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Join us for a Community ConversationYou're invited to a listening session with Kris Williams, a lifelong Iowan and candidate for Iowa House District 08. This isn't a rally or a speech—it's a chance for you to be heard.Kris wants to listen to what matters most to you and your family. Let's talk about the issues facing our community and our state, like:The future of our public schoolsHealthcare access and costsSupporting working families and local businessesProtecting our water and environmentBuilding an economy that works for everyoneThis is your opportunity to share your story, your concerns, and your ideas for a better Iowa.

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Join us for a Community ConversationYou're invited to a listening session with Kris Williams, a lifelong Iowan and candidate for Iowa House District 08. This isn't a rally or a speech—it's a chance for you to be heard.

For too many Iowans, healthcare has become unaffordable. In recent years, our costs have risen at three times the rate of inflation. The average Iowan now spends over $9,200 annually on care, forcing families to skip vital check-ups and avoid treatment until a minor issue becomes a costly emergency. In total, this broken sysyem costs Iowans an estimate of $30 billion a year.This crisis hits everywhere. We watch rural hospitals and clinics collapse while our state suffers from some of the highest cancer rates in the nation. Our system isn't just broken, it's working exactly as designed: prioritizing insurance company profits over Iowans' health.Kris's Plan: A Common-Sense, Iowa-First SolutionKris will fight to launch a public option. Here's how it works:<ol><li>Cut Out the Costly Middleman: Challenge the insurance corporations that refuse care, by taking Medicaid back to the public, and expand it. This eliminates wasteful insurance bureaucracy and redirects every dollar toward patient care.</li><li>Meet People Where They Are: Create a new corps of community health outreach workers to help Iowans—especially in rural and underserved areas—navigate and access the care they need.</li><li>Invest in Prevention: By guaranteeing frequent, quality primary and preventive care, we can catch serious illnesses like cancer early. This human-focused approach saves lives and saves money by avoiding the lifelong financial burden of a late-stage crisis.</li></ol>Healthcare cannot be a paywall. Kris believes your health is a common good, not a commodity. It’s time to build a system that reflects our Iowa values—one designed to improve health and quality of life for everyone, not generate profits for a few.

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This isn't your typical political event. It's a chance to connect with Kris, hear his vision for putting people over profit, and help build our grassroots campaign from the ground up.We'll Provide: Complimentary soup to enjoy. You Can Order: Your favorite craft beers and drinks from River Hops' regular menu. The Main Event: A Silent Pie Auction featuring delicious, donated pies! Bid to win and directly fuel our campaign to flip this seat.Free to attend. All are welcome—bring your friends, neighbors, and anyone who believes in building a better Iowa.

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in Iowa, we believe in common sense. And right now, a common-sense look at our country shows something is broken. We have a system where giant corporations and a handful of billionaires can buy elections and influence politicians, while the rest of us are left to shout from the sidelines. Our voices are drowned out by big money.That’s not a real democracy. That’s an auction.True democracy means the people have the power, not just to vote, but to have a real say in the forces that shape our lives: our jobs, our healthcare, our land, and our economy. It’s about building a society where the wealth we all create together works for all of us, not just for those at the top.<h4>The Problem: Our Voices Are Being Drowned Out</h4><ul><li>Big Money in Politics: Campaigns are funded by wealthy donors and corporate PACs, so it’s their interests: (tax breaks for the rich, deregulation for polluters) that get heard in Des Moines and Washington. Our needs, like protecting family farms and saving rural hospitals, get put on the back burner.</li><li>An Economy That Works for the Few: For decades, the productivity of Iowa’s workers, on the factory floor and in the fields, has gone up! But the rewards have all flowed to shareholders and CEOs, while our wages have stayed flat. We’re working harder than ever but falling further behind.</li><li>No Real Say on the Job: Most of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work, yet we have little to no say in the decisions that affect our safety, our schedules, and our dignity.</li></ul>This isn't the Iowa value of "neighbors helping neighbors." This is a system designed to help the powerful.<h4>Our Vision: An Economy and a Democracy Run By and For Working People</h4>We need to extend the idea of democracy beyond the voting booth and into our daily economic lives. It’s about making sure that the wealth we create with our hands, and our minds benefits our communities, not just distant corporate headquarters.Here’s what that looks like here in Iowa:<ul><li>A Government That Works for Us, Not Them:<ul><li>Get Big Money Out: I’ll fight for public financing of campaigns, so politicians are accountable to voters, not corporate donors.</li><li>Protect and Expand Voting Rights: Make it easier, not harder, for every Iowan to vote, with automatic voter registration and expanded early voting.</li></ul></li><li>Worker Power and a Fair Share:<ul><li>Protect the Right to Unionize: Make it easier for workers to form a union so we can collectively bargain for better wages, benefits, and safer working conditions. When unions are strong, all workers benefit.</li><li>Worker Cooperatives: We’ll provide state support for employees to own their businesses. Imagine a factory or a local grocery store owned and run by the people who work there, keeping the profits right here in our community.</li></ul></li><li>Public Wealth for Public Good:<ul><li>Invest in Ourselves: Instead of giving massive tax breaks to out-of-state corporations, let’s use our public resources to build the things we all need - like affordable housing, a state-owned public option for broadband, and renewable energy projects that create jobs and lower costs.</li><li>Keep Our Land and Wealth in Our Hands: Support policies that help family farmers, not giant agribusiness corporations, and protect our land from being exploited for short-term corporate gain.</li></ul></li></ul><h4>Our Commitment</h4>As your representative, I will be a voice for this common-sense vision of democracy. I will fight for:<ol><li>Campaign Finance Reform to end the dominance of corporate PAC money in our state politics.</li><li>Laws that Make it Easier to Unionize, because no one should have to risk their job to demand a fair wage.</li><li>Policies that Support Employee Ownership, helping to build an economy where working Iowans can build wealth and stability.</li></ol>This is about building an Iowa where everyone who works hard can build a good life. It’s about creating a true democracy of, by, and for the people.<h3>Call to Action Section</h3>Ready to build a democracy that works for Iowa working families?<ul><li>Share Your Story: Tell us how corporate power has impacted your job, your family, or your community.</li><li>Volunteer: Help us take this message of people-powered democracy to every doorstep in the district.</li><li>Donate: Chip in what you can to support a campaign funded by people, not PACs.</li></ul>

Putting Power back in the hands of the people. We have a system where giant corporations and a few billionaires can buy elections and influence politicians, while the rest of us shout from the sidelines. Our voices drowned out by big money. That's not a real democracy. That's an Auction.

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CAMPAIGN ON!Officially on the ballot with paperwork filed, graduated (finished classes), and Website Update!Williams is challenging the failure of “trickle-down” economics, noting that CEO pay has skyrocketed to nearly 300 times that of their workers within a single generation. His campaign commits to delivering tangible results for Iowans, contrasting his vision with what he describes as an ineffective status quo.A Platform for Working Iowans:The Williams campaign is built on a foundation of actionable policies designed to address the daily struggles of Iowa families:<ul><li>People Over Profit:&nbsp;Raising the minimum wage to a living wage, expanding public transportation, protecting consumers and small businesses from corporate monopolies, and investing in publicly owned clean energy.</li><li>Fully Fund Public Schools:&nbsp;Halting the diversion of public dollars to private institutions and guaranteeing every child a great education.</li><li>Health Care for All:&nbsp;Ensuring every Iowan has a right to accessible, affordable healthcare.</li><li>Improve Water Quality:&nbsp;Implementing common-sense protections for our</li><li>drinking water and closing loopholes for agricultural and industrial runoff.</li><li>Universal Childcare:&nbsp;Treating childcare as an essential public good, not a luxury commodity, to support working families.</li></ul>“This campaign is about making government work for hard-working people,” Williams stated. “I’m not here to be nice, but to deliver real results.”

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Across our country and here in Iowa, we see frequent attacks on fundamental rights: civil rights, bodily autonomy, and freedom of speech. It is past time to stop mere advocacy and take concrete action to protect these rights. One of my biggest critiques of the status quo is the reluctance of officials to stand strong on their beliefs without folding to political convenience; it’s a credibility issue that fails their constituents.I believe in the simple principle: "Your right to swing your fist ends where another person's nose begins." Our laws should protect people from harm, not police feelings.<h4>LGBTQ+ Rights: Love is Love</h4>No one is trying to "turn" anyone else gay. If a husband and wife can share a kiss in public, so can anyone else. Transgender Iowans want the same things we all do: to support their families, access healthcare without financial ruin, and live with respect. They belong in sports consistent with their gender identity; studies show trans women do not have an unfair advantage and are not overrepresented among top athletes. This isn't about biology—it's about dignity.<h4>Women's Rights: Protect Bodily Autonomy</h4>I am pro-choice because it is both the right and the popular position. Every state that has put abortion rights on the ballot has voted to protect them. Yet in Iowa, dangerous laws are causing harm: women are facing permanent damage or even death, we've lost OBGYNs and medical workers, and young families are leaving. Now, online extremists are targeting women's right to vote. We must lock in these protections and not budge an inch.<h4>Immigration Rights: A Path to Dignity</h4>Comprehensive immigration reform (Mass Amnesty) is more popular than mass deportation. Immigrants built this country, but we’ve seen federal agents terrorize communities, even murder, over paperwork. Meanwhile, the process takes decades, and employers who exploit undocumented workers get a slap on the wrist. We need efficient, responsible background checks and a clear path to status. This protects workers from slave wages and strengthens labor rights for everyone. Iowa should become a sanctuary state, ending local collaboration with ICE attacks on our neighbors. As one of the few states not in what the ACLU calls "constitution-free zones," we deserve basic protections, not having people attacked at their homes and place of work.<h4>Labor Rights: Restore Worker Power</h4>Iowa’s so-called "right-to-work" laws are a lie that only protects an employer's right to fire you without cause. Unions are the backbone of the 40-hour work week, weekends, and fair wages. We need stronger protections for unions, easier organizing processes, and strict penalties for companies that break labor laws. It’s time to tip the scales back in favor of workers.When did it become radical to say, "treat others how you want to be treated"? Why is a dignified life under attack by ultra-wealthy corporations? I will fight to defend the rights of all Iowans.

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On March 31st, the Iowa House put on a show. Democrats used Rule 60 to force a vote on multiple bills that had been stalled in committee for months. These weren't obscure measures. They were common-sense policies to:· Raise Iowa's stagnant $7.25 minimum wage· Restore collective bargaining rights for public workers· Crack down on wage theft· Strengthen unemployment protections· Establish paid family leave· Address worker misclassificationThe result was a 92-0 roll-call vote—every member who voted said yes. Every single Republican present voted to bring these bills to the floor for an up-or-down vote. It was a chance for real debate on issues that affect hundreds of thousands of Iowa families.But those "yes" votes were a mirage. The moment the vote was over, Speaker Pat Grassley used his authority to re-refer every single bill back to the same committees that had stalled them. Those committees are effectively done for the year. The bills are dead—killed not by a recorded vote against working Iowans, but by a procedural trick to save face and appease corporate donors.My opponent, Rep. Ann Meyer, voted "yes" on the discharge to look good, then stood silently as their leader buried the bills. She chose a procedural trick over a real vote. Her campaign donors include Walmart—a corporation that has fought for years against workers’ rights and wages—along with hundreds of thousands from other corporate PACs. That tells you who she fights for. Voters in this district deserve to know why.Kris WilliamsFort Dodge[D] Candidate for Iowa House, District 8

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Letter To The Editor 4/06/2026

Iowa's childcare system is broken and unaffordable. This crisis isn't just a family issue or a harsh critique of "pro-life" politicians. It is an economic emergency that is pushing parents out of the workforce, and the limited options add to the reasons young families leave their home state. The Problem: An Unaffordable System That Fails Families &amp; Our EconomyDevestating Costs: Full-time childcare now rivals a mortgage payment for Iowa families, costing more than $10,000 a year per child on average. This forces impossible choices between a paycheck and staying home to care for your kids.Workforce Collapse: Parents, especially mothers, are being forced to leave their jobs or reduce hours because they cannot find or afford quality care. This shrinks our workforce, hurts local businesses, and drags down our economy. Inaccessible &amp; Patchwork System: Iowa's free preschool Program for 4-year-olds is starting, but it covers only about 10 hours a week and leaves out infants, toddlers, and the wraparound care working parents need. At best, many families have one parent work overnight, the other during the day, juggling the kids at the cost of quality of life as a family. For many rural and low-income families, options simply don't exist.Underpaid Educators: The dedicated professionals who care for and educate our youngest Iowans are paid poverty wages, leading to high turnover and program instability. The Kris Williams Solution: Universal Childcare as Public NecessityAs a dad who understands the struggle of balancing work and family, I believe childcare is a public good. It is essential infrastructure for a thriving economy, just like roads or schools. Guarantee Affordable, High-Quality Care for Every Family: We will build on Iowa's existing preschool framework to create a truly universal system. We cut the private school voucher scam, and fund a sliding-scale subsidy to cap family costs, expanded hours to match work schedules, and inclusion of all children from infancy through school age.Invest in Our Childcare Workforce: We must value educators by providing pathways for professional wages, benefits, and training. This investment would ensure stable, high-quality care for our children and create dignified jobs that keep people and families in our communities. Studies show early education isthe key to academic success, boosting our state back to the education superpower it once was.Boost Economic Growth &amp; Workforce Participation: Universal childcare is a powerful tool to boost the skill level and size of our workforce. It enables parents, particularly mothers, to participate fully, boosts local business productivity, and attracts and retains young families in Iowa, reversing the "brain drain."Affordable, reliable childcare isn't a luxury; it is fundemental to family security, economic mobility, and Iowa's future. We will fight to make it a reality for every working family.

Universal Childcare

Kris believes a quality public education is the foundation of a strong community and a fair shot for every child. Yet, while Iowa once led the nation, our schools have fallen to the middle of the pack and continue to slip. Today, only 52% of our elementary students are reading at grade level. We cannot accept this decline.The core problem is clear: our commitment has wavered. Public funds are being diverted from our neighborhood schools, harming the education of the vast majority of Iowa's children. Kris will fight to refocus our priorities on the public good.<h3>Kris's Plan: Putting Public Schools and Iowa Families First</h3>Kris will champion a multi-pronged approach to restore Iowa's educational leadership and support working families.<ol><li>Fully Invest in Our Public Schools: Kris will ensure our public schools have the resources they need: strong after-school programs, mental health counselors, nurses, and smaller class sizes. He will integrate student voices into decisions that affect their education and fully supports embedding the ISEA Bill of Teacher Rights in the state constitution.</li><li>End the Private School Voucher Drain: Kris will fight to end the voucher program that funnels public dollars to private, for-profit institutions. Public money should fund the public good—not schools that can discriminate and widen the gap between "the haves" and "the have-nots."</li><li>Expand Learning from Preschool Through Career: To build lifelong success, Kris will:<ul><li>Invest in Early Childhood: Expand Iowa's successful preschool program to more children and families, providing the critical foundation all students deserve.</li><li>Guarantee Affordable Pathways: Ensure every Iowan has access to affordable community college and workforce training to build skills for high-demand careers.</li><li>Strengthen High School Opportunity: Expand career-based education in high schools, creating multiple pathways to success.</li></ul></li></ol>Great schools are a great tool to end Iowa's "brain drain," attract new families, and build an economy that works for everyone. Kris is committed to making the investments today that will ensure our children, and our state thrive tomorrow.

Fully Fund Great Public Schools

International Labor Day, aka "The Original"Did you know that most countries celebrate Labor Day on May 1st? It's often marked by coordinated worker strikes, commemorating the 1886 Haymarket affair. It's also the time of year when the weather is at its prime for this kind of action.Whether you're facing an abusive employer or a tyrannical ruler, you have the advantage: corporations are coming off the first quarter, having spent their Q4 extras, often in management or ceo bonuses. If your savings run dry, you can more likely go without the heating bill.The September Labor Day we celebrate in the U.S. was designed to break international labor solidarity as capitalism went global. The idea was that if an employer wanted to wait you out, you'd grow too cold to keep fighting.Plans TBD

Kris wants to listen to what matters most to you and your family.Date: Saturday, February 07, 2026Time: 2 PM - 3:30 PMLocation: River Hops Brewery

May Day!

Listening Tour: District 08 with Kris Williams #3

Iowa's economy is rigged. For decades, the promise has been that tax cuts for the wealthy and deregulation for corporations would create prosperity for all. This "trickle-down" theory has failed. The result is a broken social contract where CEOs now make 300 times what their workers earn, while families struggle with the high cost of housing, energy, and transportation. It's time to build an economy that puts people over profit.The Problem: A System Skewed Toward Corporate Power<ul><li>Starvation Wages &amp; Soaring CEO Pay: Iowa's minimum wage is frozen at $7.25—a starvation wage. While neighboring states move toward $15, studies show a true Iowa living wage is now near $20/hour. Meanwhile, executive pay has exploded, extracting wealth from our communities.</li><li>Unaffordable Housing &amp; Corporate Landlords: Families are squeezed by rising rents and housing costs. The logic of the market, focused solely on profit, fails to provide stable, affordable homes for our elderly, young families, and low-income Iowans.</li><li>Corporate Monopolies &amp; Stranded Communities: From energy giants like MidAmerican to retail chains like Dollar General, large corporations use their power to crush small businesses and trap consumers with high prices and limited choices. This has devastated main streets and left rural Iowans with fewer essential services.</li><li>A Rigged Tax System: Iowa politicians have slashed corporate taxes, with rates set to fall to 5% by 2028. The promised "good-paying jobs and philanthropy" have not materialized. Instead, it's a giveaway that forces working families to shoulder the burden through higher property and sales taxes.</li><li>Inadequate &amp; Unsafe Infrastructure: The lack of reliable, affordable public transportation, especially in rural areas, isolates residents, burdens families with multiple car payments, forces our elderly to drive on dangerous winter roads, and holds back our economy.</li></ul>The Kris Williams Solution: An Iowa that Works for WorkersI believe the economy should serve people, not the other way around. Here is my plan to rebalance power, lower costs, and rebuild prosperity from the ground up.<ol><li>Guarantee a Living Wage &amp; Tax Extreme Wealth: Raise Iowa's minimum wage to a true living wage, starting with a push to $20/hour. Simultaneously, we will reform our tax code to make ultra-wealthy individuals and corporations pay their fair share, reversing the failed trickle-down experiment.</li><li>Launch a Public Housing Initiative: Use state resources to convert abandoned buildings into quality, affordable public housing. We will guarantee units for vulnerable populations like the elderly and young families, with the rest available first-come, first-serve. This reduces market pressure, protects community home values, and ensures housing is a right, not a luxury.</li><li>Break Monopolies &amp; Protect Main Street: Create publicly owned utility options to provide low-cost, clean energy and break the stranglehold of private monopolies. We will enact strict antitrust enforcement and support policies to protect consumers and small "mom-and-pop" businesses from predatory corporate practices.</li><li>Invest in Public, Statewide Transportation: Build a 21st-century transportation network that includes expanding rural rail and bus services. This will connect towns to jobs and healthcare, provide safe alternatives to winter driving, and cut the poverty tax of car ownership.</li></ol>The choice is clear: continue a system designed for corporate greed, or fight for one built on the dignity of work. I choose people over profit. We will build an Iowa where hard work is rewarded, families can afford to thrive, and communities—not corporations—come first.

For too long, the promise of the free market has been broken for working families. In sector after sector, and handful of powerful corporations have created functional monopolies, leaving us with no real choice. The result - soaring costs for groceries, utilities, and housing, while wages stagnate. They prioritize profits over our people. It's time to flip the script.

People over Profit

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Community Conversation: The Future of District 08

Kris wants to listen to what matters most to you and your family.

Listening Tour: District 08 with Kris Williams

Iowa's water quality efforts rely on a voluntary, incentive-based framework. This system has failed. We see the consequences in significant runoff from industrial-scale agriculture, where corporate profits are prioritized over our shared resources.The Problem: Profit Over Public Health:Industrial Agriculture &amp; Runoff: Driven by subsidies for ethanol and taxpayer-backed crop insurance, corporate farming practices lead to soil degradation. This creates a harmful cycle that requires more fertilizer, which in turn worsens chemical and nutrient runoff into our rivers and drinking water.CAFO Contamination: Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) generate massive amounts of waste, having "chickenized" large quantities of livestock. Manure is harvested from these sites and sprayed on to nutrient depleted land, creating a destructive feedback loop that incentivizes more corn production, more fertilizer, and more runoff into our water resources. Leaks and runoff from CAFOs put dangerous levels of nitrogen into our water, contributing to serious public health risks, including higher cancer rates.Additional Threats: Iowa's coal plants and the proposed data centers present further risks, from coal runoff to the immense water demands for cooling systems, which threaten both water quality and supply.The Kris Williams Solution: Accountability &amp; Sustainable ActionAs someone with a degree in Sustainability, I know that ignoring a problem does not solve it. We must increase water quality monitoring and transition to proven solutions.End the Voluntary Approach: We need enforceable regulations and penalties, including meaningful fines, for polluters who violate the public trust for private gain. End the process of "socialized risks with privatized gains".Invest in Sustainable Agriculture: We will actively support farmers who adopt soil-health practices like food-based crop rotations and cover crops, which dramatically reduce runoff. This transition also brings broad benefits: lower grocery prices, economic self-reliance against federal tariff wars, reduced food imports, and new jobs in diversified manufacturing. This keeps Iowa dollars here. Most importantly, it gives our children access to locally grown, quality produce.Hold Wealthy Polluters Accountable: The social contract has been broken by large corporations. It is time to demand accountability through strict regulation, enforcement, and penalties for those who contaminate our water. This includes cracking down on corporations that break laws by exploiting foreign labor with slave wages and wage theft, practices that target and depress wages for all Iowa workers.Clean water is not a luxury; it is a fundamental right for every Iowan. We will fight to protect it.