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Trump-backed candidates shake up the GOP establishment. Now what?
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Trump-backed candidates shake up the GOP establishment. Now what?

Former President Donald Trump won one and lost one in Wisconsin’s August primary elections.

Republicans hope to discredit elections by relentlessly spreading the lie that Wisconsin’s election apparatus is full of holes and being abused.

The GOP leader in the House proposes to intimidate and undermine those who are investigating Donald Trump.

The cleanup of waterways like the Wisconsin and the Fox remains one of our greatest accomplishments of the last century. At George Mead’s passing, he should be remembered for his leadership at a key moment in environmental history.

Poll shows Becky Kleefisch winning and Michels is crying foul.

Seeking political relevancy in fractured Republican party?

This Electoral College has allowed Donald Trump (2016), George W. Bush (2000), Benjamin Harrison (1888), Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) and John Quincy Adams (1824) to become president when their opponents received more votes by citizens who voted. This is the exact opposite of what a “representative democracy” is supposed to be.

When frustrated professionals waiting for their long-delayed licenses reach out to Gov. Tony Evers’ office for help, they get an automatic email — a political screed blaming the Republican-controlled Legislature for Wisconsin’s licensing crisis.

Republican senators such as Johnson put political gamesmanship ahead of doing right by their most vulnerable constituents.

At this time as we reflect on the resignation, we need to ask ourselves if our politics really did survive that event or was it instead a demarcation line where faith was lost in our political institutions that have never again been mended.

As schools resume charging for lunches, I pray that no child will ever miss a meal because of an unpaid balance. Every youth deserves a mock chicken leg memory!

Against helping middle-working class families and veterans: Johnson must be defeated in November.

It’s hard for political candidates to know if cozying up to Trump is a boost or a third rail.

High-profile Senate and governor matchups are among the Badger State contests on the ballot Tuesday.

I’ve spent most of my life working in education, and making sure Wisconsin schools are the best in the nation is one of the main reasons why I decided to run for office.

Whichever Republican gubernatorial candidate makes it to the general election stands a good chance of winning in a red wave year.

Kleefisch and Pence are bound together by their shared failures of conscience and competence.


That’s the power of Mandela Barnes. He brings people together. And he does this because his experiences are the same experiences as the folks standing in the crowd, struggles and all.

Trump-backed candidates shake up the GOP establishment. Now what?

Former President Donald Trump won one and lost one in Wisconsin’s August primary elections.

Republicans hope to discredit elections by relentlessly spreading the lie that Wisconsin’s election apparatus is full of holes and being abused.

The GOP leader in the House proposes to intimidate and undermine those who are investigating Donald Trump.

The cleanup of waterways like the Wisconsin and the Fox remains one of our greatest accomplishments of the last century. At George Mead’s passing, he should be remembered for his leadership at a key moment in environmental history.

Poll shows Becky Kleefisch winning and Michels is crying foul.

Seeking political relevancy in fractured Republican party?

This Electoral College has allowed Donald Trump (2016), George W. Bush (2000), Benjamin Harrison (1888), Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) and John Quincy Adams (1824) to become president when their opponents received more votes by citizens who voted. This is the exact opposite of what a “representative democracy” is supposed to be.

When frustrated professionals waiting for their long-delayed licenses reach out to Gov. Tony Evers’ office for help, they get an automatic email — a political screed blaming the Republican-controlled Legislature for Wisconsin’s licensing crisis.

Republican senators such as Johnson put political gamesmanship ahead of doing right by their most vulnerable constituents.

At this time as we reflect on the resignation, we need to ask ourselves if our politics really did survive that event or was it instead a demarcation line where faith was lost in our political institutions that have never again been mended.

As schools resume charging for lunches, I pray that no child will ever miss a meal because of an unpaid balance. Every youth deserves a mock chicken leg memory!

Against helping middle-working class families and veterans: Johnson must be defeated in November.

It’s hard for political candidates to know if cozying up to Trump is a boost or a third rail.

High-profile Senate and governor matchups are among the Badger State contests on the ballot Tuesday.

I’ve spent most of my life working in education, and making sure Wisconsin schools are the best in the nation is one of the main reasons why I decided to run for office.

Whichever Republican gubernatorial candidate makes it to the general election stands a good chance of winning in a red wave year.

Kleefisch and Pence are bound together by their shared failures of conscience and competence.


That’s the power of Mandela Barnes. He brings people together. And he does this because his experiences are the same experiences as the folks standing in the crowd, struggles and all.