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Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.
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Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.

Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney put country over party.

Show us you’re Bobby Kennedy’s kind of tough liberal — or perhaps tender conservative — which is precisely what we need to stitch back together this divided land.

Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it’s the perfect movie for THIS time.

Can you imagine the Republican titans of the 20th century coming back and hearing these outrageous comments?

Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states.

She’s lied about protecting the American steel industry and union pensions, but now Baldwin’s lying about helping veterans and that really crosses the line.

In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.

Residential construction in Madison is struggling to keep housing affordable for its expanding population, a city planning official says. Matt Wachter, director of planning and community and economic development for the city, recently discussed affordable housing efforts during a meeting

If Florida shuns the federal money, its taxpayers are essentially funding EV chargers in other states, like California and New York, just as Wisconsin taxpayers did when Walker rejected the train money.

Legacy of segregation and Jim Crow still impacts Black lives.

We face the additional challenge of ensuring that states have confident, competent educators to teach this critical subject.

Don’t get excited. It’s not going to happen.

Thompson said he personally delivered the message to Trump when he campaigned in La Crosse.
Today ahead of Trump’s fly-in to Mosinee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler joined Katelyn Lang, local reproductive rights advocate, and local business owner Dr. Ming Tao Jiang to slam Donald Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda to give Trump

In the political climate we find ourselves in as a nation, a visit by the president to a small town has other tones and implications than it might not have had some years ago.

While the left freaks out about Project 2025 because of its conservative principles of limited government that’s held accountable to the people, no one’s talking about Agenda 2030, the left’s radical plan for consolidating global power, seizing private property, and extinguishing individual liberty.

Trump still hasn’t figured out how to run against Kamala Harris, and that’s helping Harris to secure states where Biden was in trouble.

Former President Donald Trump should ask Vice President Kamala Harris these questions at the upcoming debate.

tingy state budgets put an increasing burden on local taxpayers.

Thirty years ago this fall, Tommy Thompson built one of the most remarkable electoral coalitions in Wisconsin history.

Former Wyoming GOP Representative Liz Cheney put country over party.

Show us you’re Bobby Kennedy’s kind of tough liberal — or perhaps tender conservative — which is precisely what we need to stitch back together this divided land.

Was Ronald Reagan perfect? No. But he was the perfect man for the time. Was the Reagan movie perfect? No. But it’s the perfect movie for THIS time.

Can you imagine the Republican titans of the 20th century coming back and hearing these outrageous comments?

Dumping the Electoral College would have a variety of consequences, but it would immediately remove opportunities for disrupting elections via battleground states.

She’s lied about protecting the American steel industry and union pensions, but now Baldwin’s lying about helping veterans and that really crosses the line.

In 1987, a year after graduating from college, Hovde and his father, Donald Hovde, launched Hovde Financial. And the elder Hovde had connections at the highest level of American politics.

Residential construction in Madison is struggling to keep housing affordable for its expanding population, a city planning official says. Matt Wachter, director of planning and community and economic development for the city, recently discussed affordable housing efforts during a meeting of the Rotary Club of Madison. Madison’s annual population growth

If Florida shuns the federal money, its taxpayers are essentially funding EV chargers in other states, like California and New York, just as Wisconsin taxpayers did when Walker rejected the train money.

Legacy of segregation and Jim Crow still impacts Black lives.

We face the additional challenge of ensuring that states have confident, competent educators to teach this critical subject.

Don’t get excited. It’s not going to happen.

Thompson said he personally delivered the message to Trump when he campaigned in La Crosse.
Today ahead of Trump’s fly-in to Mosinee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler joined Katelyn Lang, local reproductive rights advocate, and local business owner Dr. Ming Tao Jiang to slam Donald Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda to give Trump more control over Wisconsinites’ daily lives, including by banning abortion

In the political climate we find ourselves in as a nation, a visit by the president to a small town has other tones and implications than it might not have had some years ago.

While the left freaks out about Project 2025 because of its conservative principles of limited government that’s held accountable to the people, no one’s talking about Agenda 2030, the left’s radical plan for consolidating global power, seizing private property, and extinguishing individual liberty.

Trump still hasn’t figured out how to run against Kamala Harris, and that’s helping Harris to secure states where Biden was in trouble.

Former President Donald Trump should ask Vice President Kamala Harris these questions at the upcoming debate.

tingy state budgets put an increasing burden on local taxpayers.