Extremism
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Van Orden the congressman isn’t as independent as Van Orden the candidate promised
In 2020, Rep. Ron Kind was criticized for voting in line with his party leader 95% of the time, but Van Orden’s voting record shows he’s become the more predictable partisan.
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These Republicans in ‘swing districts’ didn’t vote in a very swingy way
They won in 2024 even though President Trump lost in their district. The midterm elections could be these Wisconsin state lawmakers’ undoing in 2026.
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Tom Tiffany is working to roll back 150 years of birthright citizenship in Wisconsin
As the US Supreme Court weighs Trump’s effort to restrict birthright citizenship, WI is trying to protect it—and Rep Tom Tiffany is working to move the state in the opposite direction.
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Chris Taylor explains why this year’s WI Supreme Court election is vital for freedoms
Previous elections were between conservatives and progressives, but Chris Taylor says it’s now a case of independent courts vs. an authoritarian president
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Question of the Week: Unpaid TSA workers vs. changing ICE tactics
Department of Homeland Security workers are missing a paycheck as part of a showdown between Democrats and President Trump. Should Democrats cave? It’s our newsletter question of the week for March 15, 2026 Under a deal to end the last federal government shutdown, everything else is being funded except the Department of Homeland Security (DHS),…
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Tom Tiffany, regular absentee voter, says ‘I don’t believe we should be doing mail-in voting’
Tom Tiffany, the presumptive Republican candidate for governor parrots a false claim by President Donald Trump to defend his desire to cut accessibility for hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin voters.
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Billionaires associated with Project 2025 unload cash on Tom Tiffany in Wisconsin’s race for governor
The Uihleins found a roundabout way to make sure Tom Tiffany would get much more than what original campaign limits would have allowed.
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OPINION: An unauthorized war with Iran exposes America’s colonizers and monarchists
President Trump’s ability to unilaterally launch a war with Iran forces us to acknowledge the real regime change was done here in the United States.
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Maria Lazar’s bizarre court election strategy: Take a hard right
Wisconsin supreme court candidate Maria Lazar recent appearances make it even harder to appeal to moderate voters in the 2026 Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
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Brennan proposes an ICE ‘accountability commission’ if elected governor
The candidate says a time will come to handle those with ICE and the Border Patrol whose actions have been beneath the dignity “of who we are as Wisconsinites, as human beings.”
