In Wisconsin and across most of the country, laws prevent candidates who lose in a primary from running in the general ...

U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany was first elected to Congress in 2020 after several years in the Wisconsin State Senate. His committee assignments: • Judiciary, with subcommittee assignments to Crime and ...

“The 1st Congressional District before and after redistricting has favored Republicans, though in 2008 the district voted for Barack Obama over John McCain by 51.40% to 47.45%. That would suggest some ...

Primary elections are administered by the state, and changing how we vote there would require a new law. Many cities and a ...

The state Department of Justice appealed a ruling in a lawsuit brought by The Badger Project and the Invisible Institute ...

“The redistricting after the 2010 Census did not change the partisan makeup of the 6th Congressional District. The 6th has been safely Republican for over 50 years. The last Democrat elected to ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, as ...

The youngest Republican legislator in the state claimed the most per diem in 2025. Two DSA members also finished in the top ...

Two Democrats and three Republicans round out the top five. Senators who live outside Dane County can claim $140 per day they ...

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