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Feb 12, 2025

Can We Bend Reality Better?

The authoritarians are much better at "reimagining" the future. Can we stop reacting and start bending reality in a different direction?

H Kapp-Klote

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

H Kapp-Klote

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.

H Kapp-Klote

Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Mar 25, 2025

Is Illinois' Left Ready to Post?

Kat Abughazaleh running in the 9th District means we're about to find out if Illinois handle a new progressive playbook -- one that's digital-first and pissing off Elon Musk.

H Kapp-Klote

They Don’t Want to Run Chicago—They Want to Break It

The Local MAGA Takeover isn't a fluke—it's part of the national strategy.

H Kapp-Klote

Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Mar 25, 2025

Is Illinois' Left Ready to Post?

Kat Abughazaleh running in the 9th District means we're about to find out if Illinois handle a new progressive playbook -- one that's digital-first and pissing off Elon Musk.

H Kapp-Klote

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.

H Kapp-Klote

Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Mar 21, 2025

Stop Saying We Need a Leftist Joe Rogan!

The Right wins because it’s coordinated. The Left loses because we're not -- right now, there's no incentive to change that.

H Kapp-Klote

Mar 13, 2025

Process Over Progress: How The Right Uses "Good Governance' to Keep Chicago Stuck

The right wants us stuck debating process while they dismantle public power everywhere they can-- but especially in Chicago.

H Kapp-Klote

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

H Kapp-Klote

Feb 14, 2025

The Machine is Dead, Long Live the Machine

Madigan's era is over and that's good. The power vaccum we have currently is not.

H Kapp-Klote

Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Feb 13, 2025

The Freaks in Our History

What does it take to be as immovable as a John Brown mural right now?

H Kapp-Klote

Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Feb 12, 2025

Can We Bend Reality Better?

The authoritarians are much better at "reimagining" the future. Can we stop reacting and start bending reality in a different direction?

H Kapp-Klote

Chicago PoliticsChicago Politics

Oct 24, 2024

11 Days Until The Election

Is that when you'll sleep next?

H Kapp-Klote

May 20, 2024

Newsletter Clarity Power Fantasy

This won't come up in the text, but it's important you know I'm really good at posing for candid photos in all of of my power fantasy newsletter scenarios.