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Are even Democrats awaking from wokeness?

Marquette University Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin took a rare break from his usual careful neutrality to answer a question about his childhood in the segregated south in the 1950s and 60s.

Plus: The continued high favorability of the Black Lives Matter Movement, primary polls for Senator and Governor, marijuana legalization, and more.

Trump’s sycophants have spread the lie that the elections — which just happened to be won by numerous down-ballot Republicans — were somehow fixed even though no such evidence exists.

Scaring taxpayers about school choice income limits is arrogant.

Teacher recruitment and retention is a key issue.

In Republican districts, the daggers of censorship are coming out to limit what children can learn through books.

Leave it to the leaders of socialist Madison to regret not being able to hand out more federal taxpayer money to illegal immigrants.

Gableman’s report is riddled with errors, addresses issues that have long been settled and makes claims, like the decertification of electors, that are flat out false. And, God help us, he’s not done.

Michael Gableman’s sham election audit is absurdist theater. What makes it dangerous is that it could fade into obscurity as Republicans begin to act on its recommendations.

Now more than ever, Americans in Wisconsin and across the country are craving real leadership.

The challenges facing us are those we have not seen in a generation, and the leadership in the governor’s office has no vision.

While the legislature sat idle for over 300 days during the pandemic, Gov. Evers got to work — and delivered.

There is still plenty of work to be done on addressing substance abuse in our communities, but I am happy to see the progress we made this session and to have played a leading role in it.

Parents are “not entitled” to know their kids’ gender identity, according to a recent woke training session in the Eau Claire Area School District.

In a State of the Union address focused on unity and optimism, Biden reassured the nation that “you, the American people, are strong.”

His message to the nation reflected both the desire to promote democracy and also to frame a political message for the November elections.

As a very unpopular President Joe Biden stops in Superior today for a victory lap on the $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan, will he talk about the vital energy infrastructure his environmental extremists allies are trying to tear down — at the risk of U.S. and global security?

Wisconsin voters could make 2023 a watershed year for oversight of currently unchecked spending of billions of dollars of federal funding flowing into the state.

Former Gov. Scott Walker is now out beating the bushes to end Wisconsin’s 111-year-old progressive state income tax and replace a part of it by raising the sales tax from its current 5% to 8%.

Are even Democrats awaking from wokeness?

Marquette University Law School Poll Director Charles Franklin took a rare break from his usual careful neutrality to answer a question about his childhood in the segregated south in the 1950s and 60s.

Plus: The continued high favorability of the Black Lives Matter Movement, primary polls for Senator and Governor, marijuana legalization, and more.

Trump’s sycophants have spread the lie that the elections — which just happened to be won by numerous down-ballot Republicans — were somehow fixed even though no such evidence exists.

Scaring taxpayers about school choice income limits is arrogant.

Teacher recruitment and retention is a key issue.

In Republican districts, the daggers of censorship are coming out to limit what children can learn through books.

Leave it to the leaders of socialist Madison to regret not being able to hand out more federal taxpayer money to illegal immigrants.

Gableman’s report is riddled with errors, addresses issues that have long been settled and makes claims, like the decertification of electors, that are flat out false. And, God help us, he’s not done.

Michael Gableman’s sham election audit is absurdist theater. What makes it dangerous is that it could fade into obscurity as Republicans begin to act on its recommendations.

Now more than ever, Americans in Wisconsin and across the country are craving real leadership.

The challenges facing us are those we have not seen in a generation, and the leadership in the governor’s office has no vision.

While the legislature sat idle for over 300 days during the pandemic, Gov. Evers got to work — and delivered.

There is still plenty of work to be done on addressing substance abuse in our communities, but I am happy to see the progress we made this session and to have played a leading role in it.

Parents are “not entitled” to know their kids’ gender identity, according to a recent woke training session in the Eau Claire Area School District.

In a State of the Union address focused on unity and optimism, Biden reassured the nation that “you, the American people, are strong.”

His message to the nation reflected both the desire to promote democracy and also to frame a political message for the November elections.

As a very unpopular President Joe Biden stops in Superior today for a victory lap on the $1 trillion infrastructure spending plan, will he talk about the vital energy infrastructure his environmental extremists allies are trying to tear down — at the risk of U.S. and global security?

Wisconsin voters could make 2023 a watershed year for oversight of currently unchecked spending of billions of dollars of federal funding flowing into the state.

Former Gov. Scott Walker is now out beating the bushes to end Wisconsin’s 111-year-old progressive state income tax and replace a part of it by raising the sales tax from its current 5% to 8%.