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Host, This Is Wisconsin with @CivicMediaUS. Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy—out 7/21.
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A Three-Step Plan to Undo Trump’s Assault on Democracy

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By Ben Wikler
| The New York Times Verified
A Three-Step Plan to Undo Trump’s Assault on Democracy June 15, 2026, 5:02 a.m. ET Credit...Michael Houtz Mr. Wikler is the author of the forthcoming “This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy.” President Trump and his allies are assaulting the shaky foundations of American democracy. In acts that reminded us of what he did after his loss in 2020, he called the recent California primary election “rigged,” and last week, his F.B.I. raided an Ohio voter registration group.
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Want to Fight Today's SCOTUS Decision? Then fight for the Georgia Supreme Court in May.

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By Ben Wikler, Lavora Barnes, Spencer Klein
| contrariannews.org
Today, the Supreme Court delivered a serious and perhaps fatal blow to the Voting Rights Act. As Justice Elena Kagan wrote in her dissent, a state now “can, without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power” due to supposed “updates” that “eviscerate the law.” (Harrison Keely via Wikimedia Commons) The result will be a wave of Republican-controlled states redrawing their maps to entrench Republican power by destroying majority-Black and Latino districts.
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This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy-My New Book, out July 21

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By Ben Wikler
| The Contrarian
It’s hard to read the news, or even turn on your phone and glance at the notifications, without wanting to curl up in a fetal position or punch a hole through the wall. It feels like we’re falling off the side of a cliff. One insidious undercurrent: the feeling of being powerless. But there’s a way out of this accelerating disaster. It’s a long, hard path. It’s going to take all of us, working together, to walk it. But I know we can do it.
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