Midwest
Republican Eric Hovde seeks to flip Democrat Baldwin's seat red in Wisconsin Senate race
Republican businessman and real estate mogul Eric Hovde launched his bid for the U.S. Senate against Wisconsin Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin on Tuesday, saying in a video that “America is slipping away” and “everything is going in the wrong direction.”
This is Hovde’s second Senate campaign; he ran in 2012 but lost in the GOP primary to former Gov. Tommy Thompson. Baldwin went on to win election that year and is now seeking a third term in battleground Wisconsin.
Hovde planned to hold his first campaign event later Tuesday with an event at a building developed by his real estate company. In a video posted on his campaign website, Hovde mentioned the economy, health care, crime and “open borders” as issues he will focus on during the campaign.
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“I believe we need to come together and find commonsense solutions,” Hovde said in the video.
Reelecting Baldwin to a third term is critical for Democratic hopes to maintain majority control of the Senate. Democrats are defending 23 seats in the Senate in November, including two held by independents who caucus with Democrats. That’s compared with just 11 seats that Republicans hope to keep in their column.
Baldwin’s campaign branded Hovde as “an out-of-touch megamillionaire” in a fundraising email sent minutes after his campaign website went live. Baldwin’s campaign said Hovde would “rubber stamp” the agenda of Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell.
“Hovde would vote to pass a national abortion ban, raise taxes on working families and seniors while cutting Social Security and Medicare, and repeal the Affordable Care Act,” Wisconsin Democratic Party spokesperson Arik Wolk said separately.
Eric Hovde, candidate for the U.S. Senate, gives his concession speech to supporters during his election night party Tuesday Aug. 14, 2012 in Peawaukee, Wis. The Republican businessman and real estate mogul launched his bid for the U.S. Senate against Wisconsin Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, saying in a video that “America is slipping away” and “everything is going in the wrong direction.” This marks the second Senate campaign for Hovde, who ran in 2012 but lost in the GOP primary to former Gov. Tommy Thompson. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)
The National Republican Senatorial Committee, the campaign arm of Senate Republicans, is backing Hovde.
“Eric Hovde’s experience as a job creator rather than a career politician makes him a strong candidate to flip Wisconsin’s Senate seat this year,” said Montana Sen. Steve Daines, chair of the NRSC, in a statement.
Other Republicans are considering challenging Hovde for the nomination. Scott Mayer, a Franklin businessman, and former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke are also considering Senate runs. Other higher profile Republicans, including U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Mike Gallagher, opted against running.
Mayer’s campaign had no comment Tuesday.
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Wisconsin’s primary is scheduled for Aug. 13.
In his 2012 race, Hovde described himself as a free-market conservative. He campaigned as a supporter of overturning the Affordable Care Act, the national health care law signed by former President Barack Obama, an abortion opponent and supporter of overturning Roe v. Wade. The U.S. Supreme Court did that in 2022, fueling wins by Democratic candidates that year who supported abortion rights. Baldwin has already said she plans to highlight abortion rights in this year’s Senate race.
Hovde’s business empire includes Hovde Properties, a real estate development company founded by his grandfather in 1933, and three banking companies. He is CEO of Sunwest Bank, has appeared in television commercials for them that air out west, and owns a $7 million estate in Laguna Beach, California, in addition to his property in Madison.
He returned to Madison in 2011 after living in Washington, D.C., for 24 years.
Democrats have branded Hovde as a carpetbagger who left his California mansion to run for Senate in Wisconsin, where he was born and raised.
Baldwin most recently won reelection by 11 points in a race that was seen as a model for how to run as a Democrat statewide in Wisconsin. She is a tireless campaigner, garnered broad support, including among independents and voters outside of Democratic strongholds in Madison and Milwaukee, and she raised millions of dollars to fuel the successful bid.
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Milwaukee, WI
Hundreds rally on Milwaukee’s South Side against ICE arrests and in solidarity with immigrants
Hundreds of people gathered at Kosciuszko Park on Milwaukee’s South Side, marching through the neighborhood and raising signs in protest of recent ICE arrests across Wisconsin.
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Community members, organizations, and city leaders joined together in the march, which organizers said is meant to be peaceful and to raise awareness about human rights.
“We are standing in solidarity; we don’t believe what’s happening out here in the streets is valid. We think this administration is messed up and we see the politics trickling down now to Milwaukee,” Christina Lopez-Prado said.
The protest comes after federal agents conducted a series of arrests across Wisconsin in the last couple of days. The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Tuesday that they have arrested 39 people and that many of them have criminal histories.
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Protest held over ICE activity in Milwaukee
TMJ4 has been covering the recent ICE arrests, getting video and finding multiple people without any criminal record who have been detained by ICE.
“As an immigrant myself from Guatemala, I sympathize so much with the people of my community. Especially those who live in fear for what ICE is doing to our communities,” Julia said. “I have hope because the only thing stronger than fear is hope.”
Emilio De Torre of Milwaukee Turners said the nature of the arrests has shaken the community.
“It’s disruptive. People are afraid to go outside, afraid of being racially profiled,” De Torre said.
De Torre also addressed what demonstrators want from the federal government.
“Milwaukee does not want the kind of chaos that has been reigned down in Minneapolis, in Chicago, in LA. We want our federal government to follow the Constitution, to follow due process, and to make sure their reactions meet the thing that necessitated it,” De Torre said.
DHS said in its statement that all people arrested have or will receive full due process and will remain in ICE custody pending their removal or removal proceedings.
TMJ4 reached out to DHS for an updated number on arrests made in Wisconsin. They did not provide any new information.
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Minneapolis, MN
In the 70s
A retrospective look meant to counter hindsight bias pertaining to the Bicentennial era, presented in the manner of Leonard Michaels (“I Would Have Saved Them If I Could”; “The Men’s Club”) and his short story “In the Fifties.“
In the seventies, my family moved to Minnesota from Vermont. I also started school that same year. That was the year everything changed for the worse. I attended six different elementary schools: two red-brick bastions of stale white bread conformity, three inner-city schools, and one school overseas.
In the seventies, I spent whole days exploring wooded and riverine areas, skating and sledding in the winter, riding my bike around the parkways and lakes ringing Minneapolis, or at the beach, where I would swim as far out as I could without the lifeguards getting mad. Given that my family put the “diss” in dysfunctional, being a free-range kid saved my sanity.
In the seventies, my mother commandeered the TV set during the summer of 1973 to watch the Watergate hearings when my brother and I wanted to watch cartoons and situation comedy reruns. We didn’t understand exactly what Nixon had done, but being deprived of entertainment gave us a tangible reason to hate him.
Because home delivery of the Sunday New York Times was not yet an option in the seventies, some of my fonder childhood memories are of going to a suburban news outlet after Sunday school at the First Unitarian Society, where my brother and I would browse the comic books and paperbacks until our mother pried us out of there or the store manager shooed us out.
Because of the 1973 and 1979 energy crises, gas tripled in price during the seventies.
The price of nearly everything increased. I look back wistfully now at my mother maintaining that Big John Baked Beans were too expensive at forty-nine cents a can.
Racist, sexist, ethnocentric and homophobic jokes became less acceptable during the seventies but were still very much a part of the culture.
Corporal punishment and shaming (especially body shaming) were regarded as acceptable parenting methods in the seventies.
In 1973, the American Psychological Association stopped categorizing homosexuality as a mental illness. However, therapists and clinicians wasted no time finding other ways of pathologizing difference. Oppositional defiant disorder, anyone?
The 1970s also saw the rise of the so-called New Right (many of them old-time reactionaries in new clothing), the growth of megachurches and increasing political clout of the religious right, exemplified by Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell.
Every other news cycle seemed to yield new scarehead articles and more unsettling stories: Killer bees, encephalitis-bearing mosquitoes, the Glensheen Mansion murders, Son of Sam, the Church Committee revelations concerning the FBI and CIA’s misdeeds; to name just a few.
Last but not least, nostalgia became a mass phenomenon in the 1970s with K-Tel’s compilation albums of bygone musical hits, movies like American Graffiti, and TV shows such as “Happy Days” which painted a picture of 1950s in roseate colors for all those yearning for a simpler place and time, or imbued with selective memories. The more things change, the more things stay the same.
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Indianapolis, IN
BC39 Results: July 1, 2026 (Indianapolis Dirt Track) – Racing News
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Dirt Track results from the finale of the BC39
USAC Midgets are on the grounds in Indianapolis, IN. The bullring dirt track is set to host the finale of the BC39 paying $20,039 to the winner.
View BC39 results below.
Drake and Danner set the front row. 39 laps of dirt track racing are up next…
Main Event
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Green flag, Drake gets the jump on the outside lane and he’s clear off turn two.
35 to go, Danner is all over the bumper of the leader.
31 to go, Danner heads for the cushion. A lap later, he slides Drake for the lead into turn three. Drake crosses under him but Danner holds the lead.
29 to go, three cars tangle, caution.
Green, Danner leads Drake. Cars tangle, caution.
Green, Danner knocks the cushion. He bicycles and still holds the lead.
27 to go, McIntosh to 2nd.
23 to go, Danner bounces off the wall and he keeps rolling. Car stalled behind them, caution.
Green, McIntosh slides Danner for the lead! Danner crosses under him and he slides him back. McIntosh crosses under him. McIntosh returns to the lead.
19 to go, Danner knocks the cushion. He bounces around the corner and takes the lead.
17 to go, Edwards jumps the cushion and he collects Peck, caution.
Green, McIntosh works the inside and he clears Danner for the lead. Danner slides him and Kevin Thomas Jr makes it three wide for the lead. Danner is clear on the top.
9 to go, car upside down in turn four, caution.
Green, Danner leads McIntosh.
Briggs Danner wins the BC39!
BC39 Results
July 1, 2026
The following includes full results:
Practice
Dirt Draft Hot Laps: 1. 40X-Briggs Danner, 12.397[4]; 2. 71K-Cannon McIntosh, 12.566[10]; 3. 19-Drew Sherman, 12.646[30]; 4. 40L-Mack Leopard, 12.666[53]; 5. 19M-Ethan Mitchell, 12.667[35]; 6. 3J-JJ Yeley, 12.671[22]; 7. 19H-Joel Myers Jr, 12.674[39]; 8. 7U-Karter Sarff, 12.685[42]; 9. 98K-Brandon Carr, 12.690[47]; 10. 3P-Justin Peck, 12.696[8];
11. 40D-Drake Edwards, 12.698[15]; 12. 19X-Adyn Schmidt, 12.703[28]; 13. 4-Kale Drake, 12.703[11]; 14. 14-Kevin Thomas Jr, 12.704[3]; 15. 14K-Jakeb Boxell, 12.734[27]; 16. 22H-Rylan Gray, 12.754[34]; 17. 57-Logan Seavey, 12.757[20]; 18. 05-Alex Midkiff, 12.763[40]; 19. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold, 12.766[9]; 20. 54-Jake Swanson, 12.780[5];
21. 11-Kaylee Bryson, 12.791[23]; 22. 87-Justin Grant, 12.814[6]; 23. 67K-Colton Robinson, 12.818[26]; 24. 5P-Wesley Smith, 12.820[29]; 25. 63-Cale Coons, 12.824[17]; 26. 67-Jacob Denney, 12.842[12]; 27. 45-Bradley Cox, 12.884[14]; 28. T21-Kade Taylor, 12.891[33]; 29. 3G-Kyle Cummins, 12.909[18]; 30. 36-Jonathan Beason, 12.915[21];
31. 1-Zach Wigal, 12.944[2]; 32. 20Q-Brecken Reese, 12.959[24]; 33. 7T-Adam Taylor, 13.025[54]; 34. 5D-Zach Daum, 13.034[16]; 35. 32A-Alex Sewell, 13.071[38]; 36. 8L-Cooper Miller, 13.085[50]; 37. 8B-Jeffrey Abbey, 13.088[46]; 38. 3N-Logan Julien, 13.147[36]; 39. 43-Gunnar Setser, 13.164[19]; 40. 32J-Tanner Thorson, 13.229[61];
41. 97-Gavin Miller, 13.236[1]; 42. 19K-Riley Kreisel, 13.269[43]; 43. 89-Steven Snyder Jr, 13.309[13]; 44. 1R-Ricky Thornton Jr, 13.333[7]; 45. 20W-Cody Weisensel, 13.340[32]; 46. 86-Daison Pursley, 13.342[25]; 47. 19R-Beau Doyle, 13.378[60]; 48. 7TX-Kyle Jones, 13.382[55]; 49. 1M-Dodge Carlbert, 13.466[41]; 50. 14J-Wout Hoffmans, 13.483[31];
51. 5U-Jake Robinson, 13.497[49]; 52. 81-Frank Flud, 13.601[37]; 53. 8XL-Christian Miller, 13.692[52]; 54. 33-Cameron Hagin, 13.717[51]; 55. 32-Eric Heydenreich, 13.745[48]; 56. 35-Josh Hodge, 14.000[44]; 57. 7W-Tyler Watkins, 14.046[56]; 58. 21K-Cord Kisthardt, 14.055[45]; 59. 99K-Robert Carson, 14.165[59]; 60. 35S-Christopher Hartman, 14.681[57]; 61. 27-Austin Wood, 14.681[58]
Qualifying Races
K1 Race Gear Qualifying Race 1 (10 Laps): 1. 43-Gunnar Setser[3]; 2. 86-Daison Pursley[2]; 3. 89-Steven Snyder Jr[4]; 4. 1R-Ricky Thornton Jr[5]; 5. 97-Gavin Miller[6]; 6. 7TX-Kyle Jones[10]; 7. 81-Frank Flud[7]; 8. 32J-Tanner Thorson[11]; 9. 19K-Riley Kreisel[8]; 10. 14J-Wout Hoffmans[1]; 11. 5U-Jake Robinson[9]
TJ Forged Qualifying Race 2 (10 Laps): 1. 67K-Colton Robinson[2]; 2. 57-Logan Seavey[3]; 3. 3P-Justin Peck[5]; 4. 45-Bradley Cox[4]; 5. 1-Zach Wigal[6]; 6. 32A-Alex Sewell[7]; 7. 8L-Cooper Miller[9]; 8. 7W-Tyler Watkins[10]; 9. 35-Josh Hodge[8]; 10. 20W-Cody Weisensel[1]
KN Filters Qualifying Race 3 (10 Laps): 1. 40D-Drake Edwards[4]; 2. 14K-Jakeb Boxell[2]; 3. 14-Kevin Thomas Jr[6]; 4. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[7]; 5. 36-Jonathan Beason[3]; 6. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[5]; 7. 33-Cameron Hagin[9]; 8. 21K-Cord Kisthardt[8]; 9. T21-Kade Taylor[1]; 10. 35S-Christopher Hartman[10]
Indy Powersports Qualifying Race 4 (10 Laps): 1. 71K-Cannon McIntosh[4]; 2. 40X-Briggs Danner[5]; 3. 3J-JJ Yeley[3]; 4. 22H-Rylan Gray[1]; 5. 05-Alex Midkiff[6]; 6. 8B-Jeffrey Abbey[7]; 7. 19X-Adyn Schmidt[2]; 8. 8XL-Christian Miller[8]; 9. 5D-Zach Daum[9]; 10. (DNS) 27-Austin Wood
Qualifying Race 5 (10 Laps): 1. 4-Kale Drake[5]; 2. 98K-Brandon Carr[8]; 3. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[1]; 4. 11-Kaylee Bryson[3]; 5. 54-Jake Swanson[6]; 6. 40L-Mack Leopard[9]; 7. 99K-Robert Carson[10]; 8. 1M-Dodge Carlbert[7]; 9. 63-Cale Coons[4]; 10. 5P-Wesley Smith[2]
Qualifying Race 6 (10 Laps): 1. 19-Drew Sherman[2]; 2. 3N-Logan Julien[1]; 3. 67-Jacob Denney[5]; 4. 7U-Karter Sarff[7]; 5. 3G-Kyle Cummins[4]; 6. 20Q-Brecken Reese[3]; 7. 87-Justin Grant[6]; 8. 7T-Adam Taylor[9]; 9. 32-Eric Heydenreich[8]; 10. 19R-Beau Doyle[10]
C Mains
C-Main 1 (12 Laps): 1. 7U-Karter Sarff[1]; 2. 05-Alex Midkiff[3]; 3. 8B-Jeffrey Abbey[5]; 4. 40L-Mack Leopard[6]; 5. 22H-Rylan Gray[2]; 6. 5P-Wesley Smith[9]; 7. 8L-Cooper Miller[7]; 8. 19X-Adyn Schmidt[4]; 9. 14J-Wout Hoffmans[10]; 10. T21-Kade Taylor[8]; 11. 7T-Adam Taylor[12]; 12. 19R-Beau Doyle[15]; 13. 32-Eric Heydenreich[11]; 14. 99K-Robert Carson[14]; 15. 5U-Jake Robinson[13]
C-Main 2 (12 Laps): 1. 20Q-Brecken Reese[1]; 2. 63-Cale Coons[2]; 3. 19K-Riley Kreisel[9]; 4. 32A-Alex Sewell[3]; 5. 7TX-Kyle Jones[5]; 6. 81-Frank Flud[4]; 7. 20W-Cody Weisensel[10]; 8. 33-Cameron Hagin[8]; 9. 1M-Dodge Carlbert[6]; 10. 32J-Tanner Thorson[14]; 11. 7W-Tyler Watkins[11]; 12. 35S-Christopher Hartman[13]; 13. 8XL-Christian Miller[12]; 14. 21K-Cord Kisthardt[7]
B Main
Semi-Feature (15 Laps): 1. 86-Daison Pursley[2]; 2. 19-Drew Sherman[1]; 3. 3G-Kyle Cummins[6]; 4. 14K-Jakeb Boxell[4]; 5. 3J-JJ Yeley[3]; 6. 11-Kaylee Bryson[7]; 7. 98K-Brandon Carr[5]; 8. 3N-Logan Julien[9]; 9. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[12]; 10. 63-Cale Coons[16]; 11. 36-Jonathan Beason[8]; 12. 7U-Karter Sarff[13]; 13. 5D-Zach Daum[11]; 14. 19K-Riley Kreisel[18]; 15. 20Q-Brecken Reese[14]; 16. 40L-Mack Leopard[19]; 17. 05-Alex Midkiff[15]; 18. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[10]; 19. 8B-Jeffrey Abbey[17]; 20. 32A-Alex Sewell[20]
Main Event
BC39 by AVANTI (39 Laps):
1. 40X-Briggs Danner[1]
2. 14-Kevin Thomas Jr[3]
3. 67-Jacob Denney[9]
4. 71K-Cannon McIntosh[4]
5. 4-Kale Drake[2]
6. 97-Gavin Miller[6]
7. 89-Steven Snyder Jr[12]
8. 98K-Brandon Carr[26]
9. 43-Gunnar Setser[8]
10. 87-Justin Grant[18]
11. 57-Logan Seavey[14]
12. 86-Daison Pursley[19]
13. 54-Jake Swanson[13]
14. 1R-Ricky Thornton Jr[11]
15. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[17]
16. 3G-Kyle Cummins[21]
17. 19-Drew Sherman[20]
18. 11-Kaylee Bryson[24]
19. 32J-Tanner Thorson[28]
20. 14K-Jakeb Boxell[22]
21. 63-Cale Coons[27]
22. 3J-JJ Yeley[23]
23. 3P-Justin Peck[7]
24. 20Q-Brecken Reese[25]
25. 45-Bradley Cox[15]
26. 40D-Drake Edwards[5]
27. 67K-Colton Robinson[16]
28. 1-Zach Wigal[10]
BC39
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