Data centers use millions of gallons of water. So why are they fighting to keep those numbers secret? Richard Chew sits down with Illinois House Majority Leader Robyn Gabel to break down why data centers push back on regulations while refusing to report their actual water usage.

Jamison Firestone, author of the new memoir "Rule of Lies," talks with WCPT's Joan Esposito about how business partner's Sergei Magnitsky's murder in prison led to a huge campaign against those who killed him. "We started to chase them."

Iowa State Sen. Catelin Drey (D) tells WCPT's Richard Chew that Iowans are "beyond frustrated" with health care costs and the state GOP passing an HMO tax increase. "They also are feeling quite hopeless when it comes to being able to afford a good life right now."

"One day, our offices are raided by 35 plainclothes policemen... They ripped apart my office..." Jamison Firestone, author of the new memoir "Rule of Lies," talks about how police raided his office and convicted killers took over his client's company in a tax fraud scheme.

Indiana House Minority Leader Phil GiaQuinta (D) tells WCPT's Patti Vasquez that state Democrats just need to flip four state House seats to get out of a superminority. "While we will still just be in the minority, it'll give us a lot more leverage on issues..."

Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers argues data center taxes should lower property rates instead of funding schools or fire stations: "To me, that’s important. They don’t want another school; they don’t want another fire station."

Minnesota DFL Senate candidate @peggyflanagan.bsky.social talks with WCPT's Richard Chew about the millions in special interest spending: FLANAGAN: "Deciding to not take a dime of corporate PAC money in this campaign was one of the easiest decisions that I've ever made."

Minnesota DFL Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan talks with WCPT's Richard Chew about the youth vote: "This is one of the first times, I think, in our country's history where there's real questions about whether or not our children are going to have a better life than we do."

Minnesota DFL Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan tells WCPT's Richard Chew that she's running "to make sure that people can afford the lives they want to live." "I am a kid who grew up on the margins ... You know, this feels really personal."

Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mandela Barnes tells WCPT's Richard Chew that "Democratic governors are holding the line" against the Trump administration, and there needs to be more. "If there was ever a year where a wave was necessary, it would be 2026."

Texas Senate candidate James Talarico releases an ad showcasing a mariachi band from Marfa who created four songs about him and his campaign. "¡Yi si si, yi si si con Talarico!"

After a good inflation rate report, U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) says "affordability" is a made-up term. "The Democrats invented this term 'affordability.' I just call it living."

U.S. Rep. @angiecraigmn.bsky.social (D), candidate for U.S. Senate in Minnesota, endorses a public option for Medicare: "I think we need a public option. If people want to be able to compete against, all of the rest of health care, let's let people buy into something like Medicare."

U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA) said at a meet and greet that Texas GOP Senate candidate Ken Paxton would "be a good senator." Paxton has a history of scandals and controversies. Most recently, the Texas Tribune and ProPublica reported that Paxton may have committed voter fraud.

JD VANCE IN MILWAUKEE: "I love Wisconsin, or as you guys say, "Wis-CAHN-sin."

Michigan Democratic Party Chair Curtis Hertel admits the party lost many young voters in 2024 and it's their priority to win them back. "...That's our fault that [Trump] won. And I think we have to acknowledge that as Democrats, by the way, we didn't run a good enough campaign."

Kevin M. Schultz, history professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, joins Chew's Views to discuss the early history of freedom of press in America. "It's not a clear history. There are lots of bumps in the road."

Kevin M. Schultz, history professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, joins Chew's Views to discuss how the freedom of press in America is currently being attacked via media consolidation. "[The right is] taking the sort of foundational instruments of our press."

Kevin M. Schultz, history professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, says America isn't a Christian nation since it's a nation of immigrants. "All these religious minorities have been saying for 250 years, 'Well, wait a minute, that doesn't make any sense.'"

Kevin M. Schultz, history professor at the University of Illinois Chicago, debunks the Christian nationalist myth that America's founding documents are Christian. "The Declaration of Independence ... and the Constitution, neither of those documents are very religious at all."

Will the results of the 2026 Michigan midterms determine the 2028 presidential election? Curtis Hertel, Michigan Democratic Party chair, explains why Michigan is "the tip of the spear" for the fight for America.

U.S. @pocan.house.gov (D-WI) interrogates OMB Director Russell Vought on the human toll of defunding USAID: POCAN: "Morally, isn't it wrong to facilitate the death of children?" VOUGHT: "I'm not gonna answer that question."

Yusef Jackson, president and CEO of Rainbow PUSH Coalition, talks with WCPT's Richard Chew about how Juneteenth is "one of the most important holidays in the history of America." "America today could not exist half slave, half free."

@danielbiss.bsky.social, Democratic congressional nominee in Illinois' 9th District, says Dems need to talk about their agenda. "We don't want to win and then start thinking about how to govern. We want to win and get sworn in and the starting gun goes off and we are sprinting."

@danielbiss.bsky.social, Evanston (IL) mayor and Democratic congressional nominee in Illinois' 9th District, tells WCPT's @chewsviews.bsky.social that America feels nihilistic right now because "our politicians have come to the conclusion that it is always safer to do nothing than to do something."

@keldaroys.bsky.social Wisconsin state senator & Democratic gubernatorial candidate, talks with Richard Chew about the large amount of outside spending in Wisconsin politics. "We've been fighting outside money & specifically MAGA special interest money for a long time in Wisconsin."

@danielbiss.bsky.social, Evanston (IL) mayor and Democratic nominee for Congress in IL-9, tells WCPT's Richard Chew that "the stakes are just unbelievably high right now." "We don't have the luxury of doing an okay job. We have to really, really do a lot of things effectively, quickly."

@keldaroys.bsky.social, Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate, tells WCPT's Richard Chew that leaders need to tell the truth to fight MAGA. "A big reason that Trump is effective is because he tries to create an alternative reality that makes us basically doubt what we're seeing."

Illinois Gov. Pritzker (D) highlights the work he and Dems have done to protect reproductive rights post-Dobbs: "...We're making sure that Illinois women never have to question whether their voices and their choices matter here. They do matter, and in Illinois they always will."

HOT MIC: GOP Wisconsin Assembly candidate David Daniels said he supports a near-total, six-week abortion ban while at the Neenah Farmers Market on June 13. "After six weeks, I don't think it should be allowed."