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		<title>Be Bold and Be Unapologetic</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 04:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Be bold and be unapologetic. The No Kings Rallies across the nation serve as the perfect example of this. Look at the enormous crowds of people who are rising up, making their voices heard over the monied interests that are dictating this country, that’s right – DICTATING. The working class has spoken with a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Return of The New Age Robber Barrons or Connect the Oligarchical Dots</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bill Franks]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wisconsin Supreme Court Election presented us with some interesting developments that tell us about the state of our democracy and especially the role of money in our elections. And the developments are troubling at best. It’s as if the major political parties have abandoned the notion of establishing good public policy positions and instead [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARONS 3.0</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	THE POLITICIAN WILL HAVE TO DISGUISE HIMSELF Non-Partisan Leader Cartoon 1917 https://digitalhorizonsonline.org/digital/collection/ndsu-npl/id/45/rec/68 North Dakota State University Archives The Non-Partisan League was formed by the farmers of N.D. because neither the Republicans nor the Democrats of that time were serving their interests. The League would go on to establish the public Bank of North Dakota in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Supreme Court rerun in Wisconsin</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 04:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you are feeling deja vu about the Wisconsin Supreme Court election you are not imagining things. You have seen this movie before. The election on Tuesday, April 1st  is a rerun of the 2020 and 2023 contests. The names have changed but the issues are the same. &#160; In 2020 and 2023 Jill Karofsky [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RETURN OF THE ROBBER BARONS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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	“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” &#8211; Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis Born in 1856, Brandeis lived through the “Gilded Age” and the “Roaring 20’s.” He saw the unethical practices, the exploitation of working people, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joyce Luedke]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 04:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight.” We sang this song in elementary school and Sunday School when I was a kid. To this day, I believe that each and every person is precious and has a purpose in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ballot Initiatives: Wisconsin April 4 Election</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2023 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wisconsin election coming up on April 4th is important for the Supreme Court race. Literally what kind of society Wisconsin will be is at stake. Will we return our progressive roots or continue undemocratic and uncivil the politics of the lat 14 years? But there are also three other items on the ballot that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Happy Constitution Day!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[September 17 is Constitution Day, commemorating the signing of our Constitution in Philadelphia on September 17, 1787. It’s especially important to celebrate Constitution Day this year because our system of government is being threatened as never before by Donald Trump and his cult-like followers and his enablers in the Republican Party, as Pres. Biden warned [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Prophetic Words of Plutarch</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2022 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections. Later on, this process of corruption spread to the law courts. And then to the army, and finally the Republic was subjected to the rule of emperors.” “An imbalance between rich and poor is the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Women for Women</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Women for Women]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2022 04:45:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Women for Women Wausau Thursday, May 5 at 6 PM The Impact of Dark Money on Our Elections Millions of dollars are being spent in our elections since Citizens United came about. That is there is no longer the requirement to publicly disclose donors. We believe corporations are not people and money does not make free speech. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>COME TO THE CHAUTAUQUA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2019 23:19:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin United to Amend is hosting the first 21st Century Political Reform Chautauqua – and you are invited. The event begins Saturday, September 7 at 8:30 a.m. and ends on Sunday, September 8 at 2 p.m. It will be held at the Dunn County Historical Society, 1820 Wakanda Street Northeast Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751 &#160; This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>There is Hope</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2019 05:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What are the legal limits to using corporate money to finance presidential campaigns? Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shows the broken campaign finance laws. Watch the video here.]]></description>
		
		
		
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