Ben Wikler
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259 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
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This is thousands of people, including the state party chair before me, who worked on the groundwork laid by the state party chair before her, allies, national unions, they've been like decimated in Wisconsin.
People still kept investing, kept volunteering.
But what happened in Wisconsin is that
we, a big we, built a movement of people who rolled up their sleeves and decided to keep fighting in mayor's races, school board races, in local judicial elections, in state Supreme Court races where it seemed like we were going to always be outgunned and had basically no hope.
We fought for all these different offices and mapped out a plan for what it would actually take to unrig the system so that when people were like, why should I even work in the state legislative race when we know who's going to have the majority?
The answer is, if we stop the Republican supermajority,
then if we win the state Supreme Court race and flip the majority there, they can pass new maps, and the supermajority can't override the governor's veto.
It's this intricate, zigzagging puzzle.
I will tell you this.
When the system was built, starting in 2017, before I moved home to Wisconsin, the idea was, we're going to find people in their living rooms who want to be part of the solution, ask people to get friends together, and say, we're going to be responsible for our neighborhood.
There's this huge big picture.
We're all part of this big fight.
But we're going to start here, in this neighborhood, in the election that's coming up in April that no one else in the country even knows is happening.
But we're going to roll up our sleeves.
And elections here are so close, so often, that it might be that the five extra voters we find add up to enough around the state to tip this thing by a couple thousand votes.
And it actually started to work in races where Democrats kind of hadn't been focused in the same way, you know, nationally.
Love me some Democrats.
Democrats can get focused on who the next presidential candidate will be in 2028.
It's 2026 right now.
Instead of saying there's a judicial election happening in a month that could determine whether the state is gerrymandered for the next 16 years.
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