Sounding the Alarm!!

Retired General Mark A. Milley is sounding the alarm as to how dangerous Donald Trump has become. Milley served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for more than a year under Trump and continued in that role during President Biden’s presidency. General Milley served more than 40 years in the military and retired in September 2023. In a retirement speech, Gen. Milley laid out his concerns regarding Trump: “We don’t take an oath to a king, or a queen, to a tyrant or dictator or a wannabe dictator.” “By the following year, Milley was receiving a ...

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Ballot Box Rally

May this gathering serve as an example to any other city or town in this state, to let you know, we are watching. We see what you are doing. We will not stand for it. Making it harder to vote is out of touch with Wisconsin values.   Donning a hard hat and moving a ballot box is a political stunt. The Supreme Court handed down their decision, and no one is above the law. As citizens, we are holding people who do these acts accountable. We urge all other citizens to pay attention as well.   Our democracy is stronger when all voters can cast their ballots. ...

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When Someone Shows You Who They Are, Believe Them (and Vote Accordingly)

Are we suffering from amnesia? Our climate is rapidly getting more perilous. Just look at last winter, when local economies had to grapple with lower-than-ever snowfall and higher-than-ever temperatures. And yet, Wisconsin is a dead heat in this year’s presidential election. We need to remember. During his first year in office, then-President Trump withdrew America from the Paris Climate Agreement, joining Iran, Libya, and Yemen as the only countries to not ratify it. Two years later, Trump approved the Keystone XL Pipeline and approved rollbacks of offshore drilling ...

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2024 Central Wisconsin Indigenous Peoples’ Day Pow Wow


Immigration Successes

With Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign underway, the GOP is accelerating its lies about her work as Vice President. Though responsibility for the southern border rests with the Departments of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services, they call Harris a failed “Border Czar,” deliberately mischaracterizing her early presidential assignment – to address the root causes of migration – while obscuring her accomplishments. As the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on 6/12/24, VP Harris’ 2021 “Call to Action” has triggered major commitments from ...

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Solar Share

*Used with permission SolarShare Wins Phase Two “Energizing Rural Communities” Funding Late last week we were informed that SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative won $200k in the “Energizing Rural Communities” prize competition. SolarShare Wisconsin Cooperative was one of 33 organizations nationally that won $200,000 from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Energizing Rural Communities Prize. The cooperative plans to use these funds to continue providing opportunities for Wisconsinites to invest in local community scale solar projects. In 2023,SolarShare ...

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Preserve Democracy, Please Vote

Mrs. Juntti was my 1st and 2nd grade teacher in a small elementary school in northern Wisconsin. Mrs. Juntti gave me some of the greatest gifts I could ever receive. She taught me to read which opened my world to all the amazing things in life! Mrs. Juntti taught me how to write—another gift that has no measure. Mrs. Juntti gave me the gift of music. She played the piano in our small classroom as we learned to sing, America the Beautiful, God Bless America, My Country Tis of Thee, This Land is Your Land, Beautiful Dreamer, Oh! Susana, How Great Thou Art, and other ...

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Candidate Forum

85th Assembly District Candidate Forum (Wausau/Weston) Candidates: Yee Leng Xiong (Confirmed), Pat Snyder (Invited) Date: Tuesday, October 15 Location: Northcentral Technical College, Room E102, 1000 W Campus Dr, Wausau, WI 54401 Time: 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Please spread the word to your network, friends, and family! They can click the link to RSVP to the event.

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Wausau Voters File Complaint

  October 1, 2024 Contact: Nick Ramos Executive Director Wisconsin Democracy Campaign 414-368-0116 wisdc@wisdc.org **MEDIA ADVISORY** Wausau Voters to File Complaint with Department of Justice Following Unwarranted Removal of Drop Box in Wausau by Mayor Wausau residents join with voting rights advocates to demand a formal federal investigation and an end to the voter suppression attempts following Wausau mayor’s unauthorized removal of the city’s ballot drop box. MADISON, WI – Wausau voters will appear outside the Department of Justice ...

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WALLS

Robert Frost said it first and clear enough: “Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”    His walls were stony ones, upended and broken by frosty, heaving ground.  The walls I do not love are stony too, built not on pastureland, though, but in the hearts of men and women.  These heart-stone walls, held fast by a mortar mix of fear and a very human bent for being right and those different, dead wrong.  We, thus, protect our neat and tidy interior lawns from the invasive and rambunctiously threatening swamps and woods beyond our perimeters.  This tangled, ...

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