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By The Numbers: Adarsh, Sisco won slim victory against ‘joke campaign’ in ASG presidential election By The Numbers: Adarsh and Sisco’s slim ASG presidency win Weinberg junior Gauri Adarsh and Medill junior John Sisco won the Associated Student Government presidency Saturday after trailing Weinberg sophomore Alan Hu and SESP junior Noah Cohrs for the first t...

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After four rounds, Adarsh and Sisco achieved victory with 52.9% of the vote. For the first three rounds, they trailed Hu and Cohrs by less than one percentage point, but they received a large number of votes following the third-round elimination of McCormick sophomore Nicholas Johnson and SESP junior Nur Yalinbas. Below is a Sankey diagram showing the vote distribution.

#DataJournalism in @thedailynu.bsky.social today: Ahead of the primary in March, Northwestern held a small, ranked-choice election for our student government president. Its election commissioner shared a wealth of data with me and my colleague Max Turetzky.

We found it was a _competitive_ race.

AIPAC-aligned super PAC spent six digits on Fine ads, filings show New super PAC Elect Chicago Women spent $400,000 on television advertisements and more than $50,000 on mailers this week in support of State Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview)’s campaign to represent Illino...

AIPAC did not respond to a request for comment.

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“This is the same right-wing dark money machine that has spent years attacking our democracy and propping up January 6 insurrectionists for office,” she wrote. “When they cannot win voters, they try to buy elections through shell PACs with friendly names and undisclosed donors.”

We also asked other campaigns about ECW and their filing lateness. The Biss campaign had nothing more to add, though the Abughazaleh campaign came out swinging.

The ECW 48-hour report

ECW was more than 13 hours late on the filing of its mandatory 48-hour report, by comparison, which discloses independent expenditures (including political advertisements that support candidates like this) greater than $10,000.

Here's that filing: docquery.fec.gov/pdf/137/2026...

A part of that statement compares ECW, a super PAC, to 3.14 Action Fund, a hybrid PAC that has heavily supported the Biss campaign.

The difference, @frankcalabrese.bsky.social told me last night, is that 3.14 Action discloses its donors and mission. "It plays by the rules," he said.

We asked the Fine campaign for a statement on the ECW ads. They sent us an identical statement to the one @mattheweadie.bsky.social received Wednesday.

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When asked about the Manaa-Hoppenworth video, the campaign redirected back to their original statement.

Here's that video:

Fine and Manaa-Hoppenworth

An image in the bottom left of that postcard caused a fair bit of backlash. On the left there is Chicago Ald. Leni Manaa-Hoppenworth (48th), who said her photo was used without permission and called for Fine to denounce ECW in an Instagram video.

An ECW postcard supporting Fine

But registered Dems in IL-09 soon showed me mail they'd received, also connected to Elect Chicago Women:

The U contract

FOX 32 agreement

Xfinity + U-verse agreement

This analysis started with FCC records. Along with ABC 7, NBC 5, and CBS 2 — which the ad has been running on — filings show that it will soon run on The U, FOX 32, Xfinity (cable), and U-verse (IPTV).

AIPAC-aligned super PAC spent six digits on Fine ads, filings show New super PAC Elect Chicago Women spent $400,000 on television advertisements and more than $50,000 on mailers this week in support of State Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview)’s campaign to represent Illino...

NEW: Elect Chicago Women, a super PAC which @shiakapos.bsky.social reported is AIPAC-backed, spent more than $570k to support IL-09 candidate Laura Fine, new FEC filing shows:
- 400k for TV
- 51k for mailers
- 100k prob. for YouTube
- 23k for ad production

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Miller:

Bean:

Some full res copies for you that I posted on Twitter earlier! Should have mirrored here. Fine:

Note that, even in this internal poll, Fine/Biss/Abughazaleh are all within the margin of error.

No independent polls since the +/- 4.0% Data for Progress poll from early November, where Fine also (barely) nicked the MoE.

Inflation • Troops in Cities • Venezuelan Oil • Iran • Climate Change • Social Security • Health Care • Tax Changes • National Parks Dear Neighbor: In 2026, for the first time in almost three decades, we have a contested open seat for Congress in our 9th District. This district spans from the Chicago lakefront out to northwestern suburbs, including all of Evanston. In 7 weeks, Illinois will hold a primary election for established parties to choose nominees. We invite you to come to a live candidate forum in our neighborhood between top Democratic contenders for this important position: 9th Congressional Candidate Forum 7 PM, Wed., Feb. 4 Northminster Church 2515 Central Park, Evanston Over the past 18 years, CSNA has earned a reputation for some of the most provocative and well-attended candidate forums in Evanston. No softball questions. Hard focus on substance As elections turn ever more on packaged ads and mailings, we believe it continues to be important to see and hear real differences between the candidates live and in person.Democracy also depends on now-and-future elected officials knowing that the public is paying attention. Please mark your calendar for next Wednesday and plan to attend! We thank you for your continued faith in the ideals of our republic. CSNA

Inbox: Central St Neighbors Assoc in Evanston is hosting an IL-09 candidate forum at Northminster Church on Wed., Feb. 4 at 7 p.m.

Unclear on who is attending. Will update.

Detail: NT Dems tells me that they have 281 members, so their turnout was terrific ("250+," ~90%).

To compare, Evanston Dems' turnout was ~80%, @thedailynu.bsky.social reported yesterday morning.

They declined to share voting numbers by policy, so no breakdown, unfortunately.

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Breaking down the raw numbers from this in @thedailynu.bsky.social today. Biss fell 38 votes — approx. 14% — short for the IL-09 endorsement bid.

Northwestern takes control of transfer portal For all but two teams, the majority of the transfer portal chaos has come to a close. Friday marked the official deadline for players to enter the portal, except for those who played in the CFP Nation...

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Some #DataJournalism in @thedailynu.bsky.social today: an embedded map (R + ggplot2 + ggiraph) showing transfers in and out of Northwestern football.

As far as I'm aware, it's the most comprehensive visualization (or list, even) of the 'Cats' transfer portal moves this year.

I explain: What's happening with Border Patrol agents using Meta glasses to record Evanston protesters? @thedailynu.bsky.social

A spokesperson did not respond to questions about CBP’s affiliation with the videographer, but they did accuse The Daily of seeking to endanger federal agents. “Federal law enforcement officers are being subjected to violent attacks simply for enforcing our nation’s laws — and you want to dox them and encourage more violent attacks on them and their families?” the spokesperson wrote. The Daily did not attempt to ascertain the videographer’s identity in its communication with the CBP spokesperson. In response, Scott argued the threat of doxxing is “probably greater for the protesters than it is for DHS agents.” “There’s no reason that they can’t answer the question about what this person is doing and why they’re doing it,” he said.

This investigation involved talking to CBP spokespeople multiple times. The last response they sent accused me of attempting to dox federal agents, and asked me to "take a long, hard look in the mirror."

Great work by the Daily NU on this story

Here's one of my photos from that day with what appear to be the Ray-Ban smart glasses they're referring to

NEW: Border Patrol agents used Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses and a plainclothes videographer to covertly record protesters and arrests in Evanston, I found.

It's "disturbing," @epic.org told me.

Also @stopspyingny.bsky.social, @eff.org, @aclu.org of Illinois.

New from me on the front page of The Daily on anti-trans clauses in the Northwestern–Trump agreement.

I started this piece hours after the deal was published — it had a lot of ground to cover. Three weeks later, after much stalling with statements, I'm finally able to release it to the world. 💜🏳️‍⚧️

Hey — I'm a reporter with The Daily Northwestern. Do you mind shooting me a DM via Bluesky?

We've been working on an investigation into EPD conduct in federal immigration responses for more than a month now, including violations of the TRUST Act and the local Welcoming City Ordinance.

Live: 2 people reported taken at Oakton Home Depot Since September, Evanston has experienced an influx in activity from federal immigration agencies, with several community members taken by agents in the fall.  After a lull in verified federal immigra...

Livethread on federal immigration activity in Evanston I'm a part of:

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Students slug snowballs, shiver through snowstorm You can read the text online: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/11/11/campus/students-slug-snowballs-shiver-through-season-starting-snowstorm/

In @thedailynu.bsky.social's print issue today:

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