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Shadow Politics, October 25, 2026

Shadow Politics, October 25, 2026

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Shadow Politics with US Senator Michael D Brown GET OUT AND VOTE: Vote for India May! India May's Campaign for Iowa House District 58 | May for Iowa A Vote is a Terrible Thing to Waste! https://mayforiowa.com/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/1590426035411235/ https://www.instagram.com/mayforiowa https://www.youtube.com/@MayforIowa https://bsky.app/profile/mayforiowa.bsky.social Rural Health Care, Poisoned Water, and a Fight to Rebuild Trust in Politics with India May India May, a nurse, county library director, and county death investigator running for Iowa's District 58 seat, joins Senator Michael D. Brown and co-host Liberty Jones to talk about contaminated rural drinking water, a broken health care system, her opponent's finances, and what it takes to rebuild trust in politics. A Nurse Takes On Iowa Politics Senator Michael D. Brown opens Shadow Politics by welcoming India May, a first-time candidate for Iowa's District 58 seat, describing her as a registered nurse, county library director, and county death investigator who has personally knocked more than seven thousand doors alongside volunteers. May explains that in her district she has witnessed preventable deaths, cancer in people far younger than it should appear, and suicides among veterans and farmers, which pushed her toward public office. She tells Brown and co-host Liberty Jones that Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance keep shrinking in coverage even as premiums, deductibles, and medication costs climb, while insurance company profits and executive bonuses rise every year. Brown notes that nurses are consistently ranked the most trusted profession in national surveys, calling it proof that May is running for the right reasons. May says one nurse explaining how healthcare actually works on the ground could help fix broken systems that politicians rarely understand firsthand. Poisoned Water And Preventable Disease Liberty Jones raises May's work connecting clean drinking water to cancer prevention, especially given new AI data centers. May responds that research already proves Iowa's water carries carcinogens well beyond nitrates and agricultural runoff, naming atrazine, glyphosate, paraquat, and PFAS forever chemicals as endocrine disruptors that affect every organ system, driving up autoimmune conditions like Parkinson's alongside cancer. She says Des Moines receives state-of-the-art filtration while rural Iowans drink the same contaminated water without it, calling it cruel to poison communities and then defund the healthcare that treats the resulting illness. May argues the problem extends across the Midwest and requires real regulation of corporate polluters rather than token penalties, along with a rewritten farm bill. Brown recalls covering the original farm legislation in college and agrees it is overdue for an overhaul, setting up a broader conversation about what rural communities actually need from Washington. An Opponent's Debt And Refused Debates Brown asks whether money is a problem against her entrenched opponent, incumbent Charlie Thomson, chair of the Iowa House oversight committee. May says Thomson has gone deeply into campaign debt to himself over the years, a legal but, she argues, unethical practice she has documented publicly, and that he has not received a district donation in over a year, relying instead on political action committees and wealthy donors from Des Moines and Chicago. She expects to be outspent but says he cannot outwork her, pointing to Republican yards now carrying her signs. May adds that Thomson has refused every debate and candidate forum, first citing his financial history and then accusing her of antisemitism for opposing what she calls the genocide in Gaza, a charge she rejects as absurd. Brown praises her authenticity, recalling her viral moment confronting Senator Joni Ernst on camera as evidence of the unscripted honesty he says Washington badly lacks. Reforming A Party That Talks Down Liberty Jones asks what legitimate criticism May has of her own party, and May says she spent her adult life as an independent until deciding Democrats need young, working-class voices the way MAGA reshaped the Republican Party. She criticizes a style of politics her mother calls noblesse oblige that offers half measures instead of asking people what they actually need, and says Democrats must stop enabling foreign conflicts funded by American tax dollars while domestic healthcare goes unmet. Brown agrees that lecturing voters, especially on guns, is the party's Achilles' heel. May recounts an Associated Press reporter's door-knocking question, has the Democratic Party neglected you, which left lifelong Trump voters in her district speechless, and says both parties take support without reciprocating. She argues rural Iowa was neglected by Democrats and that rebuilding trust means proving, door by door, that a vote will actually be returned with action rather than demands for money, loyalty, and yard signs...
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