Ben Wikler
@benwikler
Host, This Is Wisconsin with @civicmedia.us. Author, This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy—out 7/21. www.thisistheplan.com
There's no place like home. The This Is The Plan book tour is swinging back through the Badger State starting TONIGHT in Milwaukee with Earl Ingram, Jr. at Turner Hall. Get your tickets at thisistheplan.com. 🧯🔥
State and local officials actually oversee elections. Which means state and local elections are the front lines in the battle to save democracy. 🧯🔥
Packed house tonight in Cambridge with Professor Danielle Allen! @harvardbookstore.bsky.social
Thank you to the 350+ DC-area folks who packed Politics and Prose for our publication-day book event last night! And a special note of gratitude to Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and the incomparable Judy Woodruff for a great conversation. See you tonight, Cambridge!
Last year, Elon Musk tried to buy Wisconsin. Spent more money on the WI Supreme Court race than anyone's spent on a judicial election in American history. Then, we beat his ass by 10% and he was booted out of the White House.
Saving democracy has never looked this good. 🧯🔥 THIS IS THE PLAN: THIS IS THE MERCH. The drop is live. Hats, tees, totes, stickers. Union made in the USA. Get yours today: benwikler.myshopify.com
🧯🔥This is the Plan: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy is OUT NOW! Visit www.thisistheplan.com to order your copy today and find a book tour event near you. Let's do this!
After an amazing, sold out night in Madison on Friday, I'm hitting the road this week with stops in DC, Boston, Chicago, and Milwaukee. Find an event near you and join us: www.thisistheplan.com
No better way to kick off this 12-city book tour than with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, @satyaformadison.bsky.social, @markpocan.bsky.social, and nearly 2,000 Wisconsinites ready to roll up their sleeves and get to work saving democracy. (FOMO? Join us at an upcoming tour stop: thisistheplan.com)
Today, a special investigation by This Is Wisconsin of our Southern border. With Illinois. @civicmedia.us
On MSNOW with @chrislhayes.bsky.social last night, I shared how the fight to unrig Wisconsin gives us a roadmap for how to unrig the country. That's the plan in my book, This Is The Plan, out on Tuesday.
Feel like America is spiraling? Wondering how the hell we get out of this mess? I wrote a field guide to fighting back. This Is the Plan is available everywhere in ONE WEEK! Pre-order TODAY at thisistheplan.com
The country is on fire. We can save it together. My book tour kicks off in ONE WEEK. Pre-order your copy today and find an event near you at thisistheplan.com
Last month I stopped by Milwaukee's Juneteenth festival—the longest running one in the US!—to talk to folks about what Juneteenth means to them. @civicmedia.us
Ever had a Scrambler at Mickies Dairy Bar? Incredible value. Which is hard to find, as everything gets so expensive. I asked my fellow patrons at the world's best diner about what's working and what's not. @civicmedia.us
Gas. It's expensive. What do my fellow Kwik Trip customers think about that? And about the Iran war? @civicmedia.us
Friends, a month from now, I’ll be releasing my book, THIS IS THE PLAN. Today, I’m delighted to announce something else: THIS IS WISCONSIN. 🧵
I'm thrilled to share my New York Times op-ed today drawing on my forthcoming book, THIS IS THE PLAN: HOW TO END AMERICA'S MELTDOWN AND SAVE DEMOCRACY—and to pull back the curtain on my book tour! Links below: 🧵
Pumpkin brought me to UW-Madison's campus today to Pet Out The Vote. Students are ON IT. (And if you're one: you still have an hour to get to the polls! And you can register there and vote today!)
Rob Reiner directed my favorite movie in the world, and then made all my dreams come true by, with Cary Elwes, organizing a cast reunion table read Zoom fundraiser for WisDems. A heart, spirit, and talent bigger than the whole world. May his and Michele's memory be a blessing.
“My fundamental concern with regard to how much voting control I have at Tesla is, if I go ahead and build this enormous robot army, can I just be ousted at some point in the future?... I don't feel comfortable building that robot army unless I have a strong influence.” – Musk, arguing for $1T
This chart—using data from Catalist, in this article by @scottanderson.bsky.social—is a Rosetta Stone for how the presidential map changes over the next decade. We've got to turn WI MI PA blue before 2032—because at that point, they won't be enough to get to 270. medium.com/@scottanders...