Wisconsin

Recent Achievements

GROWW activated many voters who contributed to important wins in Wisconsin during and since the 2024 election:

• Democrat Tammy Baldwin was re-elected to the US Senate over her Republican opponent by fewer than 30,000 votes

• The Democratic margin of loss in the presidential election stayed well below the national average (1.6% rightward shift from 2020 compared to 6% nationally)

• In 2025, Susan Crawford was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and in 2026, Chris Taylor was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, creating a 5-2 Democratically-aligned majority on the court

Locally, GROWW has supported advancements in housing justice and environmental protection during this time. In one town, they supported the passage of a local ordinance creating new safety and protection standards for renters, as well as elected pro-housing justice members to the city council. Recently, GROWW supported a town that became the tenth in Wisconsin to protect communities from the harmful impacts of factory farms. These ordinances will address the previously-unbridled growth of factory farms by requiring that they meet minimum standards for their operations, including road usage, air pollution, water usage, and more.

In 2024 and 2025, eleven GROWW-endorsed candidates won elections at the city, county and school board level, promising to advance GROWW priorities and values throughout the region.

What makes Wisconsin crucial this cycle

• Flipping a competitive district in Wisconsin (CD-3) is pivotal to Democratic efforts to flip the US House

• Statewide races for governor, attorney general and secretary of state will determine control over electoral processes in this important presidential battleground state

• For the first time in 14 years, state legislative maps will not be gerrymandered in this year’s election. Two toss-up seats in the state house are in GROWW’s region; winning these seats could narrow Republicans’ majority. In addition, Democrats could take control of the state senate by flipping just two seats.

What Flip the Vote’s support means for 2026

GROWW has ambitious plans to engage voters around issues that matter most in western Wisconsin, including water, housing, health care, anti-authoritarianism and local control. Health care is a particularly important issue right now in the region, as two hospitals and nineteen clinics closed in 2024 alone. And under the actions of the Trump Administration, Affordable Care Act premiums have surged and 270,000 Wisconsinites are at risk of losing coverage.

As a homegrown organization with a history of fighting and winning on issues like housing and corporate agriculture, GROWW is uniquely positioned to do this work, having earned the credibility to have real conversations with working-class people who have lost faith in government. This summer, GROWW will train and deploy volunteers to knock doors across western Wisconsin and have 4,200 deep canvassing conversations about the healthcare crisis, who is responsible, and how to organize to win.

With the support of Flip the Vote donors, GROWW will hold a grassroots Healthcare Summit convening in August, providing more than 10 hours of training each to 150 volunteers who will complete 840 shifts speaking with infrequent voters, non-voters, and other working class people who feel left behind by the economy and let down by those who were supposed to represent them.