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TIME FOR A #CHEDDARSTORM: WI’s coordinated campaign, Forward for Wisconsin @forwardforwi, went live last week. On Saturday, we officially launched campaign offices across Wisconsin. Now—chip into our Cheddar Storm fundraiser to keep them up and running!
secure.actblue.com/donate/wisdems…
Here at @WisDems, we’ve been organizing continuously—statewide and year-round—for more than five years. And the results speak for themselves. We’ve won nearly every state-wide race and elected leaders down the ballot.
Forward for Wisconsin’s mission is simple: reelect Gov Evers, defeat Ron Johnson, and elect leaders downballot. Having a coordinated campaign means that candidates aren’t competing for volunteers—instead, volunteers talk about Dems up and down the ballot.
The size, reach, and impact of a well-run coordinated campaign simply can’t be matched. Coordinated campaigns mean unity. And unity is key to winning.
On Saturday, our grassroots supporters turned out to support this important moment for Wisconsin Democrats—showing up to our coordinated campaign office launches across the state! In case you missed it, here’s Gov @Tony4WI in Milwaukee and AG @JoshKaulWI in Green Bay: ImageImageImageImage
In Madison, I helped launch @forwardforwi with volunteers and elected officials including Rep @MarkPocan. Wisconsinites from all over Dane and Rock County joined us, fired up and ready to put in even more work to elect Democrats up and down the ballot. ImageImageImageImage
Rep @MarkPocan and I were joined by current and former electeds including @FrancescaHongWI, @Reyes4Schools, @AnthonyJGray608, @ShivaBidar, @Samba_Madison, @AKigeya, Randy Udell, Jacob Wright, & Kierstin Huelsemann, all MC’d by @sassylawyer89.
If you were in that office, you saw volunteers excited to elect leaders up and down the ticket, and elected leaders laying out exactly what’s at stake this election. Thanks to the whole team that worked so hard to make this happen—it takes a ton of planning and organizing.
These office launches are just one small part of the picture—between county parties and the coordinated campaign, we’ll be operating dozens of offices all over the state. Moreover, our hundreds of neighborhood teams launched canvasses from homes and local businesses.
Now that Forward for Wisconsin is officially live, we’re sprinting towards the general election. And that’s where the #CheddarStorm comes in—and where we need your help.
The #CheddarStorm is a progressive tradition in Wisconsin, launched every election cycle, where we work with our friends both near and far to make sure we have the necessary resources to win in November. You can see last cycle’s version here:
For this year’s #CheddarStorm, we set an ambitious fundraising goal of $50,000 by Thursday, June 9. Will you toss in $20.22 to help us hit it? We’re more than halfway there already—and your help could bring our fundraising push home: secure.actblue.com/donate/wisdems…
If Saturday showed me anything, it’s this: Wisconsinites are #AllinForTony, and we’ll do everything we can to defeat Ron Johnson. This team is going to elect leaders up and down the ticket.
We’ve built the most ambitious midterm organizing program Wisconsin has ever seen. After all, @forwardforwi is the largest midterm effort in Wisconsin history.

And its impact is going to be on full display this November.
While Forward for Wisconsin is historic, we have to recognize it didn't happen overnight. It took year-round organizing to get folks out to vote in every election. It was our grassroots supporters who chipped in year-round to help us build this state-of-the-art operation.
Now, it’s time to hit the gas for November 2022! Chip in here to our #CheddarStorm and your contribution will be split evenly between @WisDems, Gov Evers’s campaign, and the WI Senate Democratic nominee fund to defeat Ron Johnson: secure.actblue.com/donate/wisdems…

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MIDNIGHT DEADLINE: Wisconsin’s fight to defeat Ron Johnson—@theworstsenator—is heating up. Over the last few months, his fundraising exploded, and he’s running millions of dollars in TV ads. We can’t let him escape his record. Help us fight back & chip in:
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Here’s how much he raised each quarter:

2021 Q1: $545k
2021 Q2: $1.2m
2021 Q3: $797k
2021 Q4: $629k

Then... a jump.
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On April 5, Wisconsinites voted in their spring local elections. There was no statewide candidate on the ballot. Last time that happened, in 2014, only 505,729 people voted. On April 5, 2022, it appears that number shot up by *86%* to more than 940k!
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