July 14, 2020

Two groups are already dropping cash on electioneering activities to back candidates in four legislative races this fall.

July 8, 2020

The Trump administration has weakened a proposed rule aimed at protecting people from predatory loan providers.

June 25, 2020

All Voting is Local Wisconsin and 28 voting rights groups, including the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, called on Gov. Tony Evers to enforce his own Executive Order and compel the state’s Department of Transportation (DOT) to expand access to photo ID by increasing locations and hours where voters can obtain the identification necessary to cast a ballot. The groups noted that Wisconsin has one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation which creates needless and discriminatory barriers to the ballot.

June 9, 2020

Police groups and unions have spent $2.3 million on state lobbying and elections over 10 years.

Posted: June 4, 2020
Updated: June 11, 2020

This year’s regular legislative elections feature the largest number of candidates in the primaries in eight years.

May 26, 2020

On May 19, the Lafayette County Board unanimously approved a resolution saying that it is in favor of amending the U.S. Constitution to overturn Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United that have given corporations an enormous sway over our political life.

May 26, 2020

A Canadian company that has paid more than a billion dollars for environmental law violations and oil spill cleanups is trying to seize private property in northern Wisconsin to reroute one of its crude oil pipelines.

May 14, 2020

While the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of Speaker Robin Vos and Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald in their challenge to the “Safer at Home” extension, the Court has been considering another challenge to “Safer at Home.”  One of the individuals in that second lawsuit challenging Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home orders contributed $20,000 to a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice’s campaign.

May 8, 2020

Wisconsin Chief Justice Patience Roggensack, who was recently criticized as “elitist” for comments she made during a court case, and her husband are worth at least $295,000.

May 4, 2020

Dozens of special interests ranging from health care to business groups have filed documents supporting or opposing a GOP lawsuit to ditch Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order.

April 30, 2020

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and for the occasion, we’ve put together two tables to show you who the big players are in the political money game in Wisconsin.

April 23, 2020

Republican legislative leaders made it more difficult for police, firefighters and other first responders to qualify for workers compensation in a coronavirus relief bill passed last week after a last-minute request by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC).

April 20, 2020

For Earth Day this year, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign looked over the last decade to see how Wisconsin handled its duty to combat climate change. In a report entitled “The Filthy Forty,” what it found is not pretty. Former GOP Gov. Scott Walker and the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved dozens of legislative proposals, rules, and policies between 2011 and 2018 that contributed to climate change, according to the report.

Posted: April 13, 2020
Updated: April 27, 2020*

Special interest groups spent a record of more than $5 million on electioneering activities in last week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign found.

April 6, 2020

Special interest groups have spent about $4.4 million as of Monday morning in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

April 6, 2020

A group behind a proposed amendment to enshrine victim’s rights in the Wisconsin Constitution spent more than $3.3 million on media advertising in the first three months of the year.

April 2, 2020

The state Democratic Party raised nearly $4.7 million during the first three months of 2020, about nine times more than the $513,000 raised by the state Republican Party, thanks to a handful of tony contributors.

March 31, 2020

The two candidates vying for a 10-year term on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in next week’s spring elections have raised nearly $4 million combined since they entered the race.

March 30, 2020

Special interest groups spent more than $3 million as of Monday morning in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

March 26, 2020

Some stores owned by John Menard Jr., the state’s richest man and a major GOP campaign contributor, have been cited by Wisconsin and Michigan authorities for price gouging on products in high demand because of the coronavirus pandemic.

March 25, 2020

Wisconsin contributors gave about $4.8 million in 2019 to unregulated electioneering groups that frequently smear state and federal candidates. About $4 of every $5 went to Democratic-leaning groups.

March 23, 2020

Outside election spending by special interest groups topped $1.1 million as of Monday morning in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

March 18, 2020

A Virginia group has spent about $55,100 on electioneering activities attacking one of two candidates in a suburban Milwaukee mayor’s race.

March 17, 2020

Outside electioneering groups have spent about $735,000 so far in this spring’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

March 4, 2020

A bill that cuts from 60 days to 45 days the advanced notice that insurers are required to give policy holders about premium increases was signed into law on Tuesday by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.