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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump set to make appearance at Presidents Cup in suburban Medinah.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/president-donald-trump-set-to-make-appearance-at-presidents-cup-in-suburban-medinah/3994259/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Members of the Illinois Republican Party plan to show their support for the president on Irving Park Road. DuPage County Republicans described the president’s visit as historic. The group in a Facebook post said: “We have a historic week ahead! The President of the United States will be in DuPage this week. We look forward to having the leader of the free world in DuPage County! DuPage County welcomes you President Trump.”)
— New proposal aims to crackdown on influencers paid to support political campaigns. DD: My critics/opponents demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a bad political influencer. According to them, I am far too conservative. But they know that I am not paid for what I do. All the money I spend to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together, to send them out, and to post copies of them at www.gopillinois.com comes from my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement saving. My critics/opponent have lots of money. They use their operatives and their dupes to destroy me. I should write about my critics/opponents, their operatives, and their dupes.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-proposal-aims-to-crackdown-on-influencers-paid-to-support-political-campaigns/3994044/
(FROM GOOGLE AI: A political influencer is a content creator, commentator, or public figure who uses social media and digital platforms to shape public opinion, advocate for policies, and support political candidates. Millions of people now get their daily news and civic updates from independent digital creators rather than traditional media. Modern political campaigns routinely credential creators alongside traditional journalists at major events like national conventions. Lawmakers in various states are introducing or expanding regulations to require paid social media influencers to clearly disclose financial backing and sponsorships from political campaigns or advocacy groups. States like California enforce strict financial disclosure requirements and fine non-compliant paid digital posts to prevent hidden election interference.

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly make it clear that flooding America with their illegals is one of their top priorities. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that the more illegals that there are, the lower that inflation will be.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/27/operation-midway-blitz-challenges-remain/
— Trump administration uses rare authority to claw back nearly $1B in spending approved by Congress.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/25/congress-spending/
— The competitiveness in parenting to give kids a leg up has reached a new level. 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. During my junior and senior years in high school 1964-1966, instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes to buy a new car to commute to/from UIC and my parents’ home in Crete. Nevertheless, I got accepted by UIC in 1966. Because of that dishwashing job, because neither of my patents attended college, because my father was only the first of ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and because my mother never attended high school, virtually no one saw me as being college material. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses, I earned an ACT score of 24, and I graduated in the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/26/opinion-parents-children-college-competition/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: American parents are working harder than ever to give their children a leg up. Economists Garey Ramey and Valerie Ramey documented that college-educated mothers increased their childcare time by more than nine hours per week starting in the mid-1990s. They attributed this “rug rat race” to intensifying competition for college admissions. The competition isn’t only about time investment, and much of what parents do to give their child an advantage is hard to fault. Families routinely move from cities and their challenged public school systems to suburban neighborhoods with public schools that send large shares of graduates to elite colleges. Once a child is installed at that suburban school, the parent might add private tutoring, an SAT coach and a call to a business contact to secure the child’s summer internship. Each decision, in isolation, seems like good parenting. And after all, it seems like everyone else is doing it. But in the aggregate, these advantages compound, and the opportunity gaps between the advantaged and the disadvantaged widen.)

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Obama Presidential Center’s price tag: almost $1 billion.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/architecture-design/2026/09/26/obama-presidential-center-price-tag-1-billion

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Under the Democrats, soon, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260926/syndicated-columnists/neighbors-in-need-campaign-again-underway-to-fight-hunger-homelessness-health-care-issues/

WGN9
— Dabrowski re-emerges ahead of November election.
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/wgn-the-point-politics-chicago-illinois/former-gop-candidate-for-governor-re-emerges-ahead-of-november-election/

WBEZ
— Chicago teens want more jobs in their neighborhoods. DD: While I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, I could not find a job in Crete. My high school friend was a part-time stockboy at the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 5 miles north. I took his suggestion and applied for and got hired as a part-time dishwasher there. In 1964, I bought a 1958 Chevrolet BelAir with money I had earned delivering newspapers and doing yard work.  We carpooled. His father had bought him 1960 Plymouth.
https://www.wbez.org/moment-of-youth/2026/09/25/downtown-day-teen-survey-results

FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrats will ever-increasingly disrupt every event that Trump attends.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-is-attending-a-big-college-football-game-and-coaches-are-worried-about-disruptions/article_a1221b0e-b484-5f3d-b33d-1e36d0a4bf0a.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/as-early-voting-begins-officials-seek-to-reassure-public-about-election-security-integrity/

CAPITOL CITY NOW
— Best colleges in Illinois. DD: UIC is #4. To get accepted by UIC in 1966, I took college preparatory courses at Crete-Monee High School, got an ACT score of 24, and graduated in the upper 20% of my class. IIT Is #5. To get accepted by IIT in 1992, I earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970, earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, became a licensed CPA in 1981, and became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990.
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-best-colleges-in-illinois/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Vallas: Nikole Hannah-Jones’s Learned Nothing From Risking Her Daughters Future. 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://johnkassnews.com/nikole-hannah-joness-learned-nothing-from-risking-her-daughters-future/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How strongly are the Republican candidates on the ballot in your precinct stressing that to vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism? How strongly are they stressing the negatives of socialism and the positives of capitalism? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.
— What is your Republican Precinct Committeeman doing to get out the Republican vote? Yesterday, I finished hand-delivering DuPage County GOP-provided envelopes to the 370 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. Those 370 envelopes had 660 DuPage County Election Division-provided mailing labels and contained: a) the outstanding Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO)-provided Voter Guide, b) the sample ballot, and c) campaign pieces from the 14 of the 18 Republican candidates on that ballot who provided MTRO with their campaign pieces. I stuffed 5,920 pieces in those 370 envelopes — 5,180 campaign pieces (14X370), 370 Voter Guides, and 370 sample ballots.  I had to fold the Voter Guides, sample ballots, and two of the campaign pieces. I used my photocopier to make 370 copies of the 2-sided sample ballot and 170 color copies of the Voter Guide. MTRO provided 200 of the Voter Guides. I hand-delivered the envelopes in 5 batches. There are about 550 residences in my precinct. There are tremendous difference in household incomes and housing values in my precinct. About 4 our 5 times when a Republican home is listed for sale, a Democrat buys it. The 18 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What are your top priorities in life? According to Google AI: “Your top priorities in life are the core values, relationships, and activities that deserve your time, energy, and focus. Health: Taking care of your physical fitness, mental well-being, nutrition, and rest. Family and Relationships: Building deep, supportive, and loving connections with loved ones. Career and Purpose: Pursuing meaningful work, professional growth, or personal ambitions. Financial Stability: Managing money wisely to build security and reduce stress. Personal Growth: Learning new skills, exploring hobbies, and engaging in self-care.” My top priorities in life include my wife and my promoting conservative principles. To promote conservative principles I put together and send my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. I promote 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). I discourage the promotion of dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, gambling, pot, and other vices, 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. I stress that if I had not followed conservative principles, I would not have what I have including my marriage of 48 years, my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Two months before the midterm elections, the Republican Party has a problem. No, it’s not its record, which is strong. And no, it’s not the Democrats, who are weaker than the coverage claims, drowning under the dead weight of a deepening socialist wing that is taking over. The problem is that Republicans haven’t yet successfully presented their strategy as the popular alternative to socialism. Voters need to be reminded that the choice is not between President Donald Trump and some abstract “perfect” policy. It’s between Trump’s strong record and the terrifying prospect of a socialist victory. And in that comparison, there’s no contest.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4742019/gop-election-strategy-trump-record-vs-socialism/
— Trump contradicting socialist/communist messaging with Xi Jinping’s visit.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/k47cO_m7Too
— Brazil is exporting socialism to America — and the DSA is eagerly importing it.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4736855/lula-dsa-brazil-socialism-us-elections/
— Democrats think they’re voting for Sweden. DSA is offering Venezuela.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4740528/democratic-socialism-nordic-model-dsa-platform/
— Seattle is a slowly dying city. Several Democrat-run cities across the United States are in the decay process thanks to their left-wing policies. Perhaps none is dying faster than socialist Seattle.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4739810/seattle-slowly-dying-city/?itm_source=parsely-api

NEW YORK POST
— Prostitution busts plunge 60% — but hookers multiply — in NYC’s infamous ‘Market of Sweethearts.’ DD: To get more votes, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/27/us-news/nypd-making-60-less-arrests-at-queens-notorious-market-of-sweethearts-strip/
— US medical schools have gone DEI-crazy — with deadly results.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/26/opinion/us-medical-schools-have-gone-dei-crazy-with-deadly-results/
— Meet Generation ‘I Do … Not’: Young women who refuse to get married — and vow to never change their minds about it. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything they can to promote LGBTQ, that is, to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/lifestyle/meet-generation-i-do-not-young-women-who-refuse-to-get-married-and-vow-to-never-change-their-minds-about-it/

1819
— ‘Our immigration system should serve to make our country better, not worse’: Tuberville touts new legislation eliminating Diversity Visa Lottery.
DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs like I had to because they had wealthy parents. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://1819news.com/news/item/our-immigration-system-should-serve-to-make-our-country-better-not-worse-tuberville-touts-new-legislation-eliminating-diversity-visa-lottery

AMERICAN THINKER
— The bennies flowing to Americans from Trump’s tariffs. Trump seems to have been correct that tariffs would work for the American economy, not against it.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/the-bennies-flowing-to-americans-from-trump-s-tariffs/

BREITBART
— When the Berlin Wall Fell, Who Ran to Which Side? Socialism Is for Morons.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/09/26/kennedy-when-the-berlin-wall-fell-who-ran-to-which-side-socialism-is-for-morons/amp/
— DD: What percent of those in America legally are Hispanic. What percent of those in America illegally are Hispanic? Ever-increasing, the Hispanics tradesmen I encounter do not speak English.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/09/26/tx-agriculture-commissioner-even-people-here-legally-staying-out-of-public-due-to-fear-of-being-arrested/amp/
— ICE Raiding Packing Plants Will Raise Beef Prices. DD: Employers want illegals because employers want cheap labor.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/09/26/tx-agriculture-commissioner-ice-raiding-packing-plants-will-raise-beef-prices/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— Professors worry ‘immigrants’ left out of school choice. 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.thecollegefix.com/professors-worry-immigrants-left-out-of-school-choice-dont-say-if-illegals-included/

FOX NEWS
— America’s socialist elite got rich bashing capitalism.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/economist-calls-out-americas-socialist-elite-says-they-got-rich-bashing-capitalism

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Saving America by Saving the Family.  DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything they can to promote LGBTQ, that is, to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/saving-america-saving-the-family-foundation-the-next-250-years

NEWSMAX
— Duckworth: Trump’s Arch Could Threaten Air Safety.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/tammy-duckworth-air-safety-faa/2026/09/25/id/1270740/
— Republicans Must Explain ‘Socialism’ to Win Midterms.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/morris-socialism-election/2026/09/26/id/1270797/

REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
— A recent survey of journalists in America helped expose a hidden truth of the feminization of journalism: Female reporters now make up over two thirds of journalists under 30 and half of those over 30. Another study put female representation at 72% of all journalists. In researching this subject, I found a survey from 2017 showing women were around two thirds of journalists then. In comparison, in 1970 women made up only around 20% of U.S. reporters. As Journalism has becoming increasingly feminized, in direct correlation we have seen the changes in reporting from the more objective and fact-based to today’s more “woke” reporting. Feminization of the profession may best explain what so many decry and its exposure the motivation to fix the problem. First, men and women are different in ways that drastically effect the framing and reporting of stories. Multiple polls show men are far more likely to be opposed to censorship than women. Men are also far more tolerant of allowing the views of all sides in debates. One poll, for example, showed men were 3.5 times more tolerant than women for allowing speakers with of even opposing viewpoints to exercise free speech  In a recent Pew Poll, men were found to be far more in favor of free speech than women, even when that speech is an opposing view and provocative. Women generally favor consensus and non-offensiveness over hard truth compared with men.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2026/09/26/over-feminization_of_journalism_and_modern_woke_reporting_1208423.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

YAHOO
— DD: Democrat demonstrators rally near Medinah Country Club.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/kick-trump-illinois-demonstrators-rally-114500999.html

ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Islam.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/muslim-americans-push-back-republican-politicians-stoke-anti-136746491

CBS NEWS
— Trump cancels nearly $1 billion in spending approved by Congress, a move some lawmakers called illegal.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-cancels-billion-spending-pocket-rescission/

NEWSWEEK
— DHS Denies Change of ICE Strategy: ‘No One Is off the Table.’
https://www.newsweek.com/dhs-denies-change-of-ice-strategy-no-one-is-off-the-table-12493743

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do everything they can to promote LGBTQ, that is, to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/heritage-foundation-women.html
— Quitting Prosecutor Felt Pressure to File Charges. DD: When I was 49 in 1997, my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors talked and acted like Durbin, Mosely-Braun, and Illinois’ Democrat congressmen pressured them to force me to retire. If I could do it over again, I would have strongly asked Illinois’ Republican congressmen to come to my defense. They were Hyde, Crane, Porter, Weller, Fawell, Hastert, Manzullo, LaHood, and Shimkus.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/us/chicago-federal-prosecutor-resigns-broadview-six.html
— Antiwar Veterans Group Spends Millions to Elect Democrats, Shaping Midterms. The organization, founded in 2006 to back Democratic veterans opposing the Iraq war, is pouring huge sums into this year’s elections amid intense voter antipathy for another conflict in the Middle East. DD: My many Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government were veterans a) who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam war and b) who punished me for that especially because I was a Republican who avoided the war with student deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/us/politics/votevets-midterm-elections.html

DESERET NEWS
— Unsure about marriage? The research should reassure you. While naysayers keep pronouncing its demise, traditional marriage continues to show up in academic research as enormously beneficial. DD: My critics/opponents attribute my wife for my successes in life after we got married when I was in 29 in 1978. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. GAO promoted me in 1986. I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997. I earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. But when we got married, 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. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ 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.deseret.com/opinion/2024/12/15/marriage-has-enormous-benefits/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Married mothers are much better off financially, with a median family income of $108,000 in 2020, twice as much as the $41,000 for childless single women. They head into retirement with over three times as many assets than single peers. And even factoring in controls for variables like children, education, and race, married women’s household incomes are 45% larger than their unmarried peers. All in all, married women are 80% less likely to be poor while single moms are six times more likely. Married men, Wilcox likewise argues, “work harder, smarter, and more successfully” than their single peers. A Harvard study found them much less likely to be fired, and other research finds that married men earn 10% to 20% more than single men with similar backgrounds; even among identical twins, the married twins make 18-26% more than the unmarried. Married thirty-something men’s household income hovers around $95,000 while cohabiting men average $68,000, and singles average $42,000. Even controlling for factors like race, education and age, married men have 40% more household income than unmarried men and are 55% less likely to live in poverty. While impacts of family instability on women are well known, such as a much higher likelihood of poverty and the economic challenges of raising kids alone, single men also end up paying child support and find covering housing costs for two or more family configurations difficult. However, married men with children are three times more likely to attain middle class or higher status, and four times more likely to avoid poverty. They also retire with 10 times more assets than their unmarried peers.)

FORTUNE
— Trump’s new Medicaid rules will kick in, and GOP states are tougher about proving inability to work.
https://fortune.com/2026/09/26/trump-new-medicaid-work-requirements-obba-gop-states-tougher-doctor-documentation/

GEORGETOWN
— The class ceiling among first-generation college graduates. DD: Neither of my patents attended college. My father was only the first of ancestors to earn a high school diploma. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. My mother never attended high school. I should write about my critics/opponents whose parents had the most education.
https://feed.georgetown.edu/access-affordability/measuring-the-class-ceiling-among-first-gen-college-graduates/

GALLUP
— One in Four U.S. Employees Lack Advancement Opportunities. DD: Advancement opportunities exist in the federal government, but only for Democrats who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. Because I am none of the aforesaid, a) my Democrat Post Office superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-4, b) my Democrat IRS superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-12, and c) my Democrat GAO superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-13 even though I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695996/one-four-employees-lack-advancement-opportunities.aspx

AMERICAN BAZAAR
— Nalin Haley, the son of former South Carolina Gov. and 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, has again taken a hardline position on immigration, this time linking illegal and legal immigration to the affordability crisis in the United States. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs like I had to because they had wealthy parents. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/09/26/america-for-americans-nalin-haley-demands-end-to-h-1b-visas-and-legal-immigration-488873/

HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters use Rove against Trump.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/karl-rove-says-he-got-credible-threats-for-voting-democrat_n_6ab82cd6e4b07795582c6a4f