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Emma Rose Widmar: Medicaid is my lifeline. New federal rule could take it away
Steil voted for the Republican tax law that already cut Medicaid by the largest amount in our nation’s history. Now this administration is writing the fine print on how those cuts get carried out.

Jerry Hanson: Why is Trump using taxpayer money for his ballroom?
Before shovels were in the ground, Trump declared the White House would not be impacted by the building of his ballroom. After destroying the East Wing of the White House, Trump assured citizens that no taxpayer money would be used to build his ballroom.

Charles Franklin: A look at 2026 primary polling in Wisconsin
Campaigns matter, and a chaotic last month in the Wisconsin Democratic primary is a prime example.

James Causey: David Crowley won the primary. Now he has to win over Democrats.
Crowley’s razor-thin primary win was just over 3,000 votes, setting up the biggest challenge yet: unifying Democrats before November.

Ruth Conniff: What does Wisconsin’s chaotic Democratic primary for governor mean for progressive politics?
Forging real unity after a bruising election

Brian Fraley: WisDems’ influence and muscle on full display in David Crowley’s primary victory
Nearly 800,000 Wisconsin voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for governor. That may be the most consequential number to come out of an election decided by less than half a percentage point.

Dan Shafer: Comeback Crowley: Milwaukee County Executive wins Wisconsin’s Democratic primary in a stunner
It was a discombobulating Election Night to cap a discombobulating primary, but with the votes now counted, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley is going to be the Democratic nominee.

Jessica McBride: Winners and losers from Wisconsin primary election night
We all know the top line results: Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley defeated socialist Francesca Hong to win the Democratic primary for governor in an upset, and he will face Republican Congressman Tom Tiffany in the general election. There were a lot of other interesting races on the ballot too on Aug. 11.

Jonathan Martin: Democrats got lucky in Wisconsin. They should learn from it.
A wild primary for governor offers a warning for a party already looking toward 2028.

Helen Lewis: AOC knows a lemon when she sees one
Francesca Hong’s surprise loss in Wisconsin is a blessing to the Democratic Party.

David Carel: Milwaukee parents must add air quality to school checklist
Many school buildings have no real filtration. Aging HVAC systems don’t filter out fine particulate matter. Older buildings leak outdoor air in through doors, windows, and cracks.

Gabriel Shapiro and David Skrovanek: Technology can help Wisconsin address energy affordability
By deploying sensors to measure ambient conditions along transmission corridors, utilities can dynamically adjust their line ratings to unlock previously untapped capacity. These dynamic line rating technologies have been piloted for several decades around the world and are starting to make a difference.

Book Excerpt: Thomas Nelson, ‘The Green and Gold Standard: A People’s History of the Green Bay Packers’
The following is an excerpt from “The Green and Gold Standard: A People’s History of the Green Bay Packers” by Thomas Nelson and published by Triumph Books. The book is due out Sept. 1 and is available for preorder here.

Gregory Humphrey: Independent voters make Wisconsin’s governor primary into a late-night caffeinated nail‑biter
Independent voters reminded everyone Tuesday that persuasion still matters. That campaigns must earn trust rather than assume it. On a very tense but exciting election night in the Badger State, it was the independent voters who ensured the race was not called the way many polls had strongly predicted.

Dave Cieslewicz: Thanksgiving
When it was revealed last week that Francesca Hong had Tweeted about her desire to cancel Thanksgiving because it is a “colonizer” holiday, I thought that was the least of the troubles ahead for the presumptive Democratic nominee. Instead, it may have been the thing that took her down.

Charlie Sykes: It turns out that we are not the crazy ones after all
Wisconsin Democrats stared into the electoral abyss and decided, on second thought, they would rather actually win elections than take a chance on what David Axelrod memorably called “zany liberal, faculty lounge exotica.”

David Blaska: There will be no Democrat kumbaya in Wisconsin
We cannot see Hong making nice with Crowley any more than many of Crowley’s supporters would have broken a sweat for Hong.

James E. Causey: Milwaukee PBS ‘Black Nouveau’ producer Marshburn dies at 78
Everett Marshburn was a driving force behind ‘Black Nouveau’ on Milwaukee PBS who mentored countless young journalists. I will miss my friend.

Bill Berry: A burning planet and lunatic leaders, this is the new normal
Get used to annually choking on smoke from wildfires, which have raged across North America, parts of Europe and elsewhere in the world. This isn’t about to change anytime soon, especially now that chicken Democrats have abandoned climate change at its mitigation as an issue.

Mark Belling: Trump could become LBJ 2.0
Trump needs to let the Iran war go. If he doesn’t, he, like Johnson, will be remembered for a war and not the herculean accomplishments of an otherwise monumental second term.

WisOpinion: ‘The Insiders’ analyze the blue wave that flipped Wisconsin’s Legislature
The WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss the political blue wave that swept Wisconsin Democrats into control of the state Legislature. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and the Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for Nov. 6
On this week’s episode of “Rewind,” WisPolitics.com’s JR Ross and Wisconsin Public Radio Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk discuss the factors behind the blue wave in Wisconsin as Democrats win a trifecta and flip the 1st and 3rd CDs, the priorities of Gov.-elect David Crowley and the incoming Dem legislative majority, the wrangling for legislative leadership posts and more.