WISCONSIN ELECTIONS
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This is a tool for keeping track of elections, collecting and sorting our articles about each of them, and providing an easy-to-use one-stop voters guide for the Milwaukee radical. We hope readers enjoy and put it to use!
August 20, 2026 Democratic Party of Milwaukee County special election:
Four of six elected officials on the DPMC executive board resigned abruptly, triggering a special election.
The basics: County Party Explodes, Special Election Scheduled
November 3, 2026 (General Election:
Race specific info coming soon.
Please vote for the Democrats, even though mostly shitty corporate centrists won the primary. Republicans are straight up fascists these days. Also, please stop fetishizing voting. Your vote is not sacred. It is not seal of approval or a source of moral superiority. Its just a banal political action, and a rather insignificant one at that.
Its worth doing (usually takes like, 15 minutes) but it is not worth agonizing over or arguing about. You can call it harm reduction, or lesser evil, or civic duty, or shifting the landscape of struggle, just do it, and get back to real organizing.
PAST RACES
August 11, 2026 (primary election):
US Congress.
Full article: Wisconsin Congressional Primer
Wisconsin has 8 Congressional races this year. Neither of our Senators is up for re-election. The Congressional maps are still gerrymandered, but with how unpopular Republicans have become, more might be in play than you’d think. Unfortunately, centrist Democrats are fighting to ensure that pro-business losers get nominated, instead of the left populists people are clamoring for.
Recommended candidates:
CD4- Amy Donahue
Governor.
Francesca Hong, a true left populist, is clearly going to be our favorite.
Articles on the race:Nothing Means Anything…, Nomination Signatures, On Campaign Finance Reports, On Affordability, On Prison
Articles on candidates:On Francesca Hong, On Sara Rodriguez, On Mandela Barnes, more on Barnes, On Tom Tiffany
State Senate and Assembly.
Full articles: Republican Districts, Democratic Districts, Winning the Trifecta
This is the second state election under fairer maps, which means Democrats stand to follow up their 2024 gains in the State Senate and Assembly. We’re exposing the typical fuckery where establishment figures throw institutional weight behind weak centrist candidates, an approach that often leads to losing winnable races.
Recommended candidates, questionnaires, and articles on specific races:
SD17- Recommend Corrine Hendrickson. Fighting for Democracy in SD17, Lisa White Answers.
AD12- Recommend Jordan Roman. We Need to Beat Russell Goodwin
AD21- Recommend David Liners. His Answers, What’s Happening in AD21?
AD50- Recommend Josh Mittness. His AnswersCounty Sheriff and Clerk of Circuit Court.
Sheriff Denita Ball has killed people in her jail, overspends the budget every year, and constantly fights to take even more money away from human needs and services that actually make us more safe. Milwaukee’s political machine covered for her by doing a completely unserious audit. Sheriff is an inherently oppressive and unappealing job, so its not surprising no one will run against Ball.
Other state executive offices.
The only other statewide race with a primary is state treasurer, where Yee Leng Ziong and Dylan Helmenstine are running.
Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski has left her seat to run for Lieutenant Governor. She has no primary challenger.
Milwaukee Alder JoCasta Zamarripa is running unchallenged in the primary for Godlewski’s Secretary of State spot. Pete Karas running with the Green Party will challenge her in the general.
Josh Kaul has decided to stay Attorney General and no Democrat is trying to stop him.
April 7, 2026:
Milwaukee County Board.
In District 5, LeeVan Roundtree ran unopposed and won the seat Sequanna Taylor vacated.
In District 7, Stacy Smiter ran and lost against inactive centrist Felesia Martin.
In District 9, Dr Maqsood Kahn ran and lost against inveterate bootlicker Patti Logsdon.
In District 11, centrist Kathleen Vincent was challenged, but defeated someone even worse.
Read full articles here: Spring Election Results, Our Messy County Board Race, brief update, You can run! and Hot takes on the board.
There used to be some important fights happening at the County Board, against the sheriff’s office, the jail, and our conservative County Executive, David Crowley, who wants to be governor despite fucking Milwaukee over by supporting Act 12. If leftists had run and won some of these races, we could see those fights again, and win them.
Wisconsin Supreme Court.
As we (and everyone, honestly) predicted, Chris Taylor whooped the latest corrupt conservative Maria Lazar after decades of bought-off corporate conservative domination, the people of WI are done with that bullshit.
Full articles here: Spring Election Results, Contempt for Maria Lazar, Our Politicized State Supreme Court
November 17, 2025:
Executive Board of the Democratic Party of Milwaukee County (DPMC).
Read full articles here: Dec 9, Nov 15, Nov 7, Oct 15, Oct 3,
Summary: MCDP ChairChris Sinicki, a do-nothing centrist if there ever was one, has hand-picked a slate to replace her and Treasurer Dawn Martin. Fortunately, Amy Donahue, and Deisy España stepped up to run against these establishment figureheads. The establishment slate won, after a lot of procedural shenanigans, but the challengers raised important issues and exposed county party shortcomings.Read more about internal Wisconsin Democratic Party politics here.