Robert Leonard

I'm moving to Bluesky to post, but will likely continue to lurk here. Here you go: @robertleonard.bsky.social

@chrismeagher @RobertLeonard @ZachWahls 💯 Totally agree.

@RobertLeonard @ZachWahls Link here: rleonard.substack.com/p/if-iowa-demo…

Must read from respected Iowa journo @RobertLeonard - with plenty of supporting evidence - on why @ZachWahls won't cut it in a general election. #iasen

He murdered Renee Nicole Good. Shot her three times and then called her a “f*cking b*tch”. Her last words? “It’s ok dude I’m not mad”. He got three days administrative leave before being transferred to another state. No punishment. No accountability. No justice.

So... you can't draw a district that gives black voters voting power but you CAN draw a district that takes their power away? Got it.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just revealed that Pete Hegseth ordered military members to an area in Kuwait with an ACTIVE WARNING they had ZERO defense against drone attacks and he IGNORED IT. Six were then KILLED. Survivors blame Hegseth. This is even WORSE than Benghazi.

I can't believe we're even having this conversation: In the last ten years, NOBODY has engaged in more violent political rhetoric than Donald Trump.

Imagine calling Renee Good and Alex Pretti “domestic terrorists” and calling immigrants “animals” then turning around and telling people they need to “tone down their rhetoric.”

If you’re at the Correspondents’ Dinner tonight and remain silent about Trump and his enablers, you are neither a journalist nor a patriot. You are an accomplice.

You do not earn a billion dollars, you steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher, or a farmer. That money comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work. Stop worshipping hoarders who are just really good at wage theft.

I introduced a bill to repeal the federal school voucher program. America's public schools helped build the middle class, but universal school vouchers drain school funding and hurt students. Arizona is living it right now. Our kids and our country deserve better.

@MotherJones @resists_cc …the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children. 😐

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.” motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

.@JamesTalarico: John Cornyn said my plan to lower taxes for working Americans would ’explode the deficit.’ My question to Senator Cornyn is, were you worried about the deficit when you gave $1 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1 percent? Were you worried about the deficit when you started spending $1 billion a day on this new war in Iran? John Cornyn is never worried about the deficit when it comes to billionaire tax cuts or new foreign wars — but when we start talking about lowering gas prices for working people, suddenly he's a deficit hawk. We should lower the deficit, and we should do it by closing billionaire tax loopholes and ending this disastrous new war. John Cornyn has had 40 years in public office. That's longer than I've been alive. And under his leadership, Texans are drowning. The only people doing well are billionaires and defense contractors. John Cornyn has had 40 years to lower the cost of housing, healthcare, groceries, utilities, and gas. What's the holdup?

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency. Crypto: $3.02B Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M Qatari jet: $150M Legal fees/merch: $127.7M Mar-a-Lago: $125M Corporate deals: $91M Hanoi hotel: $40M Truth Social: $25M Don Jr: $19.6M Unprecedented kleptocracy.

Pete Hegseth lied about the deaths of soldiers in Kuwait. rleonard.substack.com/p/army-survivo…

Q: Ken Paxton said that requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms is a ‘major victory for Texas and our moral values.’ What’s your response to Ken Paxton? @JamesTalarico: I’m not sure if Ken Paxton is in a place to lecture us on moral values. My faith teaches me to love my neighbor as myself — not just my neighbors who look like me, vote like me, or pray like me. I don’t want anyone forcing their religion down my throat, and I certainly don’t want the government forcing a religion down my throat. I’m a Christian, but I know that the most dangerous form of government is theocracy. Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God.

After Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress, I reached out to Democratic campaigns in Iowa that had received donations from his Remedy PAC. Reported what I learned on the latest "KHOI's Capitol Week." laurabelin.substack.com/p/governors-ra…