Hijacking Campaign 2026 | Campaign 2026
Posted: April 4, 2026
Updated: August 12, 2026
Fall: Oath • Spending
Spring: Oath • Spending
Power to the Polls Action Fund first registered with the Wisconsin State Ethics Commission to make independent expenditures in the 2023 spring and special elections at the end of February of that year. At that time, it operated from a Shorewood, Wisconsin address and was sponsored by Power to the Polls, Inc., a corporation then based in Shorewood as well, although the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions now shows a Chippewa Falls address for that corporation. Current registration materials filed with the Wisconsin State Ethics Commission show that the committee currently operates from a Washington, D.C. address.
Power to the Polls first made independent expenditures in the 2022 fall election with an unregistered committee operating under a slightly different name, Power to the Polls WI. The organization’s website lists as it partners various unions, including the aforementioned SEIU, and various liberal-leaning groups. Of the latter, one, Voces de la Frontera, was also active in the 2026 high court election. While Voces and Power the Polls backed the same candidate in the court race, they back different horses in at least one 2026 partisan race. Power the Polls has spent over $2.49 million between 2022 and 2025 in support of Democratic and liberal candidates.
Fall Election
Power to the Polls first reported spending in the 2026 fall state partisan elections five days before the August 11th primaries. It reported spending over $44,500 for canvassing and campaign literature in the gubernatorial race and two in the state assembly, the 8th and the 21st. In the governor’s race it opposes U.S. Congressman and Tom Tiffany. who won the Republican Party nomination in the primary. In the assembly races, the group supports the primary challenger to the Democratic incumbent in the 8th Assembly District and in the 21st, where the Republican incumbent is retiring, it supports Democrat Dan Bukiewicz over his Democratic primary opponent, both of whom won their respective primaries. The winners of both Democratic primaries face Republicans in November.
The day of the primaries, the group reported spending about $360 for various canvassing expenses in all the races mentioned above.
Spring Election
Power to the Polls Action Fund first reported independent expenditures in the 2026 Wisconsin State Supreme court election the Friday before the April 7th election. It reported spending about $16,800 for campaign staff and literature to support Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Chris Taylor and to oppose fellow Wisconsin Court of Appeals Judge Maria Lazar. Taylor, a former Democratic state legislator, and Lazar, a conservative, were vying for an open seat on the officially nonpartisan court. Taylor won the election, expanding liberal control on the seven-member body from four to five seats.
The day of the election, the group reported spending over $8,800, mostly for campaign staff wages.
Last active election: 2025
This organization is registered with the Wisconsin Ethics Commission as an independent expenditure committee following the January 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. FEC.