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Did court candidate Schimel not join 71 Wisconsin counties in suing Purdue Pharma?
There are many issues that have dominated conversation in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election — Act 10, voter ID, abortion laws and the candidates’ handling of past criminal cases. But there’s a topic that has rarely come up that’s the subject of a Facebook ad from A Better Wisconsin Together, a liberal group that has run…
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Military recruitment rose under Biden, before Trump
President Donald Trump said military recruitment is soaring early in his second presidency, and it’s because of his efforts to rid the government of “wokeness.” “Our service members won’t be activists and ideologues,” Trump said in his March 4 speech to Congress. “They will be fighters and warriors,” he said, praising Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth…
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End Wokeness post overstates government jobs’ role in Biden-era job creation
The conservative X account End Wokeness said former President Joe Biden presided over an economy that was heavily driven by government growth, rather than job gains in the private sector. A March 7 post to its 3.6 million followers said: 2017-2020: Public sector: 9% of U.S. job growth Private sector: 91% of U.S. job growth Sign up for PolitiFact…
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Donald Trump – Donald Trump takes credit for military recruitment turnaround that started with Joe Biden
“All armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever” because of Trump policies, and “it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.”