Manufacturing, business and utility interests that oppose federal rules to slash carbon emissions standards have contributed about $7.6 mil...

"I don't need people from outside of this state.  This is about me and the people of the state of Wisconsin."   —  comments by...

With few exceptions the news reports and editorials about the proposed constitutional amendment voters are being asked to approve on next Tu...

Our nation's founders wrote the Federalist Papers to articulate their vision for a new independent nation and justify their proposed des...

Wisconsin contributors gave $3.8 million in three months to political groups that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of cash on outside e...

Americans clearly are sour on politics. According the latest Gallup public opinion polling , the number one problem in the U.S. is “dissatis...

On what planet does anyone think there is not enough money in politics, not enough special interest influence, and too much public awareness...

Beer, billboards, sick days, soda, shooting at stuff, mining and manure. These were some of the subjects the Republican-led legislature an...

Governor Scott Walker’s campaign finance report shows 56,530 itemized individual contributions totaling $7.83 million during the first six m...

The company led by a generous contributor to Republican Governor Scott Walker has proposed building a road and maintenance facility in a sta...

Three companies cited in a recent WKOW-TV investigative report that dealt with outsourcing jobs in Wisconsin to foreign countries after the...

For the better part of 20 years, we've been told by shadowy interest groups and their spin doctors and hired guns that the campaign ads ...

John Doe is the name given to unknown or anonymous targets of a criminal investigation or similarly unidentified defendants or plaintiffs in...

Thinly veiled. That's what the billionaire Koch brothers have in common with the pop star Rihanna. First the Kochs unleashed a $900,...

That the billionaire Koch brothers are spending upwards of $1 million to launch an election-year advertising campaign in Wisconsin to sing t...

Imagine two kajillionaires, one a pioneer of Internet commerce and the other a spectacularly successful investment fund manager. One lives o...

Yesterday a federal appeals court in Chicago struck down Wisconsin rules requiring disclosure of election-season "issue ads" spon...

In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court dropped a bomb on the American political landscape with its decision in Citizens United v. FEC allowing unli...

A tax-exempt nonprofit group used by the Republican Governors Association to collect unlimited contributions to spend on elections received...

While I believe is time both for me personally and for the organization to transition to new leadership at the Democracy Campaign, I want n...