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What to know! Emerging, essential voices elevated in brilliant Iowa documentary releasing in weeks
When Caleb Rainey is on, he relegates other forms to communication to the stockpiles of convention. He’s on the edge with this, man, and I want more.
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Douglas Burns
Ruth Harkin's inviting memoir on Iowa life, presidential campaigning, releases today
Tom and Ruth Harkin leaned forward in their Fleur Cinema seats in Des Moines in the early evening of July 17 as a film chronicling the civil rights…
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Douglas Burns
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GUEST COLUMN: Democrats need to get emotional on messaging
BY MONICA BIDDIX
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August 2024

GUEST COLUMN: What I learned about Iowa politics while in line at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago
BY MARCIA ROGERS
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JD Vance's boyhood mistaken gay confession story smacks of head-spinning inflation
CARROLL, Iowa —
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Douglas Burns
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GUEST COLUMN: Why Governor Tim Walz reminds me of a beloved rural Iowa teacher
By JACQUI CLARY
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Walz southern frying of Iowa with humor paints two Americas contrast with Minnesota
A modern political Mason-Dixon line appears to be taking form north of Mason City and south of Albert Lea — somewhere around the Minnesota-Iowa border.
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Guest Column: Feature-length documentary spotlights Iowa spoken-word artist
Become a producer of a film celebrating emerging voices
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Douglas Burns
What Iowan Deidre DeJear learned inside the last Harris campaign
'When you see a train moving, and it's going someplace good, you might as well hop on,' DeJear said
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Douglas Burns
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July 2024

Kentucky governor says JD Vance's Appalachian 'origin story' doesn't add up
Potential vice presidential candidate Andy Beshear speaks at major Democratic Party event in Iowa
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Douglas Burns
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It won't be parade of Confederate flags going up that starts second Civil War. It will be porn sites coming down via Project 2025
The conservative master blueprint Project 2025 will start the next civil war.
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Douglas Burns
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Could unity-minded Trump back reparations for slavery, make other unexpectedly bold moves in healing impulse for nation
In early March, after reading polls showing former President Donald Trump's ascendency with Black voters, I began asking a highly speculative question…
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