Category Archives: Jeff Stein

Fault To Go Around At Home The last few days we've blamed Joe Biden, then former DNC chair Tom Perez, for Iowa perhaps losing its first-in-the-nation presidential selection status. And, I would sugges...

It Was A Set Up More today on the actions taken by national Democrats to deny Iowans-and Midwesterners generally-the right to weigh in early on the presidential nomination process. The target has been...

Petty and Vindictive As you might imagine, I have plenty to say about the Iowa Caucuses and how our state and its Democrats have been treated by the national party. But let's just start with this. Bac...

The Independents Have It The Iowa Secretary of State issues a report on the first day of each month with voter registration totals. The one released yesterday was particularly of interest, since it in...

From Woke to Broke Plenty of analysts on the right are crowing about the turmoil at the Walt Disney Company. The still-new CEO was shown the door just before Thanksgiving, with his predecessor returni...

Silence Speaks Volumes Former President Trump apparently had dinner at Mar-A-Lago last week with Kanye West, who has been criticized recently for anti-Semitic statements, and Nick Fuentes, who CNN cal...

Sounding Familiar We are 18 days away from the federal government shutting down. That's not designed to scare you, but it's just the calendar. The federal government's fiscal year starts on October 1s...

Small Majority Here we are, nearly three weeks after election day...and we're still not sure of the breakdown of the U.S. House...but close. Recall that going into the fall, Democrats held 222 seats i...

Jeff is under the weather, and will return with this segment after Thanksgiving. In the meantime, follow him on Twitter, Instagram, Gettr, Parler and Truth Social -- @iowapolitics

The Announcement It's supposed to happen tonight at 8 p.m. Iowa time...but knowing the person speaking and his love of raising expectations, setting a mood of anticipation, etc., it may well not come ...