Bruce Rastetter's carbon pipeline company won the power of eminent domain over Iowa farmland. FEC records show he's given Hinson's committees $42,000 — and he hosted her August 5 Senate fundraiser.
One Nation, the Senate GOP's dark money arm, runs at least six websites that look like local newspapers. They exist to flatter Dan Sullivan, Susan Collins, Jon Husted, and Ashley Hinson — and voters are never told who is paying for them.
A Wall Street Journal investigation found ICE is paying contractors millions to scan social media around the clock, then using subpoenas to unmask Americans who criticize the agency. Nobody has been charged. That may be the point.
Campaign finance records show nearly 30 donations to Miller-Meeks from companies tied to PFAS, water pollution, and cancer-linked products — while she cheered a ruling gutting wetlands protections and voted for a bill to shrink the Clean Water Act further.
At the Plymouth County Fair, Ashley Hinson defended Medicaid work requirements and suggested people here illegally are getting benefits. Federal law already bars that, and 92% of Medicaid adults are already working or have a reason they can't.
At the Hancock County Fair, Zach Lahn defended Iowa's privatized Medicaid system and defended an attack ad built from edited TV news clips. The state audit he's brushing past found privatization drove an 891% increase in illegal denials of care.
In March 2022, a check from Summit's Bruce Rastetter landed in Joe Mitchell's campaign account. Eight days later he cast the lone Republican vote against protecting Iowa landowners from the CO2 pipeline's eminent domain.
The New York Times caught Iowa's Republican Senate nominee lifting other people's sentences more than a dozen times. Her first move was to point at a staffer. Her second was to call it a partisan attack.
FEC records show Iowa Senate candidate Ashley Hinson took nearly $90,000 from billionaires named in the Epstein files — including $30,500 while she was refusing to sign the petition that would force those files into the open.