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
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
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
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
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
Evers will fight like hell for Medicaid expansion
We discuss Governor Tony Evers media conference reacting to Republican leadership’s plan announced Wednesday to remove BadgerCare expansion from the state budget. Evers declared he would “fight like h...
3 Mai 201947min
Winning: Emily Siegrist’s 2020 vision
We welcome Citizen Action co-op member Emily Siegrist as a guest panelist and to announce her 2020 campaign for state assembly in a suburban Milwaukee district. Emily ran a great grassroots campaign f...
26 Apr 201945min
Foxconn reality check
We are joined by state representative Jonathon Brostoff to discuss Gov. Evers’ conclusion that Foxconn is unlikely to hire 13,000 workers and his decision to renegotiate the contract. We review the ne...
19 Apr 201945min
