Supreme Gerrymander

Supreme Gerrymander

We introduce the show's new panelist, Rebecca Lynch, the political director for Wisconsin Working Families Party. We welcome the director of the Fair Elections Project, Sachin Chheda, who attended the oral arguments this week at the Supreme Court for the historic gerrymandering case challenging Wisconsin’s legislative maps. The panel also discusses the economic dynamics that enable conservative efforts to lift the mining moratorium. We also talk about the conservative conspiracy to de-skill the teaching profession in Wisconsin and the latest scheme by Republicans in Congress to cut healthcare by gutting Medicare and Medicaid in the federal budget We also discuss the latest horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas and its implications for a functioning democracy.

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Gerrymandered democracy

Gerrymandered democracy

We discuss the new Supreme Court decision to rubber stamp partisan gerrymandering and its link to the bad budget that just cleared the State Legislature. We game out the potential next steps for Gover...

27 Jun 201945min

Trumped up 2020 election

Trumped up 2020 election

We discuss Trump’s made for Fox TV campaign kick-off event in the wake of his trumped up fight with Iran. Will Trump decide that releasing the dogs of war is to his political advantage? Next, we dig i...

21 Jun 201946min

The GOP Budget Plot Thickens

The GOP Budget Plot Thickens

This week we do a deep dive with State Senator Chris Larson on the GOP budget endgame. Does Robin Vos really expect Governor Evers to capitulate to their short sighted and immoral budget, or does he h...

13 Jun 201945min

How Progressives Can Win the Rust Belt in 2020

How Progressives Can Win the Rust Belt in 2020

This week Battleground Wisconsin takes to the road to dig into the question of how progressives can win back the industrial states lost to Donald Trump in 2016. We have a series of interviews of state...

6 Jun 201946min

Let them breathe smog and drink manure

Let them breathe smog and drink manure

The big con continues with news that Foxconn awarded contracts supposedly reserved for Wisconsin-based companies to firms headquartered in Connecticut and England. We also review the new revelation th...

30 Mai 201946min

Elizabeth Warren’s plan for America

Elizabeth Warren’s plan for America

We review the latest state budget news, including Boss Vos and Fitzgerald’s scheme to split the budget into two separate pieces of legislation in an effort to constrain Gov. Evers veto options. We wel...

24 Mai 201945min

The Radical Right Empire Strikes Back

The Radical Right Empire Strikes Back

This week we review a large number of right-wing counter assaults on reason and freedom from the Wisconsin Legislature and at the national level. We explore deserted Foxconn buildings, the shocking GO...

17 Mai 201944min

State budget goes to Madison

State budget goes to Madison

We discuss Republican leaders’ sudden and desperate Joint Finance Committee vote Thursday that reveals they are losing the public debate on BadgerCare and other important issues in the state budget. W...

10 Mai 201944min

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