| April 11th, 2025
Governor Reynolds announced she wasn’t running for re-election, shifting the balance in this race and signaling that Iowans are ready for a better way forward.
May 12th, 2025
It simultaneously feels like both a lifetime ago and only yesterday — that’s when we launched this grassroots campaign for governor!
September 2nd, 2025
Partisan insider Joni Ernst announced she wouldn’t seek re-election, which means Iowa has an open governor’s race AND Senate race for the first time since 1968! (same year Casey’s opened btw)
December 30th, 2025
Democrats won the special election for Iowa State Senate, denying the partisan insiders a supermajority and capping off the year with Democrats’ 6th special election overperformance!
January 8th, 2026
My team announced our record-breaking 2025 fundraising haul, which came from more than 115,000 individual donations — nearly 97% of which were donations of $100 or less.
January 22nd, 2026
Today, I’m asking for you to support my campaign to be Iowa’s next governor by chipping in $25 right away! Polling shows me with a narrow lead, but a lot can (and will) happen between now and Election Day, and we need to be ready for anything!
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November 3rd, 2026
That’s the day we’re going to win this thing and take the next step to move Iowa forward!
—Rob Sand  |
