Like every other Wisconsinite, I’m happy to be done with all of the campaign texts and emails—but campaigns are gearing up for spring elections. I can only hope they learn and do better the next time.

To be blunt: Republicans were lied to. They were seduced by the idea of a self-funding candidate who didn’t deliver. He dragged down other statewide candidates as a result.

Twenty months after Congress passed a bill that rained $2.53 billion down on Wisconsin, the governor’s office in sole charge of administering the funding, as well as legislative audit and budget officials, have almost no idea of how all that money is being spent.

Visiting the Wall, which I have done many times, is a sobering experience. Equally significant is the memorial to the nurses who saved so many lives of those wounded in combat.

It is inappropriate to single out one veteran on Veteran’s Day, but there is a story of one local veteran whose intriguing story bears retelling. It is the story of Captain Edwin James Fickler, a U.S. Marine jet pilot who went missing in the ill-advised war in Vietnam more than half-century ago.

Today, we’re honoring Veterans Day and all the brave folks who served our state and country, including the more than 300,000 veterans who call Wisconsin home.

On this day scores of restaurants and other businesses honor vets with everything from free meals to discounts on merchandise to say thanks. So it was more than a bit ironic that a cabal of Wisconsin election deniers headed by state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican from Menomonee Falls, and none other than the disgraced former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, attempted to delay the counting of absentee ballots by Wisconsin citizens serving in the military.

As Gov. Tony Evers continues to celebrate his reelection victory on Tuesday, one of his biggest failures looms large this Veterans Day.

Those involved in the green energy movement were relieved by Gov. Tony Evers’ win over his challenger, Republican Tim Michels.

Governor pulled off something no Wisconsin Democrat has accomplished in 60 years.

Journalist Dom Noth analyzes results of Tuesday’s election.

The problematic youth vote, and rewarding sound leadership: Candidates who were viewed as problem-solvers won their elections. Case in point: Every incumbent Republican governor in the nation who ran won their election. And they won big.

Voters not willing to swallow Donald Trump or his trashy candidates.

Given the enormity of the challenges confronting us, we cannot afford to curl up in a ball. We need to talk politics; we need to do politics. We need to be citizens.

The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides us an opportunity to finally get every house and business access to high-speed internet. Now it’s up to leaders in Washington to make sure we create the correct conditions that allow this law to do what it was meant to do.

Is it too much to ask that firearms be treated in the same, nuanced manner as motorized vehicles? That there be one set of rules for owning and carrying a handgun; another for purchasing a semiautomatic, assault-style rifle; and a third for how much ammo a single clip may hold?

It is Evers, with election to a second term, who should be heralded as the single most consequential protector since La Follette of the enlightened goals of that “Wisconsin Idea.”

Republicans fell victim to a lack of bold vision, sketchy candidates, and polarized incumbency.