Ron Johnson is the senior United States Senator for Wisconsin. He has been a member of the Senate since 2010. Prior to the Senate, Johnson was the CEO of PACUR, LLC, a polyester and plastics manufacturer.
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Ron Johnson is Now a Trump Co-Conspirator
Donald Trump isn’t going to make it easy for Republicans to ignore all the evidence and exonerate their party’s president in a Senate impeachment trial. Read more
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Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
After the tragedy in El Paso, Texas, Trump’s hateful rhetoric continues to cause problems. Read more
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Protesters Carried Cages During a March to Sen. Johnson’s Office Friday
The protesters called on Sen. Ron Johnson to do more regarding the current crisis at the border. Read more
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Does Brad Schimel Deserve His Reputation as 'the Worst Attorney General in Wisconsin History?'
Given his rightwing political partisanship in office, Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel does not deserve to be reelected. Read more
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Republican Welfare for Farmers
The latest development in Donald Trump’s total destruction of political beliefs within the Republican Party is his creation of a $12 billion, taxpayer-funded welfare program for farmers. Read more
Wisconsin's Collateral Damage from GOP Tax Cuts
No one should take pleasure from all the people being hurt by the Trump Family and Friends Republican Tax Cuts, but there’s some poetic justice in the collateral damage that those tax cuts will wreak upon Donald Trump’s supporters in Wisconsin. Read more
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Johnson Wants a Bigger Tax Cut for Himself
Ordinary taxpayers are hoping a few Republican heroes have the courage to stand up against a brazenly unfair tax plan that will eventually raise taxes on most Americans to pay for massive tax cuts for multimillion-dollar corporations and the ... Read more
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Stop the Gunfire. Stand Up to the NRA
The NRA’s shell-shocked paralysis this past week in the wake of another mass shooting seems to have allowed a little common sense to infiltrate the gun control debate; we must act now to bring about sensible gun control reform. Read more
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson's Assault on Health Care
Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson’s rightwing agenda includes destroying health care provisions for millions of Americans who are currently receiving affordable coverage through the ACA and Medicaid. Read more
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Coming Out in 2017
This past week, LGBTQs were repeatedly told that we are not equal or worthy. Read more
A Perfect Storm of Bad Republican Policies
When you’re a Republican senator voting against flood assistance for millions of Americans adversely affected by catastrophic hurricanes, you have to be awfully glib to fabricate a plausible excuse, and when you’re the president intentional... Read more
Johnson Exposes Secret GOP Plot Not to Hurt Poor and Disabled
Sen. Ron Johnson opposes the Republican health care reform plan out of purely personal animosity to Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and an attitude of cruelty toward the poorest members of the American public. Read more
Ron Johnson's Profile in Ugliness
One of the most surprising Republican senators to pretend to take a stand, sort of, against the health care bill was Wisconsin’s Sen. Ron Johnson. Surprising, of course, since Johnson never bothered to do much of anything in Washington duri... Read more
Trump's Biggest Lie about Jobs
Trump’s biggest lie is his support for “Buy American." When all those shuttered factories don’t reopen and coal mining doesn’t flourish again like it did in the 19th century, will Trump’s bitter, forgotten, left-behind white voters losin... Read more
Keep Resisting, Milwaukee: It's the Only Way to Preserve our Democracy
Donald Trump isn’t a normal president. Read more
And Days to go Before we Vote
Paul Masterson extols the importance of LGBT votes in the upcoming election. Read more
Why We Should Elect Politicians
Being a politician is no kind of job for someone like Sen. Ron Johnson, who doesn’t want government to accomplish anything for the good of its citizens. Read more
Russ Feingold on His Campaign to be Your Next Senator
“People in the state feel very damaged by what was done to them after 2010 by Gov. Walker and the tea party people, who sought to divide the people against each other.”—Democratic Senate candidate Russ Feingold Read more
Trump’s Sordid Sex Tape
Republicans hoped to keep pretending Donald Trump wasn’t a sleazy, upper-class lowlife long enough to make it through the election. Read more
