November 2025

In-person early voting has grown quickly in recent years. Last October, a record 100,000 Wisconsinites voted two weeks before Election Day. While this participation is encouraging, many smaller communities can’t keep up. Assembly Bill 312 sets minimum standards for in-person voting access without an appointment, ensuring more voters can cast a ballot without having to schedule time with their clerk. Expanding no-appointment voting - while preserving election security safeguards - helps close the gap between urban and rural access.

Wisconsin Becomes First State to Advance Real Safeguards Against Foreign-Linked Online Donations - and no we did not break Capitol rules by taking this picture from the Assembly Gallery - as legislators took the photo and sent it to us after the vote.

On Wednesday, the Wisconsin Assembly took a historic step, passing AB 385 by a 55–42 vote, making Wisconsin the first legislative body in the nation to advance model legislation that can actually stop foreign-sourced political contributions disguised within billions of dollars of unverified credit-card and gift-card transactions.

Democrats wanted this government shutdown from the start, holding Americans hostage for 43 days and getting NOTHING for their reckless games.

The toll was massive:

We live in the great Midwest, so I don't worry too much about what people are doing on the coasts. We live in Wisconsin, so when we talk about Illinois, it's easy to get a superiority complex. That can be a danger in your thinking.

Both the mayor of Chicago and the governor of Illinois, have raised a great fuss about how ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is arresting criminals. They include in their arguments that ICE is involved in terrorism. They say that ICE is spreading fear in the community.

In this conversation, Chris Muller - The Voice of Reason in the Coulee Region - discusses the implications of poor decision-making by a board majority, highlighting a specific instance of financial waste. He emphasizes the need for community engagement and activism to address these issues and inspire change.