Wisconsin GOP Gov candidate @RebeccaforReal made a divisive, fearmongering school board recall campaign a mini referendum on her viability. She knocked doors there today. It crashed and burned. Looks like Rebecca Kleefisch is just too radical for Wisconsin.
@RebeccaforReal Every one of the recall candidates that @RebeccaforReal enthusiastically backed just lost in a landslide. Which really raises the question: just how out of touch with Wisconsin parents is #RadicalRebecca Kleefisch?
When you think about the significance of the Nov 2, 2021 elections, it's really worth zeroing in on how Wisconsin Republicans, from their Gubernatorial standard-bearer @RebeccaforReal down to the county GOP, went all-in on an ugly, divisive school board recall and lost big.
Remember this NYT story about how the GOP was using school board recalls to energize conservative voters? The recall in Mequon-Thiensville failed hard. Memo to @RebeccaforReal: Wisconsin voters don’t like your radical, divisive attacks on public schools. nytimes.com/2021/10/21/us/…
Is there any state in the country where Republicans did as badly tonight as they did in Wisconsin?
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We're zooming along as we plan the 2021 #1Year2Win organizing drive, supercharging our work so we can reelect @GovEvers and beat @RebeccaforReal & @SenRonJohnson. So I just read through the thread from 2019. Kinda gives me chills—it all really happened.
Following a great message from @GovEvers, an address by @DavidCrowleyWI, and remarks from @MayorOfMKE & NAACP leaders, @RepGwenMoore describes how the Build Back Better agenda builds on the work of so many Milwaukeeans over decades here at the MKE NAACP Freedom Fund dinner
“We have sown the seeds of our own liberation through institutions like the @NAACP” – @RepGwenMoore
As @SenatorBaldwin notes, the Milwaukee NAACP’s 97-year history makes it one of the longest-running @NAACP chapters in the nation.
The Legislative Audit Bureau’s report, which was requested by Republicans, is yet another demonstration that there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireS…
On top of the LAB’s findings, a recount, countless court cases, and a report from Trump’s own Homeland Security all showed our election was safe and secure. Nothing will ever be enough proof for the GOP because they’re not after election integrity, they’re after political power.
Wisconsin is a true battleground state, and Republicans know their best shot at retaking power in Washington is to flip the state in their favor.
President Biden’s #BuildBackBetter plan is the agenda that he campaigned on: addressing the urgent needs of millions of American families—for child care, pre-k, college, health care, fast internet access, & so much more. Do you know what’s in it? Read on: whitehouse.gov/build-back-bet…
Negotiations are underway to move the Build Back Better agenda through Congress. What won’t change is the agenda’s core: supporting working families, tackling the climate crisis, and creating jobs—all paid for by ensuring that the wealthy pay their fair share.
The #BuildBackBetter Agenda levels the playing field so that the wealthiest who benefited from Trump's tax giveaways pay their fair share—and uses the funds to support families and, with a rising tide, lift all boats. It's a win-win.
The brutality of Indian boarding schools is a stain on our country's conscience—and a history that far too few non-Native Americans know. It's time to learn it and reckon with it. If this is unfamiliar to you, here are some links to start with: 1/
This two-part story from 2008 by @NPR lifts up the voices of some survivors of a program founded on the principle of, as its founder put it, "all the Indian there is in the race should be dead. Kill the Indian in him, and save the man."
At least ten of these boarding schools, founded in the last 19th century and operating for decades, were in Wisconsin. One after another, these schools sought to destroy any vestige of tribal culture. jsonline.com/story/news/202…
On #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we celebrate and honor the history, resilience, and culture of indigenous peoples across our country and in Wisconsin. We also uplift the Native vote—which played a key role in putting President Biden in the White House. 1/
Native Americans make up 1.5% of WI’s voting population. Biden won by just 20,682 votes—a 0.6% margin of victory. A rigorous statewide analysis by the Oneida Nation estimated that 82% of Wisconsin’s Native people voted for Joe Biden.
Menominee County—home of the Menominee Nation—perfectly illustrates the point. It was the state’s most-Democratic county: 82% of voters went for Biden-Harris. Per the census, 82% of the county is Native. madison.com/ct/opinion/col…