August 28, 2020

About 300 Wisconsin contributors gave $2.7 million during the first six months of 2020 to unregulated outside electioneering groups, and more than two-thirds of it went to Democratic-leaning groups.

August 26, 2020

About 40 shadowy electioneering groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts to influence state and federal elections accepted $2.7 million from Wisconsin contributors in the first half of 2020, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

August 21, 2020

Special interest political action committees (PACs), corporations, and candidate and party committees contributed $5.2 million to legislative and statewide officeholders during the first six months of 2020, according to their campaign finance reports.

August 17, 2020

Outside electioneering groups spent nearly $300,000 on outside electioneering activities in legislative primary contests, according to a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

August 4, 2020

The state GOP and two Republican legislative campaign committees collected three times more in corporate contributions than their Democratic counterparts during the first half of 2020.

July 28, 2020

As millions lost jobs and the economy tanked, wealthy special interests and their campaign contributors appeared to be immune from the coronavirus.

July 27, 2020

Four legislative campaign committees (LCCs) that milk special interests for campaign contributions to spend on elections raised and banked record cash during the first six months of 2020.

July 20, 2020

The state Democratic Party raised $7.5 million from late March through June – 10 times more than the state Republican Party.

Posted: July 16, 2020
Updated: April 19, 2021*

Candidates and outside special interest groups spent a record-shattering $10 million in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race last April, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

July 14, 2020

Two groups are already dropping cash on electioneering activities to back candidates in four legislative races this fall.

July 8, 2020

The Trump administration has weakened a proposed rule aimed at protecting people from predatory loan providers.

June 25, 2020

All Voting is Local Wisconsin and 28 voting rights groups, including the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, called on Gov. Tony Evers to enforce his own Executive Order and compel the state’s Department of Transportation (DOT) to expand access to photo ID by increasing locations and hours where voters can obtain the identification necessary to cast a ballot. The groups noted that Wisconsin has one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the nation which creates needless and discriminatory barriers to the ballot.

June 9, 2020

Police groups and unions have spent $2.3 million on state lobbying and elections over 10 years.

Posted: June 4, 2020
Updated: June 11, 2020

This year’s regular legislative elections feature the largest number of candidates in the primaries in eight years.

May 26, 2020

On May 19, the Lafayette County Board unanimously approved a resolution saying that it is in favor of amending the U.S. Constitution to overturn Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United that have given corporations an enormous sway over our political life.

May 26, 2020

A Canadian company that has paid more than a billion dollars for environmental law violations and oil spill cleanups is trying to seize private property in northern Wisconsin to reroute one of its crude oil pipelines.

May 14, 2020

While the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of Speaker Robin Vos and Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald in their challenge to the “Safer at Home” extension, the Court has been considering another challenge to “Safer at Home.”  One of the individuals in that second lawsuit challenging Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home orders contributed $20,000 to a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice’s campaign.

May 8, 2020

Wisconsin Chief Justice Patience Roggensack, who was recently criticized as “elitist” for comments she made during a court case, and her husband are worth at least $295,000.

May 4, 2020

Dozens of special interests ranging from health care to business groups have filed documents supporting or opposing a GOP lawsuit to ditch Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home order.

April 30, 2020

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, and for the occasion, we’ve put together two tables to show you who the big players are in the political money game in Wisconsin.

April 23, 2020

Republican legislative leaders made it more difficult for police, firefighters and other first responders to qualify for workers compensation in a coronavirus relief bill passed last week after a last-minute request by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC).

April 20, 2020

For Earth Day this year, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign looked over the last decade to see how Wisconsin handled its duty to combat climate change. In a report entitled “The Filthy Forty,” what it found is not pretty. Former GOP Gov. Scott Walker and the state’s Republican-controlled legislature approved dozens of legislative proposals, rules, and policies between 2011 and 2018 that contributed to climate change, according to the report.

Posted: April 13, 2020
Updated: April 27, 2020*

Special interest groups spent a record of more than $5 million on electioneering activities in last week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election, a preliminary review by the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign found.

April 6, 2020

Special interest groups have spent about $4.4 million as of Monday morning in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race.

April 6, 2020

A group behind a proposed amendment to enshrine victim’s rights in the Wisconsin Constitution spent more than $3.3 million on media advertising in the first three months of the year.