He wasn't a states rights advocate either, necessarily, but what he was focused on was doing the right things for the people of Illinois. And again, John Peter Altgeld, same thing was standing up for the people of Illinois. You know, John Peter Altgeld, our governor, in the late 1890s or mid-1890s, I should say, actually called out our National Guard to protect the strikers at the Pullman factories in Illinois when the federal government was sending troops to stand on the side of industrialists against the workers. And you can. That certainly was a state's rights endeavor, but also so much an analogy for what we've had to do to fight Donald Trump in this era of ICE and CBP and their attacks on our states. (06:52–07:17)
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