DES MOINES, Iowa -- The first candidate to announce a run for President in 2020 is on the final leg of his attempt to complete the "Full Grassley".

The term for a visit to all 99 counties was coined by former Des Moines Register reporter Jason Noble. Senator Charles Grassley has made a habit of visiting every county at least once every year. It's a tour that presidential candidates are challenged to complete before our first in the nation caucuses. By the end of this month Maryland Congressman John Delaney will complete his "Full Delaney."

Delaney is the first, and only, Democrat to announce his candidacy in 2020. He is not running for re-election this year in Maryland to focus on his campaign which he launched in July 2017.

On Wednesday he launched a five-day, eight stop bus tour that will take him to his final stops on his 99 county tour. Along the way he'll campaign with candidates on 2018 ballots in Iowa. Delaney has spent much of the last year in Iowa, spreading a message about making US policy reflect the reality of life in America in 2020.

“Lügenpresse” was branded a taboo word in Germany in 2015 by an academic panel after anti-Islam movements, such as Pegida, started using it more frequently in the presence of journalists. As in the United States, trust in mainstream media is on the decline in Germany.

The verbal attacks against journalists soon turned into physical violence in Germany. At times, media members were unable to cover the Pegida-organized protest marches without private security personnel. Some reporters who risked going in without bodyguards were beaten up. It is without doubt that the word “Lügenpresse” has an extremely ugly meaning in modern-day Germany.

Its history is even worse, though.

The term emerged way before the Nazis took over in Germany. For instance, the German Defense Ministry released a book titled “The Lügenpresse of Our Enemies” in 1918 during World War I. According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, the term was coined by Reinhold Anton in 1914. In books, Anton used the term mainly in a foreign context to refer to “enemy propaganda.” It is unclear whether Anton was a pseudonym.

On Friday night, a fierce wasú hiŋháŋ, or hail storm, hit Red Cloud’s campus and a number of communities on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Wind gusts reached over 80 miles an hour, as hailstones the size of softballs ripped through windows and pulled siding and roof shingles off of housing units. As Robert Brave Heart Sr., Red Cloud’s executive vice president, said this week:

“We are so grateful that this storm hit during the summer, when our students aren’t back to school yet. But our teachers and volunteers are now returning to a campus strewn with shards of dangerous glass and boarded-up windows. Many of our buses that we desperately need to transport students won’t be usable without extensive repairs. Our community is coming together in this time of need to help assess the damage and to start to rebuild—but we truly can use all the support possible.”

Please help us ensure we’re ready to welcome our students back to campus in a few short weeks. Your support means everything to us!