Morgan Coghill
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Morgan Coghill (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. House to represent Illinois' 10th Congressional District. He is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on March 17, 2026.[source]
Coghill completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Morgan Coghill was born in Washington, D.C. He earned a high school diploma from the Maine School of Science and Mathematics, a bachelor's degree from Beloit College in 2021, and a graduate degree from Middlebury College in 2003. Coghill's career experience includes working as a salesman.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: Illinois' 10th Congressional District election, 2026
General election
The candidate list in this election may not be complete.
The primary will occur on March 17, 2026. The general election will occur on November 3, 2026. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Austin Mink (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 10
Incumbent Brad Schneider and Morgan Coghill are running in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Illinois District 10 on March 17, 2026.
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- John Minarcik (D)
- Thomas Rudd (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 10
Carl Lambrecht is running in the Republican primary for U.S. House Illinois District 10 on March 17, 2026.
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Endorsements
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Morgan Coghill completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Coghill's responses.
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I am a progressive small business owner who is running to change the way things are done in Washington
- Economic Justice for All
- We are the land of huddled masses, yearning to breath free.
- We can give all of our kids one superpower, and that's education.
Income inequality, Government sponsored human trafficking, and Medicare for all.
Lebron James. The man is at the pinnacle of his profession, still married to his high school sweetheart, and is actively involved with his 3 children.
The musical Hamilton. Nothing makes me prouder to be an American than a message that this place is for all of us.
They need to be aggressive, and no nonsense. They are there to serve.
I am aggressive and to the point. However, I make allies wherever I go.
To promote the General Welfare. This means everyday making decisions which are the best possible ones for your district and country.
That I helped defeat MAGA economic idiocy, and show the world what true progressive populist economics look like.
I remember the Challenger explosion. I was 6 years old at the time and I was in Kindergarten.
I picked apples at an Orchard in New Gloucester, Maine. I had it for about 2 months.
The Big Short. It puts a human angle on what appeared on the outside to be a faceless disaster
The Day the Nazi died- by Chumbawamba
High anxiety, and the need for outside validation
The House of Representatives traces its heritage back to the First Continental Congress. It is the branch that has existed since before 1776. The Senate was a compromise measure.
The AI revolution and the resulting economic upheaval will be something that needs to be dealt with and quickly.
I think that 2.5 years would be a better amount, but 2 years is in the Constitution.
3 Terms for Senators, and 5 for Congressmen. This should be the upper limit of time able to serve in one post.
I want to have the smarts and courage of AOC.
I had a constituent relay to me that we had just moved jobs and was not eligible for health insurance yet. During this transition he had a motorcycle crash. The medical bills bankrupted him and he lost his house. If it had happened 4 days he would have had insurance.
Knock Knock
Who is there?
Interuppting Cow
Interuppti.......
To an extent. However, when the person on the other side of the table is not acting in good faith, it becomes necessary to push your viewpoint through.
We use this power to set priorities as to where we want to raise the revenue. We will protect the most vulnerable first. That is the priority. From there we will raise taxes on the working and middle class as a last resort.
That answer has changed for me recently. We need to be sure that all members of the the Judicial and Executive branches are living up to the ideals of the office and not undermining at every turn.
None as of yet.
Oversight, Foreign Affairs, Small Business, Energy and Commerce
With very limited exceptions, line by line budgets for all departments and agencies need to be public. This includes military spending.
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Campaign website
Coghill's campaign website stated the following:
PROSPERITY
- America is dripping with wealth, yet workers are treated as disposable...
- Billionaires gorge themselves on tax breaks and bailouts while families drown in debt. That’s not prosperity. Prosperity is wages you can live on, housing you can afford, and dignity when you retire, yet the wealthy few have robbed us blind.
- Workers built this country. We create every dollar of wealth, but the rich have rigged the system, bought the politicians, and stolen the dream.
- It ends here, and it ends now. We will tax the billionaires, break their monopolies, and put prosperity back where it belongs, in the hands of the people who build it.
JUSTICE
- America preaches “rule of law” while letting the rich and powerful break it at will...
- Police murder with impunity. ICE disappears families. Presidents launch illegal wars and walk free. Meanwhile, the poor live on scraps.
- That is not justice. It is state terror.
- Real justice means no one is above the law — not presidents, not billionaires, not cops. Real justice means ending mass incarceration, abolishing family separation, and holding every agent of abuse accountable. If the law doesn’t apply equally to everyone, it is no law at all.
FOREIGN POLICY
- For too long, U.S. foreign policy has been written by weapons manufacturers, oil giants, and lobbyists who profit from endless war...
- The result is blood on our hands, from Gaza to Yemen, to Iraq, and trillions wasted on destruction while, at home, we go without.
- This must end. We cannot bomb our way to peace. We cannot arm dictators and claim to stand for democracy. We cannot bankroll genocide and pretend to champion human rights.
- Our foreign policy must be grounded in justice. That means cutting off military aid to governments that commit war crimes. That means investing in diplomacy, humanitarian relief, and climate cooperation, not bullets and bombs. That means putting people over profit, everywhere.
- Congress must draw a line: no more blank checks for state violence, no more endless wars, no more complicity in oppression. America’s role in the world should not be imperialism. It should be solidarity.
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT
- Government is not neutral. Every day, it either protects the people or it protects the powerful. For decades, it has chosen the powerful...
- That’s why corporations poison our air, banks take our homes, and CEOs buy politicians like they’re stocking a boardroom. This is not democracy. It is legalized corruption.
- The Constitution is clear: Congress comes first. Article I created the legislature and vested all lawmaking power in it. Article II created the presidency, not as a throne, but as an office to carry out the people's laws. Presidents are not empowered to spend a single dollar without Congressional authorization. That power belongs to our representatives, and it’s high time they used it to serve working families instead of corporations, war profiteers, and billionaires.
- The role of government is simple: to defend human dignity. That means fighting for working families, not corporate profits. It means writing laws for people, not lobbyists. Anything less is surrender.
EDUCATION
- Public education is the great equalizer, and that’s why billionaires are trying to destroy it...
- They don’t want educated citizens. They want obedient workers.
- Cuts to schools, attacks on teachers, book bans, and privatization aren’t random. They are a deliberate project to keep knowledge and power out of the hands of the people.
- We will fight back. We will fully fund our schools, pay teachers what they’re worth, and guarantee every child the right to learn because education is not a business. It is a human right.
HEALTHCARE
- In the richest nation on earth, people die every day because they cannot afford a doctor...
- Families drown in debt while insurance CEOs make millions denying care. That is not healthcare. It is extortion.
- Healthcare is a human right. And anyone who says otherwise stands on the side of cruelty.
- We will end medical bankruptcy, dismantle for-profit insurance, and guarantee care for all. No exceptions. No excuses. Your life should not be a line item on someone else’s balance sheet.
LGBTQ+ RIGHTS
- The attacks on LGBTQIA+ people are not about religion or tradition...
- They are about holding power over queer and trans people and scapegoating them to divide us while the rich keep looting.
- Every time they strip away the rights of one, they are testing how much freedom they can take from all. That is why the fight for queer liberation is a fight for humanity as whole.
- We will defend LGBTQIA+ rights with no compromise. Equality means equality for everyone, always.
REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
- The war on reproductive freedom is about control, not life...
- They want to control your body, your future, your family…and they will not stop at abortion. Contraception, IVF, and even miscarriage care are under attack.
- This is authoritarianism in plain sight.
- We will fight back with everything we have. Abortion is healthcare. Bodily autonomy is non-negotiable. And no politician, no court, no extremist has the right to decide for you.
CLIMATE CHANGE
- The earth is burning while oil billionaires laugh all the way to the bank...
- This is not our distant future. It is our present reality, and every delay in addressing the climate crisis is a mass death sentence.
- We know the solutions: renewable energy, mass transit, regenerative agriculture, and a just transition for workers. What we lack is not technology. It is political courage.
- We will end fossil fuel subsidies, break the grip of polluters, and launch a Green New Deal that prioritizes survival over profit because without a livable planet, there is no economy; no freedom; no future.
SOCIAL SECURITY
- Social Security is a sacred promise: if you work your whole life, you will not be abandoned in old age...
- But billionaires want to gut it, privatize it, and gamble your future on the stock market.
- That is theft, plain and simple.
- We will protect and expand Social Security by making the wealthy pay their fair share. No retiree should ever face poverty after a lifetime of work. Dignity in old age is not a luxury. It is a right.
END THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA
- What is happening in Gaza is a genocide, and the United States is complicit in funding it.
- We must stop arming the Israeli military immediately. No more bombs. No more bullets. No more money.
- Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist allies have carried out collective punishment, mass displacement, and indiscriminate killings in full view of the world. They must be held accountable for their war crimes. Members of Congress who continue to vote for weapons shipments and monetary aid to Israel are not bystanders. They are active participants, and history will judge them for it.
- This is state violence made possible by U.S. funding, and it is a moral catastrophe in which Americans are complicit through the silence that many display to the taxes that we pay to our government. There can be no future for peace without justice for the Palestinian people, and there is no excuse for silence while genocide unfolds in full view.
- We must immediately end U.S. complicity in this horror and stand with Palestinians in their struggle for freedom and self-determination up to and including right of return.
GUN VIOLENCE
- America is drowning in gun deaths not because we lack solutions, but because extremists in power refuse to value human life over the gun lobby’s profits...
- Politicians offer “thoughts and prayers” while our children are buried. That is not leadership. That is complicity.
- Other nations have high rates of gun ownership without the epidemic of mass shootings. The difference is regulation. In America, we’ve allowed profit and paranoia to trump responsibility, and the result is blood in our classrooms, our streets, and our homes.
- We need real accountability. That means tough background checks, automatic red flags for domestic abusers, and treating gun violence as the public health crisis it is. It means restoring the CDC’s ability to investigate gun deaths. It means responsibility; if your weapon is unsecured and used in a tragedy, you are responsible. That is the true meaning of a well-regulated militia.
- And for those who refuse to take responsibility: we’ll establish a no-questions-asked buyback. No excuses. No loopholes.
- A government that chooses to protect the gun lobby over its own people is failing at its most basic duty: to safeguard life. We can end this crisis, but only if we stop letting cowards in Congress hide behind prayers while Americans die.
IMMIGRATION AND ICE ENFORCEMENT
- America’s story is an immigrant story...
- Every community, every neighborhood, and every economy in this country has been built and enriched by people who came here seeking safety, opportunity, and freedom. Yet for decades, our immigration system has been defined by cruelty and corruption; by politicians who fearmonger for votes and agencies that brutalize with impunity.
- ICE has become a symbol of that cruelty. Families are torn apart, children are locked in cages, and neighbors are kidnapped in the dead of night, all under the banner of “law and order.” But there is no order in terror. There is no law in abuse. When an agency operates without accountability; when it violates due process and human dignity, it does not keep us safe. It erodes our society.
- We must dismantle this infrastructure of state terror. That means ending for-profit detention, halting raids that target working families, and repealing policies that criminalize migration itself. It means shifting resources from cages to community; investing in legal aid, refugee resettlement, and humane border management grounded in international law, not xenophobia.
- Immigration is not a threat. It is a promise: the promise that America can be a home for all who seek a better life. We will fight to restore that promise by creating a fair, transparent path to citizenship for undocumented residents, by protecting Dreamers and asylum seekers, and by ensuring that no human being is treated as “illegal” for crossing an imaginary line in search of hope and dignity.
- The measure of our nation is how we treat the vulnerable. If we claim to believe in liberty and justice for all, then that must include every immigrant, every refugee, and every person whose only “crime” is the pursuit of a future. This era of fear, cages, and cruelty must end.
RUSSIA & UKRAINE
- I lived in both Russia and Ukraine. I speak Russian, and Ukrainian, and I have friends on both sides of the border...
- I know the human cost of war, and I believe in peace, but peace should not be built on the rubble of a sovereign nation.
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a gray area. It is a clear violation of international law, human rights, and democratic values. Ukrainians are not asking others to fight on their behalf. What they are asking for are the tools to defend their homes, their families, and their future. As peace progressives, we must reject false equivalence and passive neutrality. Standing with Ukraine is not warmongering. It is moral clarity.
Here’s what that looks like:
- Redirect frozen Russian assets to fund humanitarian aid, defense infrastructure, and reconstruction in Ukraine.
- Provide defensive support: air defense systems, protective gear, and logistical aid to help Ukraine protect civilians and infrastructure.
- Share intelligence to support Ukraine's defense.
- Expand economic pressure through sanctions and tariffs that weaken the Kremlin’s war machine
This is not a proxy war. It is a people’s fight for dignity and sovereignty. If we fail to support Ukraine now, we will have a wider conflict later; one that will engulf Poland, the Baltics, and beyond.
— Morgan Coghill's campaign website (February 26, 2025)
Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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2026 Elections
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Footnotes
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