AARON DEL MAR
— ILLINOIS NEEDS A REAL OPPOSITION PARTY. This morning at 10 AM, I’m going LIVE to discuss what must change—and what it will take to rebuild an Illinois Republican Party that can compete, win, and hold those in power accountable. The excuses have run out. Illinois deserves better. A stronger opposition means a stronger Illinois. It’s time to get to work. Tune in on this Facebook page. Share this and join the conversation.
https://x.com/AaronDelMar/status/2119617204710940843
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Republican State Central Committeeman Aaron Del Mar is calling for a 2027 state party convention to overhaul the Illinois GOP’s bylaws and platform and elect new leaders following last week’s midterm losses. Del Mar, who was the Republican lieutenant governor candidate, says Republicans can’t wait until the 2028 election cycle to address the party’s troubles, according to a statement. “The Illinois Republican Party is decimated,” he said. “If we are going to recover from the results of Tuesday’s election, we need to build a strong foundation that can facilitate future success.”
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/11/09/giannoulias-goes-in-on-affordability-01155781
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/11/03/loophole-in-an-illinois-contract-allows-ice-to-access-data-for-immigration-enforcement
— DD: Criminals oppose Flock.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/11/06/flock-license-plate-readers-illinois-campaign-contributions-sheriff-mayor
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/11/09/column-midterms-donald-trump-republicans-page/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Giannoulias goes in on affordability. DD: Why do you have less money? I have less money because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. It all culminated in 1997 when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and gave my job to my Democrat Black subordinate who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had one professional certification while I has six, and had no professional license like the one I had. Previously they had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/11/09/giannoulias-goes-in-on-affordability-01155781
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: Republicans got rolled in legislative races across the country. In Illinois, Republicans lost at least eight seats in the Illinois General Assembly, including six held by sitting lawmakers and two open seats. The drubbing further expands Democrats’ supermajorities in both chambers. “It means Democrats don’t have to try to work toward the middle [on legislation], which is really where the vast majority of the electorate is,” said state GOP state Rep. Dan Ugaste, who represents Chicago’s far western suburbs and was among the Republicans who lost Tuesday.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS ARE OVER. NOW PUBLIC SAFETY PAYS THE PRICE. DSA gains, anti-police political agendas, and judicial retention results should concern every American who cares about public safety.
https://johnkassnews.com/the-midterm-elections-are-over-now-public-safety-pays-the-price/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
https://mchenrycountyblog.com/
WIREPOINTS
https://wirepoints.org/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Anticipate/expect that autopsies of Republican defeats in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, etc. will blame conservatives, that is, they will blame platform Republicans, and especially those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will especially blame the aforesaid who promote the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will call for the Illinois Republican Party a) to officially strike the aforesaid planks from its platform, b) to officially banish conservatives, that is, platform Republicans from the party once and for all, c) to officially require all Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and major donors to be moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and d) to officially change the party’s name to the “Democrat Lite Party.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Anticipate/expect that Pritzker will use the November 3, 2026 election results a) to dive all of those who are the following out of Illinois:
conservative, Republican, capitalist, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or citizen of America and b) to replace them with those who are the following: liberal/moderate, Democrat, socialist, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you filed lawsuits? I have filed lawsuits. I have become an active member in class action lawsuits. I have filed grievances. I have appealed assessed property valuations. I led the successful efforts in 2009 to stop video gambling in Wheaton and in 2019 to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton. I should write about the retaliation that I have suffered. I should write about the many big adverse actions that the defendants, their lawyers, their operatives, and their dupes have taken against me. According to Google AI: “When a plaintiff files a lawsuit or reports misconduct, defendants sometimes strike back using a variety of legal, professional, or personal maneuvers. Retaliation by defendants against plaintiffs typically takes the form of retaliatory countersuits, adverse employment actions, tactical aggressive discovery, and out-of-court intimidation. These actions are designed to exhaust the plaintiff’s financial resources, damage their credibility, or force them into dropping the case or accepting a lower settlement.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who has thrown you under the bus and why? I should write about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I have done the most to help elect, but who have thrown me under the bus the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me including a) ending my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, d) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, f) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, g) ending my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, h) defeating my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position by a vote of 69 to 13 in 2004, and i) getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do your critics/opponents use to justify the adverse actions that they take against you? Mine use a) my refusing to be manipulated or dominated by them, b) my refusing to glorify and praise them, c) my refusing to pander to them, d) my refusing to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) my refusing to cover up their wrong doing, f) my refusing to give them money, g) my stopping the stop light at Harrison and President in Wheaton, h) my suing them, i) my including links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they do not like, j) my promoting Republican candidates who they do not like, k) my promoting planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject, l) etc. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do Democrat, RINO, and Democrat plant leaders work for? They work for those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, socialist, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, unmarried, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. Who they work against? They work against those who are conservative, Republican, capitalist, White, male, older, heterosexual, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, have ancestors who have been in America for a long time, and/or citizen of America. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— One reason to not leave Illinois to seek opportunity, safety, prosperity, conservatism, Christianity, and Republicanism is that sooner or later, Democrats will follow you and destroy the state, county, township, municipality, neighborhood, and school district that you have moved to. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I have always been a conservative Republican and I will always be one. Sadly, because of that and because of ever-increasing Democrat, RINO, and Democrat plant invasion, I am ever-increasingly unwelcome, isolated, ostracized, and persona non grata in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, my precinct, and my neighborhood. I should write about all the times that Democrats, RINOs, and Democrat plants have attacked me since 2000. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Trump backs away from hardline immigration policy after midterms blowout: ‘I think it was too tough.’
https://nypost.com/2026/11/08/us-news/trump-backs-away-from-hardline-immigration-policy-after-midterms-blowout-i-think-it-was-too-tough/
— Trump says he ‘cannot’ forgive his enemies even if it means denial at Heaven’s gates. DD: What do your critics/opponents use to justify the adverse actions that they take against you? Mine use a) my refusing to be manipulated or dominated by them, b) my refusing to glorify and praise them, c) my refusing to pander to them, d) my refusing to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) my refusing to cover up their wrong doing, f) my refusing to give them money, g) my stopping the stop light at Harrison and President in Wheaton, h) my suing them, i) my including links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they do not like, j) my promoting Republican candidates who they do not like, k) my promoting planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject, l) etc.
https://nypost.com/2026/11/09/us-news/trump-says-he-cannot-forgive-his-enemies-even-if-it-means-denial-at-heavens-gates/
FOX NEWS
— Trump says he doesn’t disagree with Vance that Iran war fueled GOP losses. Trump responds to JD Vance’s social media post saying the Iran war was to blame for the devastating losses suffered by Republicans in the midterms.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-says-he-doesnt-disagree-vance-iran-war-fueled-gop-losses
— DD: Democrat leaders blast Stephen Miller.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/stoning-stephen-miller-now-running-trump-white-house
NEWSMAX
— Big Battle for RNC Chair Looms. DD: Anticipate/expect that autopsies of Republican defeats in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, etc. will blame conservatives, that is, they will blame platform Republicans, and especially those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will especially blame the aforesaid who promote the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will call for the Illinois Republican Party a) to officially strike the aforesaid planks from its platform, b) to officially banish conservatives, that is, platform Republicans from the party once and for all, c) to officially require all Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and major donors to be moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and d) to officially change the party’s name to the “Democrat Lite Party.”
https://www.newsmax.com/john-gizzi/gruterscrosbierncmckissickwhitehouse/2026/11/08/id/1275536/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: RNC members who spoke to Newsmax on background said that, despite the party’s across-the-board defeats, Gruters has yet to signal whether he will order an “autopsy” examining why the GOP did so poorly and what to do about it. “He knows that an autopsy showing that money was spent poorly or even withheld from some races is the responsibility of some highly paid consultants — some of whom are close to the White House,” said one state chair who requested anonymity.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump says ‘hatred’ between Zelensky, Putin is main obstacle to ending war. DD: America should always a) side with countries that are invaded and b) side against countries that invade.
https://thehill.com/homenews/6207193-trump-blames-zelensky-putin-hatred/
CNN
— Trump team interprets midterms debacle as a cue to go harder, further, faster.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/09/politics/trump-midterms-hegseth-impeachment
— Trump suggests he would rather go to hell than forgive enemies. DD: What do your critics/opponents do? Mine use their operatives and their dupes to destroy those like me who a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify or 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. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/11/08/politics/video/trump-60-minutes-forgive-enemies-comey-pelosi-vrtc
ABC NEWS
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat elected officials will ever-increasingly transfer income, assets, opportunities, and everything else from Republicans to Democrats.
https://abc7ny.com/story/democrats-take-house-heres-what-plan-investigate-legislative-agenda/20014347/
CBS NEWS
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat elected officials will ever-increasingly transfer income, assets, opportunities, and everything else from Republicans to Democrats.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-house-members-top-priorities/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVqm_4Dyqc
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Texas Led on Hard-Line Immigration Policies. Democrats Plan a Reversal. A Democratic sweep in the state signals fresh momentum to curb aggressive ICE tactics across a shifting national landscape on immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/08/us/texas-border-immigration-ice.html
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat elected officials will ever-increasingly transfer income, assets, opportunities, and everything else from Republicans to Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/11/04/us/midterm-election-results-democrats
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/opinion/trump-era-blue-wave-democrats-midterms.html
WASHINGTON POST
— ‘60 Minutes’ takeaways: Trump calls deportation policy ‘too tough.’ The president was both reflective and defensive during his first TV network interview since the midterm losses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/11/08/60-minutes-takeaways-trump-calls-deportation-policy-too-tough/
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat elected officials will ever-increasingly transfer income, assets, opportunities, and everything else from Republicans to Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/11/08/trump-shares-cartoon-ufc-fighters-beating-reporters-after-offering-dana-white-press-job/
NEW YORK SUN
— Conservative Republican Bloc Seeks Midterm Autopsy Before Tuesday’s Senate Leadership Election. Senator John Thune is expected to keep his spot as the No. 1 Republican despite a midterm election rout that has some GOP lawmakers arguing the party needs a reset. DD: Anticipate/expect that autopsies of Republican defeats in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, etc. will blame conservatives, that is, they will blame platform Republicans, and especially those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will especially blame the aforesaid who promote the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will call for the Illinois Republican Party a) to officially strike the aforesaid planks from its platform, b) to officially banish conservatives, that is, platform Republicans from the party once and for all, c) to officially require all Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and major donors to be moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and d) to officially change the party’s name to the “Democrat Lite Party.”
https://www.nysun.com/article/conservative-republican-bloc-seeks-midterm-autopsy-before-tuesdays-senate-leadership-election
WASHINGTON SUN
— Progressives Revive Vietnam-Era Strategy to Defund Iran War.
https://www.washingtonsun.com/congress/progressives-revive-vietnam-era-strategy-defund-iran-war
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats’ Election Victory Isn’t a Mandate. It is a rebuke of President Trump rather than a wholesale acceptance of progressive policies.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/democrats-election-victory-isnt-a-mandate-37f5b32a
— FRONT PAGE: Gen Z ditches entry-level jobs to launch startups instead. DD: GAO audits IRS. For me to transfer to GAO from IRS when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors 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 justify that, they ignored/dismissed/belittled a) my having worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year, b) my having passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, d) my having almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul, and e) that much of what I did for IRS was very similar to what I would do for GAO. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/20-somethings-are-ditching-entry-level-jobs-to-become-their-own-bosses-168d1f48
HUFFINGTON POST
— Trump’s Vietnam War Brag Backfires On So Many Levels. The president’s deferment history and apparent mistakes during a midterm speech mitigated his outrageous boast. DD: Since I was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have used my avoiding the Vietnam War draft against me big time. I should write about that. I would focus on my Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-i-wouldve-won-vietnam-war-week_n_6ae86038e4b0b1f508d54c18
DISPATCH
— Traditional Republicans Feel Unwelcome in Trump’s GOP. DD: I have always been a conservative Republican and I will always be one. Sadly, because of that and because of ever-increasing Democrat, RINO, and Democrat plant invasion, I am ever-increasingly unwelcome, isolated, ostracized, and persona non grata in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West District, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, my precinct, and my neighborhood. I should write about all the times that Democrats, RINOs, and Democrat plants have attacked me since 2000.
https://thedispatch.com/article/traditional-republicans-feel-unwelcome-in-trumps-gop/
BEAST
— Trump Throws Vance Under the Bus Twice in One Night. DD: I should write about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I have done the most to help elect, but who have thrown me under the bus the most. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me including a) ending my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024, b) ending my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymandering my precinct in 2015, d) ending my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) ending my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, f) almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, g) ending my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, h) defeating my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position by a vote of 69 to 13 in 2004, and i) getting a registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-throws-jd-vance-under-the-bus-twice-in-one-night
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIST
— The fight over Republicans’ future has begun. DD: Anticipate/expect that autopsies of Republican defeats in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, etc. will blame conservatives, that is, they will blame platform Republicans, and especially those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will especially blame the aforesaid who promote the following planks in the Republican Party platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). Anticipate/expect that the autopsies will call for the Illinois Republican Party a) to officially strike the aforesaid planks from its platform, b) to officially banish conservatives, that is, platform Republicans from the party once and for all, c) to officially require all Republican candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and major donors to be moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and d) to officially change the party’s name to the “Democrat Lite Party.”
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/11/08/the-fight-over-republicans-future-has-begun
GUARDIAN
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat elected officials will ever-increasingly transfer income, assets, opportunities, and everything else from Republicans to Democrats.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/08/democrats-congress-trump-midterms