November 1, 2022

Incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised nearly $12 million in September and most of October, including $5.2 million from the state Democratic Party.

November 1, 2022

GOP candidate for governor Tim Michels raised $8.8 million in September and most of October, including about $3.3 million from the state Republican Party and a little more than $2 million in loans and contributions from himself.

October 31, 2022

Outside groups that explicitly tell people who to vote for have spent more than $52.3 million in Wisconsin, a new record. Groups backing Republican candidates have spent more than three times more than Democratic groups with a week to go before the Nov. 8 elections.

October 28, 9:00-10:00 a.m., 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Leaders of Voting Rights Groups Will Speak

October 26, 2022

Madison, WI - Ten pro-democracy groups and Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway are co-sponsoring a Vote Early Day press conference as part of National Vote Early Day with thousands of organizations across the nation this Friday, October 28.

October 17, 2022

Outside groups that sponsor electioneering activities that expressly tell people how to vote have already spent a record $36.7 million on legislative and statewide candidates with three weeks to go before the Nov. 8 elections. (This is for non-federal races. It does not include spending on the U.S. Senate race, for instance, or on any other Congressional races.)

October 10, 2022

Express advocacy groups favoring GOP governor candidate Tim Michels have been outspending those favoring incumbent Democratic Gov. Tony Evers by more than three to one since the Aug. 9 primary.

Posted: October 3, 2022
Updated: October 11, 2022

As the Milwaukee Bucks season gets under way, and with the elections just five weeks away, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is running a radio ad featuring two Milwaukee Bucks stars, Jrue Holiday and Brook Lopez, urging citizens to vote. (Now with video.)

September 28, 2022

GOP candidate for governor Tim Michels raised $5.43 million between late July and the end of August, including more than $5 million in contributions and loans from his own pocket.

September 28, 2022

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised $4.57 million between late July and the end of August, including nearly $1.6 million in cash and in-kind contributions from the state Democratic Party.

September 20, 2022

Three dozen outside electioneering groups have spent or planned to spend at least $37.4 million in legislative and statewide races with seven weeks to go until Election Day. The vast majority of this money is flowing into the governor’s race.

September 8, 2022

Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein are the largest contributors to Wisconsin’s legislative campaign committees. They gave more than four times as much as anyone else, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign’s examination of the top 10 contributors to these committees between January 2016 and December 2021.

September 1, 2022

After a nine-year hiatus from trying to influence Wisconsin state elections, Club for Growth spent more than $3.5 million in the two weeks leading up to this year’s Aug. 9 primary to successfully oppose Republican Rebecca Kleefisch’s bid for governor.

August 15, 2022

Two national groups that raise and spend unlimited amounts to elect Republican and Democratic governors across the country raised nearly $2 million from Wisconsin contributors in 18 months.

August 11, 2022

The state GOP and two Republican legislative campaign committees (LCCs) accepted more than three times the corporate contributions that their Democratic counterparts received in the first half of 2022. And the total amount of corporate contributions was more than twice the amount during the comparable six-month period in 2020.

August 8, 2022

The state Democratic Party had $3.62 million in its campaign accounts as of July 25, about 29 times more than the $126,851 that the state GOP had in its regular state and segregated campaign coffers.

August 3, 2022

A Republican Assembly Representative running for secretary of state reported about eight times as much money on hand as the incumbent, Democratic Secretary of State Doug La Follette, as of July 25.

August 2, 2022

Legislative candidates and fundraising committees continued to accept contributions at a record clip, pulling in $7.47 million during the first six months of 2022.

August 1, 2022

(This profile updates information and figures in an earlier April 2016 feature about Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein.)

July 26, 2022

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the four GOP candidates vying to challenge him in November raised over half of their individual contributions from Wisconsin contributors.

July 25, 2022

Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s reelection campaign raised twice as much as the three Republican candidates vying for his job combined during the first six months of 2022. Director Steven Spielberg, who gave Gov. Tony Evers’s campaign $20,000, also gave $20,000 to Kaul’s.

July 20, 2022

Testimony of Matt Rothschild, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Before the Joint Committee for Review of Administrative Rules
Re: EmR 2209 relating to the correction of absentee ballot certificate envelopes (Wisconsin Elections Commission)

Posted: July 20, 2022
Updated: July 27, 2022

Four GOP candidates for governor and a fifth who recently quit the race raised nearly $12.3 million during the first half of 2022.

July 19, 2022

Nearly half of the $10.13 million that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised during the first six months of 2022 came from the state Democratic Party and 31 individuals.

July 13, 2022

The leading GOP candidate for governor who claims to be a political outsider has contributed, with his wife, more than $200,000 to Republican and conservative candidates over the last 12 years.

July 6, 2022

Conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley cast the deciding vote and actually wrote the decision that favored a golf course developer, even though that developer had contributed $2,500 to her campaign.