Forward Means Free.

Responsible renters make one of the largest monthly payments in household life, often with little credit-building benefit. Wisconsin should support voluntary rent reporting that helps tenants build credit while protecting them from surprise negative reporting and errors.

• Create a voluntary rent-reporting framework for landlords and tenants.
• Require consent, clear notices, and correction rights.
• Support low-cost reporting tools for small landlords.

Government agencies and large platforms can make decisions that affect a person’s ability to work, drive, rent, or provide for a family. When the consequences are severe, people deserve clear notice, access to evidence, and a meaningful chance to respond.

• Require clearer notice when decisions rely on background checks or incomplete records.
• Strengthen remedies for harm caused by inaccurate records or automated decisions.
• Protect workers and contractors from indefinite punishment based on ambiguity.

Wisconsin law says custody and placement cannot be based on sex or race. In practice, many families believe the system still gives too much weight to who files first, who accuses first, or who frames the dispute first. Safety allegations must be taken seriously, but serious claims require serious scrutiny.

• Require petitioner/respondent neutrality.
• Strengthen evidence standards before temporary orders become de facto permanent arrangements.
• Require written findings when allegations affect custody, placement, counseling, housing, finances, or child contact.
• Create consequences for knowingly false or strategically weaponized allegations.
• Improve training on coercive tactics, false allegations, parental alienation, and one-parent sidelining.

Too many veterans leave service, settle into civilian life, and are expected to figure out the benefits system alone. Wisconsin should proactively connect veterans with County Veterans Service Offices and follow up before crisis becomes the first point of contact.

• Require proactive CVSO contact when veterans settle in Wisconsin communities.
• Create respectful benefits orientation for federal, state, county, and local resources.
• Establish voluntary periodic check-ins.
• Frame benefits as earned duty and follow-through, not charity.

Homeschool families still pay into the education system while also paying for curriculum, technology, testing, tutoring, supplies, and enrichment. Support should not become a back door for government control.

• Support direct per-student funding redirection or equivalent property-tax relief.
• Preserve existing homeschool requirements without adding curriculum mandates, testing mandates, home visits, or district control.
• Allow legitimate education expenses.
• Create fraud safeguards without treating honest families like suspects.
• Build an optional completion-record pathway for transcripts, portfolios, and high-school verification.

Wisconsin should support self-employment, gig work, repair services, retail, creative work, trades, manufacturing, farming, technology, and local innovation. The law should favor competition, not regulatory capture or corporate protection rackets.

• Reduce unnecessary licensing, fees, and compliance burdens.
• Protect independent contracting, freelance work, gig work, and entrepreneurship.
• Review state rules for corporate favoritism and barriers to competition.
• Support portable benefits without destroying independence.

Energy policy has been a political hand grenade for too long. Wisconsin needs abundant, reliable, affordable energy that can power homes, farms, factories, hospitals, small businesses, and data centers in every season.

• Support safe nuclear generation, including traditional nuclear, small modular reactors, advanced reactors, and future fusion opportunities.
• Prepare for molten-salt concepts, thorium research, grid storage, and advanced supply chains.
• Invest in Wisconsin-based nuclear and fusion research through universities and private-sector partnerships.
• Require very large energy users, including data centers, to pay their fair infrastructure costs.
• Review regulated utility monopolies and explore public-infrastructure-style grid accountability.

App-based companies should not act like employers when it benefits them, then hide behind “independent contractor” status when workers need due process, fair pay, or basic protection. The real relationship should matter more than the label.

• Look at actual platform control, not just company labels.
• Protect drivers and delivery workers from arbitrary deactivation.
• Require notice, evidence disclosure, and meaningful appeals.
• Prevent contractor status from becoming a blanket shield against accountability.

Wisconsin should make legislative, executive, agency, and judicial decision-making easier to watch, search, understand, and report on. WisconsinEye-style coverage should be strengthened while preserving access for independent media and citizens.

• Expand live and archived coverage of public proceedings where legally appropriate.
• Create plain-language summaries for major bills, amendments, rules, and budget items.
• Improve searchable archives with transcripts, votes, fiscal notes, testimony, and video links.
• Protect equal access for independent journalists, podcasters, bloggers, and citizen reporters.
• Disclose material special-interest influence.

Justice must protect the public, punish wrongdoing, deter crime, and provide a meaningful path to rehabilitation where possible. Some people must never be trusted with full public freedom again, but many can repent, rebuild, make restitution, and become productive citizens.

• Keep punishment proportional, with stronger penalties for repeat and violent offenders.
• Expand rehabilitation focused on work, education, addiction recovery, mental health, restitution, discipline, and responsibility.
• Create earned-restoration pathways after sentences, fines, restitution, treatment, and lawful conduct.
• Strengthen reentry planning before release.
• Publicly recognize those who do good and rebuild communities.

Wisconsin should decriminalize and legalize responsible in-state raw milk access for informed adults and responsible farmers. Food safety matters, but prohibition is not the only way to handle risk.

• Allow direct farmer-to-consumer raw milk sales under reasonable safeguards.
• Use clear labeling, informed-consent notices, sanitation standards, and practical testing rules.
• Permit models such as on-farm sales, memberships, herd shares, or licensed direct sales.
• Penalize fraud, adulteration, reckless handling, or knowingly unsafe production.

Voting is the bedrock of self-government. Wisconsin should protect it with clean rolls, consistent ID standards, secure ballot custody, transparent audits, and serious penalties for intentional fraud.

• Support full, regular, transparent voter-roll audits.
• Maintain strong voter ID and proof-of-residence standards.
• Ban unattended ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting.
• Restrict outside money, staffing, strategy, or control in election administration.
• Allow serious election-integrity claims to receive timely judicial review whenever possible.
• Use severe penalties for deliberate fraud while distinguishing fraud from good-faith mistakes.

BadgerCare, FoodShare, and related programs matter, but paperwork errors, cliff effects, inconsistent rules, and lost corrections hurt the people the system claims to help.

• Replace hard benefit cliffs with gradual phase-outs where state flexibility allows.
• Require stronger correction procedures and written confirmation when errors are fixed.
• Create better escalation when agencies lose paperwork or repeat known errors.
• Review inconsistent treatment of earned and unearned income.
• Index thresholds and benefit calculations to inflation and cost-of-living realities.
• Encourage independence with budgeting help and transition planning without humiliating people.

Wisconsin should support fiber expansion, real broadband competition, practical innovation, and a serious move toward free and open-source software where it can reduce costs and increase public control.

• Support statewide fiber-optic expansion and rural broadband competition.
• Require technology purchases to consider privacy, security, repairability, interoperability, open standards, and vendor lock-in.
• Pilot reliable FOSS solutions in schools and public institutions.
• Promote public education on AI, cybersecurity, scams, privacy, automation, and self-driving vehicles.
• Build local IT competence instead of outsourcing digital control indefinitely.

Local government can tax, regulate, zone, inspect, police, record, and restrict people. When it gets something wrong, the citizen should not bear the full cost of proving it, correcting it, and surviving the consequences.

• Strengthen open-meeting access, plain agendas, supporting documents, livestreams, archived video, and searchable minutes.
• Reform public-records access to stop delays, excessive fees, vague denials, and over-redaction.
• Create correction rights for material errors in records, notices, enforcement actions, and agency files.
• Protect citizens and small operators from selective enforcement, permit games, zoning favoritism, and slow-walking.
• Explore a lean state-level local government accountability office or ombudsman.