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Ben Wikler
@benwikler
Chair, Democratic Party of Wisconsin / @WisDems. Husband and dad of three amazing kids and one glorious doggo, Pumpkin.
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Feb 20 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: California GOP rich guy Eric Hovde is running for Senate… against @TammyBaldwin in Wisconsin.

He’s being sent to Wisconsin from Orange County by Mitch McConnell and the megadonors in Washington to help pass a national abortion ban.

RT to help spread the word! 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.
Dec 31, 2023 • 29 tweets • 8 min read
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.
Nov 30, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
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.
Nov 16, 2023 • 33 tweets • 6 min read
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?

1/ 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/…
Nov 2, 2023 • 22 tweets • 7 min read
Oh no—this is devastating news. Ady was the best of us. 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. Image
Oct 31, 2023 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
🚨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.
Oct 24, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
SENATE ALERT: Two mega-millionaires—poised to break the record for the most personal wealth ever spent on a campaign in Wisconsin—are running shadow campaigns against Tammy Baldwin. This is Ron Johnson’s playbook. 1/ nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… On the surface, Wisconsin’s Senate race looks quiet. Tammy Baldwin, our dynamite incumbent, doesn’t yet face a serious announced opponent. You might imagine you can sleep on this one.

That’s exactly what the GOP wants you to think.

The underlying reality? A serious threat.
Oct 20, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
🧵JUSTICE DEFENDED: Join @BrianTylerCohen and @IAmPoliticsGirl (and me and other guests!) for a LIVE online/offline event Friday, Nov 3 at 7pm to help @WisDems! Laugh, cheer, and build energy for a blue Wisconsin in '24—we've got just ONE YEAR TO WIN: wisdems.org/justicedefende…
One Year to Win is a tradition at WisDems. Each cycle since 2017, we use the one-year-out moment to knock doors, update our data, energize our volunteers statewide, and find the new voters we’ll need to win the following November. It’s been critical to our success.
Oct 13, 2023 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
🧵NEW: In Wisconsin, the public uprising halted the GOP’s rush to impeach Justice Protasiewicz before she could rule on the state’s gerrymandered maps. But now Robin Vos is threatening to impeach if the court rules against him. Outrageous. Help fight back: secure.actblue.com/donate/defendj… Watch this clip from an interview that will air this Sunday.

First, Vos backpedals from his old threat to impeach *before* a ruling. But then he expands the threat—declining to take off the table the idea of impeaching the entire Supreme Court majority.
Oct 10, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: We’ve now learned that even Robin Vos’ own secret impeachment advisor has told him not to impeach Justice Protasiewicz—that there is no evidence to warrant impeachment, and would appear “solely partisan,” “unreasonable partisan politics,” and would “backfire.” 1/ This advice from former Justice David Prosser preceded last Friday’s well-reasoned opinion by Justice Protasiewicz dissecting the arguments for her recusal—and making clear that she is bound by her oath to consider the case.
Sep 22, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
🧵 The Assembly gaveled out of session on Thursday evening. They won’t return until Oct 10.

You know what that means?

It means we’ve survived Phase One of the fight against the GOP’s outrageous attempt to overthrow the Supreme Court election through an illegal impeachment. You made this happen. Without your voice, outrage, and organizing, it’s entirely possible that Robin Vos and the Assembly GOP caucus would have already voted to impeach Justice Protasiewicz by this moment, and WI would have been at the center of a horrific constitutional crisis.
Sep 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
NEW: Robin Vos announced this morning that he’s appointing a secret squad of unnamed former Supreme Court justices to “investigate” the criteria for impeachment of Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Protasiewicz. He’s doubling down his threats. Push back.
apnews.com/article/wiscon… Vos seems increasingly erratic and desperate. Yesterday, he called a big press conference to propose a new redistricting bill. When we saw the fine print, though, it was clear that his bill would still give him the power to gerrymander. Read this thread:
Sep 6, 2023 • 36 tweets • 9 min read
🚨 RED ALERT: Republicans in the Wisconsin State Legislature are threatening to impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz—before she’s even heard a single case. A desperate, unconstitutional, and obscene threat to democracy… and 2024. Here’s what’s happening & how to fight back:🧵 The WI Constitution is ripped on one half, on the left side bold text reads "DEFEND JUSTICE" with a button that says "FIGHT BACK" The principle is simple. When voters elect someone, politicians can’t overturn the election just to stay in power.

That idea is fundamental to American democracy, a shared understanding around which our government is based.

It’s time to help the Wisconsin GOP find out.
Aug 31, 2023 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
DEADLINE: How do we win on Nov 5, 2024? By winning month by month. We're 100 donors short of our August goal.

And after watching the GOP presidential debate here in WI last week, we're more determined than ever to win. Read this thread & chip in to help: secure.actblue.com/donate/augeom2… Eight of the nine top Republican candidates for president came to Wisconsin last week for the first presidential primary debate. (The ninth one was apparently too busy gearing up for a trip to Fulton County, Georgia.)
pbs.org/newshour/polit…
Aug 23, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD: Tonight is the first GOP presidential primary debate. The real story today isn’t what the candidates say—it’s WHERE the debate is taking place. The GOP has to win Wisconsin to win the White House. Chip in to our Cheddar Storm now to help stop them: wisdems.org/gopdebate2023 There are a million articles today about the candidates—who’s up, who’s down, who’s in, who’s out. But underneath that veneer of press coverage is the cold math of the Electoral College. American politics is now trench warfare. Most states are lopsidedly red or blue. A vertical graph showing the 2020 Presidential Election Margins of victory/loss. Wisconsin is smack dab in the middle!
Aug 11, 2023 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
Sad news: Ada Deer, a hero across Wisconsin and the whole United States, is in hospice. You can send Ada Deer messages of support and appreciation via this CaringBridge site.
caringbridge.org/visit/adadeer This is Ada in 2020, outside her home, holding a photo of herself when she was 16. She loves telling people about how—when she was a teenager—she was one of six Native American women chosen for their beauty for a Hollywood screen test by Columbia Pictures. https://t.co/4rLG7njiMtsearch.library.wisc.edu/digital/AOUOY3…
Ada in 2020 outside her home, holding a portrait of herself at 16.
Aug 1, 2023 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
Today is a hinge moment in the political history of Wisconsin: we go from a far-right state Supreme Court majority to a progressive one. At 5 pm, Janet Protasiewicz—who won the April 4 election—will be sworn in. The path here is a testament to the power of grit. 🧵 A quote that reads "This is a single seat for a Justice, and a giant leap for justice in Wisconsin." To the left is a photo of Janet Protasiewicz. The last time Wisconsin had a progressive Supreme Court majority was 2008. That spring, an absolutely vicious and racist campaign by conspiracy theorist Michael Gableman defeated incumbent Justice Louis Butler—the first Black Justice in Wisconsin history.
Jun 24, 2023 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
#RoevWade fell exactly one year ago. We're now in a world where tiny vote shifts lead to huge changes. A few thousand votes in 2024 will determine the future:
- a national abortion ban
- ongoing state-by-state fights
- or protections for reproductive freedom nationwide.
🧵THREAD If you’re pregnant, do you—with your doctor and your family—make the decisions? Or do politicians jump in and make the decisions? This is a question of freedom. A basic, fundamental freedom. And the fight over it is transforming U.S. politics.
May 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"Once dismissed as a fringe theory, the idea that corporate thirst for profits drives up inflation, aka "greedflation," is now being taken more seriously by economists, policymakers and the business press."

axios.com/2023/05/18/onc… "in late 2022 and into this year, companies — particularly retailers and consumer goods makers — convinced consumers that they needed to raise prices. (They didn't really.)"
May 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
JOBS: The @WisDems is gearing up for the next big fight, and we need *you* to join us. We’re hiring for multiple roles because year-round investments in our communities win! Read on, retweet to help us spread the word, and share with someone you know who’d be perfect for the job. In 2022, Wisconsin led the nation for youth voter turnout. Now we’re looking for our next Youth Organizing Director to take the reins and keep it up in 2024. If you speak Gen Z and youth organizing is your jam, this is the role for you! Apply now: wisdems.org/get-involved/j…
May 11, 2023 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
In the CNN town hall last night, Trump kept talking about Wisconsin. Not a coincidence. He can’t retake the White House if he doesn’t win WI.

We beat him in 2020. We can do it again—with your help. Start a monthly donation to help us organize till Nov '24:secure.actblue.com/donate/maga-ma… Trump definitively lost Wisconsin in 2020—by 20,682 votes, just six-tenths of one percentage point. He’s never admitted that reality. And he’s never gotten over it. Why? Because Wisconsin put him over the top in 2016… and then tipped his defeat in 2020.