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…
Happy Holidays. See you in 2026! Donate/Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Important Progressive Tax Package introduced in the State Legislature Wednesday, Citizen Action joined state legislators at the Capitol to release a three bill package that transforms how we fund K-12 schools and other public goods in Wisconsin. If enacted, Wisconsin would become the first state to fund K-12 schools…
We start with an analysis of the latest health care melodrama in D.C., where four House Republicans unexpectedly broke ranks, joining Democrats in forcing a vote on the renewal of ACA subsidies. Speaker Johnson will not hold the required vote until January. But even if it passes in the House, it will face an almost certain filibuster in the Senate….
Donate/Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Citizen Action member Chrysa Ostenso speaks at healthcare media event in Washington D.C Citizen Action member, Chrysa Ostenso, from Ladysmith, WI speaks at Senate Democrats media conference on why letting healthcare tax credits expire will hurt millions of Americans. Chrysa has an outrageous $1500 increase per month for her healthcare premiums. Listen to Chrysa speak…
