@tdorman

Columnist for @gazettedotcom

 Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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Joined May 2008
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Iowa agriculture secretary race is a referendum on dirty water thegazette.com/opinion/iowa-… via @gazettedotcom

Iowa agriculture secretary race is a referendum on dirty water

Mike Naig, a Republican, is up for reelection this fall. He is being challenged by Democrat Chris Jones, a scientist and evangelist for clean water. But his plan is not

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It’s enlightening to see the real Kim Reynolds in action.
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Guys, I don't think she likes me 😞
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They used their intellectual freedom to jump off a sinking ship.
Vanessa Miller@VanessaMiller12Sep 22
Casting a 'no confidence' vote in the Center for Intellectual Freedom @ the UofIowa, all but 2 of the 13 out-of-state professors personally invited by Gov. Kim Reynolds to serve on the center’s advisory council abruptly resigned Monday. thegazette.com/news/vote-of-… via @gazettedotcom

Resignations follow no-confidence vote at Center for Intellectual Freedom

Casting a “vote of no confidence” in the Legislature’s Center for Intellectual Freedom at the University of Iowa, all but two of 13 out-of-state professors invited by Gov. Kim Reynolds to serve on...

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Lahn and Sand are steering clear of requiring clean water protections thegazette.com/opinion/lahn-… via @gazettedotcom

Lahn and Sand are steering clear of requiring clean water protections

The politics of pollution is inundating Iowa’s fall election campaign. For years, politicians shrugged at environmental destruction but no longer.

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Rob Sand is winning over Iowans despite Republican advantages thegazette.com/opinion/rob-s… via @gazettedotcom

Rob Sand is winning over Iowans despite Republican advantages

Sand’s campaign to end 20 years of Democratic gubernatorial futility has been well-executed, on message and pitch perfect. In about 30 years of writing about state politics, I’ve seen few

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Iowa’s AG Brenna Bird goes Hollywood to help Trump thegazette.com/opinion/iowa-… via @gazettedotcom

Dorman: Iowa AG Brenna Bird goes Hollywood to help Trump

Bird is going Hollywood because President Donald Trump wants the merger to happen. It would give Trump-backing owners, Larry and David Ellison, control of both CBS and CNN, as well

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MAGA twins Hinson and Trump have lost their luster thegazette.com/opinion/maga-… via @gazettedotcom

Dorman: MAGA twins Hinson & Trump have lost their luster

Many voters have come to see Trump and Hinson as indistinguishable. And it’s likely too late in the 2026 campaign for Hinson to break free after embracing Trump and his

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Wow. I didn’t expect to see these until October. Things must be worse than I thought.
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Humanoid robots are going to destroy women’s sports! Why are Republicans silent?
CBS News
@CBSNewsAug 23
A humanoid robot has beaten Usain Bolt's 100-meter sprint record at the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing, China on Saturday.
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A moment ripe for political change? Maybe. thegazette.com/opinion/colum…

Opinion: Failure is not an option for Iowa Democrats

Failure with good candidates, a favorable political climate and a candy store filled with tasty issues would relegate Iowa Democrats like a lousy English football club.

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Lahn argues farm chemicals, along with nitrate pollution, are key to Iowa’s high cancer rate. thegazette.com/opinion/colum…

Opinion: Lahn has surprising thoughts on water and elephants

Iowa Republican candidate for governor Zach Lahn says we must talk about the “elephant” in the room ahead of the 2026 election: Iowa’s agriculture industry. But so far, his plans don’t match the...

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Turek’s record draws a flurry of punches from a rival on the ropes thegazette.com/opinion/colum…

Turek’s record draws a flurry of punches from a rival on the ropes

Truth is, Wahls and Turek’s positions on most issues are not all that different. But amid those similarities, Wahls is highlighting any contrasts he can find to argue he’s a

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Satan, Marxists and a wolf witch walk into Iowa elections thegazette.com/opinion/colum… via @gazettedotcom

Opinion: Satan, Marxists and a wolf witch walk into Iowa elections

As ashamed as I am to say it about my homeland, White Christian Nationalism is thriving in Iowa. Elections are good vs. evil. Satan is trying to capture the Golden

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Lawmakers’ heads buried in what’s left of Iowa’s topsoil, Republicans and their ag allies will not stand by and allow nitrates and farm chemicals to be smeared by a bunch of cancer experts. thegazette.com/opinion/colum… via @gazettedotcom

Stop asking about agriculture and cancer, and don’t eat your spinach

Agriculture is not a cancer culprit, GOP lawmakers insist. Besides, defenders of agricultural pollution, aficionados of hog manure and corporate interests making a bundle selling fertilizer and other...

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Stop pretending the Center for Intellectual Freedom is not about politics thegazette.com/opinion/colum… via @gazettedotcom

Stop pretending the Center for Intellectual Freedom is not about politics

The effort to convince Iowans this is about intellectual freedom is laughably deceptive. It’s a right-wing think tank targeting instructors and others who, according to the thinkers, “hate their...

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Not a great look for Wahls. But will Iowa Democrats care?
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@dcexaminerApr 1
EXCLUSIVE – @ZachWahls' travel and hotel spending draws scrutiny amid populist message trib.al/JRrbPKr

Zack Wahls’s costly travel revealed in Iowa records

Iowa Democratic Party records show Wahls received nearly $30,000 in reimbursements as he campaigns on a working-class message.

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Wow. They actually listened to the families who testified at the subcommittee.
Bleeding Heartland@LauraRBelinMar 19
Big news in Iowa House HHS Committee: State Rep Austin Harris said House Republicans "have no interest" in codifying Medicaid privatization. Democrat @RobSandIA has promised to reverse Medicaid privatization (known as the "managed care system") if elected governor. #ialegis
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Iowa Republican lawmakers see history education as a political weapon

Republicans should let history live and breathe, instead of teaching it as if it’s all just old patriots and parchment. Making history education the “study of and devotion to the United States’...

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Kim Reynolds clearly has earned her wings (Via The Gazette) thegazette.com/staff-columni…
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Sharp elbows have been deployed in Iowa Democrats’ Senate race thegazette.com/staff-columni…
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