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🚨 Chicago 312: Let's Fix the Budget Gap With An Alternate Reality Game Sponsored By ExxonMobil

Dec 3, 2025

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🚨 Chicago 312: Let's Fix the Budget Gap With An Alternate Reality Game Sponsored By ExxonMobil

Chicago 312: A CPD consent decree check in, budget fighting, data centers, and moss doing more work than half our institutions.

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Chicago Politics

🚨 Chicago 312: Chicago’s First Real Revenue Fight in Decades

Nov 20, 2025

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🚨 Chicago 312: Chicago’s First Real Revenue Fight in Decades

Chicago 312: budget standoff, pushback on DoorDash, the CHA in limbo, and why conservative media keeps winning the long game.

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Movement Communciations

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Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Nov 19, 2025

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Vertical Video For People Who Hate Making Vertical Video

Why organizers need vertical video, and how it builds narrative power.

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🚨 Chicago 312: National Pundits Have Once Again Discovered Chicago Politics

Nov 13, 2025

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🚨 Chicago 312: National Pundits Have Once Again Discovered Chicago Politics

Chicago 312: ICE in court, tons of post-shutdown fallout, and budget fights -- plus, a lot of discourse.

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Movement Communciations

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What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

Nov 11, 2025

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13 min read

What Campaigns Keep Getting Wrong About Creators

Part of a new Chicago 312 segment on movement communications and narrative: what's working, what's not, and what's possible.

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Chicago Politics

🚨 Chicago 312: It's Not Their City

Nov 6, 2025

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🚨 Chicago 312: It's Not Their City

Chicago 312: ICE raided a daycare. Springfield bailed out the trains. Chicago isn't Greg Bovino's city.

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H Kapp-Klote

Chicago Politics

🚨 Chicago 312: Six Indictments and a Funeral (for Transit)

Oct 30, 2025

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🚨 Chicago 312: Six Indictments and a Funeral (for Transit)

Chicago 312: Rossana’s going full forensic accountant on Motorola and CDW, Greg Bovino’s taking thirst traps at the federal courthouse, and JB Pritzker is ghosting transit.

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🚨 Chicago 312: ICE Wants Chicago to Be Afraid. It Isn’t Working.

Oct 23, 2025

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🚨 Chicago 312: ICE Wants Chicago to Be Afraid. It Isn’t Working.

Chicago 312: Chicago is capable of resisting and winning against ICE. It's a marathon not a sprint.

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H Kapp-Klote

Chicago Politics

🚨 Chicago's Martial Law Week

Oct 8, 2025

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15 min read

🚨 Chicago's Martial Law Week

Chicago 312: Federal troops, ICE in vans, fascist optics — all while Chicago continues budget season.

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H Kapp-Klote

Chicago Politics

🚨 ICE v. Bike

Oct 1, 2025

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11 min read

🚨 ICE v. Bike

Chicago 312: federal cops turning the city into a police state, local officials chasing Fox News airtime.

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H Kapp-Klote

Chicago Politics

🚨ICE Is Doing Call of Duty LARP in Broadview

Sep 24, 2025

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9 min read

🚨ICE Is Doing Call of Duty LARP in Broadview

Chicago 312: ICE militarized Broadview, Trump is the only one paying attention to the CTA cliff (bad news), and City Hall’s “budget menu” is still regressive.

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H Kapp-Klote

Chicago Politics

🚨 just in time for tornado season

Sep 17, 2025

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🚨 just in time for tornado season

Chicago 312: ICE is here no matter how National Guard drama plays out, Chicago’s budget “solutions” lean regressive, and the Charlie Kirk narrative machine is already rewriting history.

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