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OP-ED: Pride Month in Wisconsin - Letting LGBTQ+ Joy Outshine Right-Wing Attacks

This month, Wisconsinites will celebrate the progress we’ve made, while also acknowledging the many challenges we still face in the movement to ensure we all have the freedom to be ourselves and pursue our dreams - regardless of who we love or how we identify.

State Republicans Circulate Dangerous Anti-Abortion Bills

Legislative Republicans today circulated a purposely misleading bill package that would keep politicians in charge of Wisconsinites’ reproductive healthcare decisions, keep a nearly centuries old criminal abortion ban in place, and would require the state of Wisconsin to fund dangerous resource centers - not led by medical professionals - that provide pregnant people with deceptive and inaccurate medical information.

State Republicans Put Corporations over Constituents with Inaction on Lowering Prescription Drug Costs

In his 2023-25 biennial budget proposal, Gov. Evers proposed action items to lower the cost of prescription drugs by capping copays and holding pharmaceutical corporations to account, by ensuring a more transparent drug pricing system. Legislative Republicans on the Joint Committee on Finance (JFC) axed these measures, alongside more than 500 other provisions, earlier this month. 

A Look at What State Republicans Denied for Wisconsin This Week

 Popular state budget provisions like marijuana regulation, access to clean water, equitable access to high-speed internet, and housing protections for renters in Wisconsin could have taken a step toward becoming law this week, if not for the Republican majority on the state budget committee stripping these items - alongside more than 500 other proposals - from Governor Tony Evers’ budget plan. 

Mental Health Action Day: Wisconsin Lawmakers Must Do Their Part

On Mental Health Action Day, A Better Wisconsin Together is shedding light on the need for state investments in affordable, accessible mental health resources across Wisconsin - especially in Wisconsin schools and rural areas of the Badger State.

Assembly Republicans Fail to Fix Funding Crisis for Community Services

In a partisan ploy, the GOP majority of the Wisconsin State Assembly has voted in favor of a deficient shared revenue bill that would direct money away from vital resources in our local communities and instead fund their unpopular right wing agenda. 

OP-ED: Our First Mother’s Day in a Post-Roe World

Mother’s Day 2023 marks the first time in 50 years that people in Wisconsin do not have the right to decide if and when they become mothers, and those who are already parents are stripped of the freedom to decide if and when they want to keep growing their families.

Book Bans and Suing Teachers: How Republican State Legislators Marked Teacher Appreciation Week

Most Wisconsinites celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week (May 8 - 12) by showing gratitude to our local educators, but Wisconsin Republicans aren't most Wisconsinites.

Wisconsin House Republicans Get it Wrong on Immigration Bill

Everyone, regardless of where we come from, deserves a safe place to call home. Today, Wisconsin Republicans in the U.S. House Representatives voted for the divisive MAGA agenda that unfairly targets and endangers people seeking safety and stability for their families.

GOP Ignores the Elephant in the Room, Lets Big Tech Off the Hook With Latest Proposal on Social Media

We’re all concerned about our and our children’s safety when using social media. But a Republican state legislator’s recent proposal to restrict access to social media for minors ignores the elephant in the room by letting tech companies off the hook for developing safe platforms and protecting the privacy of underage users.