A Day of Power
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 · Wisconsin State Capitol, Madison
A Day of Power
Learn, Meet, Align
Learn the facts in the morning. Visit legislators’ offices with your neighbors in the afternoon.
Register for October 13Free to attend. Reserve a coach seat from Viroqua or Richland Center by Thursday, October 1.
Can’t give the whole day? Register for the 4:30 p.m. State of the Campaign Address.
Wisconsin State Capitol at night. Photo: Ryan Wick, CC BY 2.0
Reserve by Thursday, October 1
Schedule for Tuesday, October 13
- 7:00 a.m.Coach leaves Viroqua
- 7:45 a.m.Coach leaves Richland Center
- 10 a.m. to noonMorning session in Madison (venue announced by email): a briefing on the two projects and the Public Service Commission’s approval process, the requests we are bringing to legislators, and a practice office meeting
- 12:30 p.m.Gather at the Capitol (meeting spot announced by email)
- 1 p.m.Office visits in small teams: a meeting where the office says yes, our information packet everywhere else
- 4:30 p.m.State of the Campaign Address, with special guests to be announced (location announced by email). People registered for the address only join us here.
- After the addressCoaches leave for Richland Center and Viroqua
Your small team
We place you on a small team with neighbors who share your state senator and your Assembly representative. The form asks for your home address so we can look up those two districts. We ask each office for a meeting ahead of the day. A meeting may be with the legislator or with staff, and some offices will not have time on October 13. When your own legislators’ offices are not on the schedule, your team joins another team’s visit or delivers our information packet to offices without a meeting. We share each team member’s name and hometown with the office your team visits.
If you own or farm land in another town or county that the lines could affect, the form asks where. Your team is still built from where you live, and we may also bring you to the office that represents your land.
The ten counties and the two projects
Two 765,000-volt transmission lines, MariBell and BECI, are proposed across southern Wisconsin. Ten Wisconsin counties sit on a published proposed route or inside a published study area: Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Jefferson, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Vernon, and Walworth (find your county). The Wisconsin Public Service Commission decides whether each project gets its state construction permit. On Tuesday, October 13, we invite people from those ten counties to Madison for a day about what the Legislature can do.
Seventy towns, villages, cities, and counties, in all ten counties, have adopted resolutions on the projects so far. We list one on our resolution tracker only when there is a public record of it, such as the adopted resolution or the minutes of the vote. On October 13, that record goes into the packet we leave at legislative offices.
Register for October 13
Whole-day registrants get their team assignment by email the week of October 5. State of the Campaign Address registrants get the location by email.
Coach seats close Thursday, October 1. Whole-day registration closes Wednesday, October 7.
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