Restoring Democracy's Promise
Timothy C. TuckerNational accountability journalism with an Iowa-based investigative desk—documenting how surveillance, data-sharing, and governance failures scale across the U.S.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 161 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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A Resignation Is Not an Audit: Why Iowa Still Owes its Public Employees Answers
IPERS headquarters in West Des Moines. Iowa officials have confirmed leadership departures, but have not released findings showing whether the separate investment-governance allegations pending in court were reviewed.
Iowa’s largest...
The Dexter Disinformation Playbook: Why a $35k Audit Wasn’t a "Bookkeeping Error"
A forensic ledger reveals what ordinary bookkeeping can hide.
The political attack on State Auditor Rob Sand over the Dexter Public Library investigation collapses under one sentence from the official report.
According to the Iowa...
Iowa Handed Over the Voter Data — The Legal Blueprint Was Already There
This piece builds on Restoring Democracy’s Promise’s earlier reporting on Iowa’s SAVE architecture and the December settlement that helped wire state records into federal verification systems. What is new here is the paper trail: open-recor...
Iowa’s ALPR “Reform” Bill Would Regulate Plate Readers — and Hide the Logs
Update, May 3, 2026: The Iowa legislative session has now adjourned, and SF 2284’s ALPR language did not pass. According to Capitol reporting, House and Senate Republicans could not agree on final language before the session ended.
That is...
Newly Obtained Amended IPERS Lawsuit Expands Allegations on Risk, Fees, and Benchmarking
Editor’s note: What follows are allegations contained in a court filing. They are not proven facts.
A courthouse-obtained amended petition is forcing new questions about what Iowa’s public pension system knew — and what it told the public....
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