2026 Governor’s Race is Crucial for MAGA-MAHA in Wisconsin

The Disrupters

The spectacle inside the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day was something to behold, something I was convinced I would never see in my lifetime—the ushering into power of a revolutionary force to restore the republic’s cherished values of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, accompanied by the uniparty’s almost comatose sequestration on the other side of the room.

The symbolic contrast beetling over their merely mortal seating arrangements could not have been more telling. On one side sat the conquered regime, an island of lonely elites, mostly sulking and dozing (except for the child-like animation of George W. Bush) after so many decades of imperial rule—Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bush, Barack Obama, and, not least, Joe Biden, whose cognitive decline has served as an apt metaphor for the intellectual dementia of global progressivism.

They were all dressed up with nowhere to go but down.

On the other side sat an almost ragtag band of disrupters, a collection of warriors resembling something akin to Francis Marion’s swamp fighters during the Revolutionary War. For years the swamp fighters would strike quickly from the marsh, using guerrilla tactics against overly rigid regiments of pipers and drummers and musket paraders, then disappear into the woods. Before the British knew it, the renegades surrounded them, victorious.

So too for our contemporary patriot warriors, triumphant and towering over today’s globalist royalty. Many assembled in the Rotunda had been chosen to lead the very agencies they had targeted for disruption so long ago. Not for nothing did they dream Big Dreams. Now Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, Elon Musk, and others gathered in the Capitol as a new government, ready not merely to disrupt the narrative but to rewrite it completely.

And, of course, there was the lead disrupter himself, President Donald Trump. Looking at this array of radicals, confident and determined, and then sliding a glance sideways to the slumped-over Old Guard, the scene seemed to be less of a transition of power than a capture of the powerful. Only now it wasn’t corporate capture; it was MAGA capture.

If someone had told me at the height of the Bush-Obama years that this day of reckoning would come for the left, for The Swamp, and for the Democratic Party, I would never have believed it.

Federal Change but Beware the State Bureaucracy

Since January 20, Donald Trump has worked with a veritable fury, dismantling the deep state, and this week some of the final pieces of the puzzle fell into place with the confirmations of Kennedy as secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Gabbard as director of National Intelligence.

These first three weeks show Trump means business, but there’s a long way to go. So far the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has found what amounts to chump change, though there’s promise of accountability in the scavenger hunt. Then, too, Republicans always have a genetic disposition to cave in just when real change can happen. Some neocon GOPers were already wringing their hands last week with Trump’s attempted immolation of USAID. These Republicans might not care for woke operas, but apparently they still have a fondness for the CIA.

And, of course, progressive judges are running serious interference for Democrats.

None of that will stop huge change from happening on the federal level, not to mention some potential prosecutions. Truly conservative Republicans are in control and see through such follies as USAID (as one of our own conservative House members, U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin-7) said last week, “USAID has turned into a taxpayer-funded money laundering scheme under the guise of ‘global aid.’ None of your tax dollars should ever fund these abuses,” and court obstructions will fall by the wayside once frivolous lawsuits make their way out of the progressive circuit courts where they were judge-shopped.

To cite just one example, expect Kennedy to re-imagine federal health policy. Questioning vaccine safety—and examining vaccine injuries—will no longer be taboo. Neither will subjecting pharmaceutical companies to rigorous oversight and liability claims. Obesity will be looked at once again through the lens of science-based evidence—the roles of lifestyle, nutrition, exposures to environmental toxins—rather than held up as nothing more than a woke affirmation of oppression that can be alleviated by imposing DEI and by fighting human-induced climate change. Oh, and by ingesting weight loss drugs.

With Kennedy in charge of HHS, we’ll hear more assessments of just how unhealthy obesity really is—and how it is abetted by corporate and bureaucratic interests—rather than nonsensical platitudes pleading understanding for “fat rights” and “fat acceptance as social justice,” which makes Big Food giddy. Federal health agencies will answer to the people, not to Big Pharma and Big Food, and they will use scientific inquiry to craft health strategies, not ideological agendas based around so-called “social determinants” of health. During his confirmation hearing, Kennedy not only pledged to enforce the president’s executive orders ending the health equity domination of health agencies, but affirmed that he wholeheartedly agreed with them.

However—and this is a key point—don’t expect those policy changes alone to make either America or Wisconsin healthy again. That’s because, whatever resistance there will be on the federal level, multiply it by a factor of 10 on the state level. You’ve all heard me talk about vertical integration, but get ready for vertical resistance from state bureaucracies.

Let’s not forget that the majority of federal rules and regulations are enforced at the state level. In Wisconsin, in addition to a massive bureaucracy, a Democrat, Tony Evers, controls the governor’s office, and, as it turns out, Wisconsin’s governor is one of the most powerful in the nation.

To make Wisconsin healthy again, to make Wisconsin great again, to make Wisconsin free and prosperous again, it will take electing a new governor in 2026 who can do on the state level what Donald Trump is doing on the federal level. Without that deconstruction, the bureaucratic pipeline will continue to drown every one of us beneath its life-sucking regulations, only now final decision-making power will have been transferred from federal bureaucrats to state agency automatons.

To cite just one example, Kennedy has promised to shut down the FDA’s nutrition department, which works in league with its corporate food and pharmaceutical sponsors, particularly the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND), to set worthless U.S. nutritional guidelines, which somehow dismiss the dangers of ultra-processed foods. Kennedy is likely to succeed in shutting down that federal depository of poisonous advice.

If so, though, bureaucrats should never fear, because on the state level the Wisconsin Department of Health Services will likely still pump out its corporate garbage from above. Expect bureaucratic integration and guidance from corporate shills such as the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) to simply be redirected to state agencies; federal bureaucrats will likely revolve to the corporate arm of bureaucratic globalism; and Gov. Tony Evers can still proclaim National Nutrition Month, which is sponsored by AND.

And while a lot of funding for public health’s levers of power might be stopped or slowed, those corporate dollars—not to mention so much more of our own dollars—could and likely will be rerouted to the state cause. Since 1992, major pharmaceutical companies have shoveled more than $10 billion into the coffers of the FDA; there’s plenty more to pick up the slack of reduced federal funding.

Woke may become broke in Washington, but it could thrive for years in the states, and especially in Wisconsin if a new governor is not elected.

That Ain’t All, Folks…

And then there is DEI, and not just in hiring but in health policy. Evers and his DHS bureaucracy will likely rev up woke efforts even more as they are dismantled federally. Trump’s and Kennedy’s efforts won’t close down the state DHS Office of Health Equity, which makes it crystal clear that personal lifestyle and diet choices are secondary to identity in its mission, and that treatment differentials based on racial and identity characteristics—preferences rooted in hypothetical risks assigned to certain groups, otherwise known as the social determinants of health, rather than in actual risk to actual patients—are just fine.

Blinkered is any evidence-based assessment. Spotting a familial link to past oppression is more important than finding a familial link to breast cancer or diabetes.

Indeed, DHS’s Office of Health Equity assures us, “health is the product of our histories, policies, systems, and institutions. These have created the conditions we exist in that have caused and continue to perpetuate the health disparities in Wisconsin.”

Kennedy’s transformative work on the federal level won’t mean much if the state continues to push such a mission, not to mention goals such as Healthy 2030, with its view that addressing social problems like structural racism or systemic bias are more important than treating disease.

Indeed, the state DHS has grafted health equity not only onto its skin but onto its vital organs.

In a world in which health equity defines racism and discrimination as the disease, then obesity and diabetes, asthma and autism and depression and other chronic childhood conditions become mere symptoms that will disappear if we just redistribute wealth and judge people by the color of their skin rather than by the specifics of their symptoms.

As such, vital medical resources flow to fight discrimination and oppression, not to perform the traditional functions of health agencies, not to foster science-based prevention and treatment of disease, or to set parameters for essential surgical practices, or to provide good clinical care. Hours devoted to actual medical training and medical education shrink as more classes and hours are devoted to anti-racist training.

In other words, public health dollars are channeled into fighting for the progressive political agenda. With health equity, public health has become just another tool in the leftist’s totalitarian toolbox.

And yet, that’s exactly what the Wisconsin DHS’s mission is inextricably tied to. Don’t take my word for it; here’s the federal HHS’s Office of Disease Prevention touting the state agency’s health equity transformation in a blog post last August: “Wisconsin Department of Health Services: Centering Health Equity in State Health Improvement Planning”:

The state DHS takes its woke show on the road: “DHS’s Health Equity Assessment and Resource Team (HEART) uses Healthy People 2030’s disparities data and tools to promote greater health equity in over 70 local health departments in Wisconsin,” the blog stated. “Knowing that so much of their work is aligned with Healthy People 2030, DHS and HEART also encourage local health departments to use the Healthy People 2030 Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) framework and other Healthy People 2030 resources in their daily work.”

Ah, the vertical integration of woke health ideology all the way down the line.

And then there’s the governor’s health equity council, which has made its own woke health recommendations. Here’s a few of their “health” proposals: a $15-an-hour minimum wage; free tuition for all tribal members; a guaranteed annual income pilot program; benefits for illegal immigrants; full employment for formerly incarcerated persons, aka criminals; environmental justice, enshrining health equity in state statutes, and more.

Does this sound like the health program of a public health agency, or does it sound like the platform of a radical left-wing political party? The answer is obvious, and it is also the point.

In its 2022 report, the health equity council summed up the causes of poor health up like this:

That’s right, slavery and Jim Crow are the cause of bad health in poor neighborhoods in Milwaukee, along with having to obey the law, not to mention having to live a society hell-bent on embracing “anti-LGBTQ norms and policies.”

All of this is fortified by an interlocking bureaucracy, not just DHS and local health departments, and not just Evers’s Health Equity Council but other entities that burrow into the tissue of government, i.e., the Transgender Health and Safety Council, the Office of Environmental Justice, and on and on.

All of this is entrenched. To root out the sickness that is health equity will take a new governor in 2026, and it is the most important priority in a long list of priorities.

Laying the Foundation for 2026

In the meantime, the MAGA-MAHA revolution is about to drain the swamp, to use an expression.

For starters, Americans are about to get a healthy dose of transparency—from health agencies finally. And not just transparency, but radical transparency, as Kennedy told Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson during his recent confirmation hearings:

“Democrats and Republicans ought to be able to come in and get information that was generated at taxpayer expense that is owned by the American taxpayer,” Kennedy said. “They shouldn’t get redacted documents. Public health agencies should be transparent, and if we want Americans to restore trust in the public health agencies, we need transparency.”

Johnson observed that he had just issued subpoenas for HHS records on Covid vaccine safety and for the emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci, and that, since Covid, he had sent more than 70 oversight letters to the Biden administration, which were either completely ignored or inadequately addressed. Kennedy responded that, unlike the previous administration, he would supply Johnson with all the records the senator had asked for—unredacted.

Those records are likely going to sound an alarm among the American people. It’s also a complete turnaround toward a vision of democratic government that free speech and open government advocates have long clamored for without success, even during the supposedly “open” administration of Barack Obama.

Not now. The gates of government are about to swing wide, and Americans are going to get an eye- and earful of previously withheld data, including not only Fauci’s emails, but safety surveillance data on the Covid-19 vaccines, including proportional reporting ratios and empirical Bayesian data mining; records regarding the government’s awareness of myocarditis and pericarditis cases in post-vaccinated individuals; data and records relating to Covid-19 vaccine lots associated with higher rates of adverse events; and much, much more.

Beyond transparency, America is about to see a transformation of public health in which the real health ills of the nation are probed using the scientific method to find real answers. There will also be a paper trail to follow, and this terrifies Big Food and Big Pharma.

What it will also do is bring average Americans together in a realization that, in the battle to preserve American prosperity and American identity, it’s not so much left versus right as it is all of us against the globalist elite, whose only allegiance is to its wealth and power.

“When I launched my campaign, it was about uniting Americans, Democrats and Republicans,” Kennedy said at his hearing. “There’s no issue as unifying as exploring this chronic health epidemic. There’s no such thing as Republican children or Democratic children. These are our kids. Sixty-six percent of them are damaged. I know what healthy kids look like. I had so many of them in my family. I didn’t know anybody with a food allergy growing up. Why do five of my kids have allergies?”

Johnson recalled the day he got a call from Kennedy about his plans.

“I don’t know if you remember when you called me up and you were contemplating setting political differences aside and joining forces with President Trump in an area of agreement addressing chronic illness, trying to find the root cause of all these problems facing this nation,” Johnson said. “My first response was, Bobby, this is an answer to my prayers. We need to get to the answers of this, but even more, we need to heal and unify this divided nation.”

Johnson said he was not necessarily the most optimistic person because of the enormous challenges facing the nation.

“But I thought, wow, here’s somebody from the left, somebody I don’t agree with on many issues politically, coming together with President Trump and focusing on an area of agreement, something that the American people desperately want,” he said. “Finding out the answers to what has caused autism? What is causing chronic illness? Mr. Kennedy, I think I’ve come to know what’s in your heart. I think I know the personal and political price you paid for this decision. I want to say publicly, I thank you for that. Can’t we come together as a nation and do this? Aren’t we getting tired of this?”

After today’s confirmation, I’m a lot more inclined to answer those questions in the affirmative. Buckle up, the ride could get wild.

Just remember, though, we can’t forget to dismantle the state bureaucracies, rule by rule, brick by brick, woke bureaucrat by woke bureaucrat. There’s DHS. There’s the DNR. The BCPL. The DOT. A whole alphabet of agencies awaits us. That will be our own wild ride, so punch your ticket today.

Our movement’s destination must be the governor’s office, and the train is due to arrive on November 3, 2026.