National News
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Review: Wisconsin winners, losers, and liars–the big beautiful budget mess and chaos in Congress
President Trump’s megabill will impact Wisconsin primarily through Medicaid and healthcare cuts—even as Republicans deny cuts exist.
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Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear
A divided Supreme Court on Friday ruled that individual judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear the fate of President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship.
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Everything Wisconsin needs to know about Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and BadgerCare
BadgerCare is what Wisconsin calls its Medicaid program, so let’s learn why Medicaid is so important to more than 1 million people in the state and what Trump/Republican budget cuts would do to it.
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Opinion: The GOP’s accidental grift gift
Republican willingness to blow up the deficit to give corporations and the super wealthy bigger tax cuts removes any remaining credibility of criticizing Americans’ basic needs as unaffordable.
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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is ugly for Wisconsin. Republicans voted for it anyway.
After vowing not to cut “a nickel” from benefits Wisconsin GOP House members vote for punishing cuts to food benefits and health care.
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House GOP fast-tracks budget bill that would cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood
Abortion is already excluded from coverage—the new bill is going after all health care services the clinics provide for low-income Americans.
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Opinion: 100 days of Trump has been all pain, no gain for Wisconsin
Turns out cutting veterans’ health care, healthy food for low-income families, childcare programs, library and museum funding, cancer research, and humanitarian aid isn’t making America great again.
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You’re paying taxes today—but are billionaires and big corporations dodging theirs?
Congress is prioritizing the ultra-wealthy and corporate greed over everyday American people this tax season. Now, community organizations across the US are fighting back—here’s how you can get involved.
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Crawford crushes Schimel as Wisconsin voters reject Musk’s millions
Progressives will retain control of the State Supreme Court. Elsewhere, the Voter ID constitutional amendment passes and Jill Underly is ahead in her quest for a second term vs. Brittany Kinser. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court will remain controlled by progressive justices as voters on Tuesday elected Susan Crawford and soundly rejected public appeals by the world…
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‘Some people work their butts off and other people get rich’: Gwen Frisbie-Fulton’s view from rural America
My dad raised us to work hard and do good for our families, but he was also going to make damn sure we didn’t step on anyone else along the way.
