News is spreading that the DNC will be in Chicago in 2024. To understand how to relate to it, we should consider what we just accomplished with Brandon’s win. Let’s zoom out. Chicago’s political ecosystem came together to mobilize for Brandon. Unions like CTU, SEIU, and CCTU. Ward groups like…

The June 28 and Nov 8 elections ended up being barometers for the mood of the masses. Going into those elections, I was anxious about the right-wing reaction to the Uprising causing a wave of right-wing electoral victories in Chicago. But the opposite was true. On June 28 primaries, all…

I originally wrote this back on 9/12/22 to help me think through how I felt about 33rd Ward Working Families (33WF) and United Working Families (UWF) endorsing Brandon Johnson. Honestly, my initial reaction was that it was a bad idea. …

Chicago set a new plateau for US politics. There was a real chance we would end up like NYC: a major, liberal city with a Thin Blue Line mayor. If NYC and Chicago both had Democratic mayors that were basically reactions against 2020 Uprising, it would set the precedent. It’s…

As folks head to the polls to close out Chicago’s 2023 election, let’s take a moment to examine Chicago’s ward organizations, usually referred to as independent political organizations (IPOs). The IPOs played such an important part in both the 2019 and 2023 municipal elections, that it would benefit organizers to…

This was originally published as a Twitter thread on 03/03/23. I was born and raised in Chicago. I was in 5th grade in 1995, when Vallas became CEO of our public schools. I knew two names in Chicago politics: Daley and Vallas. …

As a Chicago DSA member, I want to thank Heather Cherone for a recent write-up and video highlighting CDSA’s aldermanic endorsements for 2023. DSA is rightfully a center of gravity in Chicago. …

As we get closer to the Socialism 2022 Conference, I wanted to publish some general thoughts and observations about abolitionism. These thoughts are my own and do not represent any organization. I’ve considered myself a revolutionary socialist since 2006. In the aftermath of the 2020 uprising, I adopted the label…

We are in a new political period. The period of explosive socialist growth that was kicked off by Bernie Sanders in 2016 came to an end sometime in the year after the uprising of 2020. Now, we find ourselves in a period of right-wing reaction but also shifting fortunes for…