Last chance to save democracy in Wisconsin
Wisconsinites are about to pick the Supreme Court judge who could decide the 2024 election. Let's make sure the state's GOP can't overrule the state's voters.
I just gave $50 to Wisconsin’s Democratic Party to help flip the state’s Supreme Court and $50 to the campaign of Jodi Habush Sinykin, a candidate for Wisconsin’s State Senate.
I hope you will, too! Nothing I can get without a prescription makes me feel less impotent that targeted state-level political giving that makes a difference. Give it a try and see how you like standing up for a good cause at the perfect moment.
If I can convince five of you to give what you can this week (and post about it in the comments), I’ll double my donations. Because this is the most important ask I’ll make all year. Why? you ask.
Why? WHY??!!!
If you ended up here, I doubt you need to be reminded why we should be focused on the swing-est of swing states in April, when we usually only elect library boards and which parent has to hide the eggs.
But tell them anyway, Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin:
You have know that Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz to Wisconsin’s highest court is a matter of life and death for democracy.
And with less than a month to go until the E-Day, your donations matter more than ever.
A Trump majority on the Supreme Court led by Trump-loving extremist Dan Kelly, who was part of 2020’s fake elector scam to steal his state’s electoral votes, could easily hand the 2024 election to Trump or DeSantis or whatever the GOP nominates.
That would be bad, which is why Wisconsinites who want every vote counted showed up big for the primary last month.
What would be good is breaking Wisconsin’s Republicans supermajority as Protasiewicz beats Kelly. Tell them why Give Smart:
In Wisconsin the legislature can remove a state official from office with a majority vote in the Assembly and a ⅔ vote in the Senate. Right now the far right has a majority in the Assembly, and if they can beat Habush Sinykin they’ll have a Senate supermajority. That means they can remove any judges they want so they don’t risk losing their gerrymander or be limited in their assaults on women’s health.
The abortion rights ballot initiative this November in Ohio would be huge, no doubt. But calling Wisconsin’s election on April 4th the most important election of the year is definitely an understatement. We may look back and say that it was the most important election of the decade. Or—if things go very, very wrong—the century.
I just contributed the same to both. Thanks for the head’s up.
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