Posted: October 25, 2024
Updated: October 28, 2024

With early voting in full swing, most Wisconsinites know an election is on the horizon. In less than two weeks, voters will head to the polls, absentee ballots will be counted, and new legislators will assume office. One key question presented to Wisconsin voters on the November ballot is an amendment to the Wisconsin Constitution with a stated intent to “prohibit the state and local governments from allowing noncitizens to vote."

October 21, 2024

With state and federal elections fast approaching, political ads are inundating Wisconsinites through TV, radio, social media, and mailings.

Surpasses Record Set in 2020

October 8, 2024

As of this morning, outside electioneering groups have already spent over $8.9 million in Wisconsin's 2024 fall state legislative elections. With a month to go until the November 5th elections, this smashes the previous record of $8.84 million in disclosed independent spending set during legislative elections in 2020.

October 2, 2024

Wausau residents joined voting rights advocates to demand a formal federal investigation and an end to the voter suppression attempts following Wausau mayor’s unauthorized removal of the city’s ballot drop box.

September 5, 2024

Candidates and fundraising committees are aggressively raising money for the upcoming November election with $15.84 million collected in the first six months of 2024.

September 4, 2024

Thirteen organizations reported independent expenditures exceeding $1 million in the fall legislative elections through the August 13th primaries, a review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign shows.

Wisconsin Rejects Conservative Power Grab on Our Rights

August 14, 2024

MADISON, WI–Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is proud to join the Wisconsin Fair Maps Coalition in fighting back against the conservative power grab on our rights–ultimately leading our efforts to safeguard our constitution.

August 6, 2024

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin outraised the state Republican Party by more than 10 times in the first six months of 2024. 

July 22, 2024

Kwik Trip lobbied and paid state legislators in order to persuade them to accept federal money to expand electric vehicle charging. According to the Department of Transportation, the state is set to release $23 million for EV charging infrastructure. 

July 1, 2024

As the 4th of July holiday approaches, it is a time of reflection. 

June 27, 2024

Testimony of Nick Ramos, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, before the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) on June 27.

June 26, 2024

In 2023, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign tracked $51.06 million spent in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by candidates and special interest groups. This defeated the previous state record, $10 million, five times over.

June 25, 2024

MADISON– As the below undersigned organizations and groups who work together to strengthen our democracy and serve the people of Wisconsin, we urge voters to vote no this August on the two constitutional amendments. 

June 14, 2024

Wisconsin Democracy Campaign along, SEIU Wisconsin, Souls to the Polls Wisconsin and All Voting Is Local sent a letter to Attorney General Josh Kaul, Dane County District Attorney Israel Ozanne and Milwaukee District Attorney John Chisholm calling on them to hold Wisconsin Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell criminally responsible for his role in the 2020 presidential election false electors scheme.

June 14, 2024

MILWAUKEE – The signatories below, all members of pro-democracy rights organizations, support the selection of Paulina Gutierrez as the next executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission. We recognize our country's presidential election is less than 5 months away, and we need a leader who is ready to listen, recognize, and provide for the needs of voters in Milwaukee, and the employees they will soon oversee.

Posted: June 11, 2024
Updated: June 12, 2024

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign adds up the numbers in the 2024 fall legislative election.

May 23, 2024

A Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review of campaign finance reports uncovered 30 state legislators who received nearly a total of $71,000 in contributions from individuals* residing outside Wisconsin in 2023.

May 13, 2024

MADISON, MILWAUKEE, GREEN BAY, EAU CLAIRE, WAUSAU WI – Voters across Wisconsin joined the Our Vote, Our Ballot Box rallies in favor of reinstating ballot drop boxes as the state Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Priorities USA v. WEC, a case that revisits the 2022 decision to ban ballot drop boxes. Voters mobilized from all across the state to hear from voting rights advocates and other Wisconsinites impacted by the decision.

March 27, 2024

Wisconsin legislators accepted more than $10 million in special interest campaign contributions in 2023 with Republicans pulling in nearly $3 to every $1 raised by Democrats.

March 13, 2024

Powerful agricultural interests are pushing GOP bills that would limit farm and animal welfare regulations by local governments.

March 4, 2024

Five Milwaukee Brewers executives contributed $5,000 to a GOP legislative leader shortly after the legislature approved a $500 million stadium renovation and long-term lease deal last November.

February 28, 2024

Republican lawmakers who control the legislature had more than six times more cash in their campaign accounts than Democrats going into the 2024 election year, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

February 14, 2024

Madison, Wis. -- Today, the Wisconsin State Legislature passed the maps Governor Evers sent to the Supreme Court for consideration in Clarke v. WEC. When the Governor signs them, this will be a win for the people of Wisconsin and the fair maps movement.

February 8, 2024

(Testimony of Nick Ramos, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, before the Wisconsin Elections Commission delivered at a public meeting held February 8.)

February 7, 2024

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised $1.3 million in 2023 with $3 of every $4 coming from individual contributions, according to a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis.