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A special announcement: Pod on ice (but just real quick)
January 19, 2022

Attention dear listeners, we have an announcement: The WPR Politics Podcast is taking a quick winter break!!

About that year we had!
December 18, 2021

Do you remember 2021? That's OK, neither do we! But that just means it's time to take a look back at the year that was in Wisconsin state politics news on another episode of everyone's favorite fake p

This changes (nothing) everything!
December 03, 2021

The Wisconsin Supreme Court's conservative majority issued a ruling this week laying out how they'll handle the political map-drawing process in the state: basically change things from the existing, G

A sticky issue
November 19, 2021

A new bipartisan bill sparked fresh discussion about marijuana policy in Wisconsin this week. It would standardize penalties for marijuana possession across the state, and while it would mellow out re

Hark! News of redistricting
November 12, 2021

Our very own Shawn Johnson has been away on a journey for many weeks, but today is the day he returns, and with news of Wisconsin redistricting no less. Just in time for GOP lawmakers' passage of thei

1 year, 3 days
November 05, 2021

It is just over 12 months until election day 2022 in Wisconsin, and that means it's high time for a podcast breakdown of the major races to keep an eye on over the next year you've got your governor

It came from the LAB
October 29, 2021

Deep in the bowels of the Capitol square, shrouded in mystery, youll find the LAB. What goes on there, nobodys quite sure. But for months, day and night, something has been growing, bit by bit, taki

Cranes/cranes/schools/schools/Gableman/Gableman/Gableman
October 15, 2021

No tiny tweets or scrawny stories here! This week we have literally all the information there is on crane hunting, school transfers, election investigations, you name it! Hours and hours of state Capi

Over and over and over again, forever
October 08, 2021

Yeah, it's October 2021, but somehow November 2020 is front-page political news in Wisconsin this week. It's like a wise man once said: "Time is a flat circle. Yes it is, yes it is."

Fever To Map
October 01, 2021

The wheels are turning on Wisconsin's once-a-decade legislative redistricting process and everyone has mapmaking fever — Republicans in the state Legislature, the governor and his fellow Democrats, an