Senator Chris Larson

Today, state legislators, including my colleague Senator LaTonya Johnson, and families affected by gun violence gathered at the Capitol for a press conference calling for sensible gun reforms in our state.

We can protect Constitutional rights while saving innocent lives. It is our duty to ensure this happens!

We cannot right the wrongs of our society if we deny that they exist. We must name them, find their sources, establish metrics to measure progress, and begin to dismantle them.

Unfortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided that structural racism no longer exists. In so doing, they have created pathways for the shameful legacy of slavery and Jim Crow to continue indefinitely.

If the United States is ever to truly live up to its promise, we must see the world as it is - not as a few elites with lifetime appointments imagine it to be.

If you visit popular tourist destinations, including Door County right here in our home state, you may notice staffing shortages impacting hours, open dates, and service quality.

This is not an accident. It's the effects of the Trump Administration's immigration policies, which have caused serious delays and denials of H-2B and other work visas. These are seasonal jobs that American workers by and large do not want.

It's yet another self-own of this Administration, along with spending billions of dollars on a war nobody asked for that has made everything more expensive with no clear upside.

The Constitution is very clear - it's the states that have the power to administer our elections. And yet, this President is trying to interfere with states' rights.

The latest example: trying to deny mail delivery of absentee ballots to any state that doesn't provide confidential voter information to the federal government.

Thankfully, Wisconsin is part of about 2 dozen states suing to block this rule. We need to make it as easy as possible for all eligible voters to cast their ballot - without giving this corrupt regime even more of our personal data.