William Jones

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

2026 is going to be a great year to run for office. It’s not too late in most places! runforwhat.net

Breaking: Georgia Democrats flip conservative seat in yet another upset That's 25 pickups for Democrats nationwide this year—and zero for Republicans

BREAKING: Democrats have flipped a conservative state House seat in Georgia in yet another upset.

It's a 14-point overperformance *and* the 25th legislative flip of the year for Dems. Republicans? Zero.

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BREAKING: Democrats have *flipped* a seat in Georgia's state House tonight.

Democrat Eric Gisler has won the seat, which was previously held by a Republican who resigned this fall.

This is a red territory: Trump won the district by 13% in 2024.

Black Kos - Black women's soaring unemployment rates I was listening to Roland Martin Unfiltered yesterday morning, and one of the topics was “ Black Women’s Jobless Rate Soars” “The unemployment rate for Black women is at its highest in four ...

Black Kos - Black women's soaring unemployment rates
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Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey reportedly is running against Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare, a Republican who leads the populous Texas county that's home to Fort Worth and Arlington. News broke 35 minutes before candidate filing closed on a truly unpredictable day.

State Sen. Julie Gonzales announces she'll challenge U.S. Sen. John Hickenlooper from the left in next year's Democratic primary in Colorado. coloradonewsline.com/2025/12/08/j...

Former Rep. Colin Allred announces that he's ending his second campaign for U.S. Senate and will instead run for Texas' 33rd Congressional District. This sets Allred up for a Democratic primary battle against Rep. Julie Johnson, who is running for #TX33 after GOP gerrymandered her seat.

Makes me wish I had kept mine from my youth.

Utah lawmakers are planning to convene in an unexpected special session this Tuesday. Why? To move the filing deadline for congressional candidates, to give the GOP more time to appeal the ruling that created a Dem seat.

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Elon Musk is about to become the first trillionaire.

The reason poverty exists in the wealthiest country on earth isn't because we can't feed the poor — it's because we can't satisfy the rich.

We should tax trillionaires out of existence.

CHC Roundup: Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21) - All About Agriculture Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country.

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CHC Roundup: Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21) - All About Agriculture Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country.

Rep. Jim Costa is a good example of a "Valleycrat" - a politician in the Central Valley of California who is moderate or conservative on a lot of issues but excellent on others. In this case, Costa excels on agricultural issues the rest of the party usually ignores.

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Could've funded about 3 years of expanded ACA tax credits with this money. Instead, it was lit on fire. (Heavily) tax the rich.

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UPDATE: As promised:

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Coming today…stay tuned.

So it turns out that, with the TX GOP's new gerrymander, there are no fewer than 18 of what you might call "Aftyn Behn" districts. That is to say, seats between Trump +20 to +25—seats Dems probably won't win, but where they could throw a serious scare into the GOP.

Via @donnermaps.bsky.social

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Black Residents in West Tennessee Just Won Fairer Districts. Now Comes SCOTUS. - Bolts The Supreme Court may further erode the Voting Rights Act in an upcoming decision. Beyond affecting Congress, that would reverberate across local governments nationwide.

this is the same SCOTUS that's poised to soon drop a bomb of the Voting Rights Act, and likely greenlight more suppressive schemes boltsmag.org/voting-right...

Yep, the Supreme Court really is just a House of Lords—a purely political branch with bizarre veto power, wielded capriciously and without accountability. Time for massive reform.

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?

Kagan's dissent is all scorchers, but this is really frying me. As long as state legislatures wait until the last possible minute, according to the SCOTUS majority, they can *always* get away with rigging the lines—no matter how flagrantly—because it'll be the "eve of an election."

‘George Santos With a Gun’: The Untold Story of Cory Mills, A Mercenary In Congress The Florida Republican has tried to leverage his legislative role to the benefit of his arms business. With that business now in foreclosure proceedings, Mills has little to show for it.

NEW: "George Santos with a Gun" — here's the first in a series of reports based on my 9-month investigation into Rep. Cory Mills. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/george-san...

The Supreme Court just handed Texas Republicans at least 2 more House seats & possibly up to 5 despite the state GOP explicitly justifying their remap based on an unconstitutional use of race in redistricting.

Unsurprising from this court, and it's a bad sign for the upcoming Voting Rights Act case

after what the Republicans hacks on SCOTUS just did with Texas, make it 10-1 in Virginia @donscott757.bsky.social!

Republicans started this gerrymander war

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📣 Dems have overperformed an avg of 13 pts across 60 Special Elections so far!

There's ~30 MORE coming up!

12/09: FL HD-90: Rob Long
12/09: FL SD-11: Ash Marwah
12/09: GA HD-23: Scott Sanders
12/09: GA HD-121: Eric Gisler
12/09: IA HD-07: Rachel Burns

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