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It was an important part of his identity even before his state erupted in protest against a governor who’d gone a step too far stripped collective bargaining rights away from his state’s workers. But the pride in the veteran political reporter’s voice when he talks about his state now is impossible to miss.

He’s many things besides, of course—Washington correspondent for the Nation, associate editor of the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times, an insightful media critic, the author of several books and a frequent guest on MSNBC. But it’s the Wisconsinite front and center in his new book, Uprising: How Wisconsin Renewed the Politics of Protest, from Madison to Occupy Wall Street, contextualizing and celebrating the way his state led the fight back, not just for union rights, but for democracy in America.

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Man, when I went home for Christmas, my Dad and his friends certainly had some opinions about all this. One of them just couldn’t understand why someone would stand outside the capitol holding a sign for hours on a weekday. “Don’t those people have jobs?”