Know who you're voting for.

Farmer, businessman, and sixth-generation Iowan running for governor.

He says he is a father and his own largest donor, and that he answers to his family and to Iowans rather than to corporations. He says he wants Iowa to be a place where his children and grandchildren can stay and build a life.

• He says he will free Iowa's farmers from a system that leaves the farmer last, and break up monopolies that treat farmers and families as numbers.
• He says more than 25 percent of Iowa land is owned by out-of-state investors and foreign governments, and he will fight to keep that land in Iowa hands.
• He says a classroom should be for learning rather than political doctrine, and that anyone who uses a teaching job to push political doctrine will not teach in the state.

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Iowa state auditor running for governor.

He says Iowa now has the worst economy in the nation, public schools that have slipped to the middle of the pack, and the country's fastest growth in cancer. He says he has proposed mandatory prison for theft of taxpayer money every year since he became state auditor, and that a 2023 law let agencies hide documents from that office.

• He says he would ban stock trading by the governor, legislators, and other covered officials, require personal financial disclosures and blind trusts, and make violations carry mandatory prison time.
• He says anyone who steals more than $10,000 in taxpayer dollars should face mandatory prison, a ban on doing business with the state, and loss of taxpayer-funded retirement and health benefits.
• He says he would restore powers taken from the auditor in 2023, extend whistleblower protections beyond state employees, and require annual audits, tuition limits, and income limits for the private-school voucher program.

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U.S. representative from northeast Iowa running for the Senate.

She is a mother and a former journalist who previously represented Iowa's 67th House district, including Hiawatha, Robins, Cedar Rapids, and Marion, where she says she lives. In Congress she serves on Appropriations, the Select Committee on Communist China, and the Ethics Committee.

• She says she is working with President Trump to secure the border, cut wasteful spending, and pursue pro-growth policies.
• She says she has introduced bipartisan bills to improve child care for working families and to ban federal lobbying as a check on corruption.
• She says that on Appropriations she works to account for every taxpayer dollar, and that on the China committee she works to hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable.

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Iowa state legislator and two-time Paralympic gold medalist running for the Senate.

Born with spina bifida after his father was exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam, he says he had 21 surgeries by age 12 and later played for the United States at four Paralympics, including a gold medal in Tokyo in 2021. He then won a Council Bluffs seat in the Iowa House, a district he says Donald Trump had carried, by six votes.

• He says economic policy should benefit the middle class and workers rather than Wall Street and billionaire donors.
• He says he supports public education and opposes school vouchers.
• He says Iowa's health care system needs major reform, and he supports protection of air, food, and water.

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Greene County attorney and the first Libertarian elected to a partisan office in Iowa, running for the Senate.

He grew up in Allison, taught political science and constitutional law after study at Drake, Louisiana State, and Hebrew University, then earned a law degree at the University of Iowa. He was elected Greene County attorney in 2018 and reelected as a Libertarian in 2022.

• He says the two major parties have taken political power from the people and that he would work to give that power back.
• As county attorney he says he prosecuted child rape, attempted murder, and other violent crime, and also built a community-service program for nonviolent offenders.
• He says that program, and his leadership, drove recidivism down.

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Iowa attorney general and former Guthrie County attorney.

The campaign says Iowans elected her attorney general and that she is the first Republican to hold the office since 1979. She was Guthrie County attorney from 2018, a prosecutor since 2016, and president of the Iowa County Attorneys Association, and she previously was counsel to Governor Terry Branstad.

• She says she has worked to get criminals off the street, advocate for crime victims, and stand with law enforcement.
• She says that as counsel to Governor Branstad she fought federal health-care policy and rules from other states that she says tried to dictate Iowa farm practices.
• She says she led a fight against EPA regulations that were hurting Iowa farmers and will use the office to defend what she calls the rule of law.

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Labor lawyer running for Iowa attorney general.

He is a lifelong Iowan and a father who says he has spent his career taking on corporations over stolen wages, outsourced jobs, and workplace safety. He says that work has covered tens of thousands of Iowans.

• He says he will go after wage theft, worker misclassification, and unpaid overtime.
• He says he will hold corporations accountable for cheating families, work with prosecutors on violent crime, and protect seniors from scams and nursing-home safety failures.
• He says the office is the one that can fine corporate polluters who contaminate air and water, and that it should focus on Iowa rather than national political fights.

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Iowa secretary of state serving a third term.

He is a small-business owner from Linn County and a former state senator and mayor of Cedar Rapids. Colleagues elected him president of the National Association of Secretaries of State in 2019.

• He says he made it easier for service members overseas to vote, started online voter registration, and brought voter ID to Iowa.
• He says he started the Safe at Home program for survivors of violence and has pushed election cybersecurity and ballot access for Iowans with disabilities.
• He says business-filing changes have cut bureaucracy and sped processing for Iowa companies, under a slogan of easy to vote and hard to cheat.

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Former naval officer running for secretary of state.

He says he served more than a decade as a naval officer, led sailors overseas, worked on defense policy in the Senate, and helped develop officers at the Naval Academy. He says he is back in Iowa and running to do the elections job without being a partisan warrior.

• He says the job is to make sure every eligible Iowan can vote and that elections are fair and secure.
• He says he has met county auditors across the state and wants to be a partner they can trust.
• He says trust in the office depends on keeping politics out of the work.

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Doctor, Army veteran, and U.S. representative running for re-election.

She says she is the fourth of eight children, left home at 16 for community college, and enlisted in the Army at 18, rising from private to lieutenant colonel over 24 years. She later practiced medicine in Ottumwa, served in the Iowa Senate, and was elected to Congress in 2020.

• She says she is running for re-election because Iowans deserve someone who will keep fighting for them and for Iowa values.
• On her 2026 tour she says she is fighting for lower health-care costs, lower taxes, and common sense.

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Law professor, engineer, and former state representative running for Congress.

She says she is a mom running so Iowa's working families come ahead of the wealthy and well-connected. After 26 years teaching constitutional law at the University of Iowa, she says she feels a duty to defend self-government against money and partisanship.

• She says her top priority is lowering the cost of living: end tariffs she says raise family costs, stop hedge funds from buying family homes, build more housing, let Medicare negotiate more drug prices, and cap insulin at $35 a month.
• She says she takes no corporate PAC money and would ban stock trading by members of Congress and other high officials, seek a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, and set term limits.
• She says her father's insurer canceled coverage after he became ill, and she wants a health system that does not drop people when they get sick.

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Former Iowa legislator and housing developer running for Congress.

Born and raised south of Cedar Rapids, he says he was sworn into the Iowa House at 21, the youngest state legislator in state history, and later worked on housing at HUD and the Federal Housing Finance Agency. He develops workforce housing in rural Iowa and says younger Iowans should be able to afford to stay.

• He says he takes no corporate PAC money and supports term limits of 12 years in the House and 12 in the Senate, plus a ban on members of Congress trading stocks.
• He says immigration policy should put Americans first, including a secure border, removal of people he describes as criminal illegal immigrants, and a temporary ban on H-1B visas.
• He says deregulating homebuilding would lower home prices, and he wants lower taxes for middle-class families and small businesses and fewer rules on farmers.

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Chaplain and Iowa state representative running for Congress.

She says public service began as a chaplain beside people in their hardest hours, and that as a state representative she has argued government should serve people rather than the powerful. She is running to level the playing field for Iowans who are choosing between rent, food, medicine, and care for family.

• She says no one should go bankrupt or ration medicine because of a medical emergency, and that rural health care needs urgent changes as cancer rates rise.
• She says money in politics has fueled partisanship, and that getting money out of politics is necessary for a healthier system.
• She says Iowa farmers cannot wait another decade for a farm bill, and she opposes private-school vouchers she says benefit the most fortunate.

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Combat veteran and U.S. representative for Iowa's Third District.

A sixth-generation Iowan, husband, and father of six, he says he flew more than 700 combat hours after 9/11, served on the National Security Council, and later served in the Iowa House and Senate before winning this U.S. House seat in 2022.

• He says out-of-control federal spending drove inflation, and he has worked to rein in bureaucracy and stop what he calls tax-and-spend policies.
• He says he backs law enforcement and a border-security law aimed at drugs, trafficking, and exploitation.
• He says he fights for a farm bill and for renewable fuels that support Iowa farmers and energy independence.

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Minister and state senator running for Congress in Iowa's Third District.

She says she put herself through college with service jobs and has served as a minister, nonprofit leader, and state senator, winning competitive races in Republican-leaning districts. She is running so Iowans have a voice in Washington.

• She says she has met parents who ration medicine so their children can eat and seniors who skip meals to pay heating bills, and she wants to crack down on price gouging and end tariff policy she says raises family costs.
• She says she would expand the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit, provide paid family and medical leave, and eliminate junk fees and surprise medical bills.
• She says she would stand up for hardworking Iowans and protect their freedom, paycheck, and future rather than chase partisan wins.

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Fourth-generation Iowan and military veteran running for Congress.

He says he was born and raised in Iowa's 4th District, that his children are the fifth generation in northwest Iowa, and that his family has farm ties around Fonda. He says he took an oath when he entered the military, is the son of a Vietnam veteran, and studied law.

• He says he will work with the Trump administration to secure the border, stop fentanyl, and support immigration enforcement.
• He says standing up for agriculture means protecting markets, defending landowner rights, and backing trade agreements for what farmers produce.
• He says he will put America first, stand up to China, bring jobs back, restore energy independence, and defend life from conception to natural death.

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Former prosecutor and state legislator running for Congress.

Raised in Washta in a family agricultural business, he says he returned in 2002 to the Woodbury County Attorney's Office and has spent nearly two decades prosecuting drug, sex-offense, and child-abuse cases. He served in the Iowa House and says he is running for the 4th District rather than for party bosses or corporate interests.

• He says he would let Medicare negotiate drug prices, cap insulin and other lifesaving drugs, protect the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid, and offer a voluntary public option while letting people keep private coverage.
• He says he would push a long-delayed farm bill, rural broadband, help for beginning farmers, and tougher anti-monopoly enforcement against corporate processors.
• He says he would seek to overturn Citizens United, ban members of Congress from trading individual stocks, and limit House service to six terms and Senate service to two.

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