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
Walker’s It’s obvious I’m running for re-election budget
We welcome Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative leader and education advocate Beth Ludeman to dissect Gov. Walker’s recently unveiled state budget where he celebrates restoring some of his own savag…
00:43:38 |
Fri 10 Feb 2017
Resistance to Revolution
We discuss the inspiring resistance to Trump during his first two weeks in office and the critical need to develop the positive progressive vision needed to inspire a political revolution. We highlig…
00:39:29 |
Fri 03 Feb 2017
Progressive Talk Radio Returns
In a major victory for Citizen Action's Radio-Active project, Mike Crute ( co-host of the Devil’s Advocates radio show) makes an exclusive announcement on the podcast that he is buying a major radio …
00:43:00 |
Thu 26 Jan 2017
An Alternative State Budget
In advance of Gov. Walker’s state budget, Citizen Action of Wisconsin is one of the leaders of a 20 organization coalition which released an alternative state budget earlier this week. The budget eli…
00:38:37 |
Fri 20 Jan 2017
State of Walker’s Wisconsin
We dissect Gov. Walker’s “working and winning” State of the State speech and uncover clues about his evolving political strategy. Moving to the national level, we welcome Planned Parenthood of Wiscon…
00:54:09 |
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Substance Use Prevention - Media Call 1_12_17
Media Call: Substance Use Prevention Experts Will Question Effectiveness of Walker's Opioid Proposal
Legislators, Advocates, and Experts working with youth in urban, rural and suburban school distri…
00:25:48 |
Thu 12 Jan 2017
Waiting for GOP's Repeal and Replace
After repeated, bold, and blustery promises to repeal the Affordable Care Act on day one, Congressional Republican’s moved tepidly this week to start the process of yanking funding for health coverag…
00:44:19 |
Thu 05 Jan 2017
"Charlie Sykes' Pitchfork Nation”
To discuss Charlie Sykes’ last radio show this week, and his racist legacy of dividing and conquering for the benefit of right-wing politicians, we welcome special guest Mike Browne, the Deputy Direc…
00:40:33 |
Thu 22 Dec 2016
2017 WI Health Insurance Cost Rankings - Media Call
2017 Wisconsin Health Insurance Cost Ranking
Report finds continuing regional disparities on cost, inflation, and quality
Rate of health care inflation was more than 7x higher before Affordable Care…
00:23:00 |
Wed 21 Dec 2016
It’s About Ethics
We welcome subzero wind chills by discussing the reckless plan by Trump and Congressional Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act without a viable replacement. We also look at Trump's diverse a…
00:45:17 |
Thu 15 Dec 2016
The Real Working Class Hero
America meet a real working class hero, Chuck Jones, the president of United Steelworkers 1999, who told Donald Trump “He's lying his a-- off," about his boasting of saving 1,100 jobs at Carrier. We …
00:38:46 |
Thu 08 Dec 2016
Recount Land
This week the panel dives into the presidential recount that is now underway in Wisconsin. What's behind the recount, and could it change the result? Next the panel examines Trump's claim that he has…
00:49:46 |
Fri 02 Dec 2016
Redistricted Thanksgiving
We welcome Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative member, Sachin Chheda, who is the Director of the Fair Elections Project to discuss the Thanksgiving victory this week for the gerrymandering redistri…
00:28:22 |
Wed 23 Nov 2016
Redistrict Reality
We discuss the news that plaintiffs in Wisconsin’s redistricting lawsuit have asked judges to update their case with results from the 2016 state Assembly races. The plaintiffs say the 2016 election r…
00:36:15 |
Thu 17 Nov 2016
Distress
Our panel discusses the profoundly disappointing and distressful results of Tuesday's election, both nationally and in Wisconsin. We also are joined by Citizen Action Cooperative organizers Anna Dvor…
00:40:31 |
Thu 10 Nov 2016
ELECTION!
In the last podcast before Election day the panel discusses late breaking election news and the prospects for Russ and Hillary. Journalist Bill Kaplan joins us to evaluate Sen. Johnson's shocking com…
00:37:59 |
Fri 04 Nov 2016
Laser Them Out...Ron
This week the panel digs in to the latest Wisconsin election news and right wing shouts of indignation over ObamaCare rates. We sort through Ron Johnson's bizarre statement about "lasering out" peopl…
00:37:36 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
A Trump Coup?
This week the panel starts with the news that Donald Trump will not commit to accepting the election results in November. Is he really threatening a coup, or is this just more slight of hand? After d…
00:35:19 |
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Trumped
We review a surreal week for the presidential campaign and its impact on Paul Ryan and the GOP. The new MU poll reveals the potential impact of Trump’s weekend on the tight the U.S. Senate race. Robe…
00:43:37 |
Fri 14 Oct 2016
Wisconsin’s hothouse of political corruption
We lead with the new wave of corruption that will inundate Wisconsin because of the SCOTUS's John Doe duck with Matthew Rothschild of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign The panel next talks about the …
00:37:14 |
Thu 06 Oct 2016
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