Blue states, cities and DC are fighting for constitutional democracy. Here’s DC suing over Trump using National Guard as an occupying force. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/04/national-guard-washington-dc-lawsuit-trump-administration 1/

J. B. Pritzker is showing some real leadership around the Texas Democratic legislators’ departure from Texas. He is assisting a group of them who travelled to to Illinois. https://apnews.com/article/us-election-2026-texas-redistricting-136cfeddc717f9fc69337bd3d39b1819

He is perhaps the only high ranking Democrat who understands the need for major cross-state cooperation between Dem governors in blue states and Dem electeds in red ones. This is how a cold civil war should be fought. 1/