Hijacking Campaign 2026 | Campaign 2026
Posted: March 2, 2026
Updated: August 28, 2026
Fall: Oath • Spending
Spring: Oath • Spending
Based in Shorewood, Wisconsin, Wisco Project PAC is a federally registered super PAC operating in the 2026 Wisconsin State Supreme Court election campaign as an unregistered express advocacy group. Wisco Project PAC first made independent expenditures in the 2024 federal elections, when it supported Democratic candidates in both the presidential and Wisconsin congressional elections. This is the first time the committee has reported spending in Wisconsin state-level elections, although a committee with strong ties to Wisco Project PAC was involved in 2025’s high court election. The committee’s parent organization, The Wisco Project, operates a bare-bones website that does not provide much information other than it intends to mobilize students in the 2026 election. Registration materials, however, show that Wisco Project PAC’s treasurer is Paul Sickel, a state-registered lobbyist for the Wisconsin branch of the SEIU.
Fall Election
Wiscon Project PAC first reported spending in Wisconsin's fall 2026 partisan elections towards the end of August. It reported spending about $1,250 for "pledge to vote cards" in support of Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley for governor. A Democrat, Crowley faces Republican Congressman Tom Tifffany in the November 3rd election for the open seat. Incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is not seeking a third term.
Spring Election
At the end of February, with about five weeks remaining until the April 7th election, Wisco Project PAC reported spending $24,500* for online ads to support Dane County Court Appeals Judge Chris Taylor for an open seat on the state’s highest court. Taylor, who had been a Democratic state legislator before joining the bench, faced Waukesha Court of Appeals Judge Maria Lazar for the office. Lazar first won her appeals court position with independent backing from conservative groups and enjoyed such support in the 2026 high court election as well. As the open seat was held by a member of the court's conservative minority, Taylor’s victory expanded the officially nonpartisan seven-member court's liberal majority from four to five seats.
At the beginning of March, the committee reported spending another $65,750 for online ads to support Taylor and over $83,200* for staff expenses through April 15.
About two weeks before the committee first reported independent spending, its parent organization, the Wisconsin Project, Inc., ran at least one online issue ad against Lazar.
*Revised from original amount per amendment.
This organization is an unregistered independent expenditure committee that is required to report any such spending done within 60 days of a primary or an election to the Wisconsin Ethics Commission per Chapter 11, Subchapter X of Wisconsin Statutes.