the heartland clinic tour
on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s mind since 2026-08-04
Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota: the health secretary's three-state week
He toured UNMC's biocontainment unit, called it 'critical to national security,' and kept moving.
the tour is the message. every stop is a governor smiling beside him and a local anchor who won't ask about the vaccine schedule — that footage is harder to fire than a press release.
Three states in four days
The history
- 2026-08-22— #1 · 25% · steady — Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota: the health secretary's three-state week
- 2026-08-21— #1 · 26% · steady — Two states in two days: Kennedy takes the health department on the road
- 2026-08-20— #3 · 15% · new this week — In Dubuque, he tours a clinic staring down a $1.4 million cut
- 2026-08-19— #2 · 20% · new this week — In Dubuque he tours a clinic losing $1.4M, then calls NIH cuts 'painful'
- 2026-08-17— #3 · 15% · new this week — $102M for health centers, then a school garden in Bakersfield
- 2026-08-16— #3 · 16% · new this week — $102 Million, a Clinic Upgrade, and a Roundtable in Bakersfield
- 2026-08-15— #1 · 26% · new this week — Kennedy hands Atwater $102M and Bakersfield a nutrition lecture
- 2026-08-14— #1 · 27% · new this week — $102M for rural clinics, delivered in person
- 2026-08-05— #4 · 10% · steady — Take Back Your Health rolls from Danville to a Goldsboro gym
- 2026-08-04— #4 · 10% · new this week — In Danville, He Promised AI Would Fix Rural Medicine