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Battleground Wisconsin — 506 episodes

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Organizing the democracy we need the next 250 years

2

Progressive Caucus in Wisconsin

3

Low wages and worker power

4

Tom Tiffany Embraces the Trump slush fund.

5

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

6

Don’t you let that deal go down

7

Electability Trap

8

Battleground Wisconsin Podcast Special Edition: Governor's Candidate Forum

9

Election Day Ceasefire?

10

Voting and organizing the Wisconsin we need

11

Everyone's an election pundit

12

Always Organizing

13

Public money for NIL, as public schools make cuts

14

Fighting authoritarians with healthcare

15

Vos retires

16

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

17

Bondi Bombast Boomerang

18

Governor candidates embrace a BadgerCare Public Option

19

The Bitter Fruits of Failing Democracy

20

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

21

Greenleaf Data Center: Organized People Win!

22

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

23

Representative Cruz fights for promised public school funding

24

Caring about democracy

25

People vs Power

26

Organizing a labor revival

27

Wisconsin populist revival heats up

28

The "Benedict 8"

29

Election Whiplash?

30

A.I. data centers & democracy

31

AI & Data Center Bubble

32

No Kings 2.0

33

Meeting the moment?

34

Defending core values of democracy

35

The New McCarthyism

36

GROWWing organizing

37

The State of Working Wisconsin

38

$20/Hour Wage

39

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

40

Why Wisconsin Needs the Hospital Accountability Act

41

The Road to the Governor's Office Starts

42

2026 Election Launches

43

Democracy depends on us

44

Taking stock. What's next?

45

Budget Calamity?

46

Budget Impasse?

47

Evers in 2026? Budget battle sets the stage

48

Wealthy before public schools and healthcare

49

Republicans Play Hardball: Dare Governor to Veto Partisan Budget.

50

Week of Action in the Public Interest

51

Childcare providers lead the way

52

Time to Fight for Badgercare

53

May Day 2025: The power of permanent organizing

54

Stand and fight???

55

Corporate bosses cower under Trump

56

The escalatory spiral with China

57

Justice Crawford

58

Rural Wisconsinites fight Medicaid Cuts

59

Adults not listening

60

Congressional cowards hiding from constituents over Medicaid cuts

61

People power at the Capitol

62

Plundering Medicaid for the wealthy

63

Evers’ bold budget

64

Vote for Jill Underly in Tuesday’s Primary Election

65

Week three

66

The health of mothers, children and democracy

67

The State of the State in Trump’s America

68

Susan Crawford for State Supreme Court

69

America’s Fire

70

Welcome to 2025

71

GROWWING Organizing

72

Organizing for change

73

Predicting 2025

74

Thanksgiving Special Interviews

75

Climate organizing opportunities

76

Old School Organizing

77

Rural Red

78

What’s at stake

79

2024 Election ignores climate & healthcare crisis

80

19 days to make a difference

81

Hurricane of lies: No truth in America, just winning

82

Climate and Healthcare Hurricane

83

Learning from Hurricanes, hospital closures, and the Milwaukee Domes

84

Organizing Revival is Here

85

Debating the debate

86

The Battle 4 Wisconsin

87

Better in a Union

88

State Legislative Wave?

89

Progressives win primary elections

90

GOTV challenge

91

Shifting Battleground?

92

Harris 2024: Total Reset?

93

Bringing a gun to a knife fight

94

Walkin’& Talkin

95

Judicial Coup

96

Hot Summer Primaries in the State Legislature

97

Educating Every Kid

98

System Change

99

System failure

100

Challenging Monopolies

101

Fighting Hospital Costs and Closures

102

Protect Public Health, Stabilize Wisconsin Hospitals

103

Leaders needed

104

Organizing people, the only solution

105

Generational Opportunity for Change

106

Staring at our electoral future

107

Workers, unions, and the public interest

108

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

109

The Terror Blueprint for Trump's 2nd Term

110

Getting up stream to win

111

Taxing the wealthy and corporations

112

40 years of Citizen Action Wisconsin

113

Immunity Blues

114

Generational opportunity for progressives

115

Making the gerrymander disappear

116

Purplesconsin

117

Reviving our sick democracy will improve our health

118

Gerrymandering is bad for your health

119

Standing up to bigots

120

Fighting for public schools

121

Organizing Our Future in 2024

122

Biden v Trump II in 2024

123

Secretary of State Godlewski calls for Robert Spindell to go!

124

Looking to 2024, while 2020 still looms

125

A Supreme Interview with Representative Moore Omokunde

126

Special interview with Transformational Justice Campaign Coordinator Mark Rice

127

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

128

“The Wisconsin we need” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

129

Be like Ady Barkans

130

Fighting in the public interest

131

Power concedes nothing

132

Understanding History

133

House in Chaos

134

Special Interview with Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski

135

3 card monte democracy

136

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

137

It's all about power

138

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

139

ReThink Brewers Ownership: A push for public equity

140

Bad week for public education

141

A free & independent media in Wausau & Wisconsin

142

In These Times of movement building

143

Historic Indictment & investiture

144

Hot Union Summer

145

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

146

From Budget to Culture Wars

147

Budget Autopsy & Model for a New Progressive Politics

148

Standing up to Wisconsin’s billionaire bullies

149

Radical Solidarity

150

Fake Compromise

151

Fight for our lights, lives, and our planet

152

Minority Rule in MAGA America

153

Fighting Outsourcing

154

Speaker Vos takes Milwaukee hostage

155

Organizing BLOC by BLOC

156

The people’s priorities vs. the strongest gerrymander

157

State Budget Battle Brewing

158

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

159

After April 4th

160

Democracy Wins

161

Volunteers win close elections

162

Spring Politics

163

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

164

Rallying for Our Rights

165

Kids Forward: Standing with Community

166

Spring Primary Election: The good & the ugly

167

Primary Election, state budget, & subsidizing rich team owners

168

Piercing the ballooning cold war with China

169

Brewing up Democracy at State Supreme Court

170

Supremely important economic battles progressives must win

171

Gerrymandered Legislature off the rails in first week

172

No New Cold War!

173

The Ongoing Plot Against Democracy

174

St. Francis Nurses Stand Up & Fight Corporate Healthcare

175

Fed Up

176

51 is better than 50

177

Gerrymandered Governance

178

Thankful Battleground Wisconsin

179

Split Decision

180

Purple Wave

181

Case Closed: 2022 Election GOTV

182

ME Energies

183

#SENATORFORSALE

184

Special Interview with Aaron Richardson for State Treasurer

185

How to win the 2022 Election

186

Winning in rural Wisconsin

187

Fighting racist Republican election ads one voter at a time

188

UW Nurses flex union power

189

Special Interview - Sulma Arias

190

Election on MAGA

191

71% Say Union Yes!

192

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

193

Historic primary election & Congress Finally Goes Big

194

Send Darrin Madison to Madison

195

Special Interview with Angelito Tenorio

196

Sara Rodriguez: The best Rx for Lt. Governor

197

Unelected Federal Reserve uses workers as the hammer against inflation

198

Corporate media undermines democracy

199

Insurrection against Roe

200

Ron Johnson Phony

201

Eau Claire water: A victory for community organizing

202

Citizen Action endorses Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate

203

Policing police and school libraries

204

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

205

Proliferation of guns

206

Amtrak to Green Bay

207

Primary Season

208

SCOTUSAUTOCRACY

209

Special - Tobita Chow on anti-China rhetoric

210

Solidarity is Global

211

Supreme Gerrymander

212

Goodbye to Claire

213

History Made

214

Interview with Eau Claire School Board President Tim Nordin

215

Defending democracy, defeating violence

216

Supreme Importance

217

Investigating January 6 Insurrectionists

218

The Conspiracy Against Everything

219

Pathbreaking BadgerCare Public Option Bill Unveiled

220

State of the Educator

221

Texas sized Wisconsin emergency

222

Democracy Defender

223

Wisconsin is key to fraudulent Trump electors

224

Investigating Wisconsin’s fake electors

225

The Cause of Democracy: 1 year into the Biden Administration

226

2022 Elections are on!

227

Does 2022 have 2020 vision?

228

Manchin abandons American people

229

Robin Vos shamelessly blames hospitals for bed shortage

230

Partisan Pandemic

231

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

232

Forward On Climate

233

In These Times, progressives have the solutions

234

Union Strong

235

U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Mandela Barnes

236

Democrats leadership at stake

237

Labor strikes back against corporate America

238

Interview with Steven Olikara

239

An interview with Alex Lasry

240

Supreme politicians in robes

241

Interview with Tom Nelson

242

Endless War vs Green New Deal

243

Supreme Injustice

244

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

245

Redistricting the future

246

The World is on Fire

247

U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Sarah Godlewski

248

Infrastructure politics

249

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

250

Building the political movement we need

251

Vaccinating the Pandemic

252

State Budget Blues

253

Veto Republican Budget

254

The ACA Stands!

255

America needs a Wealth Tax

256

Republicans embrace anti-vaxxers & the "Big Lie"

257

This is not that, This is the Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

258

Evers calls BadgerCare Special Session

259

Anti-Vax Ron Johnson

260

COVID vaccine waiver

261

Historic Investments

262

A verdict on America

263

Structural racism demands structural solutions now

264

Public schools win in a landslide

265

Building 21st Century Infrastructure

266

Ron Johnson running with Q’Anon

267

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

268

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

269

Busting the filibuster or bust

270

Ron Johnson & Legislative Republicans embrace conspiracy and voter suppression

271

Evers’ Bold Budget

272

Ruthlessness: The 10th Anniversary of Act 10

273

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

274

Wisconsin Republicans fight for anti-maskers

275

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

276

Green Jobs Bill in first 100 days?

277

The power behind the insurrection

278

Will Gov. Evers’ budget invest in green jobs

279

Sinking Snake Oil Ship

280

Trump enablers scheme & sue to overturn election

281

Vos’ COVID-19 plan fails Wisconsin

282

Team Biden vs the Radical Right

283

Trump & Republicans Attack Wisconsin Election Workers

284

Looking Forward

285

All In WINsconsin

286

Election of the Century

287

Can You Hear Us Now?

288

Driftless Wisconsin

289

Visioning a healthy Wisconsin

290

Democracy Trumped?

291

Taking Back The ‘Burbs

292

COVID-19 and the Sickness of Democracy

293

Building A Better State Legislature

294

The cynical politics of Kenosha

295

Will a Biden Administration (if elected) be Progressive?

296

Milwaukee’s Digital National Convention

297

History with Kamala Harris

298

Essential workers and elections

299

Trump mails in the election

300

Uncontrolled Contagion

301

Schools during COVID-19 pandemic

302

Forecast: Hot & Humid

303

Judges, Billionaires, and Pandemic Chaos

304

Protest, pandemic and polls

305

Fighting for anti-racist communities

306

Listening to Sterling Brown

307

Uprising for Racial Justice

308

Podcast Special Edition: The New Union Organizing

309

Scapegoating China

310

Expand BadgerCare & free COVID-19 testing and treatment

311

Supreme Chaos

312

Politicians, not regular justices

313

COVID-19 Hot Zone in Brown County

314

Capitol COVID crisis

315

What leadership looks like in a pandemic

316

Shamocracy

317

COVID-19 sickens Wisconsin democracy

318

Not Dying 4 Wall Street

319

Wisconsin Republicans oppose COVID-19 relief

320

COVID-19 Pandemic

321

Super Tuesday Political Earthquake?

322

Coronavirus

323

Let’s get ready to rumble

324

Wis GOP votes for mass incarceration

325

Historic Political Week

326

Organizing the Bucks

327

State of ‘Sconnie

328

2020 Election Heats Up the Winter

329

Trump’s Imperial America

330

Legalize marijuana, criminalize voter suppression

331

Historic 24 hours

332

2020 prescription drug plan

333

High School

334

Fight climate change at home

335

Green New Deal in Sconnie

336

Treasurer Godlewski is Back!

337

Movement wins on Election night

338

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

339

The con continues

340

Impeachment

341

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

342

Medicare & Socialist Destruction

343

Examining police cooperation with ICE

344

Working Families Party endorses Elizabeth Warren

345

Opioid dealer settlement

346

Sensenbrenner to retire

347

Time to Retire

348

We are the caring majority

349

Boss Vos

350

White Supremacist terrorism

351

Gerrymandered

352

Amanda Stuck steps up

353

Lights for Liberty

354

Budget Endgame

355

Gerrymandered democracy

356

Trumped up 2020 election

357

The GOP Budget Plot Thickens

358

How Progressives Can Win the Rust Belt in 2020

359

Let them breathe smog and drink manure

360

Elizabeth Warren’s plan for America

361

The Radical Right Empire Strikes Back

362

State budget goes to Madison

363

Evers will fight like hell for Medicaid expansion

364

Winning: Emily Siegrist’s 2020 vision

365

Foxconn reality check

366

Treasurer Godlewski’s Budget

367

Medicare For All Special Segment

368

Purple

369

Challenging Trump & Foxconn

370

Scott Walker Alert

371

The Mandela Barnes interview

372

Critical Eyes on Foxconn

373

Healthcare on the March

374

3 white male Republicans vow to block BadgerCare expansion

375

The climate of democracy in Wisconsin

376

Green New Deal vs. Foxconn

377

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

378

Wisconsin leans forward

379

Evers moves on marijuana

380

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

381

Evers' Budget & Healthcare in 2019

382

Ryan & Walker exit

383

Listening to people

384

GOP power grab

385

The health of Wisconsin’s democracy

386

GOP Lame Turducken

387

Walker repealed and replaced with Evers/Barnes

388

Godlewski Gets Out The Vote Down Ballot

389

Election spotlight on ‘Sconie

390

GOP’s Pre-existing Political Problem

391

Election Horse Race Heats Up

392

“Shamocracy”

393

#WeBelieveHer

394

Scott Walker's Pre-existing Condition

395

Walker campaign in the gutter

396

Baldwin pledges to protect everyone with pre-existing conditions

397

Progressives running hard in Republican districts

398

Citizen Action Co-op Members Win Big on Primary Day

399

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

400

Get Out The Primary Vote

401

Supporting Citizen Action Co-op Members

402

Marijuana Referendums

403

Interview with Mandela Barnes for Lt. Governor

404

Trump’s New Healthcare Sabotage

405

What Does the Progressive Upsurge Mean for Democrats?

406

Supreme Power Grab

407

Family Separation - Erica Flynn Segment

408

Standing up to Trump’s Human Rights Abuses

409

Big Blue Wave?

410

Thank You Judge Abrahamson

411

Open Political Season

412

Milwaukee Buck vs. Milwaukee Police

413

Taking on Andre the Jacque

414

GOP Sewer Primary

415

Walker Air Blitz Begins

416

Rural & Small Town Organizing

417

Who should be our next governor

418

Ryan exits stage right-wing

419

You can’t always get what you want

420

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

421

End of Legislative Session Mayhem

422

How are your Scottholes?

423

Attorney General Schimel wants to arm teachers

424

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

425

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

426

Walker punishes poor families to help his re-election

427

Scott Walker’s SOS distress signal to voters

428

SD 10 Surprise

429

Walker chases "Disillusioned" Chicago Millennials

430

Witch Hunt at the Election Commission

431

Draining wetlands on GOP holiday wish list

432

Alabama Crimson Blue Tide

433

GOP ideology: The pig has no pants

434

GOP Tax Scam

435

Wetlands Destruction Bill: Foxconn scheme goes statewide

436

WisConConsin

437

GOP Seeks Sanctuary from Democracy

438

WEDC hammered by Carpenter

439

Foxconn Goes Nuclear?

440

Scott Walker's Hemp Problem

441

Supreme Gerrymander

442

America Abandons Americans

443

It's Back

444

Medicare For All

445

Hurricane Donald sets sights on DACA

446

Labor Day 2017

447

Eye on 2018 Election

448

Taking a Stand

449

Foxconn: It's a trap!

450

The Foxconn Resistance

451

FoxCon Game?

452

GOP Repeal in Critical Condition

453

Zaxs in DC & Madison

454

Health Care and Budget Impasse

455

Healthcare is working along very well

456

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

457

Mean House & Secretive Senate

458

Healthcare Fight Grows

459

Wisconsin economy tanks; Walker blames workers

460

CBOh oh: 23 million will lose health care

461

Your Chauffeur is Waiting

462

Bradley Foundation exports Blue Lakes, Red States model to America

463

House GOP’s Health Care Scarlet Letter

464

3 Voices of the Future

465

Sean Duffy hates Medicare and Public Education

466

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

467

Trump’s Health Care Sabotage

468

Drug testing Conservatives

469

From Healthcare to Climate to Constitutional Crisis

470

RyanCare flatlines

471

#NoMercyRyan

472

The Health Care Revolution?

473

Sen. Baldwin’s fight for healthcare for all

474

Ryan’s Fury on the Border

475

Duffman says No

476

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

477

Resistance to Revolution

478

Progressive Talk Radio Returns

479

An Alternative State Budget

480

State of Walker’s Wisconsin

481

Substance Use Prevention - Media Call 1_12_17

482

Waiting for GOP's Repeal and Replace

483

"Charlie Sykes' Pitchfork Nation”

484

2017 WI Health Insurance Cost Rankings - Media Call

485

It’s About Ethics

486

The Real Working Class Hero

487

Recount Land

488

Redistricted Thanksgiving

489

Redistrict Reality

490

Distress

491

ELECTION!

492

Laser Them Out...Ron

493

A Trump Coup?

494

Trumped

495

Wisconsin’s hothouse of political corruption

496

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

497

What keeps Walker up at night

498

Because the IRS asked

499

Guardian leaks on Walker

500

A Victory for Women’s Health

501

Can’t Outsource Labor Day Weekend

502

Media Call - WI Manufacturing Wages Declining

503

Early Voting Victory

504

Sherman Park, Wisconsin

505

Visions of November

506

Intentional Racial Discrimination