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Here’s the thing: American workers produce more per hour than at any point in history. And yet, in inflation-adjusted terms, the typical worker’s paycheck buys less today than it did fifty years ago. CEOs make hundreds of times what their workers earn. Shareholders pocket record profits. And the workers who made all of it possible are told to be grateful for what they’ve got.

That is not a fair market outcome. That is a system that has been deliberately tilted, through decades of policy choices, to move money from the people who do the work to the people who own the company. And fixing it is going to require deliberate choices in the other direction.

My plan to raise wages and rebuild Iowa’s middle class works from every direction: strengthening workers’ power to negotiate, making sure that Iowa families keep more of what they earn, and ensuring that the workers who built these companies actually own a piece of them.

I will fight to:

• Pass the PRO Act to restore workers’ right to organize and bargain collectively without fear of retaliation or intimidation. Unions are the single most effective tool workers have ever had to raise wages — not just for their own members, but for everyone in the communities where they work.
• Raise the federal minimum wage — the floor has been frozen at $7.25 an hour since 2009, the longest stretch in history. That is a policy choice, and it is a bad one. We should raise it to at least $15, then index it to inflation, so it never falls this far behind again.
• Guarantee paid family and medical leave for every worker. No Iowan should have to choose between keeping their job and caring for a newborn or a sick parent. The United States is one of the only developed countries in the world that doesn’t guarantee this. That has to change.
• Crack down on wage theft, which costs American workers more each year than all property crimes combined, and which falls hardest on the workers with the least power to fight back.
• End federal road swaps that let contractors cheat Iowa construction workers out of prevailing wages on public infrastructure projects that Iowa taxpayers are funding.

I will fight to ensure that workers share in the productivity gains they create. American workers’ productivity has soared while their wages have stagnated, and the difference has flowed to executives and shareholders. That is not how a fair economy works. I will fight to restore the fundamental bargain: when the company does well because of its workers, the workers do well too.

• Pass the American Ownership and Resilience Act, bipartisan legislation that makes it easier for Iowa workers to buy the companies they’ve spent their careers building. Right now, over 30 percent of U.S. corporate stock is owned by foreign investors — and as Iowa’s baby boom generation of business owners retires, a historic wave of company sales is coming.
• This legislation would channel those sales toward the employees who know those businesses best, rather than to Wall Street or foreign buyers. Employee-owned companies are more productive, more resilient, pay higher wages, and stay rooted in their communities.

The workers of Iowa built this economy. They deserve to share in what they’ve built. That means a paycheck that keeps up, a stake in the companies that depend on their labor, and a tax code and a government that works for them. I will fight for all of it. Read my full Iowans Over Insiders: An Economy that Works for Iowans plan.

There’s a reason costs keep going up while Iowans’ paychecks are flat. There’s a reason families are struggling more than ever to afford prescription drugs, pay their mortgages, and put food on the table. And there’s a reason politicians aren’t doing a damn thing about it.

The system is rigged by design, and we have to end it. Corporations and billionaires figured out a long time ago that it’s a lot cheaper to buy a politician than to compete in a fair marketplace. Elon Musk spent over $291 million in the 2024 elections, and his net worth has increased by $579 billion since then. The billionaires buy the politicians, the politicians write the rules, and hardworking Iowans pay the price.

Since I was first elected to the Iowa State Senate in 2018, I have fought to protect my constituents against that system. I’m running for the U.S. Senate because Iowa deserves a Senator who works for Iowans, not insiders, and because the corruption in Washington is costing Iowa families real money.

My anti-corruption plan — Iowans Over Insiders: End the Rigged System — takes direct aim at the rigged system with concrete reforms to make sure our government works for us, not the insiders, the wealthy, and the well-connected. I’ve made these promises to clean up Washington:

• Enact 12-year term limits for Congress. Rotating the crops is good for the soil, and you’d better believe it’s good for our politicians too.
• Ban politicians from trading individual stocks. Neither me, nor my family, nor my staff will own, buy, or sell individual stocks while I serve in office. I’ll pass legislation to hold every member of Congress to that same standard.
• Pass campaign finance reform and overturn Citizens United. Unlimited dark money has been a scourge on our politics and led to politicians who pay more attention to their corporate donors than their constituents.
• Strengthen ethics rules and close the revolving door between Congress and K Street.
• Ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists immediately after leaving office.
• Require full financial transparency for federal candidates and office holders. Iowans deserve to know their elected officials are working for them, not enriching themselves while in office.
• Ban members of Congress, their staff, and any government official with a security clearance from betting on predictive markets. No one should be getting rich using insider information – especially when it comes to our vital national security.

More than 680,000 Iowans have earned their Social Security benefits. They paid into this system their whole working lives. It’s not a handout — it’s a promise. And right now, that promise is under attack. DOGE has taken a chainsaw to the Social Security Administration. Wait times are up. Offices are understaffed. Payments are at risk. Social Security isn’t broken. It’s under attack. And I’ll fight like hell to defend it.

The Keep the Promise Act:

• Scrap the cap. Right now, wealthy Americans stop paying Social Security taxes after their first $160,000 in earnings. Someone making $50,000 pays on every dollar. That’s not fair. End that loophole and use the revenue to extend Social Security’s solvency for generations.
• Reverse the DOGE cuts on day one. Restore the Social Security Administration’s budget so your benefits are on time, fully paid, and offices are fully staffed.
• Require a full-time Social Security commissioner whose only job is making sure your benefits are paid on time — not someone moonlighting across multiple agencies.
• No benefit cuts. No raising the retirement age. Iowans worked their whole lives to earn these benefits. We are not moving the finish line.

My mom Terry is a fifth-generation Iowa farm girl from Clayton County. Our family farm, 200 beautiful, albeit hilly, acres just north of Elkader nestled in the heart of the Driftless Area, was where she grew up. My Grandpa John was an Army veteran who came home, married my Grandma Lois and bought the land that became our family farm.

They would be shocked by the consolidation of agribusiness, the depopulation of our rural counties, the decline of Iowa’s public schools, our water quality crisis, and the fact that Iowa is leading the country in rising cancer rates.

None of this had to happen – it was a choice made by people in Washington. People who have been giving farm states like Iowa a bad deal for fifty years and counting. People who don’t care about anything other than squeezing another bushel out of an acre of increasingly depleted soil. People who don’t care about our farms, don’t care about our towns, don’t care about our future.

I do. And so do Iowans who are tired of being told that what happened to our state was inevitable. None of it was inevitable.

Read a summary of our plan below. Click here to read my full plan.

Our Farms

The economics of the family farm have to work, or none of the rest of this matters. That means more ways for the farm to earn a paycheck. A real Farm Bill that supports hard working farm families instead of fueling consolidation. And breaking up the monopolies that have massively tipped the scales against Iowa farmers.

Iowa needs farm policy that guarantees fair prices, covers production costs, and secures a dignified livelihood.

We need to:

• End the Trump-Hinson tariff chaos that has cost Iowa farmers billions
• Reform commodity payments to support working farm families.
• Require transparent, fair contracts for contract farmers and protect them from retaliation when they speak up.
• Restore and aggressively enforce the Packers and Stockyards Act so meatpackers can’t retaliate against farmers who speak up, organize, or shop their livestock to a competitor.
• Stand up a real, fully-staffed antitrust office inside USDA to police consolidation in agriculture year-round, instead of leaving it to a skeleton crew the corporations outnumber a hundred to one.
• Impose a moratorium on future agriculture and grocery mergers until the antitrust cops catch up with the corporate lawyers, and direct the DOJ and FTC to investigate, and where appropriate unwind, the mergers that never should have been approved in the first place.
• Guarantee farmers the Right to Repair their own equipment through the Freedom for Agricultural Repair and Maintenance Act (FARM Act). If you bought it, you own it.
• Establish a Strategic Fertilizer Reserve modeled on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, so American farmers aren’t held hostage by a handful of fertilizer companies — most of them foreign-owned — when planting season hits.
• Pay farmers for climate-smart practices.
• Grow on-farm renewable energy. Iowa already leads the nation in the share of electricity generated from wind, and many Iowa farmers already use on-farm solar arrays. There’s room for a lot more — community solar with grazing underneath, on-farm battery storage, farmer-owned wind or solar cooperatives partnering with rural electric co-ops.

Our Towns

The farm doesn’t exist in a vacuum. It exists in a community, with a school down the road, a hospital in the county seat, a grocery store on Main Street, a family pharmacy, and a meat locker. When the farm economy gets squeezed, all of that goes too. Rebuilding rural Iowa means rebuilding the infrastructure that connects the farm to the town and the town to the country.

We need to:

• Restore and Modernize USDA Rural Development. The Trump administration has gutted the agency. Rural Development has lost 36 percent of its staff to DOGE-driven buyouts and forced resignations, and the FY26 budget proposes another $721 million in program cuts on top of that. We’ll reverse the staff cuts, restore the program funding, and modernize the agency for the rural America that actually exists in 2026.
• Pass mandatory Country-of-Origin Labeling on meat through the American Beef Labeling Act, reintroduced in this Congress on a bipartisan basis by Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senator Cory Booker.
• Invest in small and mid-sized livestock processing. Iowa ranchers shouldn’t have to truck animals hundreds of miles to a corporate slaughterhouse, and farmers selling direct-to-consumer shouldn’t have to wait a year to get an animal into a USDA-inspected facility.
• Stop the corporate takeover from farm to grocery shelf. Enforce the Robinson-Patman Act to stop big-box chains from using their size to extract lower prices from suppliers and undercut the local grocery stores that small towns depend on.
• Prohibit retail grocery chains from vertically integrating into meatpacking. 

Our Future

What kind of Iowa we hand to the next generation depends on four things: who gets to farm the land, the quality of the soil and water when they get it, the climate they have to farm in, and whether the land itself is still in Iowa hands.

We need a federal Family Farm Authority that is empowered to do the following:

• Buy land from aging farmers at fair market rates and favorable tax treatment, giving aging landowners and their estates the retirement security they’ve earned.
• Build multiple pathways for young farmers. Lease-to-own programs let beginning farmers lease with an option to purchase over 15 to 20 years on affordable terms. Shared-equity partnerships provide down-payment assistance of 20 to 30 percent in exchange for a share of appreciation when the land is sold. Federal loan guarantees of 90 to 95 percent for beginning farmers under 35, with below-market interest rates and extended repayment terms.
• Tie land access incentives to conservation results. Most young and future farmers already have a deeper understanding of conservation practices than their parents or grandparents. Additional land access incentives should be tied to measurable practices — cover crops, buffer strips, no till, wetland restoration on marginal acres — with lease or loan payments that decline as the conservation improvements bear fruit.

A century of Iowa farm policy was built on a simple idea: the people who own the land should be the people who work it, and the wealth the land generates should stay in the communities that grow it. That model has completely broken down. Today, 55 percent of Iowa farmland is owned by someone who doesn’t farm it. One in five Iowa acres is owned by someone who doesn’t even live in Iowa — a figure that’s climbed by over 50% in the past decade. This cannot continue.

We need to:

• Ban foreign governments and foreign-controlled corporations from purchasing American farmland. Food security is national security. No country should be allowed to put its hand on America’s food supply by buying up the ground it grows on.
• Require all foreign agriculture mergers to be reviewed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, with food security treated as a national security concern.
• Crack down on Wall Street investment funds buying up farmland purely as a financial asset. 

The American healthcare system isn’t broken by accident. It is broken because corporate special interests — insurance companies, drug manufacturers, hospital chains, and the middlemen who profit off all of them — spend billions every year to keep it that way. And politicians like Ashley Hinson take their checks and do their bidding.

That ends when I get to the Senate.

Healthcare is a human right, and this healthcare agenda has four pillars, each targeting a specific way the system has been rigged against hardworking Iowans, and offering a concrete plan to fix it. Read my full Iowans Over Insiders: Affordable, Accessible Healthcare for All Iowans plan here.

1. Lower costs

Americans pay more for healthcare than anyone else in the developed world, and we don’t get better outcomes for it. We get a system that has been engineered by design to extract as much money as possible from Iowa families before it grudgingly delivers care.

Here’s how we change that.

I will fight to:

• Create a true public option. Every Iowan should have access to a quality, affordable public health insurance plan, whether or not their employer offers coverage. I support allowing every American to buy into Medicare at any age. It’s the quickest path to lowering costs across the entire system, because it forces insurance companies to compete on price instead of squeezing patients. And it’s the foundation for reaching universal coverage in this country.
• Take on Big Pharma. Americans pay more for prescription drugs than anyone else in the world, not because our drugs are better, but because Big Pharma has spent decades buying off Washington.
• Crack down on Pharmacy Benefit Managers. Pharmacy benefit managers, the corporate middlemen who sit between patients, pharmacies, and drugmakers, are one of the biggest reasons drug prices keep climbing.
• Expand access to affordable children’s health insurance. Currently, state Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) coverage ends when children turn 19. This is despite most private plans allowing children to remain on their parents’ coverage until they turn 26. Eligibility for these programs should work the same way until an individual enrolls in a separate plan by their own choice, or exceeds established income limits.
• Break up the hospital and insurance monopolies driving up Iowa’s healthcare costs. The same corporate consolidation that has hollowed out Iowa’s farm economy and Iowa’s Main Streets has come for Iowa’s healthcare system.
• End surprise medical billing for good. No Iowan should get hit with a $3,000 bill from an out-of-network anesthesiologist they never chose to see, or a “facility fee” for a five-minute visit at a hospital-owned clinic that used to be a doctor’s office down the street.
• Take on the medical debt crisis. Medical debt is the single leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States, and one in three Americans carry it. That isn’t a moral failing on the part of working families.
• Cap insulin at $35 a month — for everyone. Insulin costs pennies to manufacture. There is no excuse for any Iowan with diabetes to ration a life-saving medication. Democrats already capped insulin at $35 a month for Iowans on Medicare. We need to extend that cap to every American, regardless of how they get their insurance.
• Restore the ACA premium tax credits — permanently. When Congress let the enhanced ACA tax credits expire, Iowa families saw their premiums double overnight.

2. Ensure Access to Care

Affordable insurance only matters if you can actually use it. In Iowa today, that’s getting harder every year — especially in rural communities where hospitals are closing, OB-GYNs are vanishing, the nearest specialist might be a hundred miles away, and the people who provide care are stretched past the breaking point.

I will fight to:

• Lower the Medicare eligibility age to 55. Medicare works. It’s popular, it’s reliable, and it provides quality coverage for tens of millions of Americans. Lowering the eligibility age to 55 would let more Iowans access affordable coverage during the years when healthcare costs typically rise the fastest, and it would relieve pressure on the entire insurance market.
• Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing. It is absurd that Ashley Hinson voted against it. Coverage for healthy teeth, eyes, and ears shouldn’t be optional. Iowa seniors shouldn’t have to choose between a dental procedure and groceries. Medicare should cover dental, vision, and hearing — period.
• Reverse the Medicaid cuts to Iowa’s rural hospitals. The Medicaid cuts Hinson voted for are projected to strip $2.7 billion from rural Iowa hospitals over the next decade and force tens of thousands of Iowans off their coverage. Critical access hospitals in Ottumwa, Oelwein, and Red Oak are now on the brink. I’ll push to move rural hospitals away from a volume-based reimbursement model toward upfront, operating-cost-based funding that gives critical access hospitals the stability to keep their doors open year-round. And I’ll fight for a permanent network of mobile health units reaching Iowa’s most underserved counties.
• Defend women’s healthcare and end the maternal mortality crisis. Iowa ranks near the bottom of the country in OB-GYN access, and we are losing obstetric care faster than any other state in America. Women in rural Iowa are being forced to drive hours for basic prenatal appointments. I will fight to restore the federal protections Iowans deserve, and push for serious federal investment in maternal health, including expanded postpartum Medicaid coverage and the rural OB-GYN workforce Iowa desperately needs.
• Make long-term care safe and affordable for Iowa families.  I will fight to defend the federal nursing home staffing standards the industry is trying to kill, support the home- and community-based care alternatives that let Iowa seniors age in place with dignity, and crack down on the private equity firms that have been buying up Iowa nursing homes, slashing staffing, and pocketing the difference. Every Iowan who has spent decades contributing to this state deserves to retire with dignity, not to be exploited by a fraudulent operator cutting corners on their care.
• Make disability care part of traditional Medicaid coverage. Iowa is the birthplace of the “Medicaid Waiver” system that allows states to include additional necessary services for individuals with specific diagnoses. We need to revisit what’s covered under traditional Medicaid so that Iowans have access to the care they need to thrive in their communities. Rules regarding employed people with disability should be updated to ensure employment doesn’t risk jeopardizing these critical healthcare services.
• Solve Iowa’s healthcare workforce shortage. I will fight to expand federal loan forgiveness for doctors, nurses, and behavioral health providers who commit to serving rural and underserved communities; expand the number of Medicare-funded residency slots so we can train more physicians and keep more of them in Iowa; and invest in the nursing schools, community colleges, and apprenticeship programs that are training the next generation of Iowa healthcare workers.
• Hold privatized Medicaid systems accountable. In Iowa, the privatization of our Medicaid program has led to an almost 1000% increase in denials of care prescribed by medical professionals, and has failed to demonstrate meaningful cost savings while insurance companies profit millions every year from tax-payer funding. The federal government should provide resources to help states transition to direct fee-for-service models that provide better access to healthcare, and provide higher scrutiny to Managed Care Organization (MCO) models that profit from denying needed care.
• Keep Artificial Intelligence out of insurance denials. Simply put: we cannot allow health insurance companies to delegate decisions over whether an Iowan is denied medically prescribed healthcare to artificial intelligence platforms.
• Defend the VA from privatization and stand with the veterans who served. There is a coordinated effort underway in Washington to privatize the VA — to siphon veterans into the private healthcare system, hand the contracts to corporate middlemen, and gut the VA workforce in the process. I will fight to stop it. I will defend VA staffing, expand mental healthcare and suicide prevention services for veterans, address the toxic exposure crises that have harmed Iowa veterans for decades, and make sure that no veteran in this state has to fight their own government to get the care they earned through their service.

3. Fight Iowa’s Cancer Crisis

Iowa has the second-highest cancer rate in the country. We are one of the only states in America where the rate is still climbing. This is a public health emergency, and our state’s political leaders have been treating it like background noise. That has to change.

In Marshalltown, I heard from a woman going through cancer treatment, who has to go to six different providers to get the comprehensive care she needs. We need to do better on both cancer prevention and care for Iowans..

I will fight to:

• Invest in cancer research, detection, and prevention. Iowa families deserve a federal partner in fighting this crisis. I will push for major federal investment in cancer research, with a focus on the cancers hitting Iowans hardest.
• Address the environmental drivers. We cannot have a serious conversation about Iowa’s cancer rate without talking about what’s in our water and what’s on our land.
• Take on the agricultural chemical companies poisoning Iowa. I will fight to strengthen EPA review of the most dangerous pesticides, including paraquat, which is banned in more than 60 countries and linked to Parkinson’s disease, close the loopholes that let chemical companies keep products on the market for decades after safer alternatives exist, and invest in independent research on agricultural chemical exposure that isn’t funded by the companies selling the chemicals.
• Stop the private equity consolidation of Iowa’s oncology practices. When independent practices close, private equity steps in — not to deliver better care, but to extract margin. The consolidation of cancer care into corporate-owned networks and hospital systems drives prices up, limits patient choice, and puts profit ahead of treatment decisions. I will fight to give the DOJ and FTC the tools and the mandate to stop it.

4. Expand Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Services

In rural Iowa, the wait for a mental health appointment can stretch for months. For a family in crisis, that might as well be forever. We have a mental health workforce shortage, an opioid crisis that has hit small-town Iowa especially hard, and an insurance system that still treats mental health like a second-class concern.

I will fight to:

• Make real investments in mental healthcare. I will fight for serious federal investment in mental health services — including expanding the mental health workforce in rural Iowa, increasing funding for community mental health centers, and supporting school-based mental health programs so Iowa kids can get help before a crisis becomes a tragedy.
• Enforce true mental health parity. Insurance companies have been gaming mental health parity laws for decades — covering physical health one way and mental health another. That ends now. I will support tough enforcement of mental health parity requirements so insurers cannot deny, delay, or limit mental healthcare on a different standard than they apply to physical health.
• Expand substance use disorder treatment. The opioid crisis and alcohol addiction continue to hit rural communities hard. I will fight to expand access to substance use disorder treatment, recovery services, and medication-assisted treatment with a particular focus on the small-town Iowa communities that have been hit hardest and have the fewest resources to fight back.

Iowa ranked dead last in economic activity in 2025. The reason is not that Iowans stopped working hard. The reason is that a handful of giant corporations gobbled up the competition in agriculture, in meatpacking, in healthcare, in housing, and then used their market power to raise prices, cut wages, and squeeze out the small businesses that used to be the backbone of Iowa’s economy.

Last fall, at a community roundtable in Atlantic, I heard about what this looks like in real life. The price of a new fire engine has more than tripled in a decade — from roughly $300,000 to over $1 million today, not because of inflation, but because a private equity firm systematically bought up competitors, closed plants, and now controls a third of the specialty vehicle market. Fire departments across Iowa are waiting years for trucks they can barely afford, and property taxpayers are footing the bill. That is not a market outcome. That’s monopoly power at work. And it shows up everywhere, in what Iowa farmers get paid for their grain, in what Iowa families pay for health insurance, in what Iowa small businesses pay to fix their equipment.

I will fight to:

• Enforce antitrust laws aggressively. The federal government has looked the other way for decades while corporations bought up competitors, raised prices, and eliminated competition. From Ticketmaster to firetruck manufacturing, we’ve all been getting screwed. That ends now.
• Break up monopolies in meatpacking, agriculture, healthcare, and housing that are driving up costs for Iowa families and squeezing out the small businesses and family farms that made Iowa’s economy strong. Read more about how we break the corporate squeeze on Iowa farms as part of my New Vision for Small Town and Rural Iowa plan.
• Pass right to repair legislation so Iowa farmers and small business owners can fix their own equipment without paying a dealer’s ransom to the same manufacturer who sold it to them.
• Ban surveillance pricing at the grocery store. Iowans are already getting squeezed at the checkout, and the last thing they need is big retailers using personal data to quietly jack up the price on the shelf just for them based on their shopping habits, their neighborhood, or what the algorithm thinks they’ll pay. I introduced legislation in the Iowa Senate to ban this practice, and I will bring that fight to Washington. We must act now to protect Iowa consumers before this predatory practice becomes the norm.
• Support small business access to capital, especially in rural communities where banks have consolidated and credit has dried up.

Competition is what makes capitalism work for working people. Right now, we don’t have competition, we have captured markets. I will fight to change that. Read my full Iowans Over Insiders: An Economy that Works for Iowans plan.

Chloe and I pay more for our son’s daycare than we do for our mortgage. We are not alone. The cost of child care increased 263% between 1990 and 2024. For many Iowa families, childcare is now the single largest household expense — bigger than rent, bigger than groceries, bigger than a car payment. And unlike a mortgage, childcare doesn’t build equity.

That math doesn’t add up for a lot of Iowa families. Many parents, especially moms, are being forced to leave the workforce entirely because the cost of childcare wipes out the income from a second job. That tradeoff has long-term implications for lifetime earnings, and pulls qualified workers out of the labor market. Other families are stretching budgets past the breaking point. Two thirds of families with children under 18 are living paycheck to paycheck. Meanwhile, childcare workers doing this critical work are among the most undercompensated people in our entire economy.

This is not a personal failing. It is a policy failure. And I will fix it.

I will fight to:

• Make major federal investments to bring down the cost of childcare for Iowa families — so that parents can afford to work, children get quality care, and providers can afford to stay in business.
• Expand access to high-quality pre-K for every Iowa child, regardless of their zip code or their parents’ income. The evidence is overwhelming: investments in early childhood education pay dividends for decades.
• Increase pay for childcare workers, some of the most undervalued workers in our economy, who are responsible for the development of our youngest Iowans.
• Guarantee paid family and medical leave for every worker. No Iowan should have to choose between keeping their job and caring for a newborn or a sick parent. The United States is one of the only developed countries in the world that doesn’t guarantee this. That has to change.
• Support first-time homebuyers through expanded access to down payment assistance, favorable financing, and protections against the predatory practices that have pushed so many Iowans out of the market.
• Crack down on algorithmic rent price-fixing. Corporate landlords have been using platforms like RealPage to coordinate rent increases across markets driving up costs for Iowa renters the same way surveillance pricing drives up costs at the grocery store. If it’s illegal for companies to fix prices in a back room, it should be illegal to do it through an algorithm.
• Protect manufactured and mobile home residents. Over half of Iowa’s mobile home parks are owned by large, out-of-state investment firms. When private equity buys the park and raises the lot rent, they have nowhere to go. I fought for these families in the Iowa Senate, and I will fight for them in Washington including passing federal protections and a right of first refusal so residents have the chance to purchase their community before it gets sold out from under them.

Access to quality child care shouldn’t just be for the wealthy. Owning a home is not a luxury. I will fight to keep Iowa an affordable place to grow and raise a family. Read my full Iowans Over Insiders: An Economy the Works for Iowans plan.

Iowa Republicans have enacted one of the most severe abortion bans in the country and we’ve seen efforts across the country to undermine our democracy. I’ll defend your fundamental rights:

• Codify reproductive rights and restore abortion access.
• Protect access to contraception and IVF.
• Defend the right to marry who you love.
• Defend your rights to free speech and peaceful protest.
• Ensure all Americans have access to vote and our elections are secure. 
• Uphold a non-partisan and ethical judicial system.
• Promote proper regulation of technology and how our personal data is used.

Our immigration system is broken. For decades, politicians like Joni Ernst and Ashley Hinson have failed to fix this mess because it benefits the people who donate to their campaigns: businesses that profit from cheap, exploitable labor while Iowa workers get screwed. We can secure our borders and implement an efficient, humane process for immigrants who follow our laws. I supported the bipartisan Border Act of 2024 that would have actually secured our border. We can finally solve this problem if we:

• Secure the border. Hire thousands more border patrol agents and immigration judges.
• Reform the asylum process. Reduce backlogs and ensure legitimate asylum seekers get fair hearings quickly.
• Overhaul and reform ICE to ensure the agency and its officers follow constitutional due process protections, require clear identification and ban the use of facemasks. End the unaccountable violence and chaos in our communities.
• Create earned legal status. For people who’ve been here for years contributing to their communities, are working, and haven’t committed crimes.
• Staff federal immigration and citizenship services appropriately to eliminate months-long permit waitlists for employed individuals with legal status.
• Hold employers accountable. Implement real E-Verify enforcement that protects hard-working Iowans from wage theft.
• Keep Iowans safe. Deport noncitizens who have been convicted of violent crimes.