NEWS: The GOP is pouring $2 million in dark money to defeat Ron Kind in Wisconsin’s swingiest Congressional district. They know Trump will lose Wisconsin if @KindforCongress wins big. So let’s make sure that Kind soars to victory: secure.actblue.com/donate/dpw-kin…
Why is the GOP pouring so much money into Wisconsin’s 3rd District, a gerrymandered masterpiece that covers western and central Wisconsin? Simple: Because whoever wins here wins Wisconsin. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
The GOP is freaking out because the Supreme Court vacancy has driven home for everyone that healthcare is on the ballot. Dems won every 2018 statewide election on the promise to protect people with pre-existing conditions. The 2020 stakes: even higher.
As many as 2.4 million Wisconsinites have pre-existing conditions; their right to healthcare is threatened if Trump & the GOP prevail. The stakes in WI03 are intensely personal for voters. The GOP knows Ron Kind will protect & expand care, not take it away.wisdems.org/news/on-day-of…
Ron Kind represents a purple district—and regularly condemns the Trump administration’s repeated attacks on the Affordable Care Act, while fighting for COVID support. That’s an enormous electoral strength. But it also infuriates the GOP. So they’re targeting him.
Meanwhile, the GOP’s Derrick Van Orden moved to the district a year ago & says he decided to run against Kind as payback for Kind’s opposition to Trump. He’s an anti-science, anti-choice extremist—even when the life of the mother is at stake.
Derrick Van Orden has made crystal clear that he would vote to take away the Affordable Care Act, striking down protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Making sure voters know this can help shut down the GOP’s play for votes here.
Obama won WI-03 by 11 points in 2012. Trump won it by 5 points in 2016. Now, in 2020, the right-wing dark money group behind the attacks on Ron Kind claims Trump is ahead there. Having Ron Kind’s back now builds support for Dems at every level.
The GOP has glaring weaknesses. They’re a disaster on COVID. They’ve driven the economy off a cliff—and are still pushing tax cuts for big corporations and the rich, at the expense of Medicare & Social Security. Let’s make sure voters know it.
And in full partnership with Ron Kind’s powerhouse campaign, the @WisDems team will be organizing voters county by county, neighborhood team by neighborhood team.
If you want to help with that kind of work—from wherever you live!—sign up here: wisdems.org/act-now
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Why are the Republicans sending a California megamillionaire to Wisconsin?
It’s simple. They need someone who will put them, and their rich and powerful friends, FIRST while putting middle-class Wisconsinites LAST.
Eric Hovde is their #1 guy.
Just how luxurious is Eric Hovde’s California life?
🌴 He owns a $7M mansion in Laguna Beach.
🏅 He’s been named one of Orange County’s most influential people. Three times.
🏦 He runs a West Coast bank that does *next to nothing* in Wisconsin.
END OF YEAR DEADLINE: Democracy or dictatorship? Trump’s threat likely comes down to a handful of votes in a handful of states—and maybe even JUST Wisconsin. Help @WisDems roar in ‘24: Chip in to help us reach our goal of 124 donations by midnight: secure.actblue.com/donate/deceoy_…
If you’re freaking out about polls, do two things.
First, take a breath. Polling this early doesn’t predict much. It just tells us we have work to do.
Second, channel your anxiety into actually helping raise $ and volunteer in the places that will decide the outcome.
Biden could’ve lost 8 million votes across CA, NY, and IL and still won each state & beaten Trump.
But if Biden had lost 42,921 votes in WI, AZ, and GA, Trump would have won in 2020.
MIDNIGHT DEADLINE: Tomorrow, Wisconsin candidates for local offices begin gathering signatures to get on the ballot for April elections. Their races will decide who administers the Nov 24 elections. MAGA is coming. Chip in to help WisDems stop them: secure.actblue.com/donate/noveom_…
Wisconsin elections are administered hyper-locally—by 1850 municipal clerks, who are in turn chosen by mayors and city councils. County judges make quick decisions about disputes. Hundreds of these officials will be up for election this spring.
These are the kinds of low-profile contests that often fly completely under the radar. Most go uncontested. But after Trump lost, Steve Bannon and the ultra-MAGA crowd realized they might be able to swing elections by taking over the machinery of democracy.
The Poller Coaster: Sometimes, you’re up. Sometimes, you’re down.
And at the end of the day, those climbs and drops don’t always tell you all that much about where you’re going to wind up.
Tough polling. Strong elections. What gives, and what does it tell us about 2024?
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Before last week’s elections, Dems nationwide read with horror new polls: A New York Times/Siena battleground survey had President Biden lagging Trump in 5 of the 6 most critical swing states, while a CNN poll put Trump ahead 49%-45% nationally. nytimes.com/2023/11/05/us/…
The one swing state that seems to be an exception is Wisconsin, where Biden led Trump in both the Times survey and a Wednesday release from the highly-regarded Marquette University Law School poll.
I first knew Ady, starting in 2013, as a dear friend, dreamer, and fellow organizer.
Later, he was shattered by his ALS diagnosis. And then he figured out how to turn it into fuel for social change—and found transcendent, electrifying purpose.
Throughout, he was hilarious.
When we first met, he was dreaming up a campaign to try to affect monetary policy. As far as he or anyone else knew, nobody had tried to use direct action to affect Federal Reserve policy. At @CPDAction, he launched the Fed Up campaign—with huge results. politico.com/magazine/polit…
🚨Mike Johnson is Speaker. Trump: GOP frontrunner. Senate: 2 seats from GOP majority. The threat of a "Trump Trifecta" is very real in 2024... & WI is the key. We have a plan to fight back & win. Join @briantylercohen, @IAmPoliticsGirl, and me this Friday: secure.actblue.com/donate/octeom2…
Mike Johnson—the “key architect” of the House GOP’s attempt to overturn the 2020 election, foe of Social Security and Medicare, anti-abortion and anti-LGBT extremist—is now second in line to the presidency.
Every Wisconsin Republican member of Congress backed him. Five voted for him; the sixth, Derrick Van Orden, wrote “Mike Johnson is an outstanding man and will make a fantastic Speaker.”