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Kara Glenn Previous Previous Greene County attorney enters crowded Iowa U.S. Senate race as Libertarian Next Next County attorney calls fed vaccine mandate ‘an abuse of power,’ says he’ll resign before he’ll enforce it ­ ­","source_url":"https://WWW.LAEHN4IOWA.ORG/media-page/laehn-fights-back-against-eminent-domain-abuse","source_date":"2026-06-18"},{"topic":"Education","stance":"About — Support Thomas Laehn for US Senate 0 Meet Thomas Preacher’s Kid. Professor. Prosecutor. Populist. As Greene County Attorney, Thomas developed a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor who broug","detail":"About — Support Thomas Laehn for US Senate 0 Meet Thomas Preacher’s Kid. Professor. Prosecutor. Populist. As Greene County Attorney, Thomas developed a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor who brought child rapists, attempted murderers, and other violent criminals to justice. He also partnered with a nonprofit association to create a community service program and to aid nonviolent offenders with their rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. As a result of his leadership, recidivism rates plummeted. As a professor, Thomas studied the Constitution. As a prosecutor, he applied it. And as a populist, he is painfully aware of how our nation’s two major parties have corrupted it. It is time to save our Republic before it is too late. It is time to take political power from the two major parties and to restore it to the People themselves. It is time for real change. It is time for a real choice. It is time for Thomas Laehn. Thomas grew up in the small, farming community of Alli","source_url":"https://WWW.LAEHN4IOWA.ORG/about","source_date":"2026-06-18"},{"topic":"Technology","stance":"About — Support Thomas Laehn for US Senate 0 Meet Thomas Preacher’s Kid. Professor. Prosecutor. Populist. 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It is time for a real choice. It is time for Thomas Laehn. Thomas grew up in the small, farming community of Alli","source_url":"https://WWW.LAEHN4IOWA.ORG/about","source_date":"2026-06-18"},{"topic":"Agriculture","stance":"About — Support Thomas Laehn for US Senate 0 Meet Thomas Preacher’s Kid. Professor. Prosecutor. Populist. As Greene County Attorney, Thomas developed a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor who broug","detail":"About — Support Thomas Laehn for US Senate 0 Meet Thomas Preacher’s Kid. Professor. Prosecutor. Populist. As Greene County Attorney, Thomas developed a reputation as an aggressive prosecutor who brought child rapists, attempted murderers, and other violent criminals to justice. He also partnered with a nonprofit association to create a community service program and to aid nonviolent offenders with their rehabilitation and reintegration into the community. As a result of his leadership, recidivism rates plummeted. As a professor, Thomas studied the Constitution. As a prosecutor, he applied it. And as a populist, he is painfully aware of how our nation’s two major parties have corrupted it. It is time to save our Republic before it is too late. It is time to take political power from the two major parties and to restore it to the People themselves. It is time for real change. It is time for a real choice. It is time for Thomas Laehn. Thomas grew up in the small, farming community of Alli","source_url":"https://WWW.LAEHN4IOWA.ORG/about","source_date":"2026-06-18"},{"topic":"Immigration","stance":"The Issues","detail":"Our political landscape has been dominated by the two-party system for too long, stripping power from the people and centralizing it in the hands of a few. As a U.S. Senator, my mission is to dismantle this status quo and restore the political power to the citizens of Iowa and the nation. Donate Restoring political power to the people Both parties have worked tirelessly to take power away from the people and to concentrate it in their own hands. Once in office, members of Congress of both parties are more responsive to the monied elites who fund their campaigns than to the people they were elected to serve. I am not running against a Democrat or a Republican; I am running against the two-party system itself. As a U.S. Senator, I will work tirelessly to restore to the people of Iowa the political power that the parties have taken from them. I will also sponsor legislation to eliminate the corrupting role of PACs and super PACs in our electoral system. Ending eminent domain abuse Without private property, a free society cannot exist. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution assumes property taken through eminent domain will be put to “public use.” In 2005, the Supreme Court incorrectly held that the government can seize property from private landowners and transfer it to private developers. As a U.S. Senator, I will work to pass legislation prohibiting private companies from harnessing the coercive power of the state to seize property for commercial gain, ending eminent domain abuse in our nation. Stopping wasteful wars Although the Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war, every war since World War II has been initiated by the president. Members of Congress have been all too happy to transfer the war-making power to the president, freeing them to campaign for reelection while sacrificing trillions of dollars and countless American lives. As a U.S. Senator, I will fight to bring our men and women in uniform home, to block foolish wars declared by pres","source_url":"https://WWW.LAEHN4IOWA.ORG/issues","source_date":"2026-05-15"},{"topic":"Abortion","stance":"The Issues","detail":"Our political landscape has been dominated by the two-party system for too long, stripping power from the people and centralizing it in the hands of a few. As a U.S. Senator, my mission is to dismantle this status quo and restore the political power to the citizens of Iowa and the nation. Donate Restoring political power to the people Both parties have worked tirelessly to take power away from the people and to concentrate it in their own hands. Once in office, members of Congress of both parties are more responsive to the monied elites who fund their campaigns than to the people they were elected to serve. I am not running against a Democrat or a Republican; I am running against the two-party system itself. 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