Iowa · Citizen activist · Speaker

We’re sick of the cooking shows and podcasts. We want action on mRNA.

Dan Twelmeyer is a Des Moines father and citizen activist who turned a family experience with mandates into direct legislative action.

Dan Twelmeyer · Live hearing

“If this were a food; COVID vaccines would be taken off the market…”

Personal story · Des Moines

Who is Dan?

Dan is not a lobbyist, elected official, or medical professional. He is a private citizen and cancer survivor whose concern for his daughters’ experiences in nursing education became a wider conviction: bodily autonomy should apply to anything injected in school, clinical placements, and employment.

He took those concerns to Iowa Senator Doug Campbell, helped bring Senate File 360 into public view, and joined researchers and physicians in testimony at the Iowa Capitol.

“As important as these stories are, without accountability they stay stories. We need action.”

— Dan Twelmeyer

How he started

A citizen put it on the record.

Introduced on February 18, 2025, SF 360 proposed prohibiting the administration of defined gene-based vaccines in Iowa. A Senate subcommittee recommended amendment and passage on a 2–1 vote after its March 3 hearing.

The bill did not receive a full committee or floor vote and later died in committee. The record remains an example of an ordinary citizen moving an issue onto the legislative calendar.

Dan Twelmeyer testifying at the Iowa Capitol

Featured testimony · March 3, 2025

The work ahead

Turn concern into action.

Mobilize people. Build pressure. Create change.

Pull the shots

I want the COVID mRNA products off the market. Washington and the FDA have had years to act. They have not, so I am taking the fight to Iowa.

End the shield

I want the PREP Act declaration terminated. That is the shield that keeps manufacturers out of ordinary court. The house of cards could come down with a stroke of a pen.

Stand with the injured

I want the people who were hurt to be heard and helped, not dismissed. Awareness without accountability just leaves the stories as stories.

Line-art portrait of Dan Twelmeyer speaking

In his words
“If I would have trusted the experts, I don’t know if I would be sitting here today. The issue at hand is what has been injected into humanity, and nobody in Washington is going to do anything. If this were a food, if this were a vehicle, this would be pulled off the market.”
Dan Twelmeyer · Iowa Senate subcommittee, March 3, 2025

“The bill to ban mRNA in Iowa was a grassroots effort led by @DanTwelmeyer who approached Iowa Sen Doug Campbell with his concerns. Dan is not a lobbyist or a politician...he simply showed up and asked his representative to help. Everyone could and should be like Dan!”

“Dan is the man I want in the room when something is hard and nobody wants to act. He didn’t wait for a title or marching orders to put himself out there to fight for the people of Iowa. Now he is launching to take that fight on even more directly. He has my full support.”

Organizations & affiliations

The work continues.

Dan serves these organizations in addition to his independent work at the Capitol.

Legislative team

Informed Choice Iowa

Advancing informed consent in Iowa health policy.

Advocate

Americans for Health Freedom

A national coalition for medical freedom and accountability.

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