Plouff campaign: Announces Caden Berg as campaign manager
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Harris campaign: Wisconsin local leaders praise VP Harris’ support of small businesses, warn of Trump’s Project 2025 Agenda
On Friday in Merrill, Green Bay and Superior, local leaders and small business owners gathered to highlight Vice President Harris’ new proposals to bolster small businesses and call out Donald Trump’s Project 2025 agenda that will favor wealthy corporations at the
Hovde campaign: Calls on Sen. Baldwin to disclose her partner’s assets and client list
MADISON — Following U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin’s years-long decision to withhold her life partner and New York City private wealth manager Maria Brisbane’s assets and client list from public view, the Hovde campaign is formally calling for Baldwin to disclose those
Law Forward: Protects the right to vote for Wisconsinites affected by a disability
On Friday September 6th, Law Forward, representing Erin Webster, a voter, filed a new complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission which seeks expedited action to ensure that Wisconsin municipalities including the Town of Thornapple, comply with state law regulating voting
WisDems: Eric Hovde confirms foreign governments are filling his bank with money, yet still won’t answer which foreign countries they are
MADISON, Wis. — Today, Heartland Signal revealed new audio where California bank owner Eric Hovde confirms that his bank is accepting deposits from foreign governments, yet he still refuses to come clean about the foreign countries these deposits belong to, saying “who cares if a foreign
Harris campaign: Statement on far-right extremist Jack Posobiec campaigning for Trump in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Democratic Coordinated Campaign Rapid Response Director Kristi Johnston released the following statement in response to far-right conspiracy theorist with ties to white supremacists Jack Posobiec talking about “election protection” on behalf of Donald Trump in Wisconsin: “Donald Trump is sending a dangerous
Harris campaign: Harris and Walz to barnstorm battleground states in days following debate to share their message of a new way forward
Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz will barnstorm battleground states in the days following the first presidential debate between Harris and Donald Trump. With less than 60 days until Election Day, the swing will include events in every
Harris campaign: Donald Trump promises to pardon January 6 insurrectionists, calls for his enemies to be prosecuted in Wisconsin
Today, Vice President Harris spent her morning exciting voters, sparking hope in the next generation, thanking a teacher, and showing she is the candidate who can unite our country and lead us forward. Donald Trump spent his Saturday on a two-hour rant about the 2020 election he lost, comparing himself
WisDems: Chair Ben Wikler and local leaders in Wausau Slam Trump’s extreme Project 2025 Agenda ahead of visit to Mosinee
Today ahead of Trump’s fly-in to Mosinee, Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Ben Wikler joined Katelyn Lang, local reproductive rights advocate, and local business owner Dr. Ming Tao Jiang to slam Donald Trump’s extreme Project 2025 agenda to give Trump
WisDems: Wisconsin Republicans and JD Vance to working families: you’re on your own, kid
MADISON, Wis. — Republicans’ ambivalence toward addressing Wisconsin’s ongoing child care crisis was on full display this week after reporting from the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram highlighted the stress Wisconsin child care providers and families face in the Chippewa Valley. The new look inside Wisconsin’s
Dept. of Health Services: Identifies salmonella infections linked to eggs sold in Wisconsin
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), along with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP), local health departments, and federal partners, are working to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to eggs from a Wisconsin farm.
WisDems: Republican attempts to amend Wisconsin’s constitution backfire, fueling Democratic enthusiasm
MADISON, Wis. — Today, the Nation highlighted the landslide victory by Wisconsin Democrats in voting down two conservative constitutional amendments in the August primary election. This victory was made possible thanks to WisDems’ statewide voter mobilization program and messaging, turning a Republican power-grab into
Dept. of Financial Institutions: Wisconsin’s state-chartered banks report sound second-quarter financial performance
MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin’s 119 state-chartered banks continue to exhibit sound financial performance through June 30, 2024, according to data released today by the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions (DFI). At the end of the second quarter, total assets for Wisconsin’s
WisDems: While Bryan Steil calls the end of Roe v. Wade a “Great Victory,” over 5,000 Wisconsinites forced to flee the state to find care
MADISON, Wis. — According to a new report independently verified by the Cap Times, more than 5,000 Wisconsinites were forced to flee the state in 2023 to seek abortion care thanks to the years-long effort by Republican politicians like Bryan Steil and Donald
U.S. Attorney O’Shea: Madison man sentenced to 7 years for fentanyl trafficking and illegal gun possession
MADISON, WIS. – Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Davonte F. King, 29, Madison, Wisconsin, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to a total of 7 years in federal prison
Jobs and Energy Coalition: Applaud release of DNR environmental impact statement on Line 5 relocation project
Madison, Wis – The Wisconsin Jobs and Energy Coalition, which consists of most of the state’s leading construction labor unions, business groups and agricultural organizations, applauded the long-awaited release of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources’ Line 5 Relocation Project
Dept. of Natural Resources: Publishes final environmental impact statement for proposed Enbridge Line 5 relocation
MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today published its final Environmental Impact Statement for Enbridge, Inc.’s proposal to replace a segment of its Line 5 liquid petroleum pipeline in Ashland and Iron counties. Operational since 1953, Line 5 is
WisDems: Labor Leaders call out Duey Stroebel and Joan Ballweg for attacks on working families and unions
MADISON, Wis. — Today, Wisconsin State Senate candidates Jodi Habush Sinykin and Sarah Keyeski joined the President of the South Central Federation of Labor, Kevin Gundlach, for a virtual press call to talk about Duey Stroebel and Joan Ballweg’s careers spent attacking
A Better Wisconsin Together: Project 2025 author backs Trump in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis. — Donald Trump’s close involvement with Project 2025 became even clearer this week as one of its contributors, Monica Crowley, stopped in Milwaukee to tout her support for Trump’s agenda. Project 2025, a 900-page document written by former Trump staffers and
NRCC: NEW — Rebecca Cooke caught deleting her political consulting website
A new report shows Rebecca Cooke deleted her political consulting website before she launched her campaign for Congress. Now, as Cooke continues to lie to voters about being a “political outsider,” she refuses to address the fact she’s spent her entire