The U.S. Supreme Court opened a loophole in Wisconsin campaign finance law which the ultrawealthy are now using to flood our ...

The Democratic candidate increased his vote totals by a greater amount than Trump in 2020, but the script flipped this year.

Rep. Derrick Van Orden defeated his challenger by about 2.8% this year, a tighter margin than in 2022. Democrats are likely to make his district a priority again in 2026, which projects to be a good ...

Rep. Derrick Van Orden defeated his challenger by about 2.8% this year, a tighter margin than in 2022. Democrats are likely to make his district a priority again in 2026, which projects to be a good ...

A former Marine with a Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown, Gallagher was first elected to Congress in 2017. A frequent critic of the Chinese government, he chairs the new select ...

The Badger Project is a nonprofit funded mainly through reader contributions and grants. In March 2020, we received a matching grant of $7,712.87 from NewsMatch 2019 in coordination with our ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...

Former Navy Seal Van Orden first joined the U.S. House in 2022, narrowly defeating his Democratic challenger in the western Wisconsin swing district. Van Orden sits on the committees overseeing ...

Most of the congressional districts in the state are not competitive, leading to lopsided victories for many U.S. House ...

The vice president got nearly 40,000 more votes in the state in 2024 than Joe Biden won here in 2020. The problem? Donald Trump improved on his 2020 total in Wisconsin by nearly 90,000 votes.