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Tony Evers
September 14, 2023
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Matt Ford
Wisconsin’s Gerrymandering Is Sparking a Constitutional Crisis
Badger State Republicans’ desire to hold onto power is running afoul of democracy.
July 5, 2023
Tori Otten
Wisconsin Governor Increases School Funding for 400 Years in Brilliant Use of Veto Power
Peak chaotic good
November 9, 2022
Prem Thakker
Wisconsin Democrats Save Governor Evers’s Veto Power
Evers has vetoed Republican bills nearly 150 times in the past. Republicans weren’t able to get a supermajority in the legislature to override him.
January 13, 2022
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Daniel Strauss
Democratic Governors May Be Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
If Democratic incumbents and challengers in swing states can’t win in 2022, then the GOP may be able to do what it wants in 2024.
October 4, 2021
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Matt Ford
How the GOP Is Turning the States Into the Laboratories of Oligarchy
Republicans in state legislatures all across the country are slowly gaming the system to deprive voters of their power.
August 16, 2021
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Emma Roller
Will the Squalid Rot of the Wisconsin Republican Party Become America’s Future?
The GOP-driven dysfunction of the Badger State is a window into the party’s illiberal plans for the country.
May 22, 2020
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Matt Ford
The Blue Wave That Saved the Vote
Democrats may soon discover that their most important accomplishment in the last election wasn’t retaking the House of Representatives.
April 5, 2020
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Matt Ford
The Republican Plot Against Voting Turns Deadly
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Trump and his allies are prioritizing their hypothetical grip on power over the life-and-death needs of voters.
December 4, 2018
Matt Ford
The GOP’s Laboratories of Oligarchy
Republicans in multiple states are using lame-duck sessions to disempower the Democrats who won in last month's blue wave.
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