FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio elected to lead House Republicans in the minority. Rep. Jordan of Ohio defeated Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana on Tuesday.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/rep-jim-jordan-ohio-elected-lead-house-republicans-minority/20030740/
— Senate Republicans vote to keep Thune as leader after steep election losses. Some Republicans had tried to delay the leadership decision.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/senate-republicans-vote-keep-thune-leader-steep-election-losses/20030978/
FOX32
— House blocks effort to impeach Pete Hegseth. DD: Democrat leaders punish Hegseth because Trump appointed Hegseth. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 because he had done that. My Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986 because he had done that.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-en26y0anh79lc1ca
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/11/10/chicago-area-man-dies-after-deportation-to-pakistan-family-attorney-says
DAILY HERALD
— Refurbished Illinois Holocaust Museum reopening.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261109/news/we-rise-together-and-we-fall-together-refurbished-illinois-holocaust-museum-reopening/
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— Del Mar: ‘I’m not going anywhere.’ Republican lt gov nominee says he and Bailey “did an amazing job,” incredibly well,” considering the lack of funding. Del Mar wants a party convention next year “to draft new bylaws, new platform and elect new leaders and build a solid foundation for future growth.” DD: According to my critics/opponents, the Republican Party platform is the problem. The Democrat Party exists to promote liberal principles; its platform promotes liberal principles. The Republican Party exists to promote conservative principles; its platform promotes conservative principles. Illinois Democrat leaders promote the Democrat Party platform and its liberal principles far more aggressively than Illinois Republican leaders promote the Republican Party platform and its conservative principles. Consequently, Illinois ever-increasingly moves further to the left.
https://caand its liberal principles pitolcitynow.com/news/248842-del-mar-im-not-going-anywhere/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republicans assess damage from nationwide ‘blue tsunami.’ Party members offer different paths forward, highlighting internal divisions. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the Republican Party platform is the problem. The Democrat Party exists to promote liberal principles; its platform promotes liberal principles. The Republican Party exists to promote conservative principles; its platform promotes conservative principles. Illinois Democrat leaders promote the Democrat Party platform and its liberal principles far more aggressively than Illinois Republican leaders promote the Republican Party platform and its conservative principles. Consequently, Illinois ever-increasingly moves further to the left.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-republicans-assess-damage-from-nationwide-blue-tsunami/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Illinois Republicans are thinking about what to do next after a brutal election that saw candidates lose by significant margins throughout the state. Republicans lost at least 11 seats in the General Assembly, leading to a record super majority for Democrats. Republican Party Chair Bob Grogan said he believes Republicans still hold the upper hand on issues but they need better candidates. There’s also some internal frustration with Darren Bailey’s running mate Aaron Del Mar calling for a revamp of the party and some legislators asking for new leadership in the General Assembly.)
NORTHERN STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting educators to get their students to hate Republicans, and especially to hate Republicans who share Trump’s demographics like I do. Trump is conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, draft-avoider, married, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://northernstar.info/140034/opinion/the-midterms-prove-america-still-fights-back/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— A political musical chairs game.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/11/11/a-political-musical-chairs-game-01160607
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/11/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-rep-canty-says-she-won%e2%80%99t-run-for-speaker-sen-johnson-wants-reentry-housing-bill-taken-up-in-veto-session/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/
WIREPOINTS
https://wirepoints.org/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to my critics/opponents, the Republican Party platform is the problem. The Democrat Party exists to promote liberal principles; its platform promotes liberal principles. The Republican Party exists to promote conservative principles; its platform promotes conservative principles. Illinois Democrat leaders promote the Democrat Party platform and its liberal principles far more aggressively than Illinois Republican leaders promote the Republican Party platform and its conservative principles. Consequently, Illinois ever-increasingly moves further to the left and Republican candidates in Illinois are ever-increasingly defeated. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Google AI: “Using personal experiences to make a point is a powerful rhetorical strategy, often called an anecdotal appeal or exemplification. When done well, it turns abstract ideas into a human story your audience can feel and remember.” To make my points in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, I use my personal experiences. Of course, my critics/opponents do not want me to do that. I stress the adverse actions that my critics/opponents in Illinois, DuPage County, and Wheaton have had their operatives and their dupes take against me because I promote conservative principles, that is, because I promote planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject. I promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. I stress the adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me because I opposed their use of Affirmative Action, up-or-out, budget cuts, and the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems to get rid of their employees like me who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrat Party requires its candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to defend and advance the Democrat Party platform. The Republican Party DOES NOT require its candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. That is why Democrat candidates win and why Republican candidates lose. I should write about those Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are going to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly take away more Second Amendment rights. For their personal defense, Republicans should be buying as many firearms and as much ammunition as they can. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. Being able to flee poverty and crime, that is, being able to flee Democrats, is a big reason, if not the biggest reason, to earn more money. To earn more money I worked my way through college and I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970. I worked two jobs 1971-1972. I earned a) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, b) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and c) a job-related professional license in 1981. But now, Democrats are ever-increasingly moving in and taking over where I have lived since 1978: DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. Because of that, poverty and crime will ever-increasingly increase in Wheaton, Milton Township, and Wheaton. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Why do your critics/opponents not want to hear your complaints? My critic/opponents do not want to hear or read my complaints for many reasons. Those reasons include a) their rejection of my conservatism, b) their rejection of my promotion of conservative principles, c) their envy for what I have because I followed conservative principles, d) my refusing to be manipulated or dominated by them, e) my refusing to glorify and praise them, f) my refusing to pander to them, g) my refusing to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, h) my refusing to cover up their wrong doing, h) my refusing to give them money, and i) their disapproval, despising, if not hatred of my demographics. I should start writing about my critics/opponents. – Dave Diersen
http://wqww.gopillinois.com
— What offices have you worked in? I worked for GAO in the brand new 200 West Adams building in Chicago 1990-1997 in brand new space in a preferred office. Needless-to-say, my critics/opponents have always been furious about that. SEE: https://greencities.com/portfolio/200-w-adams/ I got that preferred office because of my federal seniority and because I was a GS-13. While I had 10 years GAO seniority, I also had almost 9 years IRS seniority and almost 3 years full-time Post Office seniority even though I had only been a part-time postal employee. My Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious about that. They looked down on executive branch employees. IRS had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. According to them, if I had been a GAO employee, I never would have gotten those promotions. They stressed that I did not earn an MBA until 1976 and that I had not taken and passed the CPA examination until 1979. Further, they stressed I did not make GS-13 until 1986 and that I would not have if I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, taken and passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981, became a licensed CPA in 1986, and if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer in 1980 had not gotten back into power and had promoted me to GS-13 in 1986. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Google AI, to go with the flow politically means to adopt the prevailing political trends, opinions, or dominant consensus of a group or society rather than challenging them or charting an independent course.” DD: If Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton had always been Democrat, my “Republican” critics/opponents would have always been Democrats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has Affirmative Action (AA) been used against you? Because of AA, my Black Democrat GAO subordinate saw no need to do what I did, and he was right. Our Democrat supervisor wanted/demanded that all her subordinates to have a master’s degree in finance. Neither me nor my Black Democrat subordinate had that. He could have, and he should have, joined me in taking graduate evening finance courses at IIT and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT. I did that, but he did not. Nevertheless, she successfully forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and she gave my Black Democrat subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN RIFLEMAN
— Demand for Guns, Ammo & Firearm Accessories Accelerates. And demand will only accelerate as the holiday season approaches and the 2026 midterm election results sink in. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are going to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly take away more Second Amendment rights. For their personal defense, Republicans should be buying as many firearms and as much ammunition as they can.
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/demand-for-guns-ammo-firearm-accessories-accelerates/
BREITBART
— Trump Hints at Migrant Legalization, but Does Not Mention Working Americans. DD: Illegal immigration harms working Americans more than anyone else. My critics/opponents do not understand that, if not reject that, because their parents were wealthy, because they are wealthy.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/11/10/trump-hints-at-migrant-legalization-but-does-not-mention-working-americans/amp/
— The Trump Administration is Carrying Out War on Asylum Fraud After Biden’s Wide Open Borders.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/11/10/exclusive-trump-administration-carrying-out-war-on-asylum-fraud-after-bidens-wide-open-borders/
COLLEGE FIX
— U. Illinois professor challenges sociologists to rethink presumptions about systemic racism.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-illinois-professor-challenges-sociologists-to-rethink-presumptions-about-systemic-racism/
DAILY WIRE
— Texas Dems Take Advantage Of Blue Wave To Draw Up Sanctuary City Plans. “This is the right thing to do at the right time.” DD: Tragically, Texas is no longer a state that conservative Republicans could flee to.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/texas-dems-take-advantage-of-blue-wave-to-draw-up-sanctuary-city-plans
FOX NEWS
— DEI is bad for the Black community. Merit is key for Black achievement. DD: Because of AA, my Black Democrat GAO subordinate saw no need to do what I did, and he was right. Our Democrat supervisor wanted/demanded that all her subordinates to have a master’s degree in finance. Neither me nor my Black Democrat subordinate had that. He could have, and he should have, joined me in taking graduate evening finance courses at IIT and earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading at IIT. I did that, but he did not. Nevertheless, she successfully forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and she gave my Black Democrat subordinate my job and my preferred corner office.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/curtis-hill-dei-bad-black-community-merit-key-black-achievement
HOMELAND SECURITY
— DHS is Taking Down Asylum Fraudsters. DD: What percent of asylum applications are fraudulent?
https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/11/10/dhs-taking-down-asylum-fraudsters
NRA
— Election Results Put Second Amendment Rights Under Immediate Threat. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they are going to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly take away more Second Amendment rights. For their personal defense, Republicans should be buying as many firearms and as much ammunition as they can.
https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/nra-ila-election-results-put-second-amendment-rights-under-immediate-threat/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Madness: New Texas AG Sets Sights on ICE Agents Instead of Illegals, and That’s Just the Beginning. DD: The top priority for Democrat leaders is a) to flood America with their illegals and b) to stop their deportation.
https://www.westernjournal.com/madness-new-texas-ag-sets-sights-ice-agents-instead-illegals-just-beginning/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to blame me for their problems.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/world_national/black-voters-help-propel-democrats-including-history-makers-in-sweeping-midterm-victories/article_193d8100-3735-408c-b09a-41998ec562b8.amp.html
ABC NEWS
— Immigration arrests go on unabated despite Trump’s misgivings after the GOP’s midterm wipeout. In the wake of midterm elections, President Donald Trump said his immigration crackdown may have been “too tough” and suggested it was time to sit down with the Democrats. DD: The top priority for Democrat leaders is a) to flood America with their illegals and b) to stop their deportation.
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/immigration-arrests-unabated-despite-trumps-misgivings-after-gops-138036657
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to blame me for their problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/11/11/black-midterm-victories-suggest-post-racial-politics-may-have-arrived/
— DD: To get more votes from voters who have problems, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that Republicans cause all the problems that they have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who had problems to blame me for their problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/11/11/inclusion-was-big-winner-midterms/
USA TODAY
— Can Bernie Sanders really boost your Social Security check by $2,400? DD: My critics/opponents are furious that because of a Bill that Biden signed, my Social Security increased from $3,000/year to $19,000/year.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personal-finance/retirement/social-security/2026/11/11/bernie-sanders-2400-social-security-boost-save/92696909007/
— DD: JFK heirs use JFK’s assignation to promote more hatred against Trump. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Trump’s avoiding the Vietnam War draft like I did against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/10/valor-over-vanity-jfk-heirs-sue-trump-over-plans-to-build-arch/92716131007/
— Hegseth avoids impeachment vote despite growing GOP frustration. DD: My critics/opponents almost succeeded in getting their operatives and their dupes in the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters a mere 20 years ago in 2006. I should write about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/10/pete-hegseth-avoids-impeachment-vote/92714806007/
— Planning a Roth conversion? Why 2027 could be a better time. You may have more leeway to convert funds in a tax-efficient manner. DD: My wife and I did not convert any of our IRA savings into Roth. We regret that.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/money-management/retirement/2026/11/10/roth-conversion-rules-2027/92690510007/
— Social Security at 70 shouldn’t be automatic. Here’s what to consider. Filing later might boost your benefits monthly, but it’s not necessarily your smartest move. DD: I regret my taking Social Security when I was 62 in 2010. I would not have done that if my Democrat GAO superiors had not forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/11/11/social-security-delaying-70/92659746007/
— Americans want to live to age 88, but their money dies at 83. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personal-finance/retirement/2026/11/11/retirement-savings-gap-nursing-home-costs/92690653007/
— Inflation is vexing consumers. DD: Admittedly, COLAs have helped me deal with inflation. I got COLAs while I was a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. I have gotten COLAs as a federal retiree since 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/nletter/2026/11/10/inflation-is-still-vexing-american-consumers/92704764007/
— Federal employees get Veterans Day off. DD: Since I was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have been furious about all the benefits that I got as a federal employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and that I have gotten as a federal retiree since 1997.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/11/11/veterans-day-2026-federal-holiday/92711988007/
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Diversity and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2026/11/10/diversity-is-our-strength-students-at-university-of-cincinnati-oppose-dei-reversal/80373695007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— If You Think War Is Unpopular, Wait Till You See Defeat. Truman’s lesson for Iran: History often vindicates difficult decisions that exact a political price.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-you-think-war-is-unpopular-wait-till-you-see-defeat-04608ab0
— Maybe Job-Hopping Isn’t the Smartest Career Move After All. DD: I should write about my decision to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hopping-career-moves-89532b1c
MID MICHIGAN NOW
— 84% of Chicago-area students feel pressure to criticize Western civilization. DD: Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly anti-American.
https://midmichigannow.com/news/nation-world/84-of-chicago-area-students-feel-pressure-to-criticize-western-civilization-survey-says-campus-reform-zachary-marschall-illinois-higher-education-politics-academia-college-university-teaching-student-undergraduate-classroom
GAO
— IRS Taxpayer Services. DD: I worked for IRS Taxpayer Service for 6 months. When I was a 25-year-old newly promoted GS-11 (currently $83,482/year) IRS Revenue Officer in 1973, my Democrat IRS superiors were furious when my IRS manager (Dave) gave me an assignment instead of giving it to one of my coworkers who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. He made me responsible for IRS answering all the calls that came into its new Taxpayer Service Centiphone automated answering system in downtown Chicago. I supervised the operation’s entire staff which included 90 rotating IRS Revenue Agent trainees. Because of my job performance, Dave, who had promoted me in 1972 and 1973, promoted me to GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) in 1974. That made my Democrat IRS superiors even more furious. According to them, that Centiphone assignment and my promotion should have been given to a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. They soon got rid of Dave. They disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They disallowed my education deductions in 1978. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. That directly resulted in my transferring to GAO.
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-27-108701
