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Battleground Wisconsin — 509 episodes

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Primary Election: What happened & the roadmap forward

2

Keeping the throttle twisted towards the primary election

3

Meet Laurel Wales

4

Organizing the democracy we need the next 250 years

5

Progressive Caucus in Wisconsin

6

Low wages and worker power

7

Tom Tiffany Embraces the Trump slush fund.

8

Special Interview w/ State Rep. Christian Phelps: Funding public schools in the next state budget

9

Don’t you let that deal go down

10

Electability Trap

11

Battleground Wisconsin Podcast Special Edition: Governor's Candidate Forum

12

Election Day Ceasefire?

13

Voting and organizing the Wisconsin we need

14

Everyone's an election pundit

15

Always Organizing

16

Public money for NIL, as public schools make cuts

17

Fighting authoritarians with healthcare

18

Vos retires

19

Remembering Jesse Jackson, Postpartum Medicaid victory, $20 Wage Legislation launch, and data centers public hearing

20

Bondi Bombast Boomerang

21

Governor candidates embrace a BadgerCare Public Option

22

The Bitter Fruits of Failing Democracy

23

Freddy Peralta trade, wage floors, and the politics of MLB

24

Greenleaf Data Center: Organized People Win!

25

Venezuela, ICE shooting and taxing the rich to fund schools and public goods

26

Representative Cruz fights for promised public school funding

27

Caring about democracy

28

People vs Power

29

Organizing a labor revival

30

Wisconsin populist revival heats up

31

The "Benedict 8"

32

Election Whiplash?

33

A.I. data centers & democracy

34

AI & Data Center Bubble

35

No Kings 2.0

36

Meeting the moment?

37

Defending core values of democracy

38

The New McCarthyism

39

GROWWing organizing

40

The State of Working Wisconsin

41

$20/Hour Wage

42

Climate Change in Wisconsin: A whole new ballgame! Ascension drowns quality care.

43

Why Wisconsin Needs the Hospital Accountability Act

44

The Road to the Governor's Office Starts

45

2026 Election Launches

46

Democracy depends on us

47

Taking stock. What's next?

48

Budget Calamity?

49

Budget Impasse?

50

Evers in 2026? Budget battle sets the stage

51

Wealthy before public schools and healthcare

52

Republicans Play Hardball: Dare Governor to Veto Partisan Budget.

53

Week of Action in the Public Interest

54

Childcare providers lead the way

55

Time to Fight for Badgercare

56

May Day 2025: The power of permanent organizing

57

Stand and fight???

58

Corporate bosses cower under Trump

59

The escalatory spiral with China

60

Justice Crawford

61

Rural Wisconsinites fight Medicaid Cuts

62

Adults not listening

63

Congressional cowards hiding from constituents over Medicaid cuts

64

People power at the Capitol

65

Plundering Medicaid for the wealthy

66

Evers’ bold budget

67

Vote for Jill Underly in Tuesday’s Primary Election

68

Week three

69

The health of mothers, children and democracy

70

The State of the State in Trump’s America

71

Susan Crawford for State Supreme Court

72

America’s Fire

73

Welcome to 2025

74

GROWWING Organizing

75

Organizing for change

76

Predicting 2025

77

Thanksgiving Special Interviews

78

Climate organizing opportunities

79

Old School Organizing

80

Rural Red

81

What’s at stake

82

2024 Election ignores climate & healthcare crisis

83

19 days to make a difference

84

Hurricane of lies: No truth in America, just winning

85

Climate and Healthcare Hurricane

86

Learning from Hurricanes, hospital closures, and the Milwaukee Domes

87

Organizing Revival is Here

88

Debating the debate

89

The Battle 4 Wisconsin

90

Better in a Union

91

State Legislative Wave?

92

Progressives win primary elections

93

GOTV challenge

94

Shifting Battleground?

95

Harris 2024: Total Reset?

96

Bringing a gun to a knife fight

97

Walkin’& Talkin

98

Judicial Coup

99

Hot Summer Primaries in the State Legislature

100

Educating Every Kid

101

System Change

102

System failure

103

Challenging Monopolies

104

Fighting Hospital Costs and Closures

105

Protect Public Health, Stabilize Wisconsin Hospitals

106

Leaders needed

107

Organizing people, the only solution

108

Generational Opportunity for Change

109

Staring at our electoral future

110

Workers, unions, and the public interest

111

Spring Election, Sarah Godlewski, free home weatherizations, and flowers

112

The Terror Blueprint for Trump's 2nd Term

113

Getting up stream to win

114

Taxing the wealthy and corporations

115

40 years of Citizen Action Wisconsin

116

Immunity Blues

117

Generational opportunity for progressives

118

Making the gerrymander disappear

119

Purplesconsin

120

Reviving our sick democracy will improve our health

121

Gerrymandering is bad for your health

122

Standing up to bigots

123

Fighting for public schools

124

Organizing Our Future in 2024

125

Biden v Trump II in 2024

126

Secretary of State Godlewski calls for Robert Spindell to go!

127

Looking to 2024, while 2020 still looms

128

A Supreme Interview with Representative Moore Omokunde

129

Special interview with Transformational Justice Campaign Coordinator Mark Rice

130

Special Reports feat: U.S. Congressman Mark Pocan & State Senator Chris Larson

131

“The Wisconsin we need” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

132

Be like Ady Barkans

133

Fighting in the public interest

134

Power concedes nothing

135

Understanding History

136

House in Chaos

137

Special Interview with Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski

138

3 card monte democracy

139

Who will fight for the public interest, instead of a billionaire

140

It's all about power

141

Special Interview with Dave Zirin on public money for billionaire’s stadium.

142

ReThink Brewers Ownership: A push for public equity

143

Bad week for public education

144

A free & independent media in Wausau & Wisconsin

145

In These Times of movement building

146

Historic Indictment & investiture

147

Hot Union Summer

148

Public Schools Unite Us: Special guest WI Public Education Network’s Heather DuBois Bourenane

149

From Budget to Culture Wars

150

Budget Autopsy & Model for a New Progressive Politics

151

Standing up to Wisconsin’s billionaire bullies

152

Radical Solidarity

153

Fake Compromise

154

Fight for our lights, lives, and our planet

155

Minority Rule in MAGA America

156

Fighting Outsourcing

157

Speaker Vos takes Milwaukee hostage

158

Organizing BLOC by BLOC

159

The people’s priorities vs. the strongest gerrymander

160

State Budget Battle Brewing

161

420: Wisconsin’s illusive freedom & lost $165 million a year

162

After April 4th

163

Democracy Wins

164

Volunteers win close elections

165

Spring Politics

166

Medicare under attack: Special Interview with U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan

167

Rallying for Our Rights

168

Kids Forward: Standing with Community

169

Spring Primary Election: The good & the ugly

170

Primary Election, state budget, & subsidizing rich team owners

171

Piercing the ballooning cold war with China

172

Brewing up Democracy at State Supreme Court

173

Supremely important economic battles progressives must win

174

Gerrymandered Legislature off the rails in first week

175

No New Cold War!

176

The Ongoing Plot Against Democracy

177

St. Francis Nurses Stand Up & Fight Corporate Healthcare

178

Fed Up

179

51 is better than 50

180

Gerrymandered Governance

181

Thankful Battleground Wisconsin

182

Split Decision

183

Purple Wave

184

Case Closed: 2022 Election GOTV

185

ME Energies

186

#SENATORFORSALE

187

Special Interview with Aaron Richardson for State Treasurer

188

How to win the 2022 Election

189

Winning in rural Wisconsin

190

Fighting racist Republican election ads one voter at a time

191

UW Nurses flex union power

192

Special Interview - Sulma Arias

193

Election on MAGA

194

71% Say Union Yes!

195

Biden forgives student loans & UW Health nurses prepare to strike for a union

196

Historic primary election & Congress Finally Goes Big

197

Send Darrin Madison to Madison

198

Special Interview with Angelito Tenorio

199

Sara Rodriguez: The best Rx for Lt. Governor

200

Unelected Federal Reserve uses workers as the hammer against inflation

201

Corporate media undermines democracy

202

Insurrection against Roe

203

Ron Johnson Phony

204

Eau Claire water: A victory for community organizing

205

Citizen Action endorses Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate

206

Policing police and school libraries

207

Special Report - Kate Beaton on California Company Wanting Eau Claire Water

208

Proliferation of guns

209

Amtrak to Green Bay

210

Primary Season

211

SCOTUSAUTOCRACY

212

Special - Tobita Chow on anti-China rhetoric

213

Solidarity is Global

214

Supreme Gerrymander

215

Goodbye to Claire

216

History Made

217

Interview with Eau Claire School Board President Tim Nordin

218

Defending democracy, defeating violence

219

Supreme Importance

220

Investigating January 6 Insurrectionists

221

The Conspiracy Against Everything

222

Pathbreaking BadgerCare Public Option Bill Unveiled

223

State of the Educator

224

Texas sized Wisconsin emergency

225

Democracy Defender

226

Wisconsin is key to fraudulent Trump electors

227

Investigating Wisconsin’s fake electors

228

The Cause of Democracy: 1 year into the Biden Administration

229

2022 Elections are on!

230

Does 2022 have 2020 vision?

231

Manchin abandons American people

232

Robin Vos shamelessly blames hospitals for bed shortage

233

Partisan Pandemic

234

Most undercovered story of 2021: The failure to get a COVID vaccine patent waiver

235

Forward On Climate

236

In These Times, progressives have the solutions

237

Union Strong

238

U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Mandela Barnes

239

Democrats leadership at stake

240

Labor strikes back against corporate America

241

Interview with Steven Olikara

242

An interview with Alex Lasry

243

Supreme politicians in robes

244

Interview with Tom Nelson

245

Endless War vs Green New Deal

246

Supreme Injustice

247

Dr. Jill Battino’s Rx for the U.S. Senate

248

Redistricting the future

249

The World is on Fire

250

U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Sarah Godlewski

251

Infrastructure politics

252

Infastructure Endgames, Filibusters & U.S. Senate candidate Chris Larson

253

Building the political movement we need

254

Vaccinating the Pandemic

255

State Budget Blues

256

Veto Republican Budget

257

The ACA Stands!

258

America needs a Wealth Tax

259

Republicans embrace anti-vaxxers & the "Big Lie"

260

This is not that, This is the Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

261

Evers calls BadgerCare Special Session

262

Anti-Vax Ron Johnson

263

COVID vaccine waiver

264

Historic Investments

265

A verdict on America

266

Structural racism demands structural solutions now

267

Public schools win in a landslide

268

Building 21st Century Infrastructure

269

Ron Johnson running with Q’Anon

270

“Avoiding target fixation on the filibuster…so we don't crash”

271

Biden Just Made it Harder for GOP to Turn Down BadgerCare Expansion

272

Busting the filibuster or bust

273

Ron Johnson & Legislative Republicans embrace conspiracy and voter suppression

274

Evers’ Bold Budget

275

Ruthlessness: The 10th Anniversary of Act 10

276

Making Change in Washington. Can Progressives Co-Govern with Biden?

277

Wisconsin Republicans fight for anti-maskers

278

46th President looks to future; Wauwatosa Police look to stone age

279

Green Jobs Bill in first 100 days?

280

The power behind the insurrection

281

Will Gov. Evers’ budget invest in green jobs

282

Sinking Snake Oil Ship

283

Trump enablers scheme & sue to overturn election

284

Vos’ COVID-19 plan fails Wisconsin

285

Team Biden vs the Radical Right

286

Trump & Republicans Attack Wisconsin Election Workers

287

Looking Forward

288

All In WINsconsin

289

Election of the Century

290

Can You Hear Us Now?

291

Driftless Wisconsin

292

Visioning a healthy Wisconsin

293

Democracy Trumped?

294

Taking Back The ‘Burbs

295

COVID-19 and the Sickness of Democracy

296

Building A Better State Legislature

297

The cynical politics of Kenosha

298

Will a Biden Administration (if elected) be Progressive?

299

Milwaukee’s Digital National Convention

300

History with Kamala Harris

301

Essential workers and elections

302

Trump mails in the election

303

Uncontrolled Contagion

304

Schools during COVID-19 pandemic

305

Forecast: Hot & Humid

306

Judges, Billionaires, and Pandemic Chaos

307

Protest, pandemic and polls

308

Fighting for anti-racist communities

309

Listening to Sterling Brown

310

Uprising for Racial Justice

311

Podcast Special Edition: The New Union Organizing

312

Scapegoating China

313

Expand BadgerCare & free COVID-19 testing and treatment

314

Supreme Chaos

315

Politicians, not regular justices

316

COVID-19 Hot Zone in Brown County

317

Capitol COVID crisis

318

What leadership looks like in a pandemic

319

Shamocracy

320

COVID-19 sickens Wisconsin democracy

321

Not Dying 4 Wall Street

322

Wisconsin Republicans oppose COVID-19 relief

323

COVID-19 Pandemic

324

Super Tuesday Political Earthquake?

325

Coronavirus

326

Let’s get ready to rumble

327

Wis GOP votes for mass incarceration

328

Historic Political Week

329

Organizing the Bucks

330

State of ‘Sconnie

331

2020 Election Heats Up the Winter

332

Trump’s Imperial America

333

Legalize marijuana, criminalize voter suppression

334

Historic 24 hours

335

2020 prescription drug plan

336

High School

337

Fight climate change at home

338

Green New Deal in Sconnie

339

Treasurer Godlewski is Back!

340

Movement wins on Election night

341

Robin Vos doesn’t know if climate change is real… probably

342

The con continues

343

Impeachment

344

King Vos grabs more power & uses Rep. Jimmy Anderson as his pawn

345

Medicare & Socialist Destruction

346

Examining police cooperation with ICE

347

Working Families Party endorses Elizabeth Warren

348

Opioid dealer settlement

349

Sensenbrenner to retire

350

Time to Retire

351

We are the caring majority

352

Boss Vos

353

White Supremacist terrorism

354

Gerrymandered

355

Amanda Stuck steps up

356

Lights for Liberty

357

Budget Endgame

358

Gerrymandered democracy

359

Trumped up 2020 election

360

The GOP Budget Plot Thickens

361

How Progressives Can Win the Rust Belt in 2020

362

Let them breathe smog and drink manure

363

Elizabeth Warren’s plan for America

364

The Radical Right Empire Strikes Back

365

State budget goes to Madison

366

Evers will fight like hell for Medicaid expansion

367

Winning: Emily Siegrist’s 2020 vision

368

Foxconn reality check

369

Treasurer Godlewski’s Budget

370

Medicare For All Special Segment

371

Purple

372

Challenging Trump & Foxconn

373

Scott Walker Alert

374

The Mandela Barnes interview

375

Critical Eyes on Foxconn

376

Healthcare on the March

377

3 white male Republicans vow to block BadgerCare expansion

378

The climate of democracy in Wisconsin

379

Green New Deal vs. Foxconn

380

The Foxconn is up: They got paid, we got played

381

Wisconsin leans forward

382

Evers moves on marijuana

383

Sarah what the Godlewski will the state treasurer do? Vol.1

384

Evers' Budget & Healthcare in 2019

385

Ryan & Walker exit

386

Listening to people

387

GOP power grab

388

The health of Wisconsin’s democracy

389

GOP Lame Turducken

390

Walker repealed and replaced with Evers/Barnes

391

Godlewski Gets Out The Vote Down Ballot

392

Election spotlight on ‘Sconie

393

GOP’s Pre-existing Political Problem

394

Election Horse Race Heats Up

395

“Shamocracy”

396

#WeBelieveHer

397

Scott Walker's Pre-existing Condition

398

Walker campaign in the gutter

399

Baldwin pledges to protect everyone with pre-existing conditions

400

Progressives running hard in Republican districts

401

Citizen Action Co-op Members Win Big on Primary Day

402

Lee Snodgrass: Citizen Action’s endorsed candidate in Senate District 19

403

Get Out The Primary Vote

404

Supporting Citizen Action Co-op Members

405

Marijuana Referendums

406

Interview with Mandela Barnes for Lt. Governor

407

Trump’s New Healthcare Sabotage

408

What Does the Progressive Upsurge Mean for Democrats?

409

Supreme Power Grab

410

Family Separation - Erica Flynn Segment

411

Standing up to Trump’s Human Rights Abuses

412

Big Blue Wave?

413

Thank You Judge Abrahamson

414

Open Political Season

415

Milwaukee Buck vs. Milwaukee Police

416

Taking on Andre the Jacque

417

GOP Sewer Primary

418

Walker Air Blitz Begins

419

Rural & Small Town Organizing

420

Who should be our next governor

421

Ryan exits stage right-wing

422

You can’t always get what you want

423

Rep. Amanda Stuck Interview: How the GOP failed Kimberly-Clark and the Fox Valley

424

End of Legislative Session Mayhem

425

How are your Scottholes?

426

Attorney General Schimel wants to arm teachers

427

Tim Burns for State Supreme Court: A breath of fresh air in corrupt Supreme Court

428

You get a Foxconn deal, and you get a Foxconn deal...

429

Walker punishes poor families to help his re-election

430

Scott Walker’s SOS distress signal to voters

431

SD 10 Surprise

432

Walker chases "Disillusioned" Chicago Millennials

433

Witch Hunt at the Election Commission

434

Draining wetlands on GOP holiday wish list

435

Alabama Crimson Blue Tide

436

GOP ideology: The pig has no pants

437

GOP Tax Scam

438

Wetlands Destruction Bill: Foxconn scheme goes statewide

439

WisConConsin

440

GOP Seeks Sanctuary from Democracy

441

WEDC hammered by Carpenter

442

Foxconn Goes Nuclear?

443

Scott Walker's Hemp Problem

444

Supreme Gerrymander

445

America Abandons Americans

446

It's Back

447

Medicare For All

448

Hurricane Donald sets sights on DACA

449

Labor Day 2017

450

Eye on 2018 Election

451

Taking a Stand

452

Foxconn: It's a trap!

453

The Foxconn Resistance

454

FoxCon Game?

455

GOP Repeal in Critical Condition

456

Zaxs in DC & Madison

457

Health Care and Budget Impasse

458

Healthcare is working along very well

459

Senate GOP healthcare bill revealed… So that’s why it was secret

460

Mean House & Secretive Senate

461

Healthcare Fight Grows

462

Wisconsin economy tanks; Walker blames workers

463

CBOh oh: 23 million will lose health care

464

Your Chauffeur is Waiting

465

Bradley Foundation exports Blue Lakes, Red States model to America

466

House GOP’s Health Care Scarlet Letter

467

3 Voices of the Future

468

Sean Duffy hates Medicare and Public Education

469

Media Call: Public Health Experts Challenge Gov. Walker's Drug Testing of BadgerCare Recipients

470

Trump’s Health Care Sabotage

471

Drug testing Conservatives

472

From Healthcare to Climate to Constitutional Crisis

473

RyanCare flatlines

474

#NoMercyRyan

475

The Health Care Revolution?

476

Sen. Baldwin’s fight for healthcare for all

477

Ryan’s Fury on the Border

478

Duffman says No

479

Walker’s It’s obvious I’m running for re-election budget

480

Resistance to Revolution

481

Progressive Talk Radio Returns

482

An Alternative State Budget

483

State of Walker’s Wisconsin

484

Substance Use Prevention - Media Call 1_12_17

485

Waiting for GOP's Repeal and Replace

486

"Charlie Sykes' Pitchfork Nation”

487

2017 WI Health Insurance Cost Rankings - Media Call

488

It’s About Ethics

489

The Real Working Class Hero

490

Recount Land

491

Redistricted Thanksgiving

492

Redistrict Reality

493

Distress

494

ELECTION!

495

Laser Them Out...Ron

496

A Trump Coup?

497

Trumped

498

Wisconsin’s hothouse of political corruption

499

Progressive Radio DJ Sly from 93.7 Plugs Radio-Active Campaign!

500

What keeps Walker up at night

501

Because the IRS asked

502

Guardian leaks on Walker

503

A Victory for Women’s Health

504

Can’t Outsource Labor Day Weekend

505

Media Call - WI Manufacturing Wages Declining

506

Early Voting Victory

507

Sherman Park, Wisconsin

508

Visions of November

509

Intentional Racial Discrimination