Wisconsin Green Party quarterly newsletter
Fall Gathering – Saturday, November 14, 2026
Aubergine (Willy Street Food Co-op), Noon to 5:00 P.M.
1226 Williamson Street, Madison, Wisconsin
The Fall Gathering is our annual Coordinating Council election kick-off, and there are several positions up for renewal. Please monitor your email inbox for your OpaVote ballot following the Fall Gathering!
Interested in getting involved? Consider nominating yourself or another member for an opening position:
WIGP Officers:
- 2-year commitment: Co-chair (one position opens each year)
- 1-year commitment: Elections Treasurer, Operations Treasurer, Recording Secretary, and Corresponding Secretary
Congressional District Representative:
Each of the eight WI CDs can nominate candidates in their district meetings at the Fall Gathering – if you can't attend but would like to be nominated, please send a brief written statement with another member to speak on your behalf.
Local Chapter Representative:
Each WIGP chapter can nominate a representative – don't have a local chapter? Consider starting one.
At-Large Members:
Don't quite fit into any of these categories, but would still like to serve on the Coordinating Council? Up to 8 Members in Good Standing may be nominated and elected from the membership.
Elections – VOTE!
November 3, 2026
Meet the Wisconsin Green Party’s 2026 Candidates
-- click here for pdf version with candidate photos --
The Wisconsin Green Party is fielding candidates for Congress, Secretary of State, and the State Assembly in the November 3 election, along with an endorsed write-in candidate for governor.
Our candidates come from different backgrounds and parts of Wisconsin, but all offer voters an alternative to the Democratic and Republican parties. Here's a look at the 2026 Wisconsin Green Party slate.
Pete Karas — Wisconsin Secretary of State
Pete Karas is a lifelong Wisconsinite, former Racine alderman and small-business owner. Born and raised in Racine, Karas graduated from Horlick High School and earned an economics degree from UW–La Crosse. He served three terms on the Racine City Council from 2003 to 2009 and later owned and operated several businesses. He now lives in Muskego.
Karas is running for Secretary of State, focusing on election reform, government transparency, and expanding political competition beyond the two major parties. His campaign has also proposed changes to ballot-access laws and greater public access to state records.
Karas faced a challenge to his nomination papers earlier this year but prevailed, securing his place on the November ballot.
Matthew Arndt — U.S. House, 6th Congressional District
Matthew Arndt grew up in Green Bay as one of ten children. He is a certified public accountant and business owner who operates a tax and investment advisory firm and works with individuals, families, and small-business owners.
Arndt is the Wisconsin Green Party candidate for the 6th Congressional District. His campaign focuses on breaking up corporate monopolies, Medicare for All, stronger wages and labor rights, opposing prolonged overseas wars, and restricting large AI data centers.
The 6th District stretches across east-central Wisconsin, and Arndt will appear on the November ballot as the Green Party nominee.
David Schupbach — Wisconsin State Assembly, District 5
David Schupbach is running for the Wisconsin State Assembly in District 5, which includes portions of Outagamie and Brown counties.
Schupbach has helped build the Green Party in northeast Wisconsin and serves as co-chair of the Northeast Wisconsin Green Party. He is also a Wisconsin Green Party representative for the 8th Congressional District.
His campaign emphasizes giving voters more political choices and reducing the two major parties' dominance in state government. Schupbach will face Republican Joy Goeben and Democrat Justin Schumacher in November.
Robert Longwell-Grice — Wisconsin State Assembly, District 10
Robert “Rob” Longwell-Grice is a longtime Milwaukee-area educator and higher-education administrator who spent roughly 40 years working in higher education, including about two decades at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
He holds a master’s degree in counseling from Penn State and a doctorate in educational and counseling psychology from the University of Louisville. His academic work has focused, in part, on first-generation college students, social class, and access to higher education.
Longwell-Grice is running in Milwaukee-area Assembly District 10. His campaign priorities include a refundable deposit program for beverage containers, restoring local authority over single-use packaging, and fully funding the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program.
Carlos LeMar Dixon — Write-In Candidate for Governor
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Carlos LeMar Dixon is a Milwaukee native who was raised in Chicago. He has worked in special education and in real estate and has described helping people and building relationships as central to his professional work.
Dixon launched an independent campaign for governor in 2026. He did not submit nomination papers to appear on the printed November ballot and instead continued his campaign as a write-in candidate. The Wisconsin Green Party Coordinating Council has endorsed Dixon as a write-in candidate for governor.
~ Contributed by Pete Karas ~
Why We Filed Two Amicus Briefs This Year
Getting candidates on the ballot is pretty basic for a political party. If you can’t get on the ballot, everything else is academic. That’s why the Wisconsin Green Party has gotten involved in two court cases this year concerning the rules minor parties must live under.
Act 126 and ballot access
In March, Gov. Tony Evers signed 2025 Wisconsin Act 126, requiring circulators of candidate nomination papers and recall petitions to be Wisconsin residents. We filed an amicus brief in Americans for Citizen Voting PAC v. Wolfe challenging the law because residency requirements make ballot access more expensive and complicated for volunteer-driven minor parties.
Why we're also involved in the fusion-voting case
United Wisconsin filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn Wisconsin’s ban on fusion voting. On July 16, the Wisconsin Green Party and its candidates filed an amicus brief supporting the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s defense of the current law, emphasizing concerns about how fusion impacts independent party building and ranked-choice voting initiatives.
~ Contributed by Pete Karas ~
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