Emily Tseffos for Wisconsin

09/15/2025

On reports that Wisconsin State Representative Dave Murphy has purchased a home and is living out of district:

This stuff matters.

It seems that Rep. Murphy moved out of the district and didn’t tell anyone (with ~18 months left in his term). Representation is supposed to be rooted in community, and people here deserve honesty about where their elected official actually lives. Keeping it quiet undermines trust, disrespects voters, and leaves the 56th without the accountability we’re owed.

I don’t know about you but I’m tied of my representatives lying to me and manipulating rules to serve their own interests while the rest of us play by them.

If you live in the 56th Assembly District and are concerned about not having real representation for the majority of this term, you can file a complaint with the Wisconsin Department of Justice here: 👉 https://www.doj.state.wi.us/ag/complaints

(Under reasons, click “something else”)

09/15/2025

Northern lights tonight! ✨

09/14/2025

What a weekend! 🤩

I was reminded of something important this weekend at our county party leadership retreat: WE are the backbone of this movement. We — parents and professionals, retirees and teachers, nurses and artists, progressive activists and veterans, servers and librarians, students and farmers — are where trust is rebuilt, where neighbors feel heard, and where communities find the support they need.

WE are the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

I was absolutely honored to have helped to make this weekend happen — we provided tools, created resources, talked strategy, yes — but even more, we recommitted ourselves to the big and small actions that move us forward. Every door knocked, every volunteer recruited, every sign placed, every conversation at a county fair, every single way we show up for our neighbors — it all matters, especially now.

We left feeling grounded in that truth: no contribution is too small, no county too red, and no campaign too unwinnable to help build the future Wisconsin deserves.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. LFG. 🇺🇸

09/12/2025

Here’s what I know: we can’t go on this way.

"Every time either side chooses to treat fellow Americans as enemies to be destroyed, it feeds the same permission structures that make violence feel inevitable."

09/12/2025

If you follow this page, chances are we’ve met — maybe on your doorstep, at a coffee shop, or out in a field somewhere between Maple Creek, Greenville, North Appleton, Shiocton, New London, or Ellington.

In case you missed it, Wisconsin State Representative Dave Murphy seems to have moved out of our district with 18 months left in his term.

I want you to hear me when I say this: you deserve better. You always have.

The people of the 56th have gone too long without honest, accountable representation. Retirees, parents, teachers, farmers — all of you deserve someone who listens, shows up, and fights for this community every single day.

This seat will be open in 2026, and I’m excited to keep working with you all to bring you real representation and to move this district forward, together. 🇺🇸

09/11/2025

Don’t fall for it - it’s the same playbook they always use.

09/10/2025

full stop.

09/10/2025

I’m so proud of our Forward Hortonville team! 💙 Their brat fry raised $925 for the Hortonville Community Food Pantry — proof that when neighbors come together, we make a real difference.

Community service isn’t optional for us — it’s necessary. And this is just the beginning. We’re building something bigger than a fundraiser. We’re building a culture of care and responsibility for one another.

So much love for this team. We’re just getting started. 🌟

09/09/2025

A judge in Los Angeles said immigration agents had gone too far — they were stopping people just because they looked Latino, spoke Spanish, or waited outside for day-labor work. He called it what it is: racial profiling, and that’s unconstitutional.

Here’s the thing: the Fourth Amendment of our Constitution is supposed to protect all of us from being stopped or searched without a real, legal reason. Officers need particular suspicion tied to actual behavior — not race, language, or appearance.

That’s a foundational right.

But yesterday, the Supreme Court pressed pause on that protection. (And they did it on the shadow docket — which means it was a quick process with no hearings, no debate. Just a short unsigned order.) So for now, agents in L.A. can go back to making stops based on things like appearance and language.

The conservative justices said officers should use the “whole picture.” The liberal justices dissented, warning that this is “racial profiling, plain and simple.”

Why should this matter to us here in Wisconsin? Because if it stands, it sets the tone everywhere. If speaking Spanish at the grocery store or waiting for work on a corner can be treated as suspicious, anyone can be a target.

I’ll be honest: as a white woman, I know I’m not the one who will be stopped. But that doesn’t let me off the hook. We all have a responsibility to defend the Constitution and the rights it guarantees. If some of our neighbors lose those protections, none of us are truly safe.

09/02/2025

I notice your shoes.
Your watch.
The clothes you chose this morning.
The color of your jacket.
The way you did your hair.

I make you say I love you,
even when you don’t want to.

I notice,
because I am terrified.
Because if the unimaginable happens,
if the unthinkable becomes real,
I will need to know.
I will need to remember.

I will need to identify my own child.

And when you turn to me,
anxious to get out of the car,
eager to start your day,
I sear that last look
into the marrow of my soul—
because some part of me whispers
it could be the last one you give.

What a thought to have
while dropping a child off at school.

And yet it lives in me.

The rational part of my mind says:
there are millions of schools,
millions of children,
and the chances are so small.

But the other part of me knows:
it can happen anywhere.
Any time.

To anyone.

So I shove my fear deep down,
into my pocket with my keys,
and I go on with the day.

That’s what parents in America do.

We cling to the tiny, ordinary moments—
the socks, the jacket, the wayward hair,
the forced I love you,
the last look before the door closes—
because in this country we understand:
if the worst happens,
that last morning will never leave us.
It will be stitched into us forever.

And so none of us are ever really at ease, are we?

How could we be,
in a country that chooses again and again
to cherish guns more than children?

09/01/2025

It’s Labor Day. You’ve got the day off because workers fought like hell for it. Here are some things you probably didn’t know about Labor Day — and why it still matters today.👇

1.
Labor Day was born out of strikes and protests in the 1880s. The first Labor Day wasn’t about parades or grilling out — they were workers demanding an 8-hour day instead of 12-14 hour shifts, 7 days a week.

2.
The U.S. didn’t give us a holiday out of generosity. Labor Day was passed into law after workers were literally killed during strikes like the Pullman Strike in 1894. It was damage control by the government.

3.
Unions gave us weekends, overtime pay, sick leave, and child labor laws. If you like these things, thank a union.

4.
Here in Wisconsin, our paper mill workers, shipbuilders, and teachers have been on the frontlines for generations. Strong unions in NE Wisconsin raised wages and standards for everyone — even non-union shops!

5.
Fast-forward to today: corporations are making record profits, and wages for working folks arent keeping up.

Since 1979, middle-wage workers’ pay is up about 6%. Low-wage workers? Down 5%.

Meanwhile CEO pay? Up 1,200%, and yet workers are told to “tighten our belts.”

Labor Day is the perfect day to call BS on that. 🇺🇸

6.
When unions are strong, all workers are rewarded. Higher wages, safer workplaces, better benefits. That’s why the attacks on unions are so fierce — they work (see the assault on working folks via this administration or Scott Walker circa 2010).

Labor Day isn’t just history — it’s a reminder that progress is won when workers stand together. Solidarity forever, unions YES! ✊

09/01/2025

Good news!

A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled that state environmental regulators can require large livestock farms to obtain permits that seek to prevent manure spills and protect state waters.