On April 1st, the eyes of America will once again be upon Wisconsin as Judge Susan Crawford and former Governor Scott Walker's attorney general, Brad Schimel, face off in a race that will determine control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. This is a tipping point seat - whoever
Hello everyone. It's been a few weeks since my last piece, which discussed the influence of billionaires on the Trump administration. In that article, published a day after the inauguration, I noted the alarming and dangerous influence of Elon Musk, a man who spent almost $300 million to
Yesterday, Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States. You may have heard something about this. But don't worry, I am not here to talk at length about Donald Trump - oceans of ink have been spilled about him, psychoanalyzing, criticizing, contextualizing. And in
NB: this article has been updated as of 1/18/2025 to add new information If my Minnesotan friends and readers think they are insulated from the Republican party's increasingly anti-democratic turn because their state consistently votes for the Democratic Party, the past week or so may come
Hello everyone. I am writing this a few hours after coming back from a canvass in the small town of Mondovi, Wisconsin. It's a town of about 3,000 people about 20 miles south of Eau Claire that voted for Trump by 28 points in 2020. I was
Welcome, readers. I will offer only modest apologies for my absence, as campaign life has been consuming a lot of my energy as of late. I have been canvassing all over the state of Wisconsin - from Cedarburg to Eau Claire to Black River Falls. Each of these communities represents
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CONTENT NOTE: this article contains discussions of violence, racist language, and sexual assault Springfield, Ohio was not a town that occupied a prominent place in the consciousness of America until very recently. Then came Donald Trump. He was armed with a conspiracy that was unashamedly racist. And what has happened
Wisconsin just seems to love having elections. It feels like it was just a few months ago that I was writing a summary of our spring elections. And Wisconsinites love voting: Wisconsin regularly has one of the highest rates of voter participation of any state in the country - in
One of the things we are blessed with in our age of politics, where personality looms large and often trumps substance, is to know in granular detail the personal fixations of one former president in particular: Donald J. Trump. From his deeply weird, unsettling comments - considering his track record
Hello everyone. I am back after an extended break from writing articles. Had some life things to get a handle on. I am hoping to write at least one article a month, but ideally two. Now, let's delve right in: by now, unless you're living in