FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— McHenry county votes for Democratic gubernatorial candidate for first time since 1852.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-county-votes-for-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-for-first-time-since-1852/4013088/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Don’t credit Trump with drop in crime. DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law, for that county, and for its citizens. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals and fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/11/05/trump-crime-drop-council-criminal-justice-fbi-jacob-sullum
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Criminals oppose Flock cameras.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261106/crime/coming-to-a-ballot-near-you-flock-cameras/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker’s 200-point national agenda.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261105/illinois-state-politics/a-day-after-reelection-pritzker-issues-200-point-national-agenda/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Pritzker’s plan touches on everything from immigration to artificial intelligence to health care and reversing a litany of cuts President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made over the last two years. The governor expects the state’s senators, Tammy Duckworth and newly elected Juliana Stratton, to execute that agenda, which he said needs to be done even before a Democrat can try to reclaim the White House in 2028.)
— Democrat candidates, elected officials, and party leaders are tremendously further to the left than Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders are to the right. The Democrat mainstream news media disgustingly, outrageously, falsely, and unethically ever-increasingly paints the aforesaid Democrats as being moderates and the aforesaid Republicans as being extremists.
https://www.dailyherald.com/opinion/
EVANSTON NOW
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-hates voted for Democrats in the November 3, 2023 election.
https://evanstonnow.com/bailey-concession-gop-rebuke/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats’ new Senate majority will not let Trump put a ‘right-winger’ on Supreme Court, Schumer vows in AP interview. DD: My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a ‘right-winger.” Since 2000, they have used that to blame me and to blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. Previously, they used that a) to end my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024, b) to end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) to gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) to end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) to end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, f) to almost get ICRC to censure me for my newsletters in 2006, g) to end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, and h) to defeat my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position by a vote of 69 to 13 in 2004.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-new-senate-majority-will-not-let-trump-put-a-right-winger-on-supreme-court/article_105ec048-70e5-5a05-af8a-be37cdb88a06.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-11-06/low-birth-rates-were-emptying-public-schools-ice-deportations-are-now-making-it-worse
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/11/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-843/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat candidates, elected officials, and party leaders are tremendously further to the left than Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders are to the right. The Democrat mainstream news media disgustingly, outrageously, falsely, and unethically ever-increasingly paints the aforesaid Democrats as being moderates and the aforesaid Republicans as being extremists. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will Democrat victories impact your county, township, municipality, school district, precinct, and neighborhood? Poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase. Opportunities for those who are the following will ever-increasingly diminish: American, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Preferences will ever-increasingly increase for those who are: noncitizen, liberal/moderate, Democrat, non-White, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The following will ever-increasingly increase: dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, that is, the destruction of traditional marriage and family, abortion, that is, disrespect for human life, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, patronage, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— QUESTION: To avoid Democrat poverty and crime, where should you move to? ANSWER: Republican states, counties, townships, municipalities, school districts, precincts, and neighborhoods. But wait, Democrats ever-increasingly do that and they ever-increasingly continue to vote for Democrats. An ever-increasingly important consideration is how fast can/will Democrats move in and destroy things? I should write about the Democrat invasion, takeover, and eventual destruction of DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, my Precinct 59, and my neighborhood. I would focus on how RINO and Democrat plant DuPage County leaders welcomed Democrat invaders with open arms. I would focus on those who did the most to dump conservatives to curry favor with the invading Democrats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Because of Democrat victories and because of Republican defeats, anticipate/expect that the more demographics that you share with Trump, the faster that Democrats will get rid of you. Trump is American, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, draft avoider, Protestant, German American, and his ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that RINOs and Democrat plants will ever-increasing use the November 3, 2026 Republican defeats to get the Republican Party a) to officially dump the following planks in its platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving), b) to officially banish conservatives from the party, and c) to become the Democrat Lite Party. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you asked those in the following who voted for Democrats why they did that, what would they say: your neighborhood, your precinct, your school district, your municipality, your township, and your county? What are the demographics of the aforesaid who voted for Democrats? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What has encouraged you to be active in Republican politics? My Democrat superiors in the federal government using Affirmative Action, up-or-out, and Republican budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 encouraged me to become a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, b) the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, c) an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2003, d) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2005, e) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2005, f) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— A New Strategy for Creating a New State Separate from the Chicago Area.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/11/06/a-new-strategy-for-creating-a-new-state-without-chicago-area/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois voters approve $1.63 billion in local bond debt.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-voters-approve-1-63-billion-local-bond-debt/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Trump pins US stock market plunge on Democrats wiping out GOP in midterms.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/us-news/trump-pins-us-stock-market-plunge-on-democrats-wiping-out-gop-in-midterms-sad-thing-to-watch/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Second Term—the Counterrevolution Explained.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/11/05/hanson-trumps-second-term-counterrevolution-explained/
DAILY WIRE
— The Stock Market Plunges & Democrats Take Aim at Trump’s Allies.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-261106
FOX BUSINESS
— Trump blames Democrats for stock market plunge after sweeping midterm victories.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/trump-blames-democrats-stock-market-plunge-after-sweeping-midterm-victories
FOX NEWS
— Vance, Cruz and DeSantis diagnose GOP’s midterm disaster as battle over party’s future begins. All three offered competing postmortems on GOP midterm losses, with Vance putting daylight between himself and Trump.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vance-cruz-desantis-diagnose-gop-midterm-disaster-battle-party-future-begins
FREE PRESS
— Victor Davis Hanson: Five Lessons from Trump’s Midterm Wipeout.
https://www.thefp.com/p/victor-davis-hanson-five-lessons-midterms-elections-2026
PJ MEDIA
— How Left-Wing Racism Against White People Led to France’s Riots.
https://pjmedia.com/phone-kyaw/2026/11/05/how-left-wing-racism-against-white-people-led-to-frances-riots-n4959042
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DeSantis: ‘No question’ midterms a ‘rebuke’ of Trump, Congress.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6200226-ron-desantis-2026-midterms-result-rebuke-trump-congress/
— Vance takes GOP hits as DeSantis, Cruz emerge as early GOP winners for 2028.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/6202778-vance-trump-era-challenges/
AP
— Republicans rammed through Supreme Court nominees. Now Democrats will have the votes to stop them.
https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-supreme-court-senate-chuck-schumer-08d26548196286e99f43b5e085f2d8ed
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for higher interest rates and home values.
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/trump-failed-make-us-housing-affordable-again-2026-11-06/
ABC NEWS
— Vance blames Iran war for Republicans’ midterms defeat. Trump says he would ‘do it again.’ ABC News Voter poll found 34% of voters say the war was “crucial” to their vote.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/vance-blames-iran-war-republicans-midterms-defeat-trump/story?id=137849295
— Trump says he has ‘every intention’ to keep Hegseth.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-intention-hegseth/story?id=137874670
CBS NEWS
— What Trump’s final 2 years in office will look like with Democrats in charge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/democratic-congress-trump-final-2-years/
NBC NEWS
— Hegseth strikes defiant tone in face of impeachment threat. Many lawmakers, including some Republicans, have criticized the defense secretary over his handling of the Iran war.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/secretary-pete-hegseth-defiant-tone-impeachment-threat-thomas-massie-rcna607788
SCRIPPS NEWS
— GOP meltdown sparks battle over who’s to blame. The GOP’s post-election blame game is underway, as lawmakers and Trump allies point fingers following a Democratic wave and major Republican setbacks.
scrippsnews.com/politics/america-votes/gop-meltdown-sparks-battle-over-whos-to-blame
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: The New York Times exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com
— Trump Supporters Jumping Ship.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/arts/television/late-night-midterms-trump.html
— Why the Trump Era May Survive the Great Blue Wave.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/opinion/trump-era-blue-wave-democrats-midterms.html
— What to Expect From Lame-Duck Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000011257733/what-to-expect-from-lame-duck-trump.html
— These Republicans Bet Big on Trump. It Didn’t Pay Off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/trump-allies-defeated-midterms.html
— How Trump Is Reacting to the Midterm Results.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000011262332/how-trump-is-reacting-to-the-midterm-results.html
— Trump Wrestles With New Reality: A Lame Duck With Two Years Left to Fight. After a decade at the center of American politics, President Trump is politically wounded, with diminished power. Those who know him say the next two years will be unpredictable.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/politics/trump-new-role-lame-duck.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying those who share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/02/magazine/identity-politics-economy-class.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Vance’s stunning act of disloyalty. Republicans lost in part because the Iran war dragged on. The vice president owns that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/11/05/vances-post-midterms-disloyalty-trump-is-disqualifying/
— A MAGA media civil war erupts over who’s to blame for the GOP’s thrashing.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/nov/05/a-maga-media-civil-war-erupts-over-whos-to-blame-f/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for things that are bad.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/11/06/polling-iran-immigration-inflation-trump-republicans/92482977007/
FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM
— Not Trump’s fault? Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the midterm blame game.
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article317954856.html
NEWS NATION
— Could Trump shape the Supreme Court again? Experts debate pressure on Thomas and Alito to retire.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/could-trump-shape-supreme-court-again/
KTVL
— Midterms set stage for wide-open 2028 presidential race.
https://ktvl.com/news/nation-world/midterms-set-stage-for-wide-open-2028-presidential-race
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Mike Pence: Begin the Conservative Revival. Before the Republican Party lost the election, it lost its way. Our principles can bring us victory again.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/mike-pence-begin-the-conservative-revival-9047d35b?mod=opinion_lead_pos7
— Democrats Take Congress as Trump Says Iran War Is Partly to Blame for GOP Losses.
https://www.wsj.com/world/democrats-take-congress-as-trump-says-iran-war-is-partly-to-blame-for-gop-losses-b03d4784
— Trump Is the Author of the Ruin. The Republican Party has been many things in my lifetime, good and bad. It had never been decadent.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-is-the-author-of-the-ruin-41827a6e
— Trump’s Republican Carnage. The collateral damage of the midterm elections sprawls across almost the whole country.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trumps-republican-carnage-befb58a6
— DD: Conservative-haters want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Conservative-haters want to get rid of conservatives once and for all.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/culture-wars-wont-save-the-gop-0298cf30
FORBES
— Trump Asked: ‘Are You Ready To Reinforce The Texas Southern Border’ After Hinojosa Won Texas?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH1nd10_JA8
MEDICARE RIGHTS
— New Research from the AARP Public Policy Institute Highlights High Costs Caregivers Bear. DD: From 2009 until she died when she was 91 in 2022, I had total responsibility for my outstanding aunt Eunice S. Diersen who had Alzheimer’s. She never married. She lived frugally. She helped my parents raise me in Crete.
https://www.medicarerights.org/medicare-watch/2026/11/05/new-research-from-the-aarp-public-policy-institute-highlights-high-costs-caregivers-bear
AXIOS
— Trump says voters should blame themselves for stock market rout.
https://www.axios.com/2026/11/06/trump-stock-market-sell-off
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
NEW ARAB
— Who is Nabeela Syed, the Indian-American Muslim who flipped Republican-held Illinois? DD: What has encouraged you to be active in Republican politics? My Democrat superiors in the federal government using Affirmative Action, up-or-out, and Republican budget cuts to waste my career and to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 encouraged me to become a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman in 1999, b) the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000, c) an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member in 2003, d) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2005, e) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2005, f) etc.
https://www.newarab.com/news/who-nabeela-syed-democrat-muslim-who-flipped-illinois
