Citizen Action of Wisconsin

10/23/2026

Citizen Action members are developing organizing plans to confront possible scenarios the Trump regime might employ to disrupt the midterm election and we are also preparing to respond to ensure every vote is counted.

We want you to get involved

RSVP to learn more about Non-Violent Direct Action, at a Citizen Action training on Wednesday, October 28th, 6pm >> https://tinyurl.com/NONViolentDATraining

Learn more about other opportunities to participate in Citizen Action's Democracy Defenders program >> https://tinyurl.com/DemocracyDefendersWI

10/23/2026

Citizen Action North Side Rising member Janetta Herrera urges voting early and then helping others get out and vote too.

Early voting started this week. Voting early is a safe, easy, and convenient way to make sure your voice is heard.

Make an early voting plan today.

Head over to https://myvote.wi.gov/ to double check your early voting location.

10/23/2026

Citizen Action gets out the early vote this week, host a $20 Minimum Wage Town Hall in Appleton and Governor debate watch party in Eau Claire, all while preparing to Defend our Democracy, including a Non-Violent Direct Action training next Wednesday.

Read all about it in the NEW Citizen Action Weekend '26 Newsletter >> https://citizenactionwi.org/2026/10/23/weekend26-oct23/

Go Brewers!

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10/23/2026

Awful idea!

Tiffany voted 5 times to support the Iran War.

Tiffany will always put Trump ahead of Wisconsin.

Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany is encouraging expansion of Wisconsin’s only oil refinery to reduce reliance on the Middle East, but energy experts say it would have little effect on bringing down local gas prices.

10/23/2026

"How historic housing unaffordability—and resurgent tenant organizing—are reshaping the midterm elections.

Housing is central to the push and pull over the politics of affordability, as a new crop of left-wing congressional candidates run on freezing rents and protecting renters, building off the momentum of years of resurgent tenant organizing."

Read more in In These Times >>

How historic housing unaffordability—and resurgent tenant organizing—are reshaping the midterm elections.

10/23/2026

"On Dec. 10, 2020, Tiffany was the only member of Wisconsin’s delegation to sign a legal brief supporting a U.S. Supreme Court bid by the state of Texas to overturn the results in Wisconsin and three other battleground states that backed Joe Biden in his victory that year.

On Jan. 5, 2021, Tiffany said he would vote against certifying the Electoral College results, charging that hundreds of thousands of Wisconsin votes were cast illegally.

On Jan. 6, 2021, he voted to object to counting electoral votes in Pennsylvania and Arizona that supported Biden.

On May 18, 2026, he backed an FBI probe of Wisconsin’s 2020 election. This past August, Tiffany said he didn’t regret voting against certifying the election. Then in September, he said Biden won but he still welcomes law enforcement investigations into Wisconsin’s 2020 election.

At a campaign stop in Dodge County this fall, Tiffany said the U.S. Department of Justice would send officials to Wisconsin for this November’s election: “Good news, good news, the federal Department of Justice is coming to Wisconsin for this election to make sure that we have election integrity.”

Trump rewarded Tiffany’s fealty, clearing the Wisconsin primary field for this race by endorsing him early.Tiffany’s election denialism also has been richly rewarded via the financial backing of the billionaire Wisconsin couple Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein. They were also major funders of a group that helped put on the Jan. 6 rally that morphed into the riot.

The Uihleins, founders of the Uline packaging empire, and Diane Hendricks, billionaire owner of a roofing supply company, provided more than 90% of Tiffany’s total campaign funding through a three-month period ending in September, according to a story in the New York Times."

https://captimes.com/opinion/paul-fanlund/opinion-the-gigantic-but-underdiscussed-threat-of-tom-tiffany/article_227c5a58-1f67-412e-b8ac-2e2b4d3d002e.html

Citizen Action members are developing organizing plans to confront possible scenarios the Trump regime might employ to disrupt the midterm election and we are also preparing to respond to ensure every vote is counted.

We want you to get involved

Learn more about ALL the opportunities to participate in Citizen Action's Democracy Defenders program >> https://tinyurl.com/DemocracyDefendersWI

RSVP to learn more about Non-Violent Direct Action, at a Citizen Action training on Wednesday, October 28th, 6pm >> https://tinyurl.com/NONViolentDATraining

Paul Fanlund: The Republican candidate for Wisconsin governor has a troubling record of election denial. Democrat David Crowley says he is running from it.

10/23/2026

Before the Milwaukee Brewers win game 1 of the World Series tonight for Bob Uecker and all of Wisconsin, Maletha Jones encourages you to get out and VOTE EARLY today.

Make the most of this beautiful day!

Early voting started this week. Voting early is a safe, easy, and convenient way to make sure your voice is heard.

Make an early voting plan today.

Head over to https://myvote.wi.gov/ to double check your early voting location.

10/23/2026

"Democrats and voting rights advocates have warned for months that Trump could try to interfere in voting in the midterms...

'We’re making the assumption that the president is not going to accept the results of what looks to be a very challenging election for him and his party,' Rep. Jim Himes, a top Democrat on the Senate and House intelligence committees, said.

But amid the highly publicized campaign against noncitizen voting, Democrats have kept an eye on the possibility that Trump could instead invoke a foreign threat to justify an attempt to assert control over elections or undermine the results, even as the Trump administration has cut federal support for election security."

Read more in the Wisconsin Examiner >> https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2026/10/23/repub/dems-in-congress-say-theyre-wary-trump-wont-accept-results-of-election/

Citizen Action members are developing organizing plans to confront possible scenarios the Trump regime might employ to disrupt the midterm election and we are also preparing to respond to ensure every vote is counted.

We want you to get involved

Learn more about ALL the opportunities to participate in Citizen Action's Democracy Defenders program >> https://tinyurl.com/DemocracyDefendersWI

RSVP to learn more about Non-Violent Direct Action, at a Citizen Action training on Wednesday, October 28th, 6pm >> https://tinyurl.com/NONViolentDATraining

Democrats are preparing for the possibility that President Trump will allege foreign interference to discredit election results.

10/22/2026

We debrief the one and only Wisconsin Governor candidate debate on Wednesday night. We assess the debate, it will not go down in the analysis of history like the Lincoln-Douglas debates. We also ask if debates matter anymore in modern politics.

Listen now >> https://soundcloud.com/citizen-action-of-wi/bg763

Lauren Reeg of Evergreen Action joins us to share their new policy comparison of both Governor candidates on clean energy. Interestingly, their research finds a surprisingly large gap in the cost of utilities for consumers under the plans offered by both candidates. Spoiler alert, Tiffany’s pivot back to dirty fossil fuels is not only climate damaging, it will cost residential energy customers thousands of dollars.

We also welcome Kat Klawes, from 350.org Wisconsin and Rohan Katti, Senior Program Manager for Data You Can Use, to tell us about new data revealing the scale of energy burden for Milwaukee families.

We close with the latest breaking news on potential Federal intervention into Wisconsin elections. This includes Trump’s DOJ notification to states of massive election monitor presence, and two ranking Democratic members of the U.S. House and Senate Intel committee warning how false claims of foreign interference by the the Trump Regime could justify regime election interference, including ballot seizures.

Listen now >> https://citizenactionwi.org/2026/10/22/whats-debatable/

Following our weekly Tick Report, we debrief the one and only Wisconsin Governor candidate debate on Wednesday night. We assess the debate, it will not go

10/22/2026

Leaders of Wisconsin’s Living Wage Coalition hosted a town hall on Wednesday night to talk about the benefits of raising the state minimum wage.

The group says nearly 1/3 of Wisconsin workers are paid less than $20 per hour, but according to MIT’s living wage calculator, $21.88 is the actual hourly wage required for a single adult with no dependents to be able to get by.

“We are currently at the longest time that the minimum wage has not changed since it was first enacted. So that’s pretty shameful, especially as we see costs rising so quickly and so strongly,” says State Representative Lee Snodgrass.

After the coalition launched back in September of 2025, 43 state lawmakers introduced legislation to raise the minimum wage to $20 per hour by 2030 while also tying it to inflation, so it doesn’t lose its value.

They’re now pushing for the new governor, once elected, to sign the bill into law.

Watch news story >> https://www.wbay.com/2026/10/22/living-wage-coalition-holds-town-hall-raising-state-minimum-wage/

Learn more about the $20 Minimum Wage legislation and take action, urging your state legislators to support the bill >> https://citizenactionwi.org/20-minimum-wage/

For more information, contact Garnet at: [email protected]

The group says nearly 1/3 of Wisconsin workers are paid less than $20 per hour, while $21.88 is the wage required for a single adult to get by.