Under both the Iowa Democratic Party Constitution and the Iowa Code, the Democratic Party is required to create a Party Platform at their State Convention.
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For years, including 2024, the Democratic Party of Iowa published their party platform online, just like the Republicans. Bleedingheartland.com confirmed Democrats never published their 2026 platform. Email inquiries to the state Democratic party and personal inquiries to the Warren County office did not result in a copy. Recently, they also removed the 2024 platform.
On October 15th, the 2026 platform was published on Bleedingheartland.com. The link is
platform-democracy-in-action/.
The Iowa Democratic Party Platform Demands:
1. Eliminating the Electoral College, the United States Senate, the filibuster and the two party system.
2. Expanding the House of Representatives and making it supreme over the Executive and the Judiciary, thereby eliminating the system of checks and balances which restrains government power.
3. Expanding the Supreme Court.
4. A competitive multi-party democracy.
The Electoral College and the Senate were enshrined in the Constitution in part to protect the small states like Iowa. The Senate and the filibuster are intended to ensure thoughtful, deliberative actions and forestall radical ones. These positions mimic those of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Other provisions: 1. A parent denying “gender affirming care”, I.e. puberty blockers, wrong sex hormones, and mutilation surgeries, is “child abuse”. 2. Schools can hide child sex transitions from parents. 3. Gender confused boys in girls sports/locker rooms. 4. Police and guns banned from schools. 5. Repeal self- defense castle doctrine and stand your ground laws. Ban modern rifles/magazines.
Mandatory expensive repetitive training courses for gun owners. Background check if you sell/buy a gun from your cousin or friend. Mandatory liability insurance.
The Iowa Democratic Party Platform plank for each of the above propositions is set forth below and, when available, the equivalent position from the Democratic Socialists of America. A more detailed discussion of the relationship between the DSA platform and Iowa Democratic Party Platform follows. Both are attached.
RADICAL CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT:
Iowa Democratic Party Planks:
We support:
. . .
354. Abolishing the Electoral-College.
. . .
We support:
. . .
406. Competitive multi-party democracy.
407. Filibuster ban.
408. Unicameral Congress.
409. Supremacy of Congress.
410. Expanding the House of Representatives.
. . .
416. Expansion of SCOTUS.
Democratic Socialists of America “Workers Deserve More” 2025 Program:
1. POPULAR VOTE FOR PRESIDENT: Replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote for President.
2. A REPRESENTATIVE CONGRESS: Replace the two-party system with a multi-party democracy through proportional representation elections. Expand the number of seats in the House of Representatives and end the Senate filibuster.
Democratic Socialists of America “Workers Deserve More” 2026 Program:
1. Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme
Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
2. A DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS Replace the two-party system with a multi-party
democracy. Expand the House of Representatives, implement proportional
representation and ranked choice voting in all elections, and abolish the Senate.
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TRANSGENDER:
Iowa Democratic Party Planks:
We support:
“569. Classifying “withholding gender-affirming care from children” as child
abuse.”
We oppose:
“261. Parental notification that outs students who identify as LGBTQIA+.”
Democratic Socialists of America “Workers Deserve More” 2026 Program:
1. Complete access to . . . gender-affirming care.
2. End . . . patriarchal restrictions on . . . gender expression and transition.
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GUN CONTROL:
Iowa Democratic Party Planks:
“We oppose: . . .
257. Guns on school-grounds including employees/SROs.
258. SROs being stationed inside schools. (SROs are police school resource
officers).
We support:
332. Banning assault-style rifles/high-capacity magazines/.
333. BCE/FERPO Acts. (BCE Act – Background Check Expansion Act. Federal
Extreme Risk Protection Order).
335. Requiring recurring firearms-education/competency-testing/liability insurance
We oppose:
337. “Stand-Your-Ground”/”Castle-Doctrine.”
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BOYS IN GIRLS SPORTS, LOCKER ROOMS AND BATHROOMS:
Iowa Democratic Party Planks:
We support: . . .
225. Transgender/intersex children’s right to utilize names, restrooms/locker-
rooms, and sports-teams/activities matching their gender-identities.
Democratic Socialists of America “Workers Deserve More” 2026 Program:
1. End . . . patriarchal restrictions on . . . gender expression and transition.
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It appears that the authors of the Iowa platform planks calling for a replacement
of our federal government system are intimately connected with the Democratic
Socialists of America (DSA). The call for the elimination of the electoral college, the filibuster, and the two party system and expanding the House of Representatives originally appear in the DSA’s 2025 program, published before the Iowa June 13, 2026 convention. The first report of the DSA announcing that a call for elimination of the Senate and making the Congress supreme over the president and the judiciary would be in their 2026 platform was when the City Journal
reported it on June 17 th , shortly after the Iowa convention. https://www.city- journal.org/article/democratic-socialists-of-america-workers-deserve-more.
The 2026 DSA platform “Workers Deserve More” is at https://program.dsausa.org/?akid=61630.117679.ww-CxD&rd=1&t=2
It appears, incredibly, that the Iowa Democratic Platform called for elimination of the Senate (by collapsing the House and Senate into a unicameral Congress which would be an expanded House of Representatives) and for making Congress supreme, on or immediately after the convention on June 13 th , and before the City Journal announcing DSA went public with these positions on June 17th. The close timing indicates coordination or at least insider knowledge of DSA plans.
This is also consistent with DSA’s statement, in the program, that their 2026 program, was “drafted between the months of April and June 2026.” The DSA program was officially released on July 14 th .
Who would think the Iowa Democratic Party would put these radical calls for action in their platform even before the DSA officially released their program?
And then keep them secret so Party insiders would know, but the public would not? Didn’t a Party and its candidates, who supposedly champion transparency and accountability, have a duty to reveal this extremist platform to the public?
Don Bohlken lives in Indianola
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