Ben Wikler is the former chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin.

During Wikler’s chairship from 2019 to 2025, WisDems won 10 out of 13 statewide races—including Joe Biden’s presidential win in 2020, Tony Evers’s reelection in 2022, and Tammy Baldwin’s victory in 2024, as well as three state Supreme Court landslides that flipped the majority and ended the state’s extreme partisan state legislative gerrymander. He is the author of the forthcoming This Is the Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy, out in July 2026 from Norton.

Wikler has spent over two decades at the forefront of progressive advocacy and political action. Before leading the Wisconsin Democratic Party, Wikler served as Washington Director for MoveOn, where he helped spearhead campaigns to protect the Affordable Care Act and resist the Trump agenda. He now lives with his wife, three kids, and enormous dog in Madison, Wisconsin.

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