The group MAHA Action has issued its first gubernatorial candidate endorsement for 2026 yesterday. MAHA Action said the endorsement of Zach Lahn, candidate in Iowa’s Republican primary, “is the beginning of a new chapter” in its intervention in American local and state government.
Lahn announced his campaign in November, as the fifth candidate in the primary, which is wide open after Gov. Kim Reynolds(R) said she will not run again. Lahn, from eastern Iowa, is going heavy with identity politics: I am a sixth generation farmer, I have seven children, I want to make Iowa great again, etc. In fact, his career has featured years of out-of-state work politically with Americans for Prosperity, the anti-American System policy outfit. Lahn calls for “medical freedom” for families. He will implement his “Iowa First” campaign, against “communist foreign governments.”
MAHA Action and Lahn both have as their top rally cry: Stop Big Pharma, and Big Ag—the theme, rightly popular the world over, that gave Robert F. Kennedy Jr., currently Secretary of Health and Human Services, momentum as a presidential candidate, followed by his alliance with President Donald Trump. In fact, MAHA in all its forms, has done worse than nothing against the cartels, while meantime shutting down health infrastructure, and basic bio-medical science capacity, and much else in between.
The “MAHA machine” is in high gear for more intervention and destruction. In February, 2025, the Federal MAHA Commission was established, under one of President Trump’s first executive orders. The Commission has multiple Cabinet members serving on it, to promote MAHA “values,” from agriculture to medical officers.
