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Politics / Democracy 1, Elon Musk 0 The richest man in the world attempted to buy an election in Wisconsin. His effort crashed and burned, establishing a model for the fight against Trumpism. Susan Crawford accepts victory in her race for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice on April 1, 2025, in Madison, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson / Getty Images) Two days before Wisconsinites went to the polls in an...
Continue Reading on https://www.thenation.com/Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford reacts with supporters after her victory in the race for Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. Scott Olson/Getty Images After a long, expensive, and closely watched race, Wisconsin went to the polls on Tuesday, and voted in a new state supreme court justice. Susan Crawford, a liberal county judge backed by Democrats across the US, defeated the...
Continue Reading on https://www.vox.com/Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “Musk has made this a referendum on the idea of an American oligarchy,” Wisconsin Democratic Party chair Ben Wikler told me recently, as he warned about the potential fallout from the $25 million that the world’s wealthiest person spent trying to flip a state Supreme Court seat. In the...
Continue Reading on https://www.motherjones.com/Politics / The World’s Richest Man Wants Wisconsin to Give Up on Democracy Elon Musk is spending tens of millions of dollars to block free and fair elections in the battleground state. Elon Musk during a town hall at the KI Convention Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Sunday, March 30, 2025. (Jamie Kelter Davis / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Elon Musk jetted into Wisconsin Sunday, donned a...
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