Citizen Action Weekend ’26 Newsletter, Friday, June 19th
Happy Juneteenth Day!
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Citizen Action launches Badgers for Healthcare campaign in support of BadgerCare Public Option.
This month Citizen Action launched a new campaign, Badgers for Healthcare, in support of the BadgerCare Public Option bill. The campaign is currently being run in the Wausau and Eau Claire/Chippewa Falls area.
Badgers for Healthcare features the healthcare stories of Citizen Action members in the area who have been directly impacted by the lack of access to affordable healthcare coverage for them and their neighbors. The campaign launched with billboards and a radio ad featuring members discussing their struggles with accessing healthcare.
Listen to radio ads featuring Citizen Action members’ healthcare stories. Thanks to Peggy (Tomahawk), Sydney (Eau Claire), and Christine (Galesville) for sharing your healthcare struggles with others to make change. Also, thanks to La Crosse member Wyatt Molling for being the radio ad narrator.
The Badgers for healthcare campaign features a new facebook page and will also include: Meta ads, (3) mailers to thousands of voters in the targeted areas eligible for the BadgerCare Public Option, and phone and door canvass by local members this summer. The Meta ads include a survey for people to fill out about their struggles with accessing healthcare for our organizers and member leaders to follow up with and bring into our organizing.
WE NEED YOU: If you want to help us follow up with new healthcare story leads we get from the program, contact: Kristie.Tweed@citizenactionwi.org
This week one of Citizen Action’s billboards in Eau Claire was tagged by someone who clearly relates to our member Peggy’s decision to divorce her husband to qualify for healthcare.
Help talk to voters with Citizen Action endorsed David Liners, Saturday, June 20th, 9am, 11am, 1pm.
Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin endorsed state legislative candidate David Liners for door knocking this Saturday, June 20th. 9am, 11am and 1pm; Meet at: Hawthorne Coffee Roasters, 4177 S. Howell Ave. Milwaukee.
Attend a $20 Minimum Wage Town Hall in Fond du Lac, Monday, June 22nd, 6pm
FOND DU LAC: Monday, June 22 at 6pm – Fond du Lac Labor Temple, 50 E Bank Street. RSVP
MADISON : Thursday, July 2 at 6pm – Madison Labor Temple, 1621 S Park Street.
MILWAUKEE : Monday, July 13 at 6pm – Turner Hall, 1040 N. Vel R. Phillips, Milwaukee.
ST. FRANCIS: Thursday, September 10 at 6pm – La Finca Coffeehouse, 3558 E. Sivyer Ave, St. Francis.
Citizen Action Northeast Cooperative Update
Last weekend new member Kieran tabled at Fox Valley Pride!
We found stories, people who support our work and want to know more, and best of all, Kieran said they had a great day! Megan, Nathaniel, and Lyndin all took turns as well. There are many more tabling opportunities all summer in the North East Co-Op,
Email Garnet to sign up for one! g.degrave@citizenactionwi.org
Attend Governor Candidate Forum in Waukesha at WCTC, Monday June 22nd, 6pm.
Live in the Waukesha/Milwaukee area? Join our partner WISDOM for a governor candidate forum, Monday, June 22nd, 6pm.
Watch Citizen Action’s governor candidate forum in April.
Attend Governor Candidate Forum in Milwaukee at North Division High School, Saturday, June 27th, 10am.
Join our partners Walnut Way, 350 Wisconsin, Healthy Climate Wisconsin, Reclaiming Our Neighborhoods for a governor candidate forum on fighting climate change and creating good new jobs, high utility rates, and other issues facing our community.
Listen to podcast discussing Walnut Way and the forum.
Watch Citizen Action’s governor candidate forum in April.
FREE event for new or expectant moms and dads in the Milwaukee area, Saturday, June 20th, 10am
Citizen Action in the News
Citizen Action’s Robert Kraig was on the Jeff Santos Show to discuss the humiliating end to Donald Trump’s war with Iran and the state of the midterm elections. The nationally syndicated Jeff Santos Show airs on the Civic Media Radio Network in Wisconsin weekdays 2-5 PM
Watch the Video here (@ 2 hour 7 minute time mark)
Listen to “Celebrating Climate Action: An Interview with Ted Kraig” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
We wish everyone a happy Juneteenth Day and encourage everyone to attend an event near you. Look for us at Milwaukee and Eau Claire events.
Robert provides us with the latest Tick report: emergency room visits from tick-borne illnesses are at 10 year high and a Univ. of Rhode Island Tick website finds 9 ticks active in Wisconsin in June, the highest the Black Legged Deer Tick. The Lone Star Tick (which makes you allergic to meat) is present as well.
Following a brief discussion on the Trump effective surrender to Iran, we dive into new data demonstrating the devastating impact of Republican cuts to food assistance for families and children. More Than 770,000 Children are no longer receiving SNAP benefits after Trump’s savage cuts to the federal food program. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture 4.3 million fewer people received SNAP nationwide in February 2026. Embattled MAGA Congressman Derrick Van Ordin, himself a food stamp beneficiary during his childhood, justifies these cruel cuts as an anti-fraud measure.
We discuss the Trump Regime on-going efforts to steal the 2026 midterms. including Kash Patel’s rogue FBI effort to intimidate social justice groups engaged in voter registration by raiding the homes of leaders of the Ohio Organizing Collaborative. We stand in solidarity with our sisters and brothers in Ohio. Learn more at Hands Off Ohio. Robert also explains how Trump is tying the U.S. Senate in knots in his latest attempt to force his supersized voter suppression bill through.
We welcome Citizen Action member and climate organizer Ted Kraig to the show to discuss the 3rd anniversary of the Milwaukee Climate and Equity Plan. You are invited to celebrate this Saturday morning at 9 AM at the Urban Ecology Center-Washington Park, in Milwaukee. Ted discusses the depth of the climate crisis but also gives us hope that organized people can make systemic change in the next few years that can put us on a path towards stabilizing the climate crisis.
Listen to the show!
