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Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Hate-filled Kirk-hating Kirk-haters decry Chicago Cubs’ Matt Shaw missing a game to attend Charlie Kirk memorial in Arizona
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/chicago-cubs-matt-shaw-charlie-kirk/
— Trump’s DOJ argues against gun ban signed by Pritzker after Highland Park shooting. I argued pro se before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange in 1996. SEE: https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F3/110/481/526770/  In a completely different world, Bush’s DOJ would have argued for me instead of for GAO in Diersen v. GAO  SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/president-donald-trumps-doj-argues-against-gun-ban-signed-by-gov-jb-pritzker-after-highland-park-shooting/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Trump’s Department of Justice weighed in Monday against the ban on high-powered firearms that Illinois and Pritzker passed after the Highland Park Fourth of July mass shooting in 2022 but found itself on the defensive as an appellate court justice grilled an assistant attorney general about whether “facts matter” as she tried to justify the administration’s position. In arguing before the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, said the nation has a “strong interest” in ensuring that the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms is “not relegated to a second-class right” and criticized claims from state officials that certain guns covered by the ban are suited more for military operations than routine self-defense. But Judge Frank Easterbrook interrupted Dhillon early during the five minutes the court allowed her to speak even though the federal government is not a party to the case. Easterbrook noted the legal challenge from state officials resulted from a ruling by a district court in southern Illinois that determined the ban was unconstitutional, while a court in northern Illinois previously ruled a similar ban was legally sound. “Suppose the (southern Illinois) district court had found every contested issue of fact in favor of the state. Would that affect your review of the statute’s constitutionality?” asked Easterbrook, who was appointed to the bench in the 1980s by Republican President Ronald Reagan.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Illinois superintendent salaries often don’t reflect the district’s size, wealth or student performance. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors paid more than me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, d) who had no professional license like I had, and/or e) who were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/illinois-superintendent-salaries/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/database-2024-illinois-school-district-superintendent-salaries/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/22/tribune-photographer-describes-compelling-image-from-ice-broadview-protests/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump’s civil rights boss challenged by appeals court weighing Illinois assault weapons ban. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, the head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, took the unusual step of traveling to Chicago to briefly participate in arguments Monday before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/09/22/donald-trumps-assault-weapons-ban-civil-rights-chief-justice-department-appeals-court-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly protect their criminals and their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/09/23/supreme-courts-race-college-admission-immigration-enforcement-marc-morial
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/09/22/ice-officer-injuries-nothing-major-deadly-franklin-park-shooting-mexican-immigrant-chicago-video
— Antioch school staffer fired, other area education workers face backlash over post on Charlie Kirk’s murder. Antioch’s Grass Lake School District fired a staff member for posting that she had “absolutely no empathy” for Kirk. Community members and conservative groups are rallying to demand the same for educators across the region.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/09/22/public-school-employee-fired-charlie-kirk-social-media-posts

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Kane County Board member David Young clarifies comments about LGBTQ+ people and shootings
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/09/22/kane-county-board-member-clarifies-comments-about-lgbtq-people-and-shootings/

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/why-are-there-so-many-protests-the-us-public-is-21060830.php

KSDK
— Missouri PAC offers $1,000 to start Turning Point USA chapters after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Are there active Turning Point USA chapters in all the all colleges and all the high schools in your county and township? What are the leaders of your Republican county and township organizations doing about that?
https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/politics/missouri-pac-offers-1000-to-start-turning-point-usa-clubs-after-charlie-kirks-assassination/63-fbf26815-4925-4a17-bdcd-c7f693a3e36b

NPR ILLINOIS
— Unease grows at Trump’s DOJ as Trump’s threats get even more blunt.  In a completely different world, Bush’s DOJ would have argued for me instead of for GAO in Diersen v. GAO  SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-09-22/unease-grows-at-the-justice-department-as-trumps-threats-get-even-more-blunt

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more protests.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/22/broadview-ice-protesters-now-plan-to-rally-daily-with-goal-of-shutting-down-facility/

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Chris Lauzen Announces Re-Election Campaign for Kane County Treasurer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/09/23/chris-lauzen-running-for-re-election-as-kane-county-treasurer/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois spending swells 43% under Pritzker
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d5bc09e2-ab3d-48c6-9f7d-3ef6ce6bc0f0.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Far too many become political activists to promote their own personal interests. Far too many become leaders in Republican organizations to kill planks in the Republican Party platform that they reject. It all comes out in the wash. As time goes on, it is more and more and more obvious which planks in the Republican Party platform that my critics/opponents who led/lead the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) reject. Most commonly, they reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. As time goes on, because I promote the aforesaid planks, it becomes more and more and more obvious that my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes a) remove me from the IRP State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) end my MTRO webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004. My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or 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 wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents who are still in the mix, who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me, and the planks that they reject and why. Equal opportunity is the plank that they most commonly reject. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Intelligence chiefs warn of Chinese threats in space; modernization pace alarming. Beijing advancements a hot topic at Air, Space & Cyber conference. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with China against America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/22/intelligence-chiefs-highlight-china-threat-space/
— Lawmakers want to label Russia a terrorist state over the mass kidnappings of Ukrainian children. Advocates accuse Moscow of ‘crime against humanity.’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/sep/22/lawmakers-want-label-russia-terrorist-state-mass-kidnappings/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— TPUSA uses Charlie Kirk memorial to register voters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDR7Lgx6g1o

NEW YORK POST
— Charlie Kirk is our first pro-trans assassination victim — here’s why he won’t be the last
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/opinion/charlie-kirk-wont-be-our-last-victim-of-pro-trans-assassination/
— Charlie Kirk memorial drew at least 20 million cable TV and online viewers
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/media/charlie-kirk-memorial-was-watched-by-at-least-20-million-people/
— Meet Brilyn Hollyhand: Teen conservative hailed as Charlie Kirk’s protege promises to be ‘bolder’ as he tours campuses. If I had been active in Republican politics, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/22/us-news/meet-brilyn-hollyhand-the-teen-conservative-hailed-as-charlie-kirks-protege/

BLAZE
— How corporate America helped fuel the hate that killed Charlie Kirk
https://www.theblaze.com/align/how-corporate-america-helped-fuel-the-hate-that-killed-charlie-kirk

CAMPUS REFORM
— Turning Point reporter Cam Higby harassed by trans activist over Kirk assassination debate
https://www.campusreform.org/article/turning-point-reporter-cam-higby-harassed-trans-activist-kirk-assassination-debate/28658

CENTER SQUARE
— ICE puts California, Illinois, New York on notice for refusing to cooperate
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_d2e320eb-cc86-4783-81d0-eadbcd9bdc5f.html

DAILY CALLER
— Left-Wing Violence Is Only Getting Worse Since Charlie Kirk’s Killing
https://dailycaller.com/2025/09/22/left-wing-violence-charlie-kirk-killing-palestine-jimmy-kimmel/

FOX NEWS
— Turning Point USA draws 2,000 at first tour event since Kirk’s assassination. Michael Knowles hosts Turning Point USA event at University of Minnesota following Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/turning-point-usa-draws-2000-first-tour-event-since-kirks-assassination
— Over 277,000 people attended Charlie Kirk’s memorial. Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379962576112
— Trump officials slam Pritzker for ignoring chaotic anti-ICE ‘rioters’ disrupting operation. ‘These rioters in Illinois are fighting to keep rapists, murderers, and other violent criminals loose on Illinois streets,’ said a DHS spokesperson.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-officials-slam-blue-state-governor-ignoring-chaotic-anti-ice-rioters-disrupting-operation
— Erika Kirk is ‘living proof’ that Charlie Kirk chose very well in his life
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379966293112
— Voters explain why they left the Democratic Party after Kirk assassination
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379960806112
— While Americans mourned Charlie Kirk, CNN chose hate
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379959619112
— My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or 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 wrongdoing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379958309112
— Charlie Kirk brought everyone together, even President Trump and Elon Musk
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379952383112
— Charlie Kirk changed the debate forever
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6379950176112
— Mourners reflect on Charlie Kirk’s legacy: ‘He went into the literal lion’s den on a regular basis’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mourners-reflect-charlie-kirks-legacy-he-went-literal-lions-den-regular-basis

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— The responses to Charlie Kirk’s murder were sadly predictable and anemic. Democrats, RINOs, and other anti-conservatives boycott Kirk events.
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/responses-charlie-kirks-murder-were-sadly-predictable-and-anemic

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Charlie Kirk’s murder could become another Fort Sumter. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly recruit those who are the following to be soldiers in their army: liberals, moderates, citizens of foreign countries, minorities, females, younger people, those who have less money than others, LGBTQers, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time. If/when Democrats start shooting Republicans, Democrats are going to lose. Republicans own a tremendous amount of firearms and ammunition.
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5514449-kirk-murder-political-war/

MSN
— What Charlie Kirk leaves behind: 12 million dollars and a vast media empire
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/money/other/what-charlie-kirk-leaves-behind-12-million-dollars-and-a-vast-media-empire/ss-AA1N7e7V?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Anticipate/expect that the Democrat mainstream news media and Democrat educators will ever-increasingly use the Kirk assassination to destroy Kirk and to destroy conservatives.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/firing-educators-kirk-free-speech.html?searchResultPosition=1
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/charlie-kirk-shooting-news-coverage.html
— The NYT exists to promote more hatred not only against Trump but against Christians and especially Protestants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/opinion/charlie-kirk-memorial-christianity.html
— Hate-filled conservative/Republican hating conservative/Republican haters decry “Kirk’s Spiritual Journey That Fused Christianity and Politics.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/us/charlie-kirk-christian-faith-politics.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Charlie Kirk was 18 in the summer of 2012 when he walked into a Starbucks in the suburbs of Chicago and plopped his backpack on the floor. He had recently graduated from high school and was sorting out his future after being rejected from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He had come to meet a local Illinois group, Patriots United, focused on issues like lower taxes and choice in school education during the Tea Party era. Maida Korte, 71, a leader of the group, recalled that the conversation turned to their shared foundational Christian values, as it often did with him. “He never thought of it as, ‘I’m going to go into the spiritual arena and talk about political things,’” she said. “He was, ‘I want to talk about spiritual things, and in order to do that, I have to enter the political arena.’”)
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opinion/democrats-immigration-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE: Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws. My critics/opponents have always used against me my buying a new town home in University Park when I was 24 in 1972. They have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the town home I bought was earmarked for Blacks.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/realestate/trump-fair-housing-laws.html
— The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? The College Educated. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they rendered worthless a) my three job-related master’s degrees, b) my six job-related professional certifications, and c) my professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/business/long-term-unemployment-college-grads.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Kirk’s memorial was an emblem of the Trump era — and a sign of what’s ahead. The event showed how the line that used to separate religion and politics may no longer exist, particularly on the right. I should write about my critics/opponents who are anti-Protestant if not Protestant-haters. I would focus on those who hate Missouri Synod Lutherans (MSL). My parents had me baptized as a MSL in 1948, raised me as a MSL, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. All my ancestors were MSLs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/22/kirk-trump-politics-divide-memorial/
— Washington DC is a young city, where much of the work of running the federal government is done by recent college graduates scarcely old enough to rent a car. And this city’s young conservatives, Gen Zers who can hardly remember a Republican Party before President Donald Trump, came of age with Charlie Kirk. In the aftermath of the conservative star’s death at 31, they’re preparing themselves to fight Kirk’s battles for years to come. One could compare and contrast today’s Washington DC with Chicago.  Chicago has always been run by Republican-haters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2025/09/23/charlie-kirk-fans-working-in-trump-government/
— Democrat leaders do everything that they can to make Black Christians hate Kirk.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/09/22/charlie-kirk-black-christians/

USA TODAY
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use Kirk’s assassination to get rid of conservatives once and for all.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/09/21/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-free-speech-first-amendment/86240872007/
— Performance Improvement Plans. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors assigned me to supervise all their problematic employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/09/15/pip-meaning-signs/86116815007/

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
— Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point tour rolls on with UC Berkeley stop after assassination. Needless-to-say, security costs for all future Kirk events will be much higher.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/turning-point-usa-charlie-kirk-uc-berkeley-21062190.php

MIAMI NEW TIMES
— Black People Are Taught to Hate White People
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/broward-teacher-black-people-are-taught-to-hate-white-people-40490418/

NEWSBREAK
— The Evangelical Christian faith on display at Kirk’s memorial shaped his politics. My critics/opponents are extremely divisive, They negatively stress to Evangelicals that I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.
https://www.newsbreak.com/weku-1588671/4248460177008-the-evangelical-christian-faith-on-display-at-kirk-s-memorial-shaped-his-politics

DAILY NEWS ONLINE
— Free speech is expensive; Charlie Kirk paid with his life. My fighting political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination has cost me millions of dollars.
https://www.thedailynewsonline.com/opinion/point-free-speech-is-expensive-charlie-kirk-paid-with-his-life/article_648e14dd-7df6-41b6-95e7-d821ecc6218c.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— A Kind Word for Kirk Is Too Much for AOC. Nearly 100 Democrats balk at a resolution in his honor. Classy.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/a-kind-word-for-kirk-is-too-much-for-aoc-6ffc8ef8
— How to Check What Your Teen Boy Is Doing Online. The killing of Charlie Kirk is a stark reminder that the kids aren’t alright, and young men in particular need our attention.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/boys-social-isolation-warning-signs-6233628b?mod=Searchresults&pos=1&page=1

FORTUNE
— Charlie Kirk’s memorial was one of the most heavily fortified events of its kind. The more that you do to defend and advance conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders will do to destroy you. I defend and advance conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform. I should write about those Democrat and RINO leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton who have done the most to destroy me since 2000.
https://fortune.com/2025/09/23/charlie-kirk-memorial-trump-super-bowl-security-sear-bulletproof-glass-2025-fireworks/
— Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly prefer citizens of foreign countries over citizens of America.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/trump-s-plan-to-charge-100-000-for-new-h-1b-visas-is-met-with-dismay-by-ceos-who-want-the-world-s-top-talent/ar-AA1N3eAi

BLACK PRESS USA
— Most of the Congressional Black Caucus Votes Against Honoring Charlie Kirk
https://blackpressusa.com/most-of-the-congressional-black-caucus-votes-against-honoring-charlie-kirk/

MOTHER JONES
— Democrat leaders hate America and hate Christians.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/charlie-kirks-memorial-was-christian-nationalisms-biggest-moment/

LGBTQ NATION
— LGBTQers ever-increasingly make it clear that they hate America and that they hate Christians.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/charlie-kirks-memorial-proves-the-gop-is-all-in-on-christian-nationalism/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

DAILY MAIL
— BBC’s North America editor sparks fury after calling Charlie Kirk ‘far-right’ during funeral coverage. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that Democrats and RINOs call you “far right.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15123119/BBCs-North-America-editor-sparks-fury-calling-Charlie-Kirk-far-right-funeral-coverage.html

HERALD & JANACICA GLEANER & STANDARD
— Hate-filled White-hating White-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Kirk.
https://www.theherald.co.za/opinion/2025-09-23-death-of-white-supremacist-charlie-kirk-does-not-call-for-celebration-nor-mourning/
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20250923/michael-abrahams-charlie-kirk-life-devoid-empathy
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/amp/opinion/article/2001530104/kirk-was-against-minorities-but-he-didnt-have-to-die

FROM OTHER SOURCES

HAMILTON COLLECTION
— I was there for the Apollo rollout Saturday, September 20
https://www.facebook.com/TheHamiltonCollection