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🚨 Chicago 312: Chicago’s First Real Revenue Fight in Decades
17 hours ago

🚨 Chicago 312: Chicago’s First Real Revenue Fight in Decades

Chicago 312: budget standoff, pushback on DoorDash, the CHA in limbo, and why conservative media keeps winning the long game.

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Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video
Nov 19, 2025

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 312: National Pundits Have Once Again Discovered Chicago 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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What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators
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 312: It's Not Their City
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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H Kapp-Klote
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🚨 Chicago 312: Six Indictments and a Funeral (for Transit)
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.

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H Kapp-Klote
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🚨 Chicago's Martial Law Week
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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🚨 ICE v. Bike
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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🚨ICE Is Doing Call of Duty LARP in Broadview
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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🚨 just in time for tornado season
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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🚨 Soft Balkanization
Sep 10, 2025

🚨 Soft Balkanization

Chicago 312: Is it time to say the quiet part out loud? What will it take?

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🚨 Don't Send the National Guard to the Bean 🚨
Sep 03, 2025

🚨 Don't Send the National Guard to the Bean 🚨

Chicago 312: Chicago crime is at a 60-year low — but somehow we’re getting ICE, National Guard threats, and financially draining CPD lawsuits. You know what this could fund instead? MENTAL HEALTHCARE. Which we need for all the climate news.

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