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"This isn’t conspiracy theory or speculation; it’s a documented fact, exposed in a 2012 ProPublica article that laid bare how Obama’s early power base in Chicago wasn’t built on genuine grassroots support, but on the calculated lines of a rigged district.... John Corrigan, the Democrat who helped draw the map alongside Obama, revealed the scheme in an interview with the New Yorker back in 2008." That New Yorker article says, "The partisan redistricting of Illinois may have been the most important event in Obama’s early political life." SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE WIREPOINTS DAILY NEWSLETTER
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
No duh? That an unknown undergrad and pal with the remnants of the Weather Underground became a senator and then president in an astonishingly fast manner?
So, he’s President ‘Gerry Mander’ then…?
If it wasn’t for crooked IL Democrat politics, Obama would be sharing a prison cell with Tony Rezko.
Those of us with our eyes open have known Obama was a ‘project’ for some time.
Note that this story is based on detailed stories from Pro Public and The New Yorker, which certainly are not conservative outlets. Those stories are very damming. The Pro Publica article is here https://www.propublica.org/article/obamas-gerrymander and The New Yorker article is here: https://archive.ph/erQIO.