Tag: Illinois
Here’s how progressives scored 3 major wins in Illinois
A successful progressive campaign needs to have the right message and agenda and the right relationship between a candidate with vision and credibility and longer-term progressive infrastructure.
“This economic system is killing this planet”: Chicago residents demand the...
"The most direct way to address climate change is to keep fossil fuels in the ground."
ALEC wants to make protest illegal in Illinois
ALEC isn’t often at the forefront of legislative changes in blue states like Illinois, but with overwhelming support for this bill by Democrats in the Illinois House, that may be changing.
In a time of cheap fossil fuels, nuclear power companies are...
Illinois and New York have approved hundreds of millions of dollars in clean-energy incentives for nuclear power companies. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland could be next.
Illinois introduces Clean Energy Jobs Act – could make the state...
“We need the benefits of clean energy to reach all 102 counties in Illinois as we put Illinois on a path to 100% clean energy by 2050.”
Another Kris Kobach loss: Illinois leaves ‘Jim Crow’ voter purge program
Even as Kobach is met with loss after loss, his legacy will live on until the states that signed up for Crosscheck leave the program and reinstate voters to the voter rolls.
The Laquan McDonald shooting keeps exposing critical flaws in Illinois’ Freedom...
After Chicago officials denied records requests from the police shooting, the attorney general’s office did little to push the city to make documents public.
Are you on the list?
Even if a person is eligible, their names could be on the voter purge list after research from the Brennan Center for Justice in New York confirmed an upward trend of voter roll purges as the midterm elections are fast approaching.
Arthur Jones, Holocaust denier, wins Republican nomination in Illinois primary in...
Arthur Jones, former leader of the America Nazi Party, won the Republican nomination for a seat in Congress, but in a predominantly Democratic district, the chance of Jones winning is far fetched.
Close call in Illinois’ third district should be a wake up...
Newman’s insurgent campaign should be a wake up call to both centrist and right-leaning Democrats.
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House Republicans advance massive budget bill with Medicaid cuts and tax breaks after secret...
GOP lawmakers pushed a sweeping bill forward in a rare Sunday vote after cutting a backroom deal with far-right Republicans to fast-track deeper Medicaid cuts and slash food aid—while offering permanent tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations.
Knowledge is not just power but what drives unrivaled U.S. prosperity – slashed on...
Fantasy magic thinking is a very expensive folly when human lives are at stake.
Global hunger crisis deepens as world leaders slash aid amid record malnutrition and displacement
A record 295 million people faced acute food insecurity in 2024, as war, climate extremes, and economic shocks collided. With aid funding in freefall, UN officials warn the crisis is no longer just systemic—it is a failure of humanity.
America the unfree
Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.
Trump-Musk Social Security fraud hunt yields chaos, not criminals
An internal document reveals that the Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed fraud in Social Security phone claims has identified just two questionable cases out of more than 110,000—prompting bipartisan outrage and warnings of a politically motivated attack on the program.