NEWS
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear fellow Democrats, This week, Robin Vos owned up to his goal for 2020: a GOP supermajority in the state legislature. If Vos and Fitzgerald win supermajorities in the state legislature, Republicans will be not only be able to pass any laws they want—they’ll be able...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear fellow Wisconsin Democrats, This week, our nation has been reeling from last weekend’s back to back mass murders—and from the revelations that followed about the white supremacist motive behind the shooting in El Paso and the role of President Trump’s and Fox...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear Fellow Democrats, This week, Vice Chair Felesia Martin and I—and several other party leaders—traveled to Detroit for the Democratic primary debates. On stage, we saw 20 Democrats, any of whom would bring a sea-change improvement from the tsunami of disaster...
We watched the debates.
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Fellow Democrats, Trump has returned to his ugliest playbook: wielding racism as a political weapon. It’s now up to Democrats to fight back. But don’t listen to the pundits who claim we have to choose between confronting racism or focusing on the kitchen-table issues...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Fellow Democrats, Trump has returned to his ugliest playbook: wielding racism as a political weapon. It’s now up to Democrats to fight back. But don’t listen to the pundits who claim we have to choose between confronting racism or focusing on the kitchen-table issues...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Fellow Democrats, That clock you hear ticking? It's the one-year countdown to the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. What we do here in Wisconsin during this next year could well determine the outcome of the presidential election—and the future of Wisconsin,...
Weekly news from the DPW chair.
Dear fellow Democrats, This week, like so many weeks of the Trump era, we’ve been battered by bruising news: the horrific deadly tragedies the Trump administration is inflicting on human beings along our Southern border; the Supreme Court’s insistence that it has...
Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin.
Fellow Democrats, Last week, I was hit by a lightning bolt. (A figurative one, not a literal one.) I was at a conference of state party chairs in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I met the state's wonderful new governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham—who gave a speech about what...
Conservation cuts by the Joint Finance Committee.
ON MEDICAID EXPANSION & BUDGET Gov. Evers & Democrats had hours and hours of conversations with everyday people before they crafted the People’s Budget. Democrats listened -- Republicans did not. Republicans needlessly picked winners and losers in this budget....