Democrats are very likely to win this year, but the details matter. We must not allow Wisconsin’s centrists and bipartisan compromisers to waste opportunities. That starts with identifying and working, not only to win a trifecta, but importantly, a trifecta with a strong left populist presence.

Even if you don’t win, filing for candidacy and getting media attention is a great way to put some fear in centrists and take back your own political participation power. Corporate Democrats are often cowards. Fear works on them. For many, fear seems to be the only thing they respond to. We just need them to be afraid of us.

Gambling has always preyed on people who want to use it to solve their financial woes. Sports betting apps and prediction markets join the coalition of evil tech corporations that use our phones to turbo-charge that impulse for a profit. We need a radical empathy for people who are hurt by gambling addiction, which I understand is in short supply on this issue.

Fifteen Democrats are collaborating with fascist Republicans to restrict our freedom of speech and ability to protest Trump’s war at the behest of a genocidal theocratic ethnostate. They each deserve to be primaried based on this alone

First, Jacobson got $25,000 from SSDC. Second, another $33,000 from Senators and other establishment donors, that’s $58,000 directly from SSDC’s endorsement. Meanwhile, Hendrickson’s more modest initial donor base comes from child care provider networks. 

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.”

Stripping affordability from criticism of capitalism and inequality is how centrists will try and steal fire from left populists, and flatten the clear differences between candidates. In the process, they render political discourse meaningless.

As in 2018, the humanitarian crisis in Wisconsin prisons could play a big part in Wisconsin’s 2026 governor and legislative races. It should be easy to create a strong contrast with the absurd and inhumane Republican position, but Democratic candidates will have to distance themselves from eight disastrous years of Democratic control of the DOC under Tony Evers.

Republicans immediately junked Evers’ modest and inadequate proposal. Rather than holding them accountable, Evers is celebrating the scraps. Giving Republicans credit when all they did was interfere with vital necessities a little less is not only dishonest, it’s also politically stupid.