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  • Fight to Vote
    Will Supreme Court Election Rulings be 2020’s October Surprise?
    October 28, 2020
    | Steven Rosenfeld
    The high court’s conservative bloc empowers GOP-majority legislatures in swing states that have disregarded voters’ interests. 
  • Democracy & Government
    Court Reinstates Wisconsin Voting Restrictions in Victory for Republicans
    July 7, 2020
    | Sam Levine

    The ruling reinstates a Republican-backed law that allows local election officials to offer only two weeks of early voting before election day.

  • Democracy & Government
    How Does a Political Party Get Fewer Votes But Still Win Elections? Gerrymandering on Steroids
    May 13, 2020
    New techniques in districting allow legislators to essentially pick their voters, instead of the other way around. And in 2010, Republicans in several states redrew maps that guaranteed victory.
  • Democracy & Government
    How Gerrymandering 'Got Out of Control' in 2010 and Why It Matters Today
    May 11, 2020
    It has been a long held tradition in American politics that every 10 years, the party in control of state houses would use gerrymandering to redraw districts in their favor for the next election. But in 2010, something different happened.
  • Money & Politics
    How an ‘Intrepid Intern’ Took the Media by Storm
    April 10, 2020
    | Theresa Riley
    Patricia McKnight, an intern at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wasn't on assignment when she went to her polling place on Tuesday morning. She was just trying to vote — in the middle of a pandemic.
  • Civil Liberties
    A SCOTUS Case Could Make Partisan Gerrymandering Illegal
    October 2, 2017
    | David Daley
    Justice Anthony Kennedy could provide the deciding vote in Gill v. Whitford, an upcoming case that looks at gerrymandering in Wisconsin. Oral arguments begin Tuesday.
  • Democracy & Government
    Study Shows How Many in Wisconsin Were Blocked From Voting
    September 27, 2017
    | Ari Berman
    Trump won the state by 22,748 votes.
  • Economy & Work
    How to Make Easy Money — Off Taxpayers
    August 29, 2017
    | Sam Pizzigati
    Who will benefit the most from Wisconsin’s huge new pending Foxconn subsidy deal? Meet billionaire Terry Gou.
  • Democracy & Government
    An Interview With Paul Ryan's Progressive Challenger
    June 28, 2017
    | John Light
    Randy Bryce on his plans for winning Paul Ryan's seat, his viral first campaign video, and all the many articles casting him as a character in a Bruce Springsteen song.
  • Money & Politics
    Secretive Foundation Pushing Right-Wing Ideology in States
    May 11, 2017
    | Alex Kotch
    Meet the Bradley Foundation, giving the Koch brothers a run for their money.


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