MILWAUKEE, WI Today, AFT Local 212 announced their endorsement of Attorney General Josh Kaul for reelection at their office in Milwaukee. “In an age when American democracy is threatened, American Federation of Teachers Local 212 Committee on Political Education enthusiastically endorses Josh Kaul for Wisconsin’s Attorney General,” said Steven Shea, AFT 212 COPE Chair, “We know he will protect the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law.” “I know how excellent Wisconsin educators are and what a tough couple of years they have faced,” said AG Kaul. “As Attorney General, I’ve worked to make our schools safer, and I look forward to building on

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, a bill co-introduced by Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), H.R. 7072, the Non-Disclosure Order (NDO) Fairness Act, was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a voice vote. This bipartisan legislation reins in prosecutorial abuse and executive branch overreach by strengthening the standards prosecutors must meet when seeking to place NDOs on service providers. It will prevent federal prosecutors from hiding their sweeping requests behind lengthy gag orders or blocking interested parties from knowing when the government is looking through their data. “We live in a technological age that has given the government easy access to personal e-mail

MADISON, Wis. – Speaking to WKOW, Tim Michels refused to condemn the violence of the January 6th insurrection saying “there was clearly a lot of people that showed up with the original intent of hearing what President Trump had to say,” adding that there was “frustration over the election results.” This comes on the heels of Republican conspiracy theorist and candidate for governor Tim Ramthun falsely referring to the January 6th insurrection as a “Democrat-orchestrated riot” and said that congressional leaders wanted to create a “deflection” on January 6th in order to prevent objections to seven states’ electoral votes. If Michels does not believe the

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a follow-up letter to Kenneth Bonner, President and Chief Growth Officer of Unissant Inc., regarding the company’s management of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED).  The senator has been examining potential data integrity issues on the database and included a timeline in his letter highlighting when DMED data integrity issues occurred and how Unissant and DoD responded to those issues. On Jan. 24, 2022, during Sen. Johnson’s COVID-19: A Second Opinion panel, he discussed DoD whistleblower data that showed significant increases in registered medical diagnoses

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Mark Pocan’s (WI-02) bill, the 21st Century President Act (H.R. 3285), passed the House unanimously by voice vote. Rep. Pocan spoke on the House Floor this afternoon in support of this legislation, which he authored and introduced. Click here or the image to watch the full speech, and find the transcript of Rep. Pocan’s remarks below. Rep. Mark Pocan June, 21 2022 Remarks as Delivered I rise today in support of the 21st Century President Act, a bipartisan bill which I am glad to have authored and introduced. Federal law hasn’t caught up to where progress in this country

WISCONSIN – In the fourth hearing of the January 6th Select Committee, we learned more about the pressure campaign of Trump and his MAGA allies to overturn the results of the election. An all-Republican panel first detailed Trump and his officials’ harassment, and an election worker and her mother described their experiences after they were falsely accused by Trump of meddling in the election. “Trump pressured state officials to overthrow the will of the people in order to stay in power, and exposed election workers to threats and harassment by publicly and falsely accusing them of crimes,” said Defend Democracy

Milwaukee — Alex Lasry released the following statement today following the uncovering of Ron Johnson’s attempted coup to overthrow the government and change the outcome of the 2020 election: “Ron Johnson is a seditious traitor and a danger to our democracy. Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a radical plot to overturn an election they lost, and Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it for President Trump on a silver platter. “The idea that a single American can attempt to overthrow the outcome of a fair and free election is perhaps the most egregious idea imaginable to the

MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Technical College System thanks Governor Evers, Secretary Hughes and Secretary Pechacek for the $16.5 million investment in workforce innovation happening at Lakeshore Technical College, Northcentral Technical College, Nicolet College and Northwood Technical College. Our colleges work closely with the employers in their communities to provide a highly skilled workforce, adept in specific areas of expertise needed by local employers. WTCS appreciates the governor’s support, along with DWD and WEDC’s recognition that our colleges are at the forefront of innovation in education and providing workforce solutions. Lakeshore Technical College will use their $1.64 million grant to meet

MADISON, Wis. – Thanks to historic leadership from President Biden, Governor Evers, and Democrats in Congress, all children ages six months to five years old can now get vaccinated against COVID-19. Late last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control authorized and recommended the use of this life-saving vaccine for young kids, bringing peace of mind to millions of parents and families across the country. In tandem with this announcement, the Biden-Harris administration launched a nationwide effort to ensure pharmacies, pediatricians, and other trusted providers have enough vaccine supply for every family across the country. This progress comes

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Always Ready, Always There includes cyberspace. Members of Wisconsin’s Cyber Response Team — the state’s volunteer resource for cyber incidents — and eight Wisconsin National Guard members participated in Cyber Shield 22, the Defense Department’s largest unclassified cyber defense exercise, which this year was held June 5-17 at the Army National Guard’s Professional Educational Center in Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Various teams served roles in the exercise. The Blue Team was the defender of the network, and the focus of the exercise. The Red Team was the enemy force, or

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Mark Pocan’s (WI-02) bill, the 21st Century President Act (H.R. 3285), passed the House unanimously by voice vote. Pocan’s bill would make commonsense updates to gendered language in the U.S. Code, reflecting the reality that a woman or LGBTQ+ person will someday hold the office of the presidency. Without this change, the law that makes it a crime to threaten to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon the President or the President’s family would fail to explicitly include a future female president or president with a same-sex spouse. “In the last presidential election, six women and one gay man

MADISON – Today, following texts showing that Ron Johnson wanted to personally deliver false documents to Vice President Pence in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, State Treasurer and candidate for U.S. Senate Sarah Godlewski slammed Johnson for his role in the radical right’s attempt to overthrow our free and fair presidential election. Sarah Godlewski released the following statement:  “Today, we learned just how far Ron Johnson went to try and overthrow the 2020 Presidential Election. The question now is, did he ask Donald Trump for a pardon? It is clear Ron Johnson is a threat to our democracy and is unfit to

Looking back at statewide elections since November 2008, the rate of absentee voting by Wisconsin citizens ranges from a low of 7.0 percent in the April 2012 spring election to a high of 65.6 percent in the August 2020 primary, an election that occurred during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.   Tracking absentee voting trends is complicated, in that there are several categories to consider, and the ways in which absentee ballots are defined has evolved over the years. For example, UOCAVA (the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986) requires that states allow for members of

Appleton, Wis. – U.S. Senate candidate Tom Nelson called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the actions of U.S. Senator Ron Johnson after shocking new testimony that shines new light on Johnson’s role as “the ‘go-to’ guy for insurrection among the Trump plotters seeking to overturn the 2020 election. The new testimony vindicated Nelson’s earlier calls for the January 6 Commission to subpoena Johnson. The Commission today released damning and shocking texts showing Johnson had requested to push false Wisconsin electors to overturn the presidential election. Nelson had submitted two letters to the January 6 Commission asking that