Iowa · Self-Determination
On a fair ballot, Iowa is within reach of a majority.
Close to half of Iowa already agrees, but there is no organized movement for it here yet. That is what we are here to change.
Iowaadults in Iowa would back independence when the question is asked the way a ballot asks it: calm, binary, and peaceful. That's about 46% of the state.
Even the understated abstract poll counts 390,000 (16%). How we get this number →
Iowa, if it stood alone
largest economy on Earth
$257 billion, ahead of Hungary.
people
More than the whole of Qatar. A nation-sized population, governed from elsewhere.
seats in Congress
The other 529 are chosen by people who don't live here.
in corn, ethanol, and pork
First in the country in all three, and roughly a third of America's hogs.
Iowa standoutThe only question that matters
Iowa is already a nation in all but name.
If Iowa were already a self-governing nation, with its own border, its own money, its own defense, everything two hundred other nations control, and the vote in front of you was not whether to leave, but whether to join the United States on the terms it offers today, would you vote yes?
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Iowa runs a piece of its own government by hand every four years. In church basements and school gyms, neighbors stand up, argue, and count themselves. The people who built this state came to farm ground no one would hand them, and they governed what they built. So the question of Iowa deciding Iowa is not strange here. Put the plain, calm, peaceful question on a ballot, would you vote to leave the union, and about 46 percent of Iowa says yes. That is close to 1.1 million adults.
That 46 percent is the honest number, and here is why. A ballot is a real choice, worded plainly, decided in peace, with a yes and a no and nothing else. Asked that way, support runs about 30 points higher than the abstract poll floor. Even that understated floor, the raw YouGov question, already puts it at 16 percent, roughly 390,000 Iowans. Move to a real ballot and the number climbs to the edge of a majority. Iowa leaned Republican in 2020, and none of this is a red or a blue thing. Deciding who governs you is older than either party.
What is missing in Iowa is not the numbers. It is each other. Close to half of your neighbors already agree and most of them have never met one another. We bring the playbook and the connections from the largest independence movement in the country. We do not run your group. We do not take your money. You build what Iowa's movement looks like, county by county, and we help you find the people who are already standing with you.
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Count Me In, Iowa
Be findable. When the next person from Iowa reaches out, we connect you. That is how it starts.
We don't run your group. We don't take your money. We bring the playbook, the standard, and the connections. What you build is yours.
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