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The (reported) net worth of U.S. Rep. Glenn Grothman, Republican from eastern Wisconsin
Grothman was first elected to Congress in 2014 after more than 20 years in the Wisconsin State Legislature. He sits on the committees overseeing the federal budget, Education and the Workforce, and he ...
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The (reported) financial interests of Brian Hagedorn, right-leaning swing justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Elected officials in Wisconsin must submit reports on their finances to the state. Here is the report from the court’s swing justice. Justice Brian Hagedorn was elected to the court in 2019. He had ...
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The (reported) net worth of U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, Republican from the Green Bay area
A former Marine with a Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown, Gallagher was first elected to Congress in 2017. A frequent critic of the Chinese government, he chairs the new select ...
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Board of Directors
Nicholas is a Partner at the law firm Kramer, Elkins & Watt in Madison. He graduated from the UW-Madison Law School in 2010. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Illinois. Nicholas is a ...
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The rock ‘n’ roll congressman priest from Wisconsin who was benched by the pope
Green Bay Priest Robert Cornell hobnobbed with famous musicians, then befriended - and tangled with - powerful politicians ...
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The (reported) net worth of U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore, Democrat of Milwaukee
Moore was first elected to Congress in 2004 after serving many years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate. She sits on the influential Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax-writing, ...
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3rd Congressional District of Wisconsin
“I believe that one of the redistricting goals, in 2011, was to help protect (the Republican incumbent in the 7th District to the north) by shifting some Republican voters — looking at past historical ...
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8th Congressional District of Wisconsin
“The 8th Congressional District has historically been more competitive than the 6th, but it still usually produces a Republican Congress member. The redistricting reduced the size of the 8th, but did ...
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THE TEAM
Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...
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Our Funders and Donors
The Badger Project is a nonprofit funded mainly through reader contributions and grants. In March 2020, we received a matching grant of $7,712.87 from NewsMatch 2019 in coordination with our ...
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The (reported) net worth of U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden, Republican from western Wisconsin
Former Navy Seal Van Orden first joined the U.S. House in 2022, narrowly defeating his Democratic challenger in the western Wisconsin swing district. Van Orden sits on the committees overseeing ...