Photojournalist Cassi Alexandra visited Iowa this January ahead of the first presidential caucuses to ask voters what they would like to see for the future of the U.S. Pictured: "I think we have to get our humanity back because that's what we are." Lonna Nachtigal, a volunteer radio host and farmer at Onion Creek Farms, said "We're not corporations, we're not money. We're not here to take, take, take. Human beings are part of the world, and we have to learn that or face the consequences at our own peril.”
Cassi Alexandra
- Photojournalist Cassi Alexandra visited Iowa this January ahead of the first presidential caucuses to ask voters what they would like to see for the future of the U.S. Pictured: "I think we have to get our humanity back because that's what we are." Lonna Nachtigal, a volunteer radio host and farmer at Onion Creek Farms, said "We're not corporations, we're not money. We're not here to take, take, take. Human beings are part of the world, and we have to learn that or face the consequences at our own peril.”Cassi Alexandra
- Alexandra told ABC News, "It wasn't about Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative – it was about us all being the same people, all humans, all trying to survive in a harsh world... We all deserve a chance to be understood." Pictured: "The thing that makes me anxious is the fear that the wrong person is going to get into office," said Shari Baeth, an art teacher at Hoover High School in Des Moines, Iowa.Cassi Alexandra
- Wind turbines in the winter landscape in Iowa. The state only trails behind Texas and California in installed wind power capacity, according to the Department of Energy.Cassi Alexandra
- "It's through fear that people lose their humanity. Really, we would love everybody if we weren't afraid of people who were different from us." Dr. Austin Baeth shared his views from his office in Des Moines. "Fear mongers natural tactic is to highlight fears or drawing people who are different from their electoral base."Cassi Alexandra
- Colin Farley, a social worker in Des Moines, hasn't voted in an election in 10 years. "I don't really have a belief in the system. I don't feel it serves the people and when I view just about any politician at the national level, I see it more as some kind of joke or theatrical kind of play." Farley doesn't plan to vote in the 2016 presidential election.Cassi Alexandra
- A homemade Bernie Sanders sign sits in a voter’s yard in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 18, 2016.Cassi Alexandra
- Jim Tegeler, a public school teacher of 32 years, poses in his classroom at Meredith Middle School in Des Monies. "We are due for a major healing and I think the people are ready for it. They only way I see that happening is with more open communication and people with more listening instead of name calling." Tegeler is going to caucus for Ben Carson but says he will cross party lines for the right person in the 2016 presidential election.Cassi Alexandra
- Asked what makes him anxious about politics, Joe Lynch, a farmer, said, "It's been corrupted by capitalism and people that have concentrated wealth, and have determined to keep it. It's pretty scary. It's more than anxious. It's terrifying if you think of the way it's raping our culture and our planet." He posed for this portrait in his solar-heated Iowa home that he built himself in 1973 after the energy crisis.Cassi Alexandra
- A member of the media broadcasts from a Trump campaign rally at the Hansen Agricultural Student Learning Center at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, on Jan. 19, 2016.Cassi Alexandra
- "I feel like all the candidates are just trying to make each other look bad in a more dramatic way this time," Travis Ness, 23, who posed for a portrait in his Des Moines home. Ness applies the makeup he wears for drag shows. "We're trying to find who's going to lead this country, and who's going to make a better place to live, instead of who's the most popular one. It's like high school with old people. I think they're just forgetting what the meaning is."Cassi Alexandra
- "I don't think our country's ever been healed." Vincent Lane shown at Hoover High School in Des Moines, Iowa. Lane added, "One of my friends refers to this as 'These yet to be United States of America.' I think there's a lot of truth to that."Cassi Alexandra
- Married for 58 years, Bob and Marylou Gunderson shown in their home at the Wesley Acres retirement community. "I think politics is a good thing. It can certainly have negative aspects to it, but the back and forth and people talking is a good thing. It doesn't always work the way you want it to work," said Marylou Gunderson.Cassi Alexandra
- Actors perform the musical "Caucus!" on Jan. 22, 2016, at the Stoner Theater. Robert John Ford, an award-winning playwright, composer, lyricist and native Iowan, created the show.Cassi Alexandra
- American flags are displayed in Des Moines, Iowa, on Jan. 18, 2016. Residents of Iowa will turn out on Feb. 1 to vote in the state's caucuses.Cassi Alexandra
