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30 Dec 21, 10 tweets, 4 min read
My fellow Tweeple! You can exhale. It’s here: the #3 threat to democracy in Wisconsin…

[SWOOSHING SOUND, CRESCENDO]

U.S. Senator Ronald H. Johnson!

That’s right. @TheWorstSenator. He’s a menace to the American experiment. Image
Ron Johnson is, as America now knows and loathes, a general-purpose disinformation machine—pushing everything from lethal anti-vax misconceptions and wildly untrue Jan 6 conspiracy theories.
nytimes.com/2021/03/21/us/…
The thing that makes him a clear and present threat to democracy, though, isn’t just the lies he pushes—it’s the actions he urges people to take on the basis of those lies. Such as his vocal opposition to certifying Biden’s Electoral College votes.
jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
Now he’s got another unconstitutional scheme to lock in Republican power and overturn elections: he wants WI’s state legislature to unilaterally seize control of election administration, without even passing a bill (which could be subject to a veto).
wpr.org/us-sen-ron-joh…
Ron Johnson is using a crackpot constitutional theory to justify his idea that the state legislature can ignore the laws that it passed—and which were signed by then-Gov Scott Walker—creating our bipartisan Elections Commission. It’s a fig leaf on a power grab.
Even the Koch brothers-funded think tank agrees:
cato.org/blog/ron-johns…
Johnson is a relentless opponent of federal voting rights legislation. He’s a massive proponent of the Big Lie. If he’s reelected in 2022, and there’s a constitutional crisis in 2024, it’s almost a guarantee that he’ll be making it worse. We’ve got to stop him.
Johnson hasn’t officially launched his reelection campaign yet—although he’s been promising a decision “within weeks” for the last several weeks. But we haven’t been waiting for him to launch—we’ve been organizing to defeat him all year.
Ron Johnson is terrible.
And Ron Johnson is beatable.
His polling is atrocious.
Help us take on Johnson and defend democracy by becoming a monthly donor to @WisDems: secure.actblue.com/donate/eo21?re…
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31 Dec 21
IT’S THE FINAL DAY OF 2021. We’re closing in on our goal of 200 new recurring monthly donors by midnight TONIGHT. Why do we need support? Because we’re fighting for democracy on five fronts. Click to chip in, and read on for the final two in our countdown: secure.actblue.com/donate/eo21?re…
We’ve talked about Robin Vos and the shamtacular Michael Gableman investigation. We’ve talked about Mike Gallagher, Derrick Van Orden, and GOP members of Congress. We’ve talked about (yikes) Ron Johnson. Now it’s time for #2: Wisconsin’s Supreme Court and Partisan Gerrymandering. Image
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court is officially nonpartisan. The reality, though, is that it’s a 4-3 conservative-majority body that is, at this very moment, working to lock in Republican control of Wisconsin’s state legislature for the next decade.
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29 Dec 21
Hello and happy 29th! It’s time, people of Twitter, for
[DRUM ROLL BEGINS]

… the #4 threat to democracy in Wisconsin:
[SNARES ESCALATE]

The five WI Republicans in Congress, starting with Mike Gallagher, fueling the destruction of our Republic!
Republicans are gunning to take over the House next year. They don’t have to win many seats to do it. The ghastly thing is that we can see, based on what they’ve done this last year, how they’d use that power if they got it.
Trump is on a glide path to winning the Republican nomination in 2024. You might think that Congressional Republicans who vocally denounced the violence on January 6, like Mike Gallagher, would stand ready to prevent Trump from doing even worse damage. Nope!
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28 Dec 21
COUNTDOWN: In 2022, the fate of American democracy hinges on one critical state—Wisconsin. It’s under attack. You can save it. This thread maps the top 5 threats. Help us hit our goal of 200 new monthly donors before the new year—share & chip in!
secure.actblue.com/donate/eo21?re…
Before the countdown begins, as the drum roll ramps up in the background—WHY does it all hang on Wisconsin? How is it even possible that a state of 5.8 million shapes the destiny of a country of 332 million? It’s a ridiculous situation, but it’s real.
The presidency of the United States is won not by majority, but by Electoral College. Add up the states Trump won in 2020. He was three states short of victory. The 3 closest: AZ, GA, and WI.
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20 Dec 21
THREAD: Democracy is under assault in Wisconsin—but we’ve been fighting back. Read on for how we’ve sprinted through 2021—and then click to donate so we can hit our year-end goal & ramp up the fight in 2022! wisdems.org/recap
Before we dig into our review of 2021, let’s set the stage—for why anyone outside Wisconsin should care about this state in the first place. Simply put: what happens in politics here shapes the course of the nation.
Wisconsin is the most evenly divided state in the country. 4 of the last 6 presidential elections have come down to less than 1%. In 2020, President Biden won WI by 20,682 votes—a 0.6% margin. In 2018, Gov Evers won by 1.1% As a result, every election here is a titanic battle.
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19 Dec 21
Bernese Mountain Dog alert: several adorable Berners will be gathering for a quick walk at 3pm CT outside the Trader Joe’s on Monroe Street in Madison. Pumpkin’s excited to see her friends. All are welcome.
Berners Assemble!
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13 Dec 21
THREAD: Ron Johnson is saying he’ll announce soon whether he’s running. @WisDems is more than ready—we've campaigned all year. Help us hit our mid-December goal of $10K by 12/15. Chip in any amount to help us make sure Johnson's campaign launch falls flat:
secure.actblue.com/donate/johnson…
Reporters and insiders think the overwhelming likelihood is that Johnson WILL run for reelection—even though his closing argument in the 2016 election was that he’d never run again after that year. We’ll know for certain soon.
If you’ve been following @WisDems, you know we haven’t been waiting around for Johnson to make it official. We spent all of 2021 organizing & communicating statewide—and defining Ron Johnson. Our goal: sear Johnson’s egregious record into voters’ memories.
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