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		<title>Giving Up is Unforgivable</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“The right to vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most nonviolent tool or instrument in a democratic society. We must use it.” John Lewis, former U.S. Representative and “good trouble” civil rights leader. Wisconsin has an election on Tuesday, April 7th. As John Lewis said, voting is a necessary, essential duty of citizens [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Banning Gerrymandering</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wisconsin Governor Evers has called a special session of the legislature for April 14th to pass a constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering. Extraordinary public pressure will be needed for this important reform to have any chance in the Republican controlled legislature. Prior to the latest redistricting compromise, Wisconsin had the worst gerrymandered legislative maps in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Longtime Republican’s Values Would be Unrecognizable in Today’s Party</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jean Fisher]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kevin Hermening’s recent announcement of his run for state assembly prompted the memory of a photo my Aunt Irene happily showed me some years ago.  Over age 80, she was seated behind Mr. Hermening on his motorcycle, two committed Republicans about to go for a ride at a fundraiser. Were my aunt, a long time leader of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ginger Murray Meet and Greet</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:11 +0000</pubDate>
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	Due to the incoming bad weather, Ginger Murray, candidate for the 7th Congressional District, has rescheduled her Meet and Greet. The new date and time is Sunday, March 22 at the Wausau labor Temple.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wisconsin Supreme Court Election April 7</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Wisconsin April 7 is the spring nonpartisan election. The statewide issue is the election of a Supreme Court justice. Across the state there are many nonpartisan local government and school board positions on the ballot and 72 local school funding referendums for voters to approve or reject. Historically voter turnout for spring elections has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>No Kings 2.0</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2025 04:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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	Photo Credits: Britnie Remer and Nancy Stencil]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Fire the Facts by Paul Hambleton</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You Can&#8217;t Fire The Facts By: Paul Hambleton &#160; President Trump’s firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer—an accomplished, bipartisan-confirmed economist—for releasing unfavorable job numbers is more than political overreach. It’s an attempt to erase reality. But here’s the thing about truth: you can’t fire it, silence it, or make it disappear. Facts have gravity. They always [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Red Counties Dependence on the “Deep State”</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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	“One of the most enduring conservative myths is that of the self-reliant, salt-of-the-earth, rural-dwelling American who pulls himself up by his bootstraps&#8230;If that were ever true, it hasn’t been for a while. These days, rural America is largely dependent on the federal government it claims to hate.” &#160; This quote is from an article in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Left vs. Right is not the Issue, Rather Democracy vs. Extremism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is the political left that our current administration attacks vehemently and relentlessly? It is not a single entity of opposition to any current leader, nor does it describe any single political position.  The political left describes a broad spectrum of ideologies that favor governmental reform in the general direction of more social equality. This political [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>More on political violence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump has a lot of damn gall accusing Democrats and liberals of inciting political violence. Since 2015 he has been a primary source of inflammatory, divisive, hate-filled political rhetoric that  encouraged violence by his supporters. He is the only president in our history to incite a mob to attack Congress. &#160; In the past [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Hate in America 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2025 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Trump is lying again. Following the murder of right wing activist Charlie Kirk, he is falsely accusing liberals of promoting violence and political “terrorism.” With his usual fact free demagoguery, he claims, “The radical left causes tremendous violence” and in “a bigger way” than right wing extremists. &#160; The truth is exactly the opposite and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The War on Children</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“I’m not sure we’ve ever seen an Administration so laser-focused on targeting the nation’s children for harm. This president and his appointees – with an unprecedented assist from Congress – has specifically targeted children’s health care with $880 billion in proposed cuts, is closing down the Department of Education, and literally plans to steal the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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