Battleground Wisconsin cover art

All Episodes

Battleground Wisconsin — 501 episodes

#
Title
1

Don’t you let that deal go down

2

Electability Trap

3

Battleground Wisconsin Podcast Special Edition: Governor's Candidate Forum

4

Election Day Ceasefire?

5

Voting and organizing the Wisconsin we need

6

Everyone's an election pundit

7

Always Organizing

8

Public money for NIL, as public schools make cuts

9

Fighting authoritarians with healthcare

10

Vos retires

11

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

12

Bondi Bombast Boomerang

13

Governor candidates embrace a BadgerCare Public Option

14

The Bitter Fruits of Failing Democracy

15

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

16

Greenleaf Data Center: Organized People Win!

17

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

18

Representative Cruz fights for promised public school funding

19

Caring about democracy

20

People vs Power

21

Organizing a labor revival

22

Wisconsin populist revival heats up

23

The "Benedict 8"

24

Election Whiplash?

25

A.I. data centers & democracy

26

AI & Data Center Bubble

27

No Kings 2.0

28

Meeting the moment?

29

Defending core values of democracy

30

The New McCarthyism

31

GROWWing organizing

32

The State of Working Wisconsin

33

$20/Hour Wage

34

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

35

Why Wisconsin Needs the Hospital Accountability Act

36

The Road to the Governor's Office Starts

37

2026 Election Launches

38

Democracy depends on us

39

Taking stock. What's next?

40

Budget Calamity?

41

Budget Impasse?

42

Evers in 2026? Budget battle sets the stage

43

Wealthy before public schools and healthcare

44

Republicans Play Hardball: Dare Governor to Veto Partisan Budget.

45

Week of Action in the Public Interest

46

Childcare providers lead the way

47

Time to Fight for Badgercare

48

May Day 2025: The power of permanent organizing

49

Stand and fight???

50

Corporate bosses cower under Trump

51

The escalatory spiral with China

52

Justice Crawford

53

Rural Wisconsinites fight Medicaid Cuts

54

Adults not listening

55

Congressional cowards hiding from constituents over Medicaid cuts

56

People power at the Capitol

57

Plundering Medicaid for the wealthy

58

Evers’ bold budget

59

Vote for Jill Underly in Tuesday’s Primary Election

60

Week three

61

The health of mothers, children and democracy

62

The State of the State in Trump’s America

63

Susan Crawford for State Supreme Court

64

America’s Fire

65

Welcome to 2025

66

GROWWING Organizing

67

Organizing for change

68

Predicting 2025

69

Thanksgiving Special Interviews

70

Climate organizing opportunities

71

Old School Organizing

72

Rural Red

73

What’s at stake

74

2024 Election ignores climate & healthcare crisis

75

19 days to make a difference

76

Hurricane of lies: No truth in America, just winning

77

Climate and Healthcare Hurricane

78

Learning from Hurricanes, hospital closures, and the Milwaukee Domes

79

Organizing Revival is Here

80

Debating the debate

81

The Battle 4 Wisconsin

82

Better in a Union

83

State Legislative Wave?

84

Progressives win primary elections

85

GOTV challenge

86

Shifting Battleground?

87

Harris 2024: Total Reset?

88

Bringing a gun to a knife fight

89

Walkin’& Talkin

90

Judicial Coup

91

Hot Summer Primaries in the State Legislature

92

Educating Every Kid

93

System Change

94

System failure

95

Challenging Monopolies

96

Fighting Hospital Costs and Closures

97

Protect Public Health, Stabilize Wisconsin Hospitals

98

Leaders needed

99

Organizing people, the only solution

100

Generational Opportunity for Change

101

Staring at our electoral future

102

Workers, unions, and the public interest

103

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

104

The Terror Blueprint for Trump's 2nd Term

105

Getting up stream to win

106

Taxing the wealthy and corporations

107

40 years of Citizen Action Wisconsin

108

Immunity Blues

109

Generational opportunity for progressives

110

Making the gerrymander disappear

111

Purplesconsin

112

Reviving our sick democracy will improve our health

113

Gerrymandering is bad for your health

114

Standing up to bigots

115

Fighting for public schools

116

Organizing Our Future in 2024

117

Biden v Trump II in 2024

118

Secretary of State Godlewski calls for Robert Spindell to go!

119

Looking to 2024, while 2020 still looms

120

A Supreme Interview with Representative Moore Omokunde

121

Special interview with Transformational Justice Campaign Coordinator Mark Rice

122

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

123

“The Wisconsin we need” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

124

Be like Ady Barkans

125

Fighting in the public interest

126

Power concedes nothing

127

Understanding History

128

House in Chaos

129

Special Interview with Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski

130

3 card monte democracy

131

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

132

It's all about power

133

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

134

ReThink Brewers Ownership: A push for public equity

135

Bad week for public education

136

A free & independent media in Wausau & Wisconsin

137

In These Times of movement building

138

Historic Indictment & investiture

139

Hot Union Summer

140

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

141

From Budget to Culture Wars

142

Budget Autopsy & Model for a New Progressive Politics

143

Standing up to Wisconsin’s billionaire bullies

144

Radical Solidarity

145

Fake Compromise

146

Fight for our lights, lives, and our planet

147

Minority Rule in MAGA America

148

Fighting Outsourcing

149

Speaker Vos takes Milwaukee hostage

150

Organizing BLOC by BLOC

151

The people’s priorities vs. the strongest gerrymander

152

State Budget Battle Brewing

153

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

154

After April 4th

155

Democracy Wins

156

Volunteers win close elections

157

Spring Politics

158

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

159

Rallying for Our Rights

160

Kids Forward: Standing with Community

161

Spring Primary Election: The good & the ugly

162

Primary Election, state budget, & subsidizing rich team owners

163

Piercing the ballooning cold war with China

164

Brewing up Democracy at State Supreme Court

165

Supremely important economic battles progressives must win

166

Gerrymandered Legislature off the rails in first week

167

No New Cold War!

168

The Ongoing Plot Against Democracy

169

St. Francis Nurses Stand Up & Fight Corporate Healthcare

170

Fed Up

171

51 is better than 50

172

Gerrymandered Governance

173

Thankful Battleground Wisconsin

174

Split Decision

175

Purple Wave

176

Case Closed: 2022 Election GOTV

177

ME Energies

178

#SENATORFORSALE

179

Special Interview with Aaron Richardson for State Treasurer

180

How to win the 2022 Election

181

Winning in rural Wisconsin

182

Fighting racist Republican election ads one voter at a time

183

UW Nurses flex union power

184

Special Interview - Sulma Arias

185

Election on MAGA

186

71% Say Union Yes!

187

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

188

Historic primary election & Congress Finally Goes Big

189

Send Darrin Madison to Madison

190

Special Interview with Angelito Tenorio

191

Sara Rodriguez: The best Rx for Lt. Governor

192

Unelected Federal Reserve uses workers as the hammer against inflation

193

Corporate media undermines democracy

194

Insurrection against Roe

195

Ron Johnson Phony

196

Eau Claire water: A victory for community organizing

197

Citizen Action endorses Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate

198

Policing police and school libraries

199

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

200

Proliferation of guns

201

Amtrak to Green Bay

202

Primary Season

203

SCOTUSAUTOCRACY

204

Special - Tobita Chow on anti-China rhetoric

205

Solidarity is Global

206

Supreme Gerrymander

207

Goodbye to Claire

208

History Made

209

Interview with Eau Claire School Board President Tim Nordin

210

Defending democracy, defeating violence

211

Supreme Importance

212

Investigating January 6 Insurrectionists

213

The Conspiracy Against Everything

214

Pathbreaking BadgerCare Public Option Bill Unveiled

215

State of the Educator

216

Texas sized Wisconsin emergency

217

Democracy Defender

218

Wisconsin is key to fraudulent Trump electors

219

Investigating Wisconsin’s fake electors

220

The Cause of Democracy: 1 year into the Biden Administration

221

2022 Elections are on!

222

Does 2022 have 2020 vision?

223

Manchin abandons American people

224

Robin Vos shamelessly blames hospitals for bed shortage

225

Partisan Pandemic

226

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

227

Forward On Climate

228

In These Times, progressives have the solutions

229

Union Strong

230

U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Mandela Barnes

231

Democrats leadership at stake

232

Labor strikes back against corporate America

233

Interview with Steven Olikara

234

An interview with Alex Lasry

235

Supreme politicians in robes

236

Interview with Tom Nelson

237

Endless War vs Green New Deal

238

Supreme Injustice

239

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

240

Redistricting the future

241

The World is on Fire

242

U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Sarah Godlewski

243

Infrastructure politics

244

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

245

Building the political movement we need

246

Vaccinating the Pandemic

247

State Budget Blues

248

Veto Republican Budget

249

The ACA Stands!

250

America needs a Wealth Tax

251

Republicans embrace anti-vaxxers & the "Big Lie"

252

This is not that, This is the Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

253

Evers calls BadgerCare Special Session

254

Anti-Vax Ron Johnson

255

COVID vaccine waiver

256

Historic Investments

257

A verdict on America

258

Structural racism demands structural solutions now

259

Public schools win in a landslide

260

Building 21st Century Infrastructure

261

Ron Johnson running with Q’Anon

262

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

263

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

264

Busting the filibuster or bust

265

Ron Johnson & Legislative Republicans embrace conspiracy and voter suppression

266

Evers’ Bold Budget

267

Ruthlessness: The 10th Anniversary of Act 10

268

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

269

Wisconsin Republicans fight for anti-maskers

270

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

271

Green Jobs Bill in first 100 days?

272

The power behind the insurrection

273

Will Gov. Evers’ budget invest in green jobs

274

Sinking Snake Oil Ship

275

Trump enablers scheme & sue to overturn election

276

Vos’ COVID-19 plan fails Wisconsin

277

Team Biden vs the Radical Right

278

Trump & Republicans Attack Wisconsin Election Workers

279

Looking Forward

280

All In WINsconsin

281

Election of the Century

282

Can You Hear Us Now?

283

Driftless Wisconsin

284

Visioning a healthy Wisconsin

285

Democracy Trumped?

286

Taking Back The ‘Burbs

287

COVID-19 and the Sickness of Democracy

288

Building A Better State Legislature

289

The cynical politics of Kenosha

290

Will a Biden Administration (if elected) be Progressive?

291

Milwaukee’s Digital National Convention

292

History with Kamala Harris

293

Essential workers and elections

294

Trump mails in the election

295

Uncontrolled Contagion

296

Schools during COVID-19 pandemic

297

Forecast: Hot & Humid

298

Judges, Billionaires, and Pandemic Chaos

299

Protest, pandemic and polls

300

Fighting for anti-racist communities

301

Listening to Sterling Brown

302

Uprising for Racial Justice

303

Podcast Special Edition: The New Union Organizing

304

Scapegoating China

305

Expand BadgerCare & free COVID-19 testing and treatment

306

Supreme Chaos

307

Politicians, not regular justices

308

COVID-19 Hot Zone in Brown County

309

Capitol COVID crisis

310

What leadership looks like in a pandemic

311

Shamocracy

312

COVID-19 sickens Wisconsin democracy

313

Not Dying 4 Wall Street

314

Wisconsin Republicans oppose COVID-19 relief

315

COVID-19 Pandemic

316

Super Tuesday Political Earthquake?

317

Coronavirus

318

Let’s get ready to rumble

319

Wis GOP votes for mass incarceration

320

Historic Political Week

321

Organizing the Bucks

322

State of ‘Sconnie

323

2020 Election Heats Up the Winter

324

Trump’s Imperial America

325

Legalize marijuana, criminalize voter suppression

326

Historic 24 hours

327

2020 prescription drug plan

328

High School

329

Fight climate change at home

330

Green New Deal in Sconnie

331

Treasurer Godlewski is Back!

332

Movement wins on Election night

333

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

334

The con continues

335

Impeachment

336

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

337

Medicare & Socialist Destruction

338

Examining police cooperation with ICE

339

Working Families Party endorses Elizabeth Warren

340

Opioid dealer settlement

341

Sensenbrenner to retire

342

Time to Retire

343

We are the caring majority

344

Boss Vos

345

White Supremacist terrorism

346

Gerrymandered

347

Amanda Stuck steps up

348

Lights for Liberty

349

Budget Endgame

350

Gerrymandered democracy

351

Trumped up 2020 election

352

The GOP Budget Plot Thickens

353

How Progressives Can Win the Rust Belt in 2020

354

Let them breathe smog and drink manure

355

Elizabeth Warren’s plan for America

356

The Radical Right Empire Strikes Back

357

State budget goes to Madison

358

Evers will fight like hell for Medicaid expansion

359

Winning: Emily Siegrist’s 2020 vision

360

Foxconn reality check

361

Treasurer Godlewski’s Budget

362

Medicare For All Special Segment

363

Purple

364

Challenging Trump & Foxconn

365

Scott Walker Alert

366

The Mandela Barnes interview

367

Critical Eyes on Foxconn

368

Healthcare on the March

369

3 white male Republicans vow to block BadgerCare expansion

370

The climate of democracy in Wisconsin

371

Green New Deal vs. Foxconn

372

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

373

Wisconsin leans forward

374

Evers moves on marijuana

375

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

376

Evers' Budget & Healthcare in 2019

377

Ryan & Walker exit

378

Listening to people

379

GOP power grab

380

The health of Wisconsin’s democracy

381

GOP Lame Turducken

382

Walker repealed and replaced with Evers/Barnes

383

Godlewski Gets Out The Vote Down Ballot

384

Election spotlight on ‘Sconie

385

GOP’s Pre-existing Political Problem

386

Election Horse Race Heats Up

387

“Shamocracy”

388

#WeBelieveHer

389

Scott Walker's Pre-existing Condition

390

Walker campaign in the gutter

391

Baldwin pledges to protect everyone with pre-existing conditions

392

Progressives running hard in Republican districts

393

Citizen Action Co-op Members Win Big on Primary Day

394

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

395

Get Out The Primary Vote

396

Supporting Citizen Action Co-op Members

397

Marijuana Referendums

398

Interview with Mandela Barnes for Lt. Governor

399

Trump’s New Healthcare Sabotage

400

What Does the Progressive Upsurge Mean for Democrats?

401

Supreme Power Grab

402

Family Separation - Erica Flynn Segment

403

Standing up to Trump’s Human Rights Abuses

404

Big Blue Wave?

405

Thank You Judge Abrahamson

406

Open Political Season

407

Milwaukee Buck vs. Milwaukee Police

408

Taking on Andre the Jacque

409

GOP Sewer Primary

410

Walker Air Blitz Begins

411

Rural & Small Town Organizing

412

Who should be our next governor

413

Ryan exits stage right-wing

414

You can’t always get what you want

415

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

416

End of Legislative Session Mayhem

417

How are your Scottholes?

418

Attorney General Schimel wants to arm teachers

419

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

420

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

421

Walker punishes poor families to help his re-election

422

Scott Walker’s SOS distress signal to voters

423

SD 10 Surprise

424

Walker chases "Disillusioned" Chicago Millennials

425

Witch Hunt at the Election Commission

426

Draining wetlands on GOP holiday wish list

427

Alabama Crimson Blue Tide

428

GOP ideology: The pig has no pants

429

GOP Tax Scam

430

Wetlands Destruction Bill: Foxconn scheme goes statewide

431

WisConConsin

432

GOP Seeks Sanctuary from Democracy

433

WEDC hammered by Carpenter

434

Foxconn Goes Nuclear?

435

Scott Walker's Hemp Problem

436

Supreme Gerrymander

437

America Abandons Americans

438

It's Back

439

Medicare For All

440

Hurricane Donald sets sights on DACA

441

Labor Day 2017

442

Eye on 2018 Election

443

Taking a Stand

444

Foxconn: It's a trap!

445

The Foxconn Resistance

446

FoxCon Game?

447

GOP Repeal in Critical Condition

448

Zaxs in DC & Madison

449

Health Care and Budget Impasse

450

Healthcare is working along very well

451

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

452

Mean House & Secretive Senate

453

Healthcare Fight Grows

454

Wisconsin economy tanks; Walker blames workers

455

CBOh oh: 23 million will lose health care

456

Your Chauffeur is Waiting

457

Bradley Foundation exports Blue Lakes, Red States model to America

458

House GOP’s Health Care Scarlet Letter

459

3 Voices of the Future

460

Sean Duffy hates Medicare and Public Education

461

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

462

Trump’s Health Care Sabotage

463

Drug testing Conservatives

464

From Healthcare to Climate to Constitutional Crisis

465

RyanCare flatlines

466

#NoMercyRyan

467

The Health Care Revolution?

468

Sen. Baldwin’s fight for healthcare for all

469

Ryan’s Fury on the Border

470

Duffman says No

471

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

472

Resistance to Revolution

473

Progressive Talk Radio Returns

474

An Alternative State Budget

475

State of Walker’s Wisconsin

476

Substance Use Prevention - Media Call 1_12_17

477

Waiting for GOP's Repeal and Replace

478

"Charlie Sykes' Pitchfork Nation”

479

2017 WI Health Insurance Cost Rankings - Media Call

480

It’s About Ethics

481

The Real Working Class Hero

482

Recount Land

483

Redistricted Thanksgiving

484

Redistrict Reality

485

Distress

486

ELECTION!

487

Laser Them Out...Ron

488

A Trump Coup?

489

Trumped

490

Wisconsin’s hothouse of political corruption

491

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

492

What keeps Walker up at night

493

Because the IRS asked

494

Guardian leaks on Walker

495

A Victory for Women’s Health

496

Can’t Outsource Labor Day Weekend

497

Media Call - WI Manufacturing Wages Declining

498

Early Voting Victory

499

Sherman Park, Wisconsin

500

Visions of November

501

Intentional Racial Discrimination