October 21, 2019

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Monday ordered a special session of the GOP-controlled legislature to consider gun control legislation.

October 18, 2019

A supporter of the state’s controversial Voter ID law and former Republican National Committee delegate has been appointed to the state’s partisan elections board.

Updated: October 21, 2019
Posted: October 11, 2019

GOP Megadonors Elizabeth and Richard Uihlein plan to host Republican Vice President Mike Pence at their Wisconsin manufacturing plant.

October 10, 2019

At a press conference this morning in Marshfield, speaker after speaker denounced gerrymandering in Wisconsin and promoted the upcoming Fair Maps for Wisconsin Summit, which will be held in Marshfield on Nov. 9.

October 9, 2019

The state Senate approved a bill on Tuesday that would cut from 60 days to 45 days the advanced notice that insurers are required to give policy holders about premium increases.

October 3, 2019

Testimony by Matt Rothschild, Executive Director, Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Regarding Senate Joint Resolution 57 (companion to AJR77) before the Senate Committee on Insurance, Financial Services, Government Oversight and Courts

October 1, 2019

This trade association, which represents about 130 Wisconsin credit unions, was among the top 10 lobby group spenders during the first six months of the year, doling out more than $200,000.

September 19, 2019

The Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity says it plans on canvassing the district of freshman Democratic State Sen. Patricia Schachtner, who is up for reelection next year in a traditionally Republican district.

Setpember 17, 2019

The insurance industry is backing bills that would cut from 60 days to 45 days the amount of advanced notice that insurers are required to give policy holders about premium increases.

September 16, 2019

Democratic measures that would sharply increase penalties against employers who fail to pay their workers have seen no action in seven months in the GOP-controlled legislature after opposition by the state’s leading business groups.

September 3, 2019

A group that has spent less than three years lobbying in Wisconsin and only about $1.6 million has scored a rare legislative feat and put a proposed amendment to Wisconsin’s Constitution to a vote by state residents.

August 26, 2019

A northern Wisconsin shipbuilder contributed $15,000 to a group that helps elect Democratic governors shortly before Democratic Gov. Tony Evers announced a plan for $31 million in state support to help the company expand.

August 23, 2019

Pro-Democratic electioneering groups in Wisconsin raised five times as much as their Republican counterparts in the first half of 2019. All told, three dozen special interest groups that raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to influence state and federal elections received nearly $3.2 million from Wisconsin contributors during this period, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

August 15, 2019

Legislators and legislative fundraising committees raised $2.2 million between January and June 2019.

August 14, 2019

Some Republican state senators who evaded a Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reporter’s questions on Tuesday about considering tougher gun laws, and another who opposes them, have received election support from the National Rifle Association (NRA).

August 7, 2019

It appears the GOP-controlled legislature will continue to bow to the National Rifle Association (NRA) and reject proposals to toughen Wisconsin’s gun law in the wake of mass shootings last weekend in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio.

August 1, 2019

Though sharply hobbled by a GOP anti-union law known as Act 10, the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) remains among the top special interest campaign contributors to Democrats and liberal candidates in state elections.

July 23, 2019

Corporate contributions to the state GOP and two Republican legislative campaign committees were nearly five times higher than the corporate contributions to their Democratic counterparts during the first six months of 2019.

July 18, 2019

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has long maintained that the veto power in the hands of the Wisconsin governor is excessive and is contrary to how the legislative process should work in a democracy.

July 17, 2019

Candidates and outside special interest groups spent a record of more than $8.2 million in last spring’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

July 11, 2019

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court abdicated its responsibility to ban partisan gerrymandering, it’s now up to all of us, here in Wisconsin, to solve this problem ourselves.

July 2, 2019

Contributions from special interest political action committees (PACs) and corporations soared to a record of more than $27 million in 2018, a Wisconsin Democracy Campaign review found.

July 1, 2019

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, which provides reproductive and other health care services and education, has spent more than $3.4 million on lobbying and electioneering activities in Wisconsin elections, through its electoral arm, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin.

June 26, 2019

GOP Assembly lawmakers added a provision to the proposed state budget that makes it easier for Tesla Motors, which has made more than $28,000 in corporate and individual campaign contributions to legislative fundraising committees, to sell cars in Wisconsin.

June 18, 2019

Republican legislative and statewide candidates accepted nearly $5.8 million in campaign contributions from the real estate industry while the GOP-controlled legislature approved a batch of bills that favored landlords over tenants.