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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE IN NAPERVILLE SUN: DuPage Republicans use message trucks to protest ‘King Pritzker.’ DD: During the Democrats’ No Kings protest yesterday in Wheaton, I saw these message trucks going west and then east on Roosevelt Road just west of Naperville Road while I watched Democrats promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/28/king-pritzker-dupage-republicans-coyne/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: With the third national No Kings protest planned for Saturday, DuPage County Republicans now have an anti-king message of their own: “Vote Out King Pritzker.” The message is one of three set to be displayed on trucks carrying large electronic screens, which DuPage Republican Chair Kevin Coyne says his party will send to protest sites across the county during Saturday’s events. “I think they bring a very important message,” Coyne says in a video posted to Facebook announcing the local GOP’s plan. “I hope they offer some reflection for those attending (No Kings rallies). (Gov.) JB Pritzker is acting more like a king than any elected official in America.” In a phone interview with the Naperville Sun, Coyne said Pritzker has governed like a king by supporting last year’s gas tax increase, by “buying elections” through campaign donations and by being “extremely heavy-handed” with COVID-19 restrictions. “We’ve gone from king Madigan to king Pritzker,” Coyne says in the video, referring to the power held by former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan and now by Pritzker as governor. “Enough is enough. Vote this guy out in November.” Sending trucks to protests planned in Naperville and elsewhere across the suburbs is the Republican Party’s way of getting its point across — instead of marching or standing on street corners, Coyne said. “We’re not going to have any part of adding to the on-the-ground disruption,” he said. But organizers of No Kings protests don’t see their events as disruption. Reid McCollum, chair of the DuPage County Democrats, said members of his party see the rallies as an important way to speak out against the authoritarian actions of President Donald Trump’s administration. “The reason people are protesting ‘No Kings’ is simple: Donald Trump has acted like one. His corruption, his repeated disregard for the Constitution, his attacks on free speech, his unconstitutional war against Iran, his illegal tariffs and his tolerance for unaccountable masked federal enforcement all reflect the behavior of someone who thinks he is above the law,” McCollum said. “That is not democracy, and people in DuPage County understand the difference.” Despite Republicans’ criticisms of Pritzker, the governor continues to find support from local Democrats, including Dianne McGuire of Indivisible Naperville, one of the organizations planning Naperville’s No Kings event. The rally is set for 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at Rotary Hill, and Coyne says his party’s message trucks will be sure to drive by. “The American people do not want the authoritarian approach by Donald Trump,” McGuire said. “In contrast, Illinoisans have elected and reelected Gov. Pritzker in real landslide elections because he leads through hope, rather than fear.”)
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in ever-increasingly promoting more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/28/no-kings-naperville-rally-downtown-indivisible/
— DD: How soon will Chicago Democrat leaders succeed in replacing all the Whites in Chicago with non-Whites?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/29/opinion-chicago-2050-tracy-baim-next-great-migration/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in ever-increasingly promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260328/nation-and-world-politics/i-love-my-country-demonstrators-take-to-the-streets-to-protest-trump/

NAPERVILLE COMMUNITY TELEVISION
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in ever-increasingly promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nctv17.org/news/more-than-1000-march-in-third-naperville-no-kings-rally/amp/

SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in ever-increasingly promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.shawlocal.com/gallery/2026/03/28/scenes-from-across-northern-illinois-no-kings-protests-draw-crowds-in-cities-towns-and-rural-communities/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— THE MURDER OF SHERIDAN GORMAN AND THE STIFLING OF CHICAGO
https://johnkassnews.com/the-murder-of-sheridan-gorman-and-the-silencing-of-chicago-media/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How bad are your demographics? As Democrats ever-increasingly take over Illinois, the following demographics are ever-increasingly bad for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. At the Democrat No Kings protest I saw yesterday, most protestors were minority, female, and/or younger. About a third of the chants I heard were in Spanish. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— As Democrats ever-increasingly take over Illinois, how will Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders respond? Democrat leaders want them a) to officially dump the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform, b) to officially give more and more and more preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and c) to officially dump those who have demographics that vote for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are a Republican? Do you plan on staying in Illinois? If you do, and if you are going to stay Republican, what is your plan for dealing with the ever-increasing hatred against Republicans that Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote against Republicans? Anticipate/expect that Illinois Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly make it difficult/impossible for Republicans in Illinois a) to get an education in Illinois, b) to earn a living in Illinois, c) to buy things in Illinois, d) to own things in Illinois, and e) to do things in Illinois. Soon, all elected officials in Illinois will be Democrats who hate Republicans. They can and they will make life for Republicans in Illinois miserable if not intolerable. Most importantly, if you are going to stay, you should assess the vulnerability of your income. Thankfully, it would be difficult/impossible for Illinois Democrat leaders to reduce/eliminate my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my and my wife’s Social Security, our Medicare, and our 72% federal health insurance subsidy. But I am sure that Duckworth, Durbin, and Ramirez are working on that. Next, you should assess the vulnerability of your home and your retirement savings. Anticipate/expect that if you are Republican, Illinois Democrat leaders will make you pay reparations. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write a book that compares and contrasts how DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) leaders have treated incoming Democrats since 1978 with how DuPage County Democrat leaders are treating remaining DuPage County Republicans since 1978. Initially, DCRCC leaders welcomed incoming Democrats with open arms. Initially, many is not most incoming Democrats became Republicans. However, incoming Democrats became ever-increasingly more liberal. To convert them to being Republicans, DCRCC leaders wrongly ever-increasingly a) dumped planks in the Republican Party platform, including 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, b) gave more and more and more preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and c) dumped those who have demographics that vote for Republicans: conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. In my book, I would focus on how DCRCC leaders have ever-increasingly dumped me. I would focus on those DCRCC leaders who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— DD: Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reduce standards for everything to get more votes from those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, I could argue that my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in way back 1979 and my passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt way back in 1981 means more.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/27/editorial-lowering-bar-academic-success-fuels-race-bottom-public/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Freedom of speech, of association, of thought; the idea that legislating morality is wrong; due process; the public-private divide; respect for constitutionalism and the rule of law—all are somehow suddenly under pressure.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/29/the-ideology-with-no-name-has-a-name-its-civil-rights/

DAILY CALLER
— Democrat Rep Pramila Jayapal Wants Reparations For Illegal Immigrants
https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/28/pramila-jayapal-reparations-illegal-immigrants/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The New Democratic Party
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/24/victor-davis-hanson-the-new-democratic-party/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For all practical purposes, there is no longer a Democratic Party, at least as we’ve known it for 50 to 100 years. What we’re witnessing in Washington as the opposition under Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries is something that we haven’t really seen before. It is a full-blown Socialist Revolutionary Party. The players of that party that are running things are not even Chuck Schumer or Hakeem Jeffries. They’re people like [outgoing] Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett. They’re people like Mr. [James] Talarico in Texas, Mr. [Zohran] Mamdani. Elizabeth Warren. The socialist Bernie Sanders, etc., etc. They’re radical leftists. And they believe in a mandated equality of result, perpetuated or completed by radically high taxes from people who have been successful and to transfer that money to people who have been unsuccessful. Not because of any fault of their own or any gift or success of the wealthy, but because of oppression. And they’ve created a Marxist binary in the world. There’s 70%, the so-called white population, because they’ve confused and conflated race with class. That is the oppressor class. And the 30% that is the oppressed class. And the victimized class feels that they have legitimate grievances against the other 70% for not having what they do. And therefore, the Democratic Party steps in and says that we will mandate an equality of result. That is the agenda. And you can see it on all fronts. If people are poor, they want to come to the United States, then open the border. They should have a right to do that. And when they come to the United States, they can become better off than they were in Mexico or El Salvador or the Caribbean because they’re going to get entitlements. And those entitlements will be costly and expensive, fraud-ridden, as we’ve seen in California and Minnesota. And that will require people to pay their, quote, fair share and higher taxes. Which is a good in itself. Not just because the money is transferred to the people who don’t have it through entitlements, but more importantly, you’re emasculating people who “didn’t earn that.” “You didn’t build that,” as Elizabeth Warren said. So that’s what the party is. You can see it on the border. You can see it with crime. They believe that crime is committed not by individuals who break existing laws, but by society, which created the conditions for crime. And so, therefore, we see no-cash bail, or we see somebody who commits a heinous crime, and they’re let out. They’re either not jailed. They’re not indicted. They’re not convicted, and they’re not incarcerated, because of, I guess we would call it, critical legal theory. Behind all of it, though, is diversity, equity, and inclusion. And this is what they’ve had a problem with because when the American public sees this, and they said, you’ve created a victim class that you represent, and then you’ve demonized the other 70% that are so-called white, and people are saying, well, you’re on the wrong side of percentages. Unless you can convince, as happened with Barack Obama’s candidacy, to get more white people to vote for him than maybe voted for Romney or John McCain. Or maybe more white people voted for Obama than they did for John Kerry, four years earlier. But the point is that it has nothing to do with class. So, one of the problems that democratic socialists, or whatever these people call themselves, have is Mamdani’s a multimillionaire. His parents are multimillionaires. When he says he wants to go after white neighborhoods for equity, the wealthiest minority in the United States, today, ethnic minority, is Mamdani. It’s Indian Americans. Americans of Indian heritage. And the next six or seven or eight ethnic groups are not white. And there is no direct relationship anymore between your skin color and your class status or your income. And so, if that’s not true, when you go after these people, then you are basically an out-and-out racist because they haven’t done anything to you. And the greatest number of people who are poor in the United States remain white. Let’s just ask ourselves what happened to the Democratic Party. If we were to look at the ’92 and ’96 agendas at the Democratic Convention, and those were written by Doug Schoen and Mark Penn. It’s pretty much a Republican agenda now. It was closed borders. Legal-only immigration. Strong support for unions. Trying juveniles who commit violent crimes as adults. Strong national defense. Balanced budget, achieved for four years under Bill Clinton, and with the help of Newt Gingrich. That’s all out the window. Anybody in the Democratic Party who espouses those views today would be considered a heretic or worse. So between the Clinton phenomenon of ’92 to 2000, what happened? It’d be easy to say Barack Obama happened. That he ginned up latent racial tensions and grievances and used them for political purposes to get himself elected and reelected. That’s true. But there were larger cosmic forces that created a Barack Obama. And the first, of course, was open borders. We have now 53 million people. It’s the largest in the history of the United States. In numbers, 16.2% of the United States resident population was not born in the United States. Some of them are naturalized citizens, but as we’ve seen this last two weeks, whether it was the Old Dominion shooting or the attack on the synagogue or the IEDs that were thrown out in front of the New York governor’s mansion or the shooting in Austin, we have a problem with naturalized citizens. They do not assimilate, acculturate or integrate in the way that they used to under the melting pot. And they formed constituencies for the Democratic Party. And they are told that you came here—and it doesn’t really matter under what auspices—if you’re part of the 53 million, and there’s probably 30 million, with the Biden additions that came illegally, you still had a right. We don’t believe in borders, and therefore, you come here. We will provide the entitlements. And we will water down voting laws. No voter ID, even though 70% of the American people want them. And you will be either a present or a future constituency. So that was a big change. Demography is destiny, they told us. The new Democrat majority, they told us and that came true. That was a big factor in their rise. The second thing was globalization. Globalization created two societies in the United States. The East Coast, from Massachusetts down to the Carolinas, looked out at the EU, and the West Coast, from Seattle to San Diego, looked out at Asia, the Tigers, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and, of course, mainland China. And people who had particular skills that were globalized, and here they were in tech, insurance, investment, law, media, academia. They found that their audience, their constituency, was expanded from 300 million, let’s say, 10 years ago, maybe 340 million now, to seven billion. But for those who mined or farmed or assembled or manufactured, they were outsourced offshore, or they couldn’t keep up with cheap imports. This is what got Donald Trump elected, but it also explains the new Democratic Party. They used to rail about the importance of the middle class. They dropped that. That was the meme of Donald Trump. They found that by supporting the 30% DEI agenda and the globalized elite, they had a new constituency. And that was vast amounts of money. All of Silicon Valley and its $9 trillion in market capitalization, until recently, was put at the service of the Democratic Party. So this party radicalized in two fashions. You brought in a lot of poor people, and you re-energized people of color to say that your problems were not your own, but they were committed by the deplorables, the irredeemables, the clingers, the chumps, the dregs, the garbage. And then you had the money to outspend your Republican candidates in vast numbers. And more importantly, with the rise of left-wing big tech and the left-wing corporate boardroom and the left-wing academics, you could control institutions. The medium is the message. So ABC, NBC, NPR, social media, Facebook, the old Twitter, you name it. There was a popular culture, professional sports. There was a monopoly on left-wing knowledge, and that was very, very valuable. And finally, the old idea of integration, intermarriage, assimilation, the melting pot, that was not conducive to this new Socialist Democratic Party. They said, why would we bring in people who wanted to be American and wanted to identify essentially as American and only incidentally, in their former country? We saw what happened, the Democrats said, in 1956 when we let in the Hungarians, anti-communist, they came over here. They assimilated as Americans. They became very, very conservative voters. We saw what happened in 1959 to 1980 when we let in all of these Cubans, who had been driven out by communism. They were very patriotic Americans. They assimilated, and they were a constituency that we didn’t like. So, what we want to do is refabricate the immigration. Let in a lot of people, but not from particular countries that would mean they were successful, they had skills. We don’t want anybody from Europe. We don’t want anybody from Australia or the former British Commonwealth, such as New Zealand. We don’t want anybody coming in here who is anti-communist as a refugee. We want people who are poor and are accustomed to socialist countries and will come here and want more socialist benefits. That’s South America, Latin America, Africa, large parts of Asia. And they will be the constituency that allows us to have an unpopular message that existing Americans have never liked and do not like at all. And the result was the Democrats can’t win elections with open, transparent balloting, one-day balloting, and they know it. But if you take over the institutions and you use this globalized financial power and you appeal to very, very wealthy people’s sense of noblesse oblige or guilt or whatever strategy you use, and you combine that with a mass of very poor people who came in very recently, many under illegal circumstances, you have a constituency that required one thing. You had to give up the white middle working class. The union class that you used to champion. The Hubert Humphrey, John F. Kennedy, Harry Truman class. You despise those people. And we know that because you didn’t just give up on them and accept a globalized agenda and an expanded welfare state, but you created a vocabulary of disparagement. As I said earlier, these were the clingers. These were the people who had no teeth in their head. These were the people who Peter Strzok, Lisa Page texted about smelling up Walmart. All this disparagement for a class of people you despised, and I don’t think you’re going to win them back. But just to finish, there is no Democratic Party. There’s a Socialist Party. But it’s a very weird Socialist Party. It’s a pyramiddle party with a lot of very wealthy, globalized elites that run things at the top. Nothing in the middle of the pyramid. And then an expansive big base of poor people, of immigrants, and of people who claim that they identify mostly in their diversity, equity, inclusion person, and not necessarily as a full-fledged American.)

CHRISTIAN POST
— DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over your church? According to Democrat leaders, Jesus hates Republicans who are  conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/weekly-churchgoers-more-likely-to-embrace-biblical-truths-study.html

FOX BUSINESS
— Top conservative leaders deliver remarks at CPAC. DD: Who are the conservative leaders in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6391951385112

EPOCH TIMES
— USS Tripoli Reaches Middle East With More Than 3,500 Troops. The latest troop movements are precautionary measures intended to prepare for unforeseen contingencies, U.S. officials said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/uss-tripoli-reaches-middle-east-with-more-than-3500-troops-6005036

FOX NEWS
— Chicago moves toward reparations with bus tours and town halls as $150M deficit looms. Mayor Brandon Johnson says the Repair Chicago forum will gather lived experiences of Black Chicagoans to inform a formal reparations study. DD: Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-moves-toward-reparations-bus-tours-town-halls-150m-deficit-looms.amp

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— The 1982 Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe compels state officials to provide free public education to children of illegal immigrants. Momentum builds beyond Tennessee. Since early 2025, legislators in Oklahoma, Texas, Idaho, Indiana and New Jersey have pursued measures to contest Plyler v. Doe. The time has come for the Supreme Court to overturn Plyler v. Doe and let states chart their own course.
https://www.heritage.org/courts/commentary/overturning-outlandish-supreme-court-ruling-the-only-way-fix-education

NEWSMAX
— Blagojevich to Newsmax: Dems’ Policies Fueled Chicago Killing
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/rod-blagojevich-chicago-democrats/2026/03/28/id/1251107/
— Democrats Put Illegals First in Funding Fight
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/immigrants-ice-funding/2026/03/28/id/1251104/

POWERLINE
— Birthright Citizenship: The Deep Dive
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2026/03/birthright-citizenship-the-deep-dive.php

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, DOGE would not have been needed.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/a-year-after-trumps-doge-cuts-workers-whose-lives-were-upended-ask-what-was-saved

MS NOW
— DD: Democrat leaders claim that at least 8 million marched in No Kings protests yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fehdaacKYx8

NBC NEWS
— Trump fans at CPAC hope for the best in Iran but worry over the cost at home
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-fans-cpac-iran-rcna265370

NEW YORK TIMES
— Why College Graduates Feel Betrayed. DD: My father’s often decrying his not having a college degree motivated me to work my way through college to get one.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/business/college-graduates-economy-unemployment-.html
— The top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee sharply criticized Hegseth on Friday for blocking the promotion of four Army officers — two Black men and two women — to be one-star generals. DD: I should write about my Democrat IRS superiors who blocked my promotion to GS-13. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors a) who forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10, to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) who delayed my promotions back to GS-12, c) who did not promote me to GS-13 until I was 38, d) who blocked my promotion to GS-14, e) who always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and f) who forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/us/politics/hegseth-generals-promotion.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in ever-increasingly promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/29/no-kings-rallies-a-red-flare-for-trump/89306058007/

LONG ISLAND TIMES
— Vietnam War veterans honored. FROM GOOGLE: In 1921, a WWI Honor Roll memorial was dedicated in Crete to honor 74 local veterans accompanied by community memorial trees. The Diersen family, prominent in the area, owned the local hardware store during this period. . .The Diersen family purchased the hardware store at the northeast corner of Main and Exchange in 1886, a location central to the town’s early 20th-century history. DD: My grandfather on my father’s side was one of those honored. He fought the Germans in WWI. I lived with my parents in an apartment above that hardware store 1948-1954 while my grandfather operated it. The building was torn down in 1966. SEE: https://capturingcrete.org/items/show/151
https://www.litimes.org/2026/03/28/vietnam-war-veterans-honored-at-islip-ceremony/

FLORIDA POLITICS
— Marco Rubio draws 35% support in CPAC straw poll, while Ron DeSantis gets 2%. DD: Since 2004, when I got only 16% of the vote for Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Treasurer, MTRO has moved even further to the left. MTRO has ever-increasingly punished me for my supporting Pat O’Malley instead of Jim Ryan in the 2002 Republican gubernatorial primary. MTRO ever-increasingly blames me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000, not just for Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/787810-marco-rubio-draws-35-support-in-cpac-straw-poll-while-ron-desantis-gets-2/

WASHINGTON STAND
— DOJ Kills 50-Year-Old Equal-Outcome Regulation. DD: According to my critics/opponents, if I do better at something than those who do not share my demographics, it is because I have benefitted tremendously from discrimination against those who do not share my demographics. Those who do not share my demographics are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, parents, LGHTQ, unmarried, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://washingtonstand.com/article/doj-kills-50yearold-equaloutcome-regulation-

FORTUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in ever-increasingly promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/28/bruce-springsteen-minnesota-no-kings-rally-anti-trump-protesters-us-europe/

BANKRATE
— 10 first-time homebuyer mistakes to avoid. DD: I gave too much weight to the promises/predictions that HUD made about University Park when I bought 774-5 Sunset Court there when I was 24 in 1972. SEE: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/
https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/first-time-homebuyer-mistakes/