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Dear Fellow Wisconsin Democrats,

This year is framed by five fights: Win the spring. Inspire, recruit, and train volunteers and at the national convention. Stop the GOP supermajority. Cancel Trump’s second inaugural. And Organize for the future. That’s the WISCO plan.

This Tuesday, our spring primaries took place—and fight #1, the W, officially began. 2020 is here.

We’re ready. In every corner of the state, we’ve never had a stronger grassroots organizing operation this early. We’ve never been stronger financially. And we’ve never been more deeply aligned, in every community and in every part of our coalition, on the vision that unites us—the commitment to fight on our issues, include and respect everyone, and empower the grassroots.

The starting gun has been fired. Let’s do this.

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FIGHT on the Issues & FIGHT to Win:
On to Victory in April!

The results are in from Tuesday night and we now have our nominee for Wisconsin’s 2020 Supreme Court race — Judge Jill Karofsky!

This race is going to shape the future of our state for a generation, not to mention the presidential election in the fall — with a conservative majority on the court, Republicans could very well make voting in the November election more difficult by tilting the playing field towards Trump and the GOP.

In January, Donald Trump endorsed Dan Kelly, a GOP operative who just so happens to also be a Supreme Court judge. So from now until the polls close at 8:00 PM on April 7, we’re going to be all hands on deck for Jill Karofsky.

We’ve only got seven weeks until the general election and Dan Kelly has out-raised Jill Karofsky as of this writing, which means over the next two months, we’ve got to do everything we can to protect Wisconsin’s future from gerrymandering and threats to voting rights and elect Judge Jill Karofsky to the Supreme Court.

Get to know Jill and chip in to her campaign at

jillforjustice.com/stopcorruption!

Congratulations, Tricia!

And for the 7th District — the seat vacated by Sean Duffy — we now have an official nominee as well: Tricia Zunker! She’s been working for northern Wisconsin her entire life. She’s served as an Associate Justice of the Ho-Chunk Supreme Court since 2013 and on the Wausau School Board since 2018, and now she’ll go on to compete in the May 13 special election for this seat. Watch her launch video here.

Meanwhile, Tricia’s opponent is none other than Toxic Tom Tiffany, a Koch-backed politician who sides with corporate polluters over communities and people every chance he gets. He has a well-established record of siding with those who cut the biggest checks, regardless of how many people are hurt by their products and practices. Read more about Tom Tiffany’s toxic record here and share the site so people can learn more: toxictomtiffany.com.

Learn more about Tricia and chip in to her campaign here!

Wisconsin Paying for Trump’s Border Wall

This week, we also learned that the Trump administration is shifting millions of dollars away from Oshkosh Corps, a Wisconsin company that builds military equipment vital for our national defense, and towards his border wall.

This is funding that would have been spent supporting Wisconsin jobs and Wisconsin communities. Let’s be clear about one thing — Trump is stealing money away from Wisconsin manufacturers to build his vanity project.

The president’s broken promises hurt us all. If he continues down this path, our economic and national security will be in jeopardy.

INCLUDE & RESPECT:

State of the Tribes

On Tuesday, Chairman Of Forest County Potawatomi Community Ned Daniels Jr. gave the annual State of the Tribes address at the State Capitol. Chair Ben Wikler and Executive Director Nellie Sires attended.

As Wisconsin Democrats, we know that it’s important to study and internalize the history of our relationship with Wisconsin’s First Nations as well as support our tribal communities when it comes to issues like violence against women and the opioid crisis.

Join the Growing DPW Staff

As we scale up for the fight of our lives, we’re bringing on new staff for a number of essential positions. We encourage anyone who’s passionate about electing Democrats up and down the ballot to apply! You can check out all available positions on our job openings page.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin is an equal opportunity employer. Women, People of Color, LGBT, people of all religious affiliations & people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

EMPOWER the Grassroots:

Upcoming Delegate Trainings

In anticipation of the Democratic National Convention just months away in Milwaukee, our political department is holding trainings all over the state from February to April on how to be a delegate to the convention. Upcoming trainings can be found here!

Jefferson County President’s Day Dinner

Chair Wikler joined Representative Don Vruwink, Senator Janis Ringhand and candidate for WI-05 Tom Palzewicz at Jefferson County Dems’ annual President’s Day dinner on Sunday.

Jefferson Dems are fired up for the fights ahead — they knocked over 1,000 doors on our February 8 day of action, and we’re sure there will be many, many more to come!

Happy Birthday, Rep. Stubbs!

And on Tuesday, Chair Wikler joined Rep. Shelia Stubbs and Gov. Evers to celebrate Shelia’s 49th birthday! Gov. Evers thanked Shelia for her advocacy and proposals to his team that resulted in Gov. Evers’ Executive Order on Diversity & Inclusion. Thanks Shelia for all your hard work!

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