Representative Charles M. Thomson

Representative Charles M. Thomson Representative for Iowa HD58. Promoting economic development & fighting government overreach.

05/14/2026

We will not stop defending private property rights until Summit Carbon Solutions packs up and leaves the state of Iowa.

05/13/2026

This is what VICTORY looks like for more than 400 landowners in western Iowa!

For 5 years now I have walked boldly alongside other legislators as we took a stand side by side with landowners all across the state of Iowa to fight and protect their land against eminent domain abuse. The carbon pipeline eminent domain threat in Iowa has been a battle I did not see coming and it has tested all of us to our core... warriors have been forged because it. It has been an HONOR and a joy to stand alongside landowners who are 4th, 5th and 6th generation farmers and who wanted to do nothing more than simply protect their own land. I shed tears of joy with all of you on this glorious day!!!

Congratulations my friends...you have withstood all odds while sacrificing so much. May your children's children remember this day. Yes, a proposed route still remains through Iowa but right now, take a victory lap and breathe. Glory to God!

BREAKING NEWS: Summit Carbon has announced that it will seek IUC permission to abandon some segments of the route it proposed earlier.

From the Summit Press Release:

"Summit will remove the proposed routes in Shelby, Pottawattamie, Montgomery, Adams, Page, Fremont, Mitchell, and Worth counties, while also reducing pipeline mileage in Crawford, Floyd, Sioux, and Dickinson counties. In total, the refinements will remove more than 400 landowners from the project footprint and reduce the overall scope of the project by approximately 200 miles."

BREAKING: Summit is abandoning part of its proposed route. Some details are attached. Is the project starting to unrav...
05/13/2026

BREAKING: Summit is abandoning part of its proposed route. Some details are attached. Is the project starting to unravel? Perhaps the opposition is winning? Might they abandon eminent domain demands next?

05/13/2026

BREAKING: Summit Carbon has announced that it will seek IUC permission to abandon some segments of the route it proposed earlier. Shelby County, for example, is no longer on the route at all. This appears to be a major victory for landowners (but we have not seen the details). The Floyd County segment running just south of Charles City through the industrial park appears to still be planned. I'll post more details as I get them.

05/10/2026

🚨 Federal Law Forces Invasive Driver Surveillance Systems into Every New U.S. Car by 2027

Congress enacted Section 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to mandate advanced impaired driving prevention technology in all new passenger vehicles.

This federal requirement locks in for model year 2027, with rollout accelerating toward late 2026.

Infrared cameras, AI-powered algorithms, and biometric sensors will embed directly into vehicle dashboards nationwide.

These systems will relentlessly scan eye movements, head position, pupil changes, breathing rhythms, steering behavior, and other vital signs in real time.

Detection of suspected impairment, whether accurate or triggered by a false positive, triggers automatic intervention: the car refuses to start or abruptly limits speed, stranding drivers without appeal.

NHTSA’s own February 2026 report to Congress admits current technology falls far short of required accuracy, warning that even high detection thresholds could generate millions of erroneous shutdowns annually.

Yet the statutory mandate presses forward unchanged. Congressional efforts to repeal or defund it (including amendments backed by Rep. Thomas Massie) collapsed in January 2026, sealing the timeline.

Every new vehicle will carry an extra several hundred dollars in hidden costs.

The law creates a vast, uncharted biometric data ecosystem inside private cars, with no ironclad protections against hacking, insurer access, or warrantless government queries.

Sensitive personal information—your gaze, fatigue levels, potential medical signals—will flow through systems ripe for abuse as surveillance capabilities expand.

This marks a chilling federal takeover of personal mobility.

Americans will sit under constant algorithmic judgment every time they enter a new vehicle, with machines empowered to override human decisions on the open road.

I do not consent to this government-mandated surveillance embedded in my car.

Do you?

05/08/2026

Agree or disagree?

05/07/2026

Every single No vote on Iowa's Anti-Red Flag Gun Seizure Act came from a Democrat.

The bill bars warrantless gun seizures and creates a $50,000 penalty for any agency that violates it.

Two Democrats even crossed the aisle to vote yes. But every No was a Democrat. Remember that the next time someone with a (D) after their name tells you they "respect the Second Amendment."

See my op-ed in The American Spectator below in the first comment, and please sign my petition in the second comment.

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