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Detroit is the birthplace of the automobile. Detroiters have beamed with pride for generations about the ingenuity and progressiveness of the first automobiles rolling off assembly lines to the countless vehicle features keeping us safe on roadways today. But things were not always this way. In the early period of American automobile manufacturing, car makers…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGWy7Ehelc CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) – More than 700,000 Pennsylvania voters have returned their mail ballots ahead of the state’s municipal general election. Of the more than one million ballots sent out, nearly three-quarters of them were requested by voters registered as Democrats. Many Republican voters don’t trust mail ballots. “Even without any evidence of widespread…

LA CROSSE - Armed with a slideshow and a microphone, La Crosse city clerk Nikki Elsen and her fellow event panelists walked three dozen people gathered in a windowless, beige basement room through the minutiae of Wisconsin's election process on a recent night. Some of the details Elsen covered were painstakingly dull, a fact the…

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW)  It began during conversations which consistently identified concerns about the democratic republic according to former Western Technical College President Lee Rasch. The result is a non-profit, non-partisan group called LeaderEthics Wisconsin, where Rasch is now the executive director. According to their website, they "believe the place to start is to encourage and…

During the run up to the 2020 presidential election, former President Donald Trump fanned doubt on mail-in voting saying it had potential for fraud or could be manipulated. No widespread fraud ever materialized, even though there have been procedural errors throughout the country, including some here in Central Pennsylvania. However, many – mostly Republican voters…

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - People have their eye on next year’s election, which will be hotly contested, and if recent history is any indication, the subject of controversies, real or manufactured. To hopefully guard against that and avoid a repeat of 2020, Wisconsin has joined the ranks of a bi-partisan group that aims to…

It’s being described as a hyper-localized community engagement seminar aimed to educate the La Crosse-area community on Wisconsin’s election process. The group, Keep Our Republic, is putting on the seminar, which will happen at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the La Crosse County Administrative Center in La Crosse. Former Wisconsin Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson joined WIZM’s…

Democracy 101: Bolstering Civic Education Crucial to Democracy’s Success WASHINGTON, DC - Keep Our Republic (KOR) is excited to release “Democracy 101; The Power of Civic Education” the second episode from the If We Can Keep It podcast series hosted by KOR Executive Director Ari Mittleman featuring former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett. Mittleman shared, "Governor…

Tom Corbett was Pennsylvania's Republican governor from 2011 to 2015 and former Pennsylvania Republican Attorney General from 2004 to 2010. He knows where Franklin County is and visited regularly during his years in office. Today he serves as the Pennsylvania chair of Keep Our Republic. Keep Our Republic is a nonpartisan civic education organization dedicated to…

David Becker, executive director of The Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR) and co-author of “The Big Truth: Upholding Democracy in the Age of the Big Lie,” said Tuesday that Wisconsin is “on the top of my list” of places that could be engulfed by chaos after the 2024 election. False claims of voter…

FIFTY YEARS AGO, I was first elected to Congress, a beneficiary of voter backlash against the chaos of the previous decade that had included an unpopular war, widespread protests, multiple assassinations, and a presidential resignation. The new Congress passed urgently needed electoral reforms that helped our nation survive for another five decades. The 2024 presidential election will…