Articles In This Issue

• Wisconsin Conservative Turnout Catastrophe Delivers Taylor a Historic Supreme Court Blowout - TrueNorthNews

• Sarah Is Not Normal - David Blaska

• Achievements… - A.F. Branco

Wisconsin Conservative Turnout Catastrophe Delivers Taylor a Historic Supreme Court Blowout

TrueNorthNews - April 8, 2026

Wisconsin liberals secured their most dominant State Supreme Court victory in decades Tuesday night [April 7th], with Judge Chris Taylor defeating conservative Appeals Court Judge Maria Lazar 59.8% to 40.1% — a 19.7-point margin that nearly doubled the liberals’ previous winning margins. But the numbers tell a more complicated story: conservatives didn’t lose because voters rejected their candidate. They lost because their voters simply didn’t show up.

The result was called just 38 minutes after polls closed, with Taylor receiving 901,052 votes to Lazar’s 604,584 out of 1,506,442 total ballots cast — a 37% drop from the 2025 Supreme Court race that saw roughly 2,393,000 votes cast.

The math is brutal for conservatives. Brad Schimel’s 2025 losing total of approximately 1,078,000 votes would have defeated Taylor by roughly 177,000 votes. Even Dan Kelly’s 2023 losing total of approximately 866,600 votes would have come within 35,000 of Taylor’s winning number. Lazar received approximately 44% fewer votes than Schimel just one year ago.

Sarah Is Not Normal

David Blaska, Blaska Policy Werkes - April 16, 2026

All hail Wisconsin’s Greta Thunberg! Platinum subscribers worried about the Head Groundskeeper’s mental health after the April 7 election shellacking can be reassured. Long walks in the UW Arboretum seem to be helping. We’re eating solid food again and Blaska is allowed to be near sharp objects (but not CNN).

We’re actually optimistic about Republican chances here in Wisconsin this November. One reason: Democrats! They can’t help themselves! Especially when they think they have the wind at their sails.

There is Francesca Hong’s Woke neo-Stalinism. (Who votes NO on laws against grooming children?) He may not be an Eric Swalwell, but poll second-runner Mandela Barnes strikes us as Forrest Gump with a big box of surprises; you never know what you’re going to get.

Today’s thrilling episode thanks the Democrat running for lieutenant governor, Sarah Godlewski. The young lady shakes her fist at the sky like Grampa Simpson. She blames Republicans for this week’s hail storm. (Just missed the Stately Manor here on Madison’s SW side. There’s a reason we keep our dues up.)

Mizz Godlewski currently serves as Wisconsin’s secretary of state where she may have access to scissors. She fairly shrieks: “Republicans say we don’t have climate change but this is golf ball-sized hail in my front yard! This is not normal and we can’t keep ignoring our environment!”

Achievements…

A.F. Branco, Creators Syndicate - April 20, 2026