The group MAHA Action has issued its first endorsement of a gubernatorial candidate for 2026. On Dec. 5 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: Saying he is a sixth generation farmer, has seven children, wants to make Iowa great again, etc. In fact, his career has featured years of work politically out of the state with Americans for Prosperity, an 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 (for (Make America Healthy Again) in all its forms, has done worse than nothing against the cartels, while meantime shutting down healthcare 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 Donald Trump’s first executive orders. The Commission has multiple cabinet members serving on it, to promote MAHA “values,” from agriculture to medical officers.
