FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage Blacks to be LGBTQers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/15/juneteenth-events-2026/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Brave Space Alliance envisions Chicago as a place where the lives of Black and brown LGBTQ people are protected, valued and thriving. As part of their ongoing initiatives, the nonprofit will launch “Embodied, a Juneteenth and Pride Month Celebration.” This performance-forward event features a mix of drag, burlesque, music and dance performances by some of the city’s most celebrated Black transgender, gender nonconforming and queer artists. The inaugural event’s lineup includes performers like Sasha Love, Luv Ami-Stoole, Trans Voices Cabaret, Mo Swallowtail and the Tap’Root Fluidity, and Po’Chop in what is sure to be a celebratory and revelatory event. 7:30 pm June 20 at Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport St.; the event is 18+, more information at ticketweb.com )
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/15/immigrant-moms-worry-babies-could-be-left-stateless-as-they-await-supreme-court-decision-on-birthright
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/daca-news-recipients-face-donald-trump-administration-processing-delays-uncertainty-legal-challenges-continue/19303983/
— California Gov. Gavin Newsom says DOJ is investigating him and his wife. DD: To get rid of me, my IRS superiors not only investigated my travel vouchers and education deductions, they disallowed them.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/california-gov-gavin-newsom-says-department-justice-is-investigating-wife/19303418/
NBC5
— New head of Illinois GOP discusses state of the party in the Land of Lincoln. The new head of the Illinois Republican Party sat down with Mary Ann Ahern to discuss President Trump, and the state of the GOP in today’s political climate in Illinois.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/new-head-of-illinois-gop-discusses-state-of-the-party-in-the-land-of-lincoln/3949044/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxmYDG38Fg
FOX32
— Bob Grogan elected as new Chair of Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-nmyzv71x0n9w4mhg
— Teen takeovers: What’s driving them and how they can be prevented. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? The Democrat Party platform drives Democrat teen takeovers. It destroys traditional marriage and family. It destroys personal responsibility. It destroys respect for the rule of law.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-w84czbsm358oipul
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/bob-grogan-elected-chair-illinois-213556651.html
WGN RADIO
— Time to invest in a whole-home generator.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/lou-manfredini-time-to-invest-in-a-whole-home-generator/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WJBC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/prairie-pride-coalition-supporting-lgbtq-community-since-1995/11886502/
https://www.wjbc.com/2026/06/15/53399/
Q98.5
— DD: Because pot pushers are losing sales to intoxicating hemp sellers, Pritzker cracks down on intoxicating hemp sellers.
https://q985online.com/new-illinois-hemp-thc-law-minors/
IPM NEWS
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Blacks have already received many trillions of dollars in AA and DEI, that is, they have already received many trillions of dollars in reparations. My Democrat Black GAO subordinate is just one example. My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my Democrat Black GAO subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. Democrats make Republicans pay the price of AA and DEI, that is, they make Republicans pay reparations. They especially make Republicans who are the following pay the price of AA and DEI: conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/should-descendants-of-enslaved-black-americans-receive-reparations-an-illinois-commission-wants-your-opinions/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Senate race: Don Tracy, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has beefed up his political team, hiring nationally known Republican strategists Joe King and Scott Schweitzer of The Strategy Group Company as general consultants and Illinois political consultant Dennis Cook, founder of Strive Strategies, to his campaign. The move came after Collin Corbett of Cor Strategies exited after the primary in order to make an independent run for governor.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/16/three-decades-in-one-question-left-00962697
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your critics/opponents want the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to be? My critics/opponents want the IRP to be the Illinois Democrat Lite Party. But political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. What do you hope that the IRP will do differently under Bob Grogan? I hope that it will dump its Democrat Lite approach and instead promote the Republican Party platform, and especially its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Of course, I certainly hope that the IRP will encourage everyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will Bob Grogan treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters? According to my critics/opponents, I have caused all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They have had their operatives and their dupes take many bid adverse actions against me since 2000. They had them a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) rudely defeat my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position in 2004.
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you have in common with Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman Bob Grogan? Grogan and I are both long-time DuPage County residents, Republican Precinct Committeemen, CPAs, Certified Fraud Examiners, and members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and Illinois CPA Society. Grogan was my IRP State Central Committee member 2018-2022. I worked hard to elect and to reelect Grogan as DuPage County Auditor in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you wanted to run for a government office? Since I was 49 years old in 1997, my DuPage County critics/opponents have falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I wanted to run for DuPage County Auditor. To discourage me from considering doing that, they have taken many big adverse actions against me. I should write about my DuPage County critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me. Of course, they ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth what did to help elect and to reelect Jim Rasins DuPage County Auditor in 2000 and 2004 and Bob Grogan in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. My critics/opponents base their false accusations against me on my being highly qualified for the office. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned professional certifications in fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years as a Revenue Officer, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year and I worked for GAO for almost 18 years as an Analyst, the last 11 years of at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $118,984-$154,682/year. I have master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I first visited the DuPage County Auditor’s office in 1986 when I became the Membership Director for the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Chicago Chapter (CC). I remember recruiting Rasins to speak at an AGA CC event. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congress should make E-Verify Trump’s lasting immigration legacy. Mandatory worksite checks would dry up the jobs magnet and outlast future Democrat reversals. DD: To be conservative, that is, to be Republican, is to promote E-Verify. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/15/congress-make-e-verify-trumps-lasting-immigration-legacy/
— Too many Americans do not appreciate America
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/15/many-americans-not-appreciate-america/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Birthright citizenship: A battle for the survival of our republic. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4608345/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-14-amendment/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The land, infrastructure, institutions, and accumulated wealth of the United States constitute real property and wealth, built, defended, and held in perpetuity as an endowment by and for generations of American citizens and those who entered lawfully. These assets exist because citizens labored, sacrificed, paid taxes, and, when necessary, gave their lives in defense of the nation. It is therefore preposterous to assert that the fertilization of an egg by two foreign nationals abroad, followed by a deliberate legal or illegal border crossing, creates a constitutional birthright to our inheritance. The word inheritance requires the person who bequeathed it to have owned it. A geographic point on a map, North, South, East, or West of a border, has no volition and cannot bequeath anything. Virtually no other nation allows such a preposterous practice.)
— Why no reckoning over the SPLC ‘hate map’?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4608149/why-no-reckoning-over-the-splc-hate-map-guy-benson/
AMERICAN INTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Working class. DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I had to work my way through college. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.aei.org/podcast/the-identity-of-the-gop-with-patrick-ruffini/
AMERICAN THINKER
— 250 Years Into The Experiment, Democrats Threaten Catastrophe. What happens if they win the midterms? DD: If Democrats take control of the U.S. House and Senate, what adverse actions will they take against you first?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/250_years_into_the_experiment_democrats_threaten_catastrophe.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DD: How many of their illegals will Democrat leaders have vote in the November 3, 2026 election?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/15/midterm-polls-now-apparently-include-ice-agents-says-mullin-1645975/
DAVID CYCLEBACK
— Hidden Costs of Affirmative Action. How preferences intended to reduce discrimination can create new forms of stigma. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my Democrat Black GAO subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://davidcycleback.substack.com/p/a-hidden-cost-of-affirmative-action
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Their concern is that when institutions openly acknowledge that race and other identity characteristics My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my Democrat Black GAO subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. are primarily considered in admissions, hiring, promotions, and scholarships, and when selection criteria are modified to increase representation, observers may begin to wonder whether a particular individual’s success was earned solely through merit or partly through preferential treatment. Over time, some beneficiaries begin asking themselves the same question. As a result, highly qualified minority students and professionals may find their achievements viewed with skepticism and, in cases, may wrestle with uncertainty about whether others regard their success as fully earned.)
FEDERALIST
— ‘Inclusive’ Left Attacks Giants Players For Expressing Christian Faith On ‘Pride Night.’ Most leftists believe that Christians shouldn’t be allowed to express their faith or live it out in the public square.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/15/inclusive-left-attacks-giants-players-for-expressing-christian-faith-on-pride-night/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— D.C. Escalating Response to Teen Takeover Chaos. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? The Democrat Party platform drives Democrat teen takeovers. It destroys traditional marriage and family. It destroys personal responsibility. It destroys respect for the rule of law.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/15/dc_escalating_response_to_teen_takeover_chaos__154225.amp.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— They’ll call everyone else a Nazi, but the media aren’t sure about their Nazi tattoo guy.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5921173-maine-senate-campaign-nazi-tattoo/
MSN
— Newsom alleges Trump ordered DOJ probe into him, wife. DD: To get rid of me, my IRS superiors not only probed my travel vouchers and my education deductions, they disallowed them.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/newsom-alleges-trump-ordered-doj-probe-into-him-wife/gm-GMDBBF91E3
ACCOUNTING
— Certified Public Accountant. DD: I have been a CPA since I was 30 in 1979. My critics/opponents have always stressed that while I passed the examination on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.accounting.com/certifications/certified-public-accountant/
INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS
— Certified Internal Auditor. DD: I have been a CIA since I was 32 in 1981. My critics/opponents have always stressed that while I passed the examination on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.theiia.org/en/certifications/cia/
YAHOO FINANCE
— Certified Fraud Examiner. DD: I have been a CFE since I was 41 in 1990. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/certified-fraud-examiner-cfe-195723273.html
ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTANTS
— Certified Government Financial Manager. I have been a CGFM since I was 45 in 1994. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://www.agacgfm.org/cgfm-certification/
INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS
— Certified Financial Services Auditor. I have been a CFSA since I was 47 in 1996. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://www.theiia.org/globalassets/documents/certifications/ccsa-cfsa-cgap-transition-faqs.pdf
ASSOCIATION OF CERTIED FRAUD EXAMINERS
— Forensic Accountant. I have been a Forensic Accountant since I was 48 in 1997. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://www.acfe.com/career/career-paths/career-path-accounting/career-path-detail-forensic-accountant
NEW YORK TIMES
— ICE Wants Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law. These Officers Signed Up. DD: None have signed up in Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/12/us/politics/ice-local-police-immigration-287g.html
— Trump’s decision to host Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts at the White House on Sunday put him at the center of a sport that is popular with many young men — a demographic that swung toward him in the 2024 election but has since shifted away. DD: I have never been a fan of contact sports, neither were my parents, neither were my ancestors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/politics/trump-ufc-politics-midterms.html
— DD: Anti-Christians and anti-Americans are against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/christian-nationalism-maga-france.html
— Trump’s Fight Night Was as Absurd as Promised. DD: I have never been a fan of contact sports, neither were my parents, neither were my ancestors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/trump-ufc-fight.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. I should write about Democrat success in doing that in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West district, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. Ever increasingly, I am a minority in more ways.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/15/aapi-asian-american-america-250-immigration/3aab21e6-6870-11f1-830e-133d20cadd28_story.html
SACRAMENTO BEE
— Certified Internal Auditor Exam. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when I passed the CIA exam on my first attempt when I was 32 in 1981. None of my coworkers who they wanted to promote over me had taken the exam, let alone passed it.
https://www.sacbee.com/careers-education/certified-internal-auditor-exam/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Passing the Certified Internal Auditor exam can open doors to better pay, prestigious job titles, and long-term career growth. But let’s face it—the Certified Internal Auditor exam is tough.
GULF TODAY
— DD: When those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better at something than those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders blame that on discrimination against those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Overwhelmingly, a) those who earned master’s degrees with me in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997) were White males, b) those who passed the CPA examination with me (1979) and Certified Internal Auditor (1981) examination on our first attempt were White males, c) those who became certified fraud examiners with me (1990), government financial managers (1994), financial services auditors (1996), and forensic accountants (1997) were White males, and d) those who became licensed CPAs with me (1981) were White males. My critics/opponents have always used the aforesaid to turn minorities and females against me.
https://www.gulftoday.ae/opinion/2026/06/15/corporate-america-is-no-meritocracy
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Medical Bills Threaten to Derail Young Adults’ Finances. DD: My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance premiums since 1966 and 72% of my wife’s health insurance premiums since 1978 because I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and because I have been a federal retiree for almost 29 years.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/young-adult-finance-medical-bill-debt-e39b0123
FORBES
— Illinois Bill Could Reshape Disparate Impact Challenges To Hiring. DD: Democrats and RINOs have always used disparate impact against Republicans. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. In 2000, RINOs got a woman to unsuccessfully run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman (RPC). Since then, they have tried hard, but they have failed to get a minority, female, younger person, or veteran to run against me for RPC. In 2015, to defeat me, they drew me into Jeanee Ives’ precinct, but I succeeded in getting that redrawing rescinded.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alonzomartinez/2026/06/15/illinois-bill-could-reshape-disparate-impact-challenges-to-hiring/
CATHOLIC ANSWERS
— The Fantasy Spouse Is Keeping Catholics Single. DD: My wife and I met at a Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago social event. I am Missouri Synod Lutheran and she is Catholic. What helped you become marriage material? By the time we got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/blog/the-fantasy-spouse-is-keeping-catholics-single
CATHOLIC STAND
— DD: What role did your ancestors play in slavery? My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://catholicstand.com/pope-leo-xiv-asks-pardon-for-the-vaticans-role-in-slavery-the-apology-that-took-centuries/comment-page-1/
AMERICAN BAZAAR
— American students are no longer majority in schools. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that in your school district, fewer and fewer and fewer students will be White, male, German American, or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/06/14/american-students-are-no-longer-majority-in-schools-482800/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An analysis of newly released U.S. Census Bureau data found that American students who are neither Latino nor multiracial represented fewer than 50% of students enrolled from nursery school through graduate programs in 2024. The shift follows decades of declining American enrollment and rising participation among Hispanic, Asian, Black immigrant, and multiracial populations. The figures show American student enrollment falling from 46.7 million in 2000 to 36.6 million in 2024, a decline driven largely by lower birth rates, an aging population, and slower demographic growth among American Americans. At the same time, Latino enrollment has expanded significantly, reshaping classrooms across the country, particularly in early childhood and K-12 education.)
ROGER EBERT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.rogerebert.com/black-writers-week/250-years-later-and-blacks-are-still-politically-and-racially-enslaved
