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're not going to do what Indiana has done, which is raise taxes, sales taxes, raise tolls on people in order to pay for a stadium for a billionaire-owned team, and instead we're gonna protect the taxpayers - that's principle #1." - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker.

If only our governor had the courage to take this stand, we wouldn't have given $500 million to the Brewers while double-charging Milwaukee residents at the expense of critical local services.

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.

You are enough.

If unions weren’t effective, corporations wouldn’t spend so much money trying to stop workers from organizing.

With a federal government that has become totally captured by corporations and the super-rich, unions are our best hope for a functioning middle class (and one day a government that actually lives up to its promise - one that’s of, by, and for the people).

46 children are lost to gun violence in Wisconsin each year. For the past 15 years, Republicans in the legislature have refused to address our gun violence epidemic, and have proposed policies that would make things worse.

In the Capitol Rotunda this month, there is a display to honor the memory of many of the kids who were lost to this senseless violence.

We must make preventing one of our top priorities in the next legislative session.

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.

Elon Musk, the drug-addled racist who ruined Twitter, gutted U.S. government agencies, stole our data, and famously bribed people in WI with $1 million checks to vote for Brad Schimel last year, is now the world's first TRILLIONAIRE.

If this isn't an argument for taxing the rich, I don't know what is.

Healthcare is a human right. Single-payer universal healthcare is a must. Every dollar we currently spend making people prove they need or deserve care is a dollar we should be spending to actually provide that care.

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.