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In Wisconsin and across the country, 538 members of the Electoral College met on December 14 to cast their votes for president — officially awarding President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris their 306 earned electoral college votes. But many of those electors, in battleground states such as Wisconsin, met under increased security and amid unprecedented chaos and confusion after efforts from President Donald Trump and his Republican allies to sow doubt on the election results. The Electoral College vote marked the end of Trump’s efforts to use the courts to overturn the election, with the Wisconsin Supreme...

By John M. Eason, Associate Professor of Sociology; Benny Witkovsky, PhD Candidate; Chloe Haimson, PhD Candidate; Jungmyung Kim, PhD Candidate; University of Wisconsin-Madison Kenosha, Wisconsin, became a national byword for racial unrest when protests in August erupted in violence. After local police shot a Black man, Jacob Blake, seven times in the back, leaving him paralyzed, furious residents took to the streets expressing years of pent-up anger. During nighttime hours, fires were set. Law enforcement’s response only escalated the situation. One night an armed white militia showed up, and Kenosha officers thanked them. Then, at 11:45 p.m. on Aug....

Content Warning: This story includes brief descriptions of sexual abuse. On the night of November 8, 2016, I sat on my sofa, excited to watch the first woman, Hillary Clinton, be elected president of the United States. But instead, I cringed as more states turned red than blue. Donald Trump won the presidency. My nervous system slowly began to contract, its silent way of saying, “We’re not safe.” I found myself catatonic in bed for the next four days. “My father is in the White House,” my mind kept repeating, over and over again. Seven years before, I had...