Right-wing Justice Rebecca Bradley confirmed long simmering speculation that she did not believe she could win re-election to the state Supreme Court.
As JD Vance visits MAGA Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden’s district in western Wisconsin today to spread lies about their Billionaire Buddy Bill, A Better Wisconsin Together is setting the record straight on how the bill will harm our local Wisconsin communities.
As detailed in a news report today, since getting her political crony appointment to the state high court, Bradley has taken over $52,000 in junkets to luxury resorts funded by right-wing legal advocacy groups and foundations.
Did Rep. Bob Donovan (R-Greenfield) get sign-off from state ethics regulators or other legal approval before paying himself thousands of dollars in campaign funds to help cover his housing costs? Based on a request made to his state legislative office by A Better Wisconsin Together under the state open records law, the answer appears to be “no.”
Under the MAGA Republican budget bill, 62 million retirees will be negatively impacted and roughly 20% of people will not receive their promised social security benefits.
Rep. Bob Donovan’s Campaign Finance Scam Not His First, Just His Latest Ethically Questionable Episode
A recent media report uncovered Donovan has paid himself nearly $6,000 from his campaign to offset his housing costs.
Bob Donovan’s campaign finance reports revealed he paid himself $850 every month for what he called “staff lodging” after renting an apartment.
Through his commitment to making the everyday lives of Wisconsinites better - whether it was repairing miles of roads and bridges or always standing up for safe and legal abortion care and the rights and freedoms of LGBTQ+ youth - Governor Evers has made sure Wisconsin is set up for success, no matter what comes next.
According to the latest state campaign finance reports, the political action committee (PAC) of recently announced right-wing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Bill Berrien received $1 million in contributions from the Winklevoss brothers of New York. The right-wing twin brothers made millions in a lawsuit alleging they were the original inventors of what is now Facebook and subsequently set themselves up in the cryptocurrency business.
In a ruling released this morning, the progressive majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court shut down yet another power grab from Wisconsin Republicans. The decision comes after GOP lawmakers overstepped and stopped a ban on harmful conversion therapy for Wisconsin kids and blocked updates to building and construction safety codes for years on end.
This year, A Better Wisconsin Together urges all of our elected lawmakers to not only reflect on what the 4th of July holiday represents, but to take direct action and stand up for Wisconsinites in the face of these attacks on our rights and freedoms.
MADISON, Wis. — Early this morning, Governor Tony Evers signed the 2025-27 state budget. That Wisconsin now has a budget – after months of state legislative Republicans’ partisan political posturing, infighting, and multiple walkouts on negotiations – is a testament to Gov. Evers’ leadership and his commitment to doing his best to do right by […]
Republicans in the state Assembly rejected amendments to provide property tax savings, deliver lower costs for hard working Wisconsinites, support public education, clean up water pollution, support veterans and farmers, improve public safety, and more.
Republicans in the state Senate had the same one word answer when given the chance to pass a better state budget for hard working Wisconsinites today: “No.”
The Wisconsin State Supreme Court struck down efforts to use an 1849 law as a near-total abortion ban.
Ron Johnson and his fellow Republicans have taken a bad, unpopular bill and made it worse.
Today’s announcement of a budget agreement that begins to address priorities like delivering cost savings for working families, supporting public schools and child care, and investing in health care is a testament to the hard work and dedication of Governor Evers and legislative Democrats.
We stand in solidarity with UW nurses and SEIU Wisconsin in their pursuit of collective bargaining rights and the freedom to have a say in their workplace, and we applaud them for standing up and demanding their basic workplace rights be honored and recognized.
In a 5-2 ruling released this morning, the Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided that Wisconsinites deserve clean water and corporate polluters who contaminate our waterways must be held accountable under the law.
With one just week to go until the end of the state’s fiscal year and the deadline to pass a new state budget, Republican state lawmakers have no scheduled meetings for the budget writing Joint Committee on Finance and no action scheduled in either the Senate or Assembly to debate or vote on a state budget bill. The lack of legislative action comes on the heels of Senate Republicans walking out of budget talks with Gov. Tony Evers for a second time late last week.
On the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, and as polling continues to show that a majority of Wisconsin voters support safe and legal abortion care, A Better Wisconsin Together is urging Wisconsin Republicans to listen to their constituents and end their relentless attacks on our reproductive rights once and for all.
As we celebrate today, we also are reminded that the work is not done. From attempts to ban the Juneteenth flag from being flown in Wisconsin and censor what can be taught in our public schools, to scrubbing Black history from government websites and signing an executive order attacking the Museum of African American History, Trump and his Republican allies in Wisconsin are blatantly trying to erase Black history, undo the progress made, and stifle the progress yet to come.
Instead of respecting our fundamental freedom to voice our opinions or doing their job to pass a state budget, Republicans in the state Senate are looking to use our government as a weapon against their fellow Wisconsinites.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court today unanimously struck down part of a partisan Republican power grab adopted by the state legislature in their unprecedented post-election sore loser session in December 2018. Today’s action by the state high court reverses the earlier decision authored by right-wing Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar, and joined by Judge Shelley Grogan, to uphold the GOP’s actions.
In a social media post yesterday, Republican state Senator and former state Senate President Chris Kapenga expressed both his opposition to a budget plan being crafted by his fellow Republicans and his preference to go without any state budget for the next two years. Kapenga joins his colleague Sen. Steve Nass, one of the longest currently serving legislative Republicans, in calling for a budget boycott.
We are heartbroken for the families and loved ones of the victims of the targeted, apparently politically motivated violence that occurred in Minnesota. The loss of life is tragic and we condemn the abhorrent violence directed at public servants.
A Better Wisconsin Together stands in solidarity with everyone exercising their right to use their voices in Wisconsin and beyond to build a better future for all of us, no matter where we were born or what we look like.
The impacts of Republicans’ longstanding and continuing refusal to support public education are stunning. In just the last two years -2024 and 2025 - school districts have been forced to go to referendums in 96 of the 99 state Assembly districts.
A media report on recent polling indicates that a strong majority of registered voters in the Badger State (74%) support abortion access and believe that decisions on abortion should be made by individual patients in consultation with their doctor - not politicians. The survey also shows that Wisconsin voters overwhelmingly (69%) support Planned Parenthood.
These latest missed opportunities come on the heels of Republican legislative leaders’ walkout of budget discussions with Gov. Tony Evers last week.
By storming out of state budget negotiations and refusing to find bipartisan compromise, Wisconsin Republicans are abandoning more than just their jobs. They’re abandoning Wisconsin families at an already uncertain time.