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Emergency Protests Planned to Stop Scott Walker and Wisconsin GOP’s “Shocking and Naked Power Grab”

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“This is straight out of a banana republic and should be a huge national story.” By Jake Johnson, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 12-3-2018 As Wisconsin’s GOP-controlled legislature and outgoing Republican Gov. Scott Walker seek to thwart the will of voters by ramming through a sweeping slate of legislation that would drastically curtail Democratic governor-elect Tony Evers’ authority […]

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Running Walker – Separating Fact And Fiction

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It’s 2015, which means that the presidential campaigns are just beginning to get under way. This time around, the field’s particularly unsettled on the Republican side. One person who’s been mentioned as a potential candidate on more than one occasion is Wisconsin’s governor, Scott Walker. We’ve written about Scott before; we’ve always considered him to be the […]

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Ending Reign of GOP Gerrymandering, Evers Approves Fair Maps in Wisconsin

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“Wisconsin, for the first time in over a decade, we will not have some of the most gerrymandered maps in America,” Evers said. By Olivia Rosane. Published 2-19-2024 by Common Dreams For the first time since 2011, Wisconsin has state Assembly and Senate maps that do not unconstitutionally favor Republican candidates. Gov. Tony Evers, a […]

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‘Catastrophic and Irreparable Harm’ to Wolves Averted as Wisconsin Judge Cancels Hunt

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“We are heartened by this rare instance of reason and democracy prevailing in state wolf policy,” said one conservation expert. By Brett Wilkins, staff writer for Common Dreams.  Published 10-22-2021 In what wildlife defenders called “the biggest news so far for wolf protection in the United States in 2021,” a Wisconsin court on Friday sided with […]

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‘Good News for Democracy’: Wisconsin Appeals Court Rejects Voter Purge Targeting More Than 200,000 People

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“A win over voter suppression is a win for the people of Wisconsin.” By Julia Conley, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 2-28-2020 Voting rights advocates applauded a Wisconsin appeals court ruling Friday which is set to stop a voter purge from going forward—sparing more than 200,000 people from having their names removed from voter […]

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Who’s the Real Troublemaker in the Middle East?

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Iran’s no democratic paradise, but Washington’s Saudi allies are even worse. By Medea Benjamin. Published 8-19-2015 at OtherWords Except for maybe the Affordable Care Act, nothing gets Republican politicians fired up like Iran. In the first GOP debate alone, Scott Walker promised that he’d tear up the Iran nuclear deal on day one of his presidency. […]

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‘Dark Cloud’ of ALEC Converges at Annual Corporate-Political Lovefest

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This week, San Diego hosts ‘a festival of closed-door deal-making by politicians, corporate executives and lobbyists’ Written by Deirdre Fulton, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 7-23-15. Fighting to protect dark money. Attacking federal efforts to rein in carbon pollution. Undermining local democracy. These are just some of the “hot topics” on the agenda this week as conservative lawmakers, […]

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From Wisconsin to Baltimore: which lessons learned?

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By Juan Conatz. Published May 7, 2015 by ROAR Magazine The Wisconsin uprising of 2011 provides valuable lessons for the Black Lives Matter movement across the US, especially about the directions not to take. Photo: Black Lives Matter protesters occupy the Wisconsin Capitol after the police killing of the unarmed black teenager Tony Robinson, March […]

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‘Recipe for Disaster’ as US Supreme Court Refuses Challenge to Voter ID Law

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Written by Lauren McCauley, Staff Writer for CommonDreams, published on March 23, 2015. In a move that will impact hundreds of thousands of voters and may carry national implications, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a challenge to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s restrictive voter identification law. Immediately after the high court rejected, without comment, to […]

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An Even Bigger Drafting Error

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One of the more amazing (and amusing, if we’re to be honest about it) stories in national politics so far this year has been the rise of Scott Walker as a player in the GOP presidential race. We’ve written about him on numerous occasions; the last time we took a look at what he was up […]

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