Spring Election Day
GROWW Local Elections Guide
Be a GROWW Voter on Election Day: Tuesday, April 7th
⏰ Polls are open: 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM
🎯 Find your GROWW Endorsed Candidates below
📍 Find your polling place
🪪 What to bring:
A valid photo ID and proof of adress is required to vote in Wisconsin.
✉️ Absentee Voting:
Request or return your absentee ballot at myvote.wi.gov
In GROWW, we Endorse Local Candidates to help shape local decisions, not just react to them.
This election is about choosing neighbors who will listen, lead with integrity, and stand with our communities. County boards, city councils, and school boards make decisions that shape our daily lives—our housing, land use, schools, public safety, and local services.
We believe that when everyday people step up to lead, we build a future rooted in care, fairness, and shared responsibility. Local government should work for all of us—not just those with the most money or influence.
Supporting candidates in key races aligned with our values helps move our issues forward. Endorsed candidates commit to staying in relationship with our communities—not just during election season, but while in office. Each local race is part of a bigger strategy to shift who has power in Wisconsin.
River Falls
Talk to your neighbors about electing Wendy DiPeso to Pierce County Board
Join our Saturday Morning Canvases and all our fight for clean water, mental health care, and local decision making.
New Richmond
Talk to your neighbors about winning the Saint Croix County Board and Electing Danielle McIntosh
Join our Saturday Morning Canvases or Phone Banks. This is our fight for affordable housing; rural health care; and defending local decision making & transparency.
Menomonie
Talk to your neighbors about winning the Mayor’s Office by Electing Matthew Crowe and Re-electing Andrew Hagen to Dunn County Board
Join our Saturday Morning Canvases or Phone Bank anytime. We all deserve safe, affordable housing, clean water & quality roads, and ensuring local decision making is strategic and transparent – ending Data Center flip-flop funny business.
Spring 2026
All GROWW Endorsements
Matthew Crowe
Matthew Crowe Menomonie Mayor
Wendy DiPeso
Pierce County Board Supervisor, District 8
Danielle McIntosh
St. Croix County Board Supervisor, District 13
Andrew Hagen
Dunn County Board Supervisor, District 22
Mei Mei Abduch
River Falls City Council - At large
Stephanie May
Dunn County Board - District 9
Jim Olson
St. Croix County Board - District 19
Alison Page
River Falls Mayor
Wayne Roen
St. Croix County Board - District 10
Heather Seburn
Dunn County Board - District 2
- Civic Solidarity
- Member Opinions
Before the wave hits: Rural Wisconsin organizes against the One Big Beautiful Bill
On July 4th, while rural western Wisconsin celebrated Independence Day, Congress quietly passed HR1 — a massive federal tax and spending law that locks in tax cuts for the wealthy while setting in motion deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and affordable health coverage. The damage is designed to arrive slowly, filtered through county budgets and local institutions that already operate on the brink.
Bill Hogseth, GROWW Co-Executive Director and Organizing Lead reflects on, organizing before the wave hits. Local organizers and residents are uncovering what HR1 will mean for our rural communities, listening to county leaders and neighbors, and building a county-by-county movement to stop a quiet class war (hidden behind a loud & violent culture war) and protect the services that hold our communities together.
- GROWW Wide
- Member Opinions
Editorial: What is possible when we unite?
This year, we know all of us in Wisconsin will be inundated with messages of division, especially leading up to the Spring and Midterm elections in April and November. Corporate interest groups and the ultra-wealthy want to divide us – by the color of our skin, by where we are from, how long we’ve lived here – so they can continue to call the shots. They distract us with a deluge of news so that we keep blaming each other instead of blaming them. They pass bills removing healthcare and food for us in our community while giving tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and the largest corporations.
Pierce County residents say fight against CAFO is a fight for their lives
A group of Pierce County residents and GrassRoots Organizing Western Wisconsin is awaiting a response to a petition for a contested case hearing for the expansion of Ridge Breeze Dairy to grow four times its size.
- Civic Solidarity
- Member Opinions
Before the wave hits: Rural Wisconsin organizes against the One Big Beautiful Bill
On July 4th, while rural western Wisconsin celebrated Independence Day, Congress quietly passed HR1 — a massive federal tax and spending law that locks in tax cuts for the wealthy while setting in motion deep cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and affordable health coverage. The damage is designed to arrive slowly, filtered through county budgets and local institutions that already operate on the brink.
Bill Hogseth, GROWW Co-Executive Director and Organizing Lead reflects on, organizing before the wave hits. Local organizers and residents are uncovering what HR1 will mean for our rural communities, listening to county leaders and neighbors, and building a county-by-county movement to stop a quiet class war (hidden behind a loud & violent culture war) and protect the services that hold our communities together.
- GROWW Wide
- Member Opinions
Editorial: What is possible when we unite?
This year, we know all of us in Wisconsin will be inundated with messages of division, especially leading up to the Spring and Midterm elections in April and November. Corporate interest groups and the ultra-wealthy want to divide us – by the color of our skin, by where we are from, how long we’ve lived here – so they can continue to call the shots. They distract us with a deluge of news so that we keep blaming each other instead of blaming them. They pass bills removing healthcare and food for us in our community while giving tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy and the largest corporations.
Pierce County residents say fight against CAFO is a fight for their lives
A group of Pierce County residents and GrassRoots Organizing Western Wisconsin is awaiting a response to a petition for a contested case hearing for the expansion of Ridge Breeze Dairy to grow four times its size.