Iowa Revolution Podcast

Podcast Segments: * Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news) * https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-restaurants-face-financial-challenges-amid-rising-costs/65951378?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot Restaurants are feeling the pain of Trump’s tariffs - From KCCI: The Iowa Restaurant Association reports that hundreds of Iowa restaurants are struggling financially, with an average of 300 closures each year, a num...

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...

Podcast Segments: * 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...

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 bas...

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 D...

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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 sin...

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 cla...

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 devel...

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 w...

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* 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...

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 th...

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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. Spencer (00:00:14): He's...

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...

I had the wrong setting on Zoom so if you’re watching the video you’re gonna get your fill of Dr. Bob haha :) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iowarevolution.substack.com

Thanks to our friend, Nathan Sage for joining us on the podcast today! Go to sageforsenate.com to join the team and check out the vid or listen! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iowarevolution.substack.com

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 seed...

Thank you Marcel Harmon , Dawn Marie Galtieri , demfarmer demfarmer , and many others for tuning into my live video with Robert Leonard ! Join me for my next live video in the app. Podcast Segments: Iowa Coast to Coast (statewide news) From KCRG-TV: Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of possible grants for Iowa institutions have been cut as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency -- or...

Thank you Celeste , Glenn Nielsen , and many others for tuning into my live video with Robert Leonard ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iowarevolution.substack.com

Thank you Virginia Traxler , Earl Brownlee , Dawn Marie Galtieri , Kim McPhail , Julie Russell-Steuart , and many others for tuning into my live video with Robert Leonard ! Join me for my next live video in the app. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit iowarevolution.substack.com

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