There is very little about Crowley’s campaign that will inspire Hong’s people to volunteer or donate, which is what it takes to actually win an election. His patchy decrepit astroturf ground game is going to be on its own. That’s why I’m afraid he might lose.

WES‌ would like to invite Mr. Crowley and his campaign to consider the stances that gained the Hong campaign its support and move his platform towards the values that have proven to be central to the goals of the very Wisconsinites Mr. Crowley is working to represent as he approaches the general election against Tom Tiffany. 

Our ability to protect people and the environment is hamstrung by pro-corporate powers, and the ability to meaningfully oppose those powers is unfortunately limited, even for politicians.

Juliana Bennett is running in AD76. That district covers the east side of Madison. It leans deep blue (+76 Democrat). This is the district Francesca Hong is leaving to run for governor.

Thoroughly and precisely calculating thousands of nomination signatures and pages is beyond the scope of my attention to detail, but I did scroll through a handful of candidates of interest and can share some interesting takeaways.

I listened to dozens of hours of conservative talk radio over the past few weeks – at 1.5x speed, because I am not a total masochist. In their world, everyone from Chuck Schumer to Tony Evers is a far-left radical… Any regular person who is not a dyed-in-the-wool conservative is a blue-haired they/them, or a Black Lives Matter activist, or a Karen, and we are all so, so mad at how much Trump is winning.

If every Wisconsin donor was a voter in the party primary, Francesca Hong won nearly half (49.5%) of them! She also has Tom Tiffany beat single handedly, and all Democrats combined are whooping the Republicans combined.  

There are a diversity of tactics to opposing ICE. All of the protesting on the ground is important, even when it feels like it isn’t. There is an abundance of shit to stand against in 2026, but we have to keep focused and combine efforts where applicable. “The wrong Amazon is burning. The wrong ICE is melting.”