Former Madison City Councilman David Ahrens and Milwaukee activist Angela Lang join TRNN’s Marc Steiner to look at Wisconsin’s progressive roots and racist realities—and to discuss the political battles to come.

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20 thoughts on “Battleground Wisconsin, USA”
  1. Great video on a very important topic. However, some misleading things were said about Wisconsin. Wallace won 1/3 of the Democrat Primary vote in ‘64, and went on to receive less than 8% of the General Election vote in ‘68 (not even coming close, in either cycle, to secure the Democratic nomination).

    Also, you’re right! Fightin’ Bob is a hero. We should all learn how to pronounce his name correctly. And! Mandela Barnes is the future— love that guy.

    Keep the content coming. Y’all are doing great things. All I’d like to see is some more in-depth research.

  2. 10 seconds in, a mispronunciation of an important name. PLEASE DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!!!!! LaFOLLette! Please, some respect if you want credibility.

  3. I'm so impressed to see and hear this video.
    What happened in Wisconsin before and after the 2016 election has been something I will not forget. The suppression of the Constitutional Rights to votes.
    Appox 2-3 hundred thousands Wisconsin's where denied the right to vote.
    The candidate Trump had a rally in Wisconsin he and Scott Walker stood on the stage and Trump told blacks that night they had the worse schools, worse neighborhoods, no jobs, and was receiving public assistance, etc. he then asks black Americans to vote for him because
    "What do they have to lose"?
    I couldn't get over the fact that the governor Scott Walker stood on stage with this candidate who talked about his state
    constituents, as if they were intellectually subhuman without any redeeming characters, just worthless without him saving (Us)!
    Wisconsin heard him and Scott Walker loud and clear.
    Walker is gone rightfully.
    Before Scott Walker left office be had co-signed a deal with a 4 billion dollars attached as an incentive to the Taiwanese Co. Foxconn
    to create jobs in Wisconsin.
    (Trump) and
    Scott Walker takes credit for that deal made in 2017.
    This company still hasn't hired more than 300 according to articles.
    This deal was label one of the worst negotiated deals in America.
    This is Trump's version of MAGA. Trump encouraged Wisconsin GOP govenors to let a Republic of China manufacture use American taxpayer's money and Americans are only promises some none union (jobs).
    I am assuming this Taiwanese Co.
    get to can stamp
    "Made in the USA"
    and own the products.
    This is the Foxconn deal.
    This overseas company project also forced
    Eminent Domain on Wisconsinites and property owners had to sell their property to make room for the Foxconn site that sits empty?
    And empty doesn't make any sense because Foxconn is supposed to be making "ventilators" now in Wisconsin according to business articles, Trump just announced again that the ventilators are being sold all over the world.
    When Trump is talking about ventilators being made I never hear Wisconsin-made ventilators.
    How many people in Wisconsin are making these ventilators?
    Where is this product being made, overseas, or in Wisconsin?
    Trump claims to be waging a tariff war with China and it is causing Farmers and other businesses to go bankrupt but at the same time he's taking credit for this deal with a Taiwan-Republic of China company.
    Fortunately the new Democratic governor is demanding a re-negotiated contract.
    Why I'm recalling these facts?
    I have watched some of the constituents buy into what Trump is selling them for Billions of dollars.
    I've understood the need to make a living etc. and that's what Trump promised Wisconsinites
    But Trump feels the same about his supporters that he feels about non-white lives.
    The farmer has become dependent on the government and is being subsidized by the government like the rhetoric he uses to describe blacks.

    Look at the facts Trump embracing a union-busting governor like Walker and they both embraced overseas companies letting them use taxpayers money, and kicking them off their land.
    And worst of all right now Trump and Pence have been to Wisconsin approx. 6 times to rally for re-election and the instigate the shooting seven times of a black man. He knows that some rather justify a shooting of a black man and be distracted from the facts that it's costing them Billions of dollars and thousands of lives
    from the rising deaths
    COVID 19
    A lot of this remind been me of the Ghetto town I was born in and have lived in all of my life Oakland CA.
    I don't what to offend the people of Wisconsin is
    I appreciate what I'm hearing from Wisconsin.

  4. Democrats need to put in place policies that materially benefit working class people across the board.

    Put criminal justice, law enforcement and systematic racism reform front and center.

    Democrats need to stop being the party of moguls, hedge funds and hollywood.

  5. There are many problems with State employees who belong to unions, because of what has happened, and what does happen with people who work in State human services institutions where there are people who are clients get injured, and yes it is a fact that the State government protects the State government!

  6. Scawt Walker was a total POX on the landscape–degrading the UW university system, rejecting Federal funding ($$$$$$) for an intercity transit system to Chicago and Minneapolis. His negative impact on Wisconsin is still depressing things. Such a total DOTARD!

  7. we have a lot of democratic governors in a lot of states such as the one i live in which is NY and they prove to be just a racist as republicans gov Cuomo of new York openly said no reparations for black people when asked about giving Black Americans first crack at the Pot industry also there the largest funders of the police by huge margins

  8. Institute the ability of a voat started by petition for a vote of no confidence in any elected official to be won by majority of popular vote.

  9. Trump is horrible – but so is Joe Biden. It's sad that the Black community has been so thoroughly co-opted – to support the guy who worked so hard to create our racist police State, and racially-disparate culture of incarceration for-profit.

    Joe Biden ALSO opposes the legalization or decriminalization of Marijuana – without regards to any redistricting measures, or gerrymandering. He also delivered the eulogy for Strom Thurmond, and opposed efforts to enforce desegregation (like "forced bussing"), and he supports the 'poverty draft', that ensures that our illegal Imperial wars will be fought with and upon black and brown bodies, and he supports those, too.

    Election Integrity is a real and persistent issue, in our country – and the DNCIA is on the wrong side of it, along with the Republicans. I wrote the following for a different video's comnents section…but it seems relevant to THIS DISCUSSION as well.

    So I did a little checking… There is a "Theory" on the right that there is an Intelligence Community Supercomputer called "Hammer" (HAMR) and a CIA program used to hack elections called "SCORECARD"… https://theamericanreport.org/2020/10/31/biden-using-scorecard-and-the-hammer-to-steal-another-u-s-presidential-election-just-like-obama-and-biden-did-in-2012/

    And this idea has been DENIED (as opposed to "Debunked") by SNOPES, and a number of other Corporate/Big Tech purveyors of the US Imperial Intelligence Community's disinformation, like "PolitiFact" and "FactCheck", etc.. If you do a search for "Hammer and Scorecard", predictably these pieces will come up at the top of the page.

    But it should be noted, that if you search on SNOPES or these other platforms for "Douma chemical attack" – you will find any number of PROVABLY FALSE articles – slandering those who exposed that staged and fraudulent 'false-flag' event, as everything from delusionals – to agents of Russia, or the Lawful Syrian Government. https://www.snopes.com/?s=Douma+chemical+attack – None of their results occur after 2018 – which is back when the US Empire's coverstory was being critically challenged, but was – in some dishonest fashion – still being repeated by mainstream/Imperial narrative propagators, like US and UK politicians, Corporatist State media outlets, and spooky, disinformational force-multipliers like SNOPES.

    There's just one problem. The story was NEVER true. CNN and MSNBC, and FOX and SNOPES – were ALL lying to you – and slandering the names, reputations and reporting, of much better journalists – who all got the story right.

    We know this NOW – because a number of brave and LEGITIMATE WHISTLEBLOWERS, who were part of the OPCW's on-the-ground fact-finding and technical assessment team, have come forward to correct the official record. The OPCW's team found that the story was absolutely false, physically impossible, and likely the result of a fabricated and falsified disinformation campaign, orchestrated by the US- and UK- backed terrorist groups, that are sometimes still mislabeled as the "Syrian Resistance", "Syrian Democratic Forces'", "HTS" – or colloquially as the "Moderate Rebels". But the problem is that THEIR REPORT was suppressed by the OPCW's Executive branch in Brussels – responding to pressure from the nation's who used the initial (totally false) story, to justify a series of illegal attacks upon Syrian territory – which amount to WARCRIMES – regardless of their fraudulent justification. So the OPCW used a handpicked team, of well motivated and paid liars – to produce a report more to the liking, of the Empire's Force Majeures.

    These facts have been DUTIFULLY CENSORED by US Media and Big Tech platforms – much in the way that criticisms of falsified Iraqi WMDs "Intelligence" was – prior to the Illegal, Immoral, Disasterous and Unjust attack upon-, and invasion of- Iraq were.
    https://wikileaks.org/opcw-douma/#Internal%20OPCW%20E-Mail

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/syria-opcw-whistleblowers-confirm-what-we-already-knew-the-opcw-suppressed-evidence-regarding-alleged-chemical-weapons-attack/5694146.

    https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/narrative-managers-faceplant-in-hilarious-opcw-scandal-spin-job-6710730cda01

    https://www.rt.com/news/487977-opcw-whistleblower-douma-inspectors/

    https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/28/draft-debacle-bellingcat-smears-opcw-whistleblower-journalists-with-false-letter-farcical-claims/

    https://thegrayzone.com/2020/10/07/opcw-syria-whistleblower-and-ex-opcw-chief-attacked-by-us-uk-french-at-un/

    https://thegrayzone.com/2020/03/12/opcw-whistleblower-mistreatment-douma-investigators/

    https://original.antiwar.com/dave_decamp/2020/02/09/opcw-tries-to-discredit-whistleblowers-in-response-to-douma-leaks/

    So it turns out that where history doesn't directly repeat…It Rhymes…

    https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2020/10/19/former-opcw-chief-says-us-bugged-his-office-while-pushing-iraq-war/

    So why do I bring up Syria, the OPCW and tall tales of WMDs…? Because the same sources who DENY and attempt to "Debunk" the reality that US ELECTIONS SYSTEMS are subject to vote flipping and manipulation… Are the same sources with a history of spreading IMPERIAL disinformation, to justify warcrimes – and who continue the cover-up by telling more lies, and lies by omission.

    https://www.snopes.com/?s=OPCW+whistleblowers

    The US employs at least 17 Intelligence Agencies – including the CIA, which was infused with Nazis from its founding – out of the ashes of the OSS. These Agencies engage in things called "Covert Operations" (and those are often illegal). The goal of Covert Operations – is to AVOID leaving evidence, which might expose what occurred. So to say that a Covert Operations Analysis is "Evidence – Free" – is not the same thing as disproving it. In this case – the language of our DHS official says specifically that "bad actors" can't influence our elections. Who exactly does he mean by that nebulous and deceptive utterance? Does he mean Ashton Kutcher or Adam Sandler, Keanu Reeves or Tommy Wiseau? https://www.thetoptens.com/worst-actors/

    Is he talking about Foreign States? Because there's a bunch of Israeli connections to Microsoft's "Election Guard" program… https://www.mintpressnews.com/microsoft-electionguard-a-trojan-horse-for-a-military-industrial-takeover-of-us-elections/258732/

    Are US Corporations and Spy Agencies on his list of Bad Actors? Did he check his list twice?

    Because there is AMPLE evidence that US Voting systems can be used to manipulate our elections – because they have been shown to use "FRACTIONAL VOTE COUNTING", in their "proprietary" "trade secret" software. And there is NO SUCH THING as a fractional vote. Which means that in theory, systems can be used to shave a percentage of every vote for candidate A – and add that to the total of Candidate B(iden). And based on analysis of Exit poll data – in the 2016 and 2020 primary contests which selected Clinton and Biden as the "Democratic" nominee – CLEAR CUT and undeniable discrepancies were present – in some cases, more than twice the margin of error, of the exit polls in question. TDMSRESEARCH.COM

    The article which I cited at the top of this comment is undoubtedly from a rightwing Trump supporting source. But EVEN IT acknowledges the likelihood that our Voting systems were used to steal the nominations from Bernie Sanders – twice in row. One NEED NOT BE A TRUMP SUPPORTER – nor a deranged believer in "flat-Earth" or Bigfoot, or Aliens – to question the legitmacy of America's electoral processes and systems.

    https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/10/31/how-safe-is-the-us-election-from-hacking/

    https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/05/27/touchscreen-voting-makes-everything-easy-including-hacking/

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fob-AGgZn44

  10. The President has asked us to send him “snail mail” letters. The letter is to DEMAND A FULL AUDIT of all 50 states. Send this to President Donald J Trump; WHITE HOUSE; 1600 Pennsylvania Ave Washington DC 20500 He will use this as evidence to the Supreme Court. President Trump is asking all of us to send him HARD COPY letters as evidence we, the People, are demanding a full AUDIT of all 50 states. Please do this tomorrow. Have every registered voter in your household send a separate letter. We need to swarm the White House mail room. Thank you. The above info was reported on Newsmax this evening:Thank you in advance for forwarding this to friends and family. Pass this on to ALL Trump supporters

  11. Wisconsin has same day registrations for voting.
    Are those ballots put in provisional status until verified as a qualified voter?
    Or, added into the general vote tallies?
    Over 500,000 same day registrations occurred during this recent election.

  12. Funny how when the demorats think they have won how they cant stand anyone using their rights to challenge them. But when they demorats lose their lie, cheat and challenge by constantly protesting everything that they can. JMHO

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