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- ↑ ""What are we waiting for?" Service is a family affair for Haywoods". OnMilwaukee.com. 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ↑ "Kalan Haywood". Ballotpedia. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ↑ At 19, Kalan Haywood will be the youngest lawmaker in Wisconsin — and likely the nation, by Molly Beck, in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ; published September 28, 2018; retrieved November 14, 2018
- ↑ Wisconsin Partisan Primary 2018 Election Results, by Lauren Sigfusson; at WUWM; published August 14, 2018; retrieved November 14, 2018; "No Republicans are running"
- ↑ Taylor, Kate (2018-11-13). "In New Class of Young Lawmakers, a Former Girl Scout Goes to the Statehouse". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2020-04-17.
- ↑ Opoien, Jessie; Kelly, Jack (January 12, 2022). "Greta Neubauer shows the new face of Wisconsin Democrats". The Capital Times . Retrieved March 11, 2022.