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🧵 THREAD: The JB Pritzker Files

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is positioning himself as the Democratic hero of 2028.

But before the national press crowns him, let's look at what he's built.

As always, patience as I pull the thread together. 👇

In 2008, FBI wiretaps caught JB Pritzker on the phone multiple times trading political appointment strategies.

On tape, Pritzker advises on who should fill Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat:

"The only reason to do it is if he'll appoint you to something."

What did Pritzker want in return?

He wanted State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias appointed to the Senate, which would have opened the Treasurer slot... for JB Pritzker.

He was lobbying for a state appointment… this is on tape.

Also on tape: Pritzker discussing which Black politicians were "acceptable" for the Senate seat.

He apologized for the "regrettable" language. He has never apologized for what he was doing on those calls.

In 2017, Pritzker Group Venture Capital heavily invested in the Chicago health tech firm Outcome Health. Later that year, the Wall Street Journal reported that three employees at Outcome had misrepresented information to advertising clients, but said there was no evidence senior management knew of the misconduct.

Outcome was forced to settle and give investors a controlling equity stake valued hundreds of millions, but that wasn’t enough. After having already settled in 2020, Pritzker helped federal prosecutors go after the company's founders on trumped-up criminal charges and now stands to personally benefit to the tune of tens of millions of dollars in restitution for his firm.

Thanks to Pritzker’s meddling, in 2023, the founders of Outcome Health were tried *again* by Biden’s DOJ after the DOJ illegally seized millions from them and forced them to hire cheaper lawyers.

Prosecutors personally drafted witnesses’ testimony and had them recite it on the stand (unprecedented on its own). But those same witnesses were noted by court to have an undisputed motive to testify falsely, after securing immunity or reduced sentences from the prosecutors.

Pritzker waged a campaign of lawfare against others for for political and financial gain, weaponizing the courts to receive up to $50 million in restitution for a case he already settled.

JB Pritzker (worth 3.6 billion) had the toilets removed from his Chicago mansion... to dodge a $331,000 property tax bill. You read that correctly.

The Cook County Inspector General called it a "scheme to defraud" taxpayers.

A billionaire who would spend $171 million on his own campaign couldn't pay $331K in property taxes.

Who directed it? His wife, M.K. Pritzker, had workers remove the toilets. Made the house "uninhabitable." Got the tax break. Then had one toilet reinstalled after the inspection.

Federal investigators opened a probe in 2019. No charges were filed.

The Pritzker administration later gave the contractors who removed the toilet seats nearly $9 MILLION in a COVID-19 Army Corps contract.

Pay-to-play, in the most literal sense imaginable.

Just after winning the 2018 election, Governor-elect Pritzker donated $7 million to House Democrats under Speaker Michael Madigan's control.

$4M in late Oct/early Nov 2018. Another $2.5M to Senate Dems.

Who is Michael Madigan?

The longest-serving state House Speaker in U.S. history… and a convicted federal felon.

On July 2025, Madigan was found guilty on racketeering and bribery. October 2025, he reported to federal prison to serve 7+ years.

Pritzker was his largest donor.

Madigan's crime was running a bribery operation where ComEd funneled $200M+ in fines and favors to Madigan allies in exchange for favorable legislation.

The "ComEd Four" were also convicted in July 2025.

And Pritzker defended a Madigan-backed hire to oversee ComEd during the investigation.

The Pritzker administration's DCFS (child welfare agency) funded a residential facility for foster youth on Chicago's South Side: Aunt Martha's Integrated Care Center.

A staffer sexually assaulted a resident in August 2023.

DCFS did nothing for 9 MONTHS.

Both the security company and Aunt Martha's had hired staffers with felony convictions in their backgrounds.
Courts finally forced DCFS to act in May 2024.

A DCFS veteran attempted to get officials to backdate records.

The facility was quietly shut down in June 2024.

JB Pritzker and his top aides refused to be interviewed about Aunt Martha's.

Kids ended up warehoused in psychiatric hospitals and juvenile jails after the closure created a placement crisis.

This isn't just JB. It's a dynasty.

Sister Penny Pritzker: Obama Commerce Secretary → Chair of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (close USAID/State Department → Biden's Ukraine Economic Czar.

One family. Multiple administrations. Continuous institutional access.

Penny chaired the Carnegie Endowment (a think tank deeply wired into U.S. foreign policy) from 2018–2023 while her brother was governor.

Carnegie receives federal grants. Then she was appointed Biden's Ukraine reconstruction czar, overseeing billions in U.S.-backed economic aid.

Cousin Tom Pritzker was Hyatt Hotels' Executive Chairman for 20+ years.

Feb. 2026: Tom stepped down, after DOJ documents revealed his contact with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Virginia Giuffre alleged in a 2016 deposition that she had a sexual encounter with Tom.

Tom's statement upon stepping down:

"I deeply regret... my association" with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

The Pritzkers run the global Hyatt empire. They shape philanthropy, politics, and policy. Their family's executive chairman just stepped down over Epstein and Maxwell ties.

JB & MK Pritzker Family Foundation gave $53.7M in grants in 2023 alone.

Pritzker Foundation (Thomas Pritzker): $34.5M in 2023 grants.

That's $88M+ in one year flowing to organizations that advocate for the same policies Pritzker controls as governor.

Not to mention the 31 billion dollars which Rachel Pritzker advises annually in Democracy Funders Network.

JB's record for lawfare is unmatched.

Illinois has filed or joined 51 lawsuits against the Trump administration since Jan. 20, 2025… roughly one per week.

But Trump struck back.

In Dec 2025, DoJ sued Illinois and named Pritzker personally as defendant over state laws shielding immigrants from ICE at courthouses, hospitals, and day cares.

The suit claims Illinois violated the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Pritzker's response to being sued by the federal government was… celebration?

He put out a press release and went on national TV.

Because being sued by Trump is the best 2028 presidential campaign ad money can't buy.

2018: JB Pritzker spent $171.5 million of his own money, the largest self-funded campaign in U.S. history at the time.

2022: Another $152 million.

TOTAL: $323 MILLION across two campaigns for Illinois governor.

Then he told Harvard students:

"Self-financing political campaigns isn't the answer."

He said this after spending $323M to win two elections.

JB Pritzker has NOT formally announced. But:
✅ "Not decided" on 3rd term (Apr 2025)
✅ Illinois Democrats lobbying DNC to move IL primary EARLIER
✅ Carville: His chances are being "underrated"
✅ $5M to IL Future PAC (Dec. 2025)

The pitch will be: resistance hero, self-made man, policy governor, fighter.

The reality: FBI wiretaps, toilet fraud, lawfare, bankrolling a convicted felon, nine months of ignored child abuse reports, Epstein-connected family.

That's the JB Pritzker dossier.... for now. There's plenty more where that came from.

🧵END

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🧵🚨 THREAD: How the Charlottesville rally and SPLC birthed an entire billion-dollar-plus "democracy" ecosystem 🚨

11 federal counts. Wire fraud. Money laundering conspiracy. But here's what the SPLC headlines are missing:

• The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
• That informant "helped coordinate transportation" to the rally... at SPLC's direction
• There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
• His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
• The indictment says postings were made "under the supervision of the SPLC"
• Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
• SPLC installed itself as that machine's definitional gatekeeper

I report. You draw your own conclusions.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

It is NOT confirmed fact that Chesny, who appeared to be encouraging running over protesters, was SPLC's informant.

But the indictment (paragraph 11a) describes informant F-37, and it matches Chesny:

• Member of the online leadership chat that planned Unite the Right
• Attended Charlottesville (at SPLC's direction)
• Made racist postings (under SPLC's supervision)
• Helped coordinate transportation for attendees

Now here's why this matters beyond the fraud charges.

Charlottesville became the single most consequential founding event in modern American political infrastructure. Every one of these organizations says... in their own words.... that they exist or were transformed because of August 12, 2017.

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Apr 21

🧵 THREAD: The true reason Pete Hegseth is being targeted is because he's standing between President Trump and a coup

@PeteHegseth named the institutions... CFR, Brookings, the general class... in 37 seconds in a video by @Liz_Wheeler . Within 72 hours of his nomination, a color revolution planning document cited him as an insider threat.

They didn't go after him because of drinking. They didn't go after him because of women. They went after him because every color revolution manual ever written says the same thing: you cannot topple a government unless the security forces defect. And a loyal Secretary of Defense is the one person who makes sure they don't.

I have the receipts. Their own documents. Their own training sessions. Their own words on camera.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

@PeteHegseth @Liz_Wheeler This is not my theory. This is theirs.

Erica Chenoweth and Maria Stephan — the two most cited scholars in the color revolution field — studied 323 regime change campaigns. Their finding:

Security force defections make campaigns FORTY-SIX TIMES more likely to succeed.

@PeteHegseth @Liz_Wheeler So what did co-author Maria Stephan do next?

She became Chief Organizer of the Horizons Project. And on July 16, 2025, she trained New Kings participants on video.

"Security forces refused to obey orders to repress protesters."

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Apr 16

🚨🧵 THREAD: Braver Angels says they're bipartisan and just bringing people together. Their own leadership coordinates with an anti-Trump political infrastructure network.🚨

This thread is not about BA's members. Many are sincere, and I thank @wilksopinion and @JohnRWoodJr for communicating with me.

This is about the infrastructure steering them: IMIP.

On August 18, 2025, Harry Boyte, a former Democratic Socialists of America board member, YES, that DSA announced Maury Giles' new role as Braver Angels CEO on video and their shift in strategy from depolarization to civic action:

"David has put together a featured plenary at the National Conference on Citizenship... which will be a launch of a new stage for Braver Angels that some of us have been working on for a while."

IMIP is the Inter-Movement Impact Project. It coordinates BA's strategic direction. Its own May 2025 document quotes David Brooks approvingly:

"Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits."

Braver Angels' members are bipartisan. Their leadership is adjacent to anti-Trump infrastructure. This thread has all the receipts.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

@wilksopinion @JohnRWoodJr IMIP's own document from May 5, 2025 quotes David Brooks and calls for a nationwide civic uprising:

"Short term: Stop Trump. Foil his efforts. Pile on the lawsuits. Turn some of his followers against him."

Then: "IMIP has been working to help answer [this] since late 2017."

@wilksopinion @JohnRWoodJr Walt Roberts runs IMIP. June 30, 2025:

"We've adopted Rachel Kleinfeld's strategy number four as our thing... a broad-based, multi-stranded, pro-democracy movement."

Flood the country with NGOs (including Braver Angels) is strategy #4. What are the other four strategies?

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Apr 15

Hello Mr. Woods, (1/4)

I appreciate you engaging, sincerely. You're one of the few people in this space who actually responded, and your tone was decent. So I want to return the courtesy... and this is my first multi-part Hello.

You wrote: "Is any organized effort that involves people working from across the aisle necessarily a conspiracy?"

No. It isn't. And I haven't called it one. I've called it what it is: a funded, coordinated, strategically managed field.

Let me start with you.

You are the National Ambassador of Braver Angels. Braver Angels pulled in $5,651,273 in 2024, up from $958,681 in 2019... mostly from major foundations.

But your public videos repeatedly frame it as a "grassroots" or "national citizens" movement.

These two things cannot both be true. A $5.6 million-per-year operation funded predominantly by major foundations is not a grassroots citizens movement. It is a professionally managed nonprofit. There is nothing wrong with that... unless you describe it as something it isn't.

(2/4)
Now, here's where it gets interesting. And here's where I think you may genuinely not know the full picture.

In the above video clip, you say:

"We are in this moment where the depolarization movement I think is beginning to coalesce. I mean, I think you and I are in a position to sort of feel it. Braver Angels, Millennial Action Project, all of the amazing organizations in New Pluralists, National Conversations Project."

You named New Pluralists by name. So let's talk about what New Pluralists actually is.

In 2017, Mark Gerzon, president of the Mediators Foundation, consultant to the United Nations Development Programme, distinguished fellow at the EastWest Institute, organized a private meeting of major political funders at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Pocantico Conference Center. Representatives of both the Koch and Soros networks were in the room. The project was co-launched by Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Out of that meeting came the New Pluralists.

Today, New Pluralists is a funder collaborative, not a standalone nonprofit. It is fiscally sponsored by Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Templeton, Hewlett, Einhorn, Fetzer, Klarman, Lubetzky, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund are all partners. MacKenzie Scott gave $4 million. The stated goal is $100 million over a decade.

Braver Angels is listed as one of approximately 60 "Field Builders." So is Tim Shriver's Dignity Index. So is Horizons Project. So is David French.

The same foundations that fund the New Pluralists collaborative also fund Braver Angels directly. Templeton gave $1.26 million to Braver Angels. Hewlett gave at least $75,000 plus undisclosed seed funding. They are also governing partners of New Pluralists. The money goes to the funder collaborative AND to the organizations the collaborative funds. It is the same pipeline.

You described this as "a moment where the depolarization movement is beginning to coalesce." New Pluralist's strategic plan describes it as a $100 million coordinated investment in field infrastructure. Both descriptions are accurate. The difference is yours sounds organic. Theirs sounds like what it is.

(3/4)
You wrote: "I do know Tim Shriver. He and I did a Braver Angels podcast together."

Good. Then you know who runs the Dignity Index.

The Dignity Index is operated by Project Unite. Its theoretical framework was developed by Donna Hicks, a Harvard specialist in international conflict resolution. Its framework was designed for mediating foreign wars. Then it was applied to scoring American political speech on a 1-8 contempt-to-dignity scale. In Utah. And it was piloted at UVU, the same campus where Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

One of the official websites to come out of the Biden White House's "United We Stand" summit was dignity[.]us. That URL now points to the Dignity Index.

Braver Angels has a formal partnership with the Dignity Index. You announced it. The pledge: "connect all 124 Braver Angels alliances" with Dignity Index training.

You wrote in your thread: "The Dignity Index, as I understand it, is meant to be a tool for holding all politicians accountable."

With respect... "as I understand it" is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The Dignity Index was built on a foreign conflict resolution framework, launched from a White House summit that identified populist movements as domestic threats, and piloted in the same Utah institutional ecosystem that was hosting MWEG conferences for three consecutive years at UVU. None of that requires a conspiracy. All of it is documented. Most of it is on their own websites.

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Apr 14

🧵🚨 THREAD: Charlie Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University. Within TWO HOURS, leaders of 7 "bridge-building" organizations assembled on a conference call. Why so fast? Because UVU was THEIR campus. 🚨

This is Maury Giles, incoming CEO of Braver Angels, admitting on camera at the National Conference on Citizenship:

"Within two hours of the assassination, a group of us, all Utahns, we gathered on a call. We'd become friends over the last 5 years through our work in the community. And we also happen to be leaders in seven different national organizations that work in civic renewal."

Two hours. Seven national organizations. But this wasn't a spontaneous reaction to a tragedy. This was a network protecting its home turf. Because UVU wasn't just the place where Kirk was shot. It was the institutional center of the entire bridge-building / Dignity Index apparatus... and had been for years.

And the kicker?

These seven national organizations don't hide their own intent: replicate color revolution tactics in the United States. And, yes, that includes MWEG - Mormon Women for Ethical Government.

I have the receipts... they all admitted this on camera.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

MWEG on their own GROW video:

"UVU has sponsored for us for the past three years so that we can have it there on their campus."

UVU SPONSORED their annual conference for three consecutive years. UVU is not a neutral venue in this story. It's a partner.

A speaker on MWEG's own Civics Learning Week video from 2023 admits she got a faculty position at UVU partly BECAUSE she was involved with Braver Angels... the same organization whose incoming CEO organized the two-hour call after Kirk was killed.

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Apr 4

🧵DC JURY POOL THREAD: DC students can't read. But they can convict.

DC spends more per student than anywhere in America, $31,629/year.

Most kids can't read at grade level.

But DCPS found the time to make progressive activist training mandatory for every student, grades 6-12.

Those students become DC jurors. Full receipts below.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread. 👇

DC is where federal cases against political figures are tried. All 1,400+ January 6 prosecutions. Stone. Bannon. Navarro. Trump's own federal indictment.

The jury pool draws ONLY from DC residents.

DC voted 92.1% for Biden in 2020. 5.4% for Trump.

The DC Circuit ruled in 2024 (US v. Webster) that this political composition does not make DC juries unfair.

That case effectively foreclosed ALL venue challenges for Jan 6 and politically sensitive federal cases.

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