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		<title>Use of Federal Troops</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurie Anne Harmon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Presidents have always been careful when forced to send federal troops into America’s cities and states, and only did so when there was a breakdown of law and order or when constitutional rights were being violated by state and local governments. In 1957, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas national guard and sent 1,200 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Questioning Patriotism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Repetition is essential for learning. It is also a way to manipulate and control people&#8217;s thinking.  Advertisers bombard people with frequent messages to get them to buy stuff. Dictators repeat the “big lie” until it becomes accepted as truth. &#160; This article is an updated repeat from the past. Hopefully, people will learn and think [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Making America Good</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” Howard Zinn (1922 – 2010), historian and peace activist. &#160; “Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it&#8230;.” George Bernard Shaw (1856 -1950), Irish playwright and political activist. &#160; Around the 4th of July [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Small-Town &#038; Rural Seniors &#124; Governor Candidates Forum &#124; Briefing  &#8220;STARS&#8221;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; Small-Town &#38; Rural Seniors &#124; Governor Candidates Forum &#124; Briefing editors note: This wonderful group was also very visible during the People for Pine Crest in Merrill. At a Glance Saturday, July 25, 2026, 1:00-3:00 PM Ho-Chunk Convention Center, Baraboo, Wisconsin Expected attendance: 150 in the room; live streamed statewide via Civic Media; strong [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Telling the Truth About History</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this&#8230;?” W.E.B. Du Bois writing in 1935. “We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore patriotic education to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WHAT IS AFFORDABILITY</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Krizek]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every morning, millions of Americans wake up and face the same quiet arithmetic: Will this paycheck cover the rent? Can we afford the copay? What do we cut from the grocery cart this week? These are not abstract policy questions. They are the lived reality of working families across this country — Democratic, Independent, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does Preamble to the Constitution Still Speak to Us</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Lohr]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The six goals of the preamble to our Constitution are: To form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty. In our day, we seem to have lost the serious consideration of those goals. We tend to go from story to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>FAIR MAPS FOR GOOD</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
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	&#160; FAIR MAPS FOR GOOD  RALLY DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 4 AT 5:30 PM Join the Fair Maps Coalition for a coordinated statewide day of action, just days after candidates file signatures. We&#8217;re making our demands clear: Without an Independent Redistricting Commission (IRC) in place soon, we&#8217;ll face the same fight against gerrymandering after the 2030 Census. An IRC [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Sidewalk Rally</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	Did you happen to drive by on Friday, May 22 and see some of your Dem friends (and Indivisible) at Pine Grove Cemetery? Our very own Julie came up with the way to honor those who lost their lives and those who were injured in Iran. Democrats remember what Memorial Day is about.   Capt. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Tribute to Dr. Al Gedicks</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 02:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am saddened to bring you the news that Dr Al Gedicks has passed away. I will leave you this by Zoltan Grossman who says it best. ~Nancy &#160; Tribute to Dr. Al Gedicks   By: Zoltan Grossman Wisconsin (and the world) has lost a giant. Dr. Al Gedicks, a driving force of environmental justice alliances [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>This Issue is a Tribute to Dave Svetlik</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 02:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This edition is dedicated to Dave Svetlik. Dave was a brilliant man as well as one of the founders of Middle Wisconsin. Dave contributed thoughtful pieces he truly believed in on a regular basis to Middle Wisconsin. Sadly, Dave passed away on Friday, May 8, 2026. Losses like Dave make me think of legacies. What [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Happening May 9th</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 01:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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