…Women’s March, and 50501. MoveOn and Indivisible, arguably the most prominent advocacy groups behind grassroots resistance to Trump during his first term, have continued to mobilize since he returned to…
Mass Anti-Trump Protests Set for Saturday
Liberal Groups Spend Millions to Back Susan Crawford in Record-Setting Wisconsin Supreme Court Race
Spending on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race has reached unprecedented heights as independent groups have injected millions of dollars in the final days leading up to the April 1st election….
Wisconsin’s Environmental Future Is at Stake in State Supreme Court Race
…He has benefitted from large campaign contributions and independent expenditures from polluters since his first campaign for AG in 2014 and continues to enjoy support from the same special interest…
The Republican State Leadership Committee’s “Judicial Fairness Initiative” Is Spending Millions to Influence Who Sits on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
…women had the right to vote, will be reinstated. In prior Wisconsin Supreme Court races, RSLC-JFI’s million-dollar cash bombs, which funded attack ads smearing judicial candidates backed by progressive advocates,…
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Wisconsin’s Right-Wing Infrastructure Works in Lockstep to Elect Schimel to State Supreme Court
…beneficiary of independent expenditures by a party in a case would not require recusal. The conservative justices — elected with help from WMC — voted to adopt the new rules….
Corporate CEOs and leaders of right-wing groups in Wisconsin pour $9 million into electing former Attorney General Brad Schimel to the state Supreme Court. Image adapted from Team Schimel photo.
ALEC Pushes State Anti-Labor Agenda for 2025
…public sector unions, preempting local labor laws, eliminating occupational regulations, and entrenching precarity for workers by expanding the ranks of independent contractors. Among the anti-labor model bills ALEC is pushing…
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Who is Brad Schimel, the Extremist Running for a Seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court?
…is elected to the high court. Schimel’s disregard for women’s bodily autonomy was evident during his single term as attorney general when he let 6,000 rape kits go untested for…
Trump Is Replacing Democracy With Autocracy
…Trump’s consolidation of power — substituting loyalists for experts across the government, using retribution to intimidate others, purging the government’s independent inspectors general, giving the Defense Department more authority over…
State Battles Over Ranked Choice Voting Reveal Shifting Fault Lines
…(also known as a Carey Committee), is based in Wyoming and mostly focuses on supporting independent and Democratic candidates in Western states. The state GOP and many Republican representatives opposed…
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Billionaire Megadonors Push State Courts Rightward
…Association, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and GEO Group, according to state campaign finance disclosures. Bolick has deep ties to Leonard Leo, the engineer of Trump’s three conservative Supreme…
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