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1 year

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

9 months

One thousandth of one percent.

C.J. Petersen 🏳️‍🌈 🌽

@cjforiowa

9 months

Related to this evening’s Iowa political discourse (h/t @IAStartingLine ) in which folks have asserted to me that the poors just do fraud and that’s why the kids shouldn’t get food in the summer when school is out of session .

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Ryan Melton

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Someone with a knife can not kill as many people as quickly before being stopped as someone with an AR-15. The gun matters. It’s not the only thing that matters, but it does.

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Ryan Melton

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8 months

One of the biggest scams and thefts of taxpayer money I’ve seen, primarily to damage public schools.

Iowa Democrats

@iowademocrats

8 months

66% of private school vouchers went to students already attending private schools.

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Ryan Melton

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2 years

Here with this massive overflow crowd at the Capitol to show our opposition to using more public money to fund private schools.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

Nationally, we’re last in mental health bed availability, last in OB-GYN availability, have the 2nd highest cancer incidence rate, and have one of the worst child care availability rates. Our public ed rankings are plummeting. You’re not spending enough.

Kim Reynolds

@KimReynoldsIA

1 year

Some think a “surplus” is government not spending enough. I say it’s an 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 from the hard-working men and women of Iowa! It should be returned to them!

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Ryan Melton

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3 months

If you’re looking for common threads among mass shooters, being bullied is one of the stronger ones I’ve seen. We live in a society with too many leaders who think bullying conveys strength and kindness is weakness. We need to be proactively anti-bullying.

What we know about the Trump rally gunman so far | CNN

Interviews with a half-dozen former classmates and neighbors of Thomas Crooks painted him as quiet and aloof, with some remembering him as a misfit in high school.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 months

I see why Gov. Reynolds isn’t spending the surplus on actual needs. She has a lot of cronies, like Odyssey & Rastetter to pay off. To my Republican friends, your party is not fiscally conservative. The only time Reynolds is a penny pincher is when it comes to feeding kids.

Rob Sand

@RobSandIA

2 months

Our office has discovered the contract with Odyssey to administer ESAs doubled in cost to taxpayers just a few months after being signed, with no reason being provided. Read it:

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Ryan Melton

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2 years

There are literally parents now preparing to move out of the state, out of homes they earned through their blood, sweat and tears, because state legislators are targeting their kids. Kids who will be leaving behind friends, family, memories, everything they’ve grown up knowing.

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Ryan Melton

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27 days

Iowa’s cancer crisis again makes national news, but most of the state’s elected officials don’t talk about it. As such, it’s no surprise that most at my events don’t know we are the only state with a rising cancer incidence rate and have the second highest cancer incidence rate.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 month

School vouchers are a scam. Public money needs to stay in public schools.

ProPublica

@propublica

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Arizona’s school voucher experiment has led to a budget meltdown. The state this year faced a $1.4 billion budget shortfall, much of which was a result of the new voucher spending.

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2 years

Kim: “Teachers, here’s our big pile of money, but it’s not for you. Child care workers? Nuhuh. Disability care workers? Nope. Mental health advocates? Nah. Unemployed Iowans? No.” This is her bragging about hoarding while people suffer.

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Ryan Melton

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3 months

I’m still stunned that today, our state government told all landowners that corporate power trumps landowner rights. To my Republican friends, Reynolds and Feenstra sold you out to Rastetter, who bought them for tens of thousands. Not one comment from Feenstra today about it.

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Ryan Melton

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1 month

Iowans are getting pissed their property taxes are jumping because the Republican Party-controlled state legislature is playing a shell game, cutting income taxes to help the wealthiest while recouping it in ways that impact the less well off.

Editorial: Our property tax bill went up 76% - Storm Lake Times Pilot

We were stunned to receive our property tax bill for our office this week and see that it rose by 76% from last year. They demand more than $5,000 from us for our humble metal shed on Railroad …

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Ryan Melton

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1 year

I’m curious, who else would you add to the list of those negatively impacted by Gov. Reynolds’ policies?

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

6 months

The hollowing out of our state continues.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

11 months

Gotta feel pretty good if you’re a Democrat in Iowa tonight.

Keenan Crow

@KF_Crow

11 months

Moms for Liberty chapters across Iowa endorsed 13 candidates in the 2023 school board races. Out of the 13, a single candidate won in the I35 school district; a rural district with fewer than 1000 students.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

9 months

Governor Reynolds’ legacy will be one of hurting those who need the most help.

Iowa's AEAs

@iowa_aea

9 months

Just as Iowa classrooms have transformed over the past 50 years, so have our programs and services. The proposed bill aims to bring significant shifts to the education landscape; it's crucial to keep an eye on how it will impact our programs and services.

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Ryan Melton

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7 months

It’s fitting I turned in my 2200+ signatures to run for Congress as the only Democratic candidate in the 4th right after sparring with the IA Republican Party Chair over voting rights. I’m the pro-freedom, pro-democracy candidate in this race. Let’s fight the good fight together.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

7 months

Awful day in the state house. They passed a bill allowing discrimination in the name of religion. The dismantling of a state happening before our eyes and sold for scrap.

Iowa House passes 'religious freedom' bill. Democrats say it allows discrimination

Lawmakers passed a bill Thursday that says the government cannot "substantially burden" someone's exercise of religion.

www.desmoinesregister.com

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

The school voucher program is really just a massive redistribution of taxpayer money to the wealthy that kicks public education while it’s already down on the ground bleeding. In other words, it’s a scam. It’s legalized theft.

Des Moines Register

@DMRegister

1 year

Of the 17,000 approved applications, 60% currently attend an accredited private school while 40% are switching from public to private school.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 month

I see Feenstra has woken up and has done some more panic tweeting this morning. All these reposts demanding Republicans vote for him. Just make the case, what have you done to warrant their vote, Randy? 1. He is serving in literally the least productive US House in modern

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

4 months

If Biden was just convicted of 34 felonies, I wouldn’t be kissing his ass or vilifying the private citizens on the jury. I’d be pissed @ the position he put my party & country in because of his selfishness & recklessness. Then, I’d find someone else to vote for. It’s that simple.

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Ryan Melton

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When a corporation not only gets to claim your land that you have spent years working hard to own, but can also put a pipeline underneath you that can asphyxiate you at any moment, & your state government has approved this against your will, you are no longer free. That is Iowa.

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Ryan Melton

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5 months

“My sister had breast cancer. My other sister had uterine cancer. As a nurse practitioner I’m aware of five people now with pancreatic cancer. I know 20 people who have other cancers or died of cancer here. Everybody is aware this is going on.”

An Iowa farm county seeks answers amid cancer rates 50% higher than national average

By Keith Schneider EMMETSBURG, IOWA –Raised in rural Iowa, 71-year-old Maureen Reeves Horsley once considered her tiny hometown in the northwest part of the state to be a blessed space. She recalls a...

www.thenewlede.org

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Ryan Melton

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2 months

I simply don’t believe that the moment a woman becomes pregnant is the moment she should become dehumanized and lose control over her body and her choices. The exact opposite should be true. She should be empowered and supported, not stripped of her value and agency.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 months

Stop peddling bullshit to Iowans, Todd. This isn’t difficult. Unless you’re a lying, destructive, selfish cog in the scheme to end public education in this state.

Todd Erzen

@DeaceOnline

2 months

Stop giving porn to school children, Ryan. This isn’t difficult. Unless you are a groomer.

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Ryan Melton

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29 days

A lot of Republicans have told me they are voting for me. Their party’s leadership has sold them out to their big $ corporate donors. They’ve seen I reject such $, have joined Republican landowners at protests in defense of their land, and know it’s time to put people over party.

Bruce Cargin

@BruceCargin

29 days

@melton4iowa sign on a prominent corner in my hometown in Iowa. I know these people. They are not Democrats.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

At least when Grassley posts something off topic, it’s about innocuous things like his vacuum or shows about aliens. Iowa’s Governor, though, is full on internet troll. The great divider.

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Ryan Melton

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7 months

Great news! Iowa Senate Republicans do not have the votes at this time to proceed with the AEA bill. However, as Rep. Trone Garriott says, the battle isn’t over yet, but clearly the pushback from Iowans is working.

Sarah Trone Garriott

@SarahforIowa

7 months

We DID NOT debate the Senate AEA bill—they didn’t have the votes. your advocacy is working! KEEP IT UP!

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

1/After a lot of reflection, discussions with my family, recovery from the last race, and asks of 4th District residents for their feedback on how our last campaign went and if they’d find it helpful and of value for us to run again, I am announcing that I’m running for…

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Ryan Melton

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3 months

I had a two hour chat today with a room full of Republicans. Good people. We disagreed on some things but certainly agreed on a lot. What are the top ten things we agreed on? 1. The carbon capture pipelines are a scam and an unjustifiable abuse of eminent domain

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Ryan Melton

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10 months

When she posts this, I’ve got to imagine the families of the 10,000+ Iowans that died from Covid feel erased. Also, California has one of the lowest per capita Covid death rates, Florida has one of the highest.

Kim Reynolds

@KimReynoldsIA

10 months

Iowa and Florida stood as beacons of hope and freedom during COVID. We were the first two states to get our kids back in the classroom! California locked them out. Destroyed kids’ futures and many will never recover.

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Ryan Melton

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2 years

How in the hell has Chuck Grassley still managed to avoid real scrutiny over his Jan. 5th comments that strongly suggested he may have known of the inner workings of the Jan. 6th coup plot? Blows my mind.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

9 months

Why in the world would any governor not accept this funding?

Sarah Trone Garriott

@SarahforIowa

9 months

In Iowa we are still waiting. There is a January 1 deadline to indicate interest in federal funds to feed kids—time is running out and our administration has not yet applied. Please encourage our Governor to direct her administration to apply:

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

“In February, the Iowa Cancer Registry, in its 50th annual report, found Iowa is the only state with a significant increase in cancer from 2015 to 2019, and has the second-highest overall cancer incidence of all states.”

In Iowa, a tale of politics, power, and contaminated water

By Keith Schneider IOWA CITY, IOWA – Here in the heart of US farm country, the wretched quality of Iowa waterways is a well-known lament. Farm fields laden with synthetic fertilizers and manure...

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

6 months

Add: Rejected millions in federal aid to shore up our struggling child care sector.

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Ryan Melton

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2 years

“As Iowa Safe Schools pointed out in a statement, "there have been zero documented incidents of transgender Iowans behaving inappropriately in restrooms" since Iowa added gender identity to the state civil rights act in 2007.”

Governor, spare us your fake concern for trans kids

Kim Reynolds now claims her "heart breaks" for transgender children, but she has used them to build her political brand.

www.bleedingheartland.com

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

3 months

Oh by the way, the Iowa Supreme Court’s cherry on top today is traumatizing kids by forcing them to testify against their abusers. Hellish decisions from the state and national supreme courts today. Just awful.

Janice Weiner

@janice4iowa

3 months

Another 4-3 decision that itself sounds a lot like abuse to me. Iowa Supreme Court rules children must testify against alleged abusers in-person via ⁦ @DMRegister ⁩

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 months

Also, if Reynolds has nothing to do with the pipeline, why per a FOIA request of her itinerary from the DSM Register did Rastetter have so many meetings with her over the past few years?

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Ryan Melton

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2 months

1/I'm hearing from some in the press that Walz is too progressive and needs to prove he's a common sense guy. Progressivism is common sense. It's common sense to defend feeding hungry kids more than the 1%er getting his 5th mansion when it comes to tax policy. It's common

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

6 months

Iowa is a corporate piggy bank, where the powerful extract our wealth and send it thousands of miles away. In exchange, we get toxic beaches and shit-filled water, a lot of cancer, and an exodus of our young talent. Why? Our politicians eat from the trough of these robber barons.

Deb VanderGaast

@DebCares4Iowa

6 months

HSB 737 will be pushed through the legislature tomorrow, 3/28. This is the bill that will give immunity to the pesticide companies. It is a gift to giant Bayer. Please let people know to call their legislators.

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Ryan Melton

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5 months

1/In rural Iowa, our wealth is in our land. As consolidation in ag has taken over and continues to ramp up, we've lost most of our farmers who kept that wealth in our communities. Now, we see an increasing wealth gap in rural Iowa, less jobs, and the jobs that are here often

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

10 months

This is a look at what Iowa will be soon if the Iowa Supreme Court approves Reynolds’ abortion ban. The fetus has been given no chance at survival. This isn’t about protecting life. This is about control. This is about making women second class citizens. This is about fear.

Center for Reproductive Rights

@ReproRights

10 months

BREAKING: Late tonight, the Texas Supreme Court temporarily halted a lower court ruling that would have allowed Kate Cox, our plaintiff with severe pregnancy complications, to have an abortion to protect her health and future fertility.

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Ryan Melton

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10 months

How’s Iowa doing nationally? 1. Last in OB-GYN availability 2. Last in mental health care bed availability 3. Second worst cancer incidence rate 4. Public Education rankings plummeting as it’s being vilified and underfunded 5. Notorious for its brain drain problems

Kim Reynolds

@KimReynoldsIA

10 months

The Left’s vision for America is Bidenomics, inflation, and an open border. If you like what we are doing in Iowa, you will love @RonDeSantis ’ vision for our country!

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 month

The Iowa Republican Party leadership went against the will of Iowans of all political affiliations by attacking our most vulnerable students and their parents. Make them pay at the ballot box this year.

Tina Halverson

@thalv19

1 month

We told Iowa legislators that the AEA bill was going to impact students, educators, and schools. The GOP insisted “nothing would change”. We are already seeing impacts and the school year just began. Vote them out.

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Ryan Melton

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9 months

Judging from my post yesterday asking people who grew up in rural Iowa why they left, some notable things jump out to me reading through the replies: 1. Economic opportunities are lacking. 2. A lot left because of the political environment in rural Iowa leaving them feeling

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 months

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

3 months

So…what the hell does she mean by that?

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

10 months

I talk about this on the campaign trail. The Republican Party hasn’t won the popular vote of a presidential election in 20 years, and demographic/generational shifts aren’t going their way. They can’t win on policy, so they drive people out of red states to make them redder.

The Tennessee Holler

@TheTNHoller

10 months

🧠 RED STATE BRAIN DRAIN: “Republican-dominated states are pushing out young professionals by enacting extremist conservative policies.”

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Ryan Melton

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1 year

Iowa has the second highest cancer incidence rate in the nation.

Could farm fertilizers be driving Corn Belt cancers?

By Keith Schneider BERNE, Minn. – It was a hot afternoon in mid-July and 60-year-old Brian Bennerotte was making a pilgrimage of sorts, navigating a shotgun-straight, gravel road south of Minneapolis...

www.thenewlede.org

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

She voted against the Infrastructure Bill…

Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, M.D.

@RepMMM

1 year

This morning, I attended the ribbon cutting for the I-80/I-380 Interchange, which is one of our busiest junctions in the region and a critical link for Iowa’s transportation system. Congratulations to everyone who worked hard to make this day happen ahead of schedule!

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Ryan Melton

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11 months

What a shameful thing for Randy Feenstra to post. Stop vilifying hard working folks who are being screwed by their employers with low pay.

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2 months

Federal judges allow Iowa book ban to take effect this school year | AP News: We can change this hollowing out of our rights in this state. To my Republican friends, you shouldn’t like these kinds of attacks on freedom either, this government overreach.

Federal judges allow Iowa book ban to take effect this school year

Iowa can enforce a book ban this school year following a federal appeals court ruling. The U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled the ban can take effect as a lawsuit seeking to...

apnews.com

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 months

This is in the northeast part of my Congressional District. Absolutely shameful and unacceptable.

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Ryan Melton

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2 years

Reach out to your friends in the LGBTQ+ community. Ask if they are OK. Empathize. It’s going to get scary here in Iowa.

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Ryan Melton

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4 months

I drove through a lot of small Iowa towns this weekend, and one of the unifying threads was the pride folks have in their public schools. Beyond that, the school is often the #1 employer there. With our steady population decline, those schools are vital to these towns surviving.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

11 months

Bullshit. Raise the cap on taxable income and social security would be just fine. The cap is well under 200k. The superwealthy don’t have to be our overlords. They are superwealthy in large part because our tax code is so broken that they have the money that was created by us.

Kamala HQ

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11 months

Haley: Any candidate who says they won’t go after Social Security and Medicare... We have to do it

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Ryan Melton

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7 months

Gov. Reynolds sits on her mountain of surplus money so she can tweet about how big it is, while watching schools that surplus should be funding weaken, close, and consolidate over time. As more small town schools close, those same towns will further weaken and further hollow out.

Zach Spindler-Krage

@zspindlerkrage

7 months

At an emotional school board meeting in Grinnell, Iowa tonight, the board paved the way for nearly $1 million in cuts. The cuts include many teachers and staff. A common refrain: the Legislature and @KimReynoldsIA are to blame. Hear from a teacher. #Iowa #budgetcuts #schools

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Ryan Melton

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1 year

If you’re running to represent people, it seems obligation #1 is to willingly make yourself available to public scrutiny. If you’re running for President and you are locking great journalists like Ty out, you don’t have the backbone to be President and you can’t be trusted.

Ty Rushing

@Rushthewriter

1 year

Welp, I got barred from covering a Ron DeSantis event in Harlan — one of three of his events I planned to cover today — with absolutely no explanation as to why.

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In Iowa, if you are sexually assaulted, your state government does not give a damn about you. At your lowest, darkest moment, you mean nothing. Why? Because a few people in power want to get their heads patted by their Christian Nationalist donors.

The Associated Press

@AP

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The Iowa Attorney General's Office has paused its practice of paying for emergency contraception, and in rare cases abortions, for victims of sexual assault.

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1 month

Just finished chatting w/ a packed house in Spencer. Over & over the past couple months, I continue to be amazed at the turnouts. One person tonight said she hasn’t seen this much energy here since Bernie was running for President. Iowa’s 4th District Dems are fired up.

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Ryan Melton

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2 years

The ESA/Voucher plan is a scam and a robbery of Iowa’s taxpayers. Rep. Konfrst does a nice job here making this clear via her line of questioning. The response of “of course we wouldn’t require that, it’s a private business” is why public money needs to stay in public schools.

Ty Rushing

@Rushthewriter

2 years

A minute from yesterday's Iowa House Education Reform Committee meeting that is with your time if you've been paying attention to the voucher legislation in Iowa.

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@KimReynoldsIA @RandyFeenstra Oh, it’s Gov. “let the hungry kids starve” Reynolds.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

Or maybe we don’t set those Covid relief dollars on fire for nothing other than a political stunt. Maybe we develop Long Covid research infrastructure in the state? Maybe we upgrade ventilation systems in schools to lessen the spread when the next wave or pandemic comes?

Iowa Starting Line

@IAStartingLine

1 year

Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she is deploying members of the Iowa National Guard and Iowa State Patrol to US southern border. She will use federal COVID-relief dollars to cover all expenses.

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Ryan Melton

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1 year

1/The abortion ban has passed the house and senate, so Kim will be signing it soon. I don't think the right thing for current office holders and candidates to do at this point is to post some iteration of "we all need to vote harder."

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Ryan Melton

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30 days

Iowa’s brain drain is getting worse, which isn’t a surprise. Feenstra and Reynolds don’t prioritize a fix because the brain drain in the short and mid term helps them solidify political power, but it’s unsustainable and hurts their own voters too.

What's driving Iowa's brain drain? New survey offers glimpse at leave-or-stay factors

An Iowa Workforce Development survey provides insights into why almost as many students plan to leave Iowa to start careers as those who plan to stay

www.desmoinesregister.com

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5 months

Iowa Republicans make outlawing gay marriage key 2024 campaign priority: Another sign that the leaders of the party have nothing in the tank that actually helps people, including the voters in their own party.

Iowa Republicans make outlawing gay marriage key 2024 campaign priority

Iowa Republicans have made outlawing gay marriage a key goal in their 2024 party platform. During the Iowa GOP’s 2024 state convention on Saturday, Republican delegates endorsed a policy platform...

iowastartingline.com

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 years

I really think Deidre DeJear is a once in a generation candidate. I’ve had the pleasure of hearing her in person many times, and I always walk away with the same thought. It’d be a damn shame if we wasted her gift by not doing what’s needed to get her in office.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

You know, this moment, dancing on the destroyed freedoms and rights of so many, feels like a turning point.

Ty Rushing

@Rushthewriter

1 year

Reynolds got a standing ovation from the crowd as she walked on the stage.

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Ryan Melton

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2 months

@DeaceOnline Stop peddling bullshit to Iowans, Todd. This isn’t difficult. Unless you’re a lying, destructive, selfish cog in the scheme to end public education in this state.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

15 days

Seen in Clay County Iowa today. No eminent domain for private gain. No scam CO2 pipelines.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

11 days

No Iowa legislator can truly be pro-farmer and pro-Iowa without addressing the fact we may not have sufficient topsoil left to be an ag state by 2080. Not only is our DC delegation not talking about this, they are legislating a ramp up of the problem.

Iowa's prized topsoil could have 60 years left, experts say

Land experts are encouraging farmers to use less tilling and more cover crops, which would improve soil health.

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@melton4iowa

2 years

“The governor's office told the Iowa Capitol Dispatch the loss of that money is the result of a deliberate decision to avoid committing $3 million in matching state funds toward child care.” Losing 30 mil. to save 3 mil., huh?

Iowa to lose millions in child care funding

The governor's office told the Iowa Capitol Dispatch the loss of that money is the result of a deliberate decision.

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@melton4iowa

2 months

I pray you reflect on the damage you do, that the hate in your heart ends, as I imagine you are miserable with that poison you carry within you. I actually live by the golden rule. I want the best for you and Iowa’s kids. Do you, or are they just political pawns to you? Reflect.

Todd Erzen

@DeaceOnline

2 months

You have pronouns in your bio so you are an expert at peddling bullshit. Also, stay away from children, groomer.

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@melton4iowa

8 months

I’m grateful for Biden’s continued work lifting more Americans out from underneath predatory lending.

Randy Feenstra

@RandyFeenstra

8 months

Biden canceled student loans for 74,000 people today. Iowans shouldn’t be forced to pay off somebody else’s loans!! #IA04

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@melton4iowa

8 months

If you get the chance to see Feenstra on the road, I’d ask him why he takes thousands from China-owned Smithfield and Syngenta if he is so worried about them taking over our ag sector.

Rep. Feenstra will launch second annual Agriculture Tour on Wednesday

Feenstra will launch his tour with the Harrison County Farm Bureau over coffee in Logan, and will then host a Farm Bill town hall with farmers and producers in Treynor.

nonpareilonline.com

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 years

It still blows my mind that Sen. Grassley said out loud on 1/5/21 that VP Pence wouldn’t be present on 1/6/21 to certify the ballots. It also continues to alarm me that Rep. Feenstra voted against the 1/6 Committee. Democracy is who we are, and it’s worth saving.

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@melton4iowa

7 months

One of the most damaging things Trump has done has been the attacks on and resultant degradation in confidence of science, expertise, and education. Well meaning people often tell me to not listen to the science, to experts, to facts. Trump had to degrade civil society to win.

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@melton4iowa

6 months

@RepFeenstra What are your thoughts on your wealthy donors having their PPP loans forgiven? What about your fellow Republicans in Congress?

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3 months

This is an 11 min watch but it is so good at telling how rural Iowa became burdened with the problems it’s buried under via the ramp up of corporate consolidation and industrial ag. I’m told it’s too late to reverse even some of this but we won’t know if we don’t try.

More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

3 months

NEW: Iowa has lost 90% of its family farms in the past 40 years — 40,000 total farms, gone. But hog industry profits have tripled. All that profit just goes to 3 companies that now dominate every aspect of the pork industry.

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2 years

This would literally lead to more youth suicide. It’s immoral.

GOP Bill Wants Schools To Forcibly Out Iowa Students

Iowa teachers would be required to out many LGBTQ students to their parents regardless of home situations in a new bill introduced this morning by many House

iowastartingline.com

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@melton4iowa

6 months

Iowa is suffering from a cancer crisis but none of our state’s congressional delegation in D.C. talks about its potential root causes or trying to find and mitigate them, a public health emergency that comes up every weekend on the campaign trail. Why do you think that may be?

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@melton4iowa

2 years

1/I’ve seen a number of Iowans respond to Tuesday’s election results by saying they are going to move out of state due to the voting trends in the state over the last decade plus, and the resultant concerns they have over policy decisions that…

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@melton4iowa

11 months

We see per the results last night that Iowans are pushing back on extremism. How do we know that? Because people ran in races to push back. In Iowa’s 4th cong. district, of the 25 state house races we have, only 9 per my count have a Dem running for ‘24. We need more candidates.

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10 months

I see a lot of Dollar Generals as I’m driving thru small towns in NW Iowa. To me, they serve as a microcosm representing the hollowing out of our rural communities.

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@melton4iowa

2 years

Just got word that my opponent formally declined our debate invitation from PBS. So, they’ll interview me on the Iowa Press show on 9/23 instead.

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@melton4iowa

13 days

Absolutely shameful that efforts to criminalize homelessness passed in DSM tonight. Immoral. Inhumane.

tim

@timothymnel

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Legacies were cemented at the Des Moines City Council tonight. Those who voted to criminalize homelessness will be remembered for doing so, regardless of anything else they have done or will do. Furthermore this issue isn't over, in fact it has only just begun.

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9 months

1/Iowa will not participate in federal summer meal program for low-income children: Kids are going hungry in Iowa. Reynolds has the money to administer this program. Instead, she’s going to give that surplus to the wealthiest Iowans via more tax cuts.

Iowa will not participate in federal summer meal program for low-income children • Iowa Capital...

State officials announced that Iowa will not participate in a federal program to provide summer food assistance to children in need.

iowacapitaldispatch.com

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@melton4iowa

1 month

@KimReynoldsIA @RandyFeenstra Hi, it’s Gov. “public schools destroyer” Reynolds.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

1 year

Redistribution of wealth has been happening from the tax payer to the wealthy for decades. "This country has socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor." -MLK

Rep. Randy Feenstra

@RepFeenstra

1 year

Republicans want Americans to keep more of their hard-earned money. President Biden wants to tax and redistribute Americans’ hard-earned money. That’s #Bidenomics .

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@melton4iowa

1 month

“I never fathomed supporting a Democrat, and my politics still have little overlap with him. But I think I would rather have somebody in that seat with integrity who says what they believe and votes in accords with their principles."

Why an ex-Republican candidate endorsed a Democrat over incumbent US Rep. Randy Feenstra

Republican Kevin Virgil said the party is "squandering their majority" when endorsed Democrat Ryan Melton in Iowa's 4th Congressional District.

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@melton4iowa

2 months

I just accepted the debate offer in Fort Dodge on Saturday, Oct 12 at 10 am with Randy Feenstra per the League of Women Voters. Feenstra has not yet accepted.

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@melton4iowa

2 months

Today, Iowa’s abortion ban goes into effect. We will begin soon to hear horror stories of women facing death due to pregnancy complications here as the so-called exceptions in the legislation are going to be almost impossible to get. Please spread the message so folks are aware.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

2 years

I called Rep. Feenstra to congratulate him on his victory. I’m grateful for the many amazingly kind and passionate people I’ve met during the campaign. I’ll have more thoughts later, but thank you, all. Let’s keep fighting the good fight together.

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Ryan Melton

@melton4iowa

8 months

Feenstra has taken thousands from Syngenta & Smithfield, two companies owned by Chinese companies. Through Smithfield, China owns our largest pork producer. Syngenta sells pesticides here banned in a number of European nations. China doesn’t need our farmland to own U.S. ag.

Rep. Randy Feenstra

@RepFeenstra

8 months

I’m glad that my bill to ban China from buying American farmland passed the U.S. House of Representatives last March by a vote of 407-26. For the sake of our national security, China can’t be allowed to buy our farmland. #IA04

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1/I spoke with a Vietnam Vet last night in Humboldt. His wife is in a memory care facility, and he is spending over $8,000/mo on her care. He was injured by agent orange exposure while in the service and gets disability, but those benefits and more are going to his wife’s care.

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@melton4iowa

7 months

I wonder how many trans kids have to be bullied, beaten and murdered before transphobic politicians will stop. Or do they think the more the better, hoping the fear drives all trans kids and their parents out? Our trans friends need all the love we can muster right now.

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@melton4iowa

2 years

1/This may be an unpopular opinion to some, but the caucus process, while entertaining to some, is in my opinion not accessible, and not conducive to bringing new voters into the fold who may be interested in getting involved but feel intimidated by the process.

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@melton4iowa

9 months

So I guess no more bibles would be handed out to Iowa’s youth.

Erin Reed

@ErinInTheMorn

9 months

A new bill in Iowa would make those who provide "obscene material to minors" register with the sex offense registry. Obscene material includes "written material" and could include literary classics, as well as LGBTQ+ books, as we have seen interpreted by Republican legislators.

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@melton4iowa

2 years

The Iowa Supreme Court today said abortion rights are not protected by our constitution. This may lead to the restriction or ban of abortion, and may also lead to its criminalization. This trajectory will not actually end abortion, but I fear it will criminalize womanhood.

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