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Hey folks,
Josh Turek joined me on Endless Urgency, and this one gets right to the heart of why I think Iowa could shock people.
We talk about families getting crushed by health care costs, a cancer and water-quality crisis, farmers feeling betrayed, the very real risks of AI data centers—and why Josh believes voters across party lines are ready to “rotate the crops” and demand something different.
[00:01:10] Josh gets personal about Iowa’s cancer crisis, losing his grandmother to pancreatic cancer, his father’s battles with cancer, and his sister’s breast cancer diagnosis.
[00:04:22] Why Josh says Iowa has hit a breaking point—and what he’s hearing from rural voters, farmers, and even longtime Trump supporters who are telling him, “Enough’s enough.”
[00:07:01] We dig into AI and data centers: rising energy costs, water usage, corporate tax breaks, and why Josh thinks Washington has a very short window to put real guardrails in place.
[00:10:01] Farmers, beef producers, and a growing sense of betrayal. Josh makes the case for country-of-origin labeling, a farm bill, right-to-repair—and a government that actually fights for producers.
[00:13:04] Don’t write off Iowa. Josh explains the state’s history of ticket-splitting, Obama-to-Trump voters, and why he believes Democrats have a real opportunity to win voters back and flip this Senate seat.
This conversation is bigger than one race. It’s about whether we’re willing to go places Democrats have been told to abandon, listen to people who don’t fit neatly into partisan boxes, and fight for working people who feel like their government stopped fighting for them. That’s part of the mission of Endless Urgency: have the conversations that matter, challenge the conventional wisdom, and help build something better. If you value honest conversations like this, help me keep them going.
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With urgency,
—Mike
