After Voter ID Court Setback, Paul Pate and the Iowa GOP — Once Again...
On Tuesday, Polk County District Court Judge Karen Romano granted a temporary injunction against several key components of a voter ID law Paul Pate...
Austrian Party Close to Steve King Proposes Requiring Jews and Muslims to Register to...
A far-right Austrian political party whose leaders visited Washington last year to witness the Trump inauguration with Steve King caused a stir this week...
Update: Tribune Media Pulls Out of Sinclair Deal, Files Lawsuit
Update, 8/10: On Thursday, the Tribune Media Co. announced it had terminated its agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group to have the conservative media giant...
In Constituent Letters, Steve King Dismisses Trump-Russia Collusion As “Wildly Off-Base”
A reader and Steve King constituent pointed us to a letter she received Tuesday and posted online from the congressman after recently writing his...
Pete Brownell Partied with Indicted Russian NRA Ally Mariia Butina in 2015
Another shoe dropped this week in the FBI’s investigation into the ties between the National Rifle Association and a shady pro-gun group in Russia...
Steve King Compares Immigrant Children Detention Centers to “Playgrounds”
Congressman Steve King on Tuesday defended the detention of immigrant children at the US-Mexico border, tweeting a link to a video of what he...
Retirement Party: State Sen. Mark “Chickenman” Chelgren, R-Ottumwa
Mark Chelgren is a man of many hats: wheelchair parts inventor, AR-15 manufacturer, state senator. In a past life, before he was at the...
The Story County GOP’s Deafening Silence on Steve King
IN OCTOBER 2016, the Story County Republican Party hosted its seventh annual Wendy Jensen Memorial Chili Supper, named in honor of a local volunteer...
Kim Reynolds Attended Private Event in Rhode Island with Parkland Shooting Conspiracy Theorist
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds made a last-minute schedule change this week, cancelling a trip to New York for a series of Iowa economic development...
Weekly News Roundup: Prominent Conservatives Criticize Ames Library Drag Workshop
The Informer’s weekly news roundup, presented in partnership with KHOI community radio.
The Ames Public Library recently announced plans for a four-day youth workshop in...
