A Campaign Against School Choice Prompts Criminal Charges – Wall Street Journal

"Texas school-district officials are charged with unlawfully using public funds for electioneering.... Unfortunately, these alleged abuses aren’t unique to Texas. The Chicago Teachers Union was caught last month “partnering” with Bring Chicago Home—an advocacy group campaigning for Mayor Brandon Johnson’s failed $100 million tax-hike initiative. The group had encouraged teachers to take students out of class and “march to an early voting site” in support of the initiative. The nonprofit Illinois Policy Institute filed an ethics complaint with the school district, but Chicago officials haven’t taken meaningful action against the union."

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Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case

Glennon raised the stakes of the moment in broader civilizational terms: “This election in Illinois is not about the usual pedestrian issues… it’s about nothing less than whether Western civilization survives in our democratic republic of America because [the left], just on the open border alone, will destroy the country, and now they’re bringing in the jihadists, frankly, into the party.” Audio and summary linked here.Audio and summary linked here.

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