For at least the next 90 days, expect to hear a lot about communists “taking over the government.” In lieu of an explanation of what that means, expect no more than name-calling and finger pointing. If you identify as a liberal, a progressive or a democratic socialist, you will be accused of being a communist.

It’s a two-person race. Can the county executive make up the gap in one week?

Hong has some in Wisconsin Democratic circles concerned following a round of national media interviews that have drawn negative attention to her and her campaign.

The stakes are too high, the margins too unforgiving, and the electorate too volatile to allow the political path in 2026 to be blown up by someone who simply cannot win in November.

The lessons from a primary win that can be applied to defeat a Republican in November.

Congratulations Democrats, you’ve become addicted to the pure stuff. You don’t want that moderate, play-by-the-rules Democratic politician like Gov. Tony Evers. You want somebody who really upsets the other side, the wackier the better, just to prove you’re pure.

Now that the primary is over (accept for the technicality of counting the votes), let’s evaluate what happened to each of the candidates.

If you’re voting Republican in the primary and want to get back to running the great American experiment together, let’s make history again and make me the first-ever write-in candidate to win a primary.

Why don’t Republican politicians like Tom Tiffany and Wisconsin legislators?

When you understand fascism and the fascists of old, it becomes incredibly hard to deny that the bulk of the anti-fascists, socialists, democratic socialists, and other like-minded people in America are themselves fascists.

For years, Vaun Mayes has been one of the people Milwaukee turns to in times of crisis. After a heartbreaking series of personal tragedies, it’s time for the community to help him.

Paul was a dreamer, a believer, and one of the most loyal friends anyone could hope for.

I’ve been in the solar industry since 1988. During this time, we’ve pulled the cost of solar electric modules down 99%. We took more than a year to install a gigawatt of solar in 2004; today, we do it in 17 hours. Our ability to do the tasks necessary to slow and reverse climate change has never been greater. I

Let’s do some gubernatorial math with fewer than two weeks to go before the August 11 primary. It’s not over yet, even though Rep. Francesca Hong has an apparently unstoppable lead in the polls.

Lame-duck governor’s Crowley endorsement lands with a thud

They think they’re winning these things because, when hit with some crazy thing she repeatedly put in writing, Frantic Fran just says she’s evolving and then buries the answer in a Kamala-style word salad.

I am embarrassed that Hong, the purported leader in the Democratic primary, chooses to campaign alongside someone who treats Mao Zedong’s atrocities as a shrug.

In the last months of World War II, when Wisconsin Democrats voted in the Aug. 15, 1944, gubernatorial primary, they gave 63% of the vote to Daniel Webster Hoan, the longtime Socialist Party mayor of Milwaukee who, after finishing his final term in 1940, chose to make his next move in the Democratic Party of “New Deal” President Franklin Roosevelt.

We should learn from the past. Wisconsin utilities invested billions in power plants that were shuttered before reaching their retirement age — with a big debt remaining to be paid.