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OP-ED: Partisan MAGA Politicians are Behind Bad Faith Constitutional Amendments on Wisconsinites’ April 2 Ballots

Wisconsin has an election coming up on April 2, and Wisconsinites’ ballots will include two bad faith constitutional amendments drafted by MAGA Republicans who want to amend our state constitution for their own partisan benefit.

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A Better Wisconsin Together Calls For Safe and Legal Abortion Access Protections as Oral Arguments Begin in SCOTUS Mifepristone Case

The United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in a case brought by partisan anti-abortion extremists seeking to severely gut access to safe abortion care across the country.

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OP-ED: Progressive Leaders Showed Up for Wisconsinites This Legislative Session

From affordable child care and health care to paid family leave, reproductive freedom, clean water, fair maps, and fully funded public schools, bills introduced by Democratic lawmakers this session offer tangible solutions to real issues faced by average Wisconsin families. 

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Ahead of Affordable Care Act Anniversary, A Better Wisconsin Together Urges Lawmakers to Prioritize Affordable Health Care

As we reflect on this milestone anniversary, A Better Wisconsin Together is calling on Wisconsin lawmakers to continue further investments in affordable and accessible health care for Wisconsinites. 

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OP-ED: Eric Hovde Opposes Wisconsinites' Freedoms

To associate with known participants in an attempt to illegally overturn an election and oppose basic freedoms like making our own medical decisions, having our voices heard in our elections, or just buying a beer at your neighborhood's most cherished bar raises serious questions about Eric Hovde’s judgment, his ethics, and his values.

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OP-ED: MAGA Republicans Blocked Action on Wisconsinites' Priorities in State Legislature

While both GOP-controlled legislative bodies found plenty of time this session to take up their misplaced priorities, like advancing tax breaks for wealthy donors, and attacking LGBTQ+ youth, teachers, schools, reproductive freedom, voting rights, equity, and BIPOC communities - they deliberately did not address a long list of real and critical issues facing Wisconsin families.

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Eric Hovde Shows Contempt for Wisconsinites’ Freedom by Sharing Stage with January 6 Insurrectionist

On Saturday, March 16 Eric Hovde is set to join convicted January 6 insurrectionist Brandon Straka at a Brown County Republican Party event. Straka was arrested and pleaded guilty in 2021 to several criminal charges stemming from his participation in the violent attack on our nation’s Capitol building.

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ICYMI: Newly Released Documents Add Urgency to Remove Fake Elector Architect From Post as Judicial Ethics Advisor

Newly released documents shed more light on Jim Troupis’ role as an architect of the fake elector scheme to overturn Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. The latest revelations give even more reason for Troupis to be immediately removed from his appointment as an ethics advisor to Wisconsin judges.

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State Senate Republicans Push Anti-Equity Agenda, Ignore Wisconsinites’ Urgent Concerns in Final Floor Period

Missed opportunities abounded in the final floor period of the 2023-2024 legislative session as state Senate Republicans today chose not to address critical issues facing Wisconsin families - like access to child care, reproductive rights, and paid family leave - and instead continued their unpopular anti-equity agenda, advancing bills that unjustly attack BIPOC and LGBTQ+ Wisconsinites.

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OP-ED: How President Biden is Helping Working People With Tools to Succeed, Protecting Our Freedoms

If there’s anything we in the Badger State can take away from this year’s State of the Union, it’s this: under the Biden Administration, more Wisconsinites have healthcare, workers are earning higher wages, more family supporting jobs are available, every day costs for things like child care and energy bills are going down, and we have a President committed to protecting our freedoms and our safety.