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'Here & Now' Highlights: Mark Sommerhauser, Justin Sydnor, Charles Franklin, Jeff Pritzl

Here's what guests on the Nov. 21, 2025 episode said about online sports betting, health insurance costs, early polling for the 2026 elections, and Wisconsin's gun deer hunt opener.

A still image shows Charles Franklin seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Charles Franklin' and 'Marquette University Law School.''

Charles Franklin on Trump's approval ratings as 2025 ends

A still image shows Justin Sydnor seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Justin Sydnor' and 'Wisconsin School of Business.''

Justin Sydnor on rising costs for ACA health insurance plans

A still image shows Mark Sommerhauser seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Mark Sommerhauser' and 'Wisconsin Policy Forum.'

Mark Sommerhauser on online sports betting law in Wisconsin

Jeff Pritzl on Wisconsin’s 2025 gun deer hunt season outlook

Jeff Pritzl on Wisconsin's 2025 gun deer hunt season outlook

Linda McMahon speaks while standing in a room with an out-of-focus projector screen and U.S. flag in the background.

Schools fear disruptions as the White House dismantles the Education Department

Brittany Koteles on the market value of land and its meaning

Brittany Koteles on the market value of land and its meaning

A voter holding the straps of a tote bag in their left hand stands in front of a temporary voting booth with plastic privacy walls and metal legs, located at the end of a row of similar booths in a gymnasium with a wood floor, brick columns and a wood-paneled vaulted ceiling.

Wisconsin clerks referred 46 cases of suspected fraud, irregularities in the November 2024 election

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Immigration appeals board ruling paves way for more deportations to a 'third country'

A sign titled Hoocąk Language Duide with multiple illustrations of a canoe labeled with Ho-Chunk words and American English translations is displayed on the surface of a wood railing next to branches of a cedar tree.

Wisconsin archaeologists have found 16 ancient Indigenous canoes in Lake Mendota

Sister Sue Ernster on the trauma of Indian boarding schools

Sister Sue Ernster on the trauma of Indian boarding schools

A ceiling-mounted brass enclosed letter sign with the words Judge Hannah C. Dugan and the number 615 is overhead in a hallway with fluorescent lighting outside the wood-paneled doors to a room, with an illuminated EXIT sign above another door in the background.

Prosecutor says plea talks are ongoing with Milwaukee judge facing federal charges

Brittany Koteles on social justice work with Catholic orders

Brittany Koteles on social justice work with Catholic orders

A still image shows Charles Franklin seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Charles Franklin' and 'Marquette University Law School.''

Charles Franklin on Trump's approval ratings as 2025 ends

A still image shows Justin Sydnor seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Justin Sydnor' and 'Wisconsin School of Business.''

Justin Sydnor on rising costs for ACA health insurance plans

A still image shows Mark Sommerhauser seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Mark Sommerhauser' and 'Wisconsin Policy Forum.'

Mark Sommerhauser on online sports betting law in Wisconsin

Jeff Pritzl on Wisconsin’s 2025 gun deer hunt season outlook

Jeff Pritzl on Wisconsin's 2025 gun deer hunt season outlook

Linda McMahon speaks while standing in a room with an out-of-focus projector screen and U.S. flag in the background.

Schools fear disruptions as the White House dismantles the Education Department

Brittany Koteles on the market value of land and its meaning

Brittany Koteles on the market value of land and its meaning

A voter holding the straps of a tote bag in their left hand stands in front of a temporary voting booth with plastic privacy walls and metal legs, located at the end of a row of similar booths in a gymnasium with a wood floor, brick columns and a wood-paneled vaulted ceiling.

Wisconsin clerks referred 46 cases of suspected fraud, irregularities in the November 2024 election

A letter sign on reading Milwauke Wisconsin and 310 East Knapp Stre is affixed to a concrete wall that's situated along a sidewalk and in front of a multistory building with a stone exterior and windows on either side of double glass doors below a letter sign reading U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Immigration appeals board ruling paves way for more deportations to a 'third country'

A sign titled Hoocąk Language Duide with multiple illustrations of a canoe labeled with Ho-Chunk words and American English translations is displayed on the surface of a wood railing next to branches of a cedar tree.

Wisconsin archaeologists have found 16 ancient Indigenous canoes in Lake Mendota

Sister Sue Ernster on the trauma of Indian boarding schools

Sister Sue Ernster on the trauma of Indian boarding schools

A ceiling-mounted brass enclosed letter sign with the words Judge Hannah C. Dugan and the number 615 is overhead in a hallway with fluorescent lighting outside the wood-paneled doors to a room, with an illuminated EXIT sign above another door in the background.

Prosecutor says plea talks are ongoing with Milwaukee judge facing federal charges

Brittany Koteles on social justice work with Catholic orders

Brittany Koteles on social justice work with Catholic orders

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Tawny Hardyman on losing staff during a government shutdown

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Brittany Koteles on the market value of land and its meaning

A sign titled Hoocąk Language Duide with multiple illustrations of a canoe labeled with Ho-Chunk words and American English translations is displayed on the surface of a wood railing next to branches of a cedar tree.

Wisconsin archaeologists have found 16 ancient Indigenous canoes in Lake Mendota

Sister Sue Ernster on the trauma of Indian boarding schools

Sister Sue Ernster on the trauma of Indian boarding schools

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