Nick Dodson for the People 🌹

I ran for office and lost in 2020 and it was the best thing that could’ve happened to me. I am a community advocate on humanitarian & environmental rights.

[CUB Illinois @cubillinois]

@ILAttyGeneral @IllinoisPIRG @EnvDefenseFund Here's Nick from Springfield, an Ameren customer who has neighbors one bill away from crisis. He says reject Ameren's rate hike and their excessive shareholder profit rate. He says escalating gas bills can be devastating for a community.

[CUB Illinois @cubillinois]

CUB's Scott Allen is in Springfield tonight at a state forum to speak out against Ameren IL's $131M gas rate-hike request. Watch Scott's short video, and visit https://t.co/vaYkQFN1md to sign a petition against the hike.

[Brenden Moore @brendenmoore13]

Emma Shafer was a friend. I wrote this after she was killed in 2023. Sharing it again to remind folks of what she stood for. In short, she was a friend + ally of immigrants and would've hated her death being exploited in a political stunt to demonize them.
https://t.co/cprl4b3HTC

[Cole Henke @cole_Henke]

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem used Emma Shafer's memory and even her old home to attack protections for the immigrant community in Illinois.

This statement from Shafer's mother makes it clear. They never gave consent for this, and they want it to end.

[Nick Dodson for the People 🌹 @electnickdodson]

Glad to have been a part of the crew that ran these absolute ghouls out of Springfield.

[Democratic Party of Illinois @illinoisdems]

ICYMI: Kristi Noem flew to Illinois to fearmonger about immigrants and score MAGA points.

She brought IL Senate GOP Leader John Curran to play backup. Protestors showed up. Cameras rolled. And Curran suddenly remembered he had somewhere else to be.

Loud in the press release. Silent in the moment. #RunJohnRun #GoHomeNoem

[Brenden Moore @brendenmoore13]

Just to be clear, Emma's parents were not at this press conference. They were blocks away protesting Noem's visit.

[Steven Spearie @StevenSpearie]

.@GovPritzker and @LtGovStratton are formally calling for @Sang_Sheriff Jack Campbell to resign.
#SJRBreaking

[Brenden Moore @brendenmoore13]

.@GovPritzker calls for Sangamon County Sheriff Jack Campbell's resignation over Sonya Massey's killing. "He has failed to explain how he ended up hiring this deputy sheriff who has been fired from other departments. He failed to put forward reforms that clearly need to be made."

[Nick Dodson for the People 🌹 @electnickdodson]

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[Andy Manar @AndyManar]

Saw these signs in Springfield. We should be clear that the victim’s name is #SonyaMassey—her family, her young children, her community. And there should not be even the slightest hint of any other narrative.

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Collective amnesia allows societies to wash their hands of their complicity, and rehabilitate those who most egregiously lied for the state.

[Steven Spearie @StevenSpearie]

The Sangamon County Board is expected to call upon @POTUS to designate the 1908 Springfield Race Riot site a national monument. The @Interior holds a public meeting on the subject at Union Baptist Church at 6 p.m. June 10.
#SJRBreaking

[Illinois Sierra Club @SierraClubIL]

📣We gathered in the Capitol yesterday to urge lawmakers to pass a moratorium on #CO2pipelines & commonsense regulations that protect IL communities from the risks associated with CCS. Take action with us!

Urge your lawmakers to support the moratorium➡️ https://t.co/oE6zx2XApi

[Illinois Sierra Club @SierraClubIL]

NEWS: Springfield City Council approved @CWLP_'s 2025 budget despite the proposal’s lack of water rate hike protections for low-income residents & failure to include cost allocations to conduct an energy planning analysis.

Read our joint statement: https://t.co/wTSV7kPU4r

[Paul Fairie @paulisci]

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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[Illinois Sierra Club @SierraClubIL]

BREAKING: Today, @ILAttyGeneral filed a lawsuit against Springfield’s municipal utility @CWLP_ for multiple violations when CWLP released a massive dust cloud of #coalash across the city in August of 2021.

Read our statement in response:
https://t.co/nPM1jf9ObY

[Illinois Sierra Club @SierraClubIL]

"I commend @ILAttyGeneral for showing CWLP that business as usual is no more," said @electnickdodson.

It's a full circle moment for Nick—he called for #coalash protections & for @CWLP_ to move #BeyondCoal when the coal ash dust cloud occurred in 2021.
https://t.co/qwRjey2MEZ

[Illinois Sierra Club @SierraClubIL]

Sangamon Valley Group Chair @electnickdodson gave feedback on @CWLP_'s proposed Hunter Lake project at a hearing last week, saying, "It's a huge waste of tax money & an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen."

More from @kairawillistv on @wics_abc20: https://t.co/CJhTuRwh0F

[Illinois Sierra Club @SierraClubIL]

ICYMI, the Sangamon County Board passed 2 resolutions opposing Navigator's #CO2 pipeline project.

“This is what people power looks like," said @electnickdodson, Chair of the Sangamon Valley Group. “And I applaud the Sangamon County Board for hearing us.”

https://t.co/ABoMrVWORH

[CUB Illinois @cubillinois]

CUB Executive Director Sarah Moskowitz on @WTTW talking about Peoples Gas' state-record $402M rate-hike request: "Gas bills are unaffordable and now they're coming in having enjoyed 6 years of record profits, asking for a record rate hike." Watch here: https://t.co/jifgU2lDVl