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.
- Legalize marijuana — full legalization and total forgiveness of all cannabis-related criminal records.
Healthcare
- Restore reproductive rights — end the abortion ban and permanently protect a woman’s right to choose.
- 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 — change zoning and add regulations to ensure that data centers pull their weight and do not increase water and electricity bills for normal residents.
- Ban AI surge pricing — total ban on AI-driven “surge pricing”. Brick and mortor stores, like supermarkets, should not be allowed to change pricing based on the invidual or during peak hours.
- Pass Right to Repair — force corporations that conduct business in Iowa to make repair manuals easily available for purchase and download. Allow farmers to be able to repair their own equipment without having to take it to the dealer’s specialized shop.
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.
- Restore collective bargaining —suppport for unions, restore collective bargaining rights. Accountability for those who seek to strip them away.
- Statewide antitrust enforcement — pursue antitrust enforcement at the state level.
- Crack down on wage theft — pursue wage theft, such as unpaid overtime, 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.