Babette Holder

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🌐Fulltime algorithms slayer. ✊🏽Find me where liberty, truth, and justice exist. A Frederick Douglass Dyed in the wool Republican

[Breakthrough Ideas @BreakthroughId1]

Illinois legislators finished session driving taxpayers down the same old highway to...

[Illinois Freedom Caucus 🇺🇸 @ILFreedomCaucus]

Senator Dick Durbin is one of the chief Architects of America Last.

No Republican lawmakers should participate in celebrating a political legacy rooted in failed leadership and contempt for conservative voters.
@SFC_Network @SenatorDurbin @freedomcaucus @adamniemerg

[Illinois House Republicans @ilhousegop]

Governor Pritzker is completely out-of-touch with reality if he thinks he's made life more affordable for Illinois families. Our residents pay the highest tax rates in the nation, and @GovPritzker's relentless tax and fee hikes have only made things worse. #twill

[Babette Holder @Bhold226]

She's spot on, this is not a Loyola problem nor is it just a Chicago problem, it's the entire state's problem and Pritzker needs to be held accountable with his democrat legislators for their bad and dangerous policies!

[Morning Answer @MorningAnswer]

Sheridan Gorman is dead because of the policies supported by Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker.

Never forget that.

[amyjacobson @amyjacobson]

I hope @ChicagosMayor and @GovPritzker see this.

Sheridan Gorman’s family is finding their voice.

But now what?
We’ll discuss and take your calls 312-642-5600.
‘The Real Story’ 11amCT-Noon @AM560TheAnswer
@JeanneIves @angeldadjoe

[Babette Holder @Bhold226]

@Libs_OfChicago Pritzker's BUILD act will do this throughout the state, from the burbs to the farms. That act will also limit local zoning authorities from preventing multi-dwellings in single family housing zones.

[Babette Holder @Bhold226]

@JeanneIves Not much difference in moronic Democrat tactic, as to how Senator Durbin ran a pressure campaign in 2014 to stop Walgreens Corporation from moving out of Illinois!

I remember that Jim Otherweis called it a shakedown, and rightfully so!

[Babette Holder @Bhold226]

Spot on @ScottPresler, we do need to defeat Pritzker this year in IL! #votered

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

Today marks 15 months since Katie Abraham was killed in sanctuary city Urbana, in sanctuary state Illinois.

It has been 15 months since I held her, heard her voice, laugh, or her amazing storytelling.
I regret I didn’t move us out of Illinois when I saw how mismanaged this state had become. How unmoved its leaders were by tragedies like ours. They never consider the dangers they create for ordinary citizens. There is no decency or humility in all they do.
The pain has been relentless. And while @govpritzker sleeps like a baby, we struggle every night.

Not one Illinois Democrat has acknowledged her life or death. Attorney General Kwame Raoul has said nothing. Is it due to Pritzker money?
Kwame Raoul, State Legislators, Governor Pritzker, and Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias must answer some simple questions, such as but not limited to:
How did her killer get an Illinois driver’s license when he testified he could not read, write, or speak English or Spanish?
How was he allowed to live in Illinois with HIV in our communities without treatment or detection? How were you helping him and our communities? So much for their "compassion" towards all.

Attorney General Raoul, we upheld our end of the social contract. You and Illinois leaders didn’t. What recourse do citizens have when government fails at every level?

Why do @govpritzker’s deliberately harmful policies remain unchecked when they knew Illinoians would die and imposed them anyway?
The Katies of Illinois deserve full justice and full transparency, not plea deals with release dates after harm. This is not justice.

So @kwameraoul, what's next? We are still waiting to hear anything from you.
What is our next step against Illinois "caring" leaders?

Can one democartic Illinois leader say her name?
It's Katie Jani Abraham.

I won’t hold my breath...

[Walter Curt @wcdispatch]

What do a demolished building, a dental office, and an immigrant hub have in common?

In Michigan, they’re all billing Medicaid, and you’re paying for it.

I went chasing a lead, all I found was the demo team eating lunch.

That crew sent me chasing a story that found $118M billed by 21 dissolved businesses across the state.

The demolition site became the blueprint I needed to follow the money. 🧵🇺🇸

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

I spend time in the room we built for my daughter Katie, a place to honor her life and feel close to her. It’s where I reflect, and where the weight of everything since her death comes rushing back. In those moments, I lean on faith, scripture, and her memories to carry me through.

In June 2025, I went to Washington for oversight hearings on sanctuary policies. I sat there for 8 hours as a father who lost his daughter. Every Republican lawmaker took time to speak with me, they didn’t have to, but they did.

Not a single Democrat even looked my direction.

Not one.

Leaders from Illinois, the state I’ve called home my entire life, ignored Katie. Ignored her story. Ignored her life. I believed they would show basic humanity.

They didn’t.

We never thought this would happen to our family. Like so many, we believed it was something that happens somewhere else, until it doesn’t. We upheld our end of the social contract. We followed the rules. We trusted our government would do the same. They didn’t, and now we have no recourse. This could happen to any family. And when it does, don’t expect Illinois politicians to stand with you. They will leave you alone, and erase you too.

And that includes Governor Pritzker.

Now when I sit in Katie’s room, the room we were forced to build because of radical policies with zero guardrails, it leaves me with an increasing, uncomfortable tension: staying in a broken state led by fallen leaders, where my family is, where my friends are, where Katie lived, where our lives were built, or leaving the only home I’ve ever known.

These politicians, in their callous indifference to the people they serve, put my family and me in this position:
@GovPritzker 
@JulianaStratton
@SenDuckworth 
@SenatorDurbin
@ToniPreckwinkle
@KwameRaoul

It is disheartening to watch a once prosperous state devolve into something I don’t recognize. Even more discouraging is watching the same politicians get reelected, not because they’ve earned it, but because they outspend opponents, manipulate districts, and rely on low turnout, propped up by a media that too often acts as a willing participant, not a check on power.

These politicians, and their handmaidens in the media, serve themselves, not taxpayers. They have no regard for the people they represent.

It’s clear they don’t want citizens like me here, independent voices who won’t fall in line. We are not welcome. They would rather see us leave.

I may soon oblige them.

And that, in itself, is yet another indictment of leadership that continues to fail, and still gets rewarded.

That reality is salt in a wound that never heals.

But I will not be silent.

I will speak for Katie. For the Katies. For every victim they ignore, erase, and abandon.

Because Illinois leaders never will. To them, we do not exist.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

America was already a sanctuary.

That’s what people forget. Before JB Pritzker. Before the legislation. Before the press conferences and the virtue signaling—we already had it.

It was called the rule of law.

It said: come here legally, and you will be protected.
Live here, and no one from the outside can simply walk in and upend your life.

It was the promise America made to its citizens.

Pritzker didn’t create a sanctuary. He created a sub-sanctuary—a privileged carve-out for the few who broke the very laws that made sanctuary possible in the first place.

And to build that sub-sanctuary, he had to tear down the original one.

That’s the part no one wants to say out loud:

You cannot protect the lawbreaker without exposing the law-abider.
You cannot build a sanctuary inside a sanctuary without collapsing the first.
This doesn’t just fail—it creates strain and tension inside communities.

When government elevates a few while the majority absorbs the consequences, trust fractures. That is not sustainable in any nation.

Pritzker didn’t expand protection. He redistributed it—taking it from the many who lived within the law and handing it to those who did not.

There is no shame in knowing who is here—and why they are here, including their motives.

No shame in enforcing laws.

No shame in expecting government to uphold the social contract.

What’s shameful is redefining reality to avoid responsibility.

That’s not compassion. That’s a betrayal—dressed up as one.

[Babette Holder @Bhold226]

@4thOfJuly365 Hug my mom, miss her much.

[House Judiciary GOP 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @JudiciaryGOP]

Joe Abraham is right.

His daughter’s death was entirely preventable.

Democrat-run Illinois allowed a previously deported criminal illegal alien roam free and commit murder.

[Babette Holder @Bhold226]

And this type of tomfoolery is exactly why the elected officials in IL, including perhaps, especially the Democrats that run the city and state, send their kids to private schools!

[Libs Of Chicago @Libs_OfChicago]

Only 12% of students who attend Morgan Park High School can read proficiently, only 4% can do math.

[Ja'Mal Green @JaymalGreen]

RIDICULOUS: I do NOT support the Chicago Teacher’s Union May 1st strike so that teachers get a paid day off to go protest ICE! WTF are we doing? This political BS needs to end. Stacy Davis Gates (CTU president) doesn’t even send her kids to public schools but she wants our kids to suffer.

60% of CPS students are not reading at their grade level.
75% of kids aren’t at their math levels.
40% of students are chronically absent.

How about Stacy go knock on doors and get kids in class? How about we teach Little Johnny how to read? Yall want a day off for a wasteful protest and Brandon supports it. This is why he can’t be mayor, we need a manager in the seat not a puppet playing politics. TELL THE BOARD TO VOTE NO!

[Austin Berg @Austin__Berg]

WATCH: I just joined Chicago Tonight to debate a new “millionaire’s tax” proposal floating around Springfield.

It might sound appealing to some.

But here’s the inconvenient truth.

Illinois lost nearly 1 million taxpayers to other states on net over the last decade. We ranked 49th out of 50 states on this measure.

The group leaving the fastest? People making over $200k (highest income bracket reported by the IRS).

There’s also 22,000 Illinois small businesses earning $1M+ in pass-through income who would get whacked by this, killing jobs and investment that our state desperately needs (IL lost 1,700 jobs in 2025 while the US added 584,000).

This is a bad idea at a bad time. We can’t afford to keep losing people and investment to other states.

Thankfully, Illinois voters rejected a similar constitutional amendment in 2020.

And the current proposal seems DOA at the Statehouse.

Here’s the full debate.

[Chicago Contrarian @ChicagoContrar1]

Interesting how Alexi omits the fact over 23K cars are stolen in Chicago every year.

This number excludes vehicular hijackings.

CPD won’t even send a car to your house when someone calls 911 to report their car stolen.

CPD will not chase a stolen car.

CPD will not investigate hit and run crashes unless the collision results in great bodily harm or death.

[Joe Abraham @angeldadjoe]

They say “citizens commit crimes too.”

That’s not the point.

When policies create avoidable risk, the victims are preventable.

My daughter Katie should be alive. Ideology cannot excuse deadly outcomes.

Read my latest Substack: https://t.co/0ycErvMq0v

[Jeanne Ives @JeanneIves]

Post Primary - The Armchair QBs at the Tribune Are Wrong https://t.co/b1FUEyUhDb