Trump won the 3rd Congressional District by 7+ points, while Van Orden won it by less than 3. In the House district in SE ...

Proponents of Final-Four or Five Voting, which puts candidates from all parties on one "jungle primary" ballot and enacts ...

Proponents of Final-Four or Five Voting, which puts candidates from all parties on one “jungle primary” ballot and enacts ranked-choice voting in the general, argue it promotes political compromise ...

Lobbyists must report the dollars spent communicating with members of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Here’s that report for the first half of 2023, when legislators were crafting the state’s 2-year ...

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Democrats and Republicans raised a record amount — more than $12 million — in trying to win the 3rd Congressional District in western Wisconsin this year. The result moved the needle to the left, but ...

The Democratic candidate increased his vote total by a greater amount than Trump in 2020, but the script flipped this year.

In 2024, eight people donated $1 million or more to a political party in Wisconsin. And some of them gave much more. Before 2015, the most a person could give in annual political donations in ...