We have footage. AIPAC had a Jewish man arrested during a sunrise service, sit in for sitting at the door and asking relevant questions. Here it is. [00:00:15] AIPAC is having me arrested for sitting outside their door, simply trying to ask, why are they spending $19 million with Shady Shell PAC? Can I help you? I will leave when AIPAC leads our democracy. AIPAC has spent over $19 million in Illinois Democratic primary. [00:00:33] This is a corruption of our elections. We want out of our democracy and out of our elections in Illinois. Illinois voters should decide not billionaires and super PACs. Critical mass. Here we go. So AIPAC has a Jewish Sunrise Movement member arrested, [00:00:55] while conducting a sit in, they were conducting a sit in in protest to outside influence in local elections. You don't get more democratic. No, no more of an expression of of democracy [00:01:12] than wanting pure democracy to emerge. And that's the will of the people. Okay. So they're outside AIPAC Chicago offices. Sunrise movement members were arrested after the Israeli lobby group. [00:01:29] And keep in mind, they are lobbying for the government and the military industrial complex of Israel. Alright. They called the cops on them. Now, are these Jewish brothers and sisters anti-Semitic? [00:01:48] It's a relevant question. Of course not. Of course not. It's a silly argument, no more than anyone else who really believes in more purity in politics rather than corrupt corporate money and special interest groups. [00:02:05] They're not anti-Semitic because they choose to push an agenda that would allow the best public servants to emerge, rather than the ones who have the most money from influences [00:02:20] that are outside of their local community. Okay. The group wrote about the incident on Facebook, quote, Chicago voters came to apex office to ask why they're dumping millions [00:02:35] into dark money super PACs to buy out. Now, this is interesting. Chicago election. Okay. AIPAC closed the door and called the cops. It's five days until Election Day, and these brave action takers need your help to get the word out in Chicago about apex corrupt candidates. [00:02:52] AIPAC and is Maga billionaire backers are trying to buy our elections by pushing endless war in Palestine and with Iran Overwhelmingly, voters don't want to support AIPAC candidates, but AIPAC has [00:03:09] started funneling its bribes into PACs with names like Chicago women to confuse voters and spread misinformation. We told you about this in a story not too long ago involving, unfortunately, our dear brother, Hakeem Jeffries. [00:03:28] How the brand of AIPAC has become so questionable that they are now utilizing other ways in order to do this. All right. There's more. As we pointed out before, AIPAC has been involved in three competitive House primaries in Illinois. [00:03:46] The AIPAC linked candidates, all Democrats, include Cook County Commissioner Donna Miller in the second district. You got Chicago City Treasurer Melissa Conyers Ervin in the seventh, former U.S. Rep Melissa Bean in the eighth and State Senator Laura Fine in the ninth. [00:04:07] Conyers Ervin was recently called out during the debate about this. Here it is. I'll never take a single penny from corporate PACs or Apex. Not now, not ever. But I want to be very clear that there are candidates up here who are bought and sold. Melissa Conyers Ervin is one of them. And I'll tell you right now, Melissa, you should resign from your post because [00:04:25] you have been a horrible city treasurer. And on top of that, you also take AIPAC money and you are not here to represent the interests of the people that are right before you. In addition to that, Jason Friedman didn't have the courage to show up. Guess what? He's getting AIPAC aligned money as well. And you know, Anthony, I really like you. [00:04:43] But I also know Michael and Carrie Sachs gave you $7,000 and they are some of the biggest donors. So I want to know if you're going to return that money. That folks can fix their mouths to say anything. What we hear this evening. [00:05:01] AIPAC was originally with Jason Friedman. It was widely reported when he started looking like he didn't have a path. They hedge their bets and they decided to buy a black woman candidate. I am a black woman born in Inglewood, raised on the West Side. I don't have to prove anything to anyone and that I will not turn my back [00:05:22] on my community. If you think that I'm going to go to Washington, D.C. And vote against myself, that is insane. So I'm the only candidate up here that AIPAC actually spent money to oppose. Melissa Conyers Ervin, you do not get to hide behind a black face in our community [00:05:40] when you are selling us out. You do not get to take on Donald Trump when you're being funded by the very people that Trump is being funded by. I'm from Inglewood. That's why they bought you, madam. [00:05:56] That's why they purchased you. It's your branding of disguised authenticity. I'm from Inglewood. Come on. We fell for that before. [00:06:16] Listen now. If we can't trust you to say no to the influence prior to getting into office, we have no reason to trust you to say no to these influences. [00:06:33] While you are in office, it's not complicated. It seems like there may be a more complex answer to this political thing. It's not. If you have integrity walking in the room, you got integrity walking out. It's the people that don't have integrity walking in the room that get exploited. [00:06:54] AIPAC is supporting them in two main ways. The first is steering AIPAC donors to the candidates through online fundraisers. We talked about this before in-person events and email solicitations in all 1722 donors to AIPAC or its main super PAC had contributed to at least one of the [00:07:12] four candidates by the start of the year, according to WBEZ analysis. Of those donors, 1521, 88.3% lived outside of the state, and nearly a third contributed to more than one of the candidates. [00:07:29] The AIPAC linked donations totaled nearly 2.9 million. Candidates receiving those donations have depicted the link to AIPAC as a coincidence. The second way AIPAC has propelled the Chicago area candidates [00:07:44] is through super PACs, which cannot donate directly to candidates or coordinate with them, but can raise and spend unlimited sums of money on their behalf. AIPAC tied super PACs have spent $10.8 million in TV ads, phone outreach [00:08:00] and mailers for the four candidates, according to federal filings. Keep in mind they represent a foreign government. Would this be permissible if they represented Russia, China, Japan, Germany? [00:08:19] Come on man. And now they are utilizing a pilot study in Chicago, possibly to see how their influence in major city, major cities can develop. A bench for them to not only enterprise in those local areas, but to also [00:08:34] recruit to run for higher office. Just speculation. Jordan. Thoughts? I mean, yeah, you see the reaction from the crowd when she tries to use her identity as a justification. Right. And I'm encouraged by people not being moved by that. [00:08:54] Plainly when there are deeper substantive issues here. We're talking about an organization ultimately supporting the goals and objectives of another country's government, and that government is currently committing a genocide in Gaza and has [00:09:13] dragged us into a new war with Iran. And you hear across the spectrum, pearl clutching, well, I'm not a fan of this government. Then why are you taking money from a special interest group that is specifically designed and formulated for the support of that government? [00:09:33] Right. Not only that, if you're a Democrat taking AIPAC money, you're taking money from the same organization that supported dozens of people, dozens of Republicans who supported overturning the results of the 2020 election. [00:09:49] They don't care about our democracy. They care about another country's government. And if you are in the same camp as a group of people that supported overturning the results of 2020, you have no business running for office in 2026. [00:10:06] Farewell said. Farewell said.