Wisconsin Right Now

"This place is amazing. It's worth fighting for. It's worth dying for," Jason Church. If ever a person had standing to speak on Afghanistan, it's Jason Church. The Afghanistan veteran from Wisconsin lost two lower legs to an IED but finished law school, ran for Congress, and works for a U.S. Senator. He gave an emotional speech at a news conference this week, saying that what he is seeing on television now "rocks me to the core." "This has been some of the hardest days of my life," said Church. "Four days ago when I saw what was going on, I reached out to one of my men who served with me in Afghanistan. I knew based on our mission that there was a videotape of me being injured, of my men coming up to me and putting their lives on the line for their brother in arms. And for nine years I buried the scene. I knew it existed, and I didn't want to watch it." Church described how, the other day, he watched the video at long last

"For my brothers and sisters who served in Afghanistan, they did their duty, and they need to hold their head up high and walk with pride" - Derrick Van Orden Derrick Van Orden , the Republican Congressional candidate who is running for Ron Kind's soon-to-be-vacant seat, is slamming what he calls President Joe Biden's "incompetence" in exiting Afghanistan, calling Biden's approach a disaster and the "largest foreign policy debacle in the U.S. in my lifetime and that includes Vietnam." Van Orden called Biden's botched exit from Afghanistan the "greatest example of incompetency we have seen in the executive branch certainly in my lifetime. If you tried to do this worse, you would be hard-pressed...There's no way you can look at this from any angle and say this ship has a rudder." In 2020, Derrick Van Orden gave Democrat Kind the fight of his political career, losing by only 11,000 votes. Van Orden then announced a rematch

"For my brothers and sisters who served in Afghanistan, they did their duty, and they need to hold their head up high and walk with pride" - Derrick Van Orden Derrick Van Orden , the Republican Congressional candidate who is running for Ron Kind's soon-to-be-vacant seat, is slamming what he calls President Joe Biden's "incompetence" in exiting Afghanistan, calling Biden's approach a disaster and the "largest foreign policy debacle in the U.S. in my lifetime and that includes Vietnam." Van Orden called Biden's botched exit from Afghanistan the "greatest example of incompetency we have seen in the executive branch certainly in my lifetime. If you tried to do this worse, you would be hard-pressed...There's no way you can look at this from any angle and say this ship has a rudder." In 2020, Derrick Van Orden gave Democrat Kind the fight of his political career, losing by only 11,000 votes. Van Orden then announced a rematch