Wisconsin

Wisconsin Doctor Makes Wild Measles Claims

By ExposedByCMD Editors | May 30th, 2025 at 5:00 AM (CDT)

Following the first death, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vax organization Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led until recently, pushed its own narrative claiming that the 6-year-old Mennonite girl did not actually die from the measles. In this effort, CHD has relied heavily on Pierre Kory, a Wisconsin doctor who has both amplified that assertion and claimed that the measles virus has been weaponized by unknown conspirators.

Record $100M Spent on Wisconsin Supreme Court Race Raises Concerns Over Judicial Independence

By Tom O'Connor | May 12th, 2025 at 5:00 AM (CDT)

The more than $100 million spent on this spring’s Supreme Court election in Wisconsin set a new national record for spending on a state judicial race. The figure almost doubles the previous record of $51 million, which donors poured into the Wisconsin Supreme Court race in 2023.

Liberal Groups Spend Millions to Back Susan Crawford in Record-Setting Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

By Colleen Scerpella | March 31st, 2025 at 10:50 AM (CDT)

Spending in support of Democratic candidate Susan Crawford stands at approximately $40.3 million. The Crawford campaign spent roughly $22 million of that total, while the remaining spending has come from independent groups.

Right-Wing Student Group Targets Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

By Alyssa Bowen | March 20th, 2025 at 1:20 PM (CDT)

Turning Point Action, which campaigned for Donald Trump in Wisconsin in 2024, is deploying its get-out-the-vote machinery to back Brad Schimel in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election on April 1, 2025.

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The Republican State Leadership Committee’s “Judicial Fairness Initiative” Is Spending Millions to Influence Who Sits on the Wisconsin Supreme Court

By Evan Vorpahl | March 18th, 2025 at 1:29 PM (CDT)

An arm of the Republican State Leadership Committee, dubbed the “Judicial Fairness Initiative” (RSLC-JFI), has spent at least $2 million dollars to aid the election ambitions of Brad Schimel for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

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Wisconsin’s Right-Wing Infrastructure Works in Lockstep to Elect Schimel to State Supreme Court

By Tom O'Connor and David Armiak | March 7th, 2025 at 11:16 AM (CST)

An in-state network of right-wing political donors, groups, and operatives has teamed up to spend even more for Schimel than Elon Musk has.

Who is Brad Schimel, the Extremist Running for a Seat on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court?

By Tom O'Connor | February 13th, 2025 at 10:52 AM (CST)

Schimel, a Republican, previously served as Wisconsin’s attorney general from 2015–19. He has held close associations with several right-wing organizations and taken far-right positions on hot-button issues from abortion to guns, health care, and the J6 rioters who attacked the Capitol.

Latest Effort to Purge Wisconsin Voter Rolls Bankrolled by the Bradley Foundation and Tied to Insurrectionists

By David Armiak | September 5th, 2024 at 2:34 PM (CDT)

On April 30, the Indiana-based Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a right-wing litigation group, filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin to gain greater access to voter registrations in the state as part of its national campaign to purge voter rolls. The group has filed similar lawsuits in at least eight other states this election cycle.

Eight States Will Vote on Amendments to Ban Noncitizen Voting in November

By David Armiak | August 28th, 2024 at 4:01 PM (CDT)

Americans for Citizens Voting is partnering with ALEC to pass noncitizen amendments in at least 11 more states.

Election Deniers Dominate Wisconsin’s GOP Congressional Primary

By Colleen Scerpella | August 12th, 2024 at 9:04 AM (CDT)

When Wisconsin voters go to the polls tomorrow, Republican candidates who tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election results or spread claims of widespread voter fraud will be on the ballot in six of eight GOP primary contests for the House, along with the race to take on two-term Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin.