The Fight for Iowa: Steve Holt Breaks Down the 2025 Legislative Session
- Oliver Bardwell
- May 19
- 1 min read

Common sense and constitutional rights won this session—but it didn’t come easy.
That’s the tone of our latest podcast episode featuring State Representative Steve Holt, a 20-year Marine and one of Iowa’s most respected conservative leaders.
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In Part One, we cover the fiercest battles of the 2025 legislative session, including:
🔹 The historic removal of gender identity from Iowa’s civil rights code
🔹 The fight to dismantle DEI at our public institutions and organizations
🔹 Private property rights and the CO2 pipeline war
🔹 The SF 180 Conscientious Objection Bill
🔹 Grassroots victories, inside strategy, and what comes next
This session was supposed to end on May 2. It didn’t. What happened in those final two weeks will define the future of Iowa—and we break it all down.
🎙️ Want More? Hear Steve Holt answer your questions directly.
In Part Two, we go off-script and into the inbox—asking questions submitted by Kairos Nexus, Patreon supporters, and Iowans for Freedom members like you.
Topics include:
🔸 Why didn’t property tax reform pass?
🔸 Will SF180 come back next session?
🔸 Are Second Amendment rights under threat at the federal level?
🔸 Chemtrails? Body cams? School library censorship? We go there.
🔸 Will Steve Holt ever run for Congress or Governor? - You’ll hear it straight from him.
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