![]() ![]() The funders of the Supreme Court races should consider putting more money into election-focused community organizing that uses evidence-based engagement tactics like deep canvassing. Voters in Wisconsin are being subjected to a deluge of well-funded ad campaigns, in what promises to be the most expensive state Supreme Court race in history. Here in Wisconsin, Wisconsin Conversation Voters and Citizen Action of Wisconsin, the organization I head, are separately organizing door-to-door canvassing efforts around April 4 Supreme Court election. The report praises Working America, In Union (which targets the many pro-union voters in target states), Center for Popular Democracy, and People’s Action for “continuing the door-knocking tradition.” Deep canvassing involves serious two-way conversations with voters about issues with the goal of cutting through the special interest funded propaganda clogging the airwaves, which reduces elections to divisive trigger issues, and helping voters evaluate candidates in terms of the long-term interests of their families and communities.Ī new report from Mike Lux at American Family Voices reminds progressive activists and Democratic Party strategists that “old-fashioned field organizing, especially door knocking, is still the single most effective way of reaching voters.” If progressives in Wisconsin hope to shift the needle, they must shift their orientation from that of spectators to participants.Īccording to the data, what is known as “deep canvassing” is a strikingly effective tool for shifting votes. 6, 2021, tally of the Electoral College vote before the joint session of Congress. ![]() Among his tasks was consulting on a failed scheme to create fake Wisconsin presidential Electors who would support Donald Trump in the Jan. After he lost his Supreme Court seat during the 2020 election, Kelly was hired by the Wisconsin GOP and the Republican National Committee. The election of the Trump-backed, ex-Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly would mean continued erosion of democratic safeguards. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice and election denier Dan Kelly, who had been appointed by former governor, Scott Walker, lost the 2020 election that would have kept him on the court. A liberal justice would also mean that the court would be able to overturn the state’s 1849 anti-abortion law and strike down voter suppression legislation. ![]() For the first election since 2010, the voters rather than politicians could decide which party controls the legislature. A liberal court could do away with the gerrymandered legislative district lines that guarantee the GOP control of both the state senate and assembly. The election of liberal Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Janet Protasiewicz would give Wisconsin a liberal majority on the state’s Supreme Court for the first time since 2008. ![]()
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