Iowa Revolution Podcast

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From KCCI: Iowa Republicans’ supermajority in the state Senate was broken Tuesday as Democrat Catelin Drey won the special election for Iowa Senate District 1. Drey faced off against Republican Christopher Prosch in the election, which was called to fill the seat after Sen. Rocky De Witt, R-Lawton, passed away due to pancreatic cancer in June. According to preliminary results...

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* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From Iowa Capital Dispatch: Iowa Rep. J.D. Scholten ended his campaign for U.S. Senate Monday, endorsing his Iowa House colleague Rep. Josh Turek to become the Democratic nominee in 2026. Scholten, a Sioux City Democrat, entered the race in June after U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst had responded at a town hall to critics of Medicaid cuts included in the GOP budget reconciliation law wi...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From KCRG: The University of Iowa announced Monday that its Summer Writing Festival will be discontinued. Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has decided to discontinue the Summer Writing Festival due to ongoing funding challenges. The festival will be discontinued starting December 31, 2025. Iowa CLAS says the decision is based on the resources required and not ...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* The Public Won’t be able to listen to emergency communicators in Eastern Iowa - From KCRG-TV: The Cedar Rapids Fire Department has now joined law enforcement in Linn County and other parts of Iowa in blocking out the public from listening to its emergency radio communications. In a notice sent out late Monday night, the Cedar Rapids Fire Department announced it would start en...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From the CR Gazette: Pascual Pedro lived in Iowa for seven years, growing up here after immigrating to the United States when he was 13. Last Tuesday, he was detained at a regular check-in appointment at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Office in Cedar Rapids. Less than a week later, and before his lawyer had time to file a single document with ICE officials regar...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* Guest JJ Johnson of Washington for Justice - From the Southeast Iowa Union: A handful of local advocacy groups are asking the Washington County Board of Supervisors to draft and vote on a resolution declaring the community’s civil rights standards, after state legislators removed the term “gender identity” from Iowa’s list of protected classes earlier this year in a bill titl...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From the Guardian: Six months ago, Alex Hammer was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 37. Dianne Chambers endured surgery, chemotherapy and dozens of rounds of radiation to fight aggressive breast cancer, and Janan Haugen spends most days helping care for her 16-year-old grandson, who is still being treated for brain cancer he developed at the age of seven. The three w...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From Laura Belin in Bleeding Heartland: The last time Donald Trump was president, Iowa Democrats had a pretty good midterm election. The party’s candidates defeated two Republican members of Congress, came surprisingly close to beating U.S. Representative Steve King, had a net gain of five Iowa House seats (and almost a sixth), and came within 3 points of winning the governor...

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From Salon: Sen. Joni Ernst, certainly has absorbed the first rule of MAGA: You're never in the wrong as long as you're "triggering" the liberals. On Friday, she drew outrage from her constituents at a town hall in Butler County, Iowa, with her bizarre defense of taking away people's medical care to pay for tax cuts for billionaires: "Well, we’re all going to die." The crowd, furious about he...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From KCRG: The president of the Iowa Farmer’s Union said proposed changes to the National Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP will hurt Iowa Farmers. The cuts total around $230 billion as part of President Trump’s so-called ‘big beautiful bill.’ Aaron Lehman said farmers are an integral part of SNAP because they’re growing the food people on the program are buyi...

Transcript below:

Spencer (00:00:01):

Thanks for clicking play on the latest edition of Iowa Revolution.

Spencer (00:00:04):

My name is Spencer.

Spencer (00:00:05):

He is Dr. Bob.

Spencer (00:00:06):

Dr. Bob, good to see you.

Spencer (00:00:07):

Good to see you, Spencer.

Spencer (00:00:10):

First of all, the big news, we do have Pete Buttigieg coming later on in the show.

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He's in Cedar Rapids as we speak,

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or...

Podcast Segments:

* Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

* From the DM Register: Standing at a podium in the Knoxville National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum, Democratic U.S. Senate challenger Nathan Sage told a room full of supporters he's running to give the power in Congress back to working-class Iowans. "We've been waiting a long time, and we built the damn table," Sage said at the May 5 event. "It's time we had a seat at it...

Thank you Teresa Lawler, Steve Hanken, and many others for tuning into my live video with Robert Leonard and The Imhotep Report! Join me for my next live video in the Substack app

Podcast Segments:

Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news)

From Dr. Bob’s Deep Midwest Substack: Below is a transcript of the video in Rollins’ tweet, with my comment in italics:

Male voice off camera: I call it woke seeds.

Rollins: Should I do a quick video? (Ro...