ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/morton-grove-illinois-father-ayaz-ahmeds-death-pakistan-ice-deportation-raises-slew-human-rights-violations-experts/20036950/
— Hegseth awards medal to soldier who reprimanded him and aides at Arlington Cemetery.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/hegseth-awards-medal-soldier-reprimanded-aides-arlington-cemetery/20036153/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Hegseth.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/13/column-pete-hegseth-impeachment-shackelford/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois’ House delegation will be power brokers in the Dem takeover of Congress. DD: As Democrat elected officials gain more power, they will ever-increasingly use government to take more of the following away from Republicans and to give it to Democrats: education and employment opportunities, financial assets, income, firearms, vehicles, real estate, etc. It is called redistribution of wealth.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/13/editorial-new-democrat-coalition-nikki-budzinski-moderates-congress/
— Arne Duncan: The case for expanding community violence intervention in Chicago. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/13/opinion-expanding-community-violence-intervention-chicago/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Richard Posner, longtime federal judge and ‘prolific’ University of Chicago legal scholar, dies at 87. Posner made it known that he detested jargon-filled legal writing and leaned into practical solutions for complex legal questions in the nearly 3,300 legal opinions he penned during his 36-year stint as a judge. He authored more than 60 books and dozens more legal journal articles. DD: In 1996, I argued a case pro se before Posner. According to Google AI: The landmark federal case Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange (1997) ( https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/110/481/526770/ ) is a well-known U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) decision regarding federal odometer fraud and automobile sales.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/11/11/richard-posner-longtime-federal-judge-and-prolific-university-of-chicago-legal-scholar-dies-at-87
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/11/13/republicans-maga-trump-midterm-elections-voters-low-polls-s-e-cupp
https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/11/12/s-e-cupp-voters-said-enough-maga-didnt-hear/
DAILY HERALD
— Outgoing DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek’s request for an attorney to take her legal fight with the county to the Illinois Supreme Court has been denied.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261112/local-politics/dupage-county-clerk-jean-kaczmareks-plans-to-take-case-to-illinois-supreme-court-fall-flat/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20261113/syndicated-columnists/if-you-were-so-afraid-of-democrats-why-didnt-you-support-better-policies/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2026/11/13/proposed-snap-changes-could-impact-more-than-200000-illinoisans/92740183007/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight everything that Trump says and does.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-11-12/democrats-want-to-stop-trumps-arch-golf-course-and-more-what-are-their-options
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/11/13/aldermen-have-a-message-for-the-mayor-01163741
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/11/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-proposed-federal-rule-could-cost-225k-illinoisans-snap-benefits-transit-officials-propose-5b-budget-cpd-rarely-serves-warrants-to-seize-domestic-abusers%e2%80%99-guns/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/11/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-rolling-meadows-and-palatine-want-a-say-in-bears-stadium-authority-environmental-groups-call-on-google-to-ditch-decatur-gas-plant-deal/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/
WIREPOINTS
https://wirepoints.org/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use November 3, 2026 Democrat election victories to strike the following planks in the Republican Party 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). RINO leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization removed me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee because I defend and promote the aforesaid planks. They will never forgive me for what I did as a member of the 2008 IRP Platform and Resolutions Committee. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivates your critics/opponents to take adverse actions against you? My defending and promoting the following planks in the Republican Party platform motivates my critics/opponents to take adverse actions against me: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). I should write about my critics/opponents, the planks they reject, and the adverse actions they had their operatives and their dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will use their November 3, 2026 victories to ever-increasingly pass laws that have a disparate negative impact on Republicans, and especially on Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, gun owner, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is ahead for you politically? I anticipate that my critics/opponents in the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization will use the fact that all 18 Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct were defeated on November 3, 2026 a) to redouble their efforts to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, and failing that, to stop everyone from reading them, b) to redouble their efforts to officially strike the 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 in the IRP platform that I promote, and c) to redouble their efforts to get a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Precinct Committeeman and to defeat me in 2028. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— As Democrat elected officials gain more power, they will ever-increasingly use government to take the following away from Republicans and to give them to Democrats: education and employment opportunities, financial assets, income, firearms, vehicles, real estate, etc. My Democrat Post Office superiors took away my job and gave it to my Democrat coworker in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors took away my opportunities to be promoted to GS-13 after 1974 and gave those opportunities to my Democrat coworkers. My Democrat GAO superiors took away $23,699/year (21%) of my income in today’s dollars as a condition of my transferring from IRS to GAO in 1980. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. My Democrat GAO superiors delayed my promotions back to GS-11 and GS-12 and then to GS-13. They took away my opportunities to be promoted to GS-14 after 1986 and gave those promotions to my Democrat coworkers. My Democrat GAO superiors took away my job and gave it to my Democrat subordinate when I was 49 in 1997. He had less work experience than I had, less education than I had, one professional certification while I had six, and no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www-gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Schumer fed the militant liberal wolves; now they turn on him. Senate Democrats he helped elect now threaten the leadership he spent years building. DD: One could say that RINO candidates, RINO elected officials, and RINO party leaders in America, Illinois, DuPage County, and Wheaton pandered to and curried favor with Democrats, but on November 3, 2026, they turned on them.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/nov/9/editorial-schumer-fed-militant-liberal-wolves-turn/
— Democrats want the wealth without creating it. Nationalization and tax proposals increasingly treat private fortunes as government resources. DD: Democrats want redistribution of Republican wealth, and especially wealth held by Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/oct/27/editorial-democrats-want-wealth-without-creating/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— United Airlines hijacking suspect ID’d as previously deported transgender asylum recipient.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4801419/united-airlines-hijacking-suspect-idd-as-previously-deported-transgender-asylum-recipient-dhs-says/
NEW YORK POST
— 30 elite colleges and universities accused of cleverly bypassing Supreme Court block on affirmative action. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders have used Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI since the 1960s to get rid of Republicans and they will forever do that. My critics/opponents have had tremendous success using AA and DEI to get rid of Republicans. I should write about that. Ever-increasingly, those above me are Democrat, RINO, liberal/moderate, non-White, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and./or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/12/us-news/30-elite-colleges-and-universities-accused-of-bypassing-supreme-court-block-on-affirmative-action/
BREITBART
— Trump Administration Breaks Deportation Records, Removing Almost Half a Million Illegal Aliens from U.S.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/11/12/trump-admin-breaks-deportation-records-removing-almost-half-million-illegals-us/
DAILY CALLER
— Gun Rights Group Asks Supreme Court To Keep Cook County From Dodging Semi-Auto Showdown. DD: How soon will Democrats succeed in a) outlawing all semiautomatic firearms and b) confiscating them from Republicans?
https://dailycaller.com/2026/11/12/gun-rights-group-asks-supreme-court-to-keep-blue-county-from-dodging-semi-auto-showdown/
DAILY SIGNAL
— House Conservatives Give Leadership a Blueprint to Deliver the GOP Agenda Before It’s Too Late. DD: What about E-Verify?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/11/12/blueprint-gop-agenda/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The House Freedom Caucus, a group of some of the most conservative members on Capitol Hill, has a plan to deliver on voter ID, codify President Donald Trump’s border security policies, pass a final reconciliation package with defense spending, cut spending to reduce the debt, and more. With a long list of goals, the group is also calling on members to stay in Washington until the job is done. “Republicans should not leave town until these priorities are completed and Democrats are denied every possible leverage point,” House Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris, R-Md., said at Wednesday’s press conference. The letter, addressed to House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, asks to push through a reconciliation package with defense funding and health care tax relief, with at least $1 trillion in spending cuts, so the programs pay for themselves. It also lists Trump’s border policy, banning sanctuary cities, passing an energy permitting bill, a congressional stock trading ban, term limits, the farm bill, voter ID, and for the Senate to confirm as many nominees as possible.)
— House Freedom Caucus Demands Long-Promised Conservative Reforms Before Dems Bring Chaos. DD: What about E-Verify?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/11/11/house-freedom-caucus-demands-conservative-reforms/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The House Freedom Caucus had stern messages Wednesday for Republicans. Fix Obamacare and health care like the GOP promised, listen to the voters, and use every minute of the lame-duck session to pass conservative legislation, such as the SAVE America Act and border security. “We need to clear the decks, strip the Democrats of every leverage point.”)
EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Weighs Military Campaign to Free Cuba Before Leaving Office.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/trump-weighs-military-campaign-to-free-cuba-before-leaving-office-6124425
FOX NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/chris-harrison-vow-sends-two-women-packing-faith-marriage-take-center-stage
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump threatens to double tariffs on Mexico if it does not halt migrants.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-threatens-double-tariffs-mexico-if-it-does-not-halt-migrants-2026-11-12/
NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight everything that Trump says and does.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democrats-cant-wait-trump-produce-results-james-talarico-says-rcna609096
CBS NEWS
— ICE deportations and arrests hit record high as Trump faces reckoning over immigration crackdown.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-deportations-arrests-hit-record-high/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn meritocracy. To get more votes from voters who have the following demographics, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that when those who do not share their demographics do better than them, it is because Republicans discriminate against them: non-Democrat, liberal/moderate, non-White, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/13/world/europe/education-meritocracy.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Judge Richard A. Posner Has Died. His Influence in Law Was Beyond Compare. He was the most-cited legal scholar of the latter half of the 20th century and an unapologetic iconoclast, favoring pragmatism over judicial tradition. He was 87. DD: In 1996, I argued a case pro se before Posner. According to Google AI: The landmark federal case Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange (1997) ( https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/110/481/526770/ ) is a well-known U.S. Court of Appeals (7th Circuit) decision regarding federal odometer fraud and automobile sales.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/richard-posner-dead.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/11/12/trump-reverts-an-old-theme-warns-immigrant-caravans/
— A bitter blame game threatens to tear Republicans apart. The next Republican nominee will need a Reaganesque vision. DD: Anticipate/expect that RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use November 3, 2026 Democrat election victories to strike the following planks in the Republican Party 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). RINO leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization removed me from the 2024 IRP State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee because I defend and promote the aforesaid planks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/11/11/after-midterms-loss-fusing-populism-conservatism-could-unite-gop/
— Trump sidelines Vance on Iran. DD: What have been sidelined from doing? My Democrat GAO superiors sidelined me from audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. They wasted what I had learned working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/the-seven-trump/2026/11/12/tracking-trump-trump-sidelines-vance-iran-russia-allows-europe-into-peace-talks-trump-threatens-mexico-with-tariffs-more/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/11/12/vow-is-bachelor-tradwives-its-really-something/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting Blacks to promote Islam.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/11/08/abdul-el-sayed-black-detroit-arab-muslim-michigan/92625564007/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv-streaming/2026/11/11/the-vow-fox-nation-chris-harrison-the-bachelor-abc-review/92644777007/
UNILAD
— Over 160 million Americans would be exempt from US military draft in WW3, but expert warns this could change. While the Vietnam War relied on a birthday lottery, a modern US conscription drive could look very different if global conflict erupts. DD: The Vietnam War and its draft had a tremendous negative impact on me. Ever since I was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponent have used against me my getting student draft deferments 1966-1970 and a financial hardship draft deferment 1970-1971. They have always painted me as being a disgusting hypocritical coward because I would not have been sent into combat because of my health problems. They have always stressed that if I had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree in business in when I was 21 in 1970, b) to earn an MBA in 1976, c) to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) to earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, e) to pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and f) to 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. My Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans blame Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. 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 Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969, b) my 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 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.unilad.com/news/us-news/millions-of-americans-exempt-from-ww3-draft-but-expert-warns-change-223405-20261112
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Terminations for cause. DD: My critics/opponents stress federal Civil Service protections. They stress that because of those protections, federal employees cannot be forced to retire unless they have performance problems. They hint/imply/argue/shout that because my GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, I had performance problems. Further, according to them, those performance problems had to have been extremely serious a) because I had earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1980, and 1976, b) because I had earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, and c) because I had earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/academic-worker/2026/10/02/what-does-terminated-cause-actually-mean
PBS
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, everyone in America will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare. Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly promote dependency on government, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That motivated me a) to work my way through college, b) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21 in 1970, c) to work two jobs 1971-1972, d) to earn job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, e) to earn job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) to earn a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-administration-plans-to-make-it-harder-to-get-grocery-assistance
NEW YORKER
— DD: Democrat leaders ask if Trump can fire the Vice-President via Truth Social.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/can-you-fire-the-vice-president-via-truth-social
ATLANTIC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters say that Stephen Miller is the last Trumpist standing, that he has been there from the beginning, and that he is now presiding over the end.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/11/stephen-miller-trump-chief-of-staff/689385/
LGBTQ NATION
— Pete Buttigieg tops list of Democratic presidential nominees in new poll. Pete Buttigieg vs. Marco Rubio in 2028? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/11/pete-buttigieg-tops-list-of-democratic-presidential-nominees-in-new-poll/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— A new crop of socialist mayors is coming to town. Will they deliver?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/12/democratic-socialists-historic-election-wins
