Across most of the battleground states, President Biden’s re-election campaign is trailed by worrisome polling, gripes about a slow ramp-up and Democratic calls to show more urgency to the threat posed by former President Donald J. Trump. Then there is Wisconsin. Mr. Biden — who is scheduled to travel to Milwaukee on Wednesday to visit […]
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‘Fix the Damn Roads’: How Democrats in Purple and Red States Win
When Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania got an emergency call about I-95 last June, his first thought turned to semantics. “When you say ‘collapse,’ do you really mean collapse?” he recalled wondering. Highways don’t typically do that, but then tractor-trailers don’t typically flip over and catch fire, which had happened on an elevated section of […]
Read MoreFinally, Democrats Have Defeated One of the Worst Gerrymanders of All
This week, Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers signed a new set of maps for legislative districts in the state—an important and overlooked victory that came after a long struggle dating back well over a decade. We talked to Greta Neubauer, the 32-year-old minority leader of Wisconsin Assembly Democrats, who explained what Democrats did to prevail, why […]
Read MoreWisconsin Fake Elector: I Backed Trump Out of Sheer Terror
But the opinion also quotes the Bible as reasoning for functionally killing IVF access within the aggressively pro-life state, turning to an eyebrow-raising verse from Jeremiah 1:5 for guidance before deciding to make it harder for Alabamans to have a family. “We believe that each human being, from the moment of conception, is made in […]
Read MoreNew Wisconsin Legislative Maps Diminish G.O.P. Advantage
Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin signed into law on Monday new legislative maps that could drastically alter the state’s balance of power, giving Democrats a chance to win control of the state’s legislature for the first time in more than a decade. “When I promised I wanted fair maps — not maps that are better […]
Read MoreNew Maps a Huge Blow to Wisconsin GOP’s Teetering Majority
The verdict caps a draining four-month civil trial of the former president that began after Engoron ruled that New York Attorney General Letitia James had already proven Trump committed bank fraud. In the ensuing months, Trump railed against the justice and his court staff for alleged bias, baselessly claiming that Engoron’s chief legal aid had […]
Read MoreWisconsin Adopts New Election Maps, in Huge Blow to Republican Majority
The verdict caps a draining four-month civil trial of the former president that began after Engoron ruled that New York Attorney General Letitia James had already proven Trump committed bank fraud. In the ensuing months, Trump railed against the justice and his court staff for alleged bias, baselessly claiming that Engoron’s chief legal aid had […]
Read MoreGroup Focused on Child Care Plans $40 Million Effort to Help Democrats
A liberal political organization that promotes economic policies for working families, the Campaign for a Family Friendly Economy, will spend $40 million backing President Biden’s re-election bid and other Democratic candidates for the House and Senate. Announced on Monday morning, the program is the largest political investment by the Democratic-allied organization, which aims to assist […]
Read MoreGOP Elections Commissioner Says He’s ‘Done More For The Black Community’ Than Any Other White Republican
NewsOne Featured Video The State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin. | Source: KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI / Getty Here’s a question: Why is it that whenever white Republicans are accused of doing harm to Black people, they suddenly turn into Miss Millie from The Color Purple and start trotting out their largely fictional resumes regarding how they’ve “always […]
Read MoreLiberals Love Ranked-Choice Voting. Will Republicans?
Long viewed as an intriguing, if somewhat wonky, approach to conducting elections, ranked-choice voting — allowing voters to list candidates in order of preference instead of selecting just one — appears to be having a moment. Across the country, voters have adopted the system for municipal and county elections in each of the last 27 […]
Read MoreWisconsin Prison Staffing Crisis: 10 Guards for 900 Inmates
Wisconsin’s top prison official wrote to the governor in 2015 with a dire warning: The state prisons were dangerously understaffed, imperiling both guards and inmates. Five years later, two men escaped from a maximum-security Wisconsin prison that once held Jeffrey Dahmer, fleeing early one morning when four of the facility’s five watchtowers were unmanned. Today, […]
Read MorePennsylvania Supreme Court Sets Up Showdown on Medicaid Abortion Ban
David Cohen, one of the lawyers for the plaintiffs, told The New Republic that the Pennsylvania government has a “very high bar” to clear to justify Medicaid excluding abortion coverage after this ruling. The government must prove it has a “compelling state interest” in prohibiting Medicaid from covering abortion, and no other “less intrusive methods” […]
Read MoreGOP Lawmaker Thinks He’s an Abortion Expert Because He’s a Veterinarian
New York Attorney General Letitia James accused Trump, his sons Don Jr. and Eric, the Trump Organization, and other company executives of fraudulently inflating the value of various real estate assets to get more favorable terms on bank loans. The judge presiding over that trial, Arthur Engoron, determined in September that Trump indeed committed fraud […]
Read MoreHarris Begins a Reproductive Rights Tour on 51st Anniversary of Roe
Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Wisconsin on Monday morning to host an event in support of abortion rights while President Biden brings together a task force on reproductive health care in Washington. Both events are designed to call attention to the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court ruling that […]
Read MoreAt Least 70 Deaths in U.S. Are Connected to Severe Winter Weather
At least 70 people across the United States have died from weather-related causes after more than a week of frigid winter storms and brutally cold temperatures, according to reports from state officials, police departments, medical examiners and news outlets. The number is likely to grow as the authorities scramble to assess the death toll from […]
Read MoreThe World Hasn’t Seen Cicadas Like This Since 1803
The cicadas are coming — and if you’re in the Midwest or the Southeast, they will be more plentiful than ever. Or at least since the Louisiana Purchase. This spring, for the first time since 1803, two cicada groups known as Brood XIX, or the Great Southern Brood, and Brood XIII, or the Northern Illinois […]
Read MoreBayfield, WI Is The Coolest Small Town For Midwest Winter Adventures — Here’s Our Guide
If your winter travel wish list includes staying at a luxury wellness resort, scouting the northern lights, sipping cocktails at the United States’ first Native American-owned distillery, and hiking to sea caves at a National Lakeshore, I have the place for you. And if it doesn’t include those things, well… maybe it should (in which […]
Read MoreGoFundMe Soars For Mom After 2 Young Sons Die From Falling Through City-Owned Pond’s Thin Ice In Wisconsin
NewsOne Featured Video From left: Antwon “Junior” Sims, Jr. and Legend Loyal Sims. | Source: Kiana Sims/GoFundMe An online crowdfunding effort to assist a mother whose two young sons died after falling through a Wisconsin pond’s thin ice last week is surging with contributions from people helping to pay for planned funerals and memorials for […]
Read MoreTrump’s Team Prepares to File Challenges on Ballot Decisions Soon
Former President Donald J. Trump’s advisers are preparing as soon as Tuesday to file challenges to decisions in Colorado and Maine to disqualify Mr. Trump from the Republican primary ballot because of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the matter. In Maine, the challenge to the secretary […]
Read MoreFamily, Food and Memories From the Midwest
My parents split when I was young; I don’t really remember the time they were together. My mom and dad’s new partners, both kind, gentle, generous men, brought their own culinary flair to the family; respectively, pot roast braised with off-brand Coca-Cola and tater tot casserole. Together, my parents, my brother and I remained a […]
Read MoreA Record-Breaking Warm, Snowless Winter Confounds Midwesterners
Lucy Wallace, a recent transplant from San Diego, had been warned about the bone-chilling winters of her new hometown, Minneapolis. She bought a $900 winter coat, two pairs of boots and metal spikes to make her running shoes usable on icy sidewalks. So she was at once befuddled and relieved by the record-breaking warm temperatures […]
Read MoreWisconsin Supreme Court Orders New Legislative Maps in Redistricting Case
The Wisconsin Supreme Court said on Friday that the state’s heavily gerrymandered legislative maps that favor Republicans are unconstitutional. It ordered new maps before the 2024 election in a ruling that could produce a seismic political shift in a crucial presidential swing state. Justice Jill J. Karofsky, writing for the majority, said that Wisconsin’s current […]
Read MoreAnalysis: Amid Biden’s Dismal Polling, Don’t Expect Him to Shift Strategy
For weeks, polls have shown President Biden trailing his likely challenger, former President Donald J. Trump. Protesters have streamed through Washington, demanding that Mr. Biden call for a cease-fire in Gaza. Groups of key voters, including young people and voters of color, have suggested that they might not support Mr. Biden in the 2024 election. […]
Read MoreIs It an Octopus? a 4-Year-Old Asks. No, a Shipwreck From 1871.
It began as a typical summer outing for Tim Wollak and his daughter, Henley, 4. On a clear morning on Aug. 13, they set out in their 22-foot boat from the eastern shore of Wisconsin. The sky was blue and the waters flat and calm, perfect conditions for them to explore the shallows of the […]
Read MoreRon Johnson, Still Dumb as a Post, Trots Out Evidence-Free Charge at Dems
“In Gaza City, they have managed to identify and begin to neutralize a truly expansive network of tunnels that form the backbone of the military capacity of Hamas in the north, and they’re working through ways in which they are going to render those tunnels ineffective going forward,” Sullivan said. “They have been able to […]
Read MoreGOP Senator Flabbergasted When Asked to Back Up Evidence-Free Claim
“In Gaza City, they have managed to identify and begin to neutralize a truly expansive network of tunnels that form the backbone of the military capacity of Hamas in the north, and they’re working through ways in which they are going to render those tunnels ineffective going forward,” Sullivan said. “They have been able to […]
Read MoreWhen It Comes to Disdain for Democracy, Trump Has Company
It makes perfect sense to treat Donald Trump as the most immediate threat to the future of American democracy. He has an ambitious plan to turn the office of the presidency into an instrument of “revenge” against his political enemies and other supposedly undesirable groups. But while we keep our eyes on Trump and his […]
Read MoreThe City That Just Might Decide the 2024 Election
“The reason that North Side Milwaukee looks like it looks, with abandoned buildings and a lot of vacant commercial space … A.O. Smith started doing what everybody else did. They started making those automobile frames down in Mexico,” he says. “When they shut down [in Milwaukee], those jobs never got replaced.” “You’re starting to get […]
Read MoreWisconsin Republicans Pull Nasty Trick In War On Diversity
MADISON, WI – OCTOBER 12: An outside view of Bascom Hall on the campus of the University of Wisconsin on October 12, 2013 in Madison, Wisconsin.Photo: Mike McGinnis (Getty Images) In a better world than the one we live in, wanting schools to be diverse and inclusive for all students wouldn’t be controversial. But in […]
Read MoreTrump Indictments Haven’t Sunk His Campaign, but a Conviction Might
For Donald J. Trump, a new set of New York Times/Siena College polls captures a stunning, seemingly contradictory picture. His 91 felony charges in four different jurisdictions have not significantly hurt him among voters in battleground states. Yet he remains weaker than at least one of his Republican rivals, and if he’s convicted and sentenced […]
Read MoreThe Shadowy Right-Wing Think Tank Pushing Transphobia
“They have been legitimate pioneers in this field, doing yeoman’s work to normalize deranged anti-trans rhetoric across all of conservative politics,” the pseudonymous Substacker and elections analyst Ettingermentum wrote in August. Its actual electoral track record, however, is less than impressive. “Across the years of time and tens of millions of dollars it has committed […]
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