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Their latest reports showed WisDems raised nearly $12.8 million for the year. The state GOP, meanwhile, pulled in almost $2.2 million last year through its federal account
Dem gubernatorial candidate Sara Rodriguez called for a Wisconsin public health insurance option that she said would use the state’s purchasing power to provide enrollees lower costs for prescription drugs, mental health services and other care.
There will be one debate in this year’s state Supreme Court race between appeals court judges Maria Lazar and Chris Taylor.
Tom Tiffany tightened his grip on the GOP nomination for governor as Washington County Exec Josh Schoemann dropped out of the race on the heels of President Donald Trump’s endorsement of the Minocqua Republican.
President Donald Trump endorsed Tom Tiffany for governor and Michael Alfonso in the 7th CD, putting his thumb on the scale of Wisconsin’s two most high-profile GOP primaries. In a pair of posts on Truth Social late Tuesday, Trump said
Several Dem candidates at a gubernatorial forum slammed ICE following the recent fatal shooting of Minnesotan Renee Good amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The Republican Assembly Campaign Committee raised $4.5 million through its main account over the last half of 2025, thanks largely to seven-figure donations from GOP megadonors Elizabeth Uihlein and Diane Hendricks. A check of RACC’s filing shows Uihlein donated $3
David Crowley topped the Dem gubernatorial field for fundraising over the final months of 2025, thanks partly to transfers from his Milwaukee County exec campaign and support from the southeastern Wisconsin business community, a WisPolitics review finds.
Conservative Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar announced she’s raised more than $200,000 over the past three months. That’s one-tenth of what liberal rival Chris Taylor pulled in for the full six-month reporting period.
Panelists discussed several factors boosting Dems: President Donald Trump’s bad poll numbers, recent Dem election wins around the country, and Democrats’ winning streak in state Supreme Court elections.
The group Mandela Barnes created after his failed U.S. Senate run spent four times what the average federal leadership PAC dropped on administrative costs while giving a third as much to other campaigns, a WisPolitics review shows.
“We do believe that voters are disenfranchised every time that we go to the polls without those fair maps, but I don’t know that it’s really realistic at this point to have those for the 2026 elections.”
In a letter responding to the U.S. DOJ’s request, commissioners wrote that Wisconsin law “explicitly prohibits the Commission” from providing the full unredacted voter registration list, which includes information like driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of residents’ Social Security numbers.
Joel Brennan, a leader in the Milwaukee business community and a former Department of Administration secretary, today officially joined the Dem field for governor, vowing to confront growing costs and Donald Trump’s “chaos and incompetence.” “I’ll be a governor who
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes says he’s shooting to raise “closer to $50 million” for his campaign cycle, which would be a significant uptick from his 2022 bid for U.S. Senate.
“We’re making sure that we have everything, every resource ready to take on Tom Tiffany because he is the likely nominee,” Barnes told WISN 12’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.
Elections clerks notified the Elections Commission of 127 instances of possible voter fraud or irregularities in recent elections, including bribery, a noncitizen registering and casting a ballot, and disrupting a drop box.
Several Dem candidates for governor took digs at the Trump administration during the first public forum of the campaign to succeed outgoing Gov. Tony Evers.
Nick Polce, of Delavan, is the fifth Republican to get into the race.
Poll Director Charles Franklin said history has shown candidates in fall races see little gain in name recognition until the summer ahead of their election. He said voters start tuning in between June and the August primary, and he expects name ID to climb in that window.
Their latest reports showed WisDems raised nearly $12.8 million for the year. The state GOP, meanwhile, pulled in almost $2.2 million last year through its federal account
Dem gubernatorial candidate Sara Rodriguez called for a Wisconsin public health insurance option that she said would use the state’s purchasing power to provide enrollees lower costs for prescription drugs, mental health services and other care.
There will be one debate in this year’s state Supreme Court race between appeals court judges Maria Lazar and Chris Taylor.
Tom Tiffany tightened his grip on the GOP nomination for governor as Washington County Exec Josh Schoemann dropped out of the race on the heels of President Donald Trump’s endorsement of the Minocqua Republican.
President Donald Trump endorsed Tom Tiffany for governor and Michael Alfonso in the 7th CD, putting his thumb on the scale of Wisconsin’s two most high-profile GOP primaries. In a pair of posts on Truth Social late Tuesday, Trump said Tiffany “has always been at my side” while praising Alfonso
Several Dem candidates at a gubernatorial forum slammed ICE following the recent fatal shooting of Minnesotan Renee Good amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
The Republican Assembly Campaign Committee raised $4.5 million through its main account over the last half of 2025, thanks largely to seven-figure donations from GOP megadonors Elizabeth Uihlein and Diane Hendricks. A check of RACC’s filing shows Uihlein donated $3 million to the campaign committee in October, while Hendricks gave
David Crowley topped the Dem gubernatorial field for fundraising over the final months of 2025, thanks partly to transfers from his Milwaukee County exec campaign and support from the southeastern Wisconsin business community, a WisPolitics review finds.
Conservative Supreme Court candidate Maria Lazar announced she’s raised more than $200,000 over the past three months. That’s one-tenth of what liberal rival Chris Taylor pulled in for the full six-month reporting period.
Panelists discussed several factors boosting Dems: President Donald Trump’s bad poll numbers, recent Dem election wins around the country, and Democrats’ winning streak in state Supreme Court elections.
The group Mandela Barnes created after his failed U.S. Senate run spent four times what the average federal leadership PAC dropped on administrative costs while giving a third as much to other campaigns, a WisPolitics review shows.
“We do believe that voters are disenfranchised every time that we go to the polls without those fair maps, but I don’t know that it’s really realistic at this point to have those for the 2026 elections.”
In a letter responding to the U.S. DOJ’s request, commissioners wrote that Wisconsin law “explicitly prohibits the Commission” from providing the full unredacted voter registration list, which includes information like driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of residents’ Social Security numbers.
Joel Brennan, a leader in the Milwaukee business community and a former Department of Administration secretary, today officially joined the Dem field for governor, vowing to confront growing costs and Donald Trump’s “chaos and incompetence.” “I’ll be a governor who will stand up to Trump’s dysfunction and be laser focused
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes says he’s shooting to raise “closer to $50 million” for his campaign cycle, which would be a significant uptick from his 2022 bid for U.S. Senate.
“We’re making sure that we have everything, every resource ready to take on Tom Tiffany because he is the likely nominee,” Barnes told WISN 12’s “UpFront,” which is produced in partnership with WisPolitics.
Elections clerks notified the Elections Commission of 127 instances of possible voter fraud or irregularities in recent elections, including bribery, a noncitizen registering and casting a ballot, and disrupting a drop box.
Several Dem candidates for governor took digs at the Trump administration during the first public forum of the campaign to succeed outgoing Gov. Tony Evers.
Nick Polce, of Delavan, is the fifth Republican to get into the race.
Poll Director Charles Franklin said history has shown candidates in fall races see little gain in name recognition until the summer ahead of their election. He said voters start tuning in between June and the August primary, and he expects name ID to climb in that window.