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Wisconsin National Guard sent to support Capitol police against planned insurrection in Madison

Wisconsin National Guard sent to support Capitol police against planned insurrection in Madison

Posted by | Jan 12, 2021

Governor Tony Evers authorized the Wisconsin National Guard to support Wisconsin’s Capitol Police on January 11. Members of the Wisconsin National Guard will mobilize to state active duty to support safety and security efforts at the State Capitol in Madison. The troops are part of the Wisconsin National Guard Reaction Force, which consists of troops trained to respond to requests for assistance on short notice. The Wisconsin National Guard will serve in a support role to local authorities and conduct a site security mission. “Once again, our state has asked our Citizen Soldiers in the Wisconsin National Guard to...

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A long road to normal: Governor Tony Evers reflects on the turbulent past year and what 2021 could bring

A long road to normal: Governor Tony Evers reflects on the turbulent past year and what 2021 could bring

Posted by | Jan 12, 2021 |

Governor Tony Evers began 2020 talking about how to spend a budget surplus and preparing for the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee. By the end of the year, the first-term governor had overseen a sweeping government response to a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic, mobilized the National Guard following destructive protests in Madison and Kenosha, and fought repeated Republican lawsuits seeking to overturn President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin. As 2021 begins, Evers will have to negotiate a new budget with Republican lawmakers, and — if he decides to seek a second term — lay the foundation for his reelection campaign. In...

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Re-enactment of a Lost Cause: Why Confederate mythology lives on in hearts of White supremacists

Re-enactment of a Lost Cause: Why Confederate mythology lives on in hearts of White supremacists

Posted by | Jan 12, 2021

Pundits desperately searching for a historical analogy for the storming of the U.S. Capitol have seized on August 1814, when the British army burned the Capitol in retaliation for the U.S. assault on the Canadian capital a year earlier. But there’s a more apt comparison. Fifty years later, in July 1864, with the Civil War still raging, a Confederate army came within shooting distance of capturing Washington. Confederate Gen. Jubal Early could see the shining dome of the Capitol “feebly manned,” he later wrote, a mere six miles away. Though troop fatigue, summer heat, and the late arrival of...

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Accountability for an Attempted Coup: The culpability of Trump and his GOP allies is beyond dispute

Accountability for an Attempted Coup: The culpability of Trump and his GOP allies is beyond dispute

Posted by | Jan 11, 2021 |

Call me old-fashioned, but when the president of the United States encourages armed insurgents to breach the Capitol and threaten the physical safety of Congress, in order to remain in power, I call it an attempted coup. The rampage Last week left five dead, including a Capitol Hill police officer who was injured when he tangled with the pro-Trump mob. We’re fortunate the carnage wasn’t greater. That the attempted coup failed shouldn’t blind us to its significance or the stain it has left on America. Nor to the importance of holding those responsible fully accountable. Trump’s culpability is beyond...

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White-on-White Crime: When White people attack their own government

White-on-White Crime: When White people attack their own government

Posted by | Jan 10, 2021 |

“For weeks, President Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to “save America” and “stop the steal” of the election he had decisively lost, but which he still maintained — often through a toxic brew of conspiracy theories — that he had won by a landslide. And when that day came, the president rallied thousands of his supporters with an incendiary speech. Then a large mob of those supporters, many waving Trump flags and wearing Trump regalia, violently stormed the Capitol to take over the...

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Wisconsin civil rights organizations jointly condemn Trump’s act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol

Wisconsin civil rights organizations jointly condemn Trump’s act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol

Posted by | Jan 10, 2021 |

Voces de la Frontera, The Wisconsin African American Roundtable, the Milwaukee NAACP, Justice Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Muslim Civic Alliance, and the Milwaukee Hmong American Women’s Association issue the following statement in response to Trump’s act of domestic terrorism at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: “We condemn Trump and his Republican enablers for instigating an act of domestic terrorism by white nationalists at the nation’s Capitol in an effort to disrupt and intimidate US Congressional representatives from affirming the rightful election of President Elect Joe Biden and Vice President Elect Kamala Harris. We call for Trump’s immediate removal...

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