Currently holds the office of Iowa State Senate - District 43 until January 1, 2027.
Candidate for U.S. Senate - Iowa in 2026 Iowa Primary Election.
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Get StartedSecure the border. Hire thousands more border patrol agents and immigration judges. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
Restore and Modernize USDA Rural Development. Learn more
Ban foreign governments and foreign-controlled corporations from purchasing American farmland. Learn more
Invest in small and mid-sized livestock processing. Learn more
Require transparent, fair contracts for contract farmers and protect them from retaliation when they speak up. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
Enact 12-year term limits for Congress. Learn more
Ban politicians from trading individual stocks. Learn more
Ban members of Congress from becoming lobbyists immediately after leaving office. Learn more
Pass campaign finance reform and overturn Citizens United. Learn more
Ban members of Congress, their staff, and any government official with a security clearance from betting on predictive markets. Learn more
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. Learn more
Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing. Learn more
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. Learn more
Keep Artificial Intelligence out of insurance denials. Learn more
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. Learn more
Expand substance use disorder treatment. Learn more
Make disability care part of traditional Medicaid coverage. Learn more
Solve Iowa’s healthcare workforce shortage. Learn more
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. Learn more
Reverse the Medicaid cuts to Iowa’s rural hospitals. Learn more
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. Learn more
Defend women’s healthcare and end the maternal mortality crisis. Learn more
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. Learn more
Reform the asylum process. Reduce backlogs and ensure legitimate asylum seekers get fair hearings quickly. Learn more
Create earned legal status. For people who’ve been here for years contributing to their communities, are working, and haven’t committed crimes. Learn more
Staff federal immigration and citizenship services appropriately to eliminate months-long permit waitlists for employed individuals with legal status. Learn more
Keep Iowans safe. Deport noncitizens who have been convicted of violent crimes. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
End federal road swaps that let contractors cheat Iowa construction workers out of prevailing wages on public infrastructure projects that Iowa taxpayers are funding. Learn more
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. Learn more
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. Learn more
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