Governor J.B. Pritzker has made Illinois, by most accounts a center left-state, into an island of prairie progressivism. This is Pritzker’s second term. He won reelection by 12 1/2 points last November. The billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, he was a very successful businessman and political activist and in 2018 ran for governor for the first time and won. He has very much governed as a progressive, leading on reproductive rights, decriminalization of marijuana, bail reform and opposition to book banning. Chicago will also host the 2024 Democratic National Convention and Pritzker intends to take an active role in the 2024 campaign.

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Trump Indicted. Impact on 2024 GOP Primary. With Sudeep Reddy, Senior Managing Editor at Politico, Tom LoBianco, National Political Reporter at The Messenger and Leah Askarinam, Elections Editor at The Messenger.

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University of Texas law professor Stephen Vladeck has written a new book that outlines how since 2017, the Court has dramatically expanded its use of the out-of-the-public-eye “shadow docket,” to regularly make rulings that affect millions of Americans without public hearings and without explanation. Conservatives on the Court have used the shadow docket to green-light restrictive voting laws and bans on abortion, and to curtail immigration and COVID vaccine mandates. The book is The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. You can buy a copy here.

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Debt Deal Winners and Losers. 2024: Christie, Scott In. Ron and Don at War. Trump vs. The Law. With Ginger Gibson, Senior Washington Editor for NBC News Digital, Gabe Debenedetti, National Correspondent for New York Magazine and Allan Smith, Political reporter for NBC News.

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Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of California is a man with a virtual target on his back from MAGA Republicans. He was thrown off the Intelligence Committee by Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Which kind of works for him, because it gives him more time to campaign for the Senate to replace Dianne Feinstein when her term ends at the beginning of 2025.  Congressman Schiff was a major player in efforts by the Congress to hold Donald Trump accountable including being Impeachment Manager on Trump's first impeachment and as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. He is a close ally of former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. One of his main issues right now is the “ethics’ of the Supreme Court. And he's introduced legislation to provide a binding ethics regime on the Court.

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Debt Optimism. McCarthy Peril. 14th Amendment. DeSantis "Launch." Scott is In. 18 Years for Sedition. With Lynn Sweet, Columnist and Washington Bureau Chief at the Chicago Sun-Times, Scott Wong, Senior Congressional Reporter, NBC News and Philip Bump, Washington Post National Columnist, Author of The Aftermath and How To Read This Chart newsletter.

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The progressive Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is a man of many firsts. He's the first African American to hold a statewide elected office in Minnesota, and the first Muslim American to hold an elected statewide office in any state. A former Congressman Ellison ran for and won the Attorney General's position in 2018. In 2020, Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz asked Ellison to take over as a special prosecutor in the death of George Floyd. Ellison charged Derek Chauvin with murder and won a conviction. It is very unusual for police officers to be held criminally liable for deaths caused by them in the line of duty. Now Ellison has written a about the case and police violence, entitled Break the Wheel: Ending the Cycle of Police Violence.

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Debt Optimism. Work Requirements on the Table. GOP 2024 Gets Crowded. Abortion: GOP Poison. MTG in Charge? With Shirish Date, Senior White House Correspondent HuffPost, Maya King, Politics reporter for The New York Times covering the South and David Jackson, National Political Correspondent for USA TODAY.

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The Bulwark’s Will Saletan has a new long article/short book entitled: The Corruption Of Lindsey Graham: A case study in the rise of authoritarianism. This is a very important and well-written and reported story that charts the fall of Graham from severe Trump critic to Trump enabler. He says it was a slow process for Graham and mirrors how a society descends into authoritarianism, one small step at a time. And before we realize what is happening it could be too late. The piece debunks the idea that “It can’t happen here.” Here is the link to the Kindle version and here is a link to the piece on The Bulwark website.

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CNN’s Townhall Debacle. Trump Gives Evidence. Trump Assaults and Defames. Default Fears. Santos Indicted. Trump a Lock? With Sabrina Siddiqui, White House Reporter for The Wall Street Journal, Jeff Dufour, Editor-in-chief, National Journal and Abby Livingston, Writer for The Almanac of American Politics. 

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