4/6/26 6PM: Power, Politics & Community Wins in Wisconsin

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Good evening, good evening, good evening.

This is the Truth Unfiltered.

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Coming to you live, we're going to have a great conversation and unfiltered some major

truths.

Tonight, we're not just talking about one issue.

We're going to be talking about several highlights, low lights, and in between.

We're talking about power.

We're talking about protecting hours because while some families are preparing for the

possibility of their lights being turned off after April 15th, others are watching decisions

that are being made that could determine who now holds.

Here goes that P word again, power in Washington and who gets heard in Wisconsin.

And we, as black folks, definitely need to know how these elections, especially here in

Wisconsin, which is known for its purpleness as in red and blue, Wisconsin, the swing

state.

So any type of high profile elections that take place in this state always have national

and at times global attention.

So we're going to talk about that now.

Also a judicial panel has just dismissed an effort to withdraw Wisconsin's congressional

maps, keeping the current lines in place, lines that critics say, shape political power

before a single vote is cast according to the associated press news.

And at the same time candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court are making their final push,

their traveling, their speaking, their connecting, and they're knowing that this decision could

influence decisions on issues like voting rights, redistricting, and the future of the state

of Wisconsin.

I'm going to say that one more again for the folks that need to be motivated.

And I get it because for some of us it's like for what?

But again, this election for the Wisconsin Supreme Court could very well influence decisions

on issues like voting rights, redistricting, and the overall future of the state of Wisconsin.

And while all of this is unfolding at the highest levels, right here at the ground level,

we've got families, especially families in our community that are facing a different kind

of decision.

You know, there's this cliche that we often hear, keep the lights on.

We got to keep the lights on.

And to have this be a literal, precise and relevant question being, how do you keep the lights

on when the protections turn off?

That's a real big question.

So we're going to get into all of that and more, including that whack, halfway, unacceptable,

darn right.

I'm trying to be better with my language all.

I'm adopting Coach Prime, Deon Sanders, utilization of the word darn to replace other words.

So that darn whack, insulting, disrespectful, what even appeared to be a struggle for coach

Geno of the University of Connecticut, the women's basketball teams, head coach, we're

going to get into that because as someone who works in communication as both a communication

coach and a leadership strategist, I could tell you right now that that apology was written

by the University, let me say that with a little less 100 percent value.

I am 99.9 percent.

So I'm going to give the University of Connecticut and Coach Geno that 0.1 percent or that 1 percent

that that apology was authored by someone in their internal and external communications

department, public relations, however you may want to call it, but it, to me, it made

it even worse.

I believe that if you're going to disrespect or humiliate me in public, so should be the

apology.

So we're going to get into that as well.

We're going to have a great show.

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See, thank you, King Brother Zech, Alex.

I appreciate you having my back.

Look, man, y'all, I know I say this all the time and I know the majority of the host on

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I'll be 50 next month and I'm parametal possible, so the brain fog is real, all right?

Thank you for your understanding.

Now, here's what we're talking about.

Now, let's just do this quick reality check because today we're not just talking about

policy.

This is serious.

We're talking about heat, survival, dignity, and decisions that could change our lives overnight.

I promise you I'm not being dramatic, so please listen carefully whether you're driving,

whether you're at home, whether you're at work, wherever you are, come April 15th.

The silence in some of the homes will not be due to peace.

It may be the sound of something being turned off.

And so the question tonight is very simple, but it's a powerful question, and again, I

want to know how you feel about this.

What happens when protection expires, but the struggle does not?

Denise, what are you talking about?

Great question.

Glad you asked.

The Wisconsin's winter utility shut off, moratorium ends April 15th according to CBS

58.

Now, this policy has protected families from losing heat during the coldest months, and

once it expires, utility companies can legally, legally, despite that phone call, that email

that you make, they can legally disconnect services for nonpayment.

Now let me translate that into terms that I can relate to.

The protection will end, but the bills will not.

See, bills don't ever stop.

That's why in this current thing called life, I'm not worried about the quantity of followers

or likes, because I live in a world right now where gas prices could potentially go all

the way up to $8 a gallon.

There's $6 in a lot of states right now.

Now what's the average price of gallon of gas here in Wisconsin right now, King's Act?

Probably like three something.

Okay, three something.

I too something.

Okay.

Yeah.

In those states like California where it's always been high, it's already almost $7 a gallon.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And the reason why I'm bringing that up as we're talking about the shut off moratorium

that ends April 15th is because as we all know, fuel is pretty much the most fundamental

component when it comes to our supply chain, when it comes to power.

So yes, even though you may drive an electric vehicle, you're like, I don't have to worry about

gas prices.

Yes, you do.

Because what do you think generates the electricity to fuel, I'm using the air quotes,

or power your electric vehicle?

That's right, oil.

So no matter what you drive, where you live, Wisconsin's winter utility shut off moratorium

ends April 15th and life doesn't pause.

The hardships that many of us are facing doesn't pause.

But the protection is about to in a little over a week.

So let me break this down in terms of who is at the highest risk.

We already are behind on bills.

We're already making choices on do I pay my rent or do I keep the power on?

Do I put gas in my car or do I feed my family?

These are real choices and decisions that we are facing and having to make.

Habibar 2028, I see you on the YouTube chat, thank you for tuning in.

So for these families of which are more than what you would think, I'm talking about

everybody in some degree is being impacted by this.

And now you have families that were already navigating challenges due to disenfranchment,

systemic racism, discrimination, may now face immediate shutoffs without any possibility

of a payment arrangement when it comes to their power.

And as this is about to happen on April 15th, you've got already many households that

are still recovering from economic strain yet now face this new hard deadline.

This is not again, it's not just about utilities, it's about working families.

Our elders also known as seniors.

The single parents, shout out to all the single parents, now y'all know I'm retired from

parenting, but that was a long, long, 30 years.

And I'm proud, extremely proud of both of my children.

For being self-sufficient, I may look, I'm not mad at kids who need to live with their

parents or their elders.

It's hard out here.

You've got the increase in the cost of living and yet a decrease in what I would call sensible

paying jobs.

Let me just say this really quick before we get back into the moratorium that is about

to expire here in Wisconsin regarding utilities.

I'm not, you know, I did everything I could raising my kids between the year of 1995 until

about two or three years ago.

And I remember, I used to always say, look man, y'all ain't living with me.

When y'all turn 18, y'all getting up out of here, y'all can either go to college, get

a job, but you will not be living with me.

That was my narrative as a single parent.

And if you would have told me that the next generation, so the very, very younger millennials

and the Gen Zers, would actually need, not because of lack of work ethic or discipline

or diligence, but actually need to reside with their family due to lack of affordability

and lack of employment in this country in 2026, I would have said no way.

But here we are.

And I'm actually okay, how do you feel about the increase in young adults who've earned

their college degree, or post-secondary education, or maybe even haven't.

And they're now approaching 28, 29, 30, and still living with their parents.

My back, some of y'all they're listening may have adults that are living with you due

to lack of affordability and lack of employment.

833-212-1017, how do you feel about that?

Was it something that was like, hey, look, come on home, we got you, mom and dad got you,

or come on home, baby, grandma got you, or granddad got you, how did that conversation

go?

And did you make the decision based on your moral compass along with the realities of

this current world and economic struggle, or are you just like every day giving them

a countdown?

I just want to hear from you that currently has an adult, or adults living in their

home rent-free due to the lack of affordability in terms of housing and the lack of jobs.

833-212-1017, we come back, we're going to jump back into the winter utility shut-off

moratorium that ends April 15th here in the state of Wisconsin, and how that's going

to further impact how we live, how we survive, and what happens next?

We'll get into it when we come back from break.

This is the Truth Unfiltered with Denise Thomas and Dr. Ken Harris on 1017 the Truth,

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I see what you're doing, King Zach Alex.

I appreciate you, but I am NOT going there, but I appreciate what you're doing.

I appreciate what you're doing.

You don't have to go there except for you know you know.

That's it.

I just have to say it again though, but I appreciate you, because we here, we've always been

here.

We may always agree all the time, you know, I might get on your nerves every now and

again, but that right there, Kay, nobody's saying nothing bad to me about King Brother

Zach Alex, because that right there, that's all I need, any who.

We were talking about, well first and foremost, let me thank each of you for tuning in.

I see you on the YouTube channel.

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channel.

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We've been talking about Wisconsin's Winter Utility Mortarium.

Now before we get into the impacts, and I got to give a special underscore to Gary

Lawson, who on our Truth Talking Text line said, our babies suffer the most, absenteeism

increases, parents are on edge, 100%, 101.7%, agree with you Gary, and we're going to get

into that more.

So thank you for just giving me that foundation to build off of when we get into this

effect of what's happening in the state of Wisconsin regarding this utility moratorium.

Now for those that are not familiar, and that's fair, a moratorium in terms of the textbook

definition is a delay or suspension of an activity or a law.

So in a legal context, it may refer to the temporary suspensions of a law to allow

a legal challenge to be carried out.

So another instance of a moratorium or delay is in this situation payment.

So a legal official can basically order a delay of payment due to extenuating circumstances

which render one party incapable of paying another.

So now that I've gotten all that formality, let me get back to the subject at hand.

This Consent's winter utility moratorium prohibits electric and natural gas providers

from disconnecting residential heating service due to nonpayment beginning November 1st

through April 15th.

Now as this protection will end on April 15th, any Wisconsin resident, please hear me and

share this with those who may not already know or be listening.

If you have an outstanding balance with a electric or natural gas provider in the state

of Wisconsin, you better right now create a payment plan or seek assistance, and I mean

immediately otherwise you will be disconnected on April 15th.

No ifs, no ands, no buts about it.

That is the truth.

Now the moratorium was originally designed to protect residents during the cold winter

months here in Wisconsin.

It covers basically any type of disconnection.

It prevents that because we all need heat, okay?

So it prevents the disconnection of utilities that are necessary for heat.

Now after April 15th, again, utilities can and will be disconnected for nonpayment.

So if you're behind on your utility bill and let me just say this, I'm not mad at anybody

who's behind on any bill right now.

Let me just not that it matters, but I just want to remind folks out there, you are not

a bad person.

Don't let these folks, these organizations and organizations try to make you feel like

you've committed a crime or you're a bad person because you are behind on your utility bill.

Do you hear what I'm saying?

Do not because I'm telling you that's the whole psychological, like in order for me to

make you feel threatened, I have to like get into your psychological existence and make

you feel like, oh my gosh, I'm such a bad person.

I'm behind on my light bill, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, because just how many times have

you felt bad after having a conversation and I'll just use the term bill, collective?

And you hang up and it's just ruined your day.

I'm just telling you right now, stop it.

Costs that are out of your control are rising daily.

You are having to make decisions that you've never had to make before and quite frankly,

there wasn't a heads up because we were told everything was going to go down.

And here we are not not only did it not go down, it went astronomically up so don't

you dare feel bad and with that being said, do not take out your frustrations on your family,

your friends, your coworkers because this ain't got nothing to do with none of us, us regular common folk.

But back to the matter at hand and again, our true talk and text line is 833-212-1017.

After April 15th, if you have an outstanding balance on your utility bill, you will be disconnected.

Now, let me get into some good news for lack of better terms.

There is financial assistance.

So, eligible households can apply for help through the Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program,

also known as WHEP.

I'm going to say that slower because this is big for a lot of us and do not be ashamed, do not feel bad,

do not feel inferior, do not feel less than because we are dealing with the cards that were dealt to us

and we did not have any heads up.

The Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program, contact information is as follows.

1-866 Heat Whists, like Heat Wisconsin, that is 866-432-8947.

Again, that is the Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program, also known as WHEP.

1-666-432-8947, or you can visit their website, which is homeenergyplus.wi.gov.

King Brothers, Alex, can we get that on the YouTube message board for those who may be driving and need to see it?

866-432-8947 is the home energy assistance program.

They also have a website, homeenergyplus.wi.gov.

You can also contact the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, also known as PSC.

That phone number for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin is 608-266-2001 or 1-800-125-7729.

The largest utility companies in the state of Wisconsin are we energies,

Alliance Energy, Wisconsin Public Service Corps, Madison Gas and Electric, Excel Energy,

and Superior Water Light and Power, according to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin.

Those are the largest utilities in Wisconsin.

So I'm telling you, as we do here at the truth, we unfilter it, we give you the information that you need.

So if you have a bill right now from either we energies, the Wisconsin Public Service Corps,

Alliance Energy, Madison Gas and Electric, Excel Energy, or Superior Water Light and Power,

you need to call them today or first thing in the morning, because April 15th will be here before you know it.

And if you have an outstanding balance and you know you can't pay it,

man, especially you got kids, you gonna tell your kids,

oh, man, thank you, Jesus, Wi-Fi wasn't a big deal when my kids were with me,

because I know I would have been the worst parent.

Tell your kids, they ain't got Wi-Fi?

That's like telling your child they don't have oxygen.

Real top.

If you cannot reach an agreement with your utility company,

I just gave a list of all the utility companies in the state of Wisconsin.

If you cannot reach an agreement, a payment installment agreement with any of these utility companies in Wisconsin,

contact the PSC for assistance.

That's the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin or contact the Wisconsin Home Energy Assistance Program.

Please do not say that we didn't tell you here at the truth, 101.7, the truth FM.

And we're gonna have this show available, so make sure you hit that subscribe button on YouTube.

So if you're missing any of this, don't worry, because life be lifein'.

There's a lot of information in floating and you're just like, man, I'm just trying to wake up in the morning.

Feed my family.

Go to church.

I'm just trying to live a good life.

I don't need a lot, but I do need utilities.

You're not alone.

And your feelings are valid.

So that's one thing about black folks.

Me and my family were talking about this on Easter Sunday during Easter Sunday dinner.

We gotta stop being so prideful.

We don't talk about that.

Or you know, that's not up for it.

Every other community shares, communicates, supports.

We got to do better, black folks.

Because I'm gonna tell you right now, if the space between me and my lights being cut off is just because I don't want to call and ask for assistance, that's a me problem.

That's a me problem.

I don't have any problem like raising my hand and saying, hey, yo, I got three kids and my mouth to feed.

And in order for me to be able to feed my family so that they can have the nutrition that they need, because remember systemic racism, it's so calculated.

Well, if they don't have lights and they can see, then they can read and then they can't get educated.

See, it's just a constant domino effect.

It's very calculated.

That's why we got to get ahead of the curve and start quit, quit focusing on your pride and understand the larger impact of these decisions.

There are sources that are out there to help you utilize them.

You've earned it.

Because I'm gonna tell you right now, cost of living is going to continue to rise way quicker and more rapidly before it doesn't.

We're just getting started.

So this is not the time to be prideful, especially when you have mouths to feed.

King Brothers, Zach Alex, we need to go to break.

We good. I'm keep rolling. That's what I'm talking about. Let's go.

Okay, we can go to 45. Awesome.

833-212-1017.

I'm gonna keep talking for the next seven minutes, but would love to hear your thoughts.

Because we were talking about the Wisconsin Winter Utility Mortarium that ends next week.

The 8th, the 15th to be exact.

Well, I should say, next was that Monday?

Is the 15th? That's tax day.

Man, come on. I just realized that.

So I got to have my taxes paid and I got to figure out where I can keep my lights on.

This is not the time to be prideful.

Now, another related reality is that because of everything that used to just be, you know,

it's Saturday. Shoot, I'm gonna get up, clean the house up.

Might go out and run me a few errands, groceries, do a little home improvement project.

Take my kids to their games, drop them off at grandma's granddads,

throw on a little something, go out and have a good time.

See, that's what we used to say.

Now it's, oh my gosh, who gets sacrificed today and what bill can I pay today?

And with that comes now, younger adults, you got it, having to stay home with their parents.

And I'm talking about young adults that have college degrees.

Yeah, that you've spent $80 to $180,000 over the past four years for your child or your children

to obtain a higher education so that they can have a better life.

Yeah, that ain't working.

Nearly 50%. Are you ready for this, y'all?

Nearly 50% of young adults between the ages of 18 through 29 years old in this country.

This wonderful, great country.

Now live with their parents.

This level is the highest since the Great Depression, y'all.

It's the Great Depression.

And among college graduates specifically, the share that are living at home has increased significantly

since 2010 reversing the earlier independent trans.

Remember, I can't wait to leave my parents' house.

I'm going to do my own thing. I'm going to eat what I want.

I'm going to go where I want to go. I'm going to come home when I want to come home.

Bump y'all! Yeah, those are over. Now it's a mom.

Hey, dad. I know y'all paid $100,000 for me to go to college.

I graduated.

Kuma Kuma Ladi, summa Kuma, Duma Ladi, all that.

But I still got to live with y'all.

Yeah.

About one in three college graduates under the age of 30.

Live with their parents at some point after graduation. I'm not mad.

But here's where it gets interesting.

You got the average student loan debt between 30 to 40K.

So you see, I'm saying it like, I'm graduating with a deficit, with a liability.

And check this out.

Not only do I have a liability to the government,

and whichever other financial institution that funded my college education,

I got to deal with the fact that I'm living in a country where there's under employment issues.

Not unemployment, under employment.

Working jobs that don't require a college degree.

I'm competing now.

So you got high school graduates,

and you got college graduates that are in the same pipeline for the same jobs, under employment.

Then you got, I keep going y'all, median rent prices have increased.

Are you ready for this?

Between 20 and 30% in many U.S. cities just in the past few years, 20 to 30%.

The entry label, let's move on.

See, I'm so fresh right now, I can't even talk y'all.

The entry level wages are not even able to keep up with the pace of inflation,

especially when it comes to housing and utilities.

So when you read a headline that says the moratorium for it was constant utilities, ends April 15th,

and you got your kids living at home, gas about to be $8 a gallon.

I mean, it's just, it's, where do we go from here?

But I will tell you this, don't you dare, don't you dare feel that this is your fault,

that you are inadequate, irresponsible, you made the wrong decisions, you're this year that,

because I'm telling you these institutions, I'm just using that word to be politically correct,

and not lose my job.

Allow this by design and intent, and don't shoot the messenger.

I'm just here to unfilter the truth, because the impact that this is having,

it's a domino effect, nearly 60% of young adults say housing affordability is the primary reason they remain at home.

And if I'm living with my mom and dad, and I'm using more utilities, and the moratorium is ended,

you see the domino effect, you see how it works?

And I'm a parent, and then we could talk about the psychological impact and the emotional impact.

My life bill wouldn't be $8,000 if you didn't live here, you know, you can't say that,

because you can't kick somebody while they're down, but that's what you're thinking.

We are unfiltering the truth on the truth unfilter with D.T. and Dr. Ken Harris.

We come back, I want to hear your thoughts, 833-212-1017.

We got some things coming in on the text line, you could definitely call in,

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How are we going to teach our kids to pursue greatness and success?

If they do all the diligence and they do all the work and they still have to come back to their childhood bedroom.

The system is broken, y'all, and I will, I've said this before and I'll say it again,

and please challenge me, I want to hear your thoughts when I say this, or your reactions, or your feelings.

You know, we keep seeing these stories about teenagers taking over.

There was a teen takeover at Bayshore Mall last week.

There was a major one in Chicago, and the teen takeovers are basically where you see a bunch of teenage children, students, young adults,

ready to destroy, destruct, disrupt, and yeah, I can initially be mad at the kids, but I'm like, where are the parents?

And then it's like, as a parent, I'm trying to raise my child to be independent, to be successful,

and the system is not allowing that because over 70% of young adults live at home right now.

And let me just also add this factor, that has such a negative impact on your psychological safety and your mental health.

Because if I'm already navigating financial stress, and I don't feel, or I have a lack of independence,

and I got to live at home with my mom and dad, or a loved one, a family member, that's a lot.

Then you got the parents who also are sharing the same home, having the increased pressure of going into their retirement savings,

in order to support their adult children who are now living at home with them, and the rising living costs, utilities, fuel, groceries, things that were just secondary to us.

This is not a failure of ambition. Do you hear what I'm saying, Truth Nation? This is not a failure of ambition.

This is what we call a shift in reality. Reality has shifted. The new reality is that I might be looking at paying $7.50 per gallon of gas.

I had a conversation with my 28-year-old son yesterday. Just last week, y'all see, when I say $8 a gallon, some of y'all look at me like I'm crazy.

Let me just put this in perspective. Just last week, okay, this is what my son told me. He filled up his car, it was around $60.

That same car, that same vehicle, he filled up yesterday, and it was $78, you do the math, within a 7-day period, and it continues to rise.

My son's the same son, my daughter's the same daughter. They get up, my daughter, she's pursuing her doctorate in clinical psychology, and I told her, man, you gonna be alright.

When you graduate, you probably got the turn, work away. My son, he gets up, works his full-time job every day, lives in his own place, pays his own bills.

I'm making sure that my kids know that you're doing everything right, you're not doing anything wrong. There's no lack of ambition here.

We gotta start telling our kids the same thing, like remind them, this is not your fault. It is the reality, but it's not your fault.

Remember, we were the ones that told the generation, and when I say this, I'm gonna see King Brother Zach Alex's reaction.

We were the generation that told our children, i.e. King Brother Zach Alex's generation, that if you go to school and you get your degree, you'll be what, said.

We lied! It wasn't our fault, but that was the message, and that is so far from reality.

Because what we need to start having a conversation with ourselves as parents and our kids that are over the age of 25 living at home with us, how come I did everything right, and I'm still having to come back home and live with you?

I did everything you told me to. See, this is where we gotta dive into the resentment.

Because a lot of us wanna resent our kids because, and I'm doing the air quotes, they don't have it. They didn't have it as bad as we did.

But yet they do. They do.

Because if I did everything you told me to do, mom and dad, and I still gotta live home with you all, we're gonna have to redefine this whole independent thing and successful thing.

Because it ain't working the way you told me it was gonna work. And that's the unfiltered truth.

Stop me if I'm lying. Please stop me if I'm saying something that is incorrect, 833-212-1017.

And as Gary had mentioned on the truth talk in text line, our babies are suffering the most. Yet we are blaming them, we are holding elected officials accountable.

But in some aspects, there does need to be some amended legislation, especially around things like thresholds.

I'm telling you right now, the moment that gas hits $7 a gallon, I'm telling you right now, we better get ahead of that curve.

We better come up with a game plan. Because all these changes that we are having to deal with, this is just the, just getting started.

Look at how much the administration has done in just what? A year and four months? Or was it four months? It's a blur to me.

When was President Trump inaugurated? Was it this year or last year? I can't keep up. So it's been a year and four months? Okay. Look how much has already been done.

Everybody including our young students, our young children, our adult children, our financially sustaining things are trying to.

In a much, much tougher economy than we expected. Families are no longer just raising children. Families are raising each other, man.

And that is the unfiltered truth. When we come back, we're going to get into more. Did you give my Beyonce side or somebody taking my picture? Give my Beyonce, but give my Beyonce side, baby.

We come back. We're going to get into some more topics when I hear from you to a three, three, two, one, two, one, zero, one, seven. We got a whole top of the hour of interesting topics.

It's your girl, DT, filling in holding the four down for me and Dr. Ken, the truth unfiltered on the award winning 101 7 point 101.7 FM. We'll be back.

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