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July 5, 2022
Outside electioneering groups spent or planned to spend nearly $27.8 million as of the end of June in seven races on the November ballot, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
July 1, 2022
(This profile updates information and figures in a previous April 2019 report).
Posted: June 13, 2022
Updated: July 11, 2022
The Wisconsin Democracy Campaigns adds up the legislative candidates in the 2022 fall election.
June 6, 2022
A group with ties to the Democratic Governors Association (DGA) has reserved more than $9.8 million in television advertising time throughout Wisconsin, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
Posted: June 1, 2022
Updated: January 16, 2023
(This profile updates information and figures in an earlier December 2016 feature about Jobs First Coalition.)
Note: The most recent update increases spending by the group in the 2020 elections as per amended reports filed by Jobs First in November 2022.
May 26, 2022
On Wednesday, May 25, more than 50 voting rights activists packed into the Assembly Parlor at the State Capitol to demand that the Wisconsin Supreme Court uphold the use of drop boxes and allow voters to get assistance in delivering their absentee ballots.
May 5, 2022
A Washington, D.C. group that supports GOP state attorney general candidates across the country has reserved nearly $700,000 in advertising space in October in the Milwaukee television market to support whoever wins the Republican nomination for attorney general in Wisconsin.
May 2, 2022
(This profile updates information and figures in a previous June 2019 feature on the Wisconsin Conservation Voters.)
April 6, 2022
A conservative circuit court judge who received $425,000 in support from outside electioneering groups won her bid Tuesday for a state Court of Appeals seat.
April 1, 2022
(This profile updates information and figures in a previous August 2018 profile.)
Posted: March 31, 2022
Updated: April 12, 2022
Outside electioneering groups have already dropped more than $1.9 million on this fall’s race for governor – weeks before the candidates can even circulate nomination papers for the contest.
March 29, 2022
Two out-of-state political action committees (PACs) spent $248,000 on 18 candidates in city and county races in Wisconsin in the two weeks leading up to the April 5 spring elections.
Posted: March 23, 2022
Updated: March 25, 2022
A conservative Waukesha County circuit judge who is running for a State Court of Appeals seat got a $250,000 boost from an out-of-state electioneering group that appears to have ties to a rightwing billionaire and leading GOP campaign contributor.
March 14, 2022
A woman convicted early last year of evading more than $3 million in taxes contributed $700 to GOP gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch’s campaign.
March 9, 2022
Majority GOP lawmakers approved a bill to sharply expand the state’s school voucher program but it may cost property taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars.
March 1, 2022
This independent expenditure committee was created in late 2019 to support Democratic and liberal legislative and statewide candidates. In just three state elections since then, A Better Wisconsin Together has become one of the top spenders among outside electioneering groups in the Badger State.
February 25, 2022
Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC), the state’s largest business group, launched its first television ad of the 2022 gubernatorial campaign, claiming Democratic Gov. Tony Evers can’t be trusted on tax issues.
February 17, 2022
Behind the Republican bill to shield firearm manufacturers from civil lawsuits, which was approved Wednesday by the state Assembly, lies more than $5 million in support from the National Rifle Association (NRA) over the last 24 years.
February 17, 2022
Exactly one year after filing a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission over the actions of the 10 false electors who claimed to represent Wisconsin at the Electoral College, the two lead attorneys at Law Forward wrote a letter to Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne, urging him to prosecute these false electors.
February 17, 2022
Republican lawmakers who control the legislature had four times more campaign cash than Democrats entering the 2022 election year, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
February 10, 2022
The trucking industry is backing Republican bills that would stick the state with up to half the cost of commercial driver training programs.
February 7, 2022
Testimony of Matt Rothschild Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign to the Senate Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform, and Ethics in opposition to SB 934, SB 935, SB 936, SB 937, SB 939, SB 940, SB 941, SB 943, and SJR 101.
February 2, 2022
The state Republican and Democratic parties and four legislative campaign committees accepted nearly $1.3 million in corporate contributions in 2021, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.
February 1, 2022
(This profile updates information and figures in a previous June 2018 feature.)
January 28, 2022
Democratic Gov Tony Evers raised more than half of his individual contributions last year from Badger State donors, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.