Joshua Chaisson

WATCH: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker heavily criticizes Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s team this morning for their handling of the Chicago Bears deal and lobbying state government in general. “I know that the mayor has no plan. He has come up with no plan at all about how the Bears would end up in the city of Chicago. So that’s problematic. I’d love them to be in the city but we are three years in now and he still has no plan.” “The mayor has shown up every spring at the end of session to pronounce what he would like to see happen. As you know the budget gets put together starting in November…I present that budget to the legislature in February. So that seems like a good time period to come talk to the governor’s office. Then there’s February to May. There’s all that time to come talk to the legislature, which has my budget in hand, or the governor’s office.” “Again, we’ve seen almost nothing out of the mayoral administration here on that subject or really any other. So to show up in May and have a bunch of demands seems like late in the game. And it’s unfortunate that’s happened most years.” Johnson’s chief of external affairs is Kennedy Bartley, who formerly worked as a Chicago Teachers Union-funded organizer for police and prison abolition. The mayor’s former top lobbyist, Sydney Holman, resigned in 2024 after Johnson elevated Bartley to oversee the mayor’s office of intergovernmental affairs.

🚨 Endorsement Alert 🚨 I’m proud to have the endorsement of At-Large Councilmember Anita Bonds, a steadfast leader who has spent her career fighting for DC residents too often left behind. Together, we’ll keep fighting and delivering for our seniors, returning citizens and marginalized communties across all eight wards.

America has ten times the billionaires today than we had in 1990. In rural Maine we have fewer schools, fewer hospitals, fewer young people who can ever hope to buy a home. Money has been sucked upward, out of our towns and into the pockets of the billionaire class.

A California resident says the SEIU "in-home care" union locked her in a room and coerced her into paying union dues. Experts say the taxpayer-funded program is rife with fraud—and the unions are collecting nearly $150 million each year from membership dues.

“I’m a proud democratic socialist, proud of how far we have come,” JLG told dozens at a DSA rally that incl. Rep Tlaib, hyping crowd w/ pledges of social housing, expanded rent control & strengthened tenants’ rights. Says she would “never apologize” for being part of its movement