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Ryan Clancy: “State Representative Dylan Weglia is coming in.”

Featuring: Ryan Clancy, Democratic | Wisconsin State Assembly, District 19

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Published August 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 26:30

I mean, I, you know, I, there is, there is some tendency to just want to support the folks who are closest to you geographically. Right. But we're, we're changing that. We're seeing that very different. We're going to have. So State Representative Dylan Weglia is coming in. to. Not nationwide, by the way. Oops. Nationwide Social. Not National Socialists. God damn. God damn it. God damn it, Hitler. You ruined it. We can't say Socialists now. Fuck. (26:30–26:35)

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Asserts that State Representative Dylan Weglia is involved in the campaign.

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“I was first elected in 2020, and I was the first socialist here since 1956.”
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“We've had, I think, 15 Republicans in a relatively small legislature say that they're just not running for reelection.”
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“Wisconsin is where kindergarten was born. It's where workers comp. Is from.”
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“At this point in Milwaukee, we have Democratic socialists elected at the county, at the school board, at the state.”
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“The last time that the Democrats had a trifecta here in Wisconsin, we didn't codify abortion rights, we didn't raise the minimum wage.”
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“It's going to be really critical that it's not just me, right, that we have a critical mass of Democratic socialists or people that will…”
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“When we have the US's first democratic socialist governor.”
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“The policy that Fran and I put together would lower property taxes and tax the rich.”
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“In Wisconsin, [property taxes are] incredibly high.”
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“Hong is dominating, especially with younger voters and voters who haven't voted before.”
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“The biggest hurdle here is going to be taxing the rich because that will give us the funds in order to do all the great things that we want…”
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“We want public banks, we want public grocery stores. We want to lower property taxes.”
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“We can only do that if we do the wildly popular thing, which is taxing the enormously wealthy.”
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“That's going to be an uphill battle with some corporate Democrats who are funded by people making more than $1 million a year.”
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“We have to raise the minimum wage.”
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“Otherwise we're going to lose power in Wisconsin for another decade and a half, which is what happened last time.”
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“We have amazing candidates, and we have an amazing community here.”
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“We see that when our community is threatened by ICE and in other ways, we show up for each other.”
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“We've seen a handful of class traders kind of come out of the woodwork and we're able to, you know, drop $1,000 into a race like mine.”
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“Her policies, our policies are widely popular all across the state.”
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“Fran introduced herself as a single mom and our first Asian woman governor.”
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“Fran had $30,000 worth of credit card debt.”
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“Fran's credit card debt was to support her employees during the pandemic.”
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“We had a bunch of DSA members from Philly knocking doors for Fran yesterday.”
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“Our two party system here in Wisconsin is so entrenched that I would be jeopardizing the jobs of my socialist staff just by even attempting…”
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“The only hope for the Democratic Party is to have a big tent that includes the left.”
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“For many years we've been under assault not by fascists and Republicans, but by people in our own party who are...recruiting and funding the…”
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“We really have to be pushing back on the idea that the Democratic machine can only be controlled by conservatives.”
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“We need to be privileging small dollar donors. We need a ranked choice voting and fusion voting.”
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“The biggest thing we can do is to stop propping up and supporting those conservative Democrats who are taking those corporate dollars.”
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“The Republicans have terrible ideas and terrible bills.”
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“We have legislation that would stop folks from being masked, you know, as federal troops or otherwise near election places.”
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“I've spent a ton of time going to the jails and prisons all across Wisconsin.”
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“In Wisconsin, as in many places, we only provide meaningful programing to folks for like a year and a half or so before they're released…”
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“The only way we reduce crime is by investing in people. And the data is crystal clear on that.”
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“I'm being outraised.”
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“Kwik Trip... give money to fascists.”
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