Battleground Wisconsin
Battleground Wisconsin is Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s weekly podcast that features the latest political news from the front lines in the embattled state of Wisconsin.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 510
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Supreme Importance
We discuss this historic week where the U.S. Supreme Court surprisingly reversed Wisconsin’s redistricting maps in its scandalous shadow docket. What is going on and where do we go from here? Next, J…
00:46:40 |
Thu 24 Mar 2022
Investigating January 6 Insurrectionists
Our panel discusses Speaker Robin Vos’ meeting with conservative conspiracy theorists who are urging illegal decertification of the 2020 presidential election. Will Trump be returned to power via mid…
00:47:29 |
Wed 16 Mar 2022
The Conspiracy Against Everything
From the conservative leaning WI Supreme Court making up the new “least changes” redistricting criterion to the Republican attempt to funnel public dollars to private schools, it seems the Sith Lords…
00:46:54 |
Thu 10 Mar 2022
Pathbreaking BadgerCare Public Option Bill Unveiled
Public option, what? A sweeping BadgerCare Public Option Bill was announced this week in the Legislature, which does more than any bill introduced in over a decade to make health care more affordable…
00:52:06 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
State of the Educator
We open the show with immediate reactions to the full scale invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin, and the odd split on the conflict in the Trump-era GOP. Is the backing of Putin by Tucker Carlson, D…
00:46:13 |
Thu 24 Feb 2022
Texas sized Wisconsin emergency
We welcome Courtney Hayward and Tanya Atkinson from Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin to the show to talk about the impending threat to reproductive healthcare in Wisconsin. In addition to th…
00:47:44 |
Thu 17 Feb 2022
Democracy Defender
We expose a series of GOP bills that will take lifesaving health care away from thousands of Wisconsin working families in the middle of a pandemic to appease the big business demand for poverty wage…
00:49:00 |
Thu 10 Feb 2022
Wisconsin is key to fraudulent Trump electors
We discuss what’s next for the Build Back Better agenda and breaking news on Citizen Action’s upcoming Congressional Week of Action. The panel talks about a bombshell New York Times report that Wisco…
00:45:12 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
Investigating Wisconsin’s fake electors
We welcome State Senator Chris Larson for an extensive conversation about revelations he and Rep. Brostoff dug up this week about the direct role of Wisconsin Congressman Scott Fitzgerald in sending …
00:45:04 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
The Cause of Democracy: 1 year into the Biden Administration
Our panel reflects on the 1 year anniversary of the Biden Administration, taking stock of his governing successes and failures trying to manage a global pandemic, economic disruption, and an on-going…
00:47:46 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
2022 Elections are on!
Wisconsin hits a record number of COVID hospitalizations as Legislative Republicans push bills to undermine public health precautions and efforts to distribute free N95 masks finally pick up. Next, o…
00:49:15 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
Does 2022 have 2020 vision?
Welcome to 2022, as COVID rages through Wisconsin and the country, we discuss escalating infection and hospitalization rates, as our deranged U.S. Senator draws national ridicule (again) for his biza…
00:45:46 |
Thu 06 Jan 2022
Manchin abandons American people
We debrief and look forward following Sunday’s bombshell announcement by West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin that he would not support the president’s signature Build Back Better. Where do we go from here…
00:48:41 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Robin Vos shamelessly blames hospitals for bed shortage
We lead this week with the passing of the latest COVID milestone of over 800,000 deaths. Is this an omen of human toll that awaits us in the coming Omicron surge? There is no doubt that Republican po…
00:46:00 |
Thu 16 Dec 2021
Partisan Pandemic
This week the panel digs into the unprecedented partisanship of the COVID pandemic, which is driving another major surge and threatens (AGAIN) to overwhelm Wisconsin hospitals. We also discuss the sh…
00:45:48 |
Thu 09 Dec 2021
Most undercovered story of 2021: The failure to get a COVID vaccine patent waiver
We review our discussion with Senator Tammy Baldwin and Congressman Mark Pocan at our fundraiser Wednesday evening. In the process, we get critical inside information on the big Build Back Better Act…
00:46:41 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
Forward On Climate
We welcome State Representative Greta Neubauer to discuss 22 new climate bills she and other Legislators unveiled this week. The bills provide a series of doable next stop policies to start the state…
00:45:11 |
Thu 18 Nov 2021
In These Times, progressives have the solutions
Our panel discusses the alarming rise in COVID cases in Wisconsin as kids begin to get vaccinated. Why is this pandemic continuing into a third year with no end in sight? We discuss Ron Johnson's sho…
00:45:12 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Union Strong
We welcome Wisconsin State AFL-CIO president Stephanie Bloomingdale to discuss the wave of strikes, and the willingness of workers to take on their exploitative corporate employers. Next the panel di…
00:46:06 |
Thu 04 Nov 2021
U.S. Senate Candidate Interview with Mandela Barnes
Our panel discusses President Biden’s push this week for a deal with Congressional Democrats on Build Back Better, while Sens. Sinema and Manchin continue to oppose popular policies on behalf of thei…
00:48:58 |
Fri 29 Oct 2021
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