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Iowa GOP gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn invested $1 million in a progressive "SexTech" company and still owns 25% of it. He swears it doesn't sell sex toys, but the company does sell an award-winning cock ring.
Brendan Hartnett and Tim Miller unpack and unbox this liability. See less
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Who is Zach Lahn and a Cock Ring?
Here is everything that has now come to the surface.
The Rural Feminist
Jun 05, 2026
The FirmTech Investment — Not a Minor Detail
This is far more substantial than a casual mention. Federal SEC filings from June 2023 show Lahn listed as one of only three directors of FirmTech, a sextech company whose mission is to “change the conversation away from erectile dysfunction to erectile fitness.” The filing shows Lahn held 28.2% of the company’s voting power as an investor through an LLC called the Selah Group, and appears to have paid approximately $1 million for that stake. This is not a passive small investment. He was a founding director with nearly 30% voting power in the company. Food & Water Watch
When pressed, Lahn called it “a grade two medical device” and insisted his investment was “purely and specifically around the technology underlying it.” He claimed he believed it would “help save men’s lives.” That framing conveniently sidesteps the fact that he held nearly a third of the voting power in a company that markets sexual wellness products, all while campaigning on banning abortion with no exceptions and positioning himself as a champion of traditional Iowa values. The contrast is not subtle. Zachlahn
The Montana Record — This Is the Big One
This is arguably the most damaging thread of all, and it has been almost entirely overlooked in Iowa coverage. During his time leading Americans for Prosperity in Montana, Lahn helped lead AFP Montana’s push to block Medicaid expansion in the 2015 legislative session, and pushed to reduce regulations on pollutants to benefit Koch Industries, one of the country’s largest industrial polluters. NationofChange
The Montana Medicaid fight got genuinely ugly. AFP Montana under Lahn’s direction targeted Republican legislators who wouldn’t sign a pledge against Medicaid expansion, sending postcards and making telephone calls into their districts, pressuring them to oppose coverage for low-income residents. The backlash at AFP town halls was fierce, with audience members shouting at Lahn directly, with one man telling him, “You have pissed me off. Character assassination does not go down well in Montana.” Fox NewsIowa Public Radio
And then there is the gaffe that went nationally viral. After Montana’s House passed Medicaid expansion, Lahn released a statement saying the decision “stands directly against the voices of millions of Montanans who have made it clear that they do not want more Obamacare.” The problem? Montana’s entire population at the time was just over one million people. The hashtag #MillionsOfMontanans immediately went viral, with the state’s governor and U.S. senator both piling on. uiowa
Think about the contradiction this creates. Here is a man now running on a MAHA platform promising to fight for Iowans’ health, who spent his career actively working to deny healthcare coverage to low-income people in another state on behalf of a billionaire family’s political network, then couldn’t even get the population of that state right while doing it.
The Koch Connection — Deeper Than Anyone Has Pressed
The full picture of how deeply Lahn is woven into the Koch network has never been laid out cleanly in one place. His career trajectory runs directly through Koch-connected politics from start to finish: campaign work for Cory Gardner in Colorado in 2010, then managing Steve Daines’ first Montana campaign in 2011, then serving as Daines’ congressional state director, then briefly back to Iowa for campaign work, then straight into AFP as Montana state director in 2014. The New Lede
His wife Annie was married to Chase Koch, Charles Koch’s son, when the Wonder School launched in 2018. Charles Koch, with his late brother David, created one of the most important and well-funded conservative political networks in the country. Chase Koch and Annie were married from 2010 until their divorce in 2020, meaning Lahn was working directly with Chase Koch’s then-wife on a Koch-funded project while simultaneously serving as a Koch political operative. Annie then divorced Chase and married Lahn. The GazetteIowa Public Radio
So to be clear about the full picture: Lahn worked for AFP, the Koch political machine. He moved to Wichita to co-found a school with the wife of the Koch heir. That woman then left the Koch heir and married Lahn. Lahn now campaigns as an anti-corporate outsider fighting against the very kind of special interests he spent his entire career serving.
The Broader Career Pattern
The Iowa Starting Line summarized it pointedly: before he was “Iowa First,” Lahn was a Koch-connected political operative who blocked Medicaid expansion in Montana, co-founded a Koch-funded private school in Kansas, pushed to reduce pollution regulations that benefited Koch Industries, and barely met Iowa’s residency requirement to run. NationofChange
The character and integrity question being raised is exactly the right one. This is a man who has spent his entire adult life working for powerful outside interests, moving from state to state wherever the political opportunity took him, blocking healthcare for low-income people, defending corporate polluters, and building a personal life intertwined with one of the wealthiest and most politically influential families in America. He is now asking Iowa voters to believe he is an independent outsider farmer who answers to nobody but God, his family, and the people of Iowa.
The record simply does not support that story.
https://theruralfeminist.substack.com/p/who-is-zach-lahn
With over 250,000 recordings and counting, the award-winning TechRing uses sensor technology to comfortably measure your erectile fitness during sex and during sleep.
Shop The TechRing Now
What It Does - Where Health Meets Pleasure
Your Penis Is Trying To Talk To You & Now You Can Listen
Up until now, measuring the nighttime activity of your penis outside of lab conditions was impossible. But that’s all changed. Gain vital health insights via data between TechRing and the app, empowering you and your healthcare provider.
https://myfirmtech.com/
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Iowa GOP gubernatorial nominee Zach Lahn invested $1 million in a progressive "SexTech" company and still owns 25% of it. He swears it doesn't sell sex toys, but the company does sell an award-winning cock ring.
Brendan Hartnett and Tim Miller unpack and unbox this liability. See less
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1752110149360589
-----------------------------------------------
Who is Zach Lahn and a Cock Ring?
Here is everything that has now come to the surface.
The Rural Feminist
Jun 05, 2026
The FirmTech Investment — Not a Minor Detail
This is far more substantial than a casual mention. Federal SEC filings from June 2023 show Lahn listed as one of only three directors of FirmTech, a sextech company whose mission is to “change the conversation away from erectile dysfunction to erectile fitness.” The filing shows Lahn held 28.2% of the company’s voting power as an investor through an LLC called the Selah Group, and appears to have paid approximately $1 million for that stake. This is not a passive small investment. He was a founding director with nearly 30% voting power in the company. Food & Water Watch
When pressed, Lahn called it “a grade two medical device” and insisted his investment was “purely and specifically around the technology underlying it.” He claimed he believed it would “help save men’s lives.” That framing conveniently sidesteps the fact that he held nearly a third of the voting power in a company that markets sexual wellness products, all while campaigning on banning abortion with no exceptions and positioning himself as a champion of traditional Iowa values. The contrast is not subtle. Zachlahn
The Montana Record — This Is the Big One
This is arguably the most damaging thread of all, and it has been almost entirely overlooked in Iowa coverage. During his time leading Americans for Prosperity in Montana, Lahn helped lead AFP Montana’s push to block Medicaid expansion in the 2015 legislative session, and pushed to reduce regulations on pollutants to benefit Koch Industries, one of the country’s largest industrial polluters. NationofChange
The Montana Medicaid fight got genuinely ugly. AFP Montana under Lahn’s direction targeted Republican legislators who wouldn’t sign a pledge against Medicaid expansion, sending postcards and making telephone calls into their districts, pressuring them to oppose coverage for low-income residents. The backlash at AFP town halls was fierce, with audience members shouting at Lahn directly, with one man telling him, “You have pissed me off. Character assassination does not go down well in Montana.” Fox NewsIowa Public Radio
And then there is the gaffe that went nationally viral. After Montana’s House passed Medicaid expansion, Lahn released a statement saying the decision “stands directly against the voices of millions of Montanans who have made it clear that they do not want more Obamacare.” The problem? Montana’s entire population at the time was just over one million people. The hashtag #MillionsOfMontanans immediately went viral, with the state’s governor and U.S. senator both piling on. uiowa
Think about the contradiction this creates. Here is a man now running on a MAHA platform promising to fight for Iowans’ health, who spent his career actively working to deny healthcare coverage to low-income people in another state on behalf of a billionaire family’s political network, then couldn’t even get the population of that state right while doing it.
The Koch Connection — Deeper Than Anyone Has Pressed
The full picture of how deeply Lahn is woven into the Koch network has never been laid out cleanly in one place. His career trajectory runs directly through Koch-connected politics from start to finish: campaign work for Cory Gardner in Colorado in 2010, then managing Steve Daines’ first Montana campaign in 2011, then serving as Daines’ congressional state director, then briefly back to Iowa for campaign work, then straight into AFP as Montana state director in 2014. The New Lede
His wife Annie was married to Chase Koch, Charles Koch’s son, when the Wonder School launched in 2018. Charles Koch, with his late brother David, created one of the most important and well-funded conservative political networks in the country. Chase Koch and Annie were married from 2010 until their divorce in 2020, meaning Lahn was working directly with Chase Koch’s then-wife on a Koch-funded project while simultaneously serving as a Koch political operative. Annie then divorced Chase and married Lahn. The GazetteIowa Public Radio
So to be clear about the full picture: Lahn worked for AFP, the Koch political machine. He moved to Wichita to co-found a school with the wife of the Koch heir. That woman then left the Koch heir and married Lahn. Lahn now campaigns as an anti-corporate outsider fighting against the very kind of special interests he spent his entire career serving.
The Broader Career Pattern
The Iowa Starting Line summarized it pointedly: before he was “Iowa First,” Lahn was a Koch-connected political operative who blocked Medicaid expansion in Montana, co-founded a Koch-funded private school in Kansas, pushed to reduce pollution regulations that benefited Koch Industries, and barely met Iowa’s residency requirement to run. NationofChange
The character and integrity question being raised is exactly the right one. This is a man who has spent his entire adult life working for powerful outside interests, moving from state to state wherever the political opportunity took him, blocking healthcare for low-income people, defending corporate polluters, and building a personal life intertwined with one of the wealthiest and most politically influential families in America. He is now asking Iowa voters to believe he is an independent outsider farmer who answers to nobody but God, his family, and the people of Iowa.
The record simply does not support that story.
https://theruralfeminist.substack.com/p/who-is-zach-lahn
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