Tag: Wisconsin
Lame Duck Republican Legislature Tries to Strip Democrats’ Power in Wisconsin
Since Democrats won all statewide races in Wisconsin, the Republican strategy is to illegally erase their loss by disempowering the offices that the Democrats won….
Sanders Ends Campaign After ‘Shit Show’ Wisconsin Primary
Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes says Tuesday’s vote risked lives and amounted to voter suppression, and that Democrats must embrace a progressive vision to beat…
The Primary Vote In Wisconsin May Be A Bellwether For The Presidential Race
Wisconsin is a deeply divided state. A former Madison councilman and the founder of Milwaukee’s most important Black political organization join us to examine how…
Earth Day’s Bipartisan Legacy, 50 Years Later
In 1970, Sen. Gaylord Nelson and an enormous grassroots movement held the first Earth Day. Nelson’s daughter, Tia Nelson, discusses how the environmental movement has…
The theology of police authority: the impact of Biblical text Romans 13
A deep dive into the inner workings of a church in Kenosha, WI that espouses the scripture of Romans 13 to imbue police authority with…
Why Jacob Blake’s Family will have to fight for justice
After his unarmed son was killed by Kenosha police, Michael Bell Sr. has fought for independent investigations of police shootings. Please join journalists Taya Graham…
Battleground Wisconsin, USA
Former Madison City Councilman David Ahrens and Milwaukee activist Angela Lang join TRNN’s Marc Steiner to look at Wisconsin’s progressive roots and racist realities—and to…
Factory farms pose an ‘existential threat’ for rural Wisconsin communities
The rural landscape in the US is changing drastically: The days of the independent family farm have increasingly given way to industrial agriculture and factory…
Rural Wisconsinites take on the factory farming industry
There is a battle happening in rural America: Across the country, rural farming communities are struggling to combat the relentless onslaught of Big Ag and…
Ten years after Act 10, Wisconsin teachers are still fighting to rebuild from the rubble
Under Republican Gov. Scott Walker Wisconsin became a “right to work” state, and public sector unions were gutted with the passage of Act 10 in…
How do you fight voter suppression? Grassroots organizers in Wisconsin have an answer
In the 2016 election, Wisconsin’s Republican voter ID law suppressed 200,000 votes in a state Donald Trump won by 22,000 votes. Milwaukee was ground zero…
Democrats are courting disaster (again) by betraying their base
Grassroots activists worked tirelessly to get voters to the polls in 2020, and their efforts helped Joe Biden win in key swing states like Wisconsin….
The fight to organize teachers in small-town Wisconsin
In 1974, the population of Hortonville, Wisconsin, was around 1,500, and yet it became the site of one of the most contentious and consequential teachers’…
Democrats are in for a world of hurt in swing states like Wisconsin
With news that Democrats will likely be caving to pressure from “centrist” lawmakers like Sen. Joe Manchin, shelving President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better package,…
