FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrats take the House. Here are their key priorities. DD: Anticipate/expect that everything they will do will transfer income, assets, opportunities, etc. from Republicans to Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/democrats-take-house-heres-what-plan-investigate-legislative-agenda/20014347/
WGN9
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://wgntv.com/politics-3/democrats-plot-to-choke-off-iran-war-with-some-gop-help/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump and his Justice Department stand defiant as Democrats ready an investigative blitz.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/08/trump-doj-democrats-investigations/
— What Trump’s new White House chief of staff has said on immigration, childhood vaccines, foreign policy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/08/stephen-miller-chief-of-staff/
— DD: Democrat leaders use Kustra to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/08/opinion-donald-trump-democrats-tariffs-midterms/
NORTHWEST HERALD
— McHenry County voters say no to home rule; issue split county Republicans. Question nonbinding but still prompted strong feelings.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2026/11/09/mchenry-county-voters-say-no-to-home-rule-issue-split-county-republicans/
SOUTHERN
— Abdul El-Sayed says Democrats will work with Trump if ‘he wants to act serious.’
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/11/08/abdul-el-sayed-says-democrats-will-work-with-trump-if-he-wants-to-act-serious/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump and his Justice Department stand defiant as Democrats ready an investigative blitz.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-and-his-justice-department-stand-defiant-as-democrats-ready-an-investigative-blitz/article_7ce7adce-82ed-525f-a34a-f682b32afde7.html
— Trump says he was just kidding about making UFC’s Dana White his press secretary.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-says-he-was-just-kidding-about-making-ufcs-dana-white-his-press-secretary/article_12b25a91-22b0-5f33-a8e6-8b99fad0f595.html
— Rubio says Trump’s war against Iran not ‘necessarily popular’ but needed to stop a nuclear threat.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/rubio-says-trumps-war-against-iran-not-necessarily-popular-but-needed-to-stop-a-nuclear/article_19ef561c-e6ab-5671-afd6-a4fc5f56b45f.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Those who voted for Democrats in the November 3, 2026 election demand economic relief, that is, they demand redistribution of income and wealth. How much income and wealth do you have? Anticipate/expect that Democrat elected officials will ever-increasingly use government to take more and more and more income and wealth away from those who have more and to give it to those who have less.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-voters-demanded-economic-relief-trump-and-democrats-face-tough-choices-on-how-to-deliver/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Because of Trump, homelessness in the U.S. saw its largest drop in more than a decade last year
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-11-07/homelessness-in-the-u-s-saw-its-largest-drop-in-more-than-a-decade-last-year
— DD: To get votes from younger voters, Democrat leaders shout at them that Trump causes all their career problems. When you were younger, what caused your career problems? My being a Republican and my avoiding the Vietnam War draft caused me lots of big problems. My Post Office (1966-1969), IRS (1971-1980), and GAO (1980-1997) superiors were Democrat veterans who blamed Nixon and Republican draft avoiders like me for America losing the Vietnam War. According to them, my avoiding the draft gave me tremendous unfair advantages over veterans. They stressed that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree in business in when I was 21 in 1970, b) earn an MBA in 1976, c) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, e) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and f) become a licensed CPA in 1981. According to them, a) the Post Office should have hired a veteran instead of me in 1966, b) IRS should have hired a veteran instead of me in 1971, c) IRS should have promoted veterans instead of me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, d) GAO should have hired a veteran instead of me in 1980, e) and GAO should have promoted a veteran instead of me in 1986. Because of their aforesaid beliefs, they used Affirmative Action, up-or-out, and budget cuts to ignore/dismiss/belittle my degrees, processional certifications, and professional license. To get rid of me, a) my aforesaid Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my aforesaid IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and c) my aforesaid GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, forced the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer and had promoted me to retire in 1987, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-11-08/how-gen-z-voters-helped-fuel-a-blue-wave-for-democrats
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2026/11/08/il-voters-want-higher-taxes-and-more-government-thats-what-the-election-results-say
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democratic lawmakers and at least one Republican planning for Hegseth’s impeachment.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/nov/8/democratic-lawmakers-least-one-republican-planning-hegseths/
— Democrats won the turnout battle, not a lasting mandate.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/nov/8/democrats-won-turnout-battle-not-lasting-mandate/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Stephen Miller will thrive against ‘hostile media’ as chief of staff.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4796807/stephen-miller-thrive-hostile-media-joe-concha/
— Hinojosa’s Californication of Texas will have national implications.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/4794527/hinojosa-californication-texas-national-implications/
NEW YORK POST
— Mayor-elect Nithya Raman joins anti-ICE protests after tense standoff with agents at LA hospital.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/07/us-news/la-mayor-elect-nithya-raman-joins-anti-ice-protesters-after-hospital-showdown/
— DeSantis says ‘corporatist Republicans’ drive young voters toward socialism after GOP’s midterm disaster.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/florida-gov-ron-desantis-says-corporatist-repulicans-drive-young-voters-toward-socialism-after-midterm-disaster/
— Vance’s disastrous economic agenda spells GOP doom.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/opinion/jd-vances-disastrous-economic-agenda-spells-gop-doom/
— Vance sold Trump out after the midterm shellacking — it’s time to cut him off.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/07/opinion/michael-goodwin-jd-vance-sold-trump-out-after-the-midterm-shellacking-its-time-to-cut-him-off/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— The Midterms Prove Left-Populism Is Rising.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-midterms-prove-left-populism-is-rising/
CHRISTIAN POST
— George W. Bush sides with Texas megachurch that voted to leave the United Methodist Church. DD: Trinity Lutheran Church and School in Crete leaving the Missouri Synod when I was in 8th grade in 1961 had a tremendous impact on me. To stay with the Missouri Synod, my family transferred to Hope Lutheran in Park Forest. That ended Diersen family reunions. A similar split in Grant Park ended family reunions on my mother’s side.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/george-w-bush-sides-with-megachurch-that-voted-to-leave-umc.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— The Policies That Drew Millions to Texas Are Now Under Attack.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/11/08/policies-that-drew-millions-to-texas-now-under-attack/
DAILY WIRE
— Inside The Movement Dumbing Down American Schools.
https://www.dailywire.com/episode/mrn-261108
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Republicans in Ruins
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/11/republicans-in-ruins-week-at-legal-insurrection/amp/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— ICE unlikely to scale back crackdown, sources say, citing Stephen Miller’s promotion.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-crackdown-stephen-miller-illegal-immigration/
— New House members on their top priorities. DD: Anticipate/expect that everything they will do will transfer income, assets, opportunities, etc. from Republicans to Democrats.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-house-members-top-priorities/
— Stephen Miller, Trump’s new chief of staff, is the architect of his controversial immigration policies.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-miller-chief-of-staff-trump-immigration-policies/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: The mainstream news media ever-increasingly uses Trump to destroy Republicans and especially to destroy Republicans who share his demographics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-america-future.html
— DD: Democrat leaders say Republicans Point Fingers, but Trump Does Not Appear to Be Listening.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/politics/republican-blame-trump-midterms.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats weigh probes of Trump family, DOGE and Elon Musk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/11/08/democrats-weigh-probes-trump-family-doge-elon-musk-key-lawmaker-says/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Signals Combative Next Two Years With Elevation of Stephen Miller. With Democrats soon to control Congress, the loyal consigliere is expected to take a maximalist approach to executive power.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/stephen-miller-trump-chief-of-staff-56917f0a
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Trump’s problems to drag down Vance.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/jd-vance-midterm-elections-9efc589e
FORTUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders blame Trump for Indian Americans going Democrat.
https://fortune.com/2026/11/08/trump-midterms-indian-american-voters-democrats-republicans/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 2024, Donald Trump appeared to make inroads with Indian Americans, a traditionally Democratic voting bloc. He won the support of 30% of Indian Americans that year, up from 22% in 2020, according to a report published on Nov. 2 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Its charts show that up until January of this year, GOP support was increasing among Indian women and men aged 40 and older. But two years into Trump’s second term, and those gains vanished ahead of the midterms. Just 19% of the 1,000 Indian American adults surveyed from Oct. 7 to Oct. 27 by Carnegie intended to vote for the Republican in their House district, compared to 62% intending to vote for the Democrat. In Senate races, Democrats held a similar advantage over Republicans at 63% to 21%. The reversal coincided with the Trump administration’s crackdown on legal immigration through H1-B visa restrictions, increasingly vocal anti-Indian rhetoric from some Republicans.)
AMERICAN BAZAAR
— Indian American Democrat Saba Haider has won election to the Illinois House of Representatives, securing 71.2 percent of the vote in the Nov. 3 midterm elections. She becomes the first South Asian woman elected to the Illinois General Assembly, according to published election results. Haider defeated Republican candidate Brian Scopa in the race for Illinois’ 84th House District, receiving 21,995 votes against Scopa’s 8,902, according to Ballotpedia’s reported results. Scopa received 28.8 percent of the vote, compared with Saba Haider’s 71.2 percent, giving her a margin of 13,093 votes. The constituency includes parts of Will, DuPage, Kane and Kendall counties, covering communities such as Aurora, Naperville, Oswego, Montgomery and Boulder Hill. Her election takes her from county-level government to the Illinois state legislature, where she will represent residents of the 84th District.
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/11/08/saba-haider-illinois-house-election-victory-491818/
AMERICAN PHYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
— Why do we vote? DD: What percent vote for those candidates who promise to use government give the most preference to those who share their demographics? To get more votes from those who are the following, candidates ever-increasingly promise to give them more preference: liberal/moderate, non-White, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2008/06/vote
