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In a multitude of ways, Republicans are subverting the most basic principle of our nation: that the people decide.
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In a multitude of ways, Republicans are subverting the most basic principle of our nation: that the people decide.

With callous disregard for the victims of crime, the left has made a concerted effort in recent years to drive soft-on-crime policies while putting in place prosecutors, judges, and police leadership who use their positions to coddle criminals at every opportunity.

Milwaukee public high schools next in line.

To keep our city safe and thriving, it’s going to more of us to step forward when one drops out of the fight.

Nonprofit has $1.5 billion in investments, but still gets many millions in charitable donations.

The time has come to pass the needed reforms in the state Legislature to allow community solar to grow and thrive.

Technology and the digital marketplace are here to stay, so it is essential our political leaders in Washington support policies that promote and strengthen America’s technology sector and help small businesses grow and compete globally.

In places where “woke goes to die,” so too does capitalism and the freedom it thrives on.

Reforms backed by bipartisan Elections Commission, including elections inspector general, stripped from budget bill.

It’s time for the UW to value an industry background alongside degree credentials. It’s time to lift hundreds of deserving people of color and women into positions of power.

To the extent Democratic money aimed to give these extremists a voice out of proportion to what they could get through their own fundraising and electioneering, the DGA and the DCCC engaged in covert subversion.

No one fights Republicans like other Republicans!

If Wisconsin Democrats adopt the Protasiewicz approach in 2024 and run unapologetically progressive campaigns that focus on abortion rights and worker rights, and if they take those campaigns to every corner of the state, they could, indeed, win the presidential race, the Senate race and competitive House races.

Wisconsin must say no with governor’s veto.

Many of the other wealthy advanced democracies seem to be able to provide a decent life for the vast majority of its citizens, why do 56% of Americans live in financial insecurity?

A group of Wisconsin lawmakers is preparing to undo one of the worst decisions in Wisconsin legal history.

Keeping Major League Baseball in Wisconsin is the best deal for protecting the summer memories families make at the ballpark and is the right move for protecting taxpayers who would be on the hook if there is a failure to act.

Congress last acted on major immigration reform in 1986, with the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Shared revenue boondoggle does not prevent revenue shifting, reckless spending.

The president of the University of Wisconsin system drove a fat wooden stake through the heart of Wokedom.

In a multitude of ways, Republicans are subverting the most basic principle of our nation: that the people decide.

With callous disregard for the victims of crime, the left has made a concerted effort in recent years to drive soft-on-crime policies while putting in place prosecutors, judges, and police leadership who use their positions to coddle criminals at every opportunity.

Milwaukee public high schools next in line.

To keep our city safe and thriving, it’s going to more of us to step forward when one drops out of the fight.

Nonprofit has $1.5 billion in investments, but still gets many millions in charitable donations.

The time has come to pass the needed reforms in the state Legislature to allow community solar to grow and thrive.

Technology and the digital marketplace are here to stay, so it is essential our political leaders in Washington support policies that promote and strengthen America’s technology sector and help small businesses grow and compete globally.

In places where “woke goes to die,” so too does capitalism and the freedom it thrives on.

Reforms backed by bipartisan Elections Commission, including elections inspector general, stripped from budget bill.

It’s time for the UW to value an industry background alongside degree credentials. It’s time to lift hundreds of deserving people of color and women into positions of power.

To the extent Democratic money aimed to give these extremists a voice out of proportion to what they could get through their own fundraising and electioneering, the DGA and the DCCC engaged in covert subversion.

No one fights Republicans like other Republicans!

If Wisconsin Democrats adopt the Protasiewicz approach in 2024 and run unapologetically progressive campaigns that focus on abortion rights and worker rights, and if they take those campaigns to every corner of the state, they could, indeed, win the presidential race, the Senate race and competitive House races.

Wisconsin must say no with governor’s veto.

Many of the other wealthy advanced democracies seem to be able to provide a decent life for the vast majority of its citizens, why do 56% of Americans live in financial insecurity?

A group of Wisconsin lawmakers is preparing to undo one of the worst decisions in Wisconsin legal history.

Keeping Major League Baseball in Wisconsin is the best deal for protecting the summer memories families make at the ballpark and is the right move for protecting taxpayers who would be on the hook if there is a failure to act.

Congress last acted on major immigration reform in 1986, with the passage of the Immigration Reform and Control Act.

Shared revenue boondoggle does not prevent revenue shifting, reckless spending.

The president of the University of Wisconsin system drove a fat wooden stake through the heart of Wokedom.