Extreme Stratton

The most progressive U.S. Senate candidate in the race.

Stratton was elected to the Illinois House by some of the state's most progressive unions, especially the Chicago Teachers Union.

Stratton has backed some of the most progressive politicians in the country, including Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and former Cook County State's Attorney Kim Foxx.

Stratton has been endorsed by progressive leaders including Elizabeth Warren, Jan Schakowsky, and Stacy Davis Gates with the Illinois Federation of Teachers.

She barely served one term in the Illinois House and was largely invisible as Pritzker's Lieutenant Governor.

Her inexperience showed in the primary, where she called to abolish ICE and shift immigration enforcement to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. She is not ready for the U.S. Senate.

Stratton has made it clear she has no interest in bipartisanship, refusing to list a single area she would work on with Republicans or the President.

Stratton proposes tripling the federal minimum wage to $25/hour, a position more extreme than Bernie Sanders' plan and criticized as unrealistic by Democrats.

Stratton has refused to support efforts to root out waste, fraud, and abuse in federal programs, risking support for those who need it most. Source pending

Stratton has backed pro-criminal policies and politicians, including support aligned with the SAFE-T Act, Kim Foxx, and "defund the police" positions.

Stratton has actively increased the cost-of-living for working families:

Her administration has worked to close domestic energy producers and backed an extreme green agenda while proposing higher taxes on energy producers.
She supports replacing Obamacare with a single-payer "Medicare for All" model tied to major tax increases and trillions in projected costs.
Her administration supported and signed dozens of tax and fee increases while she backed additional increases, including progressive tax proposals.
She attacked federal tax relief proposals for families and seniors and supported increases on small businesses, manufacturers, and farmers.
Her administration passed hundreds of unfunded mandates that place added pressure on local property taxes.

Stratton's administration has spent nearly $3 billion in tax dollars on services for non-citizens.

Stratton opposes fair maps and redistricting reform, and her administration signed what critics called one of the most gerrymandered maps in America.

If elected, another Illinois power center would be controlled by Pritzker-aligned leadership, further reducing checks and balances in state and federal representation.

If Stratton, from Chicago, replaces Dick Durbin from Springfield, all statewide elected officials would be from Chicago and Cook County, leaving the other 101 counties without representation.

Everyday Illinoisans want common-sense leaders, not extreme politicians more interested in pushing political agendas than helping lower the cost-of-living for working families.