This week in wins: Colorado moves closer to abolishing the death penalty
A federal court stopped voter suppression efforts in Arizona, Illinois is making insulin cheaper, and Michelle Obama won a Grammy.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 31, 2020A federal court stopped voter suppression efforts in Arizona, Illinois is making insulin cheaper, and Michelle Obama won a Grammy.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 31, 2020Gov. Tony Evers signed executive orders aimed at helping farmers and rural communities throughout the state who have suffered as a result of Trump’s long-running trade war with China.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 27, 2020Young people are organizing in high schools across the country, Connecticut residents will see lower health care costs, and several states made strides for LGBTQ equality.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 24, 2020The state’s districts have one of the largest Republican tilts in the nation.
By Associated Press - January 23, 2020Advocates are organizing to help inexperienced or previously disenfranchised voters cast a ballot.
By Associated Press - January 19, 2020Virginia became the 38th state to approve the Equal Rights Amendment the same week New Jersey’s governor signed legislation to protect health care and three states saw voting rights victories.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 17, 2020Republicans want to kick hundreds of thousands of registered voters off the rolls, mainly in Democratic areas.
By Associated Press - January 14, 2020Donald Trump has frequently stiffed local governments who spend hundreds of thousands on security for his campaign rallies.
By Josh Israel - January 13, 2020Wisconsin lost 818 dairies in 2019 as farmers across the country suffer from Donald Trump’s trade war with China.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 10, 2020The decision was derided as ‘un-American bulls—‘ by Republican Joe Walsh, who is challenging Trump for the GOP nomination.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 07, 2020A conservative law firm wants the state election board to be held in contempt for not purging 200,000 voters from the rolls.
By Associated Press - January 02, 2020A judge ruled the state could purge the voters who didn’t respond to a letter asking for address confirmation within 30 days.
By Associated Press - December 16, 2019Wisconsinites elected a Democrat to the governorship in 2018, but the GOP is making sure he can’t get anything done.
By Lisa Needham - November 12, 2019Abortion rights advocates also scored a big win in Alabama and Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers moved to protect marginalized communities ahead of the 2020 census.
By Nick Vachon - November 01, 2019Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) secretly met with a Ukrainian ex-diplomat pushing anti-Hillary Clinton conspiracy theories.
By Josh Israel - October 28, 2019Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have suffered massive cuts since January.
By Dan Desai Martin - October 22, 2019Republicans can’t flee Congress fast enough these days.
By Kaili Joy Gray - September 04, 2019Trump and ex-Gov. Scott Walker got the state of Wisconsin to commit billions of dollars to Foxconn. So far, the state hasn’t seen any benefit.
By Lisa Needham - August 08, 2019While Trump was creating diplomatic disasters, Democrats were passing landmark legislation and blocking extremist GOP laws in states across the country.
By Emily Singer - June 07, 2019Trump is deeply unpopular in half a dozen must-win swing states ahead of the 2020 election.
By Emily Singer - June 05, 2019Voters in Florida, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are sick of Trump’s anti-immigrant policies.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019Republicans in the Kansas legislature are the latest GOP group to strip power from duly elected Democratic governors.
By Emily Singer - April 17, 2019Republicans can’t win elections in a fair fight — so they try to rig the democratic process instead.
By Dan Desai Martin - January 18, 2019On one of his last days as governor, Scott Walker signed a law stealing power from the Democrat who beat him.
By Oliver Willis - December 14, 2018As Wisconsin Republicans run roughshod over voters, outgoing Gov. Scott Walker is defending the GOP power grab.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 13, 2018Sore loser Republicans are stealing power in Wisconsin, but Paul Ryan won’t say a word.
By Oliver Willis - December 05, 2018This is not how democracy works.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 05, 2018Wisconsin Republicans are trying to strip powers away from the state’s newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general — and citizens are rising up to protest the right-wing power grab.
By Oliver Willis - December 03, 2018The Wisconsin boondoggle just keeps getting worse.
By Eric Boehlert - November 06, 2018Scott Walker is facing the prospect of losing his job as Wisconsin governor. So now he says he’s an Obamacare supporter.
By Oliver Willis - November 05, 2018