Holy Bondi! Following a recap of Attorney General Pam Bondi’s bizarrely pugilistic appearance before the House Judiciary Committee. Next we dive into this week in the Trump Regime. This week ICE agents are flowing into small towns in Western Wisconsin while a possibly shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security looms due to Republican refusal to rein in ICE. Meanwhile…
Donate/Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin! Help us meet the organizing challenges of this moment! Attend First Citizen Action Governors Forum in La Crosse, Saturday, February 28th, 9:30am. Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s 2026 Governor endorsement process will consist of in-person candidate forums in our five co-op regions around the state, and one virtual forum.Forum attendees will be asked for feedback on…
We discuss how Democratic candidates for Governor are competing with each other to embrace the BadgerCare Public Option bill, which will soon be introduced in the state legislature. We are joined by Citizen Action’s Healthcare Action Coordinator, Kristie Tweed, to discuss widespread public support for bold action on healthcare costs and coverage. Kristie tells us about town halls Citizen Action…
Donate/Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin! Citizen Action is building the grassroots power across the state to protect democracy from an authoritarian onslaught and to enact cutting-edge reforms on pressing issues like affordable health care, energy costs, the climate crisis, and raising wages for working people. Help us meet the organizing challenges of this moment! Citizen Action announces Governor Forums across…
Join/Donate to Citizen Action of Wisconsin Organizing for a $20 Wage in Wisconsin Let Wisconsin workers fight inflation and the high cost of living with their work. Make all work pay! Learn more and take action in support of soon-to-be-released state legislation raising the Minimum Wage to $20/hour. There are 800,000 Wisconsin workers who make less than $20/hour, 30% of…
The Milwaukee Brewers’ billionaire owner traded All-Star Freddy Peralta yesterday for prospects, leaving fans upset at the trade and the financing of Major League Baseball that created and normalized such a lopsided and unfair trade. We welcome Simon Rosenblum-Larson, a former minor league baseball player who helped organize a union for minor league players, to provide his perspective on the…
Donate/Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin to start 2026! In 2026, Citizen Action is building the grassroots power across the state to protect democracy from an authoritarian onslaught and to enact cutting-edge reforms on pressing issues like affordable health care, energy costs, the climate crisis, and raising wages for working people. Help us meet the organizing challenges of this moment! Citizen…
We applaud a victory for local democracy this week in little Greenleaf, Wisconsin. When Big Tech came calling, local residents pushed back so quickly on a proposed data center that the developers immediately pulled out. We put the Greenleaf story in perspective, taking a deep dive into the details of bills from Legislative Republicans and Democrats, and commitments so far…
Donate/Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin to start 2026! Citizen Action of Wisconsin and our national network People’s Action are organizing the power of working people to build a Bigger We and win the change we need. At Citizen Action we understand that the threat to democracy is twofold: not only the assault on its basic mechanisms but also the democracy’s…
We lead off with Trump’s gun boat diplomacy in Venezuela and the shocking bloodshed perpetrated by ICE in Minneapolis. What does it mean and how is the resistance to authoritarianism responding so far? We welcome State Representative Ryan Clancy to discuss three game changing progressive tax bills that would transform how Wisconsin funds K-12 schools, local governments, and other public…
