Just beyond 2025, you'll find a series of high court elections that together have perhaps even larger ramifications than who has ideological control.

“Fair maps, abortion, voting rights,” is Lang’s list. “It’s not a seat we can afford to lose because if Republicans and conservatives gain control of the court, that’s Elon Musk and that’s a through line to the Trump agenda.”

A high-stakes election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court has become the most expensive judicial election in American history, but not without controversy.