FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-familys-journey-sparks-national-movement-focused-understanding-transgender-binary-youth/19312233/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use reparations to get more votes from Blacks and promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-department-justice-seeks-halt-evanston-reparations-program/19312433/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/06/16/school-districts-trans-kids-pay-anti-trans-lawsuits
— DD: What do major Republican donors in Illinois think of you? I should write about major Republican donors in Illinois since 2000 and what they think of me and of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and what they thought of my leadership of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012 and Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. I would focus on the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2022/2/14/22932871/ken-griffin-donation-richard-irvin-gop-governor-campaign
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: DuPage Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) blame Republicans for gun violence and b) dimmish Second Amendment rights.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260616/news/people-still-care-dupage-county-dedicates-new-park-to-victims-of-violence/
WJBC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wjbc.com/2026/06/16/prairie-pride-coalition-supporting-lgbtq-community-since-1995/
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Man Says He Burned Cross In Grant Park To Protest Trump.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/16/man-says-he-burned-cross-in-grant-park-to-protest-trump-nbc-reports/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/17/obama-center-beauty-in-the-beholders-eye-00964455
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MORNING ANSWER
— Ted Dabrowski: Illinois Loses a Bears Stadium Worth of People Every Year and Nobody Treats That as the Crisis
https://morninganswerchicago.com/ted-dabrowski-illinois-loses-a-bears-stadium-worth-of-people-every-year-and-nobody-treats-that-as-the-crisis/
JOHN KASS
— Americans Are Sick of Paying the Democrat DEI Blood Price
https://johnkassnews.com/were-sick-of-paying-the-dei-blood-price/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Two Local Legislators Sponsor Rational Revision of Drivers License Law Ending Discrimination Against Senior Citizens
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/17/two-local-legislators-sponsor-rational-revision-of-drivers-license-law-ending-discrimination-against-senior-citizens/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you publish? Who reads what you publish? Since 2000, I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, and since 2004, I have published copies of my newsletters at http://www.gopillinois.com . Since 2004, my newsletters have included links to more than 542,100 articles. But according to my critics/opponents, no one reads my newsletters and they have no impact. But nevertheless, since 2000, they have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me to stop me from sending out my newsletters. My critics/opponents blame me and blame my newsletters for all of their problems, for all of your problems, for all of my problems, and for all of everyone’s problems. Since 2000, they have blamed me and have blamed my newsletters for all the losses suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Pritzker signs a budget giving Illinois tax hikes, higher spending
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzkers-2027-budget-gives-illinois-tax-hikes-higher-spending/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom camp says investigation is not about finding a crime, but sending a message. DD: With their ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions that they took against me, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors sent bigger and bigger and bigger messages to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. With their ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions that they took against me, RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois sent bigger and bigger and bigger messages to conservatives, that is, to platform Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4610661/doj-investigation-about-sending-message-gavin-newsom/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Texas’s James Talarico, 37, Shares His Only Checking Account With His Mom. DD: What were your accomplishments by the time you were 37? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being an unmitigated failure. In my defense, by the time I was 27, I had become a licensed CPA (32), passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination in my first attempt (32), earned a master’s degree in accounting (31), passed the CPA examination on my first attempt (30), earned an MBA (27), earned a bachelor’s degree in business (21), gotten married (29), bought real estate (35, 29, 27, 25, and 24), and bought new cars (29, 25, 23, 20, 19, and 17).
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/texass-james-talarico-37-shares-his-only-checking-account-with-his-mom/
NEW YORK POST
— Chicago cross-burning feared to be hateful racist threat turns out to be idiotic anti-Trump protest.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/chicago-cross-burning-feared-to-be-hateful-racist-threat-turns-out-to-be-idiotic-anti-trump-protest-saw-the-wikipedia-page/
— MLB issues warning to Giants pitchers for Bible verses printed on LGBTQ+ Pride Night caps.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/sports/mlb-warns-giants-pitchers-over-bible-verses-on-lgbtq-pride-night-caps/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— For years, the federal government kept its thumb on the scale. The weapon of choice was “disparate-impact” theory — the notion that if a fair test or a fair hiring process doesn’t match someone’s preferred demographic chart, the process itself must be racist and torn down. In a stunning reversal, the Department of Justice has declared that theory unconstitutional. The scheme was sold as a way to root out unintentional discrimination by treating individuals as mere statistics. Instead, it produced intentional discrimination — not as a flaw, but by design.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/16/trumps-doj-just-did-what-decades-of-speeches-never-could-1646240/
BREITBART
— Ohio Cracks Down on Illegal Foreign Truck Drivers, Revokes over 1K CDLs.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/16/ohio-cracks-down-illegal-foreign-truck-drivers-revokes-1k-cdls/
— MLB Issues Warning to SF Giants Pitchers Wearing Bible Verses During Pride Night.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/06/16/mlb-issues-warning-to-sf-giants-pitchers-wearing-bible-verses-during-pride-night/
CITY JOURNAL
— The Justice Department Restores Equality. The Office of Legal Counsel concluded that disparate-impact guidelines encourage employers to engage in racial discrimination, violating the U.S. Constitution.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/equal-opportunity-commission-disparate-impact-racial-discrimination
COLLEGE FIX
— Asian Chicago college student admits to burning cross as part of Trump protest.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/asian-chicago-college-student-admits-to-burning-cross-as-part-of-trump-protest/
— Mohsen Madawi is a perpetual learner who needs to go. After 11 years of being a student in America, on top of another six in Israel, Mohsen Madawi may finally be heading home. Madawi is one of a number of pro-Palestinian activists who are seemingly always in school despite being in their 30s or older. The Trump administration is seeking to deport Madawi on the grounds his anti-Israel activism undermines American foreign policy. The ACLU is challenging the deportation on First Amendment grounds. An immigration judge okayed his deportation, but a separate federal case is pending, meaning he remains in the country for now. Regardless of the potential free-speech issues at play, Madawi should be leaving the country because he has clearly abused the visa system.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/17-years-a-student-foreigner-may-finally-leave-the-country/
DAIILY WIRE
— Anti-Trump Activist Behind Burning Cross That Sparked MAGA Blame. The arson sparked outrage from Democrats who initially called it the “seeds of racism and fascism.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-trump-activist-behind-burning-cross-that-sparked-maga-blame
EPOCH TIMES
— How Flash Mobs of Teens Are Taking Over Towns, Beaches. Teen takeovers started in Chicago in 2024 and become a nationwide phenomenon in 2025. They often devolve into violence. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-flash-mobs-of-teens-are-taking-over-towns-beaches-6045096
FEDERALIST
— Your Political Party Is Code For Whether You Love Or Hate America.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/16/your-political-party-is-code-for-whether-you-love-or-hate-america/
FOX NEWS
— Conservative group targeted in SPLC-inspired terror attack demands restitution after DOJ indictment. Shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II said he found the Family Research Council on the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-gay groups’ online.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-group-targeted-splc-inspired-terror-attack-demands-restitution-doj-indictment.amp
NEWSBUSTERS
— ABC Downplays Illegal Alien Ramming Car into ICE Agent as ‘Suspect’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2026/06/16/abc-downplays-illegal-alien-ramming-car-ice-agent-suspect
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/policy/sports-gaming/5926143-giants-pride-night/amp/
— What it takes to win elections. DD: RINO leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly make it clear that to win elections, they want the Illinois Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party and to officially dump its 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 its platform.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5858539-schumer-mills-campaign-miscalculation/
WASHINGTON POST
— Texas’s GOP platform is getting more extreme — and influential. Texas is often first to introduce proposed legislation that is copied by other conservative states or picked up by national candidates. DD: RINO leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly make it clear that to win elections, they want the Illinois Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party and to officially dump its 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 its platform.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/13/texass-gop-platform-is-getting-more-extreme-influential/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use reparations to get more votes from Blacks and promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/16/illinois-reparations-trump-department-of-justice-race/81deb420-69e6-11f1-830e-133d20cadd28_story.html
AUSTIN POST
— Texas Republicans add IVF ban and mail-in voting restrictions to party platform.
https://www.statesman.com/news/politics/article/texas-gop-platform-2026-convention-22289377.php
TEXAS TRIBUNE
— At Texas GOP convention, friction overshadows talk of unity. The Republican Party of Texas’ meeting in Houston offered a look at the state GOP’s next chapter and messaging heading into the fall’s midterm elections.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/14/texas-gop-convention-houston-2026/
KVUE
— After Texas GOP convention, cracks emerge in push for party unity.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/vote-texas/texas-gop-convention-party-fractures-calls-for-unity/269-31aa2bf6-4a67-4514-9fb3-2f3b3f68df45
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What ‘Created Equal’ Means in America. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was born with tremendous unfair advantages because I was born a White male. In addition, my father earned enough money that he could send me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-created-equal-means-in-america-e38ca51c
FORTUNE
— DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/16/gallup-american-jobs-quality-study-gates-foundation-gen-z-work-life-balance/
FED SMITH
— Probationary procedures. DD: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. Nevertheless, they did everything that could to get me to transfer back to IRS, transfer to another federal agency, or quit. They gave me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals. They kept me off audits of IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. Further, previously, in 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree and he disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2026/06/16/most-2025-probationary-federal-employee-separations-were-voluntary/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— NDA proposal draws concerns of ‘chilling effect’ on federal employees. Whistleblower protection advocates and a member of Congress said an NDA proposal may cause federal employees to stay silent instead of reporting disclosures. DD: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly complained about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors’ ever-increasing political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. Consequently, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions against me.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/06/nda-proposal-draws-concerns-of-chilling-effect-on-federal-employees/
FEDERAL RETIREMENT
— Retirement cost analysis. DD: My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://federalretirement.net/retirement-cost-analysis/
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Campus Graduation Chaos Shows Higher Education Needs a Serious Moral Rese.
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/campus-graduation-chaos-shows-higher-education-needs-serious-moral-reset
LAW
— DD: What are your demographics? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if you have problems, and if you have the following demographics, conservatives cause your problems: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2026/06/16/eeoc-moves-to-end-collection-of-demographic-data-but-states-may-fill-the-void/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— DD: Democrat leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.creators.com/read/Crime-and-Conduct/06/26/trump-administration-continues-onslaught-on-diversity
ADVOCATE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/travel/route-66-dispatch-history
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
WORKERS WORLD
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters use Blacks to promote more hatred against America.
https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93270/
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June 14, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Juneteenth. DD: Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/juneteenth-elgin-music-festival-panton-family/
— Side-by-side Wheaton mansions are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M. DD: How diverse is your precinct economically? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse economically. Generally, the further south that you go in my precinct, the higher that household incomes and housing values are. Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road. Currently, the aforesaid side-by-side mansions in my precinct are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/05/wheaton-mansions/
ABC7
— JANUARY 8, 2023 FLASHMACK: DD: Those who want the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to be the Illinois Democrat Lite Party are destroying the IRP.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jim-durkin-illinois-house-republican-resigning/12678017/
CBS2
— DD: Trump opposes abortion. Democrat leaders remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center building. In 2025, Democrat leaders removed Hyde’s name from the DuPage County Courthouse because he opposed abortion.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trumps-name-removed-from-kennedy-center-building/
WGN9
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-weekend-morning-news/12th-annual-chicago-juneteenth-parade-set-to-take-over-west-side/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2026/06/12/here-are-events-happening-to-celebrate-juneteenth-in-springfield/90456349007/
JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/lincoln-library-museum-celebrating-juneteenth-22302668.php
STATELINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage America to disparage Republicans.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/ap-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-restore-national-park-changes-at-sites-that-disparaged-us/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/house-conservatives-mount-push-to-codify-trump-border-policies/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump turns 80 with a showstopping spectacle of cage fights at the White House. But big issues loom. Trump celebrates turning 80 with a UFC cage-fighting event on the White House’s South Lawn.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-turns-80-with-a-showstopping-spectacle-of-cage-fights-at-the-white-house-but/article_2b136f66-ab21-5bd9-a498-36187534c370.html
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/juneteenth-family-day-celebration/article_1f3fee3d-9725-582c-b5f9-db89efa79f1a.html
WCIA
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.aol.com/news/guide-celebrating-juneteenth-central-illinois-013447577.html
WSIL TV
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/city-of-carbondale-announces-juneteenth-celebration-series/article_bd518684-ccf3-4af0-b590-49ee55f64dac.html
WAND TV
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/5-things-to-do-this-weekend-across-central-illinois-june-12-14/article_a2bb17de-bc1f-47c1-bc7a-a5602ca4c1b7.html
WQAD
— Illinois distributes first $25M to local pharmacies in low-income areas to help them compete. DD: How wealthy is/was your hometown. To demonize, denigrate, and condemn my parents and me as being filthy rich, my critics/opponents have always falsely hinted/implied that Crete was filthy rich when I lived there 1948-1972.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/state/illinois-distributes-first-25m-to-local-pharmacies-to-help-them-compete/526-88ae94bf-9520-493b-9c33-68b81b4811de
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/a-look-inside-new-obama-museum-ahead-of-its-juneteenth-official-opening/
IPM NEWS
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-danville-and-urbana-to-mark-juneteenth-by-celebrating-black-freedom-and-families/
CWB CHICAGO
— A 21-year-old Indiana man was killed when a gunman armed with an illegally modified pistol opened fire during a stunt driving “sideshow” in the Ford City Mall parking lot early Saturday.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/gunman-sprays-ford-city-parking-lot-with-automatic-gunfire-killing-man-during-car-sideshow.html
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Glen Ellyn residents say spiking encounters with volatile homeless population, lack of policing ‘not a compassionate answer’ from the village. DD: The Democrat Party platform destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, it promotes homelessness.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/glen-ellyn-residents-say-spiking-encounters-with-volatile-homeless-population-lack-of-policing-not-a-compassionate-answer-from-the-village
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago’s sustainable community high schools: Lower outcomes, higher costs. The Chicago Teachers Union’s preferred model fails in academic proficiency, absenteeism and cost. DD: My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-sustainable-community-high-schools-lower-outcomes-higher-costs/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153 The deadline is June 26. The cost is $183.58. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton in 1999, I have encouraged Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to walk in Wheaton Independence Day parades. In 2003, the day after all the announced Republican candidates for U.S. Senate attended (Cox, Kathuria, McKenna, Oberweis, and Ryan) had walked in the parade, they all attended a picnic that I had organized in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. More than 200 attended. In 2005, I started raising $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to help sponsor the parade and fireworks. Each year I would hand-deliver 500 parade flyers to the homes and businesses along the parade route. In 2007, I raised $2,000 for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade. But my critics/opponents ended that in 2021 by having the Wheaton Park District stop parade and fireworks sponsorships. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take many other adverse actions against me. They want to de-politized the parade, that is, they want to keep Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders out of the parade.
— What discourages/stops you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it is knowing that far too many of them will blame me and will blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you attribute your successes in life to? I attribute my successes in life to my parents who promoted personal responsibility and conservative principles. Their sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license. But my critics/opponents attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your purpose in life? My purpose in life is to promote conservative principles. My following conservative principles enabled me to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative and that I promote conservative principles. I have always used my personal experiences to promote conservative principles. According to my critics/opponents, that disqualifies me as being a journalist. But they have no problem with journalists who falsely claim to be nonpartisan. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do your critics/opponents side with? My critics/opponents side with a) liberals and moderates who are against conservatives, b) Democrats and RINOs who are against Republicans, c) minorities who are against Whites, d) women who are against men, e) younger people who are against older people, f) those who have less money who are against those who have more money, g) unmarried people who are against married people, h) those who have children who are against those who do not have children, i) those who are against federal employees and retirees, j) those who are against reporters and journalists, k) veterans who are against draft avoiders, l) non-Protestants who are against Protestants, m) non-German Americans who are against German Americans, n) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time who are against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, o) countries that are against America, and/or p) citizens of foreign countries who are against citizens of America. – Dave Diersen
http:http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections. Further, my critics/opponents stress that when my Democrat superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me including my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, the following did not come to my defense: my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives, Speakers Gingrich and Hastert, and the six professional associations that I was a member of: Illinois CPA Society, Institute of Internal Auditors, Nation Association of Fraud Examiners, Association of Government Accountants, National Association of Financial Services Auditors, and National Association of Forensic Accountants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mayhem mars euphoria as New York City celebrates the Knicks’ first championship in 53 years
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/14/mayhem-mars-euphoria-new-york-city-celebrates-knicks-first/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Pritzker Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness.’ The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jb-pritzker-admin-depicts-white-people-cops-as-mosquitoes-in-microaggression-training-that-rails-against-color-blindness/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The kids are not alright. Trump’s team is working night and day to track down all the alien minors “lost” by Joe Biden.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/the_kids_are_not_alright.html
ANN COULTER
— This Week in Hate Crimes. DD: My critics/opponents despise/hate Ann Coulter. My critics/opponents side with a) liberals and moderates who are against conservatives, b) Democrats and RINOs who are against Republicans, c) minorities who are against Whites, d) women who are against men, e) younger people who are against older people, f) those who have less money who are against those who have more money, g) unmarried people who are against married people, h) those who have children who are against those who do not have children, i) those who are against federal employees and retirees, j) those who are against reporters and journalists, k) veterans who are against draft avoiders, l) non-Protestants who are against Protestants, m) non-German Americans who are against German Americans, n) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time who are against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, o) countries that are against America, and/or p) citizens of foreign countries who are against citizens of America.
https://prescottenews.com/2026/06/13/opinion-this-week-in-hate-crimes-ann-coulter/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Tuesday this week, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing a competitor at track meet in Texas last year. The killing quickly became national news because Anthony is black, his victim was white and black people were rooting for the stabber. The events that led to Anthony’s plunging a knife into Austin Metcalf’s heart are these: Driven for some reason to sit in a rival team’s tent, Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave by Metcalf. He refused, and tauntingly dared, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf pushed him, whereupon Anthony knifed him. For killing a white kid who had the affrontery to 1) ask him to leave a tent he was not supposed to be in, and 2) touch him, Anthony collected more than $600,000 in donations and gained a small group of protesters outside the courthouse, yelling racist abuse at white people. Anthony’s admirers claimed to be protesting “white supremacy.” Don’t these white people realize Anthony is black? You can’t ask a black person to move! A minister outside the courthouse denounced the entire justice system as the “final frontier of racism and it’s legalized here.” A potential juror admitted, “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail.” One thing you’ll never see is a group of white people rooting for whites who kill blacks — or anyone else for that matter — just because the accused is white. Nobody protested the arrests of Derek Chauvin, Kim Potter, George Zimmerman or Jake Gardner, and two of those were accidents, the other two self-defense. [Point of law: Lying on your back, having your head smashed into a concrete sidewalk, or being locked in a chokehold so lethal that police are no longer allowed to use it, is not remotely similar to being pushed.] Gardner, for example, an Omaha bar owner, shot and killed a black career criminal who was choking him to death during a BLM riot. The district attorney, along with his entire homicide department, investigated and concluded the shooting was justified. But realizing he was white, the Democratic D.A. recused himself and assigned a black special prosecutor to the case. The black prosecutor promptly issued an arrest warrant for Gardner’s arrest, charging him with manslaughter, attempted first-degree assault, making terroristic threats, and use of a weapon to commit a felony. With a legion of white people rushing to disavow him, evict him, destroy his business, and manipulate the system to ensure his conviction, Gardner killed himself. In other news this week, a 14-year-old black kid in Indianapolis fatally shot a 23-year-old white man in the head during a carjacking. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department chief of police (the city’s first female police chief!!!) and deputy chief of police (a black guy, naturally) held press conferences, emoting over the horrible thing that had happened — to the killer. Chief Tanya Terry, who looks like Janet Reno’s younger, more butch sister, barely mentioned the victim, Brett Scrogham, a serious Christian, who’d been returning from having dinner with his family when he was attacked. Terry began by saying she had “mixed emotions” about his murder — as one does when an innocent man has been shot in the head. In her telling, the vicious cold blooded crime was merely a “tragic incident.” Tearing up, she bemoaned the fact that the suspected killer would “face lifelong consequences,” his life “forever impacted and changed by short-sighted, impulsive, and reckless decisions.” You know, if you think about it, you could say that Scrogham’s life was also impacted, in a way. Finally remembering him, Terry added, “There are victims on the other side of those decisions. And those victims matter.” Yes, we all remember the “tragic incident” in Minneapolis when police officer Derek Chauvin’s life was forever “impacted and changed.” It’s easy to forget, but there was another victim in that encounter, too. Deputy Chief Kendale Adams also called the unprovoked attack a “tragedy,” saying it was “a setback for all of us.” Yes, especially Scrogham. He then called on the community to ensure that potential teenage killers feel valued. “I know that those community-based organizations are out there doing this kind of work, and I would like to keep encouraging them to continue to do the work. … we have to do more.” Everybody has to step up and “do more,” except the teenagers who keep killing people. This is like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) saying, the day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, that she grieved for both “the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday,” or Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) referring to the 9/11 terrorist attack as a day when “some people did something.” Sometimes it seems as if, no matter who kills whom, it’s either the white person’s fault or it’s nobody’s fault.)
COLLEGE FIX
— Professor: Should Americans not cheer for the U.S. World Cup team … because Trump? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America to punish Trump.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-should-americans-not-cheer-for-the-u-s-world-cup-team-because-trump/
— Pro-Palestinian Swarthmore College activists arrested for 2025 encampment demand all charges be dropped.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-palestinian-swarthmore-college-activists-arrested-for-2025-encampment-demand-all-charges-be-dropped/
COMMON SENSE
— The World Has Moved Past Peak Woke. The high point of the ideology has passed, the direction of travel has changed, and that is a very good thing. DD. All my critics/opponents either a) are woke or b) pander to those who are woke.
https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/editorials/world-has-moved-past-peak-woke
DAILY SIGNAL
— California’s Election System Keeps Democrats in Power. DD: The Illinois Republican Party’s (IRP) system for electing IRP State Central Committee members keeps conservatives, that is, platform Republicans, out of power.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/12/californias-election-system-power/
FOX NEWS
— San Francisco Giants pitcher writes Bible verse on hat in defiance of Pride Night
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/san-francisco-giants-pitcher-writes-bible-verse-hat-defiance-pride-night.amp
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Talarico Worked As ‘Equitable Education’ Consultant for Firm that Designed DEI Strategies for Texas Schools
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/talarico-worked-as-equitable-education-consultant-for-firm-that-designed-dei-strategies-for-texas-schools/amp/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Los Angeles City Council has approved amendments that would slow the implementation schedule for the City’s Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance and related airport worker wage provisions. The move revises the framework adopted in 2025, which had been set to increase covered hotel and airport worker wages to $30 per hour by 2028. DD: In today’s dollars, I did not earn $27/hour until I was 22 in 1971 and I had earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. In today’s dollars, I did not earn $33/hour until I was 23 in 1972 and had completed three job-related evening graduate courses.
https://natlawreview.com/article/los-angeles-amends-hotel-worker-minimum-wage-ordinance-advance-july-2026
NEW AMERICAN
— Illinois DEI Training Equates Whites With Mosquitoes — Which Can Be Killed With Fire
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/illinois-dei-training-equates-whites-with-mosquitoes-which-can-be-killed-with-fire/
TOWNHALL
— Let’s Have a Serious Conversation About Race.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/06/14/lets-have-a-serious-conversation-about-race-n2677727
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “What the hell is wrong with these people?” I heard someone ask as a clip of Jasmine Crockett played on the television at the restaurant bar the other day. What was Crockett talking about? Her sympathy for the murderer named Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Yes, that’s why she cares, or at least pretends to care, about the fate of the man who’ll spend at least the next 17.5 years of his life in prison in Texas. How could anyone, real or not, go on camera and express sympathy for a murderer, at the expense of the murder victim and his family, no less? There’s really only one possibility: the cancerous cultural rot Democrats have forced and enforced on the black community.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
AOL
— Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday that eligible state employees will receive merit-based pay increases tied to their most recent performance evaluations. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance evaluations to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.aol.com/articles/arkansas-state-employees-receive-merit-160000000.html
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. Traditional marriage and family put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/experts-call-for-rethinking-traditional-marriage-roles-amid-strain-on-women/ss-AA25whgN
NBC NEWS
— JANUARY 17, 2016 FLASHBACK: Jeb Bush: Trump Has ‘No Proven Leadership Skills.’ Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush tells NBC’s Chuck Todd that his campaign has the resources to “go the distance.” DD: One could stress the conservative principles that Trump rejects.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/jeb-bush-trump-has-no-proven-leadership-skills-n498176
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush remained defiant in his contrasts with Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with Chuck Todd for “Meet the Press.” “He has no proven leadership skills in the public domain,” he said of the Republican frontrunner. “So my path is to say I do.” Bush focused his attack further on Trump’s conservative bona-fides and insisted he’s the only person willing to go after Trump on those issues, saying simply, “He’s not a conservative.” “I’m gonna continue to be critical of him when he doesn’t advocate conservative principles,” Bush said. “He’s running for the conservative party’s nomination. He should be a conservative, and he hasn’t shown it.” The former Florida governor acknowledged Trump’s ability to “entertain” but said his ideas won’t help people and questioned Trump’s ability to bring people together.)
NEW YORK TIMES
— Americans Flee to Red States. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. That is why Democrats flee to Republican areas. Democrats want to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/build-baby-build-how-blue-states-can-stop-losing-population.html
— How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War. DD: My critics/opponents have always used against me the fact that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/books/review/andrew-delbanco-war-before-the-war.html
— ‘All Men Are Created Equal’? Not Everyone Agrees. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was born with tremendous unfair advantages because I was born a White male. In addition, my father earned enough money that he could send me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opinion/inequality-musk-thiel-carvalho-billionaires.html
— Republicans Thought They Owned ‘Values.’ Not Anymore. DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much personal baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/opinion/democrats-politics-morality-values.html
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/opinion/epstein-trump-white-house.html
HARVARD GAZETTE
— Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds. DD: How diverse is your precinct economically? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse economically. Generally, the further south that you go in my precinct, the higher that household incomes and housing values are. Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road. Currently, side-by-side mansions in my precinct are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/democrats-and-republicans-live-in-partisan-bubbles-study-finds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Most Democratic and Republican voters live in partisan bubbles, with little daily exposure to those who belong to the other party. For instance the typical Democrat has “almost zero interactions” with Republicans in their neighborhood, according to an article by Harvard doctoral student Jacob R. Brown and government Professor Ryan D. Enos published March 8 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. “There’s a lot of evidence that any separation between groups has a lot of negative consequences. We see this in race; we see this in religion; we see this in all kinds of things,” said Enos. “And increasingly, we see this in partisanship in the United States.”)
BARRON’S
— Wealthy parents. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/wealthy-parents-have-turned-into-banks-for-their-children-why-thats-a-problem-f6f1878b
FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders used to promote integration, but now the promote segregation. They promote Black power, Hispanic power, Asian power, female power, youth power, non-Christian power, non-German American power, and immigrant power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8CClX5w-E4
CAREERS IN GOVERNMENT
— Virtually all government entities are run my Democrats or by RINOs. Because of that, the more of the following that you are, the more that you “need not apply:” conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.careersingovernment.com/
POLITICO
— Freedom 250’s fair on National Mall highlights conservative groups. In May, several musical artists dropped out of planned performances at the fair after learning of its ties to Trump. DD: TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were conservative groups. My critics/opponents are anti-conservatives. I served as the TAPROOT chairman from 2005 until 2012 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued that TAPROOT and ICRC were hate groups. One could stress the conservative principles that Trump rejects.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/freedom-250-national-mall-fair-conservative-groups-00960904
ADVOCATE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-abandons-lgbtq-veterans
DERRICK
— DD: to get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.thederrick.com/news/entertainment/beth-kowitt-corporate-america-is-no-meritocracy-just-ask-women/article_25ed6a9c-63d5-5bbf-a325-a1d1159329b7.html
TRUTHOUT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Blacks to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://truthout.org/articles/over-160-years-after-abolition-anti-black-racism-still-structures-us-economy/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use displays and exhibits to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-national-park-crackdown-backfires-091310942.html
INTERNATIONAL JOURNALIS’ NETWORK
— Personal perspectives can be valuable when transparently articulated. As the industry has recognized the importance of giving space for people to tell their own stories, knowing how to incorporate personal experiences in your reporting can be an effective approach. DD: My following conservative principles enabled me to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative and that I promote conservative principles. I have always used my personal experiences to promote conservative principles. According to my critics/opponents, that disqualifies me as being a journalist. But they have no problem with journalists who falsely claim to be nonpartisan.
https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-journalists-can-implement-personal-experiences-their-reporting
MAGZTER
— Why we are haunted by the choices we didn’t make. DD: I should have majored in accounting from the beginning. My undergraduate major at UIC and NIU should have been accounting, my graduate major at Loyola should have been accounting, and I should have taken and passed the CPA examination much sooner than I did. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul until I was 27 in 1976. I did not take the CPA examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting at DePaul until I was 31. I did not take the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late for me because the accounting profession saw me as being too old to have a successful career in accounting and because the accounting profession was under tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote minorities, females, and veterans, and I was none of the aforesaid.
https://www.magzter.com/stories/newspaper/The-Straits-Times/WHY-WE-ARE-HAUNTED-BY-THE-CHOICES-WE-DIDNT-MAKE
MIBOLSILLO
— Rich vs. Poor? The Money Habits That Separate Wealth Builders. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all the money that I have to my benefiting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, parents, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.mibolsillo.co/tips/rich-vs.-poor-the-money-habits-that-separate-wealth-builders-20260613-0003.html
June 7, 2026
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153 The deadline is June 26. The cost is $183.58. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Towns to go all out on July 4 for America’s 250th year. DD: Since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton in 1999, I have encouraged Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to walk in Wheaton Independence Day parades. In 2003, the day after all the announced Republican candidates for U.S. Senate attended (Cox, Kathuria, McKenna, Oberweis, and Ryan) had walked in the parade, they all attended a picnic that I had organized in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. More than 200 attended. In 2005, I started raising $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to help sponsor the parade and fireworks. Each year I would hand-deliver 500 parade flyers to the homes and businesses along the parade route. In 2007, I raised $2,000 for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade. But my critics/opponents ended that in 2021 by having the Wheaton Park District stop parade and fireworks sponsorships. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take many other adverse actions against me. They want to de-politized the parade, that is, they want to keep Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders out of it.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260606/news/something-spectacular-towns-to-go-all-out-on-july-4-for-americas-250th-year/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In Wheaton, the Fourth of July is not just a day, but a state of the mind, to borrow a line from another holiday movie. . .The Wheaton Park District will usher in the Fourth with a $100,000 fireworks and drone show, or $50,000 for fireworks and $50,000 for drones, on Friday, July 3. The devices fly up to 400 feet. “I make sure it is something spectacular,” said James, who designs the dual production with vendor Mad Bomber Fireworks. “Across the board, everyone’s saying let’s make this a pretty awesome Fourth of July,” James said. . .Free entry is being offered to nonprofits that roll out parade floats. The Wheaton Park District is also drumming up participation in the Fourth of July parade with new, lower rates for community and neighborhood groups. . .There’s even merch: commemorative T-shirts and hats bearing the City of Wheaton America 250 logo designed by student artist Asher Boriss (the city does not receive any profit from the sale of apparel). Mayor Phil Suess championed a sweet idea: an ice cream social. The city, in conjunction with Kilwins and Kimmer’s Ice Cream, will provide 1,776 scoops during the municipal band concert July 9. . .The city also has made an effort to mark the 250th with “things that are going to be lasting,” Suess said. So there’s a newly planted “Liberty Tree” outside city hall. Both Wheaton and Glen Ellyn have sponsored new murals depicting significant landmarks. “People appreciate freedom, they appreciate liberty, and they appreciate self-determination,” Suess said. Keller certainly does. He reads the dedication tags attached to the flags, planted by volunteers in the Wheaton park. . .Rudy Keller oversees the setup for the Field of Honor, a display of American flags at Seven Gables Park in Wheaton. New this year: A car show and cupcakes for the nation’s 250th birthday.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Video gambling revenue collections continue to grow for local governments. DD: To get more votes, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice. In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton and in 2019 I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260606/news/video-gambling-revenue-collections-continue-to-grow-for-local-governments/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois lawmakers lead US in spending campaign cash for childcare — and one dog.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/07/illinois-lawmaker-childcare-campaign-funds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In one small but notable instance, a candidate who narrowly lost a 2023 race for the Chicago Police District Council reported spending $325 on his dog. Illinois State Board of Elections campaign finance reports show the money was spent at a business called Cruisin’ Canines. The reason given in the reports? “Care of dependent family member (dog).”)
— DD: Democrat leaders use social media, AI, and everything else to destroy Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/07/opinion-social-media-polarization-ai/
WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) promote their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/what-to-know-about-the-ongoing-protests-and-arrests-outside-a-new-jersey-detention-center/article_01c2e603-6ff5-5b42-a2cb-c8b74b1dc342.html
CHICAGO READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/film-tv/movie-feature/steven-toushin-bijou-theater-gay-porn/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINAR
— DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrats in your county, township, municipality, and school district elect socialists?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4596773/graham-platner-rise-mamdani-moraff-katz-fan/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Harvard’s Slide into Stupidity
https://freebeacon.com/culture/harvards-slide-into-stupidity/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Henry Nowak’s death exposed Britain’s two-tier justice system
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/henry-nowaks-death-exposed-britains-two-tier-justice-system.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Explaining Britain’s ‘Sickly Reversed’ George Floyd Moment
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/04/britains-reversed-george-floyd/
— Why Britain’s ‘DEI Police’ Watched a 19-Year-Old Boy Die in Front of Their Eyes
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/04/britains-dei-police-boy-die/
— California Was a Paradise, Then Newsom Happened
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/02/california-paradise-then-newsom/
— Trump Derangement Goes to Newark: The Anti-ICE Protest Industry
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/anti-ice-protest-delaney-hall/
— The Real Victims of Biden’s Border Crisis
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/03/real-victims-bidens-border-crisis/
FOX NEWS
— Chaos erupts at NY reparations hearing as ‘Foundational’ Black Americans clash with left-leaning groups. DD: How would Democrat and RINO leaders respond if asked how you have benefitted from slavery? Anticipate/expect that if you are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American, they would stress the length of time your ancestors have been in America. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://www.aol.com/articles/chaos-erupts-ny-reparations-hearing-110034415.html
ICE
— ICE Chicago arrests violent, criminal illegal alien after Chicago PD releases him into community. Luis Manuel Saucedo-Cardenas was wanted on a federal criminal warrant after Chicago PD refused to cooperate with ICE.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-chicago-arrests-violent-criminal-illegal-alien-after-chicago-pd-releases-him
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Mamdani introduces New York to socialism, ‘block by block.’ DD: How soon, if not already, will Democrats in your county, township, municipality, and school district elect socialists?
https://www.aol.com/articles/opinion-mamdani-introduces-york-socialism-140000000.html
CNN
— Job qualifications. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/politics/trumps-warped-view-of-job-qualifications-what-matters
MSN
— Trump administration moves to roll back Biden-era gun rules
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-administration-moves-to-roll-back-biden-era-gun-rules/gm-GM08D02F75
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use buyouts and early retirement to get rid of employees who are Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-is-planning-voluntary-retirement-buyouts-for-some-senior-employees-as-it-grapples-with-the-threat-of-ai-here-s-who-the-offer-targets/ar-AA2503b0
MS NOW
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight assimilation. Sadly, my ancestors were slow to assimilate. Consequently, neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school. I had to work my way through college. All my grandparents spoke German.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/rubio-white-south-african-refugees-assimilation
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— Scholarships. DD: Since I was in high school in 1966, my critics/opponents have stressed that I did not get any scholarships. They have always hinted/implied/argued that proves that I am inferior and/or that my parents were filthy rich.
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/slideshows/things-to-know-about-merit-aid-scholarships
AOL
— Republican support for same-sex marriage declining
https://www.aol.com/news/poll-republican-support-same-sex-231033613.html
— Signs it’s time to leave your first job. DD: What was your first job after college? When I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be granted. Further, they were under tremendous pressure to hire minorities, females, and veterans. Further, I had the stigma of having been a federal employee who had been forced to resign. I had to have a job. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores for a sales job that did not really require a college degree. My Chicago Heights store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete. Under him, I saw that my Firestone career was bleak, if not nonexistent. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 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, if not violently, fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from IRS to be a Revenue Officer.
https://www.aol.com/articles/signs-time-leave-first-job-185543000.html
ABC NEWS
— Job qualifications. All my coworkers in the federal government who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://abcnews.com/Business/women-aggressive-men-applying-jobs-hired-frequently-linkedin/story?id=61531741
NBC LOS ANGELES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/weho-pride-weekend-west-hollywood/3900791/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Led by Elon Musk, C.E.O. Pay Heads Toward the Stars. Executive compensation is accelerating while rank-and-file workers lag, widening the pay gap in corporate America. DD: Trump’s salary is only $400,000/year.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/business/highest-paid-ceos-elon-musk.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/voting-rights-act-black-voters-south.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals and fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/opinion/aliens-ice-immigration-white-house.html
— DD: My many Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans blamed Republicans like me for America losing the Vietnam War.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/opinion/iran-us-war-military-washington.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/opinion/democrats-reconstruction-project-2029.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud. DD: Has IRS audited you? To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my education deductions when I was 29 years old in 1978. I had deducted graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1978. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically argued in tax court a) that the courses I deducted did not relate to my job duties, b) that they did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took them to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took them to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically ignored the fact a) that my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take the courses, b) that the course descriptions and my position descriptions show that the courses are deductible, and c) that I had stated in my applications that I wanted to take the courses to maintain and improve my IRS job skills. They would not have disallowed the courses a) if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran and/or b) if I had not complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/us/politics/trump-immunity-tax-audit.html
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Female Navy officers say they fear a career cap after Hegseth cuts women from promotions list. DD: All my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-07/female-navy-officers-say-they-fear-career-cap
USA TODAY
— DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes do the most to destroy TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012 and Illinois Center Right Coalition in 2007.
https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/2026/06/03/exclusive-documents-expose-growth-of-patriot-front/90392634007/
BOSTON HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/06/06/rainbows-over-boston-pride-parade-2026-photos/
WEST CENTRAL TRIBUNE
— It’s time to get tougher on teen takeovers. Teen takeovers aren’t a problem only in Chicago. They’ve been a challenge for mayors all over the country, from Washington, D.C., to Detroit to … Atlanta and beyond.” DD: What is your municipality doing to stop teen takeovers?
https://www.wctrib.com/opinion/editorials/american-opinion-its-time-to-get-tougher-on-teen-takeovers
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/pink-triangle-lgbtq-pride-22288623.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Parents aren’t waiting to pass down wealth. DD: All my critics/opponents have/had wealthy parents. My father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969. He never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I had to work my way through college.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/parents-aren-t-waiting-to-pass-down-wealth/ar-AA24YWQZ
24/7 WALL STREET
— 57% Say They Haven’t Saved Enough. 42% of retirees exit the workforce early due to health issues or job loss, shrinking contributions while stretching withdrawals across more years. DD: My retirement savings and income 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. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government saved far less for their retirement than my wife and I did. According to them, my wife and I could do that a) because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) because we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents, and c) because I benefitted tremendously from Republican discrimination against Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American ,and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://247wallst.com/personal-finance/2026/06/06/57-say-they-havent-saved-enough-and-the-data-confirms-it/
FORBES
— 9 Best Desktop Computers. DD: I recommend Dell.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbes-personal-shopper/article/best-desktop-computer/
LADDERS
— Career success. DD: My critics/opponents attribute their career successes to meritocracy. They attribute my career success to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/bill-gates-says-he-attributes-his-success-to-these-3-things
INDEPENDENT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.independent.org/article/2026/06/06/great-replacement-or-market-outcome/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It’s by now common knowledge that the U.S. is undergoing observable demographic shifts from a majority-white, native-born population toward a more foreign-born and diverse one. The foreign-born share of the population went from 4.7% in 1970 to over 15% today. The non-Hispanic white American share of the population over that period went from 84% to 58%. Both factors combined have produced steady shifts in neighborhoods, schools, workplaces, and voting patterns.
PARADE
— Being Forced Into Retirement Is One of the Most Damaging Things That Can Happen to You. DD: I should write about being forced to retire early. The more of the following that you are, the more likely that you will be forced to retire early: Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://parade.com/living/being-forced-into-retirement-can-negatively-impact-mental-health
LIBERTY NATION
— Moral Decline in America. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice.
https://www.libertynation.com/moral-decline-in-america/
PRESS READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pressreader.com/ireland/sunday-independent-ireland/20260607/281758455970247
HARVARD CRIMSON
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2026/6/7/affirmative-action-task-force-1976/
MARY SUE
— DD: My critics/opponents stress those who I did much to help elect and to help reelect and who could/should have come to my defense when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes take the following adverse actions against me, but did not come to my defense: a) ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) ended my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman in 2012, e) ended my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster in 2010 and 2004, f) ended my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee in 2007, g) almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeated my bid for the open as a MTRO Treasurer position in 2004. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois.
https://www.themarysue.com/george-santos-is-the-only-house-member-to-come-to-the-defense-of-george-santos/
NPR
— Despite a competitive market, finding a summer job is highly beneficial for teens. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser. With the money I earned, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet BelAir when I was 16 in 1964. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, poor man’s GTO, when I was 17. I bought a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 when I was 19. And I bought a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE when I was 20. I used the aforesaid cars to get to/from jobs and classes at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966, UIC 1966-1968, and NIU 1969-1970.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/06/nx-s1-5824413/despite-a-competitive-market-finding-a-summer-job-is-highly-beneficial-for-teens
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— The Africa exception: the slavery reparations debate was once ‘unthinkable’. Now it is unavoidable. DD: How would Democrat and RINO leaders respond if asked how you have benefitted from slavery? Anticipate/expect that if you are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or German American, they would stress the length of time your ancestors have been in America. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois, they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jun/06/africa-exception-slavery-reparations-african-union-justice
MEAWW
— DD: Since the 1960s, the Democrats who have run the federal government have ever-increasingly a) promoted more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who had been in America for a long time and b) given more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://news.meaww.com/zohran-mamdani-says-us-government-has-exacerbated-racism-through-decades-of-policy-choices
June 3, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— 9 arrested, dozens of citations issued after large groups of young people gather downtown Naperville. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/9-arrested-groups-young-people-gather-downtown-naperville-washington-st-corridor-between-chicago-van-buren-ave/19221090/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ in Palatine.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/activists-urge-village-palatine-illinois-change-code-ordinances-raise-pride-flag-month-2026/19214647/
NBC5
— At least 9 arrests reported after ‘teen takeover’ in Naperville. There were also more than two dozen citations issued. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/at-least-9-arrests-reported-after-teen-takeover-in-naperville/3943243/
CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/antonio-king-is-first-chicago-city-executive-level-director-of-lgbtq-affairs/
— ICE agents detain man in Albany Park; SUV believed to be driven by agent hits sedan stuck in traffic. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/ice-agents-arrest-man-albany-park-suv-crash-kedzie-lawrence/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Ald. Desmon Yancy: The city’s response to the recurring crisis of ‘teen takeovers’ is inadequate. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/02/opinion-chicago-teen-takeover-response-inadequate/
— Illinois senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth demand US Attorney Andrew Boutros resign. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/02/dick-durbin-tammy-duckworth-andrew-boutros-resign/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/03/column-catholic-church-apology-slavery-washington/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Federal agents crash into car while detaining man in Albany Park. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/02/federal-agents-crash-into-car-while-detaining-man-in-albany-park
— DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/03/teen-takeovers-public-spaces-downtown-youth-disinvestment-online-culture-almethia-franklin
DAILY HERALD
— Nine arrested, dozens cited, at Naperville downtown ‘takeover.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260602/crime/nine-arrested-dozens-cited-at-naperville-downtown-takeover/
WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion and LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2026/06/02/state-lawmakers-laud-passage-of-bills-protecting-reproductive-gender-affirming-care
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR & PEORIA JOURNAL STAR & RIVER BENDER & WMBD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2026/06/03/rockford-galena-among-illinois-lgbtq-friendly-destinations/90359435007/
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/02/2026-lgbtq-business-climate-index-illinois-ranks-fifth-pritzker/90355861007/
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/as-pride-month-begins-governor-jb-pritzker-christian-mitchell-reaffirm-commitment-to-lgbtq-community-93931.cfm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pride-events-happening-around-central-illinois-this-june/ar-AA24joLT
NPR ILLINOIS
— The White House’s new site about ‘aliens’ has nothing to do with UFOs DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-03/the-white-houses-new-site-about-aliens-has-nothing-to-do-with-ufos
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders say Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and his allies
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-how-trump-has-used-the-presidency-to-benefit-himself-and-his-allies/amp/
WHEATON PATCH
— 5 Teens, 4 Adults Arrested During Teen Takeover In Naperville. Police made arrests for battery, attempted aggravated assault on a peace officer and other violations. DD: What is your municipality doing to fight Democrat teen takeovers?
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/5-teens-4-adults-arrested-during-teen-takeover-naperville
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/03/mendoza-is-making-it-official-00947595
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-537/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Collin Corbett faces an objection from Aaron Del Mar
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/03/corbetts-petitions-challenged/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How conservative is your county, township, municipality, and school district? Conservative counties, townships, municipalities, and school districts promote personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration law enforcement, anti-vice, Second Amendment rights, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Conservative political jurisdictions do not promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, or Affirmative Action, DEI, or wokeness/wokeism, that is, they do not promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. I should write about DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Record Illinois Budget Includes $800 Million in New Taxes as More Residents and Businesses Leave State
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/record-illinois-budget-includes-800-million-in-new-taxes-as-more-residents-and-businesses-leave-state.html
— Illinois Lawmakers Set to Earn Up to $128,000 for a Part-Time Job Under New Budget
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/illinois-lawmakers-set-to-earn-up-to-128000-for-a-part-time-job-under-new-budget.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/love-woke-pope-leos-first-encyclical-2026-06/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— War Secretary Pete Hegseth recently blocked the promotions of several Navy officers who had been selected by a board of senior admirals to be promoted to one-star admirals. Hegseth, who has long touted his belief that the military should be a meritocracy, blocked the promotions of nine Navy officers, according to the New York Times. Of those nine officers, three of the officers are women, two are black men, and four are white men. DD: I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4590876/hegseth-blocks-promotions-pentagon-meritocracy/
NEW YORK POST
— More than 90% of four-year universities do not require incoming students to submit SAT or ACT standardized test scores after pandemic-era rollbacks in the name of “fairness.” DD: UIC would not have admitted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/us-news/a-shocking-portion-of-colleges-dont-require-sat-or-act-tests-and-profs-are-begging-them-to-reverse-course/
BREITBART
— A Wisconsin Democrat is celebrating her endorsement by a union that is fighting against the Trump administration’s crackdown on dangerous illegal alien commercial truck drivers. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/02/democrat-welcomes-endorsement-from-union-that-defends-illegal-migrant-truck-drivers/amp/
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/love-my-woke-pope-why-leos-first-encyclical-went-viral-and-how-it-speaks-to-his-papal-approach/amp/
CHRISTIAN POST
— Talarico runs for the center, dragging years of woke baggage behind him
https://www.christianpost.com/voices/talarico-runs-for-the-center-dragging-years-of-woke-baggage.html
COLLEGE FIX
— DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/uw-madison-trains-future-teachers-in-anti-racist-behaviors-social-justice/
DAILY CALLER
— Texas Announces New Tool To Keep Illiterate Foreigners Away From Driver’s Seats. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/02/texas-crackdown-illiterate-foreign-truck-drivers/
DAILY CITIZEN
— Indoctrinating and Training Radical Activist Children. DD: Ever-increasingly, to send your child to a public school is to turn your child against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dailycitizen.focusonthefamily.com/blm-at-school-week-indoctrinating-and-training-radical-activist-children/
DAILY SIGNAL
— James Talarico’s Church Is Woke Beyond All Recognition. DD: To be woke is to be against those who are conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/02/just-how-woke-is-james-talaricos-church/
FEDERALIST
— After Decades Of Anti-America Indoctrination, Don’t Expect A Big 250th Celebration. DD: To demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/02/after-decades-of-anti-america-indoctrination-dont-expect-a-big-250th-celebration/
FOX NEWS
— Walgreens didn’t abandon Chicago’s South Side. We let crime drive them out. Rooftop Revelations: Chicago Alderman William Hall called the closure of Walgreens on the South Side ‘pharmaceutical genocide’ but where was the outrage during the theft crisis?
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/walgreens-didnt-abandon-chicagos-south-side-let-crime-drive.amp
— Wisconsin Dem touts endorsement from union pushing back against CDL crackdowns on illegal alien truckers. The union touted a toolkit for businesses on how to circumvent restrictions on CDLs to illegal aliens. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wisconsin-democrat-touts-endorsement-union-pushing-back-cdl-crackdowns-illegal-alien-truckers
NEWSBUSTERS
— NPR Plugs ‘Pride Month,’ Laments Trump Is Curbing Corporate Donations. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2026/06/02/npr-plugs-pride-month-laments-trump-curbing-corporate-donations
U.S. OFFICE OF SPECIAL COUNCIL
— Your Rights as a Federal Employee. Prohibited Personnel Practices. DD: While I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, Democrats ran the federal government. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. I should write about the many big Prohibited Personnel Practices that my Democrat superiors took against me, not the least of which included a) my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, delaying my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forcing me take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980; b) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoting me beyond GS-12, disallowing my education deductions in 1978, and disallowing my travel vouchers in 1974; and c) my Democrat Post Office superiors forcing me to resign in 1969 and disallowing my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.justice.gov/media/1439841/dl?inline
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MS NOW
— DD: Democrat leaders decry that Hegseth intervenes on promotion list (again), blocks female and Black officers. I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hegseth-intervenes-promotion-list-removes-female-black-officers
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— How Democrats drifted away from the working class. DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-06-02/democrats-working-class-voters-economics-culture
SPOKESMAN REVIEW
— Idaho GOP wants Republican politicians to agree to its party platform. Do they?
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/may/17/idaho-gop-wants-republican-politicians-to-agree-to/
KCRG
— Traditional marriage parade set for June 6 in Ottumwa. The parade was organized in response to an Ottumwa city council proclamation last June, honoring pride month. DD: I owe all my successes in life to my parents and their traditional marriage.
https://www.kcrg.com/2026/06/02/traditional-marriage-parade-set-june-6-ottumwa/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders object to Hegseth blocking promotions. I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-blocked-nine-air-force-senior-officer-promotions-delayed-dozens-more-ebf9ea62
— American Idle: The Work Ethic Goes Out of Style. One in 3 working-age American men aren’t so much as looking for a job. DD: From what I see, ever-increasingly, under the Democrats, and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the less likely that you will be hired, retained, and promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/american-idle-the-work-ethic-goes-out-of-style-45f7b187
FORBES
— 20 Essential Skills To Advance Your Professional Career. Professional certifications and licenses set you up for long-term success. DD: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my passing the CPA and the Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, b) my earning four more job-related professional certifications, c) my becoming a licensed CPA, and d) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbesbusinesscouncil/2024/09/26/20-essential-skills-to-advance-your-professional-career/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTO: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Charlie Kirk.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/01/charlie-kirk-free-speech-first-amendment/90283488007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG GRAPHIC: Summer jobs. DD: When you were young, what did you do after-school, weekends, and summers? I did yard work in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. According to my critics/opponents, the aforesaid proves that I have always been an unmitigated loser.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2026/05/31/teen-summer-jobs-hiring-record-fall/90258555007/
FED WEEK
— GAO Raps Lack of Planning Before DoD/DoW Workforce Cuts, Lack of Attention to Impact. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich-led budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/gao-raps-lack-of-planning-before-dod-dow-workforce-cuts-lack-of-attention-to-impact/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Pentagon cut workforce with little analysis before or since, GAO finds. Defense officials concurred that lessons should be drawn—but gave no indication they will be. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich-led budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I should write about that.
https://www.govexec.com/defense/2026/06/ready-fire-aim-pentagon-cut-workforce-little-analysis-or-gao-finds/413894/
GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Traditional Career Paths. DD: Democrats run the federal government. When I was young, to get a federal job with advancement opportunities, you had to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree and pass the Federal Service Entrance Examination. Further, if you were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran, you had to make GS-13 (currently $118,984/year) by age 25, GS-14 (currently $140,604/year) by age 30, GS-15 (currently $165,386/year) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service (currently $197,200/year) by age 40. Very few federal employees made the aforesaid promotion deadlines. If you did not make the aforesaid promotion deadlines and you were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran, your career was wasted and you were gotten rid of. Because I was Republican, White, male, and non-veteran and because I did not make GS-12 (currently $100,659/year) until I was 25, and GS-13 until I was 38, my career was wasted and I was gotten rid of. The aforesaid is up-or-out, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://goodmenproject.com/everyday-life-2/why-more-workers-are-rethinking-traditional-career-paths/
AMERICA MAGAZINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-reason/2026/06/02/archbishop-wester-lgbtq-catholic-church/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TIMES
— Hegseth accused of blocking promotions for women and minorities. The Pentagon says it is ushering in a new era, where ‘promoting based on race and gender is over.’ DD: I should write about all the promotions that I was passed over for while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and IRS 1975-1980. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who 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, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/pete-hegseth-news-navy-officers-nkbnzvpm2
June 1, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: After towns reject flag requests, advocates put signs of Pride in storefronts. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. Back in the good old days, back in 2002, to get Xfinity to carry Fox News Channel, I succeeded in getting 30 downtown Wheaton businesses to display “Wheaton Wants Fox News Channel” signs.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260531/news/after-towns-reject-flag-requests-advocates-put-signs-of-pride-in-storefronts/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois lawmakers pass $56B budget deal backed by gas tax windfall and some election-year tax breaks
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/31/illinois-2027-budget-legislative-session-final-day/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it ever-increasingly clear that to win, they will ever-increasingly a) promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action, DEI, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination and b) promote more hated against Trump and especially against Republicans who share his demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/01/column-democrats-dnc-autopsy-page/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders know that they cannot win unless the racially gerrymander. I live in Illinois’ racially gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/01/supreme-courts-takedown-voting-rights-act-bolsters-case-court-expansion-robert-lehrer
— 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/2026/06/01/broadview-six-midway-blitz-abughazaleh-straw-rabbit-perry-trump-ice-crime
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Springfield’s overtime slog ends in $59B budget
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-illinois-budget-passes-20260601/
ABC7
— 18 shot, 3 killed in weekend gun violence across Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-14-shot-2-killed-gun-violence-city-police-department-says-live-news-update/19200688/
CBS2
— Illinois lawmakers pass Gov. Pritzker’s $56 million budget, ban on cellphone use in classrooms
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-lawmakers-pass-budget-ban-cellphone-use-classrooms/
WGN9
— Illinois lawmakers pass $56B budget, largest in state history
https://wgntv.com/news/illinois/illinois-lawmakers-pass-56b-budget-largest-in-state-history/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/lawmakers-pass-bill-to-shield-abortion-information-from-digital-medical-records/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Budget passes, but Bears bill strikes out
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/01/budget-passes-but-bears-bill-strikes-out-00943991
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: June 24: DuPage County Republicans’ Summer Kickoff will feature State GOP Chair Bob Grogan, state Sen. Seth Lewis, state Rep. Jennifer Sanalitro and former Cubs and White Sox pitcher Steve Trout.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-750/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FREEDOM CAUCUS
— Democrats Pass Midnight Tax Increases. Once again – the Illinois Democrats pass the largest state budget in history, under the cover of darkness.
https://illinoisfreedomcaucus.substack.com/p/breaking-democrats-pass-midnight
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois passes record $55.9 billion budget, with over $800 million in tax increases
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-passes-record-55-9-billion-budget-with-over-800-million-in-tax-increases/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Since you graduated from college, who has had the greatest impact on you? I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970. Those who have had the greatest impact on me include a) my Firestone Store boss 1970-1971, b) my IRS superiors 1971-1980, and my GAO superiors 1980-1997. I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman (IRP) in 1999 and the GOPUSA Illinois Editor in 2000. Currently, those who have the greatest impact on me include Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman Bob Grogan, IRP State Central Committee member and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Treasurer Mike Flynn, DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) chairman Kevin Coyne, and DCRCC Secretary and MTRO chairman Jeff Castle. The aforesaid have a tremendous impact on RPCs in Illinoi, one of my biggest target audiences for my newsletters. What position do the aforesaid have on the many big adverse actions that IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders have taken against me since 2000 to stop me from sending out my newsletters and to stop everyone from reading them? What is going to change under Grogan? What do Grogan, Flynn, Coyne, and Castle want me to do so that they would encourage RPCs to read my newsletters? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Rep Jeff Keicher on State Budget: “Makes It Eight Years in a Row That Governor Pritzker and the Democrats Have Raised Taxes”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/rep-jeff-keicher-on-state-budget-makes-it-eight-years-in-a-row-that-governor-pritzker-and-the-democrats-have-raised-taxes/
— Debating the ACLU’s Harvey Grossman in Bughouse Square
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/debating-the-aclus-harvey-grossman/
— Strict Rodeo Regulations Being Considered by Planning, Environment & Development Committee Tuesday at 8:30 AM
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/strict-rodeo-regulations-being-considered-by-planning-environment-development-committee-tuesday-at-830-am/
— Rep. Joe Sosnowski on the Budget: “$410 Million on a Multitude of Services for Non-Citizens”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/rep-joe-sosnowski-on-the-budget-410-million-on-a-multitude-of-services-for-non-citizens/
— Rep. Sue Ness on the Budget: $500 for Those Removed from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/rep-sue-ness-on-the-budget-500-for-those-removed-from-the-supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap/
— Illinois Freedom Caucus on the Budget: “Less Than 1 Day to Read a 6,000-Page Budget”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/illinois-freedom-caucus-on-the-budget-less-than-1-day-to-read-a-6000-page-budget/
— Rep. Tom Weber on the Budget: “$220 million Is Earmarked for Democrat Pork Projects… a Pay Raise for Themselves”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/rep-tom-weber-on-the-budget-220-million-is-earmarked-for-democrat-pork-projects-a-pay-raise-for-themselves/
— “Silent Majority” Demonstration in McHenry – Religious Aspects
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/31/silent-majority-demonstration-in-mchenry/
— “Silent Majority” Demonstration in McHenry – – Support of Trump
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/silent-majority-demonstration-in-mchenry-support-of-trump/
— Debating the ACLU’s Harvey Grossman
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/01/debating-the-aclus-harvey-grossman/
— Candidates’ Night in Cary Monday, June 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/31/candidates-night-in-cary-monday-june-1st/
— MARENGO PARK DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ELECTS OFFICERS FOR UPCOMING TERM
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/31/marengo-park-district-board-of-commissioners-elects-officers-for-upcoming-term/
— County Considering Battery Farm, Windmill and Solar Zoning Rules
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/31/county-considering-battery-farm-windmill-and-solar-zoning-rules/
— Changes Being Considered in County Zoning Ordinance
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/30/changes-being-considered-in-county-zoning-ordinance/
— Turkey Harvest Larger This Year Than Last (Link to All Counties)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/29/turkey-harvest-larger-this-year-than-last/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— California GOP incumbents go to war in Trump loyalty test
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4587478/california-gop-incumbents-at-war-trump-loyalty-test/
NEW YORK POST
— Migrants choosing to voluntarily give up asylum claims surge under Trump admin
https://www.aol.com/articles/migrants-choosing-voluntarily-asylum-claims-200543000.html
AMERICAN THINKER
— University of California system STEM professors argue for…merit?! We’re about to discover if merit matters more than DEI in California universities.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/university_of_california_system_stem_professors_argue_for_merit.html
CENTER SQUARE
— Almost 25,000 immigration arrests made in Florida
https://www.aol.com/articles/almost-25-000-immigration-arrests-224500710.html
— New Jersey sued over tuition rate for ‘illegal aliens’ at public colleges
https://www.aol.com/articles/jersey-sued-over-tuition-rate-213400000.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Hegseth Vows to Resist China ‘Hegemony’ Amid ‘Frightful alarm’ in Southeast Asia. DD: My critics/opponents have no problem with China.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/29/hegseth-vows-to-resist-china-hegemony-amid-frightful-alarm-in-southeast-asia/
— The Federal Government is Still Funding the Immigration Industrial Complex
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/31/are-your-tax-dollars-still-funding-leftist-activist-groups-white-house-demands-answers/
— What happens when college freshmen can’t do elementary math? DD: UIC would not have admitted me in 1966 if I had not gotten an ACT score of 24 and graduated in the upper 29% of my class.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/31/university-of-california-profs-revolt-advocate-sat-return/
— University of California Profs Revolt, Advocate SAT Return
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/31/university-of-california-profs-revolt-advocate-sat-return/
FOX NEWS
— ICE arrests illegal alien who faked asylum claim based on homosexuality, became Indiana jail officer. Selah Dine Habib married the daughter of an Indiana sheriff, became correction officer at father-in-law’s jail.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-allegedly-faked-asylum-claim-based-homosexuality-became-indiana-jail-officer
https://www.fox8tv.com/ice-arrests-illegal-alien-who-allegedly-faked-asylum-claim-based-on-homosexuality-became-indiana-jail-officer/
— EEOC sues New York Times for violating federal law when it passed over a White male employee for a promotion because of his race and/or sex. DD: All my IRS and GAO coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me 1971-1997 were Democrats who 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 were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/york-times-sued-federal-government-220055000.html
PJ MEDIA
— Coast Guard Eliminates Racially Biased Officer Commissioning Standards. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government crowed about their success in hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, that is, they crowed about their success in wasting the careers of and getting rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/31/coast-guard-eliminates-racially-biased-officer-commissioning-standards-n4953426
TOWNHALL
— Suddenly, the Left Objects to Grievance Politics
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/06/01/mom-vip-economist-pratt-trump-grievance-politics-n2676969
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— DD: Entertainers punish America to punish Trump.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5903008-trump-america-250-concert/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring in and try to keep in more illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders do the same because RINOs want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5900141-immigration-policies-economic-impact/amp/
MSN
— 15 jobs men have that women consider deal breakers in relationships. DD: The list includes debt collector. I became an IRS Revenue Officer when I was 22 in 1971 because of EEOC. My Firestone Store boss fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/15-jobs-men-have-that-women-consider-deal-breakers-in-relationships/ss-AA1Sy2xO
— Resume and interview red flags. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, being the following harms your chance of getting hire, retained, and promoted: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/hiring-manager-shares-the-13-fastest-ways-to-instantly-get-rejected/ss-AA1MU2fi
— Almost half of new retirees got pushed out early. DD: The more of the following that you are, the likely that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 forced me to disclose lots about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/almost-half-of-new-retirees-got-pushed-out-early-7-ways-to-be-ready/ar-AA24th02
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
YAHOO
— Equal Opportunity, Not Equal Outcomes. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/equal-opportunity-not-equal-outcomes-170114368.html
NEWSWEEK
— Arkansas Declares June ‘Fidelity Month.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.newsweek.com/arkansas-declares-june-fidelity-monthwhat-does-it-mean-12015517
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring in and try to keep in more illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders do the same because RINOs want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/trump-immigrants-health-housing.html
— Student Loan Repayments Are Being Overhauled. DD: My critics/opponents stress that I could not have gotten a student loan if I had tried. My ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/your-money/student-loans-repayment-save-biden.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Why a Chinese-owned company is bringing factory jobs back to the U.S. GE Appliances is a poster child for the president’s promised manufacturing revival. But tariffs are making it harder to onshore jobs. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring in and try to keep in more illegals because illegals vote for Democrats. RINO leaders do the same because RINOs want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/31/chinese-owned-company-is-bringing-factory-jobs-back-united-states/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Although factory wages in China have risen rapidly in recent years, Chinese workers make just one-fifth of their American counterparts’ pay, he said. “There are still people moving production offshore because it’s cheaper,” Shih said.)
USA TODAY
— Delaney Hall ICE protests escalate. Advocates outside protested conditions. Detainees inside have staged a hunger strike. And federal officials called in New Jersey police at the gates.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/05/30/delaney-hall-protests-ice-new-jersey-police/90330145007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Springsteen to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2026/05/28/bruce-springsteen-trump-tour-dc-festival/90290521007/
— What’s harder than landing a job? Holding onto one you already have. DD: In addition to focusing on my Post Office, Firestone Store, IRS, and GAO jobs, to get promoted, I earned a) a bachelor’s degree in management, b) master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance, c) a CPA certificate and a Certified Internal Auditor certificate, d) four more job-related professional certifications, and e) a CPA license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/economy/2026/05/21/what-to-do-job-stuck-search/90058470007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pence: A Republican Time for Choosing. Will we remain the party of conservative principles or embrace progressivism in the guise of populism?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-republican-time-for-choosing-c1f4f8a4
ECONOMIST
— Welcome to Evanston, where woke never died. A Chicago suburb is paying reparations to African-Americans. DD: All my critics/opponents are woke. Sooner or later, if not already, they will all call for reparations. Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Since the 1960s, AA and DEI recipients have received trillions of dollars in benefits.
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/05/31/welcome-to-evanston-where-woke-never-died
FORTUNE
— DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents who bought them cars, pay for their college expenses, and got them jobs. Because my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, I bought a 1958 Chevy BelAir when I was 16 in 1964 with money I saved doing yard work and delivering newspapers and I worked my way through college. My father died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/27/income-wealth-inequality-housing-consumer-pessimism-index-high/
FAST COMPANY
— DD: I owe my successes in life to my parents and their traditional marriage and family.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91536282/stability-successful-kids-harvard-research
CHRONICLES MAGAZINE
— Diversity Is Inequality. DD: Anticipate/expect that your critics/opponents will a) stress your weaknesses/shortcomings and b) ignore/dismiss/belittle your strengths/accomplishments. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my becoming a licensed CPA, b) my passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, c) my earning professional certifications in fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and d) my earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. Worse yet, my critics/opponents attribute the aforesaid to my benefitting from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics.
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/reviews/diversity-is-inequality/
ELDER LAW ANSWERS
— Unpaid Family Caregiving Is Worth a Six-Figure Salary. DD: My aunt had Alzheimer’s. She never married. She had no children. Her only sibling, my father, died suddenly in 1969. I had total responsibility for her from 2009 until her death in 2022. That ate up lots of my time. Of course, I was unpaid.
https://www.elderlawanswers.com/unpaid-family-caregiving-is-worth-a-six-figure-salary-20777
(FROM THE ARTICLE: As the population ages, the number of people affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia continues to rise. In turn, families increasingly find themselves providing unpaid care to loved ones with cognitive impairments. This caregiving role, though essential, comes with hidden personal, financial, and societal costs that can be substantial. In fact, a new study reveals that family caregivers of loved ones with dementia, if they were paid for their services, would be making six figures.)
WEEK
— DD: What percent of illegals use airlines?
https://theweek.com/politics/mullin-airports-santuary-cities-dhs-immigration
PSY POST
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to promote more hatred a) against Trump and b) against those who do not hate Trump.
https://www.psypost.org/how-unexpected-news-angles-help-partisan-readers-spot-misinformation-2026-03-19/
CAP RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.capradio.org/news/npr/story?storyid=nx-s1-5827069
FIT GURU
— The 9 Things Baby Boomers Could Afford at 40 That Many Americans Can’t Today
https://www.fitguru.training/en/news/the-9-things-baby-boomers-could-afford-at-40-that-many-americans-cant-today-20260531-0039.html
BUZZ FEED
— Trump’s Presidency Has Sparked A Surge Of Family And Friendship Breakups. DD: My critics/opponents demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being blindly loyal to Trump. That has caused many to dump me. But if you would ask Trump supporters, they would say I am absolutely not blindly loyal to Trump.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hannahmarder/people-who-cut-off-others-over-election-share-why
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
FINANCIAL TIMES & HR MAGAZINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.ft.com/content/6f99e401-d8c7-4024-8c08-7b5039e4b5c7?syn-25a6b1a6=1
https://www.hrmagazine.co.uk/content/comment/cutting-investment-in-inclusion-may-cost-organisations-more-than-it-saves
May 27, 2026
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— The Illinois GOP has a new operator. DD: Under Grogan, what will change? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Past and present anti-conservative leaders of the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters because I emphasize the following conservative 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). Failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading my newsletters. Failing that, they want to stop me from emphasizing those planks. Under Grogan, what will change? How will anti-conservative IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO leaders treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and treat me?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/05/27/the-illinois-gop-has-a-new-operator-00937440
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Bob Grogan has spent so many years around Illinois Republican politics that he jokes he used to be “the youngest person in the room” at party meetings. Now, at 58, the former DuPage County auditor is stepping into leadership of a state GOP that is less competitive in the suburbs that once powered Republican success statewide. Culture wars: Grogan isn’t interested in being a culture-war bomb thrower. He says he’s more drawn to the mechanics of politics — recruiting volunteers, knocking on doors and figuring out what makes a campaign work. “I’m an optimizer. I’m a problem solver,” Grogan told your Playbook host in an interview after he was elected the new chair of the Illinois Republican Party. “I’m a collector of best practices.” That managerial mindset helped Grogan defeat outgoing Chair Kathy Salvi in a closed-door vote of the Republican State Central Committee. He now inherits a party that has become an afterthought, with Democrats controlling every statewide office and dominating the suburbs that once were the backbone of Illinois Republicanism. Reality bites: Grogan doesn’t deny the depth of the problem. But he also isn’t particularly interested in ideological navel-gazing. Instead, he talks about spending smarter, recruiting better candidates and wooing suburban moderates who increasingly view the GOP as out of step. “We cannot purge our way to 51 percent. You can’t grow the church by excommunicating all the sinners,” he said, referring to Republicans who lean left on social issues. Grogan describes himself as conservative, and he rejects the idea that every disagreement inside the party should become a loyalty test. Asked whether he saw himself as more aligned with former Sen. Mark Kirk’s moderate wing or the activist Dan Proft’s conservative faction, Grogan laughed, saying, “I’m a Bob Grogan Republican.” The Trump factor: Even his relationship to President Donald Trump is nuanced. Grogan says Republicans would be foolish to “run away” from Trump, but he also seems keenly aware that suburban voters have grown wary of him and largely want to tune out the endless partisan infighting. “There’s very little that I can say to change anybody’s mind because everyone at this point in life has probably had 10,000 hours of input as to Donald Trump,” he said. Get real: Instead, Grogan insists Illinois Republicans need to focus on what he calls “the actual issues in front of people,” including crime, affordability, taxes and frustrations with local government. He also thinks Republicans too often talk at voters instead of listening to them. On listening: “One of the things I’ve often criticized my own brethren [for] is, we see somebody and we tell them what they should be worried about, as opposed to listening [to] what they’re worried about,” he said. Call me: When we spoke a few days after his election, Grogan and GOP gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey hadn’t yet spoken, but he has since said they have made plans to campaign together. The two were on opposite sides of the March 17 primary as Grogan backed Ted Dabrowski, who got trounced by Bailey 54 percent to 29 percent, with third-place finisher James Mendrick receiving 10 percent of the vote. Stand by his man: Grogan assured us that he’s behind Bailey’s campaign, saying the electorate is tired of Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker: “There’s fatigue out there.”)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Crowds prompt large police response at Chicago’s 57th Street Beach amid teen takeover plans. A chaotic scene also unfolded near North Avenue Beach on Monday night. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/teen-takeover-chicago-news-crowds-prompt-large-police-response-57th-street-beach-hyde-park-amid-trend-plans/19171065/
— Trump wraps up 3-hour medical visit to Walter Reed and declares ‘Everything checked out PERFECTLY.’ It will be his fourth publicly disclosed medical exam since returning to office.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-see-doctors-annual-physical-walter-reed-medical-center-what-public-finds-is/19173662/
NBC5
— Debate intensifies over tackling Illinois’ housing shortage. Senate Democrats introduced a plan that is separate from Gov. JB Pritzker’s BUILD plan. DD: Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/debate-intensifies-over-tackling-illinois-housing-shortage/3940714/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: However, suburban mayors continue to raise alarm bells about how the plan would change neighborhoods. Their biggest concern is that small apartment buildings between 4 and 8 units could be built on lots designed for single-family homes. Some mayors even have taken the step to adopt resolutions explaining their opposition. “Your neighbor next door can leave town, sell that property, and have a multi-family, four-unit, six-units complex built right next to your single-family home. We just don’t think that’s right,” said Wheaton Mayor Phil Suess. More than 500 new units of housing are on their way to Wheaton. Suess believes the construction is a sign his city’s affordable housing plans are working. So, he doesn’t believe Springfield needs to get involved. “Things are working well. We’re achieving a lot of the points that are referenced in the BUILD Act, and we’re doing it without mandated legislation,” Suess explained.)
CBS2
— 53 people arrested, 9 weapons seized during large teen gathering in Hyde Park. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/3-shot-teen-gathering-hyde-park-memorial-day-weekend/
WGN9
— Millennial job seekers trimming resumes to avoid ageism. DD: The more of the follow that you are, the more that you will face ageism: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://wgntv.com/news/trending/resume-botox-millennial-job-seekers-trimming-resumes-to-avoid-ageism/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— It’s time to get tougher on teen takeovers after chaotic Memorial Day weekend. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/26/editorial-teen-takeovers-brandon-johnson-chaos-memorial-day-weekend/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/pope-leo-xiv/2026/05/26/pope-leo-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-vatican-visit
WBEZ
— The job market is brutal. DD: Anticipate/expect that employers will hang out signs that say that those who are the following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/05/26/how-recent-chicago-college-graduates-are-navigating-a-brutal-job-market
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DuPage auditor takes Grogan on onus of state GOP leadership. DD: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job; they are always blamed for their party’s losses. I survived for 7 years as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. During that time, I invited speakers for all 78 of the organization’s monthly meetings, August picnics, and December Christmas parties. I should list all those who spoke at those events and what they emphasized. My critics/opponents always demonized, denigrated, and condemned those speakers and what they emphasized. To end my TAPROOT chairmanship and to destroy TAPROOT in 2012, my critics/opponents had their TAPROOT officers and their TAPROOT directors charge me with gross incompetence. They argued/shouted that anyone could do a better job of heading TAPROOT than I did. Previously, I survived for 4 years as a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee (SC) 2003-2007. My critics/opponents had my fellow ICRC SC members end my ICRC SC membership and destroy ICRC in 2007. In 2006, they unsuccessfully tried to get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on IRP SCC members since 1999.
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-dupage-auditor-takes-on-onus-of-state-gop-leadership/article_8fe70a48-ac5d-435a-a4de-b882fdeab8c0.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders say that Trump is getting the Republican Party that he wants, but ask can he win in the midterms?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-trump-is-getting-the-republican-party-that-he-wants-but-can-he-win-in-the-midterms/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmakers roll out broad cannabis industry overhaul. DD: Illinois Democrats ever-increasing crow about their success in pushing pot, that is, their success in destroying Illinois.
https://www.nprillinois.org/economy-business/2026-05-26/illinois-lawmakers-roll-out-broad-cannabis-industry-overhaul
— American men leaving the workforce at historic rates. DD: Anticipate/expect that employers will hang out signs that say that those who are the following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-05-26/why-are-american-men-leaving-the-workforce-at-historic-rates
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Former Republican strategist Collin Corbett files to run for governor as independent. Says he’s dissatisfied with direction of Republican Party. DD: How many votes will Corbett take from conservative Bailey? Since at least 1976, the Illinois Republican Party has moved further to the left, that is, the more that it has become anti-conservative.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/former-republican-strategist-collin-corbett-files-to-run-for-governor-as-independent/
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— Pritzker says suspension of state gas tax possible, blames Trump for having to consider it.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-pritzker-says-suspension-of-state-gas-tax-possible-blames-trump-for-consideration/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-532/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Bill to let felons vote from prison draws criticism from Republicans. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote criminals and crime.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_cac9ebd9-4ee3-4563-9922-f96045ce9bd8.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-745/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Supreme Court refuses Florida’s complaint against states that issue truck licenses to migrants. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/26/supreme-court-refuses-floridas-complaint-states-issue-truck-licenses/
— Americans whining over gas prices ignore Iran’s greater threat. Stopping a nuclear threat should matter more than cheaper fill-ups.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/26/americans-whining-gas-prices-ignore-irans-greater-threat/
— ‘Wild West’: 81% of online abortion companies violate FDA’s 10-week gestational limit.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/26/wild-west-81-online-abortion-companies-violate-fdas-10-week/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Supreme Court denies Florida’s lawsuit over CDLs issued to illegal immigrants. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court/4581678/supreme-court-denies-florida-lawsuit-cdls-illegal-immigrants/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Harvard Gives $90,000-a-Year Fellowships to Four Anti-Israel Activists
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/harvard-gives-90000-a-year-fellowships-3c5
NEW YORK POST
— Trump blasts ‘terrible’ Dem Chicago leaders after driver allegedly plows into 5 cops during ‘teen takeover’
https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/us-news/trump-blasts-terrible-dem-chicago-leaders-after-driver-allegedly-plows-into-5-cops-during-teen-takeover/
DAILY CALLER
— Justice Thomas Baffled SCOTUS Won’t Hear Case Against Blue States Handing Truck Licenses To Illegals Like Candy. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/26/thomas-scotus-case-blue-states-handing-truck-licenses-illegals/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Fairfax GOP Stands Up to State Party on Abortion and Gender. The GOP in Fairfax County was getting pressure from the state GOP to not fight Democrats on abortion and gender issues. They responded “No!” DD: I should write about pressure from RINO leaders in Illinois to get Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders in Illinois to officially dump the following planks in the Republican Party platform: 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).
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/26/fairfax-gop-stands-abortion-gender/
— Thomas Slams Court for Refusing to Hear Florida’s Case Against California on Illegal Alien Drivers
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/26/thomas-slams-court-refusing-hear-floridas-case-against-california-illegal-alien-drivers/
— Law School Threatened Disciplinary Action Against Students Who Opted Out of DEI Training
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/26/law-school-threatened-students-who-opted-out-of-dei-training/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrat’s Financial Ties To Gender Mutilation Of Kids
https://www.dailywire.com/news/dem-lawmaker-linked-to-woke-distillery-that-pushes-trans-ideology-on-kids
EEOC
— Northwestern Medicine to Pay $325,000 to Resolve EEOC Discrimination Charges. DD: How has EEOC impacted you? I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.
https://www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/northwestern-medicine-pay-325000-resolve-eeoc-religious-discrimination-charges
FEDERALIST
— Thomas, Alito Blast SCOTUS For Ducking Case On Illegal-Alien Truck Drivers ‘Causing Fatal Accidents’
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/26/thomas-alito-blast-scotus-for-ducking-case-on-illegal-alien-truck-drivers-causing-fatal-accidents/
FOX NEWS
— Teenagers run Chicago with ‘mob violence’ says former Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396698010112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump: Chicago mayor, Illinois governor should ask for help after ‘teen takeover.’ DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5895958-teen-car-ramming-chicago-police/
— ICE ordered to ramp up cases against attorneys accused of filing false asylum claims. DD: All those who promote illegal immigration should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5895886-homeland-security-targets-asylum-fraud/
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders will forever use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/video/george-floyd-remembered-6-years-later-as-family-says-more-change-is-needed/
NBC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-transgender-healthcare-gender-veterans-federal-employees-rcna346425
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. If my parents had not had a traditional marriage, I would not have been able to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-05-26/1950s-marriage-family-nostalgia-economic-inequality
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
STATELINE
— Trump administration targets attorneys who file fraudulent asylum claims. DD: All those who promote illegal immigration should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://stateline.org/2026/05/26/trump-administration-targets-attorneys-who-file-fraudulent-asylum-claims/
FORBES
— Meritocracy. My critics/opponents reject meritocracy. They applaud that all those who were promoted over me 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. They applaud that all those who were promoted over me were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adiaharveywingfield/2026/05/26/want-to-make-your-company-a-meritocracy-dont-mention-it/
BUSINESS INSIDER
— DD: My critics/opponents are woke. According to them, I owe all my successes in my life to my benefiting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.businessinsider.com/habits-billionaire-success-jpmorgan-2025-12
CHICAGO BOOTH REVIEW
— Meritocracy. My critics/opponents reject meritocracy. They applaud that all those who were promoted over me 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. They applaud that all those who were promoted over me were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/virtues-rough-meritocracy
PEW RESEARCH CENTER
— Nearly half of states have legalized recreational marijuana use. DD: Democrats ever-increasing crow about their success in pushing pot, that is, their success in destroying America.
https://www.pewresearch.org/chart/nearly-half-of-states-have-legalized-recreational-marijuana-use/
BROOKINGS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-demographics-of-racial-inequality-in-the-united-states/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
MEAWW
— Trump slams ‘terrible’ Chicago Dem leaders after driver plows into 5 cops at ‘teen takeover.’ Trump demands intervention after 18-year-old drove into multiple officers before crashing.
https://news.meaww.com/trump-slams-terrible-chicago-dem-leaders-after-driver-plows-into-5-cops-at-teen-takeover
ONE NEWS NOW
— Pritzker GOES NUCLEAR On Trump During Explosive Press Meet.
https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20260527/17768876/Wannabe-Dictator-Illinois-Gov-Pritzker-GOES-NUCLEAR.htm
IFS
— Wealthy parents have wealthy children. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. I should write about those whose parents were the wealthiest. I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. I spent far too many hours washing dishes and delivering mail instead of studying.
https://ifs.org.uk/publications/why-do-wealthy-parents-have-wealthy-children-0
May 24, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/22/fallout-from-broadview-six-case/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/25/legal-providers-try-to-bridge-the-gap-touting-the-benefits-of-counsel-for-immigrants-fighting-removal/
— The answer to rising antisemitism is to stand proud, not silent
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/24/opinion-antisemitism-college-campuses-synagogues/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Work permits. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries and their citizens. All my employers would have hired noncitizens if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/05/21/work-permits-immigrant-workforce-rules-backlogs
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly want to replace GOD with government.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260524/news/references-to-god-didnt-come-from-founders/
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have. Democrat leaders especially blame Trump and those who share his demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. How many demographics do you share with Trump?
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/columnists/james-causey/2026/05/23/trump-fund-reparations-black-americans/90183069007/
ADVANTAGE NEWS
— Illinois House Republicans say Governor J.B. Pritzker’s housing proposals will give local control to state politicians, but the governor says decisions will still be made by local government units. The governor’s Building Up Illinois Developments plan consists of at least five bills aiming to address housing supply and affordability issues. State Rep. Jennifer Sanalitro, R-Hanover Park, said the plan would take zoning decisions away from local communities and move them to Springfield. DD: My critics/opponents want the north end of my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton to be rezoned for public housing.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/house-gop-pushes-pritzker-for-local-control/article_e3c44520-a08e-41f6-8e06-942bd7be4176.html
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrats vow a redistricting counterpunch but are facing hurdles Republicans don’t. Democrats are poised to finish several seats behind Republicans in 2026 in the nationwide race to redraw maps for the U.S. House. DD: I live in Illinois’ racially gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/democrats-vow-a-redistricting-counterpunch-but-are-facing-hurdles-republicans-dont/article_2e475e0d-5d0a-56b4-ac01-3bf08b73cd3f.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Suspect dead after opening fire near White House security checkpoint
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-05-23/suspect-dead-after-opening-fire-near-white-house-security-checkpoint-secret-service-says
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Catalina Lauf Takes Hit in Her Florida Congressional Campaign from The Conservative Journal
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/05/24/catalina-lauf-takes-hit-in-her-florida-congressional-campaign-from-the-conservative-journal/
LEGAL NEWSLINE
— IL Supreme Court again turns aside challenge to state’s FOID law. DD: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 in 1968.
https://www.legalnewsline.com/madison-stclair-record/il-supreme-court-again-turns-aside-challenge-to-state-s-foid-law/article_891e5daa-d385-4525-8a6a-bbf6ef91ea94.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153 The deadline is June 28. The cost is $183.58. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will participate in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your Republican Precinct Committeeman going to do to help elect the Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct win November 3? The Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct are Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. I am going to hand-deliver to all the residences in my precinct a copy of the sample ballot, campaign literature that the candidates provide the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), and whatever else MTRO asks me to deliver. I did the aforesaid for the March 17 Republican primary in my precinct. 39% of the registered Republican voters voted. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— A tree limb recently fell on the overhead ComEd and Xfinity lines that bring electricity and internet to my subdivision. The resultant outage caused me lots of problems. I have filed tree trimming requests with ComEd and Xfinity. Further, I have asked that they put the lines underground. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Hegseth praises West Point cadets as ‘not an army of woke’ in commencement speech. DD: My critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be 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://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/4580616/hegseth-praise-west-point-cadet-commencement-speech/
NEW YORK POST
— Pete Hegseth tears into DEI, ‘woke military’ in fiery West Point graduation speech. DD: My critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be 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://nypost.com/2026/05/23/us-news/pete-hegseth-tears-into-dei-woke-military-in-fiery-west-point-graduation-speech/
— Master’s degrees yielding fewest jobs in 20 years as some businesses uninterested in candidates with advanced education. DD: I spent lots of my time and lots of my money earning three master’s degrees: 16 courses for an MBA from Loyola in 1976 when I was 27, 12 courses for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and 14 courses for a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. If I had not been taking graduate evening business courses, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980. If I had earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, became a licensed CPA, earned four more professional certifications, and earned a master’s degree in finance, my Democrat GAO superiors a) would not have promoted me in 1986 and b) would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/21/us-news/masters-degrees-hiring-at-one-of-its-worst-levels-in-20-years-been-a-bit-tough/
AMERICAN THINKER
— DD: If you live in a Republican state, county, township, municipality, school district, and/or precinct, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, Democrats will move in and destroy it. I should write about the Democrat invasion of a) DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct and b) Will county, Crete Township, and Crete.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/we_need_to_educate_renegade_democrats_in_the_ways_of_conservativism.html
BREITBART
— Socialist Dream: Zohran Mamdani Touts Universal Childcare for Two-Year-Olds. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/05/23/socialist-dream-zohran-mamdani-touts-universal-childcare-for-two-year-olds/amp/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Team to Restore ‘Integrity and Safety’ for American Truckers
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/23/trump-team-american-truckers/
EPOCH TIMES
— AI Content Is Swamping the Internet—How It Impacts Critical Thinking. Under near constant exposure to AI output, experts say the dangers are real and the evidence is already showing up. DD: All the decisions made to include or to not include links to articles in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are made my me. All the comments on those articles in those newsletters are made by me.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/ai-content-is-swamping-the-internet-how-it-impacts-critical-thinking-6026954
FOX NEWS
— Hegseth reveals Army hit its recruiting goal early
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6396440826112
PJ MEDIA
— Voter Received Ballots for Prior Residents
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/05/23/harmeet-dhillon-says-she-received-ballots-for-prior-residents-n4953177
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Thousands of Illegal Aliens Live in Taxpayer-Funded Housing. Trump Is Ending it.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/05/19/thousands_of_illegal_aliens_live_in_taxpayer-funded_housing_trump_is_ending_it_154133.html
TOWNHALL
— Illegal Alien Stole Identity, Collected Over $300K in Taxpayer Benefits for Decades
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/05/23/illegal-alien-stole-identity-collected-over-300k-in-taxpayer-benefits-for-decades-n2676580
— Here Is What’s Wrong With the Republican Party
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/05/24/here-is-whats-wrong-with-the-republican-party-n2676592
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Hegseth torches identity politics in West Point speech: ‘Can’t throw your pronouns at the enemy.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting LGBTQ in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5892744-defense-secretary-west-point-address/
CNN
— Hegseth slams ‘woke ideology’ in West Point speech. DD: My critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be 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://www.cnn.com/2026/05/23/politics/video/pete-hegseth-commencement-speech-west-point-digvid-vrtc
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting LGBTQ in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/visitors-celebrate-lgbtq-pride-at-pensacola-beach-park-east-during-annual-party-on-may-23-2026/dGFnOnJldXRlcnMuY29tLDIwMjY6bmV3c21sX01UMVVTQVRPREFZMjkwNDEwMjU
MSN
— Hegseth tells West Point grads to reject ‘woke ideology.’ DD: My critics/opponents are woke. To be woke is to be 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://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hegseth-tells-west-point-grads-slow-slide-into-woke-is-over/ss-AA23TTip
— Traditional marriage and family. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
ABC NEWS
— Individuals targeted by the Trump. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have targeted me the most and why. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) Republican political consultants, fundraisers, major doners, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, e) conservative leaders, and f) religious leaders.
https://abcnews.com/US/list-individuals-including-lisa-cook-targeted-trump-administration/story?id=124968309
CBS NEWS
— Wealthy parents. DD: My critics/opponent had wealthy parents. They bought them cars, paid for their education, got them jobs. etc. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. I had to buy all my own cars. I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents whose parents had the most money. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) Republican political consultants, fundraisers, major doners, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers, e) conservative leaders, and f) religious leaders.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parents-wealth-homeownership-study/
NBC NEWS
— Green cards. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries and their citizens. All my employers would have hired noncitizens if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/shorts/trump-announces-new-green-card-application-rules-263858757707
— $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund. DD: Just kidding, but should I apply? Democrat leaders in Illinois had my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors waste my career and take many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents have always stressed that in Diersen v. GAO, not only Bush’s DOJ sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me, but that no Republican federal elected officials in Illinois came to my defense, that is, they sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me. To side with my Democrat GAO superiors, is to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/anti-weaponization-fund-trump-settlement-justice-lawsuits-blowback-rcna346424
NEW YORK TIMES
— Illegals. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/19/us/trump-news
— Three Decades on the Supreme Court Is Too Long. DD: For my Democrat GAO superiors, 18 years was too long. For my Democrat IRS superiors, 9 years was too long. For my Democrat Post Office superiors, 3 years was too long.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/opinion/supreme-court-tenure.html
NEW YORK SUN
— Defense Secretary Slams DEI and ‘Woke’ Military Policies in West Point Commencement Address
https://www.nysun.com/article/defense-secretary-slams-dei-and-woke-military-policies-in-west-point-commencement-address
BOSTON HERALD
— Ex-CIA officer tapped to replace Gabbard blasted ‘toxic’ DEI culture
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/05/23/ex-cia-officer-tapped-to-replace-gabbard-blasted-toxic-dei-culture/
FORTUNE
— Illegals. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries and their citizens. All my employers would have hired noncitizens if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/ice-deportations-us-born-job-losses-study/
— Affirmative Action and DEI: DD: Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RINO employers what to a) hire, retain, and promote Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, and/or younger and b) get rid of their Republican employees. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license.
https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/beyond-the-diploma-skills-that-actually-get-graduates-hired/
MONEYWISE
— Office jobs ‘are over’ as AI-fluent workers earn 25% more and get promoted 3.5x faster. Do you have an office job? Did you have an office job? I had office jobs working for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997.
https://moneywise.com/managing-money/employment/office-jobs-over-randstad-ceo-ai-skilled-trades
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Noncitizens. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries and their citizens. All my employers would have hired noncitizens if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.businessinsider.com/experts-react-donald-trump-new-immigration-policy-green-card-applications-2026-5
HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR
— Entry-level jobs are disappearing. DD: What was your entry-level job? When I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, I had to have a job. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores for a sales job that did not really require a college degree. My Chicago Heights store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete. Under him, I saw that my Firestone career was bleak, if not nonexistent. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 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, if not violently, fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was to be an IRS Revenue Officer.
https://www.hcamag.com/au/specialisation/hr-technology/the-entry-level-job-is-disappearing/575695
NPR
— Noncitizens. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly make America more dependent on foreign countries and their citizens. All my employers would have hired noncitizens if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents.
https://www.npr.org/sections/planet-money/2026/05/12/g-s1-121493/the-economic-chilling-effect-of-trumps-immigration-crackdown
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— Federal job applicants can’t skip ‘loyalty question.’ DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2026/04/federal-job-applicants-cant-skip-loyalty-question-that-opm-says-is-optional-court-filings-claim/
DAILY KOS
— DD: To get more votes from Black women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/23/800043877/community/the-extermination/
FROM OTHER SOURCES
CONSUMER REPORTS
— 6 Best Whole-House Generators of 2026, Lab-Tested and Reviewed. Home standby generators from companies like Champion, Generac, and Kohler are pricey, but they provide immediate backup power during outages. DD: Sadly, the motor in my 2011 20KW unit failed in late 2024, and recently, the motor in my 2024 24KW unit also failed. While Generac has provided me with a 17KW loaner, I am anxiously awaiting either a replacement of the whole 24KW unit or replacement of its motor.
https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/generators/best-home-standby-generators-consumer-reports-tests-a5942327707/
May 23, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— How Chicago police, activists are aiming to curb teen takeovers. DD: Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, Democrat teens will takeover your downtown.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/how-chicago-police-activists-are-aiming-to-curb-teen-takeovers/3939154/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/threat-from-dhs-could-impact-flights-at-chicagos-ohare-airport-over-sanctuary-city-status/3939312/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Queen Thigpen puts me to shame. My ACT score was only 24. I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class. I got no scholarships. I got no student loans. I did not earn a bachelor’s degree until I was 21. In my defense, I had to work my way through college. That harmed my GPA. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assemble line.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/21/rich-township-district-227-dual-graduate/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at non-Whites that Republicans cause all the problems that non-Whites have.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/05/23/george-floyd-murder-racial-injustice-civil-rights-black-brown-zindy-marquez
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://pantagraph.com/news/local/video_5091e182-6be3-5781-9a42-8f70ea26598e.html
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/10-provisions-in-the-latest-illinois-cannabis-omnibus-bill/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly diminish parental control.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/junk-fee-ban-heads-to-pritzker-as-senate-oks-bill-allowing-minors-to-consent-to-birth-control/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-05-22/abortion-advocates-urge-additional-reproductive-health-support-from-illinois
CHICAGO MAROON
— Here’s Where the Class of 2026 Is Headed After Graduation. DD: When you earned your bachelor’s degree, how many job offers did you get? I took the only offer that I got and it was for a job that did not really require a bachelor’s degree. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, my GPA was not that great because I had spent far too many hours working instead of studying. Further, I had the stigma of having been a federal employee for almost 3 years.
https://chicagomaroon.com/52662/news/heres-where-the-class-of-2026-is-headed-after-graduation/
ELMHURST UNIVERSITY
— Career Benefits to Completing Your Degree. DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970. If I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I have not been taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA from Loyola and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://www.elmhurst.edu/blog/four-career-benefits-to-completing-your-degree/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-531/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that to get elected and to get reelected, Democrats will ever-increasingly a) give more preference to voters who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen and b) promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
— Since the 1960s, employers have been under ever-increasing pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote those who are minority, female, and/or younger. For those who are White, male, and/or older, to get hired, retained, and/or promoted, they ever-increasing have to show employers that they can and that they will advance their subordinates who are minority, female, and/or younger. All those who my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors assigned me to supervise were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, unmarried, disabled, and/or had performance problems. I did everything that I could to advance them, but that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. When I was 49 in 1997, to punished me and to make an example out of me, they forced me to retire and they gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate who had less education than I had, who had less work experience than I had, had one professional certification while I had six, and had no professional license like the one I had. Previously, my Democrat GAO superiors had a) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and c) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. They ever-increasingly ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my 1970 job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, c) my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and d) my 1981 job-related professional license. They would not have done any of the aforesaid if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from those whose demographics are in the minority, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at those whose demographics are in the minority that their problems are caused my those whose demographics are in the majority. That is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at those who are non-White, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, and/or non-German American that those who are White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, Protestant, and/or German American cause all their problems. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump continues attacks on GOP, turns ire on retiring Sen. Thom Tillis
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/22/trump-continues-attacks-gop-turns-ire-retiring-sen-thom-tillis/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) introduces legislation to make the Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2026 permanent and required for all U.S. employers, regardless of business size. DD: Who leads the fight for mandatory E-Verify in Illinois and in your county, township, and school district?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-katie-britt-drops-e-verify-bill-to-stomp-out-hiring-of-illegal-workers/ar-AA23IKiS
1819 NEWS
— Mandatory E-Verify legislation – Ensure jobs go to Americans, not illegal aliens. DD: Who leads the fight for mandatory E-Verify in Illinois and in your county, township, and school district?
https://1819news.com/news/item/britt-leads-charge-on-mandatory-e-verify-legislation-ensure-jobs-go-to-americans-not-illegal-aliens
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Illegal alien truck driver causes multiple casualties in pile-up on California highway
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/05/22/illegal-alien-truck-driver-causes-multiple-casualties-in-pile-up-on-cali-highway-1641188/
BREITBART
— Trump’s deputies are closing the hidden process used by former presidents to covertly legalize or amnesty millions of economic migrants during the last few decades. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/05/22/trump-deputies-shut-legalization-pathway-for-millions-of-migrants/amp/
— DD: Under Democrat elected officials, criminals commit a lot more crime because Democrats are soft on crime. Criminals vote for Democrats.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/05/22/kash-patel-fbis-preliminary-crime-data-show-single-largest-decreases-in-violent-crime-and-murder-since-1937/
CAMPUS REFORM
— University of Illinois medical school pushes ‘equitable assessments’ for professors. DD: My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government use the subjectivity in their performance appraisal systems a) to promote their Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran and b) to get rid of their Republican subordinates who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/university-illinois-medical-school-pushes-equitable-assessments-professors/29910
— Wisconsin voters to decide constitutional amendment banning DEI discrimination. DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/wisconsin-voters-decide-constitutional-amendment-banning-dei-discrimination/29918
DAILY SIGNAL
— The ‘No Agenda’ Democrats. What Democrats Could Say, but Aren’t. What They Are Saying, but Shouldn’t. The midterm elections are about five months away, and we’re having here in California a hotly contested governor’s race. And of course, everybody’s heard about the mayor’s race. They all have something in common if we examine them. There is no Democratic agenda. There’s no antithetical agenda to the Republicans.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/05/22/what-democrats-could-say/
EPOCH TIMES
— DNC Chair Ken Martin Faces Calls to Resign. DD: Serving as the chairman of a political organization is a thankless job; they are always blamed for their party’s losses. I survived for 7 years as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. During that time, I invited speakers for all 78 of the organization’s monthly meetings, August picnics, and December Christmas parties. I should list all those who spoke at those events and what they emphasized. My critics/opponents always demonized, denigrated, and condemned those speakers and what they emphasized. To end my TAPROOT chairmanship and to destroy TAPROOT in 2012, my critics/opponents had their TAPROOT officers and their TAPROOT directors charge me with gross incompetence. They argued/shouted that anyone could do a better job of heading TAPROOT than I did. Previously, I survived for 4 years as a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee (SC) 2003-2007. My critics/opponents had my fellow ICRC SC members end my ICRC SC membership and destroy ICRC in 2007. In 2006, they unsuccessfully tried to get ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on IRP SCC members since 1999.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/dnc-chair-ken-martin-faces-calls-to-resign-from-some-democrats-after-autopsy-release-6036449
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Woke is Not Dead – Especially in Higher Education. “Though woke concepts such as systemic racism, critical race theory and gender fluidity aren’t as visible in corporate boardrooms and the federal government, they remain a powerful force”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/woke-is-not-dead-especially-in-higher-education/
— U. Minnesota Med School Offers ‘Child & Adolescent’ Gender-Affirming Care
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/u-minnesota-med-school-offers-child-adolescent-gender-affirming-care/amp/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— CBS and Its Colbert Apocalypse
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/05/cbs-and-its-colbert-apocalypse/
TOWNHALL
— Equal Protection Means What It Says. DD: Because Democrats run the federal government, federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/05/23/equal-protection-means-what-it-says-n2676495
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrats and RINOs will ever-increasingly use AI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opinion-poll-government-ai-jobs/
CNN
— Reparations. DD: Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. The more of the following that you are, the more credit that you should be given for having paid the price of AA and DEI: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Since the 1960s, because I am all of the aforesaid, those above be had made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. If I had not been the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 years old. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/05/18/politics/video/cornel-west-dojs-usd1-8b-fund-should-pay-reparations-for-slavery
MSN
— Trump under fire for remarks seen as threat to reporter’s fiancé. DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-faces-backlash-over-threat-to-reporter-s-fianc%C3%A9/gm-GM3A03153E
— Trump defends Chinese farmland buys as $17B ag deal stirs debate
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/trump-defends-chinese-farmland-buys-as-17b-ag-deal-stirs-debate/gm-GM3F15F7DC
— Blanche said anyone who believes they were a victim of political ‘weaponization’ can apply for $1.8B fund payouts. DD: Just kidding, but should I apply? Democrat leaders in Illinois had my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors waste my career and take many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/blanche-won-t-rule-out-jan-6-rioters-for-1-8b-fund-payouts/gm-GMD9D29559
NEW YORK TIMES
— Has Trump Gone Full ‘Mob Boss’? The president’s $1.8 billion slush fund is causing further cracks in the Republican Party. DD: Just kidding, but should I apply? Democrat leaders in Illinois had my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors waste my career and take many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. My Democrat IRS superiors a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. My Democrat Post Office superiors a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/opinion/trump-slush-fund-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— New rule requires most green-card applicants to apply from outside U.S. Immigration lawyers say the change could affect a wide swath of people and marks an escalation in the administration’s efforts to curtail legal migration. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/05/22/new-rule-requires-most-green-card-applicants-apply-outside-us/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— The GOP is collapsing under Trump’s loyalty tests. DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-05-22/trump-republican-loyalty-tests-massie
USA TODAY
— DHS again raises possibility of halting processing at major airports. Travel groups warn a reported DHS proposal could disrupt international travel and cargo operations. DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly a) flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) get rid of those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2026/05/22/sanctuary-city-airports-customs/90215950007/
WSJ
— Trump Has Lost the Governing Plot. His personal obsessions and campaign of retribution are damaging his Presidency and his party.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-has-lost-the-governing-plot-4879dd64
— Privilege Shapes Progressive Education Choice. Black Americans are far more supportive of school choice than affirmative action.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/privilege-shapes-progressive-education-choice-12160176
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/free-expression/falling-birth-rates-are-a-mystery-fa8aebb8
— A Wealthy New Yorker’s Case for the Pied-à-Terre Tax. DD: To paint me as being grossly overpaid, Money Magazine, in its 4-page February 1978 article on me, called my Outer Drive East (ODE) condo in downtown Chicago a pied-a-terre because I also owned a townhome in University Park that I bought in 1972. But Money Magazine knew full-well that I owned that townhome because I could not sell it unless I took a big loss and that I was renting it out. Money Magazine also knew full-well that I bought the ODE condo so that I could walk to work and to graduate evening business and accounting classes at Loyola and DePaul.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-wealthy-new-yorkers-case-for-the-pied-a-terre-tax-bebf58af
— New College Grads Confront a Tight Job Market but Still Have an Edge. Employment prospects are even worse for anyone with just a high-school diploma or an associate degree. DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I have not been taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA from Loyola and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/young-college-graduate-job-market-dd0f8d6e
— You’ve Landed Your First Job. Now Don’t Sink Your Career Before It Starts. Your first job holds promise and peril. Here’s how to protect your future self. DD: When I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970, I had to have a job. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was from Firestone Stores for a sales job that did not really require a college degree. My Chicago Heights store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. He disapproved of my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete. Under him, I saw that my Firestone career was bleak, if not nonexistent. Consequently, I accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile in early 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, if not violently, fired me because I had accepted that offer. I had to have a job. So I accepted the only job offer that I got. It was to be an IRS Revenue Officer.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/youve-landed-your-first-job-now-dont-sink-your-career-before-it-starts-96a3ad5b
USA FACTS
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly a) flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) get rid of those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://usafacts.org/answers/how-many-people-live-in-the-us/country/united-states/
STATISTA
— DD: What religion are you? Protestants vote for Republicans. The share of Americans who are Protestant has fallen from 69% in 1948 when I was born to 33% in 2023. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and b) get rid of those who have demographics that vote for Republicans.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/245478/self-described-religious-identification-of-americans/
IMMIGRATION POLICY INSTITITE
— DD: What national origin are you? All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states#size-origins
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/largest-immigrant-groups-over-time
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Significant immigration from Latin America and Asia in recent decades represents a sharp turnaround from the mid-1900s, when immigrants came overwhelmingly from Europe. In the 1960s, no single country accounted for more than 15 percent of the U.S. immigrant population; Italians were the top origin group, making up 13 percent of the foreign born in 1960, followed by Germans and Canadians (about 10 percent each). Immigrants from Mexico have comprised the largest group since 1980, but the composition of new arrivals has changed since the 2007-09 recession. By 2013, India and China had displaced Mexico as the top origins for new arrivals, however Mexico regained its position as the top origin of new arrivals in 2021, amid COVID-19 pandemic-related mobility restrictions and increased regional movement. As of 2024, the top origins for immigrants arriving within the last year were Mexico, India, and Venezuela. From 2010 through 2024, the immigrant population from India increased by nearly 1.4 million and the population from China rose by 815,000. Although the number of Mexican immigrants increased slightly between 2023 and 2024 (from 10.9 million to 11.1 million), this population declined by almost 567,000 between 2010 and 2024, representing the largest absolute decline of any immigrant group during the period. The number of immigrants from Venezuela, Cuba, Guatemala, Colombia, Honduras, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, the Philippines, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Haiti each increased by at least 250,000 from 2010 to 2024. Among the groups numbering at least 100,000 in 2024, the Venezuelan immigrant population increased the fastest, by 437 percent since 2010, followed by immigrants from Afghanistan (330 percent), Nepal (200 percent), Nigeria (143 percent), Bangladesh (130 percent), and Brazil (114 percent). In comparison, the total foreign-born population grew by 26 percent in this period.)
— What are the largest diaspora groups? Four of the five largest U.S. groups tracing their origin or ancestry to a particular country are European, reflecting a centuries-long history of immigration from Europe. Germany is the largest diaspora, with more than 40.7 million U.S. residents—spanning both immigrants and their descendants—who traced their origin or ancestry there as of 2024. The Mexican diaspora ranked second, with approximately 40.5 million people. The United Kingdom came third, with more than 38.8 million, followed by Ireland, with close to 35 million, and Italy, with 16.3 million. The overwhelming majority of diaspora members are people born in the United States whose ancestors had previously immigrated.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states#size-origins
POLITICAL INSIDER
— Texas AG Sues Houston Birth Tourism Center Over 1,000 Alleged Chinese-Born American Citizens. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://pjnewsletter.com/birth-tour-china/
MCKINSEY & COMPANY
— DD: Since the 1960s, employers have been under ever-increasing pressure to hire, to retain, and to promote those who are minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my 1970 job-related bachelor’s degree, my 1976, 1980, and 1997 job-related master’s degrees, my 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 job-related professional certifications, and my 1981 job-related professional license.
https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/women-in-the-workplace
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— The Foreign Service operates under an “up-or-out” promotion system. DD: How has age discrimination impacted you? Ever-increasingly, starting when I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat superiors in the federal government used my age against me. They used “up-or-out” to get rid of me because they had not promoted me to GS-13 by the time was 25. I finally made GS-13 at GAO when I was 38. But I would not have been able to do that if I had not a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and e) if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer from IRS had not finally gotten back into power and promoted me when I was 38.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/05/state-dept-directs-managers-to-revise-and-recalibrate-scores-for-employee-evaluations-theyve-already-submitted/
May 16, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— DD: According to the Illinois Freedom Caucus, “Jim Durkin’s strategy of offering voters a ‘Democrat Lite’ agenda has been a colossal failure.” Anticipate/expect that the more that the Illinois Republican Party moves to the left, the more that it will do a) to stop me from sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them. That is, the more that it will do to officially strike the following planks in the IRP 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). That is, the more that those who are the following will leave Illinois: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrats defend/advance the Democrat Party platform. RINOs fail/refuse to defend/advance the Republican Party platform. Far too many of them are really Democrats and Libertarians or function and operatives and dupes for the Democrat and Libertarian Parties.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jim-durkin-illinois-house-republican-resigning/12678017/
— Some suburban mayors push back on Pritzker’s affordable housing initiative
https://abc7chicago.com/post/suburban-mayors-push-back-gov-jb-pritzker-build-initiative-focused-affordable-housing/19108253/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump Truth Store is reopening
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/15/trump-truth-store-reopens-crystal-lake/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/daca-delays-trump-immigration/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/14/chicago-dreamers-say-theyre-fearful-of-job-loss-deportations/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: At 15, Romeoville teen makes Lewis University history as youngest student ever to receive master’s degree. DD: How old were you when you earned your master’s degree? I did not earn an MBA from Loyola until I was 27 in 1976. By then, it was far too late, I was viewed as being far too old. But my taking graduate evening business courses one at a time helped me get promoted in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had taken two courses at a time instead of one, I would have earned that MBA in 1973. But I had to pay for the courses because my employer, IRS, did not reimburse tuition or books. Further, my focus was my IRS job, not completing courses as fast as I could.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/16/benyamin-bamburac-lewis-university-graduate/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/05/12/willie-horton-black-brown-immigrants-crime-second-chances-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— Diverse interest groups — from public school activists and downstate voters to state officials and school boards — have pushed Gov. JB Pritzker to finally make a decision about the Trump administration’s Education Freedom Tax Credit.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260515/education/school-choice-option-languishes-as-illinois-lawmakers-weigh-benefits-political-fallout/
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders racially gerrymander.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260515/nation-and-world-politics/supreme-court-voting-rights-ruling-fuels-a-new-push-to-defend-black-representation/
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— What Wisconsin Democrats’ leftward shift means for midterms. DD: Ever since Big Jim Thompson got elected in 1976, the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have moved further to the left. That is, unofficially, if not officially, they have dumped conservatives like me.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/analysis/2026/05/15/what-wisconsin-democrats-leftward-shift-means-for-midterms-gilbert/90050933007/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2026/05/15/pridefest-to-include-parade-entertainment-and-more-in-springfield/89952499007/
WGLT
— GOP state lawmakers want to reform property taxes by increasing taxes on wind and solar
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-05-13/gop-state-lawmakers-want-to-reform-property-taxes-by-increasing-taxes-on-wind-and-solar
— This Republican voted to convict Trump. Now he’s up for reelection. Can he survive?
https://www.wglt.org/2026-05-16/this-republican-voted-to-convict-trump-now-hes-up-for-reelection-can-he-survive
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— More than 1,500 first-time homebuyers benefit from state’s ‘Access Home’ program.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/more-than-1500-first-time-homebuyers-benefit-from-states-access-home-program/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/05/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-526/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Why Are Noncitizens Receiving Voter Registration Forms?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/05/why-are-noncitizens-receiving-voter-registration-forms/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republicans create prosperity and safety. Democrats create poverty and crime. The big problem with voting with your feet, that is, with leaving states, counties, townships, municipalities, school districts, and precincts that Democrats have taken over to escape the poverty and crime that Democrat leadership brings is that sooner or later, Democrats will follow you and destroy the Republican state, county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct that you move to. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Debate grows over bill on gender, abortion care access in child placement. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ and abortion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_41837b39-7b64-49c4-b4c3-5aae0cf5c7f0.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— U.S. student test scores in a generation-long decline. DD: Democrats run education in America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/15/editorial-us-student-test-scores-generation-long-decline/
— A marriage crisis? Stunning stats raise concerns. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/15/marriage-crisis-stunning-stats-raise-concerns-hopes/
— Immigration law is made in Washington. New York’s governor is creating a constitutional crisis.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/14/editorial-immigration-law-made-washington/
NEW YORK POST
— Higher education still playing race games
https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/opinion/higher-education-still-playing-race-games-ai-sucks-at-poetry-and-other-commentary/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Why Democrats Don’t Cry ‘DINO.’ DD: Democrats defend/advance the Democrat Party platform. RINOs fail/refuse to defend/advance the Republican Party platform. Far too many of them are really Democrats and Libertarians or function and operatives and dupes for the Democrat and Libertarian Parties.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/why-democrats-dont-cry-dino/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Replacement Migration and the Slow Death of Illinois. Illinois can’t tax or subsidize its way out of decline; the state’s survival depends on reversing mass immigration and restoring an American majority.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/05/16/replacement-migration-and-the-slow-death-of-illinois-2-2/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Fake asylum claims go ‘poof’ as illegals skip their asylum hearings in droves. Suddenly, they aren’t so terrified of returning to their home countries anymore. And they are skipping their bogus asylum hearing cases left and right.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/fake_asylum_claims_go_poof_as_illegals_skip_their_asylum_hearings_in_droves.html
COLLEGE FIX
— Concordia U. scholars: Racism a ‘multi-sensory experience’ that ‘transforms’ how minorities act
https://www.thecollegefix.com/concordia-u-scholars-racism-a-multi-sensory-experience-that-transforms-how-minorities-act/
FEDERALIST
— Democrats Keep Protecting Illegal Alien Murderers
https://thefederalist.com/2026/05/15/worst-prosecutor-in-america-struggles-to-explain-why-democrats-keep-protecting-illegal-alien-murderers/
FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
— Equality of Opportunity, Not Outcome, Is What Made America Great. DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license. But according to my critics/opponents, I was able to accomplish the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://fee.org/articles/equality-of-opportunity-not-outcome-is-what-made-america-awesome/
JONATHAN TURLEY
— “Teach Through the Lens of Enslavement and Racism”: Penn State’s Anti-Racism Course Draws Criticism
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/05/16/teach-through-the-lens-of-enslavement-and-racism-penn-states-anti-racism-course-draws-criticism/
NEWS BUSTERS
— Penn State Professors Caught Using Mandatory Class to Vilify Whites, Police, Males
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/cnsnews/craig-bannister/2026/05/15/penn-state-profs-use-mandatory-class-vilify-whites-police
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Fetterman frustrates Democrats with pro-Trump remarks
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5880487-john-fetterman-democrat-controversy/
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and c) a job-related professional license. But according to my critics/opponents, I was able to accomplish the aforesaid because I benefitted from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
REUTERS
— American Bar Association votes to eliminate DEI rule for law schools. DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/american-bar-association-votes-eliminate-dei-rule-law-schools-2026-05-15/
MSN
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders fail/refuse to promote personal responsibility. They blame conservatives like me for all the problems that those who are the following have: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are noncitizen.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/conservatives-must-embrace-personal-responsibility-and-reject-victimhood/ar-AA231zZA
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/i-m-sick-and-tired-of-hearing-my-grandkids-whine-about-how-the-system-isn-t-fair-whatever-happened-to-taking-personal-responsibility/ss-AA1XEFuS
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/why-many-young-people-no-longer-believe-in-marriage-or-long-term-commitment/ss-AA22NmTN
— DD: To get more votes from those who are the following, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at them that Republicans cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, LGBTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/photos-of-all-male-delegations-in-beijing-trigger-claims-of-end-of-meritocracy/ar-AA23g8TN
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Administration Pushes I.R.S. to Identify Undocumented Immigrants. The deliberations are a sign that the Trump administration may once again try to harness the power of the I.R.S. to advance its immigration agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/politics/trump-irs-undocumented-immigrants.html
Cassidy Fights for Political Future
— With Loyalty to Trump Under Debate, Cassidy Is Fighting for His Political Life. Senator Bill Cassidy, Louisiana, is targeted by President Trump and walking a political tightrope as he battles other Republicans for the chance to seek a third term.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/politics/senator-bill-cassidy-louisiana-primary.html
— Why U.S. Test Scores Are in a ‘Generation-Long Decline.’ The drops go beyond the pandemic and cut across income, geographic and racial divides, new data shows. DD: Democrats run education in America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/upshot/test-scores-school-districts-us.html
CALIFORNIA GLOBE
— Vote With Your Feet. DD: Republicans create prosperity and safety. Democrats create poverty and crime. The big problem with voting with your feet, that is, with leaving states, counties, townships, municipalities, school districts, and precincts that Democrats have taken over to escape the poverty and crime that Democrat leadership brings is that sooner or later, Democrats will follow you and destroy the Republican state, county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct that you move to.
https://californiaglobe.com/fr/americans-vote-with-their-feet-away-from-california/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Inside Trump’s Midterm Strategy: a Mountain of Cash to Stem GOP Losses. Redistricting battle provides glimmer of hope for Republicans in November.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/trump-republican-midterm-election-strategy-81278c65
— FRONT PAGE: Southern Poverty Law Center Got Rich Opposing Trump. Now He’s Trying to Crush It. SPLC faces federal charges and has come under fire for accumulating a nearly $800 million war chest.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/southern-poverty-law-center-trump-587424b5
— Mifepristone as a Tool of Coercion. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled May 14, 2026, that abortion drug Mifepristone can continue to be accessed via mail, without an in-person visit to the doctor—even as women across the country claim relatives or boyfriends forced or deceived them into taking it.
https://www.wsj.com/video/wsj-opinion-mifepristone-as-a-tool-of-coercion/63960770-96B3-47E1-BFC4-0D2F5D802295
ABA
— ABA Legal Ed council votes to repeal diversity and inclusion standard. DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.abajournal.com/web/article/aba-legal-ed-council-votes-to-repeal-diversity-and-inclusion-standard
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Pressure Forces ABA Weakening of Law School DEI Standard. DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and-practice/trump-pressure-forces-aba-weakening-of-law-school-dei-standard
PRINCETON ALUMNI WEEKLY
— How Is the Class of 1966 Doing? Reunion Leaders Asked Them. In a 60th reunion book, class members shared how they feel about the country and the world. DD: If those who you graduated with responded to a similar survey, how would they respond? I graduated from Crete-Monee High School in 1966, Loyola in 1976, DePaul in 1980, and IIT in 1997.
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/how-class-1966-doing-reunion-leaders-asked-them
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Number of class members who responded to the survey: 236 (41.4%), Living with a spouse or partner: 86.4%, Widowed: 7.7%, Average number of children: 2.3, Average number of grandchildren: 3.5, Had a joint replacement: 29.4%, Average number of pills taken per day: 6 or more, Physical condition negatively interferes with life: 24.6%, Cognitive decline negatively interferes with life: 6%, Enjoy “some sort” of sex life: 46.4%, Do not fear death: 62.1%, Own a gun: 20.3%, Political affiliation: Democrat: 53%, Independent: 22.4%, Republican: 11.6%, Democratic Socialist: 5.2%, MAGA Republican: 3.4%, Feelings about current political issues (1 = strongly oppose, 5 = strongly support): Abortion rights (pro-choice): 4.46, Affirmative action: 3.64, Climate change action: 4.22, Deportation of undocumented immigrants: 2.3, Enhanced border security: 3.36, More legal immigration: 3.96, Same-sex marriage: 4.18, Tighter regulation of AI: 3.77, Transgender rights: 3.71, Feelings about the University’s current direction: 3.82, Happy they attended Princeton: 92.3%)
SALON
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they hate America, and that they hate Americans, and especially Americans who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.salon.com/2026/05/15/the-christian-right-hijacks-americas-250th/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
GUARDIAN
— Can a Republican defy Donald Trump and survive? Kentucky voters will decide. Congressman Thomas Massie, chastised by the US president as a ‘lowlife’, will soon face the ballot box – setting up a crucial test of Trump’s political strength.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/16/kentucky-republican-primary-election-massie-gallrein
May 10, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/09/lgbt-catholics-vatican/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/09/daywatch-special-edition-behind-our-pulitzer-prize-winning-immigration-coverage/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Buttigieg
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/pete-buttigieg-tells-tech-workers-trumps-government-dismantling-gives-democrats-a-clean-slate-for-2028/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— AOC defends comment about billionaires while visiting Chicago. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) criticized systems that create billionaires and shared support for Democratic gerrymandering in a talk Friday night at the University of Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/05/08/aoc-criticizes-the-organization-of-oligarchy-in-the-u-s-while-visiting-uchicago
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/food-drink/2026/05/05/dorothy-downstairs-fathom-bar-queer-owned-business-chicago
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/05/08/daca-renewal-delays-deportation-dick-durbin-delia-ramirez-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals
— Democrats’ internal squabble over 2024 autopsy bespeaks of a bigger issue. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that they will never stop promoting more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, gun control, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/10/editorial-democrats-internal-squabble-over-2024-autopsy-bespeaks-of-a-bigger-issue/
DAILY HERALD
— Businesses named ‘Best Places to Work.’ DD: For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260508/business/downers-grove-hoffman-estates-and-lombard-businesses-named-among-best-places-to-work-in-illinois/
WGN9
— DD: SPLC exists to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/trump-legal-attack-on-southern-poverty-law-center-stirs-fears-for-nonprofits/
— College students overestimate starting salaries by $24K. DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government always grossly overpaid me. With a bachelor’s degree in business, my starting IRS salary was $56,409/year in today’s dollars when I was 22 in 1971. With an MBA and having passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, my starting GAO salary was $89,703/year in today’s dollars when I was 31 in 1980.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/college-students-overestimate-starting-salaries-by-24k-survey/ar-AA22yOB5
(FROM THE ARTICLE: College students’ salary expectations are out of step with reality, a new survey suggests. Undergraduates pursuing a bachelor’s degree expect to earn roughly $80,000 one year after graduation — about $24,000 more than the average starting salary of $56,153, according to Clever Real Estate. Clever surveyed 769 undergraduates and found that elevated salary expectations were common across all majors, but students studying education and nursing showed a wider disconnect than others. The 10 college majors with the highest unemployment. “Although teachers have historically been underpaid, education majors still anticipate making a starting salary of $75,186 — about 62% more than the $46,526 they will likely receive,” the report said. Nursing majors expect a starting salary of $83,219 or 32% more than a “realistic salary” of $63,000 for nurses with one year of experience, according to Clever. But even students in higher-earning degree programs overestimated their starting salaries. Engineers, for example, expect to start at $92,452 — roughly 17% more than the $78,731 they will likely make one year out of college, the report noted. Starting salaries weren’t the only misjudgment – students’ mid-career expectations were off, as well. Ten years after graduation, the students surveyed expected to make around $145,000 on average, but the average mid-career salary is only $95,521, Clever said.)
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote SPLC, that is, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/trump-legal-attack-on-southern-poverty-law-center-stirs-fears-for-nonprofits/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump signs off on firing FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government always talked and acted like their superiors had signed off on the many big adverse actions that they took against me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/may/8/trump-reportedly-signs-firing-fda-commissioner-marty-makary/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— California’s illegal immigration problem
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4559591/californias-illegal-immigration-problem/
— The New York Times finally warms up to merit-based hiring. DD: All my employers were always under tremendous pressure from Democrat elected officials to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. The Democrats who ran the Post Office would not have hire me in 1966 if I had not passed the postal employment test and earned a high school diploma. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me if I had not earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination in my first attempt.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/4558840/new-york-times-merit-based-hiring-eeoc/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Tom Homan gets candid on how many illegals in US, how many deportations needed
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/05/09/tom-homan-gets-candid-on-how-many-illegals-in-us-how-many-deportations-needed-1637690/
BREITBART
— Europe’s Wokeness Making Them Vulnerable to Attack, Weak Counterterrorism Partners
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/05/09/gorka-europes-wokeness-making-them-vulnerable-to-attack-weak-counterterrorism-partners/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Five more colleges plan ‘private’ grad ceremonies for illegal alien students. This spring, Campus Reform is tracking universities hosting separate graduation ceremonies for illegal alien students, often referred to as ‘UndocuGraduation.’ Many of these ceremonies are described as ‘private,’ limiting attendance to approved participants and, in most cases, withholding location details from the public altogether. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/five-colleges-plan-private-grad-ceremonies-illegal-alien-students/29584
FOX NEWS
— Tom Homan answers how many more deportations needed to restore country. Homan confirmed the Trump administration is onboarding 10,000 more immigration enforcement agents to carry out deportations. DD: When I was 22 in 1971, I had to have a job. My father had died suddenly and I was helping support my mother and brother and my Firestone Store boss had fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS, the only offer that I got. But what if the only job offer that I got was to be an immigration enforcement agent?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tom-homan-answers-many-deportations-needed-restore-country-one-hell-shot.amp
— BEYOND TRAGIC: Some of the country’s most prominent Catholic colleges and universities are holding separate LGBTQ-affirming graduation ceremonies this spring, including one that also plans to include a drag performance.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lgbtq-lavender-graduations-set-take-place-major-christian-colleges-including-one-drag-show
— People working in college admissions look for keywords like ‘first-gen’ and ‘low-income’ that helps them identify Black students. DD: Even though I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, UIC admitted me in 1966 because I had taken college preparatory courses, because my ACT score was 24, and because I had graduated in the upper 20% of my class.
https://noticias.foxnews.com/media/trauma-shorthand-blackness-college-admissions-report-sparks-debate
HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— The War On Patriotism. DD: Many, most, virtually all, and at times, all of my superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They used my using deferments to avoid the Vietnam War draft against me big time. They stressed that I was 1-A for the draft. They stressed that I would not have been sent into combat because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness. They hinted/implied/argued that because of the aforesaid, I was a disgusting unpatriotic coward and even worse things. They took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/roger-scruton-was-right-about-the-war-patriotism
HILLSDALE COLLEGE
— Kirk given honorary degree during commencement at Hillsdale College
https://www.hillsdale.net/story/news/education/graduation/2026/05/09/erika-kirk-addresses-hillsdale-college-class-of-2026-honorary-degree-turning-point-usa/90012336007/
— Erika Kirk encourages love of country, marrying young in Hillsdale College speech. DD: What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2026/05/erika-kirk-encourages-learning-love-of-country-marrying-young-at-hillsdale-college.html
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Western history is no longer approached as a complex legacy, marked by both common failings and unparalleled achievements—but is instead subjected to anachronistic and biased persecution. DD: Ever-increasingly, if you are a Republican, the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders demonize, denigrate, and condemn you: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, they hint/imply/argue/shout that the more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that you owe all your successes in life to your benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/05/a-tale-of-two-speeches-and-the-fight-for-the-west/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Thousands of asylum-seekers abandon their cases as ICE seeks to deport them to nations they aren’t from
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asylum-seekers-abandon-cases-as-third-country-deportations/
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/vatican-signals-openness-toward-lgbtq-catholics-amid-ongoing-controversies/ar-AA22KNNN
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/love-sex/new-vatican-report-highlights-profound-suffering-of-many-lgbtq-catholics/ar-AA22BPa0
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. DD: I attribute all my successes in life to my parents and their traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/wellness/more-gen-z-adults-say-life-can-be-fulfilling-without-marriage-children-study/ar-AA22ks9J
— Personal responsibility. DD: What do your critics/opponents attribute your career success to? My critics/opponents do not attribute my career successes to my effort or to my ability. According to them, because I was a federal employee, I had plenty of time and money to do the following because federal employees work only 40 hours a week and because they are grossly overpaid: a) earn a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) get promoted when I was 22, 23, 25, and 38, c) earn job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, d) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and e) earn a job-related professional license when I was 32. Further, they stress a) that I avoided the Vietnam War draft, b) that my wife always had good-paying jobs, and c) that we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/i-m-sick-and-tired-of-hearing-my-grandkids-whine-about-how-the-system-isn-t-fair-whatever-happened-to-taking-personal-responsibility/ss-AA1XEFuS
— DD: After you earned your bachelor’s degree, what harmed your job search? For me, it was potential employers seeing me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved. Further, potential employers were under tremendous pressure from Democrat elected officials to hire Democrats who were minority, female, and/or veteran and I was none of the aforesaid. Consequently, I accepted the only job offer that I got. But it was for a job that did not really require a college degree.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/well-meaning-advice-to-new-grads-often-makes-the-job-search-more-stressful-what-actually-helps-harvard-psychologist/ar-AA22rRXT
https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/topstories/topper-of-my-class-still-no-job-graduate-spent-over-rs-1-crore-on-uk-degree-applied-to-500-jobs-got-fewer-than-20-interviews/ar-AA21VBhT
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Republicans Are Building an Advantage in Redistricting” and ask “How Much Is It Worth?” and say “Where things stands in the race for House control after recent court rulings.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/upshot/redistricting-midterms-republicans-house.html
— Trump Used to Be the Top China Hawk. Now He’s Courting Permanent Disaster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/trump-xi-china-us-automakers.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/opinion/birthrate-kids-parents-demographics-future.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/upshot/public-schools-enrollment-crisis.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who have demographics that vote for Democrats that those who have demographics that vote for Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/opinion/callais-voting-rights-act-discrimination.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/opinion/hegseth-war-cost.html
— DD: Anti-conservatives ever-increasingly promote psychedelic drugs. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/science/ibogaine-psychedelics-rogan-trump.html
— DD: How soon will Democrat teens takeover your downtown?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/us/teen-takeovers.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Israel, that is, they ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying conservative Jews.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/politics/israel-maga-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/09/vatican-lgbtq-pope/a92b4ed4-4b65-11f1-a119-857cd2bf4fd4_story.html
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. Practicing LGBTQ puts you on a path to personal destruction.
https://www.aol.com/1-10-lgbtq-youth-attempted-130052565.html
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
— The Pope is wrong when it comes to Iran.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/article/dallas-pastor-robert-jeffress-says-pope-wrong-iran-22250847.php
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Pope Leo endangers Catholics by opposing Iran war.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trump-accuses-pope-leo-of-endangering-catholics-by-opposing-iran-war/ar-AA22rgpb
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at minorities, females, and younger people that Republicans ever-increasingly discriminate against them, and because of that, minorities, females, and younger people should ever-increasingly get more preference. My Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government always did that big time. I should write about the many successes and few failures that they had doing that.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/gerrymander-blitz-could-undo-gop-progress-with-black-voters.html
YOU GOV
— Americans say they have more in common with people who share their political party than their gender, religion, or race
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/50866-americans-have-a-lot-in-common-with-people-who-share-their-political-party
LEVEL MAN
— DD: Ever-increasingly, if you are a Republican, the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders demonize, denigrate, and condemn you: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, they hint/imply/argue/shout that the more of the aforesaid that you are, the more that you owe all your successes in life to your benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.levelman.com/chief-justice-john-roberts-sees-black-people-as-having-no-rights-hes-bound-to-respect/
— The Demographics of MAGA Supporters: education, veterans, minority shifts and the rural-urban divide that shape modern conservative politics.
https://www.levelman.com/the-demographics-of-maga-supporters/#a-look-at-the-socioeconomic-status-of-those-who-support-trump
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TIMES OF INDIA
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more LGBTQ.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/vatican-softens-towards-lgbtq-catholics/articleshow/130982631.cms
FROM OTHER SOURCES
MONSTER
— Questions to Ask During Job Offer Negotiation. DD: For Democrat leaders, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats, and especially Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. What if I had asked my Democrat federal employers, a) what if I fail/refuse to become a Democrat?, b) what if I fail/refuse to help get rid of employees because they are Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran?, c) what if I complain about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and/or age discrimination, and/or d) what if I become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charges the aforesaid?
https://hiring.monster.com/resources/recruiting-strategies/talent-acquisition/making-a-job-offer/