Yesterday’s election, with historic turnout, provided a resounding message to elites. We cannot be bought. Your money cannot stop us. In each of the races this cycle covered by Milwaukee Beagle, Wisconsin Supreme Court, Wisconsin State Superintendent, and Milwaukee Common Council District 3 we highlighted the disparity in resources between the candidates running. And in every single one of these races, despite facing an uphill battle, the candidate with less money behind them won.

Wisconsin’s business elites have been buying SCOWI races for going on two decades. Digging into that history we see that conservatives use obviously corrupt, physically violent, and blatantly racist means to push their agenda. Defeating Schimel is not just about defeating Musk and Trump, it’s not just about returning rule of law and democracy to Wisconsin, it’s about taking the government away from Wisconsin’s own wealthy elites after decades of minority rule.

While Brower is clearly the better candidate on paper, we want to be realistic about his chances of winning and implementing his bold vision. The recently released campaign finance reports and the electoral map do not bode well. We just hope whatever the results, that the broader left in Milwaukee can learn the appropriate lessons and continue to move forward, a little wiser, in our fight for a more just city.

Do not be fooled. Kinser is anything but a moderate and will surely implement her donor’s radical agenda to defund public education and direct more unaccountable dollars to charter schools. All you need to do is follow the money. The current state of the Superintendent race becomes even more concerning looking at recent polling which shows that Kinser generally is viewed positively but is also the candidate those polled know the least about. We must get the message out of Kinser’s true intentions.

Milwaukee, WI - Lead-Safe Schools MKE, an MPS parent-led organization demanding answers and solutions to the current lead-in-schools crisis, wants the public to be aware of a new EPA rule that would change the interpretation of the Milwaukee Health Department’s lead risk assessments recently completed on MPS schools. 

Budget season means it’s time for Governor Evers to propose a bunch of things that sound good, wait for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to laugh and say “nah,” then shrug and dump more public resources into voucher schools and charter schools, rounding it up to a progressive win in Evers’ press release.

Milwaukee Health Department And Milwaukee Public Schools Letter to MPS Families and Staff Improved on the Issue of Water

In 2018, Governor Evers ran on reducing the prison population by 50%, but the population is now climbing fastest it has since before 2000. Instead of taking concrete and decisive action, he he’s choosing to float a reform plan to a legislature long determined to sink everything he does.