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AI, Crypto, and AIPAC ads in Illinois

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  Dark money groups are spending MILLIONS of dollars to handpick your representatives in Congress. We defeated them in New Jersey when Analilia Mejia — who doesn’t take a cent of corporate PAC money — won the primary in New Jersey’s 11th District earlier this month, but now the dark money groups are back. Now look at what’s happening in these House races in Illinois. The primary election is on March 17 — and voters are getting bombarded with political ads from groups like “FairShake”, “Elect Chicago Women”, and “Affordable Chicago Now”. The ads are in support of the opponents of Robert Peters in Illinois' 2nd district, Junaid Ahmed in Illinois’ 8th district, and Daniel Biss in Illinois’ 9th district. But who’s funding these ads? AIPAC, crypto billionaires, and the AI industry. Organizations looking to handpick representatives who will pay to play. And they are hiding their motives from voters. Their ads don’t even mention the special interests they really represent. These groups ar...