FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS2
— Illinois statewide races: Little-known GOP slate faces uphill battle against mostly incumbent Dems.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-statewide-races-2026-midterm-elections-secretary-of-state-attorney-general-comptroller-treasurer/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump urges Illinois Republicans to vote by mail, endorses Darren Bailey but skips Senate nominee Don Tracy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/10/23/donald-trump-urges-vote-by-mail/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/fashion/2026/10/20/chicago-fashion-week-lgbtq-show-queer-couture-style
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTO: Outgoing DuPage County clerk isn’t giving up legal fight despite appeals court ruling.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261023/article/outgoing-dupage-county-clerk-isnt-giving-up-legal-fight-despite-appeal-court-ruling/
— DuPage County Board District 4 incumbents face opponents.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261023/news/dupage-county-board-district-4-incumbents-face-opponents/
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Trump endorses Darin LaHood, other Illinois Republicans for midterms.
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-endorses-darin-lahood-other-213804000.html
HERALD WHIG
— Tracy argues for the path of free enterprise over socialism. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://whig.com/2026/10/23/tracy-argues-for-the-path-of-free-enterprise-over-socialism/
SUBURBAN LIFE
— Appellate Court upholds DuPage clerk acted unlawfully. ‘All of this could have been avoided had Clerk Kaczmarek simply … followed the law’: DuPage County Board chair
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2026/10/23/appellate-court-upholds-dupage-clerk-acted-unlawfully/
— Brian Krajewski to run for Downers Grove mayor. DuPage County Board member served as mayor nearly two decades ago.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2026/10/24/brian-krajewski-to-run-for-downers-grove-mayor/
CWB CHICAGO
— Bucktown clerk was shot during staged robbery tied to nationwide immigration fraud scheme.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/10/bucktown-clerk-was-shot-during-staged-robbery-tied-to-nationwide-visa-fraud-scheme.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/10/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-621/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Faith, Family, and Community Boost Fertility Rates.
https://illinoisfamily.org/culture/faith-family-and-community-boost-fertility-rates/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Socialism weakens the will to work. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. To get promoted, none of my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO coworkers came close to doing what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a job-related professional license in 1981. All my Democrat coworkers had to do to get promoted was to be a Democrat. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) 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 than me, and/or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Socialism is Totalitarianism. Under socialism, those above you control/dictate everything that you do. Under socialism, those above me would never have let me pursue a college degree a) because neither of my parents had attended college, b) because my father was only the first of ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and c) because my mother had never attended high school. Further, a) I could not run because I had an inherited boon disease, b) my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and c) I had partial red/green color blindness. Further a) I only just barely made it into upper 20% of my class and b) my ACT score was only 24. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Under socialism, would you be better off today? I would not because I would have refused to be a socialist. Because of that, a) UIC would not have accepted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1997, b) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980, c) I would not have earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, d) I would not have earned a job-related professional license in 1981, e) I would not have gotten promoted in 1972, 1973, 1974, and 1986, f) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To discredit you, what do your critics/opponents stress about you? My critics/opponents stress the success that they have had using their operatives and their dupes to take adverse actions against me. The stress their success in having them a) end my Illinois Republican Party (IRP) State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership 2007, f) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my newsletters in 2006, g) end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, and h) defeat my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position in 2004 by a vote of 69 to 13. My critics/opponents have had great success turning MTRO, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and IRP leaders against me. They have had great success in getting them to blame me and to blame my newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. – Dave Diersen
http;//www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Gen Z is skipping out on college as grad peers drowning in debt struggle to find jobs.
https://nypost.com/2026/10/23/opinion/gen-z-is-souring-on-college-as-grads-struggle-to-get-a-job-or-make-back-their-investment/
— Mamdani openly helps illegal aliens evade ICE in Spanish language video.
https://nypost.com/2026/10/24/us-news/mamdani-accused-of-openly-helping-illegal-aliens-evade-ice-in-spanish-language-video/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— New migrant caravan is marching toward the US, DHS responds.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/10/23/new-migrant-caravan-is-marching-toward-the-us-dhs-responds-1664538/
BREITBART
— Federal Court Says No ‘Get Out of Jail’ Card for Illegal Aliens.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/10/23/federal-court-says-no-getoutof-jail-card-illegal-aliens/
— 10 Foreign Nationals Arrested for Illegally Voting in Swing State North Carolina.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/23/exclusive-illegally-voting-north-carolina/
— Navy, Marine Boards Defy Transgender Troop Ban. DD: Because I promote traditional marriage and family and because I oppose the promotion of LGBTQ, my critics/opponents who promote LGBTQ do everything that they can to destroy me.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/10/23/report-navy-marine-corps-boards-defy-hegseths-orders-vote-to-keep-transgender-troops/amp/
BRITANNICA
— Affirmative Action. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to meet their Affirmative Action quotas, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Ricci-v-DeStefano
CATO
— Ten Democratic Socialists of America Arguments for Socialism and Why They’re Wrong. DD: Socialism weakens the will to work. Working for socialists is like working for Democrats. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. To get promoted, none of my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO coworkers came close to doing what I did. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970. I earned job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997. I earned job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a job-related professional license in 1981. All my Democrat coworkers had to do to get promoted was to be a Democrat. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) 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 than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.cato.org/blog/ten-democratic-socialists-america-dsa-arguments-socialism-why-theyre-wrong
CONSTITUTION CENTER
— The history of legal challenges to the Pledge of Allegiance. DD: Under the Democrats, and especially under the Democrats who run Illinois, there is ever-increasingly less “justice” for those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-latest-controversy-about-under-god-in-the-pledge-of-allegiance
FOX NEWS
— Rahm Emanuel pleads for the Democratic Party to welcome more ‘McCain-Romney Republicans.’ The former Obama chief of staff warned his party against embracing democratic socialists.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/rahm-emanuel-pleads-democratic-party-welcome-mccain-romney-republicans
— Socialism’s popularity grows among young Americans. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6407307249112
INDYPENDENT
— The Evolution of Woke. DD: To promote wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://indypendent.org/2026/10/the-evolution-of-woke/
NEWS BUSTERS
— DACA Recipient-Turned Illegal-Alien Caught Vandalizing Iwo Jima Monument.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2026/10/23/daca-recipient-turned-illegal-alien-caught-vandalizing-iwo
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump admin can hold illegal aliens facing deportation WITHOUT bond: 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-admin-can-hold-illegal-aliens-facing-deportation-without-bond-5th-circuit-court-of-appeals
TOWNHALL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/10/23/america-isnt-afraid-of-socialism-anymore-wsj-n2685186
— Is the DSA Open to Violent Revolution? An Organizer’s Remarks Raise Some Serious Questions. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://townhall.com/news/dmitri-bolt/2026/10/23/the-dsa-is-willing-to-have-a-violent-revolution-just-not-yet-n2685214
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Mamdani Teaches Illegals How to Avoid Capture and Evade ICE in New Spanish-Language Video.
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-mamdani-teaches-illegals-avoid-capture-evade-ice-new-spanish-language-video/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC NEWS
— Tracking the 2026 early vote. Illinois: 777,184 ballots cast, 62% -D, 32%-R, 6%-I
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-elections/early-vote
NEW YORK TIMES
— A College-by-College Guide to Which Majors Pay Off — or Don’t. DD: In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should have majored in accounting from the beginning. I erroneously thought that I could never pass the CPA examination. But I did pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 when I was 30. Then, I finished the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting at DePaul when I was 31. Then, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But by then it was too late. The accounting profession saw me as being far too old to have a successful career in accounting. On top of that, the profession was under tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young females. Nevertheless, I became a Certified Fraud Examiner when I was 41, Certified Government Financial Manager when I was 45, Certified Financial Services Auditor when I was 47, and a Forensic Accountant when I was 48.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/10/07/your-money/college-degree-earnings-guide.html
WASHINGTON POST
— From expensive cars to missed investment opportunities, Americans across generations are sharing the financial decisions they wish they could take back. DD: I worked too many hours to buy new cars. If I had instead studied those hours, my GPAs, my 1966 ACT score, and my 1979 CPA and 1981 Certified Internal Auditor examination scores would have been higher. I bought new cars in 1966 (1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint), 1967 (1968 Oldsmobile 442), 1968 (1969 Dodge Charger SE), 1971 (1972 Corvette), 1973 (1974 Dodge Dart), 1978 (1978 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale and 1978 Chevette), etc.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-creator/2026/10/23/we-asked-americans-every-generation-about-their-biggest-money-regrets-heres-what-they-told-us/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Michigan’s Proposal 2 Aims at Politicians, Hits Journalists. The measure would strictly limit ‘electioneering’—which it defines to include independent reporting. DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/michigans-proposal-2-aims-at-politicians-hits-journalists-07aaa486
— Abortion Is on the Ballot Again. Where’s the GOP? DD: My critics/opponents reject the right to life plank in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/abortion-is-on-the-ballot-again-wheres-the-gop-9a5ad0df
— A Princeton Ph.D., His Two-Year Job Search, and Still No Job. DD: When you graduated from college, what harmed your job search? When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970, potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support my mother and brother would be approved. Further, potential employers were under tremendous pressure to hire minorities and females. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got, to be the Retail Sales Manager in a Firestone Store, a job that did not really require a college degree. Because my future there was bleak, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile in 1971. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. My Firestone Store boss rudely fired me because I had accepted that offer. Because I had to have a job, I accepted a job offer that I got from IRS to be a Revenue Officer. I had taken and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination while I was a NIU student as a backup because I knew that private sector employers look down on federal employees and I had been a federal employee for almost 3 years.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/a-princeton-ph-d-his-two-year-job-search-and-still-no-job-2b25a952
FORBES
— Socialism is Totalitarianism. DD: Under socialism, those above you control/dictate everything that you do. Under socialism, those above me would never have let me pursue a college degree a) because neither of my parents had attended college, b) because my father was only the first of ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and c) because my mother had never attended high school. Further, a) I could not run because I had an inherited boon disease, b) my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and c) I had partial red/green color blindness. Further a) I only just barely made it into upper 20% of my class and b) my ACT score was only 24.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrochafuen/2019/10/18/totalitarianism-and-socialism-lessons-from-a-survey-of-young-europeans/
REAL ESTATE NEWS
— Top 10 Counties Where Home Costs Consumed the Lowest Percentage of Average Wages in Q3 2026.
https://www.attomdata.com/news/market-trends/figuresfriday/top-10-counties-where-home-costs-consumed-the-lowest-percentage-of-average-wages-in-q3-2026/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: #9 – Sangamon County, Illinois Percentage of Annualized Wages to Own: 19.4% Q3 2026 Median Sales Price: $181,500
YoY Median Home Price Growth: -4% YoY Annualized Wage Growth: 4%)
WRAL
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/157c0-as-trump-fights-over-what-america-owes-slavery-descendants-organize-for-the-future/
POLITICO
— Trump crackdown on 3 stooges of socialism. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/04/17/trump-bolton-sanctions-latin-america-1279709
CATO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals and fight their deportation.
https://www.cato.org/blog/white-house-council-economic-advisers-imaginary-cost-illegal-immigration
THE NEEDLING
— Millionaires Tax Means Local Magnate Can Only Afford One of Seattle’s New Waterfront Car Condos. DD: Of course, my critics/opponents are furious that my wife and I own 2216 Ferry Road, Unit 109, at Iron Gate Motor Condos in Naperville ( https://lakesrealtygroup.com/sold-listing/detail/1180433498/2216-Ferry-RD-109-Naperville-IL and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y-PiTadDD4 ). In our defense, were it not for our inheritances, we would not own it. Further, there are no expensive luxury foreign-nameplate cars in it. Just a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T, 2013 Dodge Charger R/T, 2021 Chevrolet Malibu Premier, 2019 Ford Escape Titanium, and 2005 Corvette.
https://theneedling.com/2026/10/22/millionaires-tax-means-local-magnate-can-only-afford-one-of-seattles-new-waterfront-car-condos/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Although many are touting the benefits of Washington state’s new Millionaires Tax that will better fund public education, one local tech magnate says not enough people are talking about how the tax means people like him will only be able to afford one of Seattle’s new waterfront condos built specifically to house luxury cars. “I can hardly bear to break the news to my Aston Martin that I won’t have enough money for it to snowbird at a car condo in Florida because some selfish children want to not only go to good public schools with teachers who can afford more than a studio apartment, but even attend them while not hungry,” said Microsoft VP of Art and Data Theft Tanner Hansen. “Buying a condo specifically for your car—especially one that demands nothing less than a luxury waterfront view—isn’t cheap. Because of this new tax, I think I’ll only be able to buy my Aston one $600,000 condo.” As local business tycoons gathered with golden shovels to break ground on the new Terminal One “dockomineum” near the Ballard Locks recently, another future car condo owner assured the journalists barely affording rent for a one-bedroom apartment that they should still be very afraid of Millionaire Tax flight. “Trust me: When all these millionaires and billionaires who never paid their fair share of taxes in this state continue to do not pay their fair share of taxes in a worse state to live in by nearly every metric, you’re the ones that are going to be sorry,” said Amazon VP of Burning What’s Left of the Amazon Chad Skaggs. “We’re only buying these waterfront condos for our cars because we know how much our collectible Rolls Royces want to stay to watch salmon runs and sunsets over the Olympics.” At press time, local magnates were also concerned that one day their budgets will be so tight they may also tragically have to choose between buying a fleet of superyachts or a sports team instead of having both.)
