May 23, 2023

(Testimony of Matthew Rothschild, Executive Director, to the Senate Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection in opposition to SB 301.)

May 22, 2023

Candidates and outside special interest groups spent $2.95 million in a special election last month to fill the vacant 8 th Senate District seat representing part of suburban Milwaukee, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

May 22, 2023

Longtime GOP campaign contributor Ted Kellner, the new chief executive officer of the committee in charge of organizing the 2024 Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, gave about $68,000 in 2019 and 2020 to fundraising committees supporting presidential candidate Joe Biden, whom he described as a longtime friend. And he gave $2,800 directly to the Biden campaign in 2019.

May 4, 2023

(Testimony of Matthew Rothschild, Executive Director, to the Assembly Committee on Local Government in opposition to Assembly Bill 245)

May 3, 2023

Special interest groups spent a record-smashing $28.8 million in last month’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, nearly six times the previous record, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign preliminary review found.

April 6, 2023

(Testimony delivered by Wisconsin Democracy Campaign's Racial Equity and Economic Justice Advocate Iuscely Flores at a hearing held by the Wisconsin Legislature's Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday, April 5, at the Waukesha County Expo Center.)

April 3, 2023

Candidates and special interest groups have spent a record of more than $42.3 million as of Monday morning in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

March 31, 2023

Candidates and groups in a special election to fill the vacant 8th Senate District seat representing part of suburban Milwaukee have dropped about $2.1 million in the race.

March 30, 2023

The state Democratic Party raised about $10.4 million, nearly six times more than the $1.8 million taken in by the state Republican Party so far this year.

March 29, 2023

Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Janet Protasiewicz raised nearly $12.4 million between early February and mid-March and more than two-thirds of it came from the state Democratic Party.

March 28, 2023

Former Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly raised slightly more than $2.2 million between early February and mid-March, including more than $500,000 from Republican Party committees even though he said recently he would reject state GOP contributions.

March 20, 2023

Two weeks away from the April 4 elections, candidate and group spending in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court stands at more than $20.2 million – smashing state and national records for spending in a judicial contest.

February 22, 2023

Special interest groups have already set a spending record for outside electioneering activities in a Wisconsin Supreme Court race, topping $5.6 million as of Wednesday morning.

February 9, 2023

The state Republican and Democratic parties and four legislative campaign committees accepted a record $2.29 million in corporate contributions in 2022, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

February 7, 2023

Legislative candidates and smear groups spent $41.12 million in the 2022 legislative elections, led by a dozen races that cost more than $1 million each, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis found.

February 2, 2023

(This is the statement that Matt Rothschild submitted to the Wisconsin Elections Commission this morning, February 2, and that he abbreviated in his public comment to the WEC.)

January 31, 2023

Spending by candidates and outside special interest groups in the 2022 governor’s race set a record $164.29 million, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign analysis shows. That smashed the previous record $93.06 million set in the 2018 governor’s race by 77 percent.

January 25, 2023

Candidates and special interest groups spent a record $1.16 million in the race for Wisconsin secretary of state in 2022, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review shows.

January 24, 2023

Outside electioneering groups outspent the candidates in last fall’s record $14 million race for Wisconsin attorney general, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

Posted: January 18, 2023
Updated: January 19, 2023

Longtime Republican and Democratic campaign contributors led the list of top donors during the last half of 2022 to the four candidates seeking a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court this spring.

January 4, 2023

Two liberals and two conservatives are seeking an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court this spring.

December 5, 2022

Spending by special interest groups in this fall’s legislative races in Wisconsin and for the governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, and treasurer shattered the old record by 50 percent, a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign found.

November 4, 2022

The Republican candidate for secretary of state has spent nearly three times more in the race than the Democratic incumbent, Doug La Follette, for the year through most of October.

November 3, 2022

Candidate and smear group spending has already shattered the old record for spending in a Wisconsin governor’s race, topping $114.6 million, according to a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign preliminary review.

November 2, 2022

Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul raised nearly three times more than his GOP opponent, Eric Toney, in September and most of October.