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Regrettably, Kind has been more disappointing than the average Democrat.

Non-partisan primary and ranked-choice voting pushed nationally, adopted in Alaska, goal is a less partisan Congress.

In Dane County inmates are now residents. This kind of thing is a big part of the reason that Democrats lose more elections than they need to.

We are all Wisconsinites and can defeat COVID-19. Listen to doctors. Please get vaccinated. The life you save may be your own, a family member or someone you care about.

Just as Audit the Vote Rally attendees demonstrated with signs and chants calling on conservatives to “Vote Vos Out”, no one is going to be spared when we play games with our democracy.

Spending taxpayer dollars traveling to South Dakota, Arizona, to learn what?

Larson, ranking member of the Senate Education Committee, defied anyone to show evidence that CRT was being taught in Wisconsin elementary schools. He made it a wager.

There are myths and outright falsehoods circulating about marijuana — so it’s time to set the record straight.

The editorial board is flat-out wrong that Sen. Ron Johnson engaged in “secret, closed-door maneuvering” to win changes to the tax bill that benefitted 96 percent of all businesses in the country. I know because I was there.

In the upcoming budget reconciliation bill, Congress must double its current conservation program funding and dramatically increase conservation staffing.

In 2018, the Democratic governor’s election stanched Wisconsin’s lurch towards far-right autocracy. As Evers faces re-election in 2022, the stakes appear to be even higher.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just published a hit piece from the left-leaning ProPublica attacking U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for tax relief he fought for. In doing so, the newspaper printed illegally disclosed “confidential” tax information from prominent conservative donors.

Progressives will put up a woke candidate in the mold of Mark Pocan and the Squad, thus ensuring a Derrick Van Orden victory.

Some state legislators have made headlines of late by urging vaccine resistance in general or by suggesting that health care employees should push back against hospitals and health systems that are making vaccination a condition of employment.

A shocking report from the Border Patrol released Thursday reveals that agents made 212,672 enforcement encounters in July, up from 188,934 in June and 180,569 in May.

PFAS, nitrates and lead stand in the way of our right to clean water.

Republican controlled Legislature refuses proposals that would provide Milwaukee with additional annual revenue.

Our senior Senator has been in office for more than a decade and is constantly in the news. And yet, one in four state voters “haven’t heard enough” to have an opinion on the controversial Republican.

The same governor who battered and bruised Badger State restaurants, lodging and other “nonessential” businesses during his extended lockdowns last year is now going about playing Santa with a big sack of federal COVID relief cash.

Could we still rally as that Greatest Generation did while constantly and stubbornly at each other’s throat, often for no apparent reason?

Regrettably, Kind has been more disappointing than the average Democrat.

Non-partisan primary and ranked-choice voting pushed nationally, adopted in Alaska, goal is a less partisan Congress.

In Dane County inmates are now residents. This kind of thing is a big part of the reason that Democrats lose more elections than they need to.

We are all Wisconsinites and can defeat COVID-19. Listen to doctors. Please get vaccinated. The life you save may be your own, a family member or someone you care about.

Just as Audit the Vote Rally attendees demonstrated with signs and chants calling on conservatives to “Vote Vos Out”, no one is going to be spared when we play games with our democracy.

Spending taxpayer dollars traveling to South Dakota, Arizona, to learn what?

Larson, ranking member of the Senate Education Committee, defied anyone to show evidence that CRT was being taught in Wisconsin elementary schools. He made it a wager.

There are myths and outright falsehoods circulating about marijuana — so it’s time to set the record straight.

The editorial board is flat-out wrong that Sen. Ron Johnson engaged in “secret, closed-door maneuvering” to win changes to the tax bill that benefitted 96 percent of all businesses in the country. I know because I was there.

In the upcoming budget reconciliation bill, Congress must double its current conservation program funding and dramatically increase conservation staffing.

In 2018, the Democratic governor’s election stanched Wisconsin’s lurch towards far-right autocracy. As Evers faces re-election in 2022, the stakes appear to be even higher.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel just published a hit piece from the left-leaning ProPublica attacking U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson for tax relief he fought for. In doing so, the newspaper printed illegally disclosed “confidential” tax information from prominent conservative donors.

Progressives will put up a woke candidate in the mold of Mark Pocan and the Squad, thus ensuring a Derrick Van Orden victory.

Some state legislators have made headlines of late by urging vaccine resistance in general or by suggesting that health care employees should push back against hospitals and health systems that are making vaccination a condition of employment.

A shocking report from the Border Patrol released Thursday reveals that agents made 212,672 enforcement encounters in July, up from 188,934 in June and 180,569 in May.

PFAS, nitrates and lead stand in the way of our right to clean water.

Republican controlled Legislature refuses proposals that would provide Milwaukee with additional annual revenue.

Our senior Senator has been in office for more than a decade and is constantly in the news. And yet, one in four state voters “haven’t heard enough” to have an opinion on the controversial Republican.

The same governor who battered and bruised Badger State restaurants, lodging and other “nonessential” businesses during his extended lockdowns last year is now going about playing Santa with a big sack of federal COVID relief cash.

Could we still rally as that Greatest Generation did while constantly and stubbornly at each other’s throat, often for no apparent reason?