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🚨 CFR INVESTIGATES: SOCIALISM 2026 COMES TO CHICAGO — AND HASAN PIKER IS COMING WITH IT CHICAGO FLIPS RED | SEPTEMBER 2026 This weekend, Socialism 2026 comes to Chicago. And one of its featured speakers is Hasan Piker — HasanAbi, one of the most influential socialist political streamers in America. Why should Chicago voters care? Because this story is bigger than one conference. 🔴 2019 WAS A TURNING POINT IN CHICAGO In Chicago’s 2019 municipal election, six Democratic Socialists of America members won seats on the 50-member City Council, creating a significant socialist bloc inside Chicago government. Seven years later, the movement isn’t hiding its ambitions. Piker himself has discussed the Chicago City Council as an opportunity for DSA candidates to gain additional political power. 🔴 THEN THERE’S MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON This isn’t some political personality with no connection to Chicago leadership. Mayor Brandon Johnson has appeared with Piker multiple times in 2026. Earlier this year, Johnson joined Piker on Chicago’s West Side, walking through Austin while discussing politics, housing and organizing. Now Piker is returning to Chicago for a conference dedicated explicitly to socialist politics and organizing. 🔴 AND YES — THIS IS THE SAME HASAN PIKER WHO SAID: “America deserved 9/11, dude.” Piker made that statement during a 2019 livestream. For accuracy: he later said America did NOT literally deserve the terrorist attacks, apologized for the language and explained that he was attempting to criticize U.S. foreign policy. But he said it. Nearly 3,000 people were murdered on September 11, 2001. And Chicago voters have every right to ask why their mayor is politically engaging with someone who made a statement like that. 🇺🇸 CFR’S POSITION IS SIMPLE: Socialists, communists and progressives have the constitutional right to organize, speak and run for office. And WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE THEIR POLICIES OUT OF OFFICE. Chicagoans should know who is organizing, who is funding political movements, who our elected officials are aligning themselves with — and what those movements intend to do with governmental power. The question heading into 2027 isn’t whether socialism has a presence in Chicago politics. It does. The question is: HOW MUCH MORE POWER DOES THE MOVEMENT WANT — AND WILL CHICAGO VOTERS GIVE IT TO THEM? 👀 CFR IS WATCHING. 🇺🇸 CHICAGO FLIPS RED Flipsred.com #ChicagoFlipsRed

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Updated Chicago mayor rankings (by likelihood of winning): 1. Alexi Giannoulias 2. Susana Mendoza 3. Brandon Johnson Giannoulias is the clear frontrunner on money, name ID & support. Mendoza is the strongest alternative, but Kelly & Cardenas complicate her runoff path.