Since I'm on a bit of a role today with my ASB Wisconsin story, I might as well upload some flags on here.
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Since the late 1920s, Wisconsin has been under the rule of a one-party socialist republic that promotes an ideology of Wisconsin nationalist identity, socialist nationalism and Pan-Amerindianism. Despite the numerous changes over the decades since the founding of the socialist state in 1926, the flag's basic colors of green, white and blue have largely remained the same with some exceptions. Here are the flags of Wisconsin over the years including the current party flag.
Before a socialist republic was proclaimed in 1926, Wisconsin had this flag between 1870 and 1926 used even during the first ten years of President Hoan's reign starting in 1916 which took Wisconsin to the left.
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It was a simple flag with a blue background with a red shield and a white star. The coat of arms was also a simple red shield with a white star as well. This was soon to be replaced with a nominally socialist looking flag in late 1926.
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On December 13, 1926, a proposed national flag was introduced to the National Assembly, it would replace the previous regime's flag. The proposed flag had green symbolizing the rich green land of Wisconsin with blue on the bottom representing the great lakes and a white circle representing the oneness of the Wisconsin people. It was adopted from 1927 but was phased out in 1929 when other designers came forward with a different design that Hoan and the National Assembly preferred.
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In 1929 a new national flag was unveiled which similar to the two year old flag from before would have a similar color of green and blue with the green being darker and in the white circle would have a single 5-pointed red star. An unusual choice because of Hoan's opposition to communism. However, the design was meant to symbolize the socialist unity of all political parties in Wisconsin and represented socialism not communism according to the flag designer. The new national flag would remain as the official flag of the state until 1942.
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Once again in 1942 the national flag was altered again replacing the red star with a white star. The flag would be unaltered until the late 1950s when a military coup deposed of President Frank Zeidler and brought Alexander Kokotni into power in 1957. Soon the flag would be changed again.
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This now leads up to the current national flag of Wisconsin. Since 1959 this has been the official national flag of Wisconsin. The only two changes here was the inclusion of the orange flame in the center of the white star and the white and blue colors switched. The flame symbolizes socialist enlightenment and revolution in Wisconsin. Also in 1959 the Wisconsin Socialist Republic was renamed to the People's Socialist Republic of Wisconsin, a name that remains to this day.
As for the ruling party, the National Revolutionary Party of Wisconsin (NRPW), it has seen only a few changes since its inception. When the party was founded in 1919 the then Wisconsin Progressive Party which was a political coalition rather than a party, did not have an official flag or an emblem. In the 1920s despite being nominally anti-communist red flags were seldom used as a symbol of the Wisconsin Progressive Party but was not officially ordained by the state.
In 1943 the Wisconsin Progressive Party was renamed to the Wisconsin Labor Party and for the flag they simply used the national flag of Wisconsin until 1959.
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In 1959 the Labor Party was renamed the National Revolutionary Party and since then it has stuck with that name. The party flag was also replaced in 1959 as well. It was simple green flag with a white circle on the slight left with an orange flame in the circle. This would be the party flag up until 1995 when it was replaced yet again with another flag.
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From 1995 until 2019 this was the party flag used by members of the NRP. It was a simple green flag with a white star and the orange flame in the center with the letters NRP below.
In 2019 the government returned the party flag design back to its older previous one that was used during the Kokotni era.