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JB PRITZKER’S GREAT DISPLACEMENT

Posted in Commodius Maximus, Cook, Cost of Living, County, Democratic Socialists of America, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Economy, Education, Elections, Ethics, Illinois Policy Institute, Immigration, John Kass News, OP/Ed, Outmigration, Pension Funding, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Public Safety, Real Estate, School Districts, Springfield, Taxes, Unions, Wirepoints on October 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

By Paul Vallas | John Kass News

October 11th, 2026

Illinois leadership is sustaining policies that have done nothing to improve equity or affordability while swapping out middle- and upper-income families for the poor and illegal migrants.

JB Pritzker’s greatest legacy will be the acceleration of the “Great Displacement,” the demographic upheaval in which Illinois is losing scores of affluent residents through outmigration while gaining relatively poorer ones through both interstate and international migration.

This shift is largely the product of the state’s so-called progressive policies. High taxes and fees remain the primary reason Illinoisans cite for leaving, followed by failing schools, rising crime, limited economic opportunity, and expansive sanctuary measures that encourage low-income in-migration.

According to Wirepoints, Illinois continues to hemorrhage wealthy residents. Since 2000, the state has lost roughly 1.6 million people — third most in the nation, behind only California and New York. Chicago’s population, even with the recent influx of migrants, is now at its lowest level in nearly a century. Almost every county in Illinois has experienced a decline in population. Even more troubling, Illinois isn’t merely losing residents — it’s losing income. [1]

The IRS reports that in 2022 alone, 87,311 residents left Illinois, taking with them $9.9 billion in adjusted gross income. The real damage runs deeper: The outflow disproportionately includes residents in their prime earning and spending years. This brain and income drain erodes the tax base, shrinking critical property, sales, and consumption tax revenues that support state and local budgets. [2]

A detailed Wirepoints analysis of IRS migration data for 2022 shows Illinois was the nation’s second-biggest loser of households aged 26-35 earning more than $200,000. Unsurprisingly, zero-income-tax states such as Florida and Texas were the leading destinations for these upwardly mobile millennials. Illinois has been bleeding this cohort for more than a decade, but the acceleration is alarming. [3]

Wirepoints also found that in 2022, the average adjusted gross income for these departing young households was $435,000. The exodus continues among those aged 35-45 with incomes over $200,000 — another key demographic of high earners. Illinois ranks 48th nationally for losses in this income bracket. More concerning, the average AGI among this group leaving approaches $700,000. [4]

Vallas’ report continues here.

Paul Vallas formerly ran the public school systems in Chicago, Philadelphia and the Louisiana Recovery School District. He was a candidate for Mayor of Chicago.

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Juliana Stratton is using her campaign money to fund Abdul El-Sayed

Posted in 9/11 Ceremonies, Animal Welfare, Democratic Socialists of America, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, Immigration, New Normal?, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Wirepoints, WTF on September 29, 2026| Leave a Comment »

 

Juliana Stratton

By Mark Glennon* | Wirepoints

Abdul El-Sayed is unquestionably the most controversial and radical major party candidate in memory to run for the United States Senate, which he is doing in Michigan as a Democrat. He is disavowed even by some fellow Democrats, and his critics on the right routinely call him a jihadist, terrorist, radical Islamist or the like.

Juliana Stratton is now using her campaign fund to help El-Sayad win. She is Illinois’s Democratic candidate for the Senate facing Republican Don Tracy.

Linked here and here are recent campaign blast emails signed by El-Sayed but sent by Stratton’s organization and clearly marked, “Paid for by Juliana Stratton for Illinois.” Unknown at this point is how much further financial support she is providing, but Stratton is clearly helping El-Sayed, financially and otherwise, to some degree.

In the case of El-Sayed, any amount of support would have been unthinkable for Democrats and Republicans alike until the left became the nightmare it is today.

To top it off, Stratton is funded mostly by Gov. JB Pritzker, who has long purported to be a rock solid supporter of Israel’s right to exist. El-Sayed is anything but.

Some background on El-Sayed

For starters, El-Sayed has likened Oklahoma’s Sharia law ban to the Trail of Tears and said that ban and the Oklahoma City bombing are products of “white supremacy.” He is repeatedly criticized for dismissing the importance of the 9/11 attacks on America, saying the war on terror that ensued should have been directed to domestic programs.

He opposes Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and consistently refuses to say it has a right to exist at all. He would end all military aid not just for Israel but Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He often condemns terrorism but proceeds to explain it away. After a Muslim terrorist drove a truck full of explosives into a Jewish temple in Michigan this year, for example, he condemned it but said “hurt people hurt people.” He is not a member of the Democratic Socialist party, but supports much of its most controversial agenda, including abolishing ICE (which he says “cannot be reformed”), Medicare for all, ending all military aid for Israel, and housing as a right. “When they go low, we don’t go high. We take them to the mud and choke them out,” Piker has said.

It gets worse: El-Sayed and Hasan Piker

El-Sayed has regularly platformed and campaigned with Hasan Piker, a prominent and open America-hater, radical Islamist and fan of Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong “I say I hate America all the time,” Piker has said. “A lot of motherfuckers want to kill me over that take, but at least I say it with my fucking chest.”

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*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

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Bravo: Ted Dabrowski launches ‘Fight for Illinois’

Posted in Elections, Politics, Property Taxes, School Districts, Springfield, Topics Of Interest, Unions, Wirepoints on September 27, 2026| Leave a Comment »

By Mark Glennon* | Wirepoints

When Ted Dabrowski was president here at Wirepoints, he constantly itched for a more activist role to focus on organization and coordination of various citizen groups around the state. That’s not really within our charter here, however, so Tuesday night he announced a new venture dedicated to that sorely needed mission.

It’s called Fight for Illinois, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization exerting grassroots pressure against the failed policies of this state. They’ve diagnosed the problem exactly right: Small and large citizen groups around the state have popped up, often with a similar agenda such as opposing unwanted building projects, bond issuances or tax hikes and resisting political indoctrination in schools.

Those groups, however, often lack the experience and information needed to beat the Illinois political establishment. Fight for Illinois will provide that know-how and research while helping groups share winning strategies. It is “not a news group, a think tank or a lobbying firm,” they say. “It’s an action group for all Illinoisans who want lower taxes, safer communities, local control and a return to common sense.”

Its core principles are as follows:

  • Put taxpayers first. Cut spending. Lower taxes, lower costs.
  • Unleash job creators. Cut red-tape, end cronyism.
  • Return decision-making to families, communities. Reduce Springfield’s power.
  • Embrace academic excellence. Reinstate merit, accountability. Enact school choice.
  • Restore the rule of law. Punish criminals, political corruption.

Central to that mission is a free cellphone app, already available for Apple and coming shortly for Android. It will put the local facts and networking tools reformers need at their fingertips. We know from experience here at Wirepoints that easy access to that local data is a constant challenge. We are forever fielding questions from readers seeking things like their local school’s test scores, rankings on property tax rates and public salaries and pensions. The app will make that easily accessible. Initially, only Lake County and its pending sales tax referendum are loaded into the app, but other locations and issues will be added as new groups participate.

Read in here.

*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

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Juliana Stratton Takes Chinese Communist Cash While Denouncing Dark Money

Posted in Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Elections, Ethics, Illinois State Board of Elections, Taxes, Wirepoints on August 11, 2026| Leave a Comment »

By: Mark Glennon* | Wirepoints

Juliana Stratton, Illinois’s lieutenant governor and Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, spent this campaign season lecturing voters on campaign finance reform and keeping dark money out of politics. “I’ll work tirelessly to end the corrupting influence of special interest money in [politics],” she has said, and “I think that we have to end dark money. I think that is really infecting all campaigns at this point.” That message has been central to her political identity.

But that hasn’t stopped her from cashing checks from a man who has been repeatedly honored by his company as an “Outstanding [Chinese] Communist Party Member” and credibly described as an influence peddler for China.

The hypocrisy is brazen, but so is Stratton’s indifference to what are called Chinese “subnational incursions” – Chinese influence or operations inserted directly into American government –the battle against which has been a top federal priority under both the Biden and Trump Administrations. Questions of legality loom as well or, if they don’t, holes in our campaign donation laws are apparent and the spirit of the law is being shattered.

The man is China-born Pin Ni, who has been living in America for some 30 years. Among the positions he holds is president of Wanxiang America and chairman of Karma Automotive, both U.S. subsidiaries of Wanxiang Group, a China-based conglomerate. During the current campaign cycle, Ni has given $52,000 to Stratton’s campaign. Ni has been a prolific political contributor across America, primarily to Democrats but not exclusively.

Those central facts about Ni and how he operates were described in a Washington Free Beacon column last week and multiple earlier articles about other political contributions that have appeared in Newsweek and the Washington Examiner, among others. Here is what they reported:

Based on the facts alleged in those articles, Ni’s CCP allegiance is neither trivial nor a fringe theory. Wanxiang’s own corporate materials from last year state that Ni is a CCP member, and the company has named him an “Outstanding Communist Party Member” fifteen separate times. We can find no indication that he has resigned from the party.

Lu Weiding, who now runs Wanxiang and is Ni’s brother-in-law, has said flatly: “Everyone here is a Communist Party member…. Wanxiang’s hallmark is to promote cadres from among its members and recruit party members from among its cadres.” Xi Jinping himself praised Wanxiang’s founder for a company that “always actively does what our Party committees and governments at all levels advocate.”

CCP members are personally obligated to advance the party and its agenda. Among those obligations, as stated in the party’s constitution, are to be “ready to make any personal sacrifices,” put “the interests of the Party and the people above everything else,” execute the Party’s decisions” and “accept any job and actively fulfill any task assigned them by the Party.”

Is there some quid pro quo attached to Ni’s giving? Decide for yourself based on experience.

According to the Washington Examiner, Ni gave Mikie Sherrill’s (D-NJ) gubernatorial race $60,000 and her political action committee another $5,800. Sherrill refused to vote on the Stop Chinese Fentanyl Act, a bill to cut the flow of lethal, Chinese-manufactured drugs. She also voted against the DETERRENT Act, a bill to curb the CCP’s influence over America’s higher education.

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*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

 

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Pritzker Followed Fauci’s Guidance Blindly: The Illinois COVID Failures Nobody Owns- Wirepoints

Posted in Crime, Deception, Ethics, Perjury, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, School Districts, Transparency, Wirepoints on July 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »

By: Mark Glennon*

JB Pritzker didn’t just consult Dr. Anthony Fauci during the pandemic, he publicly attributed much of Illinois’ pandemic governance to him through at least the first two turbulent years of Covid. Pritzker regularly and forcefully endorsed Fauci’s pronouncements in his daily Covid briefings and elswhere. In September 2020, for example, Prizker said he “would not hesitate to follow the advice of Dr. Anthony Fauci” whenever case surges required action. Fauci was a “very reliable source of information, Pritzker also said. “I rely on the guidance I hear from him.”

Even in April 2022, well after Fauci’s credibility was broken by dissenting epidemiologists and other experts and Fauci himself had changed course on some matters, Pritzker was still clinging to Fauci’s authority, saying he “hoped and prayed” Fauci was right that the worst was behind us.

But Pritzker and Fauci were wrong on fundamental issues from the start. Just two months after the pandemic started, it had become glaringly obvious to us at Wirepoints that facts were being grossly distorted and that Illinois’ policy response was patently irrational. Many mistakes were obvious even as they were made, which we documented with dozens of articles collected here.

It wasn’t about measured differences of opinion about science. It was a governor – and many others — who repeatedly hid behind a federal bureaucrat’s pronouncements to justify sweeping, often indefensible mandates on 12.7 million Illinoisans. Among the other guilty is the Illinois General Assembly, which stood aside as Pritzker ruled by executive fiat through his 39 consecutive emergency orders lasting from March 2020 to May 2023.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or relying on legacy media), you probably know that Fauci has already been exposed as a world class fraud. As director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Fauci was the face of establishment “science” on Covid. Most recently, his published diary exposes levels of narcissism and megalomania for the record books. The diary describes some of Pritzker’s phone conversations with him and Pritzker’s expressed admiration of him. On Thursday Fauci took the Fifth Amendment before Congress on most everything — over 100 times — despite the blanket pardon President Joe Biden gave him.

Among the topics during the pandemic on which Fauci was wrong or dishonest are these: probable leak from Chinese lab as the original virus source, asymptomatic spreading, fatality rates, blanket lockdowns, school closures, impact on youth, relevance of acquired immunity, social distancing, outdoor spread, masks, variant impact, vaccine efficacy and vaccine risks.

Overlay that against the list of Covid policy errors made by Illinois that we printed earlier and is copied below in full. I urge you to read it fully to appreciate the gravity and length of the list. Pritzker’s obedience to Fauci is linked to most but not all of it.

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*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

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Pritzker Embraces Democratic Socialists of America as Part of Democrats’ Recipe to Win – Wirepoints

Posted in Clown Car, Deception, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Education, Elections, Guest Essay, Immigration, Land Disconnection, Land Use, Lipstick On A Pig, Look For The Union Label, Pension Funding, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Real Estate, School Districts, Snowflake Effect, Taxes, The New Normal?, Topics Of Interest, Transparency, Unions, Village Code, Wirepoints on July 7, 2026| Leave a Comment »

By: Mark Glennon* | Wirepoints

Gov. JB Pritzker left no doubt about where he stands in the growing schism within the Democratic party about its surge toward the radical left. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked him directly on June 30 if it’s good that Democratic primary voters recently chose Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) candidates over more moderate Democratic incumbents.

Pritzker answered that as long as they are talking about affordability and oppose Trump, “those are the people who are winning” and embracing progressive/in Democratic Socialist candidates is “the recipe for winning in 2026 and beyond.” Here’s the clip:

Many key Democrats are revolting against the growing elements of socialism in their party.  As the left-leaning Guardian put it:

Over the last few days, prominent party figures have moved away from unifying under a “blue no matter who” banner to push for a more formal break with their left flank, and said the moment may have arrived for Democrats to confront their more socialist wing.

No less than veteran Democratic political advisor James Carvill recently said “it’s time for Democrats to talk the S-word: schism,” He added that some DSA-aligned candidates “have no place in the Democratic party” and, of the broader coalition: “I’m not in that fucking political party.”

Other prominent Democrats speaking up against the party’s growing leftism include Jaime Harrison, the former chair of the Democratic national committee, former New York governor David Paterson and former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. And the left-leaning Atlantic wrote that, while the DSA is “anything but Democratic,” its clever subversion of the Democratic Party will be difficult to stop.

In case you don’t already know – and you should – here’s some of what the DSA supports:

  • Abolishing ICE, demilitarizing the border, ending all deportations, granting immediate amnesty to all immigrants regardless of status and guaranteeing access to jobs, labor rights and social services
  • Abolishing the Senate, expanding the House, voting rights for noncitizens and people with criminal convictions, statehood to the District of Columbia, replace the two‑party system with proportional representation,  limit the Supreme Court’s power of judicial review, and replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote
  • Medicare for All with no health care premiums, co‑pays or deductibles, including reproductive and gender‑affirming care
  • Tuition‑free public higher education, eliminating out‑of‑pocket costs for room and board, and canceling all student loan debt
  • Universal rent control, guaranteed legal representation for tenants, and major public investment in social housing
  • Free universal childcare and pre‑K, expansive paid family leave, a 32‑hour workweek with no loss in pay or benefits
  • Higher rates on the wealthiest earners, for‑profit corporations, large inheritances and private colleges and universities, as well as a wealth tax on the ultra‑rich
  • A Green New Deal to end fossil fuels, guarantees for displaced workers and public ownership of major transportation, energy infrastructure and natural resources
  • Ending mandatory minimums and cash bail, demilitarizing police departments and treating drug addiction as a public health issue

For the sake of the nation, we can only hope that, on this, America agrees with James Carville: “I’m not in that f-ing party.”

*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints. 

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Editorial note: Maria Peterson (pictured below with JB Pritzker) appears to have made a profession for years running for offices with the financial backing of JB Pritzker, among others. In 2022 she ran unsuccessfully for Illinois State Senate and in 2024 she lost her bid for Illinois House 52nd District Representative.

Maria Peterson and JB Pritzker | Courtesy Maria Peterson’s Facebook page

Currently she is feverishly campaigning again for 52nd District Representative, and there is absolutely no doubt if successful, she will back all of JB Pritzker’s initiatives and likely those of the Democratic Socialists of America.  This includes Pritzker’s stalled “BUILD Initiative” which would strip property rights from residents and place all zoning controls in the hands of Springfield politicians and unions.

Please don’t consider this as our being negative, as some might. Instead, think of it for what it is – fact.

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Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker

Posted in Fools and their money, Look For The Union Label, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Property Taxes, Taxes, Unions, Wirepoints on May 26, 2026| Leave a Comment »

Gov. JB Pritzker and Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton

By Mark Glennon* | Wirepoints

Both Gov. JB Pritzker and Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton cite their fiscal accomplishments in Illinois in their campaigns for higher office. Among many reasons to reject those claims is the unsustainability of what’s been put onto taxpayers’ backs during their administration.  That total, which very roughly is $162 billion, has provided some degree of stability to state finances and garnered bond upgrades.

However, the consequence is unaffordable government and a cannibalized tax base that is fleeing.

Three buckets go into that $162 billion estimate. Some of it is imprecise, for the reasons indicated, but the big picture is clear.

First, 57 separate state tax and fee increases a raised $77 billion in total since Pritzker took office in January 2019, That number is quite precise and is detailed in a recent report by the Illinois Policy Institute.

Total tax and fee increases:  $77 billion

Second, Illinois governments received some $40 to $54 billion (depending on who is counting) of federal Covid pandemic relief.

That figure includes assistance to local governments that did not all go directly into the state budget. However, that local relief helped take the burden off the state for many of the myriad obligations shared by the state and localities. Moreover, the state also got a huge boost in income tax revenue thanks to the surge in private sector Covid relief. According to Pew Research, Illinois was among the biggest beneficiaries. It was one of 17 states where above-trend revenue accounted for more than half of their total growth during that period. A separate study by University of Illinois researchers also documented the surge as well. We will ignore that surge and just go with the lower number for direct Covid payments to government, which is $40 billion.’

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*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

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Illinois bill would override local law to allow homeless living in all public parks

Posted in Barrington Hills Park District, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), New Normal?, Politics, Property Taxes, Springfield, Wirepoints on April 14, 2026| 2 Comments »

 

Get ready to see homeless camps in parks across Illinois if a bill gaining traction in the Illinois House becomes law. It would override local restrictions to allow homeless encampments in all public parks. Local towns, park districts, cities, forest preserves and all other municipalities of any kind would have their home rule authority on the matter stripped away.

It’s House Bill 1429, the Local Regulation of Unsheltered Homelessness Act, which says local governments wouldn’t be able to establish or enforce a rule fining or criminally punishing homeless people for participating in “life sustaining activities.”

But “life sustaining activities,” under the bill’s definition, means most anything people routinely do. It would include, but not be limited to, “moving, resting, sitting, standing, lying down, sleeping, protecting oneself from the elements, eating, drinking 5(excluding alcohol), and storing personal property as needed to shelter oneself.”

It has 21 sponsors to date including House Speaker Chris Welch, and 872 homeless advocates and organizations have filed witness slips supporting the bill. An April 15 Housing Committee hearing is the next step.

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*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

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New IRS Migration Numbers: Illinois Taxpayers Continue to Flee With Their Income

Posted in Blame Canada, Cost of Living, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Fat Bastard, Immigration, Politics, Property Taxes, Unions, Wirepoints on March 24, 2026| 1 Comment »

By Mark Glennon and John Klingner* | Wirepoints

The Internal Revenue Service on Friday released its annual numbers on taxpayer interstate migration, which are for changes from 2022 to 2023. In several ways, these numbers are more important than census numbers because they measure income taxpayers and are precise — the IRS knows and reports how many taxpayers changed their residence from one state to another.

Here are the key takeaways for Illinois:

  • For the year, Illinois lost 54,000 people (tax filers and their dependents), to net domestic out migration. That’s the 3rd most in the nation, behind only California and New York.
  • The annual incomes of people moving out of Illinois are far bigger than for those moving in — $104,000 vs. $79,000.
  • From 2000 through 2023, Illinois lost 780,000 net taxpayers (filers) to out-migration.
  • Adding in those taxpayers’ dependents, Illinois lost 1.6 million net residents to out-migration from 2000 through 2023.
  • Most importantly, since 2000, $94 billion of  Adjusted Gross Income left with departing taxpayers. That’s just for the first year after departure. Assuming they continued to work, the true aggregate total is far higher.

Details are in the charts shown.

On the surface, it may appear that Illinois’ rate of loss declined in that the number of taxpayer leaving with their income was less than recent years, as you can see in the charts. However, that reduction is likely attributable to the sharp decline in moves of any kind — to a record low. 2023 saw the fewest amount of moves nationwide since the U.S government began tracking the data in the 1940s. That reduction in moves resulted mostly from the sale sclerosis that set in as mortgage interest rates spiked from 2022 to 2023. That left many homeowners reluctant to sell because they did not want to give up the low-rate mortgages they obtained earlier.

Among other states, the biggest winners of taxpayers and income gained were Florida, Texas, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Arizona, in that order.

(Click on image to enlarge)

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*Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints and John Klingner was earlier its Research Director.

Editorial note: Those living in Illinois illegally, such as the 25-year-old Venezuelan migrant Jose Medina of the 6800 block of North Sheridan Road in the Rogers Park neighborhood who assassinated an 18-year-old Loyola University freshman recently, are likely not counted in the IRS figures.

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Illinois Is Forcing Ideology on Its Employees — and Calling It ‘Training’

Posted in Barrington Education Association, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), Education, Elections, Look For The Union Label, OP/Ed, Politics, Pritzker’s Rules of Order, Springfield, Taxes, Unions, Wirepoints on December 24, 2025| 1 Comment »

By: Mark Glennon | Wirepoints

Parts of America’s political left have awoken in their own way. They’ve seen the backlash against DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) extremism and backed off, at least a little. One liberal think tank, for example, recently published a memo advising the left to drop much of the DEI language it spawned. The language makes the left “sound like the extreme, divisive, elitist, and obfuscatory, enforcers of wokeness,” says the memo.

But the State of Illinois didn’t get that memo. In fact, it’s much worse: The state’s mandatory, annual training for its workers demands obedience to the worst of DEI catechism not just on language, but on thoughts and conduct. All state employees are now subject to DEI social engineering that’s as dogmatic and extreme as ever. Disobey and you can be fired. That’s not just tyrannical, it likely would make for a constitutional challenge based on the First Amendment.

This Orwellian employee training was partly exposed last week through a social media post that went viral about the training document used by Illinois State Police. Libs of TikTok published parts of that document, which garnered over 300,000 views on X alone.

But the training is statewide. The document used for the State Police is from the template for every agency, called “LGBTQIA+ Equity and Inclusion 2025,” published by the Office of Equity, which is part of Gov. JB Pritzker’s office. During his first term, Pritzker issued an executive order creating that office, saying that all state employees “shall participate in annual trainings focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion as directed by the Chief Equity Officer.” Today, the office is headed by Dr. Atiera Coleman, a career “equity” champion.

Chief Equity Officer Dr. Atiera L. Coleman

Skim through the document and you will quickly see that it’s not about routine professional training and compliance with nondiscrimination law. It dictates a political agenda of speech and conduct adhering to politics of the most extreme voices on “systemic oppression,” the horrors of capitalism, LGBTQIA+ theory, “intersecting identities” and the like. It’s ideological dogma that includes a required, signed certification by the employee that they understand that failure to comply with such policies and procedures “may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of State employment/appointment.”

Read more here.

Mark Glennon is founder of Wirepoints.

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