State Government
- Balance the state budget — reconcile the budget before the state is driven into bankruptcy.
- Restore the State Auditor’s power — return independent investigative authority so corruption can be held accountable again.
- End big-money corruption — overturn Citizens United and get dark money out of Iowa politics.
- Ban eminent domain abuse — stop the use of eminent domain for the CO2 pipeline.
- Restore reproductive rights — end the abortion ban and permanently protect a woman’s right to choose.
- Legalize marijuana — full legalization and total forgiveness of all cannabis-related criminal records.
Healthcare
- One portal for prior authorizations — force all insurance agencies to use the same, single website for all prior authorizations.
- Cut the paperwork — require health insurers to reduce bureaucratic burden to a maximum of 10–15 minutes per patient.
- End referral re-ups — make it illegal for insurance companies to require specialist referrals to be renewed every 6 months. One referral should be enough.
- Protect access to generics — unless otherwise specified by a medical professional, insurers must fill the generic without attempting to remove patients from their prescribed medications.
- Allow treatment flexibility — let patients approved for a course of treatment pursue an alternative, medically appropriate treatment of equal or lesser value without needing another approval.
- Safe staffing ratios — mandate safe staffing ratios in all medical facilities.
- End Medicaid privatization — return Medicaid to public administration to serve patients, not corporate profits.
Cost of Living
- Regulate data center construction — ban new data centers that don’t meet strict guidelines on minimum distance from homes, water and power impact, and environmental protection.
- Ban AI surge pricing — total ban on AI-driven “surge pricing” already in use by the airline industry.
- Pass Right to Repair — force corporations in Iowa to make repair manuals easily available for purchase and download.
- Restore collective bargaining — full restoration of collective bargaining rights with accountability for those who stripped them away.
Property Tax
- Address corporate farmland consolidation — farmland is taxed on productivity, but massive valuation increases from corporate and foreign ownership have blown out Iowa’s tax structure.
- Confront foreign ownership — Bill Gates is the 3rd largest landowner in Iowa, and China — which owns Smithfield Pork — is the 5th largest. Iowans deserve to know who controls their land.
- Fix the revenue crisis — corporate landowners won’t farm productively, so the tax burden falls on everyday homeowners. That has to change.
Environment
- Prosecute water polluters — punish and prosecute the groups and corporations that have poisoned Iowa’s water supply.
- Exponential fines for repeat violators — escalating fines for repeated environmental violations, beginning at 1% of the parent company’s market cap.
- Embrace nuclear energy — recognize nuclear power as part of green, renewable energy for its extremely low CO2 output.
- Support home solar — pass a copy of Utah’s HB 340 for small-scale home solar installations.
Education
- Raise teacher wages — increase teacher pay above the rate of inflation.
- Demand voucher accountability — if any voucher program continues, it must have full accountability and transparency requirements.
- Close the inflation gap — public school funding is now 14% behind inflation. We are spending more per student, but inflation has overtaken everything.
- Expand Pre-K — follow the lead of other states that have seen massive benefits from increased Pre-K investment.
Work & Employment
- $18/hour minimum wage — raise the minimum wage to $18/hour and fix its rise to inflation going forward.
- Ban sub-minimum wage — total ban on paying any worker below the minimum wage.
- Statewide antitrust enforcement — pursue antitrust enforcement at the state level.
- Crack down on wage theft — pursue wage theft aggressively and make examples of offending companies.
Privacy & Surveillance
- Ban Flock ALPR cameras — prohibit automated license plate reader surveillance cameras statewide.
- Restrict data sharing — impose strict new limits on what personal data can be collected and shared.
- Block internet surveillance mandates — ban any requirements to enforce surveillance of internet traffic or demand logins and proof of identity to access the internet.
- Ban forced ID uploads — statewide ban on websites requiring driver’s licenses or ID uploads as proof of personhood, unless the individual is a public figure facing risk of public slander.