“John McCain won the 5th Congressional District in 2008 with 57.7% of the vote; it was the only congressional district in Wisconsin that year to have voted for McCain. It was a safe Republican ...

Experts say the SAVE Act could make voting harder for citizens. Passed in the U.S. House, it is unlikely to clear the U.S.

U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany was first elected to Congress in 2020 after several years in the Wisconsin State Senate. His committee assignments: • Judiciary, with subcommittee assignments to Crime and ...

Former Navy Seal Van Orden first joined the U.S. House in 2022, narrowly defeating his Democratic challenger in the western Wisconsin swing district. Van Orden sits on the committees overseeing ...

“The 2011 redistricting by the Republican-controlled legislature and governor was intended to increase the number and safeness of Republican state and congressional districts. Especially notable are ...

Experts say the SAVE Act could make voting harder for citizens. Passed in the U.S. House, it is unlikely to clear the U.S. Senate.

Pocan was first elected to the U.S. House in 2012 after serving 14 years in the Wisconsin State Assembly. He sits on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, which oversees government spending, ...

“The redistricting after the 2010 Census did not change the partisan makeup of the 6th Congressional District. The 6th has been safely Republican for over 50 years. The last Democrat elected to ...

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Voters are not powerless to curb the power of billionaires in Wisconsin politics. But it will take action from a lot of us.

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...