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Independent voters reminded everyone Tuesday that persuasion still matters. That campaigns must earn trust rather than assume it. On a very tense but exciting election night in the Badger State, it was the independent voters who ensured the race was not called the way many polls had strongly predicted.
When it was revealed last week that Francesca Hong had Tweeted about her desire to cancel Thanksgiving because it is a “colonizer” holiday, I thought that was the least of the troubles ahead for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Instead, it may have been the thing that took her down.
Wisconsin Democrats stared into the electoral abyss and decided, on second thought, they would rather actually win elections than take a chance on what David Axelrod memorably called “zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica.”
We cannot see Hong making nice with Crowley any more than many of Crowley’s supporters would have broken a sweat for Hong.
Everett Marshburn was a driving force behind ‘Black Nouveau’ on Milwaukee PBS who mentored countless young journalists. I will miss my friend.
Get used to annually choking on smoke from wildfires, which have raged across North America, parts of Europe and elsewhere in the world. This isn’t about to change anytime soon, especially now that chicken Democrats have abandoned climate change at its mitigation as an issue.
Trump needs to let the Iran war go. If he doesn’t, he, like Johnson, will be remembered for a war and not the herculean accomplishments of an otherwise monumental second term.
Truth is usually the first casualty. The proof is clear on the international trade war kicked off with heavy tariffs on imported goods by the Trump administration.
From a $2.36 billion surplus to child care, here are issues the nominees must answer for voters.
And it may be a symptom of a much larger problem
One of Wisconsin’s highest profile congressional candidates closed her primary campaign with a pivot toward the general election, focusing on an issue that barely existed at the start of the 2026 campaign season, but which could define the results this fall.
Wisconsinites went to the polls this week under a warning from the state’s Elections Commission: place a trade on an election through a prediction market like Kalshi, then vote in that same race, and you could forfeit your ballot and commit a felony. It’s been 175 years since this law was written, and now it’s being weaponized against an industry that didn’t even exist a decade ago.
There are more than 2,000 political consulting firms operating across the country.
New study finds school choice is ‘like skipping a grade’ for working-class kids, yet critics would slam the door.
It’s time to go upstream and invest in transforming procedural justice, de-escalation trainings and early interventions. The families these officer-involved deaths have wrenched apart deserve better than resolved lawsuits. They deserve to see real change.
Low water levels in lakes and rivers in northern Wisconsin are creating concerns and adjustments in several areas.
The Act should be a shield used for protection, but the Trump Administration is operating in the opposite direction.
Hughes, Rodriguez and Barnes will each register votes — and, in Barnes’ case, the total could be substantial.
As Wisconsin’s only nonpartisan, nonprofit law firm working full time to defend our democracy, Law Forward is standing up for Wisconsin voters in federal and state court.
Crowley’s election wins, experience as a state legislator and county executive, and record of important accomplishments check all the boxes. Cooke will represent regular folks and take on corporate and reactionary interests.
Independent voters reminded everyone Tuesday that persuasion still matters. That campaigns must earn trust rather than assume it. On a very tense but exciting election night in the Badger State, it was the independent voters who ensured the race was not called the way many polls had strongly predicted.
When it was revealed last week that Francesca Hong had Tweeted about her desire to cancel Thanksgiving because it is a “colonizer” holiday, I thought that was the least of the troubles ahead for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Instead, it may have been the thing that took her down.
Wisconsin Democrats stared into the electoral abyss and decided, on second thought, they would rather actually win elections than take a chance on what David Axelrod memorably called “zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica.”
We cannot see Hong making nice with Crowley any more than many of Crowley’s supporters would have broken a sweat for Hong.
Everett Marshburn was a driving force behind ‘Black Nouveau’ on Milwaukee PBS who mentored countless young journalists. I will miss my friend.
Get used to annually choking on smoke from wildfires, which have raged across North America, parts of Europe and elsewhere in the world. This isn’t about to change anytime soon, especially now that chicken Democrats have abandoned climate change at its mitigation as an issue.
Trump needs to let the Iran war go. If he doesn’t, he, like Johnson, will be remembered for a war and not the herculean accomplishments of an otherwise monumental second term.
Truth is usually the first casualty. The proof is clear on the international trade war kicked off with heavy tariffs on imported goods by the Trump administration.
From a $2.36 billion surplus to child care, here are issues the nominees must answer for voters.
And it may be a symptom of a much larger problem
One of Wisconsin’s highest profile congressional candidates closed her primary campaign with a pivot toward the general election, focusing on an issue that barely existed at the start of the 2026 campaign season, but which could define the results this fall.
Wisconsinites went to the polls this week under a warning from the state’s Elections Commission: place a trade on an election through a prediction market like Kalshi, then vote in that same race, and you could forfeit your ballot and commit a felony. It’s been 175 years since this law was written, and now it’s being weaponized against an industry that didn’t even exist a decade ago.
There are more than 2,000 political consulting firms operating across the country.
New study finds school choice is ‘like skipping a grade’ for working-class kids, yet critics would slam the door.
It’s time to go upstream and invest in transforming procedural justice, de-escalation trainings and early interventions. The families these officer-involved deaths have wrenched apart deserve better than resolved lawsuits. They deserve to see real change.
Low water levels in lakes and rivers in northern Wisconsin are creating concerns and adjustments in several areas.
The Act should be a shield used for protection, but the Trump Administration is operating in the opposite direction.
Hughes, Rodriguez and Barnes will each register votes — and, in Barnes’ case, the total could be substantial.
As Wisconsin’s only nonpartisan, nonprofit law firm working full time to defend our democracy, Law Forward is standing up for Wisconsin voters in federal and state court.
Crowley’s election wins, experience as a state legislator and county executive, and record of important accomplishments check all the boxes. Cooke will represent regular folks and take on corporate and reactionary interests.
