IowaRalph
@iowaralph.bsky.social
Retired legislator, state agency head, lobbyist, and lawyer. But, not retired from being active--even in red Iowa. Substack writer: Because We Are All In This Together https://ralphrosenberg.substack.com/
Great presentation on the issues of the day—great candidate-I wish he was running in Iowa youtube.com/watch?v=SYwP...
Streetlights | Chris Jones for Congress
YouTube video by Chris Jones
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November 22, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Great presentation on the issues of the day—great candidate-I wish he was running in Iowa youtube.com/watch?v=SYwP...
How do grassroots values translate into votes?
Discover answers in today's webinar featuring Will Robinson.
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VALUES TO VOTES Webinar 5: The Path Forward for Progressives
Discover answers in today's webinar featuring Will Robinson.
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VALUES TO VOTES Webinar 5: The Path Forward for Progressives
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: VALUES TO VOTES: The Path Forward for Progressives -- Reclaiming Connections. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the mee...
The 5th Values to Votes webinar features Will Robinson, founding partner of the New Media Firm and nationally recognized electoral strategist and media consultant. Will also has strong connections wit...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:33 PM
How do grassroots values translate into votes?
Discover answers in today's webinar featuring Will Robinson.
A project of the Grassroots Iowa Network. Register in advance for this meeting:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
VALUES TO VOTES Webinar 5: The Path Forward for Progressives
Discover answers in today's webinar featuring Will Robinson.
A project of the Grassroots Iowa Network. Register in advance for this meeting:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
VALUES TO VOTES Webinar 5: The Path Forward for Progressives
Thanks Barb Leach. And opponents to Trump/MAGA continue 'Monumental failures' in connecting this with what Trump is doing to lives, from destroying safety nets for older, or disabled Americans, to our democracy. Trump's Monument to His Failure open.substack.com/pub/leachb/p...
Trump's Monument to His Failure
? Will a new dance hall for the White House be enough to distract us from our government's failures ?
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October 27, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thanks Barb Leach. And opponents to Trump/MAGA continue 'Monumental failures' in connecting this with what Trump is doing to lives, from destroying safety nets for older, or disabled Americans, to our democracy. Trump's Monument to His Failure open.substack.com/pub/leachb/p...
Deserving and Descriptive of Reality. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
Dislike and Disdain
Trump expresses his true feelings about America and Americans
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October 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Deserving and Descriptive of Reality. open.substack.com/pub/anneappl...
Dennis Goldford always writes on a topic and perspective that I unique. I am glad he wrote this column, headed Wrong about Rights open.substack.com/pub/dennisgo...
Ralph Rosenberg on Let's Talk Politics
Ingrassia's toxic views weren't just morally repulsive—they were constitutionally illiterate. Dennis shows how fundamentally un-American this nominee was. Most people swim in noise that drowns out wh...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Dennis Goldford always writes on a topic and perspective that I unique. I am glad he wrote this column, headed Wrong about Rights open.substack.com/pub/dennisgo...
An invite to central Iowa book launches. The author, Curt Meine, is senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. His other books include the biography of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work. To learn more about the Johnson Center for Land Stewardship Policy, visit www.landcommunity.org.
October 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
An invite to central Iowa book launches. The author, Curt Meine, is senior fellow with the Aldo Leopold Foundation. His other books include the biography of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work. To learn more about the Johnson Center for Land Stewardship Policy, visit www.landcommunity.org.
Iowa's water quality problem demands a state and federal legislative solution—voluntary efforts are failing. We can ask all candidates: 1) Do you acknowledge the crisis? 2) What are your 3 enforceable solutions? #IowaCleanWater elpc.org/news/environ...
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Iowa's water quality problem demands a state and federal legislative solution—voluntary efforts are failing. We can ask all candidates: 1) Do you acknowledge the crisis? 2) What are your 3 enforceable solutions? #IowaCleanWater elpc.org/news/environ...
Noah and other writers use the term Christofascism which for most Americans is neither relatable nor direct. How about using “Religion as a political weapon.” or “When faith forgets humility. Origin of Trump www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-origin... #trumporigin, #religionandtrump
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Noah and other writers use the term Christofascism which for most Americans is neither relatable nor direct. How about using “Religion as a political weapon.” or “When faith forgets humility. Origin of Trump www.everythingishorrible.net/p/the-origin... #trumporigin, #religionandtrump
Before June 18th, Let's Review History Lessons on Protests open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
The Double-Edged Sword: Why Modern Protests Shift Culture and Force the Issue, But Need a Strategy to Win National Change
Visibility is Not Victory: The Critical Steps to Convert Protest Energy into 2024 and 2026 Policy Wins.
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October 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Before June 18th, Let's Review History Lessons on Protests open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
Power to local press. The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-press-...
The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago
Local journalism is under siege, but still makes itself indispensable
www.stopthepresses.news
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Power to local press. The press steps up as Trump targets Chicago www.stopthepresses.news/p/the-press-...
Sobering, sad and important reading www.threads.com/@vermontgmg/...
Garrett Graff (@vermontgmg) on Threads
America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. h...
www.threads.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Sobering, sad and important reading www.threads.com/@vermontgmg/...
Scot offers so many ideas. I recommend to both break it into pieces to best appreciate and apply it within your activist group. Strategic Narrative Assessment
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Strategic Narrative Assessment
Part 2 of the Three R's Framework
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October 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Scot offers so many ideas. I recommend to both break it into pieces to best appreciate and apply it within your activist group. Strategic Narrative Assessment
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
The 3 R's—argues cultural and narrative strategies weaken authoritarian power. By refusing to cooperate, building alternative institutions, and using humor to puncture fear, people erode the myths of inevitability, invincibility, and indispensability. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
The Three R's Framework
Narrative and Cultural Strategies Against Autocracy
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October 1, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The 3 R's—argues cultural and narrative strategies weaken authoritarian power. By refusing to cooperate, building alternative institutions, and using humor to puncture fear, people erode the myths of inevitability, invincibility, and indispensability. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...
Once again, Pres. Trump was ahead of his time in making this acute observation about leadership
September 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Once again, Pres. Trump was ahead of his time in making this acute observation about leadership
Scot's point about looking to U.S. historical precedents is spot on. Consider the deterrent effect if the legal community—from law schools to private firms—had protested when law firms were first threatened.
Similarly, if all broadcast media associations, and schools, had immediately protested
Similarly, if all broadcast media associations, and schools, had immediately protested
Crisis Moments Strategy for Pro-Democracy Movement
Anticipating and Leveraging Critical Junctures Over the Next 18 Months
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September 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Scot's point about looking to U.S. historical precedents is spot on. Consider the deterrent effect if the legal community—from law schools to private firms—had protested when law firms were first threatened.
Similarly, if all broadcast media associations, and schools, had immediately protested
Similarly, if all broadcast media associations, and schools, had immediately protested
Grassroots Iowa Network, is hosting the third of a series of “listening posts”, entitled HARVESTING OF IDEAS. The Sept 25, @ 8:00 pm session will be focused on Cong. Dist 2. Activists can share and learn from others. The Zoom link will be sent to you.
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: GIN Listening Post - District 2. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Grassroots Iowa Network (GIN) started hosting a 4-part series of listening posts in late August. The third call of the series is on September 25 at 8:00 P.M. via Zoom. It will be a time of listening a...
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September 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Grassroots Iowa Network, is hosting the third of a series of “listening posts”, entitled HARVESTING OF IDEAS. The Sept 25, @ 8:00 pm session will be focused on Cong. Dist 2. Activists can share and learn from others. The Zoom link will be sent to you.
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
In the old days, environmental and outdoor groups used to oppose billboards. Today, this is becoming a possible way to best message a great idea about a great concern. Nishnabotna water group urges community nitrate testing with new billboard iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/09/19/n...
Nishnabotna water group urges community nitrate testing with new billboard • Iowa Capital Dispatch
A water quality group in southwest Iowa installed the first of several billboards to inform Iowans about water quality.
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September 22, 2025 at 2:50 PM
In the old days, environmental and outdoor groups used to oppose billboards. Today, this is becoming a possible way to best message a great idea about a great concern. Nishnabotna water group urges community nitrate testing with new billboard iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/09/19/n...
While others focus on what's wrong with the Democratic Party, The Economist highlighted how the solution can't come from one party alone. Which groups or politicos speak to regular Americans in ways that cut through the noise? open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
America’s Missing Opposition: Why the Democrats Are Failing to Stop Trump
Why is a free-market journal asking why voters see Democrats—not Trump—as the extremists?
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September 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
While others focus on what's wrong with the Democratic Party, The Economist highlighted how the solution can't come from one party alone. Which groups or politicos speak to regular Americans in ways that cut through the noise? open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
Makes sense for Iowa and other Midwest states; for that matter, most states employ significant immigrant labor in ag-related jobs. In Iowa, we can ask our candidates for federal office about immigration. Rural Illinois’ food economy depends on immigrants investigatemidwest.org/2025/09/17/r...
Rural Illinois’ food economy depends on immigrants - Investigate Midwest
Rural Illinois is shrinking. Over the past decade, all of Illinois’ 21 farm-dependent counties – places where farming makes up a large share of jobs and income – have lost population. Meanwhile, the...
investigatemidwest.org
September 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Makes sense for Iowa and other Midwest states; for that matter, most states employ significant immigrant labor in ag-related jobs. In Iowa, we can ask our candidates for federal office about immigration. Rural Illinois’ food economy depends on immigrants investigatemidwest.org/2025/09/17/r...
We are at a point where we are deciding which party or ideology most promotes physical violence. One measure comes from DOJ. September 16, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
EcstaticRationalist on Letters from an American
The report on political violence, which the DoJ deleted off their website, is still available on the Interrnet Archive "Wayback Engine" at: https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140if_/https://www.oj...
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September 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We are at a point where we are deciding which party or ideology most promotes physical violence. One measure comes from DOJ. September 16, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
What does being blocked from Twitter mean? I am writing is to broaden our searches for leaders—in politics, faith, business, and media. I’m reaching out to candidates and elected officials as well.
The Leadership Test: Who's Speaking Up and Who's Going Silent -- open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
The Leadership Test: Who's Speaking Up and Who's Going Silent -- open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
The Leadership Test: Who's Speaking Up and Who's Going Silent --
Faith leaders call for unity while business, academic and media leaders duck for cover—while too many politicians choose division over healing or finger-pointing over handshaking.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What does being blocked from Twitter mean? I am writing is to broaden our searches for leaders—in politics, faith, business, and media. I’m reaching out to candidates and elected officials as well.
The Leadership Test: Who's Speaking Up and Who's Going Silent -- open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
The Leadership Test: Who's Speaking Up and Who's Going Silent -- open.substack.com/pub/ralphros...
People may question the timing of this since that murder just occurred. However, Trump began making him a martyr and others in government are accusing the left of causing this.
The Martyrdom of Charlie Kirk
Martyrs are used by messianic movements to sanctify violence. To show any mercy or understanding toward the enemy is to betray the martyr and the cause the martyr died defending.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
People may question the timing of this since that murder just occurred. However, Trump began making him a martyr and others in government are accusing the left of causing this.
In response to my earlier Substack post, I received this. It came from a political source. It may prove of value if it turns out the shooter is caught with anti Trump material.
September 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
In response to my earlier Substack post, I received this. It came from a political source. It may prove of value if it turns out the shooter is caught with anti Trump material.
Our country's leaders have a choice: unite the nation or deepen its divides. Leaders like LBJ and George W. Bush used tragedy to call for unity. ralphrosenberg.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
We need politicians and business, faith and media to call for unity. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
We need politicians and business, faith and media to call for unity. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
Ralph Rosenberg on America, America
Steven, thank you. You said it better than others.
I wrote that following the Kirk assassination, the president and political leaders had a choice: unite the nation or deepen its divides. While le...
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September 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Our country's leaders have a choice: unite the nation or deepen its divides. Leaders like LBJ and George W. Bush used tragedy to call for unity. ralphrosenberg.substack.com/p/charlie-ki...
We need politicians and business, faith and media to call for unity. open.substack.com/pub/america/...
We need politicians and business, faith and media to call for unity. open.substack.com/pub/america/...