Illinois 9th District has only been represented by two people since 1965, and there hasn’t been a competitive primary since the race Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the district’s current representative, won in November 1998. “I wouldn’t be born for another four months,” deadpans Kat Abughazaleh, the TikTok-famous political commentator now …
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The second Trump administration’s opening blitz — of reactionary executive orders, extravagant corruption, mass firings of federal workers, and a plan to slash social services to pay for another tax cut for the wealthiest — is generating a progressive backlash, and creating boom times for those who recruit young people …
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