How Democrats Plan To Use Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election To Rig The 2026 Midterms
Now imagine that email was real, and it wasn’t about rigging football games, but congressional elections. That’s exactly what’s going on in Wisconsin, where the state Democrat Party is brazenly using this April’s State Supreme Court race to gerrymander Republican Wisconsin Representatives Bryan Steil and Derrick Van Orden right out of their seats in the 2026 midterms.
With a razor-thin 218-215 GOP majority, this plot could hand Democrats the House and with it the ability to stop President Trump’s agenda and impeach him for a third time.
Last week, The New York Times inadvertently dropped a bombshell as it covered April’s Wisconsin Supreme Court race between conservative Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford — a race that will determine ideological control of the court in a pivotal swing state.
Crawford, a far-left circuit court judge, and Wisconsin Democrat Party Chairman Ben Wikler (who just finished second in the contest for national Dem chair) invited high-profile supporters to a “donor advisers briefing” with the subject line “Chance to put two more House seats in play for 2026.”
As if that weren’t clear enough, the email laid out their intentions clearly:
After Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the WI Supreme Court in an April 2023 election, the new pro-democracy majority struck down Wisconsin’s super-gerrymandered state legislative districts. Democrats then gained 14 state legislative seats in 2024, creating the potential to win chamber control in 2026. Now one of the judges who make up the pro-democracy majority is retiring, putting control of the WI Supreme Court up for grabs again. …
[W]inning this race could also result in Democrats being able to win two additional US House seats, half the seats needed to win control of the House in 2026.
In addition, the briefing was arranged by aides for megadonor Reid Hoffman,