America is worth fighting for

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express
their choice are prepared to choose wisely.
The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.


Martin Luther King, Jr.

To mistrust science and deny the validity of the scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You’d better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

P.J. O’Rourke


Senator Paul Simon

You need some inequality to grow…but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions

Thomas Piketty

A few wealthy individuals and corporations have bought up our private sector and now they're buying up the government. Campaign finance reform is the most important issue facing us today, because it impacts all the others.

Bernie Sanders


Dwight D. Eisenhower


Elon Musk

The Supreme Court 2013 ruling that gutted the 1965 Voting Rights Act set in motion what many feared: the subjection of minorities, seniors, and low-income Americans to unfair, punitive barriers preventing them from exercising their most basic right as American citizens.

Marc Veasey

Fighting corruption is not just good governance. It’s self defense. It’s patriotism.

Joe Biden

The Democratic Party of McHenry County