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It’s been 250 years. It’s past time to end taxation without representation for every American citizen. www.ourlibertiesweprize.com/p/time-end-t...
Not one single Iowa Representative had a townhall during the recess. Not one. Who exactly was out there trying to advocate for medical neglect and starvation of children?
Did you forget? We didn't.
Trump promised to release the Epstein files. He didn’t.
His administration blocked investigations. His allies shut down subpoenas. The question isn’t just who’s on the list. It’s: what are they hiding?
NBC News confirms this report, adding that Matt Whitaker (now US ambassador to NATO) will consider coming back to run for #IASen.
That would create a big problem for Ashley Hinson #IA02, who is widely seen as the top GOP candidate for Senate if Ernst retires.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Iowa’s food banks are already facing record demand. So, why would our Reps vote to gut SNAP & let more Iowans go hungry?! #Iowa
"It’s no wonder that pride in being an American is at a record low, with many people in a funk, wondering what happened to the America that they loved.
But there are no solutions to be found in despair or by giving up on the American ideal."
www.ourlibertiesweprize.com/p/remember-p...
Yellow-washed pastel image of Iowa capitol building in the background. Foreground is large blue lettering reading "Immigrants belong in Iowa!"
Immigrants belong in Iowa. #KeepFamiliesTogether
BREAKING: A federal court temporarily blocked our clients’ school districts from complying with a new Texas law that mandates displays of the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom.
The Constitution is clear: Public schools are not Sunday schools.
In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.
Forcing lawmakers you disagree with to comply with 24/7 police surveillance is a gross civil liberties violation.
President Trump and his allies in Texas will stop at nothing to silence voters of color, including targeting the elected officials who represent them.
Dear trans Iowans: You belong. You are loved. We see you.
Dear Iowa: We are better than the MAGA bullies in charge. We won’t go quiet!
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
It is up to the people to force these changes. Our elected officials must serve us, not kings who give them $400,000,000 jets or multi-billion-dollar crypto “investments.”
Link for sources and sharing: www.ourlibertiesweprize.com/p/fixing-cor...
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Our current legislatures, executives, and courts will not restore them on their own. Instead, they will fire the investigators and hobble the auditors. 21/
Given the cycle we seem to go through with our laws (egregious violations, dramatic reforms, whittling the reforms into oblivion, rinse, repeat), it is time for new reforms. Our current laws, including the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, are not up to the tasks they were written for. 20/
And Congress? The last anti-corruption law was adopted over 40 years ago. 19/
The president “paused” enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and effectively abolished the Justice Department’s task forces on political and foreign corruption. He also pardons corrupt politicians. A lot. 18/
We cannot lay all blame at the feet of the court. The executive branch has also failed us. Prosecutions for corruption have been dropping for years. 17/
In 2021, it dismissed cases alleging Emoluments Clause violations during Trump’s first term because he was no longer in office. Last year, it ruled that the President, once understood to be subject to the law, cannot be convicted for his official acts as President. 16/
Similarly, in 2023, it overturned the conviction of a former aide to the New York governor who was working for his re-election campaign and using his influence in exchange for bribes. 15/
The Court imposed further limitations in the 2020 “Bridgegate” case, overturning convictions of Governor Chris Christie’s aides who manipulated traffic into a New Jersey town for political reasons. 14/
The court said he was not acting in his official capacity as governor. 13/
In 2016, the Supreme Court began weakening anti-corruption laws by overturning ex-governor Bob McDonnell’s conviction for taking bribes for pushing state universities to conduct studies showing that certain uses of tobacco were benign. 12/
Laws requiring equal access to the ballot eventually allow all kinds of underhanded actions to undermine voting rights. And laws prohibiting corruption have diminished dramatically over the last decade. 11/
However, our country has a pattern of passing laws, regulations, and even Constitutional provisions that are then whittled away over time. “No law” in the First Amendment’s protection of free speech eventually means “no law but….” with a long list of exceptions. 10/
Congress has made several more laws targeting corruption, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the federal anti-bribery law, and laws requiring government employees to give the public their honest services. 9/
The Foreign Emoluments Clause specifically prohibits any “Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under” the United States from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
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So the Constitution was written with an eye toward prohibiting corruption. 7/
“One of the weak sides of republics, among their numerous advantages, is that they afford too easy an inlet to foreign corruption.” Federalist No. 22
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These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their aproaches [sic] from more than one quarter, but chiefly from the desire in foreign powers to gain an improper ascendant in our councils.” Federalist No. 68
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