Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560: Why We Need to “Relentlessly” Make the Blue State-Red State Case
November 5, 2026
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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.
New Trier High School made national headlines nine years ago as a “canary in a coal mine” for political indoctrination in public schools. The canaries lived.
Among the consequences of economic growth that badly lags national averages are billions of lost revenue every year. Yet denial reigns in Illinois, fueling the vicious cycle of demand for higher taxes.
20% of Union dues is actually used for Union grievances. The rest,80%, is decided by the board to spend in salaries, administrative costs and POLITICAL DONATIONS!!!
So they don’t want to pay for all their freebies. Ironic.
Most Unions today take a percentage of the union workers hourly wage like 2 or 3 percent this way there’s no need to continually ask members to raise dues every raise the dues go up CTU must be the same thing so CTU must have been asking for a Hefty Raise
“The month-long window for CTU members to opt out of the union opens in August.” The article does not tell us what percentage of teachers have already, in prior years, opted out of the Union, and how they were treated.
Some law firm should start a service that provides teachers legal protection if sued, this is the only reason most stay in the union. There’s a fortune to be made.
Teachers Unions are strongest in several blue states. Many other states teachers unions, its members fed up with left wing politics and Marxist ideology, are jumping ship left and right. Would that we have teachers whose first priority is education, not illegals rights, trans rights, reparations, etc.
This whole situation reminds me of the book Animal Farm. Where all are equal,yet some more equal than others