http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/jailed-s5.jpgMonopolized political speech, mass incarceration and voter suppression together pack an enormous discriminatory wallop. Overcoming the new Jim Crow starts with recognizing it and seeing through the false justifications.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/wisc-dairy-farm-s5.jpgThis week Sen. Kathleen Vinehout writes about celebrating Wisconsin’s Dairyland as part of June Dairy Month. She shares some reminiscences about being a dairy farmer.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/voter-us-elections-s438.jpgGroup vetted more than 100 local candidates who shared core values of clean water, clean energy, and an equitable, robust democracy.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/ketanji-brown-jackson-fb-s450.jpgJackson needs to be sworn in before she’s officially a justice on the Supreme Court. Justice Stephen Breyer, whom she is succeeding, has said he will step down over the summer.