Governor · Aug. 24, 2026

Sand education policy — universal meals / voucher oversight

RadioOnTheGo — Franklin County town hall report and direct audio · Sand campaign — prior voucher-accountability plan context

October 13–14 debates · evidence index

172 deduplicated entries; 226 source records across the three ledgers, including 223 unique URLs. Some sources are also used elsewhere on the site. October 15 second follow-up adds 10 ratings and explicit remaining record requests.

Campaign-ad backlog · second review · October 7, 2026

October 7 original-ad backlog catch-up

Nine original ad reviews receive 13 new factual scores, primary records and explicit denominator checks. Four new campaign TV reviews add nine scores. The expressly endorsed Dale TV ad additionally qualifies with two existing scores and one new tariff score. Independent outside-group reviews remain excluded. Earlier reviews and debate coverage remain preserved.

Read all new reviews and the chart reconciliation

41 distinct source URLs in this catch-up subset.

Campaign-ad backlog catch-up · October 7, 2026

October 7 original-ad backlog catch-up

Nine original campaign creatives reviewed; 19 new factual claim scores with approximate video locators, rebuttals and primary records. TV eligibility remains distinct from a claim rating. Existing debate coverage and prior ratings are preserved.

Read all new reviews and the chart reconciliation

38 distinct source URLs in this catch-up subset.

Governor debate · October 6 event · Reviewed October 7, 2026

October 6 governor debate: claims, records and rebuttals

94 review entries (89 factual; 5 policy / interpretation) cite 98 distinct source URLs. 2 candidate / campaign; 5 claim source / record index; 17 independent reporting; 74 primary record. Repeated URLs count once. These are the debate subset, not a replacement count for the entire existing site library.

Debate hub, complete video and claim search · Structured claim/source index

America PAC Turek gender-policy creative — September 8 review

September 18, 2026 — Lindsay James response creative

Use note: These sources establish the exact released creative and its biographical claims. They do not independently establish television placement or station-level airing, so the creative remains outside the candidate-TV chart pending provenance.

October 3 — Sand endorsement preliminary review sources

Video-by-video findings and source notes. Auto-generated captions are unverified; source corroboration does not verify spoken wording.

U.S. Senate ad rating · September 25 / reviewed October 2, 2026

WinSenate “Made Sure” — exact creative, vote record and donor context

WinSenate / Senate Majority PAC — exact “Made Sure” transcript and $3 million statewide-TV announcement · PolitiFact — Oct. 2 independent review · U.S. House Clerk — Roll Call 289, Epstein Files Transparency Act · House Appropriations — Sept. 3 vote tables · House Appropriations — Sept. 10 vote tables · Iowa Starting Line — donor/FEC review.

Use note: Separate procedural votes from the later direct stand-alone bill vote; separate documented absences from motive; and separate donor/name overlap from evidence of wrongdoing or quid pro quo. WinSenate is an outside group, so this creative must not enter Hinson’s own-campaign TV honesty-chart denominator.

Campaign-ad coverage repair · September 11–October 2, 2026

Ad discovery and claim-audit sources

Campaign/sponsor releases: Ashley Hinson “False,” Josh Turek “C’mon,” DCCC “Dale,” Rob Sand Cy-Hawk radio, Nate Willems “I Will,” Progress Iowa polluter video; credible reporting on Miller-Meeks “Life On the Line,” Mitchell “Liberal Lindsay,” and Nunn’s stock-trading ad; Iowa Legislature and U.S. House primary records; House financial disclosures; Iowa Attorney General settlement records; and station/FCC-political-file mirrors used to establish purchases or campaign activity where creative-level matching was available.

Hinson “False” · Turek “C’mon” · DCCC “Dale” · “Life On the Line” reporting · “Liberal Lindsay” · Nunn stock-ban ad · Willems ad archive · Progress Iowa ad · WHO-DT political files mirror · KGAN political files mirror.

October 2, 2026 — Mesabi steel / MEGA special-session incentive terms

Use note: distinguish legislation under consideration from enacted law and from credits actually earned or paid. Reported project jobs, output and final site development remain prospective. Reynolds says incentive eligibility is conditional on investment and job commitments; do not present the maximum authorization as a guaranteed payout.

October 1, 2026 — Fox News Iowa U.S. Senate and governor poll

Use note: Fox reports 1,204 registered-voter interviews Sept. 24–28 and a 1,008-person likely-voter subsample, using live phone and online responses after text invitations. Reported sampling error is ±2.5 points for registered voters and ±3.0 points for likely voters. Results are survey estimates, not election outcomes or forecasts.

Ad evidence reconciliation — October 2, 2026

October 1, 2026 — Hinson Epstein-file campaign-ad review

Use note: distinguish earlier procedural opposition and committee-vote absences from Hinson’s later Aye on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. A donor name appearing in released Epstein-related records is not evidence of criminal conduct or of a quid pro quo.

September 30, 2026 — Turek missed-floor-vote PolitiFact follow-up

Use note: PolitiFact counted 261 missed votes among 445 Iowa House floor votes from Jan. 12 through Apr. 2, 2026 and rated Hinson’s narrow 58% statement True. Keep the denominator limited to House floor votes; committee and subcommittee votes are outside that count. Expert views about the political significance of campaign-season absences are attributed context rather than an extension of the numerical finding.

September 30, 2026 — Quantus Iowa U.S. Senate poll

Use note: Quantus reports 738 completed SMS-invited interviews Sept. 28–29; the ballot analysis excludes 24 self-described nonvoters, leaving 714 voters. Results were weighted to Iowa likely-electorate benchmarks. The pollster reports a ±3.8-point full-study margin of error at 95% confidence. The initial ballot test reports Hinson 47.1%, Turek 45.8%, Laehn 1.7% and 5.4% undecided; the major-candidate difference is within the reported sampling uncertainty.

September 30, 2026 — Trone Garriott “Kids First” locker-room position

Use note: record the current locker-room statement separately from the candidate’s earlier Iowa sports and restroom/changing-area votes. AdImpact labels its transcript AI-generated, so corroborate the key phrase with independent reporting.

September 30, 2026 — Sand transgender-sports / civil-rights positions

Use note: treat Sand’s support for the sports restriction and opposition to removal of gender-identity civil-rights protections as separate positions. Do not infer support for unrelated transgender-policy proposals.

September 28–29, 2026 — Miller-Meeks / Mesabi Iowa steel project

Use note: these sources establish the announcement, the state/company MOU and the October 2 special-session call. The MEGA incentive changes were not yet enacted or publicly detailed on September 29; jobs, wages, output, economic impact and “largest” descriptions remain prospective claims unless confirmed by later implementation evidence.

September 27, 2026 — Trone Garriott tariff-cost claim

Use note: distinguish Figure 3’s $553 Iowa household estimate (rounded to $600 in the executive summary) from Figure 6’s $2.1 billion modeled statewide GDP effect; the authors say Iowa’s cost mostly manifested as lost farmer income, but the table does not label $2.1 billion as a direct farm-income total.

September 27, 2026 — Nunn / Trone Garriott wedding-quote claim review

Use note: distinguish Nunn’s narrow quotation/paraphrase from the broader theological judgment. Preserve that Trone Garriott’s account says she chose 1 Corinthians 13 and described a basic Lutheran wedding; do not collapse seminary-intern participation into an unqualified “officiated a satanic ritual” formulation.

September 23, 2026 — Nunn / H.R. 10509 BEEF Act

Use note: official text controls bill status and operative language. Describe H.R. 10509 as introduced and referred to committees, not enacted; distinguish stated goals from demonstrated economic effects.

September 25, 2026 — Hinson spouse-insurance ethics complaint follow-up

Use note: filing a complaint is not a finding. OCC states that submission of information does not automatically result in an investigation; the OCC Board decides whether to begin a preliminary review. Preserve Hinson’s denial and do not infer a referral, violation, sanction or quid pro quo absent official evidence.

September 25, 2026 — Hinson cancer / clinical-trial / rural-care follow-up

Use note: distinguish support/sponsorship from enactment. The roughly $24.3 million figure is the sponsor’s application of the proposed 10% formula to fiscal-year 2025 tobacco-import duty collections, not an enacted appropriation. Record the Rural Health Transformation Program statement as Hinson’s policy position, not proof of a net rural-hospital outcome.

September 25, 2026 — Sand term-limit and Medicaid implementation follow-up

Use note: preserve that the core term-limit numbers and nonprofit/state-managed Medicaid concepts predate September 25. The new material is candidate-specific application and transition detail. Do not infer enacted law, a selected nonprofit, an implementation deadline or uninterrupted coverage as an accomplished outcome.

September 25, 2026 — Hinson House-return / War Powers follow-up

Use note: distinguish a request to reconvene the House and a stated view that another resolution is unnecessary from an actual future roll-call vote. Preserve the existing September 15 Nay and September 21 end-the-war statement separately.

September 25, 2026 — Lahn Galleri access proposal

Use note: Lahn’s proposal is recorded as a campaign policy concept without inferred eligibility or cost. The advisory-panel vote is distinguished from final FDA approval.

September 25, 2026 — Lahn school-vaccine-requirement position

Use note: the candidate statement is recorded as a policy position. Current Iowa requirements and exemptions are sourced to Iowa HHS; no proposed statutory text is inferred where none was provided.

September 24–25, 2026 — Iowa Medicaid Fraud Control Unit results and AG race positions

Use note: the conviction/recovery figures belong to the existing Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Candidate statements are preserved as positions and are not treated as proof of future outcomes.

September 23, 2026 — Hinson / Crescent Medicaid roundtable

Use note: KCRG independently reports the provider estimate and campaign response. IA Fact Check treats the projected dollar impact as an attributed estimate, not a final government finding.

September 23–24, 2026 — Miller-Meeks / Selzer poll lawsuit dismissal

Use note: the court ruling establishes the procedural disposition and legal reasoning. It expressly assumed pleaded falsity/intent allegations only for purposes of deciding the motions; that assumption is not a factual finding that the poll was fabricated.

September 23, 2026 — Miller-Meeks / Ernst critical-infrastructure manufacturing bill

Use note: these primary sources establish the sponsors' reported legislative status and bill mechanics. They do not establish enactment or realized manufacturing, employment, security or supply-chain outcomes.

September 22, 2026 — Sioux Center Democratic candidate priorities

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

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

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

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

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 — Sand under-16 social-media proposal clarification

Use note: the published proposal calls for a ban on social-media use under 16 and parental consent at ages 16–17. KCCI reports Sand said the current under-16 proposal would apply even with parental permission, while leaving a parental exception open for discussion. Treat it as a proposal requiring legislative approval, not enacted law.

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

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

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 — Social Security taxable-earnings cap policy position

Use note: this entry records candidate positions and current-law mechanics without projecting the outcome of any future legislation.

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 — Hinson / Turek Social Security administration-funding claim

Use note: distinguish an SSA administrative appropriation from statutory Social Security benefit formulas; the final FY2025 enacted SSA administrative amount differed from the House committee proposal.

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

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

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 — Josh Turek Social Security tax claim

Use note: the audit distinguishes Turek’s stated intent from the possible tax consequence of repealing a broader law without replacing its temporary senior deduction.

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

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

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

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

August 29, 2026 — Ashley Hinson Clive campaign event

August 29, 2026 — Hinson Clive campaign event

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zach Nunn beef-import policy context

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

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

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

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

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

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

August 24, 2026 — Iowa governor polling-average context

U.S. Senate · refreshed August 24, 2026

FiftyPlusOne polling-average context

U.S. Senate · August 23, 2026

Wall Street Journal Hinson–Turek national battleground profile

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

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

Auditor of State · August 22, 2026

Taylor Wettach / SF 478 auditor-access policy context

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

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

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

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

August 21, 2026 · IA-03 campaign ad

Nunn girls’ sports / locker-room ad

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

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

Silver Bulletin FLIPR Iowa House ratings

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

Governor · campaign ad / tax claim

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

Governor · candidate-position context

August 20, 2026 — Zach Lahn term-limit exception

U.S. House — District 2 · race rating

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

U.S. Senate · race rating

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

General-election debate status

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

Official ballot-status source refresh

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

August 19, 2026 — Adams County General Election guidance

Candidate policy / legal context

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

August 19, 2026 — Ringgold County General Election guidance

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

August 19, 2026 — Clay County General Election guidance

August 19, 2026 — Wayne County General Election guidance

August 19, 2026 — Tama County General Election guidance

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

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

August 19, 2026 — Scott County General Election guidance

August 18, 2026 — Davis County General Election guidance

August 18, 2026 — Marion County General Election guidance

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

August 18, 2026 — Franklin County General Election guidance

August 18, 2026 — Benton County General Election guidance

August 18, 2026 — ACS CAN federal Cancer Promise signers

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

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

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

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 10/07/2026 2:28 AM CDT
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Source index

325 labeled candidate source entries generated from the candidate research data.

August 18 update — Chickasaw County General Election guidance

August 18 update — Kirkwood Community College Public Measure NC

August 18 update — Derek Wulf House District 76 ballot replacement

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

August 17 update — Pete Hegseth campaigns for Zach Nunn

August 17 update — JStreetPAC “Blue Iowa” fundraiser

August 17 update — Zach Lahn mRNA vaccine position

August 17 update — Zach Lahn land-ownership claim

August 17 update — governor cancer questionnaire

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

August 17 update — Zach Lahn State Fair polling claim

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

August 16 update — cancer / water-quality campaign issue

Iowa Voter Help — official county election sources

August 16 update — Rob Sand Iowa State Fair incident

Rob Sand — Governor

Zach Lahn — Governor

Dave Muhlbauer — Lieutenant Governor

Derek Wulf — Lieutenant Governor

Josh Turek — U.S. Senate

Ashley Hinson — U.S. Senate

Thomas Laehn — U.S. Senate

Christina Bohannan — U.S. House — District 1

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

Michael Bridgford — U.S. House · District 1

Lindsay James — U.S. House — District 2

Joe Mitchell — U.S. House · District 2

Rick Stewart — U.S. House · District 2

Dave Bushaw — U.S. House · District 2

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

Zach Nunn — U.S. House — District 3

Dave Dawson — U.S. House — District 4

Chris McGowan — U.S. House · District 4

Nate Willems — Attorney General

Brenna Bird — Attorney General

Ryan Peterman — Secretary of State

Paul Pate — Secretary of State

Taylor Wettach — Auditor of State

Chris Cournoyer — Auditor of State

John Norwood — Treasurer of State

Roby Smith — Treasurer of State

Chris Jones — Secretary of Agriculture

Mike Naig — Secretary of Agriculture

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.

Zach Lahn “13 Million” ad — October 4 independent evidence refresh: KCRG — independent fact check of family-contribution, fertilizer, DNR-violation and drinking-water claims.