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In the Assembly, it’s about control. In the Senate, it’s about setting the stage for 2026. Insiders are watching more than a dozen fall races under new maps to see if: Republicans can keep legislative control for another two years;
Former President Donald Trump will be in La Crosse on Thursday for a town hall, his first return to Wisconsin since the Republican National Convention last month.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is slamming Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy proposals on price gouging as “misguided,” arguing they “run counter to economic history.” Harris, who last week accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as presidential candidate, has pledged to address
This former Republican member of Congress who represented my boyhood district around Rockford, Illinois., and whom I first met in a 2021 interview, told the big national audience that not only is Trump unfit to be president again, but that Democrats are just as patriotic as Republicans and independents.
The Democratic National Convention was extraordinary. The Democratic Party emerged energetic, united and flush with funds and volunteers. The party is determined to fight for economic security, freedom, the Constitution and national security.
Dems remind nation of the joy of service.
Republicans will wonder how they could have let a winnable election slip through their fingers.
Former President Bill Clinton’s claim at the Democratic convention that since the end of the Cold War Democratic presidents had created 50 million jobs to the Republican presidents’ 1 million sent the fact checkers scurrying.
arris was born in 1964 in California, where her parents had met and married as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Eventually, however, Harris would spend his a portion of her childhood in the city that was once known as “the Berkeley of the Midwest.”
Dear media, real pro-Trump Taylor Swift fans do exist.
Her words were stirring. Now Kamala Harris needs to back speech rhetoric with details.
I plan to amend the bill to explicitly state that nothing in the legislation should be construed to change or modify any existing treaty obligation.
Inflation is a very simple concept and yet almost everyone gets its wrong. This misunderstanding is the result of a concerted effort to confuse the public and prevent blame from being assigned to those responsible for its creation.
The women’s liberation movement had a bevy of female writers whose works created shifts in political and social circles alike. Here are five books by authors I found worthwhile.
“Renewable” power such as wind and solar might not use fuel, but they use a lot of land, and solar uses it exclusively.
My fear is that our current moment in immigration will flavor the kind of immigration reform we get. In the interest of compromise to get something – anything – done, reform will not be enough about the changes that make our policies humane and practical for the economy and immigrants, but about a show of strength that is better politics than policy.
David Plouffe, a top adviser to Kamala Harris’ campaign, says the campaign is “throwing everything” into Wisconsin in the final 10 weeks of the presidential election.
Wisconsin Dems at the DNC spent four days basking in the excitement of seeing new momentum with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at the top of the ticket. Now they’re aiming to convert that excitement into energy that will fuel victories up and down the ballot.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said Social Security and Medicare are at risk if Donald Trump is elected in November during remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Thursday night. The Madison Dem told delegates her mother was a teen
CHICAGO – Jason Rae, secretary of the Democratic National Committee, is only 37 has already seen many conventions. In this one, he sees something special. “They’re all different,” Rae said in a WisPolitics-WisconsinEye interview at his sixth convention. “But this
In the Assembly, it’s about control. In the Senate, it’s about setting the stage for 2026. Insiders are watching more than a dozen fall races under new maps to see if: Republicans can keep legislative control for another two years; or if Dems can beat the odds and seize control
Former President Donald Trump will be in La Crosse on Thursday for a town hall, his first return to Wisconsin since the Republican National Convention last month.
The Wisconsin Grocers Association is slamming Vice President Kamala Harris’ policy proposals on price gouging as “misguided,” arguing they “run counter to economic history.” Harris, who last week accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination as presidential candidate, has pledged to address the high cost of food through a federal ban on
This former Republican member of Congress who represented my boyhood district around Rockford, Illinois., and whom I first met in a 2021 interview, told the big national audience that not only is Trump unfit to be president again, but that Democrats are just as patriotic as Republicans and independents.
The Democratic National Convention was extraordinary. The Democratic Party emerged energetic, united and flush with funds and volunteers. The party is determined to fight for economic security, freedom, the Constitution and national security.
Dems remind nation of the joy of service.
Republicans will wonder how they could have let a winnable election slip through their fingers.
Former President Bill Clinton’s claim at the Democratic convention that since the end of the Cold War Democratic presidents had created 50 million jobs to the Republican presidents’ 1 million sent the fact checkers scurrying.
arris was born in 1964 in California, where her parents had met and married as graduate students at the University of California, Berkeley. Eventually, however, Harris would spend his a portion of her childhood in the city that was once known as “the Berkeley of the Midwest.”
Dear media, real pro-Trump Taylor Swift fans do exist.
Her words were stirring. Now Kamala Harris needs to back speech rhetoric with details.
I plan to amend the bill to explicitly state that nothing in the legislation should be construed to change or modify any existing treaty obligation.
Inflation is a very simple concept and yet almost everyone gets its wrong. This misunderstanding is the result of a concerted effort to confuse the public and prevent blame from being assigned to those responsible for its creation.
The women’s liberation movement had a bevy of female writers whose works created shifts in political and social circles alike. Here are five books by authors I found worthwhile.
“Renewable” power such as wind and solar might not use fuel, but they use a lot of land, and solar uses it exclusively.
My fear is that our current moment in immigration will flavor the kind of immigration reform we get. In the interest of compromise to get something – anything – done, reform will not be enough about the changes that make our policies humane and practical for the economy and immigrants, but about a show of strength that is better politics than policy.
David Plouffe, a top adviser to Kamala Harris’ campaign, says the campaign is “throwing everything” into Wisconsin in the final 10 weeks of the presidential election.
Wisconsin Dems at the DNC spent four days basking in the excitement of seeing new momentum with Kamala Harris and Tim Walz at the top of the ticket. Now they’re aiming to convert that excitement into energy that will fuel victories up and down the ballot.
U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said Social Security and Medicare are at risk if Donald Trump is elected in November during remarks at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago Thursday night. The Madison Dem told delegates her mother was a teen struggling with addiction when she was born, and she never
CHICAGO – Jason Rae, secretary of the Democratic National Committee, is only 37 has already seen many conventions. In this one, he sees something special. “They’re all different,” Rae said in a WisPolitics-WisconsinEye interview at his sixth convention. “But this one certainly has an energy that is truly second to