Under the US Constitution, the federal government conducts a nation-wide census in every year divisible by 10 (most recently 2020, pandemic or no). And in the year or two after that, when the census results are available, every state in the nation is required to readjust the boundaries of its various electoral districts, for everything from city ( Read more... )

My Congressman, Rep. Mark Pocan, favors statehood for the District of Columbia. A recent letter to the Wisconsin State Journal challenged that position, wondering how it would benefit the State of Wisconsin or the 2nd Congressional District ( Read more... )

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You don't need ESP to figure this one out:

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Don’t mourn, VOTE!

Don’t riot, VOTE!

Don’t burn, VOTE!

Don’t loot, VOTE!

Don’t give up, VOTE!

Don’t curl up in a little corner whimpering, VOTE!

Let’s be blunt. Republicans hate it when people vote - especially the "wrong kind" of people ( Read more... )

Democracy rocks! Let's get it back! Blurbs here:
• Blurb 1
• Blurb 2

The essentials:
• Sunday Sep. 11 • 6-10 PM
• High Noon Saloon, 701 E. Washington Avenue, Madison
• $10 cover charge at the door

This is a fund-raiser for Wisconsin United To Amend (WIUTA), a grass-roots citizens’ movement dedicated to amending the US Constitution to declare ( Read more... )

To Rep. Mark Pocan, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and Sen. Ron Johnson:

I work as an election official at a campus ward in Madison. We used to do beaucoup registration business for the September primary elections, since many many students had just begun their new leases on Aug. 15, and the primary always used to be held in early September. No longer, ( Read more... )