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.
We stand in solidarity with the nearly 1,000 SEIU Meriter Hospital nurses who are standing up for workplace and patient safety, fair wages, and more
Wisconsin Republican Congressman Derrick Van Orden recently made headlines for saying he hopes funding continues to be cut at the Department of Veterans Affairs - and he certainly isn’t the only Wisconsin Republican attacking care for veterans in the Badger State.
Just two weeks after Republican lawmakers cut over $400 million in essential child care funding from Governor Evers’ state budget, and one week after child care providers rallied at our state Capitol demanding action, A Better Wisconsin Together is urging GOP legislators to finally do the right thing and pass child care legislation introduced today by their Democratic colleagues.
Republican State Senator Steve Nass, one of the longest tenured GOP representatives in the Wisconsin State Legislature, took petty partisan politics to a new low today by calling on his colleagues in the legislature to skip out on their jobs and not pass a state budget this year.
Today, Wisconsin Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee voted to erase more than 600 items from state budget consideration, including widely popular provisions that would help working families deal with rising costs, feed hungry kids, fully fund our public schools, and ensure every household in Wisconsin has access to quality affordable health care, child care, clean water, and more.
The provisions Republicans are poised to strip would help working families in Wisconsin deal with rising costs, make childcare more affordable, lower prescription drug costs, fund our public schools while holding the line on property taxes, feed hungry kids, keep our communities safe from lead poisoning, bring more revenue into the state, and much more.
Republicans have said Governor Evers’ budget proposal is “dead on arrival” and indicated they plan to throw it out and start from scratch. Now that they’ve heard hours of public testimony from Wisconsinites saying they support the governor’s budget, will they listen?
From reckless tariffs that are raising our cost of living and hurting local farmers, to ripping jobs away from thousands of Wisconsin workers and cutting off funding that ensures kids have food to eat and families have healthcare - in its first 100 days, the Trump regime wasted no time causing real harm to Wisconsin families and communities.
Today’s Trump-ordered arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan is a blatant attack on our freedoms and the integrity of our judicial system, and an alarming escalation of Trump and his allies’ hostile takeover of our government.
As Trump’s tariffs continue to threaten Wisconsin’s economy and thousands of Wisconsin jobs are on the line due to the Trump Administration’s mass layoffs, state Republicans have yet to stand up for Wisconsin families or produce a plan that will make life more affordable for constituents.
Today, Republicans’ effort to starve Wisconsin schools of funding and take away Governor Evers’ constitutionally protected partial veto powers, while giving more power to themselves, has failed.
As we close out Black Maternal Health Week 2025 (April 11 – April 17), A Better Wisconsin Together is calling on lawmakers to address the stark racial disparities in healthcare access for mothers and babies in Wisconsin by passing a state budget that would make Wisconsin a safer place for Black women, mothers, and children.
This morning, every Republican in Wisconsin’s Congressional delegation voted to pass a budget resolution that will cut billions of dollars from programs that provide healthcare and other essential services to millions of Wisconsinites.
Wisconsinites have spoken, and together their votes decided that Wisconsin needs leaders who will protect our freedoms while rejecting the politics of fear and division.
Today marks 176 years since the archaic 1849 statute that Brad Schimel supports using to ban abortion was signed into Wisconsin law. A Better Wisconsin Together says it's important that Wisconsinites know where Schimel stands.
As we once again are faced with Republican lawmakers interfering in personal healthcare decisions and other private choices they have no business in, it’s another reminder that politicians should not be the ones deciding what healthcare or extracurricular activities Wisconsin kids have access to.
No matter how hard Schimel tried to deflect and distract in tonight’s debate, he can’t hide from his dangerous and out of touch record on real issues that Wisconsinites are facing.
It’s quite a contrast that as we celebrate Women’s History Month in the year 2025, we have a circuit court judge and candidate for our state’s highest court who supports banning abortion using a law that was written before women had the right to vote. Brad Schimel, who has run for office as a Republican […]
This morning, a committee of the Wisconsin Assembly will hold a public hearing on Republican-authored bills that unjustly target LGBTQ+ youth by putting politicians in charge of deciding what sports kids in Wisconsin can play and allowing elected officials to micromanage relationships between parents, students, and teachers.
As we celebrate Public Schools Week 2025 - an annual recognition of Wisconsin’s public schools and the students, teachers, parents, and staff that rank us among the best in education nationwide - it’s the perfect time to call on our state legislature to ensure our public schools are fully funded and our kids are safe in their classrooms.
Last night, Republican lawmakers in Washington D.C. voted to slash Medicaid, threatening the healthcare benefits of millions, all to fund a tax cut for billionaires like Elon Musk. Today, Wisconsin’s GOP state legislative leader Robin Vos joined this effort at a press conference opposing efforts to expand affordable healthcare coverage for Wisconsin families.
The governor's budget is more than a long list of numbers and calculations, it’s a statement of our Wisconsin values and a bold investment in our future. Now it’s time for Republican legislators to put their petty partisanship years past aside. Now is the time to do what’s best for our state and pass the most pro-kid budget in state history.
Governor Evers’ budget is more than a long list of numbers and calculations, it’s a statement of our Wisconsin values and a bold investment in our lives.
Our United States Constitution is built on the principle that three co-equal branches of government work on behalf of we, the people - to protect our freedoms and to support us as we work to build strong, safe and prosperous communities. But that fundamental premise and our own well-being is now under attack.
This Valentine’s Day, call Judge Brad Schimel at (262) 548-7548 and demand he break up with far-right special interest donors and start focusing on what’s best for Wisconsinites.
As we celebrate and honor Black History Month in Wisconsin this year, it is critical that we take it a step further by not only reckoning with the past, but using what we’ve learned to invest in the present and future.
Judge Brad Schimel is on the campaign trail joking he has to, “invest in knee pads, to crawl around begging people” in his chase for campaign cash, according to a news report today. But according to A Better Wisconsin Together Deputy Director Mike Browne, Schimel’s record of taking actions in office to benefit his campaign contributors is no laughing matter.
Right-wing Supreme Court candidate and Circuit Court Judge Brad Schimel’s extremism on abortion has hit a new peak as Pro-Life Wisconsin, one of the most extreme anti-abortion groups in the Badger state, is publicly supporting his candidacy.
As Governor Evers said, "we can do better than doing nothing."
Brad Schimel hasn’t just said there’s nothing wrong with elected officials taking action to benefit their campaign contributors, he’s done it himself while in public office.
Governor Evers is listening to Wisconsinites and working to deliver on the issues that matter most.