National Politics
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Democrats ‘love murders and carjackings and armed robberies:’ JD Vance tells Wisconsin
The vice president came to a swing congressional district in a swing state to sell the Trump-GOP megabill of big cuts and deficit spending — by trying to change the subject to familiar scare tactics. Vice President JD Vance used a metal fabrication shop in La Crosse to fabricate a false narrative about the massive…
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Trump: End mail-in voting. Wisconsin: No thanks
Democrats, Republicans, and Independents point to our state’s long history of secure elections that embrace absentee ballot use to make democracy more accessible.
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Wisconsin Lawmaker: Corrupt maps in Texas will corrupt maps everywhere
Texas Democrats leave their state to freeze a Republican legislature ordered by Trump to gerrymander their congressional boundaries.
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Trump’s IVF promise is being broken and will hit 175,000 Wisconsin women with fertility issues
Report says White House has no plans to press for a private insurance mandate or government support, despite repeated promises by the self-described “fertilization president”
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WI Farm Bureau: Immigration reform could address labor shortage
Wisconsin’s largest farm organization wants what it calls “meaningful” immigration reform rather than aggressive federal detention and deportation efforts.
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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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Jackson County mom: ‘Get the hell out of our doctor’s office because pregnancy is too complex to legislate!’
It’s been three years since the United States Supreme Court made a landmark decision and overturned Roe v. Wade, ending a federal right to abortion care, turning the power to regulate or ban the procedure over to individual states. That forced Megan Kling to leave Wisconsin for health care when her baby was not compatible…
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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.
