New Illinois

Nonprofit educating citizens about their constitutional right to split from Old Illinois and form a new state. 10th Constitutional Convention Nov 6 & 7 '26

[Grok @grok]

Sherri claims the Seventh Circuit panel reversing the ComEd convictions is a "new court" created by Paul Rosenfeld (47th Ward Democratic Committeeman, Madigan fundraiser, and lobbyist).

This is false. The Seventh Circuit is a federal appeals court established in 1891. Rosenfeld is a local Chicago Democratic official with zero authority over federal courts or their panels.

The reversal of Pramaggiore and McClain's convictions (and order for possible retrial) came from standard appellate review, likely tied to Supreme Court limits on gratuities/corruption cases. The U.S. Attorney's office says it may retry them. Madigan was not a defendant in this federal trial.

[New Illinois @NewILState]

For those of you wondering why we don't just VOTE ourselves out of this mess, please take some time and understand what this report says!

[Unite4Freedom @Unite4Freedom]

https://t.co/CULtVTQnro

[New Illinois @NewILState]

https://t.co/Bg1pSS0Q5h

[The Michael Knowles Show @MKnowlesShow]

How Democrats Steal Elections In 4 Mins

[Brian Costin @BrianCostin]

It might actually be worse than this. The Illinois Comptroller put this out yesterday.

Unfunded Pension Liability + Pension Acceleration Bonds + Pension Obligation Bond ≈ $153.6B

[Brian Costin @BrianCostin]

Illinois has the most state pension debt in America — by a wide margin. How bad is it?

IL Pension Debt: $145.49B

The bottom 41 states combined: $145.77B

IL population: ~12.7M Bottom 41 states: ~180M

And Pritzker and his allies in Springfield are considering pension sweeteners that could add $76B+ more in costs for Illinois taxpayers.

This is not sustainable. This is a crisis.

[Unite4Freedom @Unite4Freedom]

If We Can Secure Our Airspace, We Can Secure Our Ballots.

It shouldn’t be easier to board a domestic flight than it is to protect the integrity of a U.S. election.

Think about it: to step onto a commercial airplane, you are subject to mandatory biometric identification, strict identity verification, and multi-layered federal database screening. But when it comes to securing the actual foundation of our republic - the ballot box - the Washington establishment treats basic identity verification like it’s an impossible, insurmountable task.

The double standard is glaring, and the American people are tired of the excuses.

Right now, a major legislative showdown is unfolding in Washington over the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act. The bill is common sense: it mandates strict national voter ID, requires physical documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, integrates state voter registration rolls with Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration databases to catch non-citizens, and holds local election officials legally liable if they fail to clean up their lists.

But look at the bureaucratic gauntlet this critical security measure has to run just to see the light of day:

• The House vs. Senate Gridlock: The SAVE Act easily cleared the House earlier this session, but it immediately hit a wall in the Senate, where a partisan 60-vote filibuster block stops it from receiving a clean up-or-down vote.
• The Reconciliation Strategy: Because of the deadlock, the House and President Trump are employing a high-stakes legislative maneuver. They are pushing to attach the SAVE Act to a fast-tracked, filibuster-proof $350 Billion Budget Reconciliation Bill (dubbed "Recon 3.0"). By binding election security directly to a massive defense spending surge intended to fund critical military readiness and missile defense, they are trying to force the Senate's hand.
• The "Vote-a-Rama" Fallout: We just watched this push play out during a grueling all-night "vote-a-rama" on the Senate floor. Senator Lindsey Graham and conservative leaders forced a vote to attach the SAVE Act to the latest reconciliation package. The amendment ultimately failed 48–50, after four establishment Republicans joined all Senate Democrats to block it.
• The Procedural Red Tape: Opponents are hiding behind institutional rules like the Senate's "Byrd Rule," claiming that state-level voter roll maintenance and identity tracking are "regulatory policies" that don't directly impact the federal budget, meaning the Senate Parliamentarian can simply strip them out of the bill.

This is the definition of political theater. If we have the technology, the infrastructure, and the legal authority to instantly verify the identity of every single passenger flying through our domestic airspace, we absolutely have the ability to verify the citizenship and identity of every person casting a ballot.

Securing our elections should not be this hard. It shouldn't require complex procedural loopholes, multi-billion-dollar bargaining chips, or late-night legislative warfare.

The American people deserve absolute, unwavering confidence that every single vote cast in our elections is legal, verifiable, and secure. No exceptions, no loopholes, and no more bureaucratic excuses from Washington.

Drop a comment and let us know if you agree it's time to treat election security with the same seriousness we treat our national security.

#U4F
#ElectionValidity

[New Illinois @NewILState]

https://t.co/V2uISgXthA

[Jake @Jake_B30]

JD Pritzker reminds me of The Penguin in Batman Returns

Dude is a total slime ball mafia villain

I’m mean Jesus Christ

[New Illinois @NewILState]

This is what our current state is allowing to happen with NO CASH BAIL. Right here in Naperville.

https://t.co/F9RKE5DSKM

[Giggling Ganon @GigglingGanon]

Three illegals arrested for shoplifting 13k in merchandise. Illinois soft on crime policies set them free so one could take the life of a person in Ohio.

​We are jn Naperville, Illinois where police officers completely dismantled an organized retail theft ring operating out of the area after hitting an Ulta Beauty store.What they uncovered wasn’t a casual case of shoplifting—it was a massive, professional operation.

​During the pat-downs, officers watched in disbelief as dozens of high-end skincare and beauty products literally cascaded out of the suspects’ pant legs and clothing onto the asphalt. Between what was hidden on their bodies and the packed trash bags stuffed inside their getaway SUV, officers recovered over $13,000 in stolen product.

​The three suspects arrested at the scene were identified as:

​Yudisleydi Cardoso-Ortega (42, Pittsburgh, PA)

​Camilo Sotolongo-Barreto (38, Youngstown, OH)

​Liesnell Fleitas-Garcia (43, Houston, TX)

​None of these individuals were U.S. citizens, and they were using temporary paper identification cards from new Mexico as cover. Under normal circumstances, a $13,000 multi-jurisdictional retail theft haul by transient suspects with zero ties to the community would make them automatic flight risks. They would be held behind bars.

​But this is Illinois.

​Thanks to the state’s controversial SAFE-T Act—which completely abolished cash bail—and the strict limitations of the Illinois TRUST Act, local law enforcement's hands were completely tied.

Despite the massive scale of the theft, the baseline charges of burglary and retail theft were deemed "non-detainable" offenses at their initial hearing. Because prosecutors could only legally tie certain dollar amounts to what was physically stuffed in each individual's pants at the exact moment of detention, the system worked exactly how its architects intended:

​The criminals walked right out of the station on pretrial release.

​The soft-on-crime experiment didn't stay contained within Illinois borders, and the real-world consequences of letting transient felony crews walk free turned deadly almost immediately.

​Just two months later, Camilo Sotolongo-Barreto—the exact same man you see being casually processed in this bodycam footage—was back in Youngstown, Ohio. Free to roam because of Illinois' revolving-door justice system, Sotolongo-Barreto got into a property dispute with his former roommate, 37-year-old Nestor Diaz.

​Sotolongo-Barreto escalated the argument, drew a kn!fe, and took the life of Diaz.

​The illegal fled the state immediately, sparking a multi-state manhunt before U.S. Marshals and local police finally tracked him down in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

He has since been extradited back to Ohio, where he sits in the Mahoning County Jail on a $1 million bond, officially arraigned on a charge of murder.

​When politicians push "progressive" cashless bail policies, they claim it’s about equity and fairness. This case proves the terrifying reality. Illinois didn't just let an illegal, out-of-state retail theft crew escape accountability—their soft-on-crime pipeline actively enabled a violent criminal to stay on the streets just long enough to take an innocent man's life in a neighboring state.

Is cases like this that truly make you sick to your stomach when you see the damage these policies cause.

[New Illinois @NewILState]

Interesting interview with the Governor of Indiana.

[The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show @clayandbuck]

.@GovBraun to @ClayTravis on the Chicago Bears moving to Indiana: "It's not inked, done deal yet, but it's probably in the red zone."

[New Illinois @NewILState]

@John_Iwanski Absolutely!

[New Illinois @NewILState]

The Bears thing has nothing to do with us, honestly. We believe the Bears would have loved to stay in New Illinois. But the gaslighting does. He literally said this right after they had spent a whole night raising how many $M in tax dollars? "Illinois House Speaker Emanuel "Chris" Welch
"While Indiana is willing to raise taxes and promise $1 billion in taxpayer funds, Illinois has focused on the needs of working families who want relief at the gas pump, at the store, and on their insurance bills-not taxpayer-funded stadiums. Illinois remains open to ongoing efforts to secure the Bears in Illinois." https://t.co/pH03CCuled

[Slats Grobnik @MissinRoyko]

Pritzker and his Democrat posse is betting that the $2.5 billion (and growing) that they spend on illegals will buy them more votes then what they will lose by not spending it on the Bears

Prove them wrong ……

[New Illinois @NewILState]

It's not rocket science, but you wouldn't know that by looking at blue states.

[New Illinois @NewILState]

Less taxes and regulations bring more businesses and more businesses being more revenue- taxes, both from businesses and from people working in those businesses, but less per business and per person.

[Heritech @_heritech]

@NewILState So even with The Bears coming to Indiana, why is literally everything cheaper in Indiana and the state has a budget surplus?

With less overall taxpayers and businesses?

Even without the widespread revenue from non-casino gambling and Marijuana. It's really crazy.

[New Illinois @NewILState]

Blood might boil, but the same thing will happen as has been happening in California. They’ll keep the Dem ballots coming in until the Dems have enough votes to win. #PassTheSaveAct

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Hey Chicago Bears Fans,

Your blood is about to boil reading this:

I just did some research. The state of Illinois has spent over $2.5 BILLION on free benefits for illegals last year.

At the same time Illinois Governor @JBPritzker was telling the Bears there’s “no money” for tax relief on a new stadium.

Let that sink in.

For $2.5 billion the state of Illinois could have PAID for a new stadium for the Chicago Bears.

Instead, they spent it paying for lavish benefits for aliens, while running a $3 billion deficit and losing a franchise they've had for over 100 years.

This is what Democrat priorities look like. They hate you and will destroy your state for power.

[New Illinois @NewILState]

No, probably not unless folks get more serious about election integrity. Just look at California right now. Mail in ballots out the wazoo for Dems compared to NONE for Repubs.

[ANITA PADILLA TV @AnitaPadilla32]

Truly sad news for Chicago.

The ONLY good thing is that this will SEAL THE POLITICAL FATES for @ChicagosMayor and @GovPritzker .

Remember when a 1979 snowstorm cost Mayor Michael Bilandic his race? I do. I was just little kid then, but I sure do remember how angry people were with him.

Chicagoans will remember at the polls.

[New Illinois @NewILState]

So tell us again how we can vote our way out of this mess?

[Unite4Freedom @Unite4Freedom]

Illinois 2024 or Illinois 2022 - which election was cleaner?

Unite4Freedom’s methodology and analysis of Illinois voter data, the numbers moved in the wrong direction.

In 2022, they reported about 590,000 unique votes impacted by apparent voting violations.

In 2024, that number grew to more than 1 million unique votes they claim were prohibited by law.

The report also points to 56,164 more votes counted than voters recorded as voting in 2024, compared to 27,491 in 2022.

Their conclusion?

The problems didn’t get smaller - they got bigger.

Whether you agree with the findings or not, one thing is clear:

Election systems should be transparent enough that every eligible voter can trust the outcome.

Trust requires verification.

And verification requires access to the data.

Transparency isn’t partisan. It’s the foundation of confidence.

#ElectionValidity
#SaveAmerica
#U4F

[New Illinois @NewILState]

Chapin Rose @SenChapinRose - he has spoken at our Convention.

[Slats Grobnik @MissinRoyko]

I WISH that Darren Bailey would talk, NO SCREAM, about Pritzker’s 7 years of failures with as much PASSION and ANGER as does this State Representative whose name unfortunately I don’t know

I do know this though, if this State Representative was the Republican candidate for governor I’d feel a hell of a lot better about the chances of beating Pritzker in November then I do now

Darren Bailey show some FIRE IN YOUR BELLY and start kicking some ass!