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Thomas Laehn, the Greene County attorney who became Iowa’s first Libertarian elected to partisan office in 2018, announced plans to run for Iowa's 2026 U.S. Senate seat.

Laehn, who had long been exploring a bid for the U.S. Senate seat , will kick off his campaign Saturday at the State Historical Building in Des Moines, where he plans to outline a platform focused on curbing executive power, ending eminent domain abuse and reducing the federal government’s role in domestic affairs.

“I am not running against the Republican candidate. Nor am I running against the Democratic candidate,” Laehn said. “I am running against the two-party system itself. It’s time to take political power away from t

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