What happens in a doctor's office is between a patient and their doctor. Wisconsin still has an 1849 abortion ban on the books — written before women could vote, before modern medicine, before anyone alive today was born. Joel will fight to repeal it and protect every Wisconsin woman's right to make her own health care decisions. He'll also invest in the prenatal, maternity, and postpartum care that too many Wisconsin women — especially in rural communities — can't access today. Wisconsin women deserve better — and as governor, Joel will fight to make sure they get it.

Wisconsin workers didn't just build a middle class here, they helped build the labor movement that created the middle class across America. Wisconsin was the first state to give public workers the right to collectively bargain and the first to pass unemployment insurance. Wisconsin workers won those fights first, and the rest of the country followed. Scott Walker launched an attack on that legacy with Act 10, and eight years later, Joel was there cleaning up after him. He knows what that damage looks like, and he knows how to fix it. Joel will repeal Act 10, end Right-to-Work, require project labor agreements for public construction, protect workers from wage theft, eliminate the income tax on tips and overtime, expand apprenticeship programs, and remove the four-year degree requirements that lock qualified people out of good state government jobs. Wisconsin workers built this state. Joel will make sure this state has their back.

Joel's view is simple: local law enforcement should focus on local crime, not on doing the federal government's job for them. When masked federal agents occupy our streets without accountability, it doesn't make Wisconsin safer — it makes everyone less safe. As governor, Joel will establish the Wisconsin Accountability Commission to collect, preserve, and review evidence of ICE enforcement abuses in Wisconsin. He'll make sure anyone who acts lawlessly is held accountable, invest in violence reduction, and prevention, and make sure local departments have what they need to keep their communities safe.

Joel spent 11 years watching kids light up at Discovery World. He knows what it looks like when a kid is curious, engaged, and alive with possibility. And he knows Wisconsin kids deserve the chance to actually be kids. Children should have time to run around at recess, eat lunch without looking at a screen, and go to school without being afraid. Joel will mandate recess in Wisconsin schools, restrict cell phones during the school day, and crack down on the addictive design features and predatory data collection practices that social media companies use to hook kids. He will push for strict liability standards for AI chatbot platforms that cause harm to children — because if a product hurts a kid, someone should be held accountable — and invest in school safety so that no child has to practice hiding from a shooter as part of their school day. He'll also create a Childhood Wellbeing Dashboard to track how Wisconsin kids are actually doing — on poverty, mental health, education, and safety — so government can't ignore the numbers - and the real stories behind them.

Hunting and fishing, hiking and paddling, the Northwoods, the Driftless, the Great Lakes shoreline — these are Wisconsin traditions worth protecting, and they're an economic engine that supports more than 93,000 jobs and contributes nearly $8 billion to our state economy. Republicans let the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program — the backbone of land conservation in Wisconsin for 35 years, protecting more than 700,000 acres — expire this June rather than renew it. 90% of Wisconsin residents live within a mile of a project that has been enhanced by this bipartisan program. Joel will fight to restore and expand Knowles-Nelson funding, keep public lands in public hands, crack down on polluters fouling our lakes and rivers, and address Chronic Wasting Disease before it devastates Wisconsin's deer population and the hunting traditions that go with it. Wisconsin's outdoors belong to all of us. Joel will govern like it.

Here in Wisconsin, we are proud of our lakes, rivers, and waterways. Too many families across this state have turned on their tap and wondered if the water is safe to drink. PFAS contamination has been poisoning Wisconsin communities for years, and it took seven years of fighting to secure the release of $125 million in cleanup funding. Joel will make sure that money reaches the communities that need it, hold polluters accountable, and ensure Wisconsin never again sits on cleanup funds while families drink contaminated water. He will invest in climate resilience to protect Wisconsin communities from flooding, drought, and extreme weather, and push Wisconsin toward clean energy, creating good-paying jobs in the process. As DOA Secretary, Joel helped stand up Governor Evers' Office of Sustainability and Clean Energy. As governor, he'll make sure Wisconsin actually follows through on its clean energy commitments.

Wisconsin's farms don't just feed families, they define who we are as a state. But the number of family farms in Wisconsin keeps shrinking, and the ones that remain are getting squeezed from every direction, by corporate consolidation, by equipment companies that won't let farmers fix their own machinery, by a mental health crisis that rural communities don't have the resources to address, and by Trump's tariffs landing hardest on the people who can least afford it. When Wisconsin farmers needed help, Joel was there — delivering relief to farmers and small businesses across the state when things got tough during COVID. As governor, he'll fight for the right to repair so farmers can fix their own equipment without paying a dealer's ransom, ban foreign governments and foreign corporations from buying Wisconsin farmland, make farm succession easier so families can pass their land to the next generation without a punishing tax burden, invest in rural mental health resources, and make sure rural communities have the roads, bridges, and infrastructure they need to thrive.

Wisconsin has 11 federally recognized tribal nations with sovereign authority and legally binding treaty rights. Joel takes that seriously — and he has the record to prove it. As DOA Secretary, Joel oversaw the State-Tribal Consultation Initiative, helped deliver COVID relief grants to all 11 tribal nations, and laid the groundwork for the tribal gaming compact expansions that followed. He knows that this relationship works best when it's built on genuine consultation, not paperwork. As governor, Joel will honor treaty rights, protect tribal sovereignty, invest in tribal economic development and broadband access, and continue the government-to-government partnership built under the Evers administration. Wisconsin has 11 tribal nations. Joel will respect them.