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PolitiFact | The term ‘red wave’ is more complicated than you think

Sabine Martin, Managing News Editor • November 28, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: Republicans at the national...

Fact Check | Did Nancy Pelosi donate $30,000 to Liz Mathis’ campaign?

Jami Martin-Trainor, Assistant Digital Editor • November 4, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson...

Fact Check | Reynolds campaign ad on police support skips DeJear’s explanation

Liam Halawith, Politics Reporter • October 31, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: A Kim Reynolds campaign...

Fact Check | DeJear social media post says Reynolds thinks nurses required education, but she didn’t say that

Liam Halawith, Politics Reporter • October 31, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: During the lone Iowa...

Fact Check | The facts about Iowa’s 2nd District congressional candidates and abortion

Liam Halawith, Politics Reporter • October 11, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson...

Fact Check | Iowans are paying $5,000 more per year under inflation, are Democrats to blame?

Liam Halawith, Politics Reporter • October 4, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: In a tweet introducing...

Fact Check | Facts behind Iowa’s 1st District congressional debate

Natalie Dunlap, Sabine Martin, Kate Perez, and Lyle Muller • September 30, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. Mariannette Miller-Meeks and Christina Bohannan had...

Fact Check | Cindy Axne ranks high in bipartisan action

Sabine Martin, Managing News Editor • September 27, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: U.S. Rep. Cindy Axne ranked...

Fact Check | Ernst newsletter skips part of report on IRS audits

Lyle Muller, PolitiFact Iowa Editor • August 30, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: Iowa’s Republican U.S....

Fact Check | Differences exist in how to spend it, but state budget surplus has cash

Lyle Muller, PolitiFact Iowa Editor • August 29, 2022

PolitiFact Iowa is a project of The Daily Iowan’s Ethics & Politics Initiative and PolitiFact to help you find the truth in politics. If your time is short: Iowa Democratic gubernatorial...

Fact Check | Rep. Miller-Meeks claims Democrats’ bill would allow abortion up until birth

Nina Baker and Lyle Muller • August 1, 2022

If your time is short: Congressional Republicans overwhelmingly oppose Democratic efforts to pass a law guaranteeing a woman’s right to an abortion. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, told...

Fact Check | Zach Nunn falsely claims Cindy Axne sought to defund police

Sam Knupp, Managing Editor • July 20, 2022

If your time is short: Iowa Republican congressional candidate Zach Nunn claimed in a Breitbart interview that his Democratic incumbent opponent, Cindy Axne, has sought to defund police by taking...