Proponents of Final-Four or Five Voting, which puts candidates from all parties on one "jungle primary" ballot and enacts ...

Lobbyists must report the dollars spent communicating with members of the Wisconsin State Legislature. Here’s that report for the first half of 2023, when legislators were crafting the state’s 2-year ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...

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Democrats and Republicans raised a record amount — more than $12 million — in trying to win the 3rd Congressional District in western Wisconsin this year. The result moved the needle to the left, but ...

The Democratic candidate increased his vote total by a greater amount than Trump in 2020, but the script flipped this year.

In 2024, eight people donated $1 million or more to a political party in Wisconsin. And some of them gave much more. Before 2015, the most a person could give in annual political donations in ...

Most of the congressional districts in the state are not competitive, leading to lopsided victories for many U.S. House incumbents here. Wisconsin is one of the most closely contested states in the ...

Moore was first elected to Congress in 2004 after serving many years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate. She sits on the influential Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax-writing, ...

“The redistricting after the 2010 Census did not change the partisan makeup of the 6th Congressional District. The 6th has been safely Republican for over 50 years. The last Democrat elected to ...

Former Navy Seal Van Orden first joined the U.S. House in 2022, narrowly defeating his Democratic challenger in the western Wisconsin swing district. Van Orden sits on the committees overseeing ...