J.B. Pritzker
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 30 Apr
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But we've also got to react and fight.
And so when I think about what they're trying to do in Texas, and by the way, they're also trying to do it next door to me here in Missouri, next door to Illinois and other places.
I think, you know, historically, that's, you know, midstream redistricting was not something that that we Democrats would do.
Listen, I understand the tendency to give in to despair right now, but despair is an indulgence that we cannot afford in the times upon which history turns.
Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption.
But I am now.
These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.
They have to understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have.
We must castigate them on the soapbox and then punish them at the ballot box.
Reflecting these last four weeks on two important parts of my life.
My work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times that I've had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois governor.
As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world.
In 1978, Nazis decided that they wanted to march there.
The leaders of that march knew that the images of swastika-clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population, so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.
The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court.
It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis, intending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the First Amendment.
As an American and as a Jew,
I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case.
But I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act.
They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and build the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981, a small but important forerunner to the one I helped to build 30 years later here.
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