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If conservatives intend to compete, they need to show voters who will carry that argument before the nomination papers come due. Time is running out.
Last Tuesday, in addition to voting for a Democratic trifecta in Wisconsin government, voters chose to do away with programs supporting women-owned businesses and health-related equity efforts, as well as initiatives that address racial, ethnic and gendered disparities in public education, public contracting, public employment and the workforce.
The country singer was an enthusiastic supporter of the Democrats who won every major statewide race in Texas.
Americans keep a republican form of government by maintaining the constitutional architecture that channels and limits power while cultivating the knowledge, habits, and vigilance required for self-government.
Whatever one’s political affiliation, these developments raise an important question: Is it time for Wisconsin to adopt statewide education standards that ensure students understand the history of communism and the dangers it has posed to freedom, democracy, and human dignity?
Many Driftless-area residents felt left out of the planning for Cardinal-Hickory Creek.
There is precedent for ending federal support for experiments on our best friends — we already did it for our closest relatives. In 2015, NIH ended its support for biomedical research on chimpanzees.
Stuart Levitan’s new book, “Madison — the Illustrated History, 1932-1979,” was well worth the wait.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the political blue wave that swept Wisconsin Democrats into control of the state Legislature. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Voters in most states sent a strong message: If government economic policy doesn’t work in ways promised or expected, elected officials will be turned out. It’s a message Wisconsin Democrats should heed.
Energy affordability was on the ballot in Wisconsin. Now comes the opportunity to deliver.
These are just some of the people impacted by policy decisions in the state that we so love — and the reason we’ve spent the last year working on the 2027 Mandate for Madison.
For the last 16 years, legislative Republicans have blocked efforts to limit the education options of Wisconsin parents. With choice opponents in control of the Legislature, the 16-year wait for opponents is over.
Wisconsin Democrats secured a historic governing trifecta in the November 3 midterm elections, capturing both chambers of the state Legislature and retaining the governor’s office for their first complete control of state government in 16 years.
Democrats owe their new majorities in both houses of Congress and in the Wisconsin Legislature to new caucus members who won in only marginally Democratic districts or states, or even in ones that went for Trump just two years ago.
Conservatives must make the case for free markets.
Americans should press the president to work with Democrats in Congress, demanding that he use his power to preserve the democratic process and bring the nation together — not drive it apart because the election did not go his way.
The lesson of the 2026 midterms was that regular people are not powerless in the face of this aggressive, anti-democratic regime. There is still time and hope left for our country.
om Tiffany never really had a chance. The national carnage for the Republicans in 2026 even took out GOP officials in staunchly red states. A swing state like ours didn’t have a shot at surviving the purge.
Tony Evers has been one hell of a governor.
If conservatives intend to compete, they need to show voters who will carry that argument before the nomination papers come due. Time is running out.
Last Tuesday, in addition to voting for a Democratic trifecta in Wisconsin government, voters chose to do away with programs supporting women-owned businesses and health-related equity efforts, as well as initiatives that address racial, ethnic and gendered disparities in public education, public contracting, public employment and the workforce.
The country singer was an enthusiastic supporter of the Democrats who won every major statewide race in Texas.
Americans keep a republican form of government by maintaining the constitutional architecture that channels and limits power while cultivating the knowledge, habits, and vigilance required for self-government.
Whatever one’s political affiliation, these developments raise an important question: Is it time for Wisconsin to adopt statewide education standards that ensure students understand the history of communism and the dangers it has posed to freedom, democracy, and human dignity?
Many Driftless-area residents felt left out of the planning for Cardinal-Hickory Creek.
There is precedent for ending federal support for experiments on our best friends — we already did it for our closest relatives. In 2015, NIH ended its support for biomedical research on chimpanzees.
Stuart Levitan’s new book, “Madison — the Illustrated History, 1932-1979,” was well worth the wait.
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the political blue wave that swept Wisconsin Democrats into control of the state Legislature. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.
Voters in most states sent a strong message: If government economic policy doesn’t work in ways promised or expected, elected officials will be turned out. It’s a message Wisconsin Democrats should heed.
Energy affordability was on the ballot in Wisconsin. Now comes the opportunity to deliver.
These are just some of the people impacted by policy decisions in the state that we so love — and the reason we’ve spent the last year working on the 2027 Mandate for Madison.
For the last 16 years, legislative Republicans have blocked efforts to limit the education options of Wisconsin parents. With choice opponents in control of the Legislature, the 16-year wait for opponents is over.
Wisconsin Democrats secured a historic governing trifecta in the November 3 midterm elections, capturing both chambers of the state Legislature and retaining the governor’s office for their first complete control of state government in 16 years.
Democrats owe their new majorities in both houses of Congress and in the Wisconsin Legislature to new caucus members who won in only marginally Democratic districts or states, or even in ones that went for Trump just two years ago.
Conservatives must make the case for free markets.
Americans should press the president to work with Democrats in Congress, demanding that he use his power to preserve the democratic process and bring the nation together — not drive it apart because the election did not go his way.
The lesson of the 2026 midterms was that regular people are not powerless in the face of this aggressive, anti-democratic regime. There is still time and hope left for our country.
om Tiffany never really had a chance. The national carnage for the Republicans in 2026 even took out GOP officials in staunchly red states. A swing state like ours didn’t have a shot at surviving the purge.
Tony Evers has been one hell of a governor.