John Ping for District 90

02/01/2026

Thank you to everyone who came out for this important conversation! It was great to meet so many voters who are ready for change!

01/29/2026

See you Saturday in Roscoe:

01/23/2026

When i started my first factory job at the age of 19 and I learned about grievance time off. I learned that by lay you are only entitled to 3 days off for a close family member. That is not enough time to properly process the death of an immediate family member. That is why I want to propose a state law that extends grievances time off to three weeks.

We are not machines, we are emotional beings. Often times we are forced to put our emotions on hold during devastating moments in our life’s for our employers. I feel our employers should respect our time of morning and three days is not enough time to grieve a mother, father, grandparent, spouse , or child. The heartache from a such a loss cannot be mended in three days. Our employers expect us to care about them; they can care about us.

01/18/2026

It has come to my attention that some people think I am miserable because I post about politics. That I have a miserable life with nothing better to do. I wish that was the case. I post about politics because I want people to care. I want people to know that what is happening is not normal and should not be a thing. That the only time stuff like this happens is in fascist regimes, and in America to all people of color. But this shouldn’t be a reality. That if America is to live up to its ideals, it requires all of us who care even a little about the world that Dr.King spoke of to try just a little bit harder than those that think he was a bad guy, like Charlie Kirk thought.

I do this because I care about people. I am trying to bring the atrocities done by this administration to people’s attention as much as I think Dr. King would in this age. I do this because I want other people to challenge those in their lives to be better. It doesn’t make me bitter that I do this. What makes me bitter is that I have people who attack me, attack my character, attack me education, but won’t attack the information I present. People who claim to be my friends, but then dismiss the gift of knowledge that I bring; and instead choose to support the same movement that cheered when dogs were sicked upon Dr. King and his people and it evident because they cheer when ICE beats a protestor and say they deserve to get shot by a cop. The enemy of his day is still alive and still fighting to make others less equal.

People, my life is miserable because millions of people have shouted from the rooftops how important it is that those of you who don’t vote to vote, and how important it that those of you who support MAGA rethink your positions and here we are. I am miserable because it has been 70 years and we are still fighting the same fight.

Dr. King had a dream, and I have that same dream. Dr. King told me, in his letter from Birmingham, that unless white folks like me don’t start educating my fellow white folks then our dream would not be a reality. He told me to forget a false peace, for a false peace, a peace for the sake of peace, is an injustice for it does not bring justice to those that hurt. He told me, as a follower of his vision that I must make some noise and make other white people uncomfortable with the truth.

So if I am bitter and miserable it is because my fellow white man eiher doesn’t care or would rather follow a convicted racist who thinks the civil rights act was bad and not a man who advocate for the civil rights of others. And if you care just a little, unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,nothing is going to get better. It's not. If you’re not angey you’re not listening it is your civic obligation to be paying attention. I don’t care if you are republican or democratic. I care about if can we respect other people’s lives and recognize that America has been taken over by the fascist Dr. King fought to suppress in his day.

Be better. Be like Dr.King. Make some noise through your voice and presence. Challenge those around you that seek to turn America back instead of walking forward together as brothers and sisters

And as your elected leader I will fight for equality that Dr. King fought for.

01/17/2026

Congratulations to the Clean Slate coalition for their powerful advocacy ensuring that Illinois is coming closer to being a state where restorative justice is the law of the land and people who have served their time can live their lives! So glad to see this signed into law today!

01/16/2026

American workers are taking home the smallest slice of the economic pie in history. One year into Trump's regime, the economic consequences are as clear as day: four out of five working class people are suffering while the top 1% capture a greater slice of the pie than they ever have.

This is what those ICE raids on working class communities, farms, and construction sites is all about: scaring the living hell out of workers and siphoning income and wealth to the rapacious billionaire class at a frenzied pace.

For 80% of American households, we are already in a deep recession even if the indicators say otherwise. It's often said America has 'two economies' but this is pure myth. We have one economy, it's just the ownership class has installed a regime which only looks after their interests.

Behind the regime's ICE raids, DOGE cuts, Project 2025, and gutting healthcare is a clear agenda to eviscerate working people's livelihoods. This is the result.
As your State Representatives I will work to bring back Unions to the state. Because a rising tide raises all ships.

01/15/2026

The phrase "One of Ours, All of Yours" is a fascist slogan, espousing the historical practice of collective punishment. This is a fascist tenet that basically states "If you harm one of ours, we will harm all of yours", implying the "preferred" people's lives are more valuable than "other" lives.

This is a practice the N***s carried out during the occupations of France, Yugoslavia, etc during WWIl where the killing of one German soldier would result in the ex*****on of many civilians or the destruction of entire villages.
Other fascist regimes had similar policies, such as the Spanish Falange in the 1930s.
Incidentally, collective punishment is forbidden under Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

And our government is using this fascist dog whistle slogan. And my opponent John M. Cabello supports this administration’s embracement of fascism. If you go to his page he has pictures of him and Noem together. As your representative I will do everything in my ability to keep ICE out of our state.

01/13/2026

Illinois is leading the way for a more just and fair pretrial system. Communities with the most resources are the safest, and the Pretrial Fairness Act has ensured that millions of dollars stayed in neighborhoods that need them most, instead of people having to buy their freedom without ever having been convicted of crimes.

Five years ago today, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Pretrial Fairness Act as part of the SAFE-T Act. For more than five years leading up to that historic moment, communities across our state organized and advocated to end money bail, the practice of charging legally innocent people for their freedom while awaiting trial. The 40 member organizations of the Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice were joined by more than 200 organizations in supporting the Pretrial Fairness Act.

On this anniversary, we look back on what we said about the importance of this win in its immediate aftermath:

More than a quarter of a million people are incarcerated in Illinois’ county jails every year, and 90% of them are locked up while still awaiting trial. The majority of people in Illinois jails are incarcerated only because they can’t afford to pay a money bond. For decades, wealth-based pretrial incarceration has destabilized communities across Illinois by causing people to lose their jobs, housing, and even custody of their children. The Pretrial Fairness Act’s passage will ensure that no one is caged in the state of Illinois simply because they cannot afford to pay a money bond.

Five years later, hundreds of millions of dollars that would have been used to purchase the presumption of innocence are instead staying in our state’s most marginalized communities. Judges receive more information and are getting more time to make pretrial release and detention decisions. And the biggest critique of the law, that it would cause “the end of days,” has proven to be nothing more than racist fear mongering.

In the over two years since the law went into effect, fewer people are being incarcerated awaiting trial and communities across our state have seen a significant decrease in both violent and property crime. The people who’ve benefitted from the law are also showing that the system is working. In our state’s largest court system, the vast majority of people on pretrial release are succeeding: 94% of the more than 130,000 people released pretrial have not been charged with new offenses against a person.

We must remember that the Pretrial Fairness Act was passed in direct response to the largest civil rights protests in our country's history, which erupted after the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Illinois' Legislative Black Caucus heard the calls from our communities and responded boldly, making Illinois a national leader in the fight for pretrial reform.

Five years later though, this historic civil rights legislation is still under attack—not because of any failure of the law but from pressure created by years of fear mongering from Republicans, law enforcement officials, and now the Trump administration. Instead of advocating for the resources our communities need to thrive, these entities have focused on spreading misinformation and weaponizing individual acts of violence with no connection to the Pretrial Fairness Act.

We are calling on elected officials to continue to meet the moment. For the last five years, members of the General Assembly have bravely defended this legislation. Now is not the time to capitulate to lies, hate, and racism. On this anniversary, we urge the members of the 104th General Assembly to stand strong against calls to roll back the Pretrial Fairness Act. Our communities will be right there with you.

Read this post our blog: https://endmoneybond.org/five-years-after-the-passage-of-the-pretrial-fairness-act/

01/12/2026

Save the date!

‘Meet the Candidates Forum’ Saturday, January 31, 9am-11am at Roscoe Township Community Center 4652 Hononegah Rd, Roscoe

01/12/2026

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01/12/2026

Fascism is not just going door to door like ICE is doing in Minnesota. It is men and women who are made targets by the government for doing their job and not what their nations leader commands of them.

We need to stop thinking of this has an obey one person, obey a party, or suffer. We not to stop thinking if people just would comply there would be no problem. That is not what America is about. Americans don’t obey to the sake of obeying. Americans are supposed to stand firm and fight this. When those of us who see the roots of fascism spread it is our responsibility to challenge it in the people we see infected with the fungus that decays those infected from the inside. When we don’t acknowledge that the infection is in our face by saying we are apolitical we are saying we are complicit in the events that occur.

This isn’t how my country is supposed to behave. And it’s up to you to keep this behavior in check. Write or call your local and federal officials and say you will not stand for this behavior.

And this November be sure to vote out republicans for their approval of this unAmerican behavior.