Research library

Source index

This index contains 57 individually labeled source entries used in the candidate profiles and claim reviews. Source type is part of the evidence: partisan material can establish what an opponent alleged, primary records establish what officially happened, independent reporting adds context, and candidate material establishes the candidate’s own stated account.

Audit rule: no source is treated as more neutral than it is. Each claim’s expanded evidence panel explains why a source is present and what it is—and is not—being used to prove.

Governor · State office

Rob Sand

9 labeled sources

Rob Sand · Campaign

Source index

Rob Sand

Official Sand–Muhlbauer campaign website

Iowa Auditor of State — About

Iowa Public Radio — Judicial Branch $53M distribution error (Oct. 16, 2024)

Iowa Public Radio — Judicial Branch fixing $26M sent to wrong funds (Oct. 21, 2024)

KCCI — clips used in anti-Sand political ad (May 13, 2026)

Iowa Judicial Branch — court-debt programming-error statement (Oct. 18, 2024)

Iowa Judicial Branch — court-debt review presentation

Iowa Judicial Branch — response on court-debt misdistribution

Iowa House Government Oversight Committee — majority report criticizing Judicial Branch and Auditor

Josh Turek

Official campaign website

Iowa Legislature — Josh Turek

American Journal News — review of Hinson attack ad (Aug. 4, 2026)

Ashley Hinson campaign — attack statement (June 2, 2026)

Associated Press — 2026 Democratic primary debate

U.S. House Office of the Law Revision Counsel — 18 U.S.C. §611, voting by aliens

Iowa Legislature — HF 1049 HHS appropriations bill history and subject matter

Iowa Legislature — SF 496 enrolled text

Iowa Legislature — SF 496 bill history

Dave Muhlbauer

Official Sand–Muhlbauer campaign — Meet Rob and Dave

Sand campaign — running mate announcement

Iowa Public Radio — Sand/Muhlbauer first joint campaign stop

Christina Bohannan

Official campaign website

Iowa Legislature — Christina Bohannan

Fox News — report containing the “backwater/backwards” quotations

Iowa Legislature — HF 2416 enrolled text (2022 athletics law)

Lindsay James

Official campaign website

Iowa Legislature — Lindsay James

Iowa GOP — “Apologized For Being White” attack and quoted passage

Sarah Trone-Garriott

Official campaign website

Iowa Legislature — Sarah Trone-Garriott

Iowa Legislature — SF 66 bill text

Iowa Senate Journal — March 2, 2023 (SF 482 roll call)

Iowa Legislature — SF 66 legislative listing/description

Iowa Acts 2023 — Chapter 8 / SF 482 description

Iowa Code — §280.33 restroom/changing-area law

Dave Dawson

Official campaign website

Iowa Legislature — Dave Dawson

Iowa Public Radio — Dawson public-service profile (Aug. 28, 2025)

Nate Willems

Official campaign website

Iowa GOP — Antifa/D-Day attack and screenshots

Radio Iowa — Willems enters attorney-general race (May 7, 2025)

Radio Iowa — incumbent Brenna Bird describes Willems and policy disagreements (July 27, 2026)

Ryan Peterman

Official campaign website

Iowa Capital Dispatch — voter-data records requests (July 22, 2026)

Democratic Association of Secretaries of State — Iowa 2026 candidate biography

Taylor Wettach

Official campaign website

Iowa GOP — “East Coast liberal lawyer” statement

Iowa GOP — statement alleging coordinated congressional withdrawals

Iowa Public Radio — state auditor campaign profile (Jan. 26, 2026)

Iowa Public Radio — Muscatine background and legal career (July 8, 2025)

John Norwood

Official campaign website

Iowa Public Radio — campaign profile (Feb. 3, 2026)

Chris Jones

Official campaign website

Iowa Public Radio — campaign profile (Jan. 15, 2026)

Iowa GOP — 2026 Secretary of Agriculture primary statement

Chris Jones campaign — agriculture/water platform

Iowa Public Radio — Jones water-quality career/book profile (May 17, 2023)