Wisconsin Politics & News
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opinion
Badger State Blues: Why Wisconsin Families Can’t Afford the American Dream
McDonald’s has been in the headlines recently, but fewer and fewer Americans can afford to eat at the classic hamburger chain. Perhaps the best summary of Bidenflation, soaring inflation under the Biden-Harris administration, can be found in the wisdom of Craig Ervin, a welder in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Ervin told me: “I used to go… -
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Who Requested 30,084 Mail-In Ballots From Fishy Addresses in Wisconsin?
In what remains a nail-bitingly close presidential race, fewer than 25,000 votes could decide Wisconsin and its 10 Electoral College votes. Donald Trump won the Badger State in 2016 by 22,748 ballots. In 2020, he lost it by 20,982 votes. Given these low numbers and high stakes, this week’s findings by CommonSense Elections/StopBogusBallots.com are deeply… -
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Priced Out of the American Dream: A Would-Be Homebuyer’s View From Wisconsin
EAU CLAIRE, Wis.—Craig Ervin, a skilled welder from my hometown of Eau Claire, is forced to rent. “I always wanted my own place, but I don't even bother looking anymore. Gets my hopes up, then I see the prices. It's just depressing how expensive it's gotten,” he said. Like many Wisconsinites, Ervin is wondering how… -
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‘Cardboard Boxes … Unsecured Sacks’: Wisconsin Struggles to Set Standard for Ballot Drop Boxes
Voters will use ballot drop boxes again this fall in Wisconsin, among a few battleground states that could decide the Nov. 5 presidential election, prompting concern among election integrity advocates. The dissenting opinion in the state Supreme Court ruling reinstating the drop boxes argued that insufficient standards could allow “unattended cardboard box” or an “unsecured… -
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‘Insane’: Ron Johnson Slams Wisconsin DOC for Housing Transgender Prisoners With Women
Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson reacted Tuesday to a new report from The Daily Signal on the Wisconsin Department of Corrections housing a transgender prisoner, a child rapist, with women. “Housing biological males in women’s prisons is insane,” Johnson said Tuesday. “Forcing a woman to share a cell with a biological male is even worse.”… -
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Anti-Choice Position on Schooling
Liberal activist Kirk Bangstad’s Minocqua Brewing Co. SuperPAC on Oct. 12 filed a petition with the Wisconsin Supreme Court that sought to dismantle the state’s popular school choice programs and shutter the state’s independent charter schools. Bangstad hired international law firm Perkins Coie LLP—armed with more than $1 billion in revenue and 1,120 attorneys—to take… -
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DEFUNDING DEI: Wisconsin Lawmaker’s Tactics Show Way to Kill Radical University Programs
Napoleon said that to master the art of war, you must “read over and over again” the campaigns of history’s most successful generals. The same advice applies if you want to master the art of legislating: You must study the strategies of the most successful legislators. To that end, any lawmaker that wants to thwart… -
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Wisconsin Court Sides With Parental Rights Over School District’s Gender Transition Policy
A school district’s policy “to enable and affirm a minor student’s transition to a different gender identity at school without parental consent violates parents’ constitutional right to determine the appropriate medical and health care for their children,” a Wisconsin court ruled Tuesday. “This victory represents a major win for parental rights,” said Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty Deputy… -
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Firebombed Wisconsin Pro-Life Center Has Not Heard From FBI Since May
A Wisconsin pro-life organization set ablaze and vandalized with the message “If abortions aren’t safe, then you aren’t either” says it has not communicated with the Federal Bureau of Investigation about the horrifying attack since May, when the attack originally occurred. Wisconsin Family Action, the 501(c)(4) arm of Wisconsin Family Council, said earlier this year… -
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Suspect in Wisconsin Parade Horror Faces 5 Homicide Counts
Police said they will charge a Wisconsin man with five counts of intentional homicide after he allegedly drove an SUV into a Christmas parade Sunday, killing at least five adults and injuring more than 40, including children. At a press conference Monday, Dan Thompson, chief of the Waukesha Police Department, told reporters that Darrell E. Brooks, 39,… -
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Wisconsin School District Used Male Name, Pronouns for 12-Year-Old Girl Against Parental Objections, Lawsuit Alleges
A Wisconsin school district addressed a 12-year-old female student using both a male name and male pronouns against her parents’ objections, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Filed by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and Alliance Defending Freedom in the Waukesha County Circuit Court, the lawsuit alleges that Kettle Moraine School District violated… -
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Report: Wisconsin Lost Track of 82,000 Ballots in State Biden Won by 20,000
Wisconsin lost track of more than 82,000 mail-in ballots cast in the state in the November 2020 elections—more than four times the margin of difference separating the two presidential candidates in the state, according to a report by the nonprofit Public Interest Legal Foundation. The legal foundation, an election integrity watchdog group, released a research… -
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‘Kenosha Pleading for Help,’ Email to Wisconsin Governor Warned During Riots
MADISON, Wis.—The people of riot-ravaged Kenosha were pleading for help from Gov. Tony Evers with each passing day of chaos and destruction. When Wisconsin’s Democrat governor finally did act, the help he sent was too little and much too late. Emails from the nightmarish riots late last August paint a picture of a disconnected executive… -
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Teachers Are Feeding Critical Race Theory to Our Kids. Look What’s Happening in Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis.—A widespread, vigorous debate is going on in this country right now about critical race theory and if it should be taught in our local schools. Critical race theory is an academic discipline that has been around for decades but only recently became the ideology of the far left in its push to tear… -
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Madison Becomes Last of Wisconsin’s 5 Largest Cities to Face Election Complaint
MADISON, Wis.—This capital city has become the fifth and last of Wisconsin’s so-called WI-5 cities to face a formal complaint alleging violations of election law in the November presidential contest in which Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. Saying they are concerned about liberal groups entrenched in administration of Wisconsin elections, a crowd of about nearly… -
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4 Out of 5: Milwaukee Residents’ Election Complaint Questions Left’s Role in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis.—The city of Milwaukee allowed liberal, third-party groups funded by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to set the rules and help administer November’s presidential election, according to a complaint filed on behalf of five residents by an election watchdog. Milwaukee, with the complaint filed by the Amistad Project, became the fourth of the so-called WI-5 cities to be… -
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After Zuckerberg Money Pours Into Election, Wisconsin Lawmakers Vote to Curb Outside Funds
MADISON, Wis.—Looking to check the influence of “Zuckerbucks” on state elections, the Wisconsin Assembly passed legislation Tuesday that requires election administration grants from third-party groups to be fairly distributed by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The bill, which passed the state’s lower legislative chamber along party lines, follows the release of emails showing that an outside… -
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Kenosha Residents Demand to Know Why Outsiders Helped Run Wisconsin Election
MADISON, Wis.—Six Kenosha residents have filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission alleging the city allowed liberal outside groups to take over running November’s election. The action is the latest in a growing number of election law complaints against the “famous WI-5”—the cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine. But unlike in Green Bay,… -
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5 More Residents File Complaint Over Outside Election Assistance in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wis.—Kenneth Brown says Wisconsin voters should expect fair and honest elections. Billionaire-funded, third-party groups involved in administering local elections turn that expectation on its head, he says. Brown is one of five residents of Racine, Wisconsin, who filed a complaint Thursday alleging that Racine Mayor Cory Mason and City Clerk Tara Coolidge allowed left-leaning activists to… -
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Wisconsin City Clerks Weigh in on Green Bay Colleague Who Quit Job Over Outside Election Help
MADISON, Wis.—Former Green Bay City Clerk Kris Teske has been called a “superhero” for standing up against the pressures of city officials and outside election activists interfering in her office. Teske’s fellow municipal clerks also see the long-time public servant as a cautionary tale. “Before what happened in Green Bay, this wasn’t even a thought….