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Kenosha, Wisconsin was thrust into the national spotlight in August of 2020 after the officer-involved shooting of Jacob Blake. Three nights of deadly rioting followed. Senator Ron Johnson visited Kenosha one year later and talks to a business owner who watched his family owned business of 40 years burn to the ground. He also talks with Kenosha County Sheriff David Beth.

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The Joseph Project is a program co-founded by Senator Johnson to connect people with jobs. One of the most powerful parts of the training happens when former participants come back to talk about lessons learned with new classes.

In this episode, Sen. Johnson talks with Beth, Anthony and Curt about their successful transition into the workplace after many years on a path of crime, addiction and prison.

In honor of November being National Adoption Month, this episode features a conversation with Nicole Craig. The Craig family of Green Bay first met Sen. Johnson in 2014 after the adoption of their daughter Grace was held up for years by the government of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Nicole made six trips to Washington D.C. to advocate for the release of 1,200 adopted children, including Grace.

Sen. Johnson talks with Nicole about the fight to bring Grace home and her assimilation to her forever family and life in America and Wisconsin. Nicole says adoption was one of the hardest things her family has ever done, but the blessings have been immeasurable and the sky’s the limit for Grace!

It's been a busy two years for the senate in this 115th Congress from tax reform to rebuilding our military and a record setting number of judicial confirmations. In this episode, Senator Ron Johnson reviews the many accomplishments including the signing of his signature bill, Right to Try.

"He doesn't stop. He doesn't give up." That's what President Trump said about Sen. Ron Johnson's effort to get Right to Try passed into law.

On May 30, 2018 President Trump finally signed the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act into law, surrounded by the families the law is named after.

From an Ivy League student studying Arabic to a Marine twice deployed to the Middle East to a staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the same time Sen. Johnson served on that committee, Congressman Mike Gallagher & Sen. Johnson discuss their shared Wisconsin roots, national security interests and lessons from President Eisenhower.

It's not everyday you attend a birthday party for a 101-year-old. But that's exactly where Sen. Johnson sat down with James "Maggie" Megellas to talk about his remarkable life during World War II becoming the most decorated officer in the history of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. Maggie talks about leading from the front, liberating a concentration camp, and why freedom is worth fighting for.

Learn more about Maggie's service and the effort to get him a Medal of Honor at medalformaggie.com

Sen. Johnson talks with Chaplain Ray Slatton and Ann Micholic, Vice President of Human Resources at Kolbe & Kolbe about bringing the Joseph Project to the Wausau area and how they are helping make connections for people looking for meaningful work and employers looking for dedicated employees.

Sen. Johnson invited Oconomowocs’s Lauri Badura as his guest for this week’s State of the Union address. The two have been working together for years on ways to combat the opioid epidemic. Here’s a podcast they recorded last spring about those efforts.