Nextaly Rodriguez voted in his first gubernatorial election on Tuesday at the Kosciuszko Community Center on Milwaukee’s South Side. The 44-year-old naturalized citizen — born in Guatemala — voted for President Donald Trump two years ago. He flipped partisan allegiances this year, citing the Crowley campaign’s Spanish-language outreach efforts. “Just trying something new,” he said in Spanish. “Politics don’t interest me a lot.”
Paul Kiefer became Wisconsin Watch’s data-driven accountability reporter in September 2026, focusing largely on immigration and data reporting. He joined the newsroom in 2025 as a Roy W. Howard fellow. Paul grew up in Washington state and first set foot in a newsroom as a teenage producer-in-training at a Seattle public radio station. He went on to cover criminal justice in Washington for the Seattle news site PubliCola and InvestigateWest. He headed east in 2023, working as a state politics reporter for Delaware Public Media before earning a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Maryland and interning on the Washington Post’s metro desk.
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