Between 2021 and June 2023, Matt Rothschild, the executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (2015 - June 2023), recorded weekly radio commentaries for WMUU 102.9 in Madison, WI. He called each commentary his “Democracy Minute” though it may run closer to two minutes. They were timely, pithy commentaries about democracy issues in Wisconsin and nationwide.
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State Sen. Kathy Bernier’s courage
December 29, 2021
Saluting Archbishop Tutu
December 29, 2021
Evers backs the Freedom to Vote bill
December 23, 2021
Defeating the anti-democracy movement
December 23, 2021
The sinister scheme to take over our elections
December 14, 2021
Lethal nonsense on COVID
December 14, 2021
Gableman’s inquisition
December 8, 2021
Folly at the Wisconsin Supreme Court
December 8, 2021
Don’t turn back the clock on child labor
November 29, 2021
Free meals for kids in Wisconsin
November 29, 2021
The GOP assault on the Wisconsin Elections Commission
November 22, 2021
There will be more Rittenhouses
November 22, 2021
GOP rams through re-rigged maps
November 18, 2021
Gableman’s arrogance on display
November 18, 2021
Speaker Vos is not above the law
November 10, 2021
Clintonites, go home!
November 10, 2021
Vos confesses on gerrymandering
November 2, 2021
Wisconsin’s whack caucus
November 2, 2021
Election “safe and secure,” says report
October 26, 2021
Pass the Birth Equity Act
October 26, 2021
Pass the Freedom to Vote Act
October 20, 2021
Kooyenga calls for public hearing on gerrymandering
October 20, 2021
Prosecute Trump
October 14, 2021
No crane hunt!
October 14, 2021
Mike Pence, no hero
October 6, 2021
Take Gableman's subpoenas to court
October 6, 2021
Letter to Vos and LeMahieu on redistricting
September 29, 2021
A great lobby day for Fair Maps
September 29, 2021
Marjorie Taylor Greene plays with fire
September 21, 2021
Gableman’s guy wants “irate hooligans"
September 21, 2021
Kathy Bernier vs. Janel Brandtjen
September 14, 2021
George W. Bush speaks up
September 14, 2021
Labor Day, 2021
September 7, 2021
Paul Ryan, Ron Johnson: “No stolen election.”
September 7, 2021
Good ruling on mask mandate
September 2, 2021
Tommy to the rescue
September 2 2021
Vos kisses the ring
August 24, 2021
Bravo, Josh Kaul!
August 24, 2021
Chair of natural resources board must step down
August 17, 2021
Ron Johnson, sleazeball
August 17, 2021
Fixing Wisconsin's campaign finance laws
August 10, 2021
Demand a public hearing on Fair Maps
August 10, 2021
Hopes for the select committee
August 3, 2021
Vos bows again to his right flank
August 3, 2021
Forever chemicals find a friend
July 26, 2021
In praise of Nancy Pelosi
July 26, 2021
Evers’s odd move on taxes
July 20, 2021
Wisconsin Republicans getting beat at their own money game
July 20, 2021
How to defeat authoritarianism
July 14, 2021
Praise for Evers on local redistricting
July 14, 2021
Vos puts your taxes in his piggy bank
July 6, 2021
Republicans of conscience must speak out
July 6, 2021
Vos may be next on the Right's menu
June 30, 2021
Bucks, other Wisconsin business leaders, oppose anti-voting bills
June 15, 2021
Faith leaders decry anti-voter bills
June 15, 2021
New GOP scheme to delay local redistricting
June 7, 2021
New report highlights barriers to voting in Wisconsin
June 7, 2021
What keeps me up at night
May 26, 2021
Work requirements and the capitalist mantra
May 26, 2021
Pass the bill to ban gerrymandering
May 18, 2021
Petri, Ribble make Wisconsin proud
May 18, 2021
Where are the profiles in courage in Wisconsin?
May 11, 2021
In praise of Liz Cheney
May 11, 2021
Victory against Vos
May 4, 2021
The corrupt Wisconsin GOP
May 4, 2021
Biden goes big on infrastructure
April 27, 2021
The Chauvin verdict
April 27, 2021
People’s Maps Commission models transparency
April 20, 2021
I’m with Joe on Afghanistan
April 20, 2021
Daunte Wright, dead for DWB
April 13, 2021
Trump’s lies still circulate
April 13, 2021
End the filibuster
April 6, 2021
Rebecca Bradley’s conflict of interest
April 6, 2021
Wisconsin is not far from Georgia
March 30, 201
NAACP takes on Ron Johnson
March 30, 2021
More public hearings!
March 23, 2021
Here’s what’s in HR1
March 23, 2021
Ron Johnson should resign
March 16, 2021
Praise for the People’s Maps Commission
March 16, 2021
Hats off to Joe Biden
March 9, 2021
The folly of Article V
March 9, 2021
Wisconsin GOP exploits Trump's big lie
March 1, 2021
Trump serves up rancid leftovers at C-PAC
March 1, 2021
Boycott Uline
February 22, 221
Evers defies budget blackmailers
February 22, 2021