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.

February 2, 2024

Today is a new day in Wisconsin. Since 2011, Wisconsinites have suffered under some of the most gerrymandered voting district maps in the country. The result: voters have not been fairly represented in the Wisconsin State Legislature. The issues they care about and the needs their communities face have not been addressed. That is about to change.

February 1, 2024

The state Democratic and Republican parties, along with four legislative campaign committees accepted more than $1.6 million in corporate contributions in 2023, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

January 25, 2024

MADISON, WI — The maps passed by Republicans in the State Senate on Tuesday, and then in the Assembly on Wednesday are nothing more than another maneuver to protect incumbents and maintain control. "Tweaking” the maps to protect incumbents is gerrymandering. It's not fair maps.

January 24, 2024

The state Democratic Party of Wisconsin raised more than four times more than the state GOP in 2023.

January 23, 2024

Please take a few minutes to call or email your State Senator and tell them to reject Robin Vos' gerrymandered maps.

January 22, 2024

MADISON, WI – Fourteen years after the disastrous ruling in Citizens United v. FEC we continue to see political spending by outside special interests skyrocket to unprecedented levels. When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Citizens United, a clear message was sent to voters --your voice doesn’t matter nearly as much as corporate interests and the uber-wealthy.

January 19, 2024

A billionaire GOP contributor gave a record $2 million in 2023 to a Republican legislative fundraising committee, which spelled her name wrong twice in its fundraising report.

January 17, 2024

A former Republican attorney general who announced last month that he was running for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2025 raised nearly $170,000 in the last half of 2023.

January 10, 2024

(Testimony of Nick Ramos, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, on AB 760 and in support of AB 664 and AB 599 before the State Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections on January 9.)

December 22, 2023

Raise a glass, Wisconsin, for a hard fought victory! Let our cheers echo through every corner of our state, a chorus to honor the courageous stand of our Wisconsin Supreme Court in Clarke v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, a resounding triumph for fair maps and the very heart of our democracy!

Posted: December 12, 2023
Updated: December 15, 2023

The lead advocacy organization on bills that would use ranked-choice voting in federal elections for Congress in Wisconsin has contributed nearly $70,000 to a dozen sponsors of the measures.