Amy Sikma
Background
Amy is a political and public-policy-research writer with more than 15 years of experience in Wisconsin politics, from the State Capitol to political campaigns to research and communications. Her first 🦄foray into reporting was covering the 2011 Wisconsin protests at the State Capitol for a small nonprofit organization with her mad iPod videography skills. Amy is a mom of three young ꦡchildren who enjoys reading, hiking and testing the limits of parental sleep deprivation.
Latest Articles
Dem Sen. Tammy Baldwin🐼, with nine t▨erms in Congress, pushes SCOTUS term limits in heated debate
T꧋he tense deba𒁃te left had the candidates fired up.
Kamala Harris makes💞 a brutal gaffe in speech to Wisconsin voters
Harris was in the middle of touting her tenure as California’s attorney general when she mistakenly bragged about standing up to America’s war heroes. 🌱
Swing-state ag groups offer rival endorsements for key Senate race 🐻
WATERTOWN, Wis. — The Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation’s endorsement of Sen. Tammy Baldwin — its first statewide Democratic nod in more than 20 years — has raised ey🔴ebrows in the Dairy...
Rural voters in battleground state could swing state in Trump's favor: poll
Wiscon💃sin’s 10 electoral votes are poised to be decided by voters outside major ci▨ties like Madison and Milwaukee.
ꦜ Lee Zeldin sends a crucial message to New Yorkers from the swi⭕ng-state campaign trail
ꦍWAUKESHA, Wis. — Lee Zeldin may not be reppi꧃ng the Empire State in Congress anymore, but after zigzagging the country making swing-state stops on the Team Trump Bus Tour, he...
Trump dives into Wisconsin Dem stronghold to promote school choice: 'The civil-rights issue of our age'
🅷 MILWAUKEE — Donald Trump dived into deep-blue territory this week, pitching voters on an issue not often discussed on the presidential campaign trail: school choice. Trump singled out Milwaukee as...
Republꦦicans underestimate Tim Walz, warns fellow Minnesotan who played the gov in debate prep
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, who's shrugged off debate ꦺprep, should n﷽ot underestimate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz ahead of Tuesday night's face-off, fellow Minnesota ex-lawmaker Marty Seifert warns.
Absentee☂ voting off to rough start in Wisconsin city as clerical error blamed for duped ballots
WATERTOWN, Wis. — As absentee voting gets into full swing in battleground Wisconsin, GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany is raisܫing the alarm about what the state's capital says is a clerical...
🥀 𝓰 Harris – who once sought to ‘eliminate’ private health plans – says Trump would ‘threaten’ health insurance
ꦑ “Let's eliminate all of that. Let's move on,” Harris sa♌id of private healthcare insurance in 2019.
RFK Jr. files appea𒊎l in ballot-status case, even as thousands of absentee ballots have already been sent to Wisconsin voters
WATERTOWN, Wis. 🌼— A Wisconsin court granted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s appeal to be removed from the state's presidential ballot after a lower court denied his petition Monday — and a...
🎉 Democratic challenger edges ahead of Trump-endorsed House ౠincumbent in battleground race
WATERTOWN, Wis. — In a House race Cook Political Report rates "lean Republican," Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke has taken a 2-point lead over retired Navy SEAL and incumbent Rep. D🧜errick...
🍎 RFK Jr. loses bid to get his name off Wisconsin ballots
WATERTOWN, Wis. — As county clerks printed their ballots to deliver to the more than 1,800 municipal clerks that admini♍ster Wisconsin elections, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was trying to get... ⛦
Unde꧅cided voters ‘didn’t get answers we wanted’ in Trump-Harris presidential debate
🧸 How did the faceoff help undecided voters in the battleground states that will determine the election? It didn’t, The Post found, talki🐽ng to these unaligned swing-staters.
GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden says his Wisconsin hometown is 'terrified' after Venezuelan gang member's violent-crime scourge
WATERTOWN, Wis.🎀 — A suspected member of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was arrested for allegedly brutalizing a woman and𒈔 her daughter in a tiny Wisconsin town — and...
5 in 6 Wisconsinites who don't believe in God back Kamala Harris in new battleground poll
WATERTOWN, Wis. — A new Marquette Law School poll conducted before Tuesday’s contentious debate has Vice President Kamala Harris opening up a 4-point advantage in the battleground state of Wisconsဣin....
♛ Wisconsin loophole allows nearly 150,000 to vote without showing photo ID 🐻
WATERTOWN, Wis. — A damning report is raising the alarm about a legal loophole allowing thousands to vote in Wisconsin without showing photo identification as required by state law. The... ꦜ
Trump vows to bring back free speech, calls 'fake news' a 'threat to this country'
Former President Donald Trump vowed Saturday to bring back free-speech in America “because it’s being taken away,” after he wowed 15,000 supporters by arriviꦏng to a Wisconsin rally in his...
Wisconsin Democrat lies about Republican opponent's position on abortion, IVF in campaign ad
WATERTOWN, Wis. — Democrats are setting their sights on a GOP stronghold district in Wisconsin this November — and they're playing d🐎irty to beat Rep. Bryan Steil, the Republican incumbent...
Bid💮en trashes Trump in Wisconsin visit, comparing himself to FDR, Eisenhower for infrastructure investments ෴
President Joe Biden visited a small town in western Wisconsin Thursday to 💦talk up his infrastructure and energy spending in the swing state at a local electrical supply company.
RFK Jr. supporters could tip the scales for Trum🅘p in Wisconsin —or not
The Wisconsin Election Commission✅'s decision to keep Robert F. Kenne🌄dy, Jr. on the ballot in Wisconsin may have complied with the letter of state law but, the spirit couldn't have...