MILWAUKEE, WI Today, AFT Local 212 announced their endorsement of Attorney General Josh Kaul for reelection at their office in Milwaukee. “In an age when American democracy is threatened, American Federation of Teachers Local 212 Committee on Political Education enthusiastically endorses Josh Kaul for Wisconsin’s Attorney General,” said Steven Shea, AFT 212

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, a bill co-introduced by Congressman Scott Fitzgerald (WI-05), H.R. 7072, the Non-Disclosure Order (NDO) Fairness Act, was passed in the U.S. House of Representatives by a voice vote. This bipartisan legislation reins in prosecutorial abuse and executive branch overreach by strengthening the standards prosecutors must meet when seeking

MADISON, Wis. – Speaking to WKOW, Tim Michels refused to condemn the violence of the January 6th insurrection saying “there was clearly a lot of people that showed up with the original intent of hearing what President Trump had to say,” adding that there was “frustration over the election results.” This comes on

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ranking member of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent a follow-up letter to Kenneth Bonner, President and Chief Growth Officer of Unissant Inc., regarding the company’s management of the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED).  The senator has been examining potential data

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Mark Pocan’s (WI-02) bill, the 21st Century President Act (H.R. 3285), passed the House unanimously by voice vote. Rep. Pocan spoke on the House Floor this afternoon in support of this legislation, which he authored and introduced. Click here or the image to watch the full speech, and find

WISCONSIN – In the fourth hearing of the January 6th Select Committee, we learned more about the pressure campaign of Trump and his MAGA allies to overturn the results of the election. An all-Republican panel first detailed Trump and his officials’ harassment, and an election worker and her mother described

Milwaukee — Alex Lasry released the following statement today following the uncovering of Ron Johnson’s attempted coup to overthrow the government and change the outcome of the 2020 election: “Ron Johnson is a seditious traitor and a danger to our democracy. Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for

MADISON, WI – The Wisconsin Technical College System thanks Governor Evers, Secretary Hughes and Secretary Pechacek for the $16.5 million investment in workforce innovation happening at Lakeshore Technical College, Northcentral Technical College, Nicolet College and Northwood Technical College. Our colleges work closely with the employers in their communities to provide a

MADISON, Wis. – Thanks to historic leadership from President Biden, Governor Evers, and Democrats in Congress, all children ages six months to five years old can now get vaccinated against COVID-19. Late last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control authorized and recommended the use of this life-saving

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Always Ready, Always There includes cyberspace. Members of Wisconsin’s Cyber Response Team — the state’s volunteer resource for cyber incidents — and eight Wisconsin National Guard members participated in Cyber Shield 22, the Defense Department’s largest unclassified cyber defense exercise, which this year was held

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Congressman Mark Pocan’s (WI-02) bill, the 21st Century President Act (H.R. 3285), passed the House unanimously by voice vote. Pocan’s bill would make commonsense updates to gendered language in the U.S. Code, reflecting the reality that a woman or LGBTQ+ person will someday hold the office of the presidency. Without this

MADISON – Today, following texts showing that Ron Johnson wanted to personally deliver false documents to Vice President Pence in an attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election, State Treasurer and candidate for U.S. Senate Sarah Godlewski slammed Johnson for his role in the radical right’s attempt to overthrow our free and fair presidential election.

Looking back at statewide elections since November 2008, the rate of absentee voting by Wisconsin citizens ranges from a low of 7.0 percent in the April 2012 spring election to a high of 65.6 percent in the August 2020 primary, an election that occurred during the height of the COVID-19

Appleton, Wis. – U.S. Senate candidate Tom Nelson called on the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the actions of U.S. Senator Ron Johnson after shocking new testimony that shines new light on Johnson’s role as “the ‘go-to’ guy for insurrection among the Trump plotters seeking to overturn the 2020

STEVENS POINT- Today (pictured above), Governor Tony Evers, Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) Secretary Missy Hughes, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) Chancellor Thomas Gibson, UWSP College of Natural Resources Dean Brian Sloss, Rep. Katrina Shankland (D-Stevens Point), and other key stakeholders came together on the UW-Stevens Point campus to celebrate the

Menomonie, Wis. — Fifteen high school students from northwestern Wisconsin recently visited University of Wisconsin-Stout to participate in workshops that focused on STEM. As participants in the Upward Bound program, they tour and participate in many activities on campuses around Wisconsin and Minnesota. UW-Stout welcomed the students with three workshops

New text messages from Ron Johnson’s chief of staff released as part of today’s Jan. 6 Committee hearing revealed that Sen. Johnson was directly involved in trying to pressure then-Vice President Mike Pence to acknowledge “fake” elector slates from Wisconsin and Michigan, as part of a coordinated effort to block certification of Joe Biden’s

MADISON, Wis.—Today the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol revealed Senator Ron Johnson’s leading role in the violent plot to change the rules of America’s elections and override the votes of the people of Wisconsin. On January 6, 2021, just as the Joint Session of

Washington, DC – Today, Rep. Ron Kind joined his colleagues in a letter urging Congressional leadership to support their efforts to secure necessary funding for the Emergency Connectivity Fund (ECF), a crucial program created under the American Rescue Plan that has provided more than 12.5 million students access to the Internet over the