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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Mar 05, 2025

How Right-Wing Media Keeps Baiting Chicago

Or -- How to Make Propaganda About the Most Boring Parts of Municipal Finance

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Nov 28, 2023

Explainers Don’t Explain Chicago Politics

The only way to stop Mark Ruffalo Movie Crying when it comes to Chicago Politics is to understand power.

Mar 23, 2025

Andor Recap: The Space Procedural That Will Emotionally Wreck You

Recapping Andor, a Star Wars show about revolutions, power, and Diego Luna dissociating.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Apr 22, 2025

The Only Way Pritzker Beats Trump Is By Making Illinois the Anti-Florida

Trump’s rewriting the rules. Illinois could rewrite the future.

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Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Why organizers need vertical video, and how it builds narrative power.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Nov 14, 2025

🚨 Chicago 312: National Pundits Have Once Again Discovered Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: ICE in court, tons of post-shutdown fallout, and budget fights -- plus, a lot of discourse.

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Nov 11, 2025

What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

Part of a new Chicago 312 segment on movement communications and narrative: what's working, what's not, and what's possible.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Nov 07, 2025

🚨 Chicago 312: It's Not Their City

Chicago 312: ICE raided a daycare. Springfield bailed out the trains. Chicago isn't Greg Bovino's city.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Oct 30, 2025

🚨 Chicago 312: Six Indictments and a Funeral (for Transit)

Chicago 312: Rossana’s going full forensic accountant on Motorola and CDW, Greg Bovino’s taking thirst traps at the federal courthouse, and JB Pritzker is ghosting transit.

H Kapp-Klote

Oct 23, 2025

🚨 Chicago 312: ICE Wants Chicago to Be Afraid. It Isn’t Working.

Chicago 312: Chicago is capable of resisting and winning against ICE. It's a marathon not a sprint.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Oct 08, 2025

🚨 Chicago's Martial Law Week

Chicago 312: Federal troops, ICE in vans, fascist optics — all while Chicago continues budget season.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Oct 01, 2025

🚨 ICE v. Bike

Chicago 312: federal cops turning the city into a police state, local officials chasing Fox News airtime.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Sep 24, 2025

🚨ICE Is Doing Call of Duty LARP in Broadview

Chicago 312: ICE militarized Broadview, Trump is the only one paying attention to the CTA cliff (bad news), and City Hall’s “budget menu” is still regressive.

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Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Sep 17, 2025

🚨 just in time for tornado season

Chicago 312: ICE is here no matter how National Guard drama plays out, Chicago’s budget “solutions” lean regressive, and the Charlie Kirk narrative machine is already rewriting history.

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