moved Iowa’s open U.S. Senate race from Lean Republican to Toss Up.
Emerson College Polling — Aug. 6 Iowa poll — Primary poll release and methodology; Aug. 2–4 field period, 712 likely voters, Hinson 48%, Turek 45%, 6% undecided, ±3.7-point credibility interval.
Cook Political Report — Senate race ratings — Primary ratings index and terminology.

General-election debate status

August 20, 2026 — IA-02 debate commitments / participation

Iowa Capital Dispatch / Gray Media — Aug. 19 IA-02 debate report — Documents Lindsay James’s commitment to Iowa’s News Now and Iowa PBS debates, Joe Mitchell’s campaign statement that he is prepared to debate, and Dave Bushaw’s comments about invitations/eligibility.
Iowa PBS — 2026 General Election Federal Candidate Criteria — Primary broadcaster criteria requiring ballot qualification plus at least four of five additional measures.
Iowa Secretary of State — November 3, 2026 General Election candidate list — Primary election record used for IA-02 field context.

Official ballot-status source refresh

August 19, 2026 — IA-03 official candidate-list refresh

Iowa Secretary of State — November 3, 2026 General Election candidate list — Primary election record updated Aug. 19 at 1:36 p.m. It lists Zach Nunn and Sarah Trone Garriott in IA-03 and does not list Jake Heard; the same document says post-primary ballot vacancies may be filled by convention until Aug. 19 at 5:00 p.m. Because this version predates that deadline, IA Fact Check does not treat Heard’s omission as a final acceptance or rejection decision.

August 19, 2026 — Adams County General Election guidance

Adams County Auditor — Upcoming Elections — Official county record identifying the November 3, 2026 General Election.
Adams County Auditor — Voting Precincts — Official current precinct/polling-place guidance and link to Iowa’s official polling-place lookup.
Adams County Auditor — Find Your Polling Place & Sample Ballot — Official lookup page currently still labeled for the 2024 General Election; IA Fact Check therefore does not treat it as confirmation that finalized 2026 General Election sample ballots are available.

Candidate policy / legal context

August 19, 2026 — Joe Mitchell term-limits / stock-trading policy review

Joe Mitchell for Congress — Issues — primary campaign statement supporting 12 years in the House and 12 years in the Senate plus a full congressional stock/prediction-market trading ban.
WGEM — Iowa State Fair Soapbox, Aug. 15, 2026 — independent reporting of Mitchell’s 12-year term-limit and stock-trading remarks.
Constitution Annotated — Ability of Congress to Change Qualifications for Members — Library of Congress summary of controlling constitutional doctrine.
Congress.gov — H.R. 1908, End Congressional Stock Trading Act — example of a statutory congressional trading-ban proposal.
House Committee on Ethics — Financial Disclosure — current transaction-disclosure requirements under federal ethics law.

August 19, 2026 — Ringgold County General Election guidance

Ringgold County Elections — November 3, 2026 General Election — Primary county-government election record. IA Fact Check uses the November 3 heading and absentee-voting section while flagging a separate internally inconsistent dates/deadlines subsection.
Ringgold County Elections — Sample Ballots — Official county sample-ballot index; currently lists 2026 Primary ballots but not finalized 2026 General Election sample ballots.

August 19, 2026 — IA-03 Marco Battaglia campaign exit / ballot-status update

Libertarian Party of Iowa — Aug. 3 statement — Party statement announcing that a medical emergency prevented Marco Battaglia from continuing his IA-03 campaign and declining further health details.
Radio Iowa — Aug. 4 report — Independent reporting on the campaign exit, planned nominating convention and the preexisting ballot-access dispute.
Iowa Secretary of State — Nov. 3, 2026 federal/state candidate list — Primary election record updated Aug. 19 at 1:36 p.m.; IA-03 lists Zach Nunn and Sarah Trone Garriott and does not list Jake Heard. The document states post-primary ballot vacancies may be filled by convention through Aug. 19 at 5:00 p.m.; because this version predates that deadline, it is not treated as a final rejection of Heard’s replacement filing.
Iowa Secretary of State — June 15 State Objection Panel notice — Primary record documenting the earlier, separate challenge to Battaglia’s nomination.

August 19, 2026 — Clay County General Election guidance

Clay County Auditor — Elections — Primary county-government election record identifying the November 3, 2026 General Election and linking official polling-place/precinct, voter-registration and absentee-voting resources; finalized precinct-specific General Election sample ballots are not currently posted on the page.

August 19, 2026 — Wayne County General Election guidance

Wayne County Elections — 2026 General Election — Primary county election record listing the full General Election calendar, all four precinct/polling locations and 7:00 AM–8:00 PM Election Day hours; finalized precinct-specific General Election sample ballots are not currently linked from the page.

August 19, 2026 — Tama County General Election guidance

Tama County Elections — 2026 General Election — Primary county election record listing 7:00 AM–8:00 PM Election Day hours, 13 voting precincts and current polling locations; the county says sample ballots, candidate list and public notice will be posted once available.

August 19, 2026 — Zach Lahn nitrate / colon-cancer claim review

August 19, 2026 — Zach Lahn 10,000-farms claim review

Zach Lahn for Governor — Iowa First policy — Primary campaign source stating the 10,000-farm goal/claim
USDA NASS — Iowa 2022 Census of Agriculture, Table 1 — Primary federal statistical record showing 90,655 Iowa farms in 2002 and 86,911 in 2022
USDA NASS — 2025 Iowa State Agriculture Overview — Primary federal annual estimate listing 86,200 farm operations

August 19, 2026 — Scott County General Election guidance

Scott County Elections — 2026 Gubernatorial General Election — Primary county election record
Scott County Auditor — Sample Ballots — Official county sample-ballot index

August 18, 2026 — Davis County General Election guidance

Davis County — Election & Voting Information — Official county election record listing Nov. 3 General Election polling hours, Oct. 14 absentee-voting start, six polling-place/precinct groupings and current precinct addresses; sample-ballot headings are present but no finalized 2026 General Election ballot files are linked

August 18, 2026 — Marion County General Election guidance

Marion County Elections — November 3, 2026 General Election — Official county election record with absentee/registration deadlines, Election Day hours and 17-precinct election-night reporting count; no finalized precinct-specific General Election sample ballots are currently posted on the page

August 18, 2026 — Rob Sand “On Call” ad / Zach Lahn residency review

Rob Sand for Iowa — “On Call” ad release and full transcript (Aug. 17, 2026) — Opponent campaign / paid TV, streaming and digital ad
Associated Press — Zach Lahn profile and residency/blended-family response (Aug. 14, 2026) — Independent reporting
KTIV / Gray Media — Lahn response to “part-time Iowan” criticism — Independent reporting / candidate response
Daily Beast — Wichita home, Iowa homestead treatment and travel investigation — Independent public-record review

August 18, 2026 — Franklin County General Election guidance

Franklin County Elections — November 3, 2026 General Election — Official county election record with absentee/registration deadlines, Election Day hours and the Wisner/Scott polling-place notice
Franklin County Elections — sample-ballot index — Official county election record; no finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample ballots are currently listed

August 18, 2026 — Benton County General Election guidance

Benton County Elections — November 3, 2026 General Election — Official county election record with absentee/registration deadlines and 18-precinct election-night reporting count
Benton County Elections — election index — Official county election index; no finalized precinct-specific 2026 General Election sample-ballot link is currently listed

August 18, 2026 — ACS CAN federal Cancer Promise signers

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network — 2026 Cancer Promise pledge and signer roster — Primary advocacy-group record; ACS CAN explicitly states the program is nonpartisan and not an endorsement.

August 18, 2026 — Zach Nunn cancer-policy roundtable review

Iowa Capital Dispatch — Nunn ACS CAN Cancer Votes Coffee Chat (July 10, 2026) — Independent reporting / direct candidate quotations
ACS CAN — FY2026 NIH/NCI appropriations summary — Institutional appropriations record
CMS — Rural Health Transformation Program overview — Primary federal program record
CMS — $50 billion RHT awards / Iowa FY2026 amount — Primary federal award record
NIH Office of Budget — FY2027 President’s Budget request — Primary federal budget record
CBO — 2026 Budget and Economic Outlook — Primary nonpartisan federal budget analysis

August 18, 2026 — Zach Lahn education-ranking claim review

Zach Lahn campaign — About page / education ranking claims — Candidate campaign statement
Iowa Department of Education — 2024 NAEP results — Primary state education record
NCES — NAEP State Results — Primary federal assessment source
NCES — 2010-11 through 2012-13 state graduation rates — Primary federal education record
Mississippi Governor — 2024 NAEP results summary — Primary state summary

August 16, 2026 — IA-01 / IA-03 Q2 federal campaign finance

Rob Sand — ethanol / E15 / carbon-pipeline policy context

Iowa Capital Dispatch reporting via Times-Republican documents Sand’s Aug. 18 Lincolnway Energy meeting; Ottumwa Radio separately quotes Sand supporting year-round E15.

2026 Iowa State Fair straw poll — live official tally

Type: Iowa Secretary of State official civic-engagement/straw-poll source. The office describes the annual poll as unscientific and unofficial; IA Fact Check does not treat it as representative election polling.

Live 2026 results · Secretary of State methodology/context

Zach Lahn — Aug. 18 ACS CAN cancer-forum funding proposal

Gray Media Iowa State Capitol Bureau — Lahn proposes shifting university funding to pediatric cancer research Independent reporting on Lahn's Aug. 18 issue-forum remarks.
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network — Iowa gubernatorial voter guide Issue-group candidate questionnaire and voter-guide context.

Rob Sand — direct C-SPAN campaign statements

Attorney General · Aug. 24, 2026

Wage-theft enforcement policy contrast

Radio Iowa candidate-position report · Iowa Workforce Development state enforcement guidance · 2022 estimate background

Updated 09/23/2026 03:37 AM CDT

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August 18 update — Chickasaw County General Election guidance

Chickasaw County — official county government calendar — Primary local-government source listing August 25 as the first day to accept 2026 General Election absentee-ballot request forms
Chickasaw County Elections — precinct/polling-place list — Official county election record
Chickasaw County Elections — sample-ballot index — Official county election record showing 2026 Primary ballots but no finalized 2026 General Election ballots yet

August 18 update — Kirkwood Community College Public Measure NC

Johnson County Auditor — November 3, 2026 General Election / Public Measure NC — Official county election record publishing the 18-county Kirkwood Community College bond question, $88 million maximum amount, and 60% approval threshold

August 18 update — Derek Wulf House District 76 ballot replacement

Iowa Secretary of State — Nov. 3, 2026 General Election candidate list (updated Aug. 3) — Primary election record
Iowa Public Radio — GOP names Matt Reisetter to replace Wulf in House District 76 — Independent reporting
Iowa Legislature — 2026 Iowa Code chapter 39, including §39.11 “More than one office prohibited” — Primary legal record

August 17 update — RFK Jr. Iowa Libertarian outreach / Hatch Act complaint

Washington Post — recorded Kennedy call with Rick Stewart and Iowa race outreach — Independent reporting / recorded call
Washington Post — audio excerpt from Kennedy/Stewart call — Source audio page
Associated Press — Wyden complaint and recording review — Independent reporting / recording review
U.S. Senate Finance Committee — Wyden complaint announcement and letter — Primary source — allegation/complaint, not adjudication
U.S. Office of Special Counsel — federal Hatch Act guidance — Primary legal/ethics guidance

August 17 update — Pete Hegseth campaigns for Zach Nunn

Wall Street Journal — Hegseth campaigns for Nunn at the Iowa State Fair — Independent contemporaneous reporting / direct quotations
U.S. Office of Special Counsel — Federal Employee Hatch Act Information — Primary legal/ethics guidance
U.S. Office of Special Counsel — Hatch Act FAQs — Primary legal/ethics guidance

August 17 update — JStreetPAC “Blue Iowa” fundraiser

JStreetPAC — Aug. 26 “Blue Iowa” virtual fundraiser — PAC primary source — explicitly lists Josh Turek, Christina Bohannan, Lindsay James and Sarah Trone Garriott as supported candidates; page also states it is not authorized by any candidate committee

August 17 update — Zach Lahn mRNA vaccine position

Radio Iowa — Lahn and other GOP governor candidates back mRNA vaccine ban — Independent contemporaneous reporting
FDA — COMIRNATY approval and current indication — Primary regulatory record
FDA — updated myocarditis/pericarditis warning for mRNA COVID vaccines — Primary regulatory safety record
PubMed — household transmission study during Delta circulation — Peer-reviewed research
PubMed — vaccinated index cases and household transmission — Peer-reviewed research

August 17 update — Zach Lahn land-ownership claim

Zach Lahn for Governor — current “over 25%” land-ownership claim — Candidate/campaign claim source
Iowa State University CARD — 2022 Iowa Farmland Ownership and Tenure Survey results — Primary university research / representative survey
Iowa State University CARD — Corporate and Foreign Land Ownership in Iowa — University analysis / USDA AFIDA context
Iowa Secretary of State — foreign agricultural land ownership reporting — Primary state record

August 17 update — governor cancer questionnaire

American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network — 2026 Iowa gubernatorial candidate questionnaire — Candidate questionnaire / primary response record
Axios Des Moines — cancer policy contrast in Iowa governor race (Aug. 17, 2026) — Independent reporting / issue comparison

August 17 update — Joe Mitchell homestead-credit / residency review

Iowa Starting Line — Mitchell homestead-tax-credit / residency reporting — Independent reporting / public-record review
Iowa Department of Revenue — Homestead Tax Credit and Exemption eligibility — Primary record — state tax guidance
Henry County Beacon — Mount Pleasant property record linked in reporting — Primary/local property record — county vendor portal
DCCC — partisan amplification of the allegation — Partisan claim

August 17 update — Zach Lahn State Fair polling claim

Wall Street Journal — Iowa State Fair campaign report and Lahn polling statement — Independent reporting / candidate statement
Fox News Poll — Iowa statewide survey conducted June 23-27, 2026 — Independent polling / methodology
270toWin — 2026 Iowa governor public-poll table — Polling archive / aggregator

August 16 update — Ashley Hinson outside spending / health-care campaign

Iowa Capital Dispatch — additional $17M Senate Majority PAC Iowa fall campaign — Independent Iowa reporting
Senate Majority PAC — initial $13.4M Iowa television reservation — Outside-group primary source
Congressional Research Service — Health Provisions in P.L. 119-21 — Authoritative federal policy analysis

August 16 update — cancer / water-quality campaign issue

The Guardian — statewide cancer/water-quality campaign report — Independent reporting
Rob Sand campaign — A Healthier Iowa for All plan — Campaign position statement
Zach Lahn campaign — cancer/agriculture policy — Campaign position statement
Chris Jones campaign — agriculture/water platform — Campaign position statement
Buena Vista University — 2013 Naig appointment announcement — Contemporaneous institutional record
Iowa Legislature — 2010 Monsanto lobbyist declaration — Primary record

Iowa Voter Help — official county election sources

Story County Auditor — 2026 supervisor district-election notice — Official county election guidance
Story County — official Board of Supervisors and precinct jurisdictional maps — Official county election guidance
Pottawattamie County Auditor — 2026 General Election page — Official county election guidance
Black Hawk County Elections — 2026 supervisor districts — Official county election guidance
Dallas County Auditor — 2026 General Election polling guidance — Official county election guidance

August 16 update — Rob Sand Iowa State Fair incident

The Nerd Stash — report reproducing Turning Point Action’s original post/video — Independent follow-up reporting
Contemporaneous Iowa discussion linking additional social video — Social/eyewitness context; not neutral verification

Rob Sand — Governor

The Atlantic — Rob Sand profile and Newton abortion-week exchange (Aug. 15, 2026) — Independent reporting
Iowa Starting Line — 2018 campaign-manager account documenting Sand’s “life begins at breath” argument — Historical campaign context
Iowa PBS — Sand discusses open-primary election reform (June 5, 2026) — Independent interview / primary video
Official Sand–Muhlbauer campaign website — Campaign
Right Direction PAC — “Failed” attack ad (May 2026) — Partisan/campaign claim — original video
Iowa Auditor of State — About — Primary record
Iowa Public Radio — Judicial Branch $53M distribution error (Oct. 16, 2024) — Independent reporting
Iowa Public Radio — Judicial Branch fixing $26M sent to wrong funds (Oct. 21, 2024) — Independent reporting
KCCI — clips used in anti-Sand political ad (May 13, 2026) — Independent reporting
Iowa Judicial Branch — court-debt programming-error statement (Oct. 18, 2024) — Primary record — Judicial Branch
Iowa Judicial Branch — court-debt review presentation — Primary record — Judicial Branch
Iowa Judicial Branch — response on court-debt misdistribution — Primary record — Judicial Branch
Iowa House Government Oversight Committee — majority report criticizing Judicial Branch and Auditor — Primary record — critical/legislative
Iowa Department of Management — State Appeal Board — Primary record — state board
Radio Iowa — Sand vote on taxpayer-financed harassment settlement (May 11, 2021) — Independent reporting
Randy Feenstra for Governor — “Stand” attack ad (March 2026) — Partisan/campaign claim — original video
Iowa Capital Dispatch — report on “Stand” ad and Sand response — Independent reporting
Rob Sand campaign — conservative radio host response to “Stand” implication — Candidate rebuttal
Iowa GOP — leaked “take their medicine” audio attack (June 2026) — Partisan claim / opposition-circulated audio
Radio Iowa — context for Sand judicial-nominating remarks — Independent reporting
Iowa GOP — social-media attack on Sand and Fauci/COVID policy — Partisan claim — social video/post
Iowa GOP — article expanding Fauci/COVID attack — Partisan claim
Iowa GOP — attack on “lifelong Republican” testimonial featuring Mace Hensen — Partisan claim
Rob Sand campaign — “Stealing is Bad” ad (April 15, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release and transcript
Rob Sand campaign — “Family Tradition” ad (May 1, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release and transcript
Rob Sand campaign — “Uncovered” ad (May 19, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release and transcript
Rob Sand campaign — “Crisis” ad (June 23, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release and transcript
Rob Sand campaign — “Neighbor” ad (July 14, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release and transcript
Rob Sand campaign — “Here” attack ad on Zach Lahn and cancer policy (July 2, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release and transcript
Republican Governors Association — California/election/tax attack on Rob Sand (June 7, 2026) — Partisan claim / opposition media
Iowa Public Radio — Sand election-system proposal and Republican response (April 2, 2026) — Independent reporting / policy context
KCCI / Iowa Capital Dispatch — Beshear event and RGA response (June 8, 2026) — Independent reporting / rebuttal context

Zach Lahn — Governor

Wall Street Journal — Iowa State Fair campaign report and Lahn polling statement (Aug. 17, 2026) — Independent reporting / candidate statement
Fox News Poll — Iowa statewide survey conducted June 23-27, 2026 — Independent polling / methodology
270toWin — 2026 Iowa governor public-poll table — Polling archive / aggregator
Zach Lahn for Governor — official campaign website — Campaign
Reuters — Lahn wins 2026 Republican gubernatorial nomination — Independent reporting
Iowa Legislature — governor eligibility and two-year residency requirement — Primary record — Iowa Constitution summary
Kansas Reflector — Iowa/Kansas residency and voter-registration chronology (May 29, 2026) — Independent reporting
KTIV / Gray Media — Lahn responds to “part-time Iowan” criticism (June 17, 2026) — Independent reporting / candidate response
Rob Sand for Iowa — “Full Time” paid ad attacking Lahn as a “part-time Iowan” (June 5, 2026) — Opponent campaign — paid TV / streaming / digital attack ad
Iowa Democratic Party — social video attacking Lahn as a Kansas “carpetbagger” — Partisan claim — social video/post
Iowa Democratic Party — residency attack citing Kansas home and Iowa registration timing — Partisan claim
Daily Beast — Aug. 6-7 public-record investigation: Wichita home, Iowa homestead treatment and travel — Independent reporting / public-record review
Iowa or Kansas? — independent aircraft-location log through June 15, 2026 — Independent data project — tracks aircraft, explicitly not the individual
Iowa Code §43.24 — objections to candidate eligibility — Primary record — candidate eligibility objection procedure
Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 State Objection Panel agenda showing residency objections are adjudicated — Primary record — election administration

Dave Muhlbauer — Lieutenant Governor

Official Sand–Muhlbauer campaign — Meet Rob and Dave — Campaign
Sand campaign — running mate announcement — Campaign statement
Iowa Public Radio — Sand/Muhlbauer first joint campaign stop — Independent reporting
Crawford County — Board of Supervisors — Primary record — county government
Crawford County — Board of Supervisors minutes, May 27, 2025 — Primary record — county minutes
Iowa GOP — water-quality/feedlot attack on Dave Muhlbauer (June 9, 2026) — Partisan claim
Iowa DNR — Muhlbauer facility compliance record — Primary record
Iowa DNR — animal feeding operation facility summary #63239 — Primary record

Derek Wulf — Lieutenant Governor

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Legislature — Rep. Derek Wulf — Primary record — state legislature
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Wulf selected as Lahn running mate — Independent reporting

Josh Turek — U.S. Senate

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Legislature — Josh Turek — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — Turek-sponsored Work Without Worry bill history (HF 424 / related bills) — Primary record — legislation
Radio Iowa — Turek and Harkin mark ADA anniversary; Work Without Worry policy (July 27, 2026) — Independent reporting
American Journal News — review of Hinson attack ad (Aug. 4, 2026) — Independent fact-check
Ashley Hinson campaign — attack statement (June 2, 2026) — Partisan/campaign claim
NRSC / Hinson — “Darling” attack ad (July 23, 2026) — Partisan/campaign claim — original video
Ashley Hinson campaign — post-primary digital attack ad (June 2, 2026) — Partisan/campaign claim — original video
Associated Press — 2026 Democratic primary debate — Independent reporting
U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel — 18 U.S.C. §611, voting by aliens — Primary record — federal law
Iowa Legislature — HF 1049 HHS/Veterans appropriations bill history — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — SF 496 enrolled text — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — SF 496 bill history — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — Floor Votes on Bills — Primary record — official vote archive
Iowa Legislature — House Journal Index — Primary record — official journals
NRSC — June 3 digital attack ad and transcript — Partisan/campaign claim
NRSC — original June 3 attack-media post — Partisan/campaign claim — original social post
NRSC — “Healthcare for Illegals, Not for Iowa” ad (July 15, 2026) — Partisan/campaign claim — original video
NRSC — July 15 health-care attack release and transcript — Partisan/campaign claim
Congressional Research Service — health provisions in P.L. 119-21 — Primary/nonpartisan analysis
NRSC — social video alleging Turek missed nearly 60% of House votes — Partisan claim — social video/post
Fox News — Turek missed 261 votes from Jan. 12 through May 3, 2026 — Independent/hostile-source reporting
Iowa GOP — social video attacking Turek on taxes — Partisan claim — social video/post
Iowa GOP — “Turek’s Too Liberal” tour kickoff and bundled attack claims (Aug. 10, 2026) — Partisan claim — party tour / web release
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: Aug. 10 — repeat criminal offenders — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: Aug. 7 — tax-vote threshold — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: Aug. 6 — property-tax relief — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: Aug. 5 — student First Amendment legislation — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: Aug. 4 — foreign-adversary restrictions at colleges — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: Aug. 3 — DEI at colleges/universities — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: July 31 — nursing shortage/hospital staffing — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: July 30 — rural health-care access — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: July 29 — SNAP/Medicaid waste and fraud — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series
Hinson campaign — Missed Vote of the Day: July 28 — commercial-driver English proficiency — Partisan/campaign claim — attendance series

Ashley Hinson — U.S. Senate

Daily Beast — Hinson pork-industry contribution analysis (July 15, 2026) — Independent reporting — campaign finance
Congress.gov — H.R. 4673, Save Our Bacon Act — Primary record — federal legislation
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Hinson/Turek Prop 12 and Save Our Bacon positions (July 10, 2026) — Independent Iowa reporting — policy context
Daily Beast — Hinson-linked contributions from donors named in Epstein-related records (July 31, 2026) — Independent reporting — campaign finance
Iowa Starting Line — FEC cross-check of reported Hinson-linked contributions — Independent reporting — campaign finance
FEC — Ashley for Iowa committee — Primary record — campaign finance
FEC — Fight On PAC, Hinson-sponsored leadership PAC — Primary record — campaign finance
FEC — Ashley Hinson Victory Committee — Primary record — campaign finance
U.S. House Clerk — H.R. 4405 Epstein Files Transparency Act, Roll Call 289 (Hinson: Aye) — Primary record — congressional vote
Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 general-election candidate list — Primary record — election
U.S. House — Representative Ashley Hinson official site — Primary record — federal office
U.S. House Clerk — Member profile / roll-call resources — Primary record — congressional
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress — Ashley Hinson — Primary record — congressional biography
Josh Turek campaign — “Seventy Three” ad — Partisan/campaign claim — opponent ad
Local 5 — 2026 interview with Ashley Hinson — Independent reporting / video interview
Associated Press — Hinson and Turek win Iowa Senate nominations — Independent reporting
Ashley Hinson campaign — “Believe” ad (May 11, 2026) — Candidate/campaign media — original release
Congress.gov — H.R. 7008 Stop Insider Trading Act cosponsors — Primary record — federal legislation
Iowa Democratic Party — rebuttal to “Believe” ad — Partisan rebuttal
DSCC — “Looking Out for Herself” digital/CTV ad (June 2, 2026) — Partisan attack media — original release/script
DTN — Prop 12 ad campaign targets Hinson and other lawmakers (June 19, 2026) — Independent agriculture reporting
Hinson campaign — Save Our Bacon Act rebuttal to attack campaign — Candidate/campaign rebuttal
Humane World Action Fund — Save Our Bacon / Prop 12 opposition explainer — Issue-advocacy opposition source
U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson — official Save Our Bacon Act release — Primary/official congressional source

Thomas Laehn — U.S. Senate

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Libertarian Party of Iowa — party site — Candidate/party
Ballotpedia — Thomas Laehn 2026 candidate profile — Independent election reference

Christina Bohannan — U.S. House — District 1

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Legislature — Christina Bohannan — Primary record
Fox News — report containing the “backwater/backwards” quotations — Independent/hostile-source reporting
Iowa Legislature — HF 2416 enrolled text (2022 athletics law) — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — Floor Votes on Bills — Primary record — official vote archive
Iowa Legislature — House Journal Index — Primary record — official journals
Iowa GOP — “Backwater” attack statement and embedded clip (July 30, 2026) — Partisan claim
Iowa GOP — original embedded “backwater” archival clip — Partisan/opposition use of archival video
NRCC — sex-offender-registry ambush video attack (June 1, 2026) — Partisan claim — opposition ambush video
NRCC — “Predators Ahead of Public Safety” attack — Partisan claim
Iowa Legislature — HF 489 sex-offender-registry modification bill history — Primary record
NRCC — “Bohannan’s Plan to Defund the Police” attack — Partisan claim

Mariannette Miller-Meeks — U.S. House · District 1

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
U.S. House — Mariannette Miller-Meeks official site — Primary record — federal office
Biographical Directory of Congress — Miller-Meeks — Primary record — biography
House Clerk — Miller-Meeks member record — Primary record — congressional
FEC — Mariannette Miller-Meeks candidate record — Primary record — campaign finance
Christina Bohannan campaign — opposition/media kit — Partisan/campaign claim
DCCC — “The Case Against Mariannette Miller-Meeks” — Partisan claim
Reuters — 2026 Miller-Meeks/Bohannan rematch — Independent reporting

Michael Bridgford — U.S. House · District 1

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Public Radio — Michael Bridgford enters IA-01 race — Independent reporting
FEC — Michael Bridgford candidate record — Primary record — campaign finance

Lindsay James — U.S. House — District 2

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Legislature — Lindsay James — Primary record
Iowa GOP — “Apologized For Being White” attack and quoted passage — Partisan claim
Iowa Legislature — Floor Votes on Bills — Primary record — official vote archive
Iowa Legislature — House Journal Index — Primary record — official journals
NRCC — “Lindsay James Doesn’t Think Parents Matter” — Partisan claim / debate clip
Iowa GOP — interview/attendance attack on Lindsay James (Aug. 6, 2026) — Partisan claim / interview clip
Fox News — 2026 missed-vote count for Lindsay James — Independent/hostile-source reporting
NRCC — “Lindsay James Sides With Illegal Immigrants, Not Iowans” — Partisan claim

Joe Mitchell — U.S. House · District 2

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Legislature — former Rep. Joe Mitchell — Primary record — state legislature
KCRG — Mitchell wins 2026 IA-02 GOP nomination — Independent reporting
FEC — Joe Mitchell campaign finance — Primary record — campaign finance
Joe Mitchell for Congress — official campaign — Candidate/campaign
NOTUS — analysis of Mitchell campaign spending at Mar-a-Lago — Independent reporting / FEC-record analysis
DCCC Red to Blue / IA-02 opposition characterization — Partisan claim

Rick Stewart — U.S. House · District 2

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Public Radio — State Objection Panel keeps Rick Stewart on ballot — Independent reporting
Libertarian Party of Iowa — ballot challenge statement — Candidate/party

Dave Bushaw — U.S. House · District 2

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Radio Iowa — Dave Bushaw launches independent IA-02 campaign — Independent reporting
FEC — Dave Bushaw candidate finance search — Primary record — campaign finance

Sarah Trone-Garriott — U.S. House — District 3

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa GOP — 2026 attack alleging kindergarten sex education and related positions — Partisan claim
Iowa GOP — social post alleging boys in girls’ sports/locker rooms and sex education for kindergarteners — Partisan claim
Iowa Legislature — Sarah Trone-Garriott — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — SF 66 bill text — Primary record
Iowa Senate Journal — March 7, 2023 (SF 482 roll call) — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — SF 66 legislative listing/description — Primary record
Iowa Acts 2023 — Chapter 8 / SF 482 description — Primary record
Iowa Code — §280.33 restroom/changing-area law — Primary record
Iowa Legislature — Floor Votes on Bills — Primary record — official vote archive
Iowa Legislature — Senate Journal Index — Primary record — official journals
NRCC — sex-education ambush video attack (May 28, 2026) — Partisan claim / opposition ambush video
Archival interview used in “too white, too Christian, too male” attack — Archival video / opposition-circulated
Daily Caller — report and full quotation on Iowa leadership diversity — Hostile-source reporting
Archival “who’s paying me” speech clip — Archival video / opposition-circulated
Daily Caller — report containing full “who’s paying me” passage — Hostile-source reporting
NRCC — attack built around “who’s paying me” quotation — Partisan claim
NRCC — “Satanist wedding” attack — Partisan claim / resurfaced story
Fox News — Trone-Garriott recounts 1 Corinthians 13 and a basic Lutheran wedding — Independent/hostile-source reporting
Fox News video — 2021 Muslim prayer resurfaced in 2026 race — Resurfaced news/video clip
Sarah Trone Garriott for Congress — “Quick” general-election TV ad (Aug. 6, 2026) — Candidate campaign media — original video
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Trone Garriott releases first general-election TV ad “Quick” (Aug. 6, 2026) — Independent reporting
Iowa GOP — response attacking Trone Garriott’s “too extreme” message (Aug. 7, 2026) — Partisan rebuttal / social post
NRCC — government-run health-care attack (July 14, 2026) — Partisan claim / opposition media
NRCC — “Defund First, Safety Second” attack (April 27, 2026) — Partisan claim / opposition media
NRCC — “Rigged Primary” attack (March 24, 2026) — Partisan claim / opposition media
NRCC — 9/11 reflection attack, “Misses the Mark (Again)” (April 9, 2026) — Partisan claim / resurfaced writing
NRCC — IA-03 general-election framing after primary (June 3, 2026) — Partisan claim

Zach Nunn — U.S. House — District 3

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
U.S. House — Zach Nunn official site — Primary record — federal office
House Clerk — Zach Nunn member record — Primary record — congressional
FEC — Zach Nunn candidate record — Primary record — campaign finance
DCCC — “The Case Against Zach Nunn” — Partisan claim
Sarah Trone Garriott campaign — criticism of Nunn faith attacks — Partisan/campaign claim
Local 5 — Vance/Nunn 2026 campaign event video — Independent reporting / video
Zach Nunn campaign — 2026 reelection launch video — Candidate/campaign media

Dave Dawson — U.S. House — District 4

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Legislature — Dave Dawson — Primary record
Iowa Public Radio — Dawson public-service profile (Aug. 28, 2025) — Independent reporting
Iowa Legislature — House Journal Index — Primary record — official journals
Iowa Legislature — Floor Votes on Bills — Primary record — official vote archive

Chris McGowan — U.S. House · District 4

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Chris McGowan for Iowa — official campaign — Candidate/campaign
Iowa Public Radio — McGowan launches IA-04 campaign — Independent reporting
Ballotpedia — Chris McGowan — Independent election reference

Nate Willems — Attorney General

Bird for Iowa — “Radical” television ad — Claim source — opponent campaign video
The Iowa Standard — Bird for Iowa “Radical” ad transcript and campaign source notes (Aug. 19, 2026) — Claim source — republished campaign press release
Iowa House Journal — SF 340 / H-1712 roll call and final passage (Apr. 24, 2009) — Primary record — official House Journal
Iowa Legislative Services Agency — 2009 Summary of Legislation, SF 340 — Primary record — nonpartisan legislative summary
Iowa Administrative Bulletin — DOC electronic-monitoring rules implementing SF 340 (Dec. 2, 2009) — Primary record — Department of Corrections rulemaking
Iowa House Journal — HF 194 roll call (Feb. 16, 2011) — Primary record — official House Journal
Iowa Legislature — House File 194 bill history — Primary record — bill history
Rush & Nicholson — Nate Willems attorney biography — Professional biography — legal practice
The Gazette — Willems attorney-general campaign and legal-career profile (May 7, 2025) — Independent reporting
Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa GOP — Antifa/D-Day attack and screenshots — Partisan claim
Radio Iowa — Willems enters attorney-general race (May 7, 2025) — Independent reporting
Radio Iowa — incumbent Brenna Bird describes Willems and policy disagreements (July 27, 2026) — Independent reporting of opponent criticism
Iowa Legislature — House Journal, 83rd General Assembly — Primary record — official journal
Iowa Legislature — House Journal Index — Primary record — official journals

Brenna Bird — Attorney General

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Attorney General — Brenna Bird biography — Primary record — state office
CBS2 Iowa — 2026 interview with Brenna Bird — Independent reporting / video interview
Nate Willems campaign — criticism of Bird ICE-related litigation — Partisan/campaign claim
Democratic Attorneys General Association — attack on Brenna Bird — Partisan claim
Democratic Attorneys General Association — “Brenna Bird is wrong for Iowa” video — Partisan claim — social video

Ryan Peterman — Secretary of State

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Capital Dispatch — voter-data records requests (July 22, 2026) — Independent reporting
Democratic Association of Secretaries of State — Iowa 2026 candidate biography — Aligned organization / biography

Paul Pate — Secretary of State

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Secretary of State — Paul Pate biography — Primary record — state office
Iowa Public Radio — Iowa shares voter data with DOJ — Independent reporting
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Peterman records requests over DOJ voter data — Independent reporting / opponent criticism
AP — Iowa citizenship/voter-list litigation context — Independent reporting

Taylor Wettach — Auditor of State

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa GOP — “East Coast liberal lawyer” statement — Partisan claim
Iowa GOP — statement alleging coordinated congressional withdrawals — Partisan claim
Iowa Public Radio — state auditor campaign profile (Jan. 26, 2026) — Independent reporting
Iowa Public Radio — Muscatine background and legal career (July 8, 2025) — Independent reporting
Radio Iowa — Wettach ends congressional campaign and enters auditor race (Jan. 26, 2026) — Independent reporting

Chris Cournoyer — Auditor of State

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Legislature — Chris Cournoyer legislative record — Primary record — legislature
Iowa Governor — Cournoyer appointment as lieutenant governor — Primary record — state government
Iowa Capital Dispatch — Cournoyer wins auditor GOP primary — Independent reporting
Chris Cournoyer for Iowa — Candidate/campaign

John Norwood — Treasurer of State

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Public Radio — campaign profile (Feb. 3, 2026) — Independent reporting

Roby Smith — Treasurer of State

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Treasurer of State — official office — Primary record — state office
Iowa Legislature — former Sen. Roby Smith — Primary record — legislature
Iowa Public Radio — Norwood enters treasurer race — Independent reporting

Chris Jones — Secretary of Agriculture

Official campaign website — Campaign
Iowa Public Radio — campaign profile (Jan. 15, 2026) — Independent reporting
Iowa GOP — 2026 Secretary of Agriculture primary statement — Partisan claim
Chris Jones campaign — agriculture/water platform — Campaign position statement
Iowa Public Radio — Jones water-quality career/book profile (May 17, 2023) — Independent reporting

Mike Naig — Secretary of Agriculture

Iowa Secretary of State — 2026 candidate list — Primary record — election
Iowa Department of Agriculture — Mike Naig biography — Primary record — state office
Iowa Capital Dispatch — 2026 Naig/Jones candidate comparison — Independent reporting
Iowa Public Radio — Jones challenge / Naig reelection context — Independent reporting
Mike Naig for Iowa — Candidate/campaign

Associated Press — IA-01 Bohannan–Miller-Meeks battleground profile (Aug. 24, 2026) — Independent reporting — race context

AFP Action — Sept. 10, 2026 $750,000 Hinson ad buy: outside-group announcement · Iowa Capital Dispatch — Turek public-option healthcare position. Use note: the release’s questions about Medicare for All and fossil fuels are not evidence by themselves of Turek’s positions.

Sand education policy — universal meals / voucher oversight

September 22, 2026 — Sioux Center Democratic candidate priorities

September 23, 2026 — Hinson LARC Access Expansion Act

September 23, 2026 — Nexstar U.S. Senate debate schedule

September 23, 2026 — Secretary of State election-administration positions

September 23, 2026 — Derek Wulf investigation explainer

September 22, 2026 — Sand corrections bargaining proposal

September 22, 2026 — Iowa House members’ diesel-export positions

September 22, 2026 — Marist Iowa U.S. Senate and governor poll

September 21, 2026 — Sand under-16 social-media proposal clarification

September 21, 2026 — Lahn first-home income-tax account proposal

September 21, 2026 — Hinson Iran-war end-position follow-up

September 21, 2026 — Iowa U.S. Senate fuel-relief proposals

September 21, 2026 — MAHA Action PAC $1 million Lahn contribution announcement

September 21, 2026 — Lahn Big Ag antitrust authority context

September 18, 2026 — Trafalgar Iowa U.S. Senate poll

September 20, 2026 — governor-race farmland ownership policy context

September 20, 2026 — Sand/Lahn altered face-shield image fact check

September 19, 2026 — Hinson/Turek tips and overtime tax-policy follow-up

Iowa delegation — H. Con. Res. 93 / House Roll Call 307

Iowa delegation — H.R. 5334 / House Roll Call 308

Hinson “Aisle” ad — bipartisan veterans work and health-insurer claim

September 15, 2026 — Rob Sand public-safety / SF 2472 position

September 15, 2026 — Hegseth / Nunn fundraiser Hatch Act complaint

September 14, 2026 — Iowa governor fuel-cost proposals

September 13, 2026 — Zach Nunn / privately sponsored House gift-travel disclosure

September 9, 2026 — IA-02 mobile-home ad / HF 2562 record check

September 9, 2026 — Rob Sand Decorah / problem-solving ad

September 2, 2026 — Iowa PBS U.S. Senate debate schedule

September 10, 2026 — Hinson / proposed $5,000 adult dividend

September 10, 2026 — Social Security taxable-earnings cap policy position

September 10, 2026 — Turek 842 healthcare-entity closure claim

September 9, 2026 — Chris Jones water-quality follow-up

September 9, 2026 — Hinson / Turek Social Security administration-funding claim

September 9, 2026 — Lahn Medicaid MCO claim audit

September 9, 2026 — POET / Willems Shell Rock ad legal-threat follow-up

September 9, 2026 — Chris Jones food-system statistics audit

September 9, 2026 — O’Malley Social Security staffing claim

September 8, 2026 — Muhlbauer $1.4B Iowa budget-gap claim

September 8, 2026 — Sand family campaign contributions

Independent-appointee answer

Federal marijuana legalization position

September 8, 2026 — Iowa-grown school-food proposals

September 8, 2026 — Trone Garriott “Hard” ad

Turek / Hinson — Medicaid cut claims

Ashley Hinson / Josh Turek — Iran/Lebanon War Powers vote-count audit

Zach Lahn — “largest middle-class tax cut” claim

Sarah Trone Garriott / Zach Nunn — Iowa manufacturing and GDP claim

Christina Bohannan — pediatric Medicaid claims

September 6, 2026 — Ashley Hinson / 2021 budget vote and inflation claim

September 6, 2026 — Derek Wulf / HF 2527 greenhouse-gas climate-liability law

Ashley Hinson / Josh Turek — VoteVets and Schumer attribution claim

Sarah Trone Garriott / Zach Nunn — campaign-funding claim

Thomas Laehn — 45Q/45Z and Summit Carbon claim

September 6, 2026 — Derek Wulf / SF 2412 glyphosate-liability support dispute

September 6, 2026 — Ashley Hinson Epstein-related committee vote absences

September 6, 2026 — Ryan Peterman fundraising-record claim

September 6, 2026 — John Norwood / IPERS protection context

September 6, 2026 — Rob Sand / petition-signature record review

September 6, 2026 — Roby Smith / Great Iowa Treasure Hunt record review

September 6, 2026 — IA-03 Medicaid / clinic-closure claim audit

September 6, 2026 — Iowa SAVE access and federal appellate ruling

September 6, 2026 — Josh Turek Social Security tax claim

September 6, 2026 — Chris Cournoyer government-efficiency savings claim

September 5, 2026 — Dave Muhlbauer / DMACC Dallas County Farm tour

September 3, 2026 — Chris Jones clean-water paddle / nitrate context

September 1, 2026 — Rob Sand preschool expansion proposal

September 1, 2026 — Miller-Meeks cancer-policy record

August 31, 2026 — Hinson/Turek weekend event context

August 31, 2026 — governor data-center tax context

August 31, 2026 — Rob Sand affordability plan

August 31, 2026 — governor drug-cost context

August 31, 2026 — Turek “Prove It” bipartisan-vote claim

August 30, 2026 — Polk County Steak Fry turnout/organizing context

August 29, 2026 — Rob Sand statewide campaign profile

August 29, 2026 — Rob Sand Guthrie Center campaign stop

August 29, 2026 — Hinson/Turek immigration claim context

August 29, 2026 — Polk County Steak Fry candidate statements

August 29, 2026 — Ashley Hinson Clive campaign event

August 29, 2026 — Hinson Clive campaign event