Davids Daily Dose - Pritzker speech

A must read - Heather Cox Richardson covers a rousing speech from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on fighting Trump. 

The speech is brilliant, just the kind of message we need, which is to fight, fight, fight.

Read this first.

There has been a change afoot in the Democratic Party for a while now as its leaders shift from trying to find common ground with Republicans to standing firmly against MAGAs and articulating their own vision for the United States.

That shift burst dramatically into the open last night when Democratic Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker gave a barn-burning speech to Democrats in New Hampshire. After walking out to the American Authors song “Go Big or Go Home,” Pritzker urged Democrats to stop listening to “do-nothing political types” who are calling for caution at a time when Americans are demanding urgent action, and to “fight—EVERYWHERE AND ALL AT ONCE.”https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-28-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=20533&post_id=162390403&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjozOTYxMTgzLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNjIzOTA0MDMsImlhdCI6MTc0NTkxMTA0NCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ4NTAzMDQ0LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA1MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.MJLFQ-WZEd_2RKRvmjtCuHyGS_wYdLCmjU77K4h7bPs&r=2cwgv&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Did the Times cover the same speech? 

Sort of, but then off they go into the weeds of the 2028 election [if there is one]. 

The Times is the elite pundit class ruminating on politics as usual, when we need to be fully aware we are a 

hair's breadth away from a fascist state. This is our MSM to a T.

Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois strode into a ballroom filled with top New Hampshire Democrats on Sunday and by the end of his nearly 30-minute speech had them ready to storm the political barricades against President Trump.

“It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once,” he told the group of Democratic activists, officials and donors, who jumped to their feet with hoots and applause. “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.”

“The reckoning is finally here,” he declared.

For the Trump administration, of course, but also for his own party.

In the fight over the future of the Democratic Party, Mr. Pritzker has emerged as a leader of an insurgent faction calling for a full-throated, unflinching barrage of attacks on Mr. Trump, his Republican allies and their right-wing agenda.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/27/us/politics/jb-pritzker-2028-new-hampshire-trump-democrats.html?searchResultPosition=3

The Guardian is a little better, but not much......

They have to drag "Presidential contender" into the story early on.....

Illinois’s Democratic governor, JB Pritzker, scorched Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday night, calling for “mass protests” and declaring that Republicans “cannot know a moment of peace” during a fiery speech in New Hampshire that immediately sparked presidential speculation.

“It’s time to fight everywhere and all at once,” Pritzker said to a ballroomfilled with Democratic activists, officials and donors. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now.”

The billionaire heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune addressed more than 800 people at the New Hampshire Democratic party’s annual McIntyre-Shaheen dinner – a state traditionally crucial to the early cycle of presidential primaries and a launching pad for anyone with White House ambitions.

“These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” Pritzker said. “They must understand that we will fight their cruelty with every megaphone and microphone that we have.”

Pritzker’s appearance marked the first major foray by a potential 2028 presidential contender into an early primary state, though Pritzker insisted he remains focused on 2026 midterm elections.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/28/jb-pritzker-speech