Folks, this is Ben Wikler, Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, and in a moment, I’m going to ask you to split a donation between WisDems and Tammy Baldwin so we can reach our goal to win our next pivotal election in April, but first I want to explain the stakes:

On April 4, Wisconsinites will vote to fill an open seat on the state Supreme Court — in an election that will determine whether that body will have a conservative or a progressive majority until 2025. This race will shape voting rights, decisions on election subversion, legislative district lines, and so much more — and will likely have a larger effect on the 2024 presidential and Senate race than any other contest in the country in 2023.

Over these last two presidential cycles, the state Supreme Court has played an outsized role in shaping the electoral playing field and the powers of government in ways that have usually systematically advantaged Republicans in Wisconsin.

In 2020, Donald Trump asked SCOWIS to illegally throw out tens of thousands of votes in Wisconsin’s most Democratic-leaning areas. Thankfully, SCOWIS stopped him, but only by a slim 4-3 margin. If we can rebalance the Court, we are more likely to stop these brazen attacks on our democracy in their tracks.

With a conservative justice retiring, April 4 represents a chance to flip an open seat — which could lead to a Wisconsin Supreme Court majority ready to adopt far less gerrymandered state legislative maps, defend voting rights, rule that Wisconsin’s 1849 abortion ban is invalid, and otherwise side with the law rather than Republican ideology. Fair maps, in turn, could open the door to contested legislative majorities in 2024 and the possibility of winning a blue trifecta in Wisconsin in 2024 or 2026.

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin intends to fully support the more progressive candidate in this nonpartisan contest. In keeping with other recent high-stakes races here, this is likely to be the most expensive Supreme Court race in Wisconsin history, so we’ll need all the support we can get to win in November.

That’s why I’m humbly asking you for help now so my team can prepare. Will you split a donation of any amount to WisDems and Tammy Baldwin to score big wins in April and beyond? >>

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Yours in the fight,

Ben Wikler