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The 2022 Assembly elections in Wisconsin will have major consequences for national politics.

Our top priority is blocking a GOP supermajority and protecting the Governors’ veto. There is a real possibility that we could retain the Governorship and lose enough seats in the State Senate and Assembly to fall into a superminority in Wisconsin. Densely gerrymandered Democratic districts in Milwaukee and Madison mean that high base turnout, critical for statewide races, will not be enough to protect the veto in the Assembly. Under these new maps, President Biden would have won the state but only 35 of 99 seats, and

Assembly Democrats must retain at least 34 seats to maintain the veto.

If successful in taking back the supermajority, Speaker Robin Vos and the GOP are intent on permanently tilting the scales in their favor with electoral system changes. Assembly Republicans have attempted to overturn the 2020 election and have publicly declared their intent to use a supermajority to override the 2024 presidential electors.

They have proposed installing partisan officials in nonpartisan election administration and dismantling the elections commission, and have already removed ballot drop boxes for Wisconsinites. The New York Times called Wisconsin’s ongoing effort to decertify the 2020 election "the most active in the nation."