August 21, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— CA Legislature approves special election on new congressional map favoring Democrats. California lawmakers passed a legislative package Thursday advancing a partisan redistricting plan aimed at winning Democrats five more U.S. House seats in the 2026 elections. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://abc7chicago.com/post/california-democrats-prepare-pass-redistricting-plan-texas-house-approves-new-maps/17605698/
— Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-is-reviewing-55-million-foreigners-us-visas-any-violations/17608307/
— School district meeting gets heated over debate on transgender Conant High School volleyball player
https://abc7chicago.com/post/school-district-211-meeting-gets-heated-debate-transgender-conant-high-volleyball-player/17608275/

NBC5
— Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/california-congressional-maps/3813201/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/21/what-could-marijuana-drug-reclassification-mean-for-chicago-cannabis-companies

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Newsom signs legislation calling for special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/california-congressional-map-special-election/
— New Illinois law gives media better ability to curb retaliatory lawsuits. I should write about retaliatory acts taken against me since 2000 because I included links in GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to articles that my critics/opponents do not like.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/21/new-illinois-law-gives-media-better-ability-to-curb-retaliatory-lawsuits/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/21/trumps-black-mayors-washington-chicago-johnson-bowser-bass-marc-morial
— Durbin questions Attorney General Pam Bondi about ‘politicized’ firings of immigration judges. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. If I had been any of the aforesaid, I would not have had any basis a) to complain about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination or b) to become an active member in a class action lawsuit in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/21/sen-dick-durbin-attorney-general-pam-bondi-politicized-firings-immigration-judges
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/08/21/channyn-lynn-parker-lgbtq-gay-advocacy-equality-illinois-brave-space-alliance-chicago

DAILY HERALD
— Appeals court tosses $500 million fine in N.Y. case against Trump, upholds fraud finding
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250821/nation-and-world-politics/appeals-court-tosses-500-million-fine-in-n-y-case-against-trump-upholds-fraud-finding/

CRAINS’CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/nonprofits-philanthropy/equality-illinois-names-channyn-parker-new-ceo

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Federal Reserve official says she won’t be ‘bullied’ by Trump into resigning. My Democrat GAO superiors did far than bully me to force me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997 when I was 49 years old. They made it very clear that if I did not take their “offer,” they would demote me, assign me to work for my former subordinates, give me adverse job transfers, give me bad job assignments, give me unfair performance expectations, give me unfair performance appraisals, and even worse things. If had not succumbed to their threats, I would not have been eligible for regular retirement until I was 55 years old in 2003. If GAO had been unionized, I would have sought its protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. I should write about the aforesaid.  By forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors flushed down their toilets what I had learned a) working for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, b) working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year, c) passing the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, d) becoming a licensed CPA, and e) earning master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. So far, by forcing me to retire, my Democrat GAO superiors have forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to stop me from coming to work.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-calls-on-federal-reserve-official-to-resign-after-official-accuses-her-of-mortgage-fraud/article_ab0c1b7b-36e6-5dc9-82d2-8428c6b3686e.html

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/attorney-general-raoul-petitions-fda-to-remove-burdensome-restrictions-on-mifepristone-85520.cfm

WAND TV
— Newsom signs legislation calling special election on redrawn congressional map. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/california-gov-newsom-signs-legislation-calling-special-election-on-redrawn-congressional-map/article_f5f16b1a-83dc-5d6d-9214-4858e03f4580.html

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Pritzker signed Senate Bill 1181 into law, clarifying that the protections in the Citizen Participation Act apply to the freedom of the press to opine, report, or investigate matters of public concern. My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading those newsletters. Failing that, they have their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me.
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/illinois-journalists-gain-new-legal-shield-under-amended-citizen-participation-act

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more crime.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-20/do-trumps-d-c-moves-echo-an-authoritarian-playbook

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/21/pritzker-signs-law-guaranteeing-public-education-for-illinois-students-regardless-of-immigration-status/

ILLINOIZE
— Darren Bailey “Seriously Considering” Entering Governor’s Race
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/darren-bailey-seriously-considering-gov

CAPITOLFAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-367/
— Democrat leaders promote rule-breaking in schools.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/it%e2%80%99s-now-a-law-5/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker: Fair maps in Illinois would be ‘disarming’ to Democrats
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4d8c1bbe-9a3a-4849-b950-8067c9874e1c.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illegal immigrant population reached 14 million under Biden in 2023. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3760400/illegal-immigrant-population-reached-14-million-under-biden-in-2023/

NEW YORK POST
— ICE director vows to ‘flood’ Boston with immigration agents after Mayor Michelle Wu refused to end city’s sanctuary laws
https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/us-news/ice-director-vows-to-flood-boston-with-immigration-agents-after-mayor-michelle-wu-refused-to-end-citys-sanctuary-laws/
— The media is all aflutter over socialism — but America isn’t convinced
https://nypost.com/2025/08/21/opinion/media-is-giddy-over-socialism-but-america-isnt-convinced/

AMAC
— Time to Fire Woke Generals and Restore Apolitical Military Leadership
https://amac.us/newsline/national-security/time-to-fire-woke-generals-and-restore-apolitical-military-leadership/

BREITBART
— Major Hollywood Democrats to Hold Fundraiser for Republican Senator Susan Collins
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/08/21/susan-collins-will-go-hollywood-at-major-fundraiser-with-democrats/
— Trump on Track to Deport 400,000 Illegals in 2025. An estimated 14 million are in America illegally. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/21/new-york-times-trump-on-track-to-deport-400000-illegals-in-2025/

FOX NEWS
— Vance, Hegseth ‘unfazed’ by protesters during trip to thank DC National Guard troops
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377157637112
— Trump’s civil fraud penalty was obviously excessive.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377197144112

FOX NEWS RADIO
— Stop Giving Driver’s Licenses to ILLEGALS
https://radio.foxnews.com/2025/08/20/stop-giving-drivers-licenses-to-illegals/

NEW AMERICAN
— Illinois Mandates “Mental Health” Testing of ALL Children. Children’s minds are now officially in the crosshairs of one of the most out-of-control state governments in America. Under a controversial new measure just signed into law by far-left Governor J.B. Pritzker, government schools in Illinois will begin mandatory “mental health” testing of all students each year, starting in 3rd grade. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/education/illinois-mandates-mental-health-testing-of-all-children/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Illegal immigration hit record in 2023. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5463595-surge-unauthorized-immigrants-biden-era/

REUTERS
— DOJ blocks use of justice grants for legal aid to migrants in US illegally
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/doj-blocks-use-justice-grants-legal-aid-migrants-us-illegally-email-shows-2025-08-21/
— Canada sees rise in US refugee claims, highest since 2019. Trans Americans increasingly seek asylum in Canada. US policies on trans rights cited as asylum motivation. How successful have Democrat leaders been forcing LGBTQ on everyone in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/more-americans-applying-refugee-status-canada-data-shows-2025-08-21/

UPI
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/21/pew-unauthorized-immigration-14-million-2023/6221755788008/

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-immigrant-population-decline-undocumented-peak-data-maps-2116385

ABC NEWS
— Will Pritzker do more cracking and packing and stop Republicans from being elected in all of Illinois’ 17 congressional districts?
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/redistricting-arms-race-states-addition-texas-california-parties/story?id=124855541

NBC NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigrant-population-shrinking-trump-administration-rcna225881

CBS NEWS
— Newsom signs California redistricting plan that could tilt 5 House seats toward Democrats. How soon will Pritzker do the same thing for Illinois?
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-redistricting-gavin-newsom-vote/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/undocumented-immigrants-left-us-2025-data-estimate/
— Trump hands out burgers and pizza to federal law enforcement amid D.C. police surge
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-patrol-dc-police-national-guard/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders decry Trump success in stopping illegal immigration. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/us/immigration-decline-united-states-trump.html

WTHI TV
— Lawmakers speak out against illegal immigrants receiving drivers licenses
https://www.wthitv.com/news/lawmakers-speak-out-against-illegal-immigrants-receiving-drivers-licenses/article_5b816e3c-7ea9-472a-adf4-1c1901c04987.html

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders destroyed organizations like Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans that refused to discriminate against those like me who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I was an ICRC officer and a TAPROOT chairman, I was under tremendous pressure to give preference to those who are not the aforesaid. To give preference to one group is to discriminate against another group.
https://news.bgov.com/litigation/anti-dei-group-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-demographic-data-law

FORBES
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2025/08/21/texas-is-catching-up-to-california-in-number-of-unauthorized-immigrants-pew-data-shows/

POLITICO
— Supreme Court lets Trump admin cut off health grants it says advance DEI or ‘gender ideology extremism’
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/21/supreme-court-nih-funding-grants-00518782

PEW RESEARCH
— U.S. Unauthorized Immigrant Population Reached a Record 14 Million in 2023. Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded Americans with their illegals; Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because they want cheap labor. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2025/08/21/u-s-unauthorized-immigrant-population-reached-a-record-14-million-in-2023/
— What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.  Democrat and RINO leaders have flooded Americans with their illegals; Democrat leaders because illegals vote for Democrats and RINO leaders because they want cheap labor. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/08/21/key-findings-about-us-immigrants/

PBS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/illegal-immigration-hit-record-of-14-million-in-2023-pew-report-finds

AXIOS
— Democrat and RINO leaders crow about their success in flooding America with their illegals. If there had been as many illegals when I was young as there are now, they would have gotten the jobs that I got, and if not that, my wages would have been lower.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/21/california-texas-states-unauthorized-immigrant-pew

ONLINE NEWS ASSOCIATION
— Do not anticipate/expect that any of the speakers or sponsors at ONA’s upcoming annual conference will be conservative or Republican.
https://ona25.journalists.org/about/

August 21, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas House approves redrawn congressional maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections. Will this prompt Pritzker to redraw Illinois congressional maps so that absolutely no Republican candidates can win in Illinois? How badly has Pritzker gerrymandered your congressional district?  I should write about Pritzker’s 3rd Congressional District that I live in. Pritzker is an expert at cracking and packing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/texas-house-approves-redrawn-maps/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/20/cash-assistance-gender-domestic-violence-net-ameya-pawar-amanda-pyron

DAILY HERALD
— Marter slams mail-in voting as ‘a scam.’ Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250820/us-congress-politics/gop-house-hopeful-marter-slams-mail-in-voting-as-a-scam/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge tosses Trump-era challenge to Illinois E-Verify law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/illinois-wins-fight-over-trump-e-verify-challenge

ABC7
— Pritzker says he supports independently drawn legislative maps if done on national basis
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-says-he-supports-independently-drawn-legislative-maps-done-national-basis/17598750/
— Newly installed U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois encourages former federal prosecutors to apply. For course, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they never encouraged me to apply.  For them, GAO exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-legal-community-buzzing-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-recruiting-mail/17600171/

NBC5
— New college program allows Illinois students to apply with only a GPA. One reason why UIC admitted me in 1966 was that my ACT score of 24.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/new-college-program-allows-illinois-students-to-apply-with-only-a-gpa/3812390/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/illinois-snap-education-program-end-amid-federal-funding-cuts-how-could-impact-local
— CTU President Rejects Pritzker’s Assertion No More Money to Be Found in Springfield for Schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not spend anything to give my brother and I grade school educations because my parents sent us to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools in Crete and Park Forest. For me, 1953-1962, and for my brother, 1958-1968.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/ctu-president-rejects-pritzker-s-assertion-no-more-money-be-found-springfield-schools

SAUK VALLEY
— State Rep. Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, has withdrawn his Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce membership after the organization published a DEI statement on its website and removed the word “God” from a prayer at a recent scholarship fundraiser that it hosted.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/08/21/state-rep-nixes-sauk-valley-chamber-membership-over-prayer-wording-at-fundraiser-dei-statement-on-its-website/

HERALD NEWS
— Will County Board member accused of illegally accessing fellow board member’s emails
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/08/20/will-county-board-member-accused-of-illegally-accessing-fellow-board-members-emails/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders have their protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank National Guard troops in DC.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/20/protesters-heckle-vance-hegseth-miller-as-they-get-photo-op-with-dc-national-guard/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Mail-in voting ban could affect 1/3 of voters in Tazewell County. Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-voting-machine-restrictions/

WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2025-08-20/2025-hemp-cannabis-symposium-at-siu-to-focus-on-agronomy

ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Your food probably traveled a long way before reaching the grocery store.
https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-your-food-probably-traveled-a-long-way-before-reaching-the-grocery-store-heres-why

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject federal law
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-573/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-366/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CHANGE ILLINOIS
— Long-time redistricting reform advocates raise concerns about the new “fair maps” ballot question.
https://www.changeil.org/2025/08/long-time-redistricting-reform-advocates-raise-concerns-about-the-new-fair-maps-ballot-question/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends mental health mandate, rejects parental consent plan. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fd339b5-6d3a-4ff1-9288-cffd18017e8b.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s right: America should end mail-in voting. It’s a stupid practice rife with fraud potential.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/trumps-right-america-end-mail-voting/
— Blue state tax hikes drive residents out. Democrats double down on taxing the wealthy while red states like Texas and Florida reap the rewards of migration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/blue-state-tax-hikes-drive-residents/
— Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/little-doges-work-likely-survive/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump isn’t trying to ‘erase history’ at Smithsonian — he’s reversing a destructive woke takeover
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-isnt-trying-to-erase-history-at-smithsonian-hes-reversing-a-destructive-woke-takeover/

BREITBART
— State Department employee fired after questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire early because I questioned their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/state-department-employee-fired-after-questioning-talking-points-on-israel-and-gaza/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Court No-Shows Increase as Backlog Falls and Asylum Denials Rise
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Court-NoShows-Increase-Backlog-Falls-and-Asylum-Denials-Rise

FOX NEWS
— It would be wonderful to get Chicago Democrats on board in the migrant crime crackdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377161503112
— Sanctuary cities defy Bondi’s deadline to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-defy-bondis-deadline-cooperate-no-intention-changing
— ICE unveils plans for new detention facilities across the US
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377144130112

NRCC
— Illegals get handouts, cops get demonized, and Americans foot the bill
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/08/20/illegals-get-handouts-cops-get-demonized-and-americans-foot-the-bill-under-harder/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Accused of Betraying Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-accused-betraying-citizens-signing-bill-give-illegals-big-handout/
— Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/target-ceo-steered-struggling-retail-giant-wokeness-step-company-lost-grip/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Democrats go ‘Trump Lite’ in latest plan to save democracy. Not in Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/newsom-obama-trump-texas-california-redistricting-analysis

NBC NEWS
— Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis. The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html
— He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church. In 1961, if the pastor of the Missouri Synod Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete had taken a calling from a Wisconsin Synod church instead of splitting Trinity and switching it to the Wisconsin Synod, my entire post-1961 life would have been dramatically different. In 1961, to stay with the Missouri Synod, when I was in eight grade and my brother was in second grade, my parents transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred my brother and I to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22trinity+lutheran+church%22+crete+1961+missouri+wisconsin+synod
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/church-endorsements-irs-kenosha.html
— Trump demanded on Wednesday that a Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook resign. My Democrat GAO superiors deliberately misled me to believe that they were going to let me work for GAO until I was eligible for regular retirement when I would be 55 in 2003. But in September of 1997, when I was 49 years old, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. I should write about that. Their forcing me to retire early has had a tremendous negative impact on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/20/us/trump-news
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise foreign students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-cartel-mexico-fentanyl.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly infiltrate, invade, infest, and conquer churches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/irs-church-free-speech.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Democrats fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have tried to a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army and b) to paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/20/trump-smithsonian-slavery-historians/

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/18/she-spoke-up-for-trans-rights-at-8-now-her-family-is-leaving-texas/85454513007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting/85725029007/

COURIER & PRESS
— Vanderburgh GOP leaders install supporters ahead of crucial Saturday election. Anti-conservative RINOs succeeded in getting someone to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000, but not since then. I should write about anti-conservative RINOs. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/vanderburgh-gop-leaders-install-supporters-ahead-of-crucial-saturday-election/80497015007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home. It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
— Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/surrogacy-cost-parenting-eb87c3b3

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Administration Loses Bid to Block Illinois E-Verify Law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/trump-administration-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-e-verify-law

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— IRS flouted procedures when terminating employees. My Democrat GAO superiors did far more than just flout regulations when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed my Civil Service protections down their toilets. My critics/opponents stand with my Democrat GAO superiors. My critics/opponents are  anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-flouted-procedures-when-terminating-probationary-employees

FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
— Opposition Research  Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and read my newsletters for opposition research. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-introduction-to-the-dark-arts-of-opposition-research/

PEW RESEARCH
— How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age. According to my liberal and moderate critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a conservative. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a Republican. They stress a) that none of my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license are in journalism, b) that I have never been paid for what I have done as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, c) that I send my newsletters out free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) that my newsletters have included links to more than 520,000 articles since 2004, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that much of what I did for GAO is very similar to what journalists do, d) that my professional certifications are in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about the following who not only treat me like I am not a journalist, but who do everything that the can to stop me from sending out newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid have their operatives and their dupes 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 wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/

August 20, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— 2 ex-Obama administration officials Bill Daley and Ray LaHood launch bipartisan effort to create fairer legislative maps in Illinois
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-redistricting-news-fair-maps-bill-daley-ray-lahood-seek-create-fairer-state-legislative/17589140/

FOX32
— Darren Bailey mulls another run for Illinois governor, matchup with Pritzker
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1693954

WTTW
— As Trump Vows to Eliminate Mail-In Voting, Illinois Elections Officials Say Fraud is ‘Extremely Rare’
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/19/trump-vows-eliminate-mail-voting-illinois-elections-officials-say-fraud-extremely-rare

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Bipartisan group led by ex-Obama officials ‘rolling the dice’ on new remapping plan for Illinois legislature
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/19/illinois-legislative-independent-map-effort-2026/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2025/08/19/immigrants-trump-violent-crime-putin-air-water-show-air-pollution-sensors
— New Illinois law guarantees immigrant students access to public education. The law prohibits public schools from denying access to a free education based on immigration status. It also requires schools to have procedures for law enforcement requests to enter a building. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/19/illinois-law-immigrant-students-access-public-education
— To get more votes from minorities and females, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give them more preference over Whites and males.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/work/2025/08/20/illinois-preapprenticeship-programs-women-minorities-construction

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Election lawyers, Obama alumni Bill Daley and Ray LaHood renew Illinois redistricting reform push
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250819/news/election-lawyers-obama-alumni-renew-illinois-redistricting-reform-push/

WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/08/19/illinois-law-immigrant-students-access-public-education

CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://chicagodefender.com/sick-pathetic-border-agents-appear-at-gavin-newsom-redistricting-rally/

SOUTHERN
— Trump says Smithsonian should portray America’s ‘Brightness,’ not ‘how bad Slavery was.’ America’s greatness put me on track a) to take college preparatory courses in high school 1964-1962, b) to get an ACT score of 24 in 1962, c) to graduate in the upper 20% of my class in 1962, d) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, e) to earn job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, f) to earn job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) to earn a job-related professional license in 1981. That put me on track to be hired by S.S. Kresge in 1964, Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. That put me on track a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., and c) to get married when I was 29.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/19/trump-says-smithsonian-should-portray-americas-brightness-not-how-bad-slavery-was/

SHAW LOCAL
— The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness
https://www.shawlocal.com/news/2025/08/19/underwood-decries-yorkvilles-stance-on-fining-possibly-jailing-homeless-people-during-town-hall-meeting/

SUBURBAN LIFE
— When Ian Dimler, a St. Francis High School student from Glen Ellyn, recently achieved a perfect score on his ACT test. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have stressed that my ACT score was only 24. Instead of studying, I spent far too many hours washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and seniors years at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966.
https://www.shawlocal.com/my-suburban-life/2025/08/19/st-francis-student-gets-perfect-score-on-act-test/

HOMETOWN REGISTER
— Illinois GOP U.S. Senate candidates point to economy, Trump gains
https://www.hometownregister.com/news/state/illinois-gop-u-s-senate-candidates-point-to-economy-trump-gains/article_678e5ae5-37d6-5206-8530-f055673c7106.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump vows to lead effort to end mail-in voting
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-19/trump-vows-to-lead-effort-to-end-mail-in-voting
— Trump expands ‘woke’ criticism from Smithsonian to other museums. Democrats and RINOs use wokeness/wokeism to destroy Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-19/trump-expands-woke-criticism-from-smithsonian-to-other-museums

TRISTATES PUBLIC RADIO
— Illinois legislature passes bill to shed more light on how schools support homeless students. Just under 3 percent of Illinois students were considered homeless last year. That’s still more than 47,000 kids statewide.
https://www.tspr.org/illinois-public-radio/2025-08-20/illinois-legislature-passes-bill-to-shed-more-light-on-how-schools-support-homeless-students

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/trumps-war-on-mail-in-voting-could-boomerang-on-gop/amp/

WAND TV
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/forsyth-cannabis-dispensary-joint-days-away-from-opening-doors/article_f090eb3f-c61f-45ed-95d1-c2423d3722d2.html

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump says he’ll expand his focus on crimes to other Democratic-led cities. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-19/trump-says-hell-expand-his-focus-on-crimes-to-other-democratic-led-cities

WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.wcia.com/business/press-releases/accesswire/1062432/pres-trumps-chance-to-fix-deas-marijuana-policy-failures-rescheduling/

UIC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://today.uic.edu/uic-study-shows-how-abortion-provider-laws-hinder-access-to-womens-health-care/

CHICAGO MAROON
— College Sees Small Drops in Black, Hispanic Enrollment After Affirmative Action Ban. Affirmative Action is reverse discrimination.
https://chicagomaroon.com/48310/news/college-sees-small-drops-in-black-hispanic-enrollment-after-affirmative-action-ban/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Bill Daley, Ray LaHood revive Illinois map fight. Since 2000, Pearson has worked against me very hard.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/20/daley-lahood-revive-illinois-map-fight-00515793
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Diving into the details: The proposal would create a 12-member “Legislative Redistricting Commission,” by Capitol News’ Andrew Adams About Tuesday’s presentation: It was organized by the Lincoln Forum of Chicago, and the Tribune’s Rick Pearson moderated.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-572/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-365/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Pritzker is out of sync with what Illinoisans and Americans nationwide want
https://wirepoints.org/go-down-the-list-gov-pritzker-is-out-of-sync-with-what-illinoisans-and-americans-nationwide-want-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do Affirmative Action, DEI, CRT, 1619, and wokeness/wokeism lead you toward? They lead you toward blaming your problems on those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Question to ask candidates: What put you on track for your successes in life? For me, it was my following conservative principles. My parents were conservative Republicans who had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) in 1948, sent me to MSL grade schools 1953-1962, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. My parents and my teachers promoted conservative principles, and especially personal responsibility. That put me on track a) to take college preparatory courses in high school 1964-1962, b) to get an ACT score of 24 in 1962, c) to graduate in the upper 20% of my class in 1962, d) to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, e) to earn job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, f) to earn job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and g) to earn a job-related professional license in 1981. That put me on track to be hired by S.S. Kresge in 1964, Post Office in 1966, Firestone Stores in 1970, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980. That put me on track a) to buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. b) to buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc., and c) to get married when I was 29. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivated you to get a college degree? For me, it included my father who frequently decried his not having a college degree. My IRS and GAO employee manuals motivated me a) to earn master’s degrees in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997), b) to earn professional certifications in accounting (1979), internal auditing (1981), fraud examination (1990), government financial management (1994), financial services auditing (1996), and forensic accounting (1997), and c) to earn a CPA license (1981). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

JOHN KASS
— The Iron Triangle of Deception
https://johnkassnews.com/the-chicago-way-w-john-kass-the-iron-triangle-of-deception/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Recent college grads struggle to find jobs amid AI boom, Trump tariffs. When you graduated, what frustrated your job search? When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970, potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that my application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/19/recent-college-grads-struggle-find-jobs-amid-ai-boom-trump-tariffs/

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago residents blast ‘monstrosity’ Obama Presidential Center as displacement fears grow
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/chicago-residents-blast-monstrosity-obama-presidential-center-as-displacement-fears-grow/
— Pritzker signs bill opening financial aid to all Illinois residents — including illegal immigrants
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/us-news/illinois-gov-signs-bill-opening-financial-aid-to-all-residents-including-illegal-immigrants/
— Trump’s war on mail-in voting is futile — and could hurt the GOP. Democrat leaders promote mail-in voting.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/opinion/trumps-war-on-mail-in-voting-is-futile-and-could-hurt-the-gop/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Pritzker of cash-strapped Illinois signs ‘slap in the face’ bill giving financial aid to illegals
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/19/dem-governor-of-cash-strapped-blue-state-signs-slap-in-the-face-bill-giving-financial-aid-to-illegals-1577342/

BLAZE
— Pritzker hands tax dollars to illegal aliens for college tuition while Illinois drowns in debt
https://www.theblaze.com/news/democratic-governor-hands-tax-dollars-to-illegal-aliens-for-college-tuition-while-state-drowns-in-debt

COLLEGE FIX
— Open the Books announces a $25,000 Adam Andrzejewski Memorial Scholarship to help a high school or college journalist pay for school. Open the Books is a national government watchdog group which filed more than half a million Freedom of Information Act requests during Andrzejewski’s tenure.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/bulletin-board/govt-watchdog-offers-25000-college-scholarship-to-journalists-in-honor-of-deceased-founder/
— University of Wisconsin med school admits black students at 6 times rate of Asians
https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-wisconsin-med-school-admits-black-students-at-6-times-rate-of-asians/
— One in five faculty job ads require DEI statement. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, ever-increasingly, to get promoted, you had to promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, you had to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/survey-one-in-five-faculty-job-ads-require-dei-statement/

DAILY CALLER
— Texas GOP Rep. Chip Roy introduces anti-sanctuary city legislation with the toughest provisions to date.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/19/chip-roy-to-hit-sanctuary-city-officials/
— Pritzker Signs Bill Giving Illegals Financial Aid For College
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/19/jb-pritzker-illegal-immigrants-financial-aid-college/

DAILY WIRE
— Oklahoma To Require Ideology Test For Incoming Teachers From California And NY To Weed Out Wokeness. “We will not allow these leftists’ plans and schemes to take place here.”  For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/oklahoma-to-require-ideology-test-for-incoming-teachers-from-california-and-ny-to-weed-out-wokeness

EPOCH TIMES
— Trump Assures No US Boots on the Ground as Part of Ukraine Security Guarantees
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/trump-assures-no-us-boots-on-the-ground-as-part-of-ukraine-security-guarantees-5903074

FOX BUSINES.
— The Left is so Trump-deranged they can’t root for peace.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6377057918112

FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor says flood victims can get aid without revealing immigration status
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377098393112
— Trump slams mail-in ballots as corrupt, but may not have the power to derail them. President calls mail-in ballots ‘corrupt’ and claims Putin advised him on election integrity. In America, and especially in Illinois, Democrats run elections.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-slams-mail-ballots-corrupt-may-not-have-power-derail-them
— Do you trust a system that’s failing at education to handle your child’s mental health? Rooftop Revelations: Mental health is deeply personal. No two kids are alike, and a one-size-fits-all tablet quiz in the classroom can’t capture that. According to Democrat leaders, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/do-you-trust-system-thats-failing-education-handle-your-childs-mental-health
— DHS plans ‘Cornhusker Clink’ detention center as Trump expands immigration enforcement. DHS Secretary Noem warned illegal aliens could find themselves at the new facility in McCook, Nebraska, and encouraged self-deportation.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-plans-cornhusker-clink-detention-center-trump-expands-immigration-enforcement
— Entire southern border wall to be painted black at President Trump’s request
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377097677112

NEWSMAX
— Law Enforcement Must Unite, Halt Democrats Attacks on ICE
https://www.newsmax.com/clarencevmckee/booker-padilla-police/2025/08/19/id/1223102/
— Trump Admin Opens Sprawling ‘Lone Star Lockup’ Immigration Detention Center
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/immigration-detention-texas/2025/08/19/id/1223144/
— Dems Hypocrites on Redistricting
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/brian-harrison-texas-democrats/2025/08/20/id/1223213/

TOWNHALL
— Pritzker: We Can’t Afford Medicaid Cuts! But Also, Here’s Funding for Illegal Immigrants.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2025/08/19/illinois-governor-signs-bill-giving-student-financial-aid-to-illegal-immigrants-n2662027

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— State Department revokes over 6,000 student visas, citing law breaking and overstays
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/student-visas-revoked-state-department/

CBS NEWS
— Gov. Josh Shapiro says Trump’s push to end mail-in voting won’t affect Pennsylvania elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/mail-in-voting-trump-josh-shapiro/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Oklahoma ideology test for teachers from New York and California draws criticism. For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://apnews.com/article/oklahoma-teacher-test-ideology-california-new-york-1d08d0ef4e6e3dc71d8537601d8455e9
— Trump says American troops will not be sent to defend Ukraine. If America had not sent troops to defend South Vietnam, my life would have been dramatically different. Since 1966, my critics/opponents have used my getting student draft deferments (1966-1970) and a financial hardship draft deferment (1970-1971) against me big time. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government who were veterans. They stressed that I was 1-A, conservative, and Republican. They blamed Republicans for America losing the war. They strongly hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was both a hypocrite and a coward. They stressed that if I had served, I would not have been sent into combat anyway because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-war-defend-american-troops-85704282576324a36567798e9cb741ec

REUTERS
— What do your critics/opponents stress to make your ancestors responsible for slavery, and therefore, to make you pay reparations, that is, to make you pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my ancestors’ defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-targets-smithsonian-again-says-it-focuses-too-much-how-bad-slavery-was-2025-08-19/
— Trump says US may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-says-us-may-provide-air-support-back-ukraine-peace-deal-2025-08-19/

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— What do your critics/opponents stress to make your ancestors responsible for slavery, and therefore, to make you pay reparations, that is, to make you pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI? My critics/opponents stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my ancestors’ defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/trump-smithsonian-slavery.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois could redistrict before the 2026 midterms. As Trump pushes for a more Republican-friendly House map, more than half a dozen states are potential targets for mid-decade tweaks to congressional boundaries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/20/congressional-redistricting-states-midterms/
— While Biden was president, he viciously, but unsuccessfully, used the levers of presidential power to defeat Trump in 2024.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/19/trump-midterms-election-2026-voting-redistricting/541b2eb2-7d4f-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— What percent of restaurant workers are illegals? I washed dishes for the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights 1964-1966. If there had been as many illegals back then as there are now, an illegal with “good papers” would have gotten my job. I was the only White male dishwasher that the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights employed. Many people look down on dishwashers. Nevertheless, the money that I earned washing dishes enabled me to buy a new base red 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), a poor man’s GTO, in May of 1966.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/08/19/dc-restaurants-business-down-police-crackdown/
— On Trump’s order, dozens arrested daily in D.C. The details are hidden.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/19/trump-crime-arrest-reports-hidden/
— Trump administration cancels annual employee survey amid civil service tumult. The Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey has been sent to millions of federal workers over the years. I filled out annual employee surveys while I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors talked and acted like the overwhelming majority of their employees wanted them to get rid of their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/19/federal-survey-employees-canceled/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote crime and criminals.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-reports/fear-confusion-resistance-one-night-under-trumps-dc-crackdown/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— How California plans to boost EVs with no federal help
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-19/california-officials-release-report-on-zero-emission-vehicle-goals

USA TODAY
— Guns or weed? Trump administration says you can’t use both. The Justice Department wants the Supreme Court to make clear that regular pot smokers, and other users of illegal drugs, cannot own guns.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/20/trump-gun-rights-drug-users-marijuana-supreme-court/85660246007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Administration to Screen Immigrants for ‘Anti-American’ Views. The new guidance builds on the agency’s policy of vetting social media for evidence of antisemitism.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ice-immigration-social-media-vetting-9da2d2d1

FORBES
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/teresahopke/2022/03/30/white-men-are-feeling-left-out-of-dei-diversity-equity–inclusion-why-should-we-care-and-what-should-we-do/

DUKE CHRONICLE
— The Class of 2028’s first year: Political beliefs and lifestyles. If you had responded to a survey like this when you were in college, how would you have responded? Ever-increasingly students are products of a) Democrat teachers, b) the Democrat mainstream news media, and c) the Democrat entertainment industry.
https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke-chronicle-class-of-2028-survey-political-beliefs-and-lifestyles-voting-activity-registration-conservative-liberal-institutional-neutrality-dei-affirmative-action-religion-election-first-year-alcohol-drugs-20250820
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For the eighth consecutive year, The Chronicle surveyed the first-year class about their political leanings, religious beliefs and lifestyles. As fervent policy debates with the potential to reshape the nation’s higher education landscape continue to reverberate across the country, we also asked the Class of 2028 for their stances on a few key issues: affirmative action, institutional neutrality, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Political leanings and voting habits  Like classes before them, the Class of 2028 leans mostly to the left. Nearly two-thirds of respondents described their political views as somewhat liberal or very liberal — 33.9% and 29.9%, respectively. About a fourth of respondents — 24.1% — identified as moderate. Eleven percent of our respondents identified as somewhat conservative, and only 0.9% identified as very conservative. This is less than last year’s survey of the Class of 2027, which had 14.8% of respondents self-identify as conservative, but up from our surveys of the Classes of 2026, 2025 and 2024 with 9.9%, 6.6% and 6.4%, respectively. The 2024 election was a key piece to the Class of 2028’s fall semester. Many members of the class reported voting in what may have been the first election they were eligible. The vast majority of respondents — 83.0% — said they were registered to vote in the United States. 6.2% of respondents said they were not registered to vote in the U.S., while the remaining 10.7% were ineligible to vote because of citizenship status or age. . .Only two respondents identified as very conservative. Thus, The Chronicle excluded them from further written analysis. Members of the Class of 2028 of all political leanings were more likely to be registered to vote than not. But a sizable portion of moderate students, 18.5%, indicated they were eligible but not registered. A majority of students of all political affiliations said they voted in the most recent general election. . .Excluding the small sample of only two students who identified as very conservative, moderate students were least likely to report voting in the Nov. 5, 2024 general election. Respondents who identified as very liberal were most likely to have voted. 90.3% of respondents who voted in last November’s election said they did so in North Carolina. Political opinions  The Class of 2028’s opinions on affirmative action, institutional neutrality and DEI tended to align with their political views. But students were more broadly divided over these issues than across the political spectrum in general, and many expressed ambivalence or uncertainty. Nearly half of respondents said they oppose the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling to end the use of race and ethnicity in college admission decisions — 28.1% were somewhat opposed, and 17.4% were strongly opposed. Just about a third of respondents — 32.1% — neither support nor oppose the decision, and under one-fourth of respondents strongly support or somewhat support the ruling: 7.1% and 15.2%, respectively. All students who self-identified as very conservative strongly supported the ruling, while four in five students identifying as very liberal opposed the decision. Students identifying as moderate were more likely than not to neither support nor oppose the decision. . .DEI has come under intense scrutiny at universities across the country, especially after the Trump administration took office in January. Duke indicated a shift to “inclusive excellence” in official messaging in June with the release of a potential new set of principles for the University. Our survey was conducted prior to that in March and April. Slightly over half our respondents said they thought Duke was putting just enough emphasis on DEI in hiring, curriculum, student life and campus activities generally. 29.9% thought the University was not giving enough attention to DEI, while 17.0% thought it was doing too much. Again, the Class of 2028’s policy stances generally correlated to their political beliefs. But, with the exception of the small sample of very conservative students, a plurality of respondents of each political leaning felt Duke was giving DEI just the right amount of attention. . .More generally, three in five respondents said they found it “very easy” or “somewhat easy” to express their political opinions freely on campus — 23.7% and 38.0%, respectively. 23.2% said they found it “neither easy nor difficult,” while 10.3% of respondents believe it is “somewhat difficult,” and only 4.9% find it “very difficult.” More than half of respondents who found it very difficult to express their political opinions freely on campus identified as conservative. Those who found it very or somewhat easy to express their political beliefs were significantly more likely to identify as liberal or moderate. . .Religion and lifestyle  Nonreligious students saw the greatest representation in the Class of 2028 at 42.3%: 15.6% identified as atheist and 20.9% as agnostic, and 5.8% selected no religion. They were closely followed by Christian students at 41.1%, including just under one in six students who identify as Catholic. Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish and Muslim students each made up less than 10% of our respondents. . .Reporting a religious affiliation did not necessarily indicate religiosity. Of the 144 respondents who did not consider themselves atheist or agnostic, nearly a third considered themselves not very religious or not religious at all — 27.1% and 4.2%, respectively. 22.9% of respondents said they were religious, while 38.2% considered themselves somewhat religious. Only 7.6% of respondents considered themselves very religious. Political preferences varied by religious affiliation. Many religious groups had small sample sizes, though, limiting the significance of our findings. . .Buddhist students were the only religious group where a majority identified as politically moderate, though there were only 7 Buddhist students in our sample. Students identifying as non-religious or Protestant Christian Protestant had the largest proportion of conservative respondents; these groups had 13 and 32 students, respectively. For many students, college marks the first taste of independence — and, for some, the first brush with alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or sex. Three in five respondents reported having drunk alcohol since arriving on campus. About 8.5% said they had obtained a fake ID since getting to Duke, although those who had a fake ID before moving to campus are not captured in our survey. 11.6% of respondents said they have used tobacco products since arriving on campus, and 16.5% said the same for marijuana products. 22.8% have had sex. Just over a third of respondents reported not having done any of these.)

AXIOS
— Trump administration revives plan to paint border wall black
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-border-wall-black-paint-noem-immigration
— MAGA isolationists brace for details of Ukraine security guarantees
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/19/trump-ukraine-security-guarantees-maga-bannon

August 19, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call police racist
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-department-officers-face-new-lawsuit-controversial-stop-search-tactic-gold-coast/17571017/

NBC5
— Republican lawmakers look to strip funding for Postal Service’s EV fleet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/republicans-usps-electric-vehicles-funding/3811239/

WGN9
— Chicago’s total number of ‘school adjacent’ shootings tops among 13 cities
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/analysis-chicagos-total-number-of-school-adjacent-shootings-tops-among-13-cities/

FOX32
— Trump expands ‘Good Moral Character’ review for US citizenship
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/us-citizenship-good-moral-character

WTTW
— Democrat leaders use the Proud Boys against Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/18/billboard-promoting-far-right-group-proud-boys-pops-southern-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/15/adams-county-sheriff-has-been-cooperating-ice-does-violate-illinois-law

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A state law giving school kids mental health screenings leaves the sensitive details to bureaucrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/19/editorial-schools-mental-health-screenings-illinois/
— Chicago public schools bus shortage. To get to classes at UIC from my parents’ home in Crete 1966-1968, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School part-time during the school years 1964-1966 and full-time during the summer of 1965 in between. I used the money that I earned to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), a poor man’s GTO,  in May of 1966 for that to commute.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/19/opinion-chicago-public-schools-bus-route-shortage/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— CPS seeks $1 billion of short-term debt as cash gone
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/cps-seeks-1-billion-short-term-debt-cash-gone

KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Over 1,700 homeless in Kane County in 2024. Seniors, disabled, children among those affected. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/08/19/over-1700-homeless-in-kane-county-in-2024-new-report-says/

RIVER BENDER
— Pritzker Signs Bill Adding Pathways to CPA Licensure in Illinois. In 1978, in Diersen v. IRS, the judge declared that accounting courses cannot be deducted until you have taken enough to sit for the CPA examination.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/governor-signs-bill-adding-pathways-to-cpa-licensure-in-illinois-85377.cfm?

QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Mexicans have.
https://qctimes.com/life-entertainment/local/events/article_c91980b3-de2b-4bd4-a872-be630b1744c7.html

WAND TV
— Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/conservative-network-newsmax-agrees-to-pay-67-million-in-defamation-case-over-bogus-2020-election/article_cd2bc0db-28a5-5810-a27e-023391a5d498.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly threaten more gerrymandering. They want to make America look like Illinois.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-18/trump-prompted-a-battle-over-voting-maps-heres-how-redistricting-affects-voters
— Trump wants to stop states from voting by mail and using voting machines.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-18/trump-wants-to-stop-states-from-voting-by-mail-and-using-voting-machines

NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump announces on Truth Social that he’ll ban mail-in voting and voting machines.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-18/trump-announces-on-truth-social-that-hell-ban-mail-in-voting-and-voting-machines

ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://dceo.illinois.gov/oe3/cannabisequity/cannabis-social-equity-r3.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-571/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-364/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their gerrymandering
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/land-doesnt-vote-and-these-new-illinois-maps-help-illustrate-that-fact/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Mottl attacks Grasso. If I ran for an office, my critics/opponents would stress the big adverse actions that they had their operatives and dupes take against me.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/674156153-mottl-on-gary-grasso-s-bid-for-dupage-county-chair-he-s-got-more-baggage-than-a-747

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 1,805 days since Chicago Teachers Union’s last “annual audit”
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/its-been-1805-days-since-chicago-teachers-unions-last-annual-audit/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— IL GOP Governor Hopeful Ted Dabrowski Steers Clear of Trump at Illinois State Fair
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/il-gop-governor-hopeful-ted-dabrowski-steers-clear-of-trump-at-illinois-state-fair.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Minneapolis socialism is directing the Democratic Party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3501720/minneapolis-socialism-is-directing-the-democratic-party/
— Trump administration funded organization that supports transgender children
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3500506/trump-administration-lgbt-life-center-funding/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump knows the dangers of addiction — he must reject Big Weed’s push to reclassify marijuana.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-knows-the-dangers-of-addiction-he-must-reject-big-weeds-push-to-reclassify-marijuana/
— Illegal migrant truck driver in deadly Florida crash was given work permit under Biden after being denied by Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/illegal-migrant-truck-driver-suspect-in-deadly-florida-crash-was-given-work-permit-under-biden-after-being-denied-by-trump-dhs/
— Biden threw open the border to rig the census — and elections for Democrats.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/opinion/joe-biden-threw-open-the-border-to-rig-the-census-and-elections-for-democrats/
— Driver’s license given to deadly illegal migrant trucker shows how blue states undermine border security
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/opinion/drivers-license-given-to-deadly-illegal-migrant-trucker-shows-how-blue-states-undermine-border-security/
— RFK Jr., challenges Pete Hegseth to friendly exercise competition as Trump admin promotes ‘fit’ over ‘fat’  My health has suffered greatly because I spend at least 10 hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/rfk-jr-challenges-pete-hegseth-to-friendly-exercise-competition-as-trump-admin-promotes-fit-over-fat/

BREITBART
— Oklahoma Partners with ICE to Deport 500 Illegal Aliens Currently Serving Prison Sentences
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/18/oklahoma-partners-with-ice-to-deport-500-illegal-aliens-currently-serving-prison-sentences/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Notre Dame swaps DEI office label for religious name, retains LGBT, race programs. Notre Dame has renamed its Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) without seemingly changing its primary functions amid ongoing federal and state scrutiny over DEI. Notre Dame has rebranded its DEI office as the Sister Thea Bowman Center.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/notre-dame-swaps-dei-office-label-religious-name-retains-lgbt-race-programs/28468

DAILY CALLER
— ‘You Better Comply, Or You’re Next’: Pam Bondi Announces What’s In Store For Sanctuary Cities
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/18/pam-bondi-sanctuary-city-penalty/

DAILY WIRE
— ‘End Racism’: NFL To Keep Virtue Signaling With End Zone Messages. Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/end-racism-nfl-to-keep-virtue-signaling-with-end-zone-messages

FOX NEWS
— Pritzker signs bill opening financial aid to illegals. ‘Our state is drowning in debt, yet JB Pritzker is determined to drain even more taxpayer dollars to reward illegals,’ commented Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/slap-face-major-blue-state-governor-signs-bill-opening-financial-aid-illegals
— ‘GREAT DISHONESTY’: Trump ridicules what is ‘very sad’ in American media. Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFZKvSJn14

NEWSMAX
— UN Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ustaxpayer-dei-gender/2025/08/18/id/1222937/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Judge issues injunction preventing Trump’s FTC from investigating watchdog Media Matters. Of course, my critics/opponents want me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to be investigated. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes 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 wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/judge-issues-injunction-preventing-trumps-ftc-investigating-watchdog-124759242

NBC NEWS
— Trump says he’ll sign an executive order to get rid of mail-in voting
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/trump-says-he-ll-sign-an-executive-order-to-get-rid-of-mail-in-voting-245237317990

CBS NEWS
— Newsmax to pay $67 million settlement in Dominion Voting Systems defamation case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/conservative-channel-newsmax-settlement-dominion-voting-systems-defamation-case/
— Illinois is now requiring police recruits to allow background records like previous performance reviews to be released in order to be hired by a new department in the state. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 hired me even though my personnel folder showed that my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. They would not have hired me if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 hired me even though my personnel folder showed that my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers, disallowed my education deductions, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. They would not have hired me if I had not earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/unpacking-illinois-new-law-reforming-police-hiring/

CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their mail-in ballots.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/politics/mail-voting-trump-states-rights-analysis
— Democrat leaders say that Trump has remade the press corps to Trump’s liking. When Democrat leaders attacked GOPUSA in 2005, Bush did not come to GOPUSA’s defense.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/trump-zelensky-brian-glenn-peter-doocy-press-corps

REUTERS
— Trump administration in talks to take 10% stake in Intel
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-administration-talks-take-10-stake-intel-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-08-18/

MSNBC
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? My approval rating is very low with those who 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 in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-approval-tanking-with-the-american-public-new-poll-shows-245251141643

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? My approval rating is very low with those who 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 in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Mississippi and Louisiana Will Send National Guard Troops to D.C.  Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina have also deployed the Guard to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on the city.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/national-guard-dc-trump-mississippi-louisiana.html
— Trump Wants to End Mail-In Voting Ahead of Next Year’s Midterms. The president does not have the power to unilaterally change voting laws, and any executive order regarding elections is likely to see immediate legal challenges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/washington-dc-homeless.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Over 6,000 student visas revoked for crimes and overstays. A small number were revoked for “support for terrorism,” a State Department official said, without elaborating. Other crimes included assault and burglary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/19/student-visas-revoked-6000-trump/
— Trump says he will ‘lead a movement’ to eliminate mail-in voting. The Constitution gives states the authority to regulate how elections are run, making it unlikely Trump can change voting rules unilaterally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/18/trump-mail-in-constitution-elections/
— My critics/opponents promote not only more LGBTQ, they promote more dependency on government and charity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/18/trans-rights-bathroom-north-carolina/

USA TODAY
— Brand advertising on news sites isn’t risky, it’s absolutely necessary. News junkies are more likely to show interest in your brands and buy your products. They hold more favorable views of brands, trusting them more and recommending them to others. My direct competitors are beyond furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters every morning without any advertising or donation requests.  Everyone sees how my direct competitors treat me and treat my newsletters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/08/18/brand-ads-online-media-digital-marketing/85578029007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— For financial freedom by age 30, optimize ruthlessly during your peak physical and cognitive years. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21. I earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But according to my critics/opponents, all of the aforesaid was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/work-life-balance-will-keep-you-mediocre-25bdf073
— Who’s Really Rich in New York?  Firefighter pensions would qualify by Andrew Cuomo’s standard. According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and 72% health insurance subsidy are much too generous. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $153,151/year when I was 49 in 1997.  My CSRS pension is $66,780/year. To get the aforesaid, I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-really-rich-in-new-york-4ce746a1
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says you’re wealthy in New York City if you make more than $200,000. By his standard, nearly 800 New York City retired firefighters get pensions that qualify them as rich. Behold why New York’s not-so-rich pay taxes as if they are rich. A new analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy finds that New York City firefighters who retired last year after full careers were entitled to an average annual pension of $171,336. Nearly 95% of new retirees were eligible for six-figure pensions, and a quarter qualified for annuities of more than $200,000. Mr. Cuomo recently claimed his Democratic opponent in the mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, was “very rich” because he and his wife likely made more than $200,000 combined. So in his view, are the city’s 46 retired firefighters with pensions of more than $300,000 super-rich? They certainly have super-sized retirement benefits compared to most workers in private industry. City firefighters can retire at any age with full benefits as long as they have worked 20 years (22 for more recent hires). Their pensions are also exempt from state and city tax—a 9.9% combined top rate for individuals making more than $200,000—and they receive free healthcare.)
— FRONT PAGE: What It’s Really Like to Support a Big Family on a Modest Income in America. More Americans are choosing to put off having children—or not having them at all. The Ivys are an exception. ‘It is hard. But it’s not impossible.’ I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors. They viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me a) because my wife and gave up trying to have children without trying IVF, b) because we did not depot, and c) because we did not become foster parents. According to them, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, d) become a licensed CPA, e) etc. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had children, b) decried the time and cost needed to raise children, and/or c) had spouses who had little or no income.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/children-costs-finances-families-f489be7c
— Ever since my parents sent me to kindergarten at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete in 1953, my critics/opponents have demonized, denigrated, and condemned my parents as having been filthy rich.  But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and my mother never worked outside of our home until after he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/kindergarten-search-school-choice-291737ed

BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Schools Seeks $1 Billion of Short-Term Debt as Cash Gone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-18/chicago-schools-seeks-1-billion-of-short-term-debt-as-cash-gone

FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-words-public-filings-10k-secretive-meritocracy/

REVIEW TIMES
— The fewer planks in the Republican Party platform that you defend and advance, the more RINO that you are. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders defend and promote planks in the Republican Party platform, that is, there are far too many RINOs.
https://reviewtimes.com/news/619871/republican-by-name-yes-but-in-actions/

POLITICO
— DNC Falling Far Behind RNC In Fundraising
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/18/dnc-fundraising-donor-problems-midterms-00512473

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Trump administration seeks permission to finalize mass layoffs at HHS. During the 1980s and 1990s, Gingrich got Congressional permission to gut GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s few remaining Republican employees, including me. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/trump-administration-seeks-permission-finalize-mass-layoffs-hhs/407528/

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Trump Moves to Reinstate Restrictions on Legal Immigration Proposed in His First Term. From what I see, more and more and more come to America a) to get the free stuff and preferences that Democrat and RINO leaders give them, b) to advance their religion, and/or c) to a turn America into their motherland.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-reinstates-immigration-policies/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2025/08/19/aaup-president-higher-ed-alone-cannot-save

WIKIPIEDIA
— Party switching. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents will officially become Democrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_switching_in_the_United_States

August 13, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Top candidates for the US House in Illinois’ 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th districts for the 2026 election
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/illinois-house-top-candidates-2nd-7th-8th-9th/
— Chicago officials, workers protest EPA canceling contract with unions. The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007.  If GAO had unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/chicago-officials-workers-protest-epa-canceling-contract-with-unions/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/editorial-donald-trump-crime-chicago-federal-takeover/
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/texas-illinois-gerrymandering-church-political-politics-sabina/
— To win in 2026, Democrat candidates ever-increasingly promise more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, 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.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/hakeem-jeffries-midterm-democratic-strategy/
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/opinion-male-suicide-lost-my-friend/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Illinois students could see new testing standards with proposed state board revisions. Government and politics are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/illinois-new-testing-standards/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois redistricting effort possible, but unlikely to yield more Democratic seats. Pritzker touts redistricting in response to Texas, but his legislative allies cite no signs of movement on the issue in Springfield.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/08/12/illinois-redistricting-jb-pritzker-texas-democrats-greg-abbott-remap
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) unite minorities against Whites, b) unite women against men, c) unite younger people against older people, d) unite LGBTQers against heterosexuals, e) unite unmarried people against married people, f) unite non-Protestants against Protestants, g) unite non-German Americans against German Americans, h) unite those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, i) unite those who have less money against those who have more money, j) unite non-Americans against Americans, k) unite etc. against etc.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/13/black-brown-communities-immigration-trump-ice-robin-kelly-jesus-chuy-garcia
— Illinois wants to lower the bar for passing state tests, saying the standard is unfair to students. The State Board of Education will vote Wednesday on new exam benchmarks. Education officials say the existing standards have led high schoolers to believe they aren’t ready for college when they actually are. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/12/illinois-wants-to-lower-cut-scores-on-state-tests-saying-standard-is-unfair-to-students

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are racists.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250812/nation-and-world-politics/trumps-rhetoric-on-dc-echoes-a-history-of-racist-narratives-about-urban-crime/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pace’s Rideshare Access Program
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/transportation/pace-paratransit-rideshare-program-is-victim-of-its-own-success/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: State education board to adopt new proficiency benchmarks for state tests. Government and politics are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250812/education/state-education-board-to-adopt-new-proficiency-benchmarks-for-state-tests/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion to start making EV batteries in Manteno next month
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/gotion-start-making-ev-batteries-manteno-next-month

WGN9
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://wgntv.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/will-president-trump-reclassify-marijuana/

WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/12/lawyers-ask-judge-expand-lawsuit-accusing-cpd-targeting-black-latino-chicagoans-traffic

WGN RADIO
— You can’t argue that Illinois maps are fair
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/eric-zorn-you-cant-argue-that-illinois-maps-are-fair/

WBEZ
— As homelessness is criminalized, how are Chicagoans getting people from encampments to housing?  The city says that the number of homeless people is down but that the number of people living in “unsheltered locations” like encampments is up. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/12/as-homelessness-is-criminalized-how-are-chicagoans-getting-people-from-encampments-to-housing

STATELINE & WAND TV
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/trump-admin-may-reclassify-marijuana-would-that-make-it-legal-in-the-us/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/city-of-springfield-approves-third-round-of-cannabis-tax-grants/article_ec67b5c9-2152-4011-aadc-1931a54e8c87.html

MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Jil Tracy talks about being deputized for Texas lawmaker case
https://muddyrivernews.com/noteworthy/tracy-talks-about-being-deputized-for-texas-lawmaker-case/20250810075841/

CITY JOURNAL
— Illinois’ Disastrous School Mental-Health Program. The Prairie State wants to screen all kids for mental-health issues. That’s a mistake. Democrats run education. According to Democrat leaders, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/pritzker-mental-health-screenings-illinois-schools

WJOL
— Local Republican Diane Harris Is Running For Illinois Secretary Of State
https://www.wjol.com/local-republican-diane-harris-is-running-for-illinois-secretary-of-state/

WGLT
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-12/city-of-bloomington-to-host-a-free-symposium-discussing-the-future-of-inclusion-and-access

WMBD
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more people become addicted to drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdU4OdV-l0Q

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats exist to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2025-08-12/jeffries-top-illinois-dems-hope-voters-will-punish-republicans-in-2026

CITIES 92.9
— Chicago Flips Red says Illinois officials break laws as they blast Trump
https://www.cities929.com/2025/08/12/chicago-group-says-illinois-officials-break-laws-as-they-blast-trump/

BLOCK CKUB CHICAGO
— The Never-Ending Line For Benefits Is Back, With Some Immigrants Sleeping Outside To Get A Spot. Immigrants, many who came to Chicago three years ago from the southern border, are camping outside after a state program that offers health insurance, food and cash assistance reopened enrollment at the end of July. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/12/the-never-ending-line-for-benefits-is-back-with-some-immigrants-sleeping-outside-to-get-a-spot/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois proposes lowering scores students need to be deemed proficient on state tests. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/08/12/illinois-proposes-new-cut-scores-for-state-standardized-tests/

CAPITOL FAX
— State Senator Mary Edly-Allen Announces Candidacy for 10th District State Central Committeewoman. I have always promoted direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members. My critics/opponents have always vehemently opposed it.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-567/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: State Senator Mary Edly-Allen (Grayslake),  proudly announces her candidacy for the open seat for State Central Committeewoman for Illinois’ 10th Congressional District. A lifelong advocate for Democratic values, Senator Edly-Allen brings over 25 years of experience living, working, and organizing in the district she calls home. For nearly two years, Edly-Allen has served as the President of Lake County Democratic Women (LCDW) and has led with energy, vision, and purpose.  She has worked hard mentoring, supporting, and helping elect a new generation of strong Democratic candidates to local offices across the 10th Congressional District and throughout Lake County. Her leadership has revitalized local engagement and strengthened the Democratic bench.)
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-567/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-360/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders discourage Republicans from running for offices. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly successful doing that in Illinois and in DuPage County. I remember when almost every Republican primary was contested and all the candidates were highly qualified. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

WIREPOINTS
— Don Tracy announces run for U.S. Senate. SEE: https://dontracyforil.com/  One could compare and contrast the Illinois Republican U.S. Senate 2004 primary with the 2026 primary. All five announced candidates  (John Cox, Chirinjeev Kathuria, Andrew McKenna, Jim Oberweis, and  Jack Ryan) walked in Wheaton’s 2003 Independence Day parade and then attended a picnic in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. My critics/opponents were not only furious that Ryan won the primary instead of their candidate McKenna, they blamed me for McKenna’s defeat. I was not only the GOPUSA Illinois Editor back then, I was also an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. Neither organization endorsed McKenna. Ryan withdrew after he won the primary and then the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee replaced him with Alan Keyes who lost to Obama.
https://wirepoints.org/don-tracy-announces-run-for-u-s-senate/
— Chicago crime is low? Tell that to the thousands of victims.
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-crime-is-low-tell-that-to-the-thousands-of-victims-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Sonya Massey bill requiring full employment history for police candidates now law. GAO hired me in 1980 notwithstanding the fact that IRS had not promoted me since 1974 and had disallowed my education deductions in 1978 and my travel vouchers in 1974 to get rid of me. IRS hired me in 1971 notwithstanding the fact that the Post Office had forced me to resign in 1969 and had disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. GAO and IRS hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and earning an MBA in 1976. I qualified myself for the IRS job by earning a bachelor’s degree in management and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d5c67017-51a9-40d4-8cb1-c5db834b81fa.html

CONTRARIAN
— Vallas: Illinois Stands as the Poster Child for Gerrymandering and Its Consequences
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/illinois-poster-child-gerrymandering-consequences
— When Is Chicago Going to Go Bankrupt?
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/when-is-chicago-going-bankrupt

JOHN THOMAS
— John Thomas announces campaign for Governor of Illinois
https://www.wpri.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/838910052/john-thomas-announces-campaign-for-governor-of-illinois/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Less than 22% of voters approve of Chicago Teachers Union. When my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 to get rid of me, the National Treasury Employees Union successfully came to my defense. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0  But that disallowance ended my IRS career.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/less-than-22-of-voters-approve-of-chicago-teachers-union/
— Illinois ranks last in U.S. for financial transparency
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-ranks-last-in-u-s-for-financial-transparency/
— Vallas: Pritzker works on national profile as Illinoisans tire of him
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-works-on-national-profile-as-illinoisans-tire-of-him/
— Businesses moving out of Illinois triples since pandemic
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/businesses-moving-out-of-illinois-triples-since-pandemic/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democratic Party approval hits a new rock bottom among Democrats. Those who are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time want the Democrat Party to do even more to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/democratic-party-approval-hits-new-rock-bottom-among-democrats/
— Trump tariff revenue jumps to $25B monthly as inflation holds steady
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/bipartisan-analysis-shows-trump-tariffs-generated-billions-new/
— ‘Woefully out of balance’: U.S. debt surpasses $37 trillion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/13/us-debt-surpasses-37-trillion-woefully-balance/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Recriminalize, don’t decriminalize marijuana
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3496447/recriminalize-marijuana-trump-drug-reclassification/
— How E-Verify can be outsmarted, and how Congress can fix it. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3496192/e-verify-can-be-outsmarted-how-congress-can-fix-it/
— DeSantis says Obama and Holder gerrymandered ‘brutally’ in most recent census
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3498223/desantis-obama-eric-holder-gerrymandered-census/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Dems’ Plan: Curse More, Obey Less, Protect Criminals & Illegals
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-emerging-democratic-consensus-for-2026-curse-more-obey-less-protect-criminals-and-illegal-immigrants-at-all-costs/

NEW YORK POST
— Just say no to Big Dope — and its push for even more legal pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/12/opinion/just-say-no-to-big-dope-and-to-even-more-legal-marijuana/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Old American Ruling Class Has Lost the Revolution
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_old_american_ruling_class_has_lost_the_revolution.html

BLAZE
— Police CAUGHT TAMPERING with crime rates as Trump federalizes DC
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/police-caught-tampering-with-crime-rates-as-trump-federalizes-dc
— Foreign-born population dropped by historic number during Trump’s first 6 months in office
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cis-illegal-aliens-deported-millions

BREITBART
— Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez: Some ‘Politicians in My Own Party’ ‘Enamored with’ Criminals, Pritzker, Johnson Blinded by Trump Hate
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/12/chicago-alderman-there-are-politicians-in-my-own-party-enamored-with-criminals-pritzker-johnson-blinded-by-trump-hate/
— Ramirez Calls ICE a ‘Terrorist Organization’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/watch-democrat-rep-delia-ramirez-calls-ice-terrorist-organization/
— Newsom’s Gerrymander Is ‘Illegal and Unconstitutional’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/demaio-newsoms-gerrymander-is-illegal-and-unconstitutional/
— Before Trump Federalized D.C. Police, White House Reporters Complained for Years About Crime in Capital
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/before-trump-federalized-d-c-police-white-house-reporters-complained-for-years-about-crime-in-capital/
— Media Members Share Their D.C. Crime Stories as Trump Moves to Clean Up Capital
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/exclusive-media-members-share-their-d-c-crime-stories-as-trump-moves-to-clean-up-capital/
— More than 100,000 Americans Apply to Join ICE, Help Deport Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/more-than-100000-americans-apply-to-join-ice-help-deport-illegal-aliens/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— We signed the United Nations refugee protocol, but we never signed up for mass migration. The rest of the world sees America as being its dumping ground.
https://cis.org/Oped/We-signed-United-Nations-refugee-protocol-we-never-signed-mass-migration

COLLEGE FIX
— Court sides with Christian university over firing professor who officiated same-sex wedding. Lawyers say Calvin University has freedom to employ professors who ‘uphold and model its beliefs’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/court-sides-with-christian-university-over-firing-professor-who-officiated-same-sex-wedding/

DAILY CALLER
— Pritzker’s presidential aspirations are growing ever more evident as he inserts himself in the Texas gerrymandering brouhaha – and he’s no longer denying it. He heralded many of the 57 Texas Democrats who fled to stop the state’s congressional maps from being redrawn to benefit Republicans, all the while deflecting the blatancy of Illinois’ gerrymandering and trivializing it as something drawn by “kindergarteners.” Instead of advocating for taking mapmaking power away from state lawmakers, whether in Texas or Illinois, he’s embraced the sin: if he believes Illinois needs to counteract new Texas maps that put more Republicans in Congress, he’s considered making Illinois’ maps even more lopsided to send more Illinois Democrats to oppose President Trump. Pritzker is telling voters that Illinois’ districts aren’t a right for them to express their views and pick their leaders. They’re a tool for political parties, or at least the political party with the most money and power at the moment. In his eyes: two wrongs may not make a right, but when those on the right do it then it’s wrong. All of which provides a perfect illustration of why Illinois needs fair maps. The congressional map Pritzker approved in 2021 yielded 14 districts dominated by Democrats and only three downstate districts held by Republicans – after forcing the downstate GOP to battle it out over the shrinking state’s lost seat.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/13/opinion-pritzker-says-gerrymander-can-be-gerry-more-mandered-if-he-works-at-it-brad-weisenstein/
— Ramirez Who Said She Is Guatemalan Before American Calls ICE ‘Terrorist Organization’
https://www.aol.com/democrat-said-she-guatemalan-american-193000010.html

FEDERALIST
— Arizona Leftist Senator Doubles Down On Her ‘Right’ To Tip Off Illegals To ICE Operations. Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their solders in their Democrat Army.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/12/arizona-leftist-senator-doubles-down-on-her-right-to-tip-off-illegals-to-ice-operations/

FOX NEWS
— Cuban-born congressman calls for Ramirez’s removal over ‘Guatemalan before American’ remark
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cuban-born-congressman-calls-for-squad-member-s-removal-over-guatemalan-before-american-remark/ar-AA1KaP7v

NEWS BUSTERS
— PBS Uses New Euphemism for Illegals: ‘People Without Legal Status’  To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/08/12/pbs-drops-new-euphemism-illegals-people-without-legal-status

NEWSMAX
— Newsom Won’t Stop Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-gavin-newsom-donald-trump-ice/2025/08/12/id/1222242/
— Percent of ICE Arrests Are of Criminals. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-ice-arrests/2025/08/12/id/1222237/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— DeSantis: We Have The Basis To Redistrict In Florida, Lingering “Racial Gerrymandering” We Have To Correct. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders gerrymander to give preference to minorities.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/12/desantis_we_have_the_basis_to_redistrict_in_florida_lingering_racial_gerrymandering_we_have_to_correct.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— University of Illinois on high alert about highly infectious disease
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5448214-university-of-illinois-measles/

NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Texas Dems spotlight disaster called Illinois
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/texas-dems-spotlight-disaster-called-illinois/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: After the 1990 general election, the state of Illinois found itself in a predicament. Democrats controlled the House and Senate in Springfield, while Republican Jim Edgar occupied the governor’s mansion. With legislative redistricting the following year, the Democrats would be unable to send a new map that the governor wouldn’t veto. It was at this point that a nine-person Legislative Redistricting Commission would be established, with four Democrats and four Republicans. The final seat was determined by a coin flip that the GOP won. Many Republicans salivated at the opportunity to redraw the map, especially the 9th congressional district. Represented by 25-term Democratic Congressman Sidney Yates, the district ran along Chicago’s affluent lakefront, including the suburbs of Evanston and Skokie. The seat was regarded as impenetrable by the Republicans. But to the dismay of the GOP, ousting Yates was thwarted by Republican Senate Minority Leader James “Pate” Philip. The veteran politician believed the 9th district must always be winnable by a member of the Jewish community due to its large Jewish constituency. Yates served three more terms.)

NEW YORK SUN
— Trump Phenomenon’s Political Implications Are Coming Into Focus as Democrats Fade Into Irrelevance. The opposition’s principal leaders are superannuated logrollers, Marxists, and authoritarian reverse racists.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trump-phenomenons-political-implications-are-coming-into-focus-as-democrats-fade-into-irrelevance

USA TODAY
— Got ‘range anxiety’? Trump halts massive EV charger project. Many would-be EV purchasers have cited what’s known as ‘range anxiety’ in their reluctance to switch over from a gas car.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/biden-ev-charger-project-trump/85563143007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/07/parent-trans-kids-gender-affirming-care-trump/85428839007/

CBS MINNESOTA
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOa5u1Ecyg

DESERT NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everyone’s problems, but especially for the problems that minorities, females, younger people, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time have.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/08/12/equal-protection-unequal-conditions/

TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Homan Rips Illinois Rep. Ramirez For Declaring Allegiance To Guatemala
https://www.aol.com/news/border-czar-tom-homan-rips-200234293.html

CENTER SQUARE
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_6f47043c-ffc6-4b26-b2b3-399c072955a2.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump, Chicago and No Cash Bail. Pritzker’s defense of soft-on-crime policies won’t help him in 2028.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-chicago-and-no-cash-bail-97cecb22
— Trump Demands the Truth About Affirmative Action. He requires colleges to submit data proving they don’t engage in racial discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-demands-the-truth-about-affirmative-action-education-college-school-084fb08c
— The Illinois Voter Suppression Strategy. Elections in odd-numbered years are a gift to unions.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-illinois-voter-suppression-strategy-election-politics-turnout-26f192a5
— The Era of Big Raises for Low-Paid Workers Is Over. Wage growth for top earners once again outstrips gains for those at the bottom. My critics/opponents at the same time hint/imply/argue/shout a) that the federal government grossly overpaid me and b) that my never being paid more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license proves that I was an extremely bad person.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/low-wage-employees-pay-growth-cdf3cd36

FORBES
— Ramirez would not have been elected if Pritzker had not created a gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District for her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ63FnVRHks
— Ramirez Presses VA Official On Number Of Department Staff Lost Due To ‘Natural Attrition’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojVYRGSsxUc

FED SMITH
— Probationary Employees: Retained or Fired? New Guidance from OPM Designed to Hire Quality Workforce. OPM is directing agencies to “designate at-least the second-line supervisor….” to make continued employment decisions for probationary employees. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary rule to get rid of me because I had served my probationary period working for IRS.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/08/11/probationary-employees-guidance-from-opm/

BLOOMBERG LAW
— Illinois E-Verify Law Imposes on Federal Authority. Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their solders in their Democrat Army.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/illinois-e-verify-law-imposes-on-federal-authority-doj-argues

LAW 360
— Illinois E-Verify Law Imposes on Federal Authority. Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their solders in their Democrat Army.
https://www.law360.com/articles/2376171/doj-asks-judge-to-block-ill-e-verify-restrictions

PMC RESEARCH
— Why People Prefer Higher Educated Politicians. My critics/opponents have always used against me my having three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a professional license (CPA).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9989228/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Higher educated participants preferred higher to less educated candidates over and above their level of competence, particularly when they identified strongly with their educational level. This reflects ingroup bias among the higher educated. Less educated participants preferred higher educated candidates in Study 1, but did not prefer higher educated candidates when competence was manipulated independently from education in Study 2. The less educated, unlike the higher educated, therefore, seem to show deference to the assumed competence of the higher educated, because it disappears when more reliable competence information is available. A recurring question in intergroup relations is whether low-status groups challenge the status quo, accept their inferior position and defer to the high-status group, or even actively support the hierarchy. A topical example of this is the place of the less educated in the political arena. When voting for political candidates, do less educated voters show ingroup bias and prefer “one of their own” over higher educated candidates?1 Or do they defer to the supposed superior (cognitive or academic) competence of the higher educated (Baker, 2014; Spruyt & Kuppens, 2014) and prefer a higher educated candidate? For higher educated voters, there is no such dilemma because both possible ingroup bias and the desire to pick a competent candidate point in the same direction and should lead them to prefer higher educated politicians. However, for the higher educated, the question then becomes whether candidate competence or ingroup bias matters more for vote choice. The rise of populism investigating the processes underlying the choice of political leaders is topical and timely. One reason to expect education-based ingroup bias in voting preferences is that education (and not income) plays an important role in current political conflicts. Populist radical-right parties criticize technocratic elements of modern politics and often appeal to the (less educated) “common man” (sic; Mudde, 2004; Rooduijn, 2014). In general, the less educated are in many countries2 indeed more likely to support these parties and their anti-immigration policies, and this is, demographically speaking, related to their educational level, rather than income or occupation (Rooduijn, 2017; Spruyt et al., 2016). In contrast, others have argued for a more technocratic nature of democracy. For example, some have proposed that the right to vote should depend on political knowledge, effectively excluding many, and mostly, less educated citizens (Bell, 2016; Brennan, 2016). In other words, education (and not income) is central to a major current political divide, both in terms of voter behavior and political rhetoric (Evans & Tilley, 2017; Zhang, 2018).)

PEW RESEARCH
—  Candidate quality and what drives elected officials to run for office.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/candidate-quality-and-what-drives-elected-officials-to-run-for-office/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: What motivates people to run for office? Self-interest – whether in the form of making a lot of money, potentially running for a higher-level office later, or gaining fame and attention – is widely seen as the motivating force for all or most elected officials. In contrast, just 15% of Americans think all or most elected officials ran because they wanted to serve the public.

HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-state-department-human-rights-report-lgbtq-asylum_n_689bd895e4b03bdc474fc073

POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drugs.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/13/trump-drug-cartels-mexico-00506084
— Black Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/black-cities-mayors-trump-dc-takeover-00505773

PROGRESSIVE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://progressive.org/magazine/a-sanctuary-fights-back-duda-20250812/

AXIOS
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/12/trump-bls-ej-antoni-economists

GUARDIAN
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/12/asylum-seekers-leaders-sexual-offences-women-girls
— Democrat leaders fight transparency concerning criminals.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/disclosing-asylum-status-suspects-transparency

August 12, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Pritzker again makes Nazi comparisons after President Trump threatens DC-like takeover in Chicago. Because Trump is German American, anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Trump is a Nazi.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/gov-jb-pritzker-again-makes-nazi-comparisons-after-president-trump-threatens-dc-like-takeover-in-chicago/

DAILY HERALD
— Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/media/illinois-newsrooms-receive-4-million-from-state-through-tax-credits/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-lifts-hopes-chicago-cannabis-companies

NBC5
— Trump calls up National Guard to combat crime in DC, says Chicago could be next
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/president-trump-calls-up-national-guard-to-combat-crime-in-dc-says-chicago-could-be-next/3808191/

CBS2
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pritzker-president-trump-has-no-legal-ability-to-send-troops-into-chicago/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU0H9TGv_6E
— Chicago to install 50 flood sensors providing real-time alerts of flash flooding
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/verizon-50-flood-sensors-real-time-flash-flooding-alerts/

WGN9
— Trump puts D.C. police under federal control, warns Chicago could be next
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjxQFYQpF70
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNfOQqZD8G4

FOX32
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689617

WTTW
— Johnson, Pritzker Dismiss Trump’s Threat to Send National Guard to Chicago. The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/johnson-pritzker-dismiss-trump-s-threat-send-national-guard-chicago

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Who is running on the Republican ticket for Illinois governor? Here are the candidates so far.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/08/12/here-are-the-candidates-for-illinois-governor-in-2026-so-far/85609674007/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders call you a racist.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-and-regional/illinois/article_bd8bbe5e-ce83-5b5d-9303-3bd543f568b6.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WMBD & NPR ILLINOIS
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/trump-criticizes-illinois-safe-t/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiZZKxJowY4
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/trump-is-taking-over-d-c-police-and-sending-in-the-national-guard-locals-are-furious

NPR ILLINOIS
— Were you an unhoused college student?” I was not. My parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home a) while I was a full-time UIC student 1966-1968, b) weekends while I was a full-time NIU student during my first semester in 1969, c) the summer of 1969, and d) while I worked part-time during the school years and full-time during the summers for the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/trump-administration-proposal-could-harm-funds-for-unhoused-students

WCIA
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders call you a racist.
https://www.wcia.com/news/politics/ap-politics/ap-trumps-washington-police-takeover-echoes-history-of-racist-narratives-about-urban-crime/

AXIOS CHICAGO
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/11/trump-cash-bail-chicago

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-566/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Manipulated maps, hypocrisy and Illinois’ collapsing Congressional influence
https://wirepoints.org/manipulated-maps-hypocrisy-and-illinois-collapsing-congressional-influence-wirepoints/
— Pritzker is gunning for the presidency, sacrificing Illinoisans for the national spotlight
https://wirepoints.org/gov-pritzker-is-running-for-president-which-means-illinoisans-needs-are-sacrificed-for-the-national-spotlight-wirepoints-on-with-jeff-daly-of-wzus-decatur-radio/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Rushing for the exit: Illegal immigrant population down 1.6 million under Trump crackdown
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/illegal-immigrant-population-16-million-trump-crackdown/

CAMPUS REFORM
— New academic coalition calls for reparations, end to US global influence. Professors, educators, and activists have formed a coalition to dismantle what they call an “imperialist” world order headed by the United States.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/new-academic-coalition-calls-reparations-end-us-global-influence/28434

DAILY WIRE
— Trump Promises To Liberate D.C. From ‘Savagery, Filth, And Scum’
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-promises-to-liberate-d-c-from-savagery-filth-and-scum

FEDERALIST
— Democrats Promise To Turn Illegal Aliens Into Voters
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/11/democrats-promise-to-turn-illegal-aliens-into-voters/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Long Battle Ahead to Stamp Out DEI
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-long-battle-ahead-to-stamp-out-dei/

NEWSMAX
— Trump: Liberation Day for D.C.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/donald-trump-washington-d-c-crime/2025/08/11/id/1221999/
— Hold Members of Congress to Their Oath
https://www.newsmax.com/michaeldorstewitz/guatemala-omar-somalia/2025/08/11/id/1222008/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Delia Ramirez is the latest congresswoman to draw flak from remarks that call her allegiance to the United States into question, an allegiance to which they had both pledged when they were sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Speaking before a Mexico City summit over the last weekend, the Illinois Democrat announced, “I’m a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American.” Ramirez is a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and the Department of Homeland Security retweeted her statement along with a quote from Theodore Roosevelt: “There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism,” the 28th president said. “Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.” That’s especially true for members of Congress. Their oath of office is as follows: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” As Roosevelt noted, there is no room for divided loyalties in this country — especially where one expresses a greater loyalty to a foreign country than to the United States. Although Ramirez was the latest politician to call her loyalty into question, she’s not the only one to do so.)

U.S. HOUSE ENERGY & COMMERCE COMMITTEE
— Chairman Guthrie Issues Statement Regarding CBO Coverage Update from the One Big Beautiful Bill
https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairman-guthrie-issues-statement-regarding-cbo-coverage-update-from-the-one-big-beautiful-bill
(FROM THE POSTING: “The prolonged lie exacerbated by Democrats that 17 million individuals will lose health care coverage from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has finally been dispelled by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). In the most recent coverage update released by CBO, CBO estimates 10 million individuals enrolled in federal health care programs will no longer be covered, with 5.3 million being able-bodied adults refusing to work, 3.7 million having access to other forms of coverage, and the remaining balance being removed from the rolls since coverage was limited to U.S. citizens and lawfully permanent residents. It’s easy to scare people with coverage loss estimates, but the facts are clear – the vast majority of these individuals are either choosing to lose coverage or aren’t actually eligible for Medicaid, and nearly all are eligible for other forms of coverage. “I think about Americans all across the country, who work hard every day but have to pay with their own taxpayer dollars for the health care of millions of able-bodied Americans who are choosing not to work. Republicans will continue to find commonsense solutions that ensure these programs are available for those who need them most, for generations to come. I thank President Trump for his steadfast leadership on this issue and for signing a piece of legislation that promotes the future of our health programs to serve their intended purpose.” BACKGROUND: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently released the updated coverage numbers for H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA). CBO estimated the total number of uninsured beneficiaries to be 10 million by 2034. The breakdown includes: 5.3 million able-bodied adults currently covered by Medicaid who are choosing not to work; 3.7 million individuals who will have access to another form of health insurance; and
1 million individuals who are not U.S. citizens or lawfully permanent residents.)

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Illegal Alien Criminals Exploited Loophole Meant for Abused Children to Sneak Into U.S.
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-criminals-exploited-loophole-meant-abused-children-sneak-u-s/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5447320-chicago-mayor-trump-national-guard/
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, an/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/homenews/5443275-with-anti-dei-and-esg-battles-trump-is-waging-war-against-freedom/

CNN
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-washington-dc-police-national-guard-analysis
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/police-washington-dc-trump-take-over
— Democrat leaders send in Democrats to taunt Republicans at Republican townhalls
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/politics/california-gop-congressman-doug-lamalfa-town-hall

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders call you a racist.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-washington-dc-takeover-race-39388597bad7e70085079888fe7fb57b

MSNBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6Jd7O_g65Y

NEWSWEEK
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Trump causes all the problems that Blacks have. My Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government hinted/implied/argued/shouted at my Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-approval-rating-collapses-with-black-voters/ar-AA1K8PHG

ABC NEWS
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-administration-reclassifying-marijuana/story?id=124552149
— Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling. Kim Davis, a former clerk who refused gay couples, brought the appeal.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-formally-asked-overturn-landmark-same-sex/story?id=124465302

NBC NEWS
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/legality-trumps-deployment-national-guard-l-argued-federal-court-rcna224432

NEW YORK TIMES
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/trump-mayor-washington-dc-crime.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/us/politics/undocumented-immigrants-aid-texas-floods.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump is sending National Guard troops to D.C. Here’s how home rule works. The president also placed city police under federal control.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/11/trump-dc-national-guard-deployment/
— Democrat leaders call Trump’s takeover of D.C. police department ‘unsettling and unprecedented’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/11/trump-presidency-news/
— Trump nominates Bureau of Labor Statistics critic to replace fired agency head. My Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. He was the office’s leading advocate of Affirmative Action and DEI. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He was not a licensed CPA like I was.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/11/trump-bls-nomination-antoni/
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/10/trump-crime-data-federal-takeover/
— The federal government should “intervene in business” to protect national security. Ever-increasingly, everything depends on chips.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/11/trump-nvidia-amd-chips-china/
— — Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/11/texas-gerrymandering-redistricting-reforms/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-08-11/scotus-gerrymander-texas-redistricting

USA TODAY
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/donald-trump-washington-dc-takeover-civil-rights-advocates/85617724007/
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/10/texas-redistricting-standoff-democrats-republicans-gerrymandering/85548057007/

BOSTON GLOBE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad including bad health.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/opinion/letters-to-the-editor-alzheimers-trump-funding/

OHIO CAPITAL JOURNAL
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/12/stop-the-steal-politicians-cheat-voters-and-destroy-democracy-with-shameless-gerrymandering/

NBC SAN DIEGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ in the military
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXMcqq0Futo

THE WEEK
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander.
https://theweek.com/politics/texas-gerrymander-battle-states

VANGUARD NWS GROUP
— Wealth Inequality. Why do you have less money? My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://davisvanguard.org/2025/08/reduce-wealth-inequality-america/

LAW 360 & JD SUPRA
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans, and especially Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, an/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2373417/what-to-know-following-doj-s-guidance-on-unlawful-dei
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/department-of-justice-issues-new-8831676/

MONDAQ
— Illinois Employers Get Ready—Busy Equal Pay Reporting Season Is Coming. My Democrat superiors in the federal government always paid their similarly qualified employees who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran more than they paid those like me who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. As I earned more qualifications, the gap got bigger. I earned an MBA when I was 27. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/employee-benefits-compensation/1664682/illinois-employers-get-readybusy-equal-pay-reporting-season-is-coming

POLITICO
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/california-national-guard-trial-00504664

AXIOS
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/trump-marijuana-reclassification-federal-dangerous-drugs
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/11/trump-law-enforcement-new-york-oakland-baltimore-chicago

GUARDIAN
— The more that you do to fight crime, the more that Democrat leaders demonize you, denigrate you, and condemn you.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-crime-los-angeles
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/11/trump-washington-dc-national-guard-police

August 11, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and activating the National Guard
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-is-promising-new-steps-tackle-homelessness-crime-washington-dc/17499673/
— Pritzker says President Trump ‘has no right’ to send National Guard to Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/gov-pritzker-encourages-back-school-vaccinations-says-trump-is-violating-law-sending-national-guard-reduce-crime/17503840/
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-administration-looking-reclassifying-marijuana/17503437/
— Democrat elected officials gerrymander to elect Democrat candidates. Look at their Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-vow-stay-special-session-ends-despite-st-charles-bomb-threat-greg-abbotts-arrests/17504587/

NBC5
— Trump vows to end ‘no cash bail,’ threatens crime crackdown in Chicago. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-vows-to-end-no-cash-bail-in-chicago-threatens-crime-crackdown/3807774/
— What is ‘no cash bail’? What to know as President Trump blasts the policy. The SAFE-T Act in Illinois banned cash bail in 2023.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/what-is-no-cash-bail-what-to-know-as-president-trump-blasts-the-policy/3807855/
— Pritzker responds after Trump calls him ‘incompetent,’ comments on his weight. “Every place in the country where you have no cash bail is a disaster,” Trump said.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-responds-after-trump-calls-him-incompetent-comments-on-his-weight/3807905/
— Gerrymandering debate rages in Illinois as Texas lawmakers remain in state. The Texas legislature still has not convened to vote on the new maps, as Democrats remain out of state despite threats and criticisms
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/gerrymandering-debate-rages-in-illinois-as-texas-lawmakers-remain-in-state/3807960/

CBS2
— Trump says he’ll “end” no cash bail in Chicago while announcing National Guard deployment to D.C.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-no-cash-bail-chicago-national-guard-dc/
— Democrat candidates win because Democrat elected officials gerrymander.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/dick-durbin-texas-democrats-redistricting-fight/

FOX32
— Texas Democrats remain in Illinois amid redistricting fight
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689395
— After Trump threatens Chicago with National Guard, Pritzker, Johnson push back
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1689390

WTTW
— Which Republicans Are Seeking Statewide Office in Illinois in 2026? So Far, Hardly Any.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-illinois-2026-so-far-hardly-any
— Federal Judge Allows Chicago to Join Lawsuit to Stop Trump from Yanking Funding Sanctuary Cities
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/11/federal-judge-allows-chicago-join-lawsuit-stop-trump-yanking-funding-sanctuary-cities

WGN RADIO
— Trump to send National Guard into Washington, said Chicago could follow
https://wgnradio.com/news/trump-to-send-national-guard-into-washington-said-chicago-could-follow/
— Why can’t the Trump Tower find tenants?
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/block-club-chicagos-mack-liederman-why-cant-the-trump-tower-find-tenants/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Trump says he’s placing Washington police under federal control and deploying the National Guard
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-homelessness-washington/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/trump-big-bill-mass-deportations-congress/
— Our politics focus on what to do ‘for’ voters. That threatens the economy.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/jim-nowlan-our-politics-focus-on-what-to-do-for-voters-that-threatens-the-economy/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders say Trump’s warning about replicating a DC police takeover in Chicago an empty and illegal threat
https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/11/donald-trump-trump-federal-takeover-dc-police-national-guard-chicago-threat-jb-pritzker
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/11/snap-cuts-economy-trump-big-beautiful-bill-marc-morial

DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders promote Democrat Wheaton City Council member Erica Bray-Parker to succeed retiring Republican Amy Grant for the 47th state House district seat.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/illinois-state-politics/wheaton-city-councilwoman-running-for-state-house-seat/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Trump calls Johnson, Pritzker ‘incompetent’ — and hints at Chicago police takeover
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-threatens-chicago-police-takeover-slams-johnson-pritzker
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/cannabis/trump-decision-marijuana-classification-coming
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give Blacks more preference.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/trumps-actions-highlight-threats-black-communities-opinion
— For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Democrat leaders of federal agencies decry/despise/hate Republican-led budget cuts. First, they deal with those cuts by getting rid of any remaining Republican employees. Next, they get rid of their Democrat employees who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And last, their Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-downsizing-leaves-still-employed-workers-vulnerable
— Federal job cuts take a bite out of Chicago’s economy. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, federal jobs should be given to those who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. I am none of the aforesaid. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. Because I refused to become a Democrat, they ever-increasingly did everything that they could to get rid of me. I would not have survived for almost 3 years as a postal employee if I had not taken job-related undergraduate business courses at UIC 1966-1968 and NIU in 1969. I would not have survived for almost 9 years as an IRS employee if I had not a) taken graduate evening business courses at Loyola 1972-1976 and accounting courses DePaul 1976-1980 and b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I would not have survived for almost 18 years as a GAO employee if I had not a earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, c) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) became a licensed CPA in 1981, e) earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and f) earned a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/elevate/federal-jobs-cuts-ripple-through-chicago-region
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The federal government is the largest employer in the Chicago area, although at nearly 48,000 it’s a modest slice of a 5 million-strong area workforce. At the start of the year, the federal workforce nationwide was 3 million and 82,000 in Illinois. DOGE’s program is disproportionately stinging African American employees like Cherry. Of the federal workforce, 18.6% are Black, while Black people account for 13.7% of the U.S. population. And Black workers are an even bigger presence — 20% or more — at a number of departments including the Postal Service, Education Department, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Treasury Department and Department of Veterans Affairs — all of which have been hit with job cuts since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January. The federal government is a significant employer of women of color, with Black women, Latinas and Asian women all having a greater presence in the federal workforce compared to the private sector, the National Women’s Law Center reports. “Federal employment is one of the few job sectors where Black women have had meaningful access to upward mobility,”  Juliana Stratton, lieutenant governor of Illinois, and Cherita Ellens, president and CEO of Women Employed, wrote recently in a Chicago Tribune commentary essay. With above-average pay and solid benefits, federal employment has provided a path to the middle class not just for Black workers but for women and other disadvantaged groups. The government’s commitment to equal opportunity dating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has made public service an attractive sector for career advancement that may be less accessible in the private sector. The Trump administration’s purge of offices that promote equal opportunity and diversity and inclusion has particularly affected the employment of Black Americans. “The federal government has played a unique role in the labor history of Black Americans,” economic researcher Joseph Dean wrote in a February report by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition. “The decades-long progress made by Black federal employees is in serious danger of being upended in a fraction of time it took to build,” Dean wrote. “Federal employment opportunities provide substantial economic independence and stability for Black middle class Americans.”)

25 NEWS NOW
— Which Republicans are seeking statewide office in 2026? So far, hardly any. Politicians set to gather at State Fair this week, unofficially kicking off 2026 election season.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/11/which-republicans-are-seeking-statewide-office-2026-so-far-hardly-any/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Thus far, just two lesser-known Republicans have expressed interest in challenging Pritzker in 2026. A similar group of lesser-known candidates is considering a U.S. Senate run, but there has been no news about anyone running for comptroller, treasurer or secretary of state. . .In the Senate race, four Republicans have filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission and are actively raising money. Former Illinois Republican Party Chair Don Tracy is reportedly considering running for either governor or Senate and is expected to make an announcement soon. Ted Dabrowski, the president of conservative research site Wirepoints, is also considering running for governor. . .Bob Fioretti, who has unsuccessfully run for several offices as a member of both parties, is reportedly circulating petitions to run for attorney general. But even as petition-gathering begins, no other candidates are publicly known to be interested in running for other statewide offices. Notable names, including U.S. Rep. Darin LaHood and former Illinois Republican National Committeeman Richard Porter have declined to run for governor or Senate.)

FOX ILLINOIS
— DC Democrats rally against Trump’s deployment of National Guard
https://foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/dc-trump-announcement-national-guard-district-residents-rally-against-deployment-federal-contro-section-740-home-rule-act-photo-watch-video-protests-crime-teen-violence

NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-11/factories-from-ge-to-kraft-heinz-lose-immigrant-workers-stressing-those-who-remain

KHQA
— State Senator Jil Tracy files suit against Texas lawmakers hiding out in Illinois
https://khqa.com/news/local/state-senator-republican-jil-tracy-files-suit-petition-calls-for-arrest-complaint-against-texas-lawmakers-democrats-hiding-out-in-illinois-texas-redistricting-map-gop-plan-rigged-scheme-conservative-majority-2026-midterm-elections

WJBL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wjol.com/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-today-august-11th/

SIU
— Democrats use DEI to get of Republicans who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://news.siu.edu/2025/08/081125-siu-celebrates-diversity-inclusion-during-belonging-week-2025.php

CHICAGO READER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicagoreader.com/performing-arts/rhinestone-digest/rhinestone-digest-august-2025-parody-and-legality/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Will Trump Tower’s Riverfront Retail Space Ever Get A Tenant?
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/11/will-trump-towers-riverfront-retail-space-ever-get-a-tenant/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-359/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., federal government to take over metro police department
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/trump-deploys-national-guard-dc-federal-government-take-metro-police/
— Teachers unions’ political obsession harms children. Racial quotas, forced grade inflation don’t constitute advocacy for educators.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/teachers-unions-political-obsession-harms-children/
— Arab money flooding American universities. Opaque foreign funding in our schools is a national security problem.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/11/arab-money-flooding-american-universities/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Major New York hotel-turned-shelter ends operations after city ends contract
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3496193/major-new-york-hotel-migrant-shelter-ends-city-contract-eric-adams/

NEW YORK POST
— Zohran Mamdani benefits from rent-stabilization, affirmative action programs meant for less-fortunate
https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/opinion/zohran-mamdani-benefits-from-rent-stabilization-affirmative-action-programs-meant-for-less-fortunate/

FEDERALIST
— Politico Hacks Insist Gerrymandering Is Different When Democrats Do It
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/11/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it/

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump calls to get rid of sanctuary cities as he declares ‘public safety emergency’ in Washington, DC
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6376798033112

FOX NEWS
— Illinois Democrats tell feds to stop trying to ‘usurp’ state authority over immigration. Rep Jesus Garcia and Sen Dick Durbin led the letter to DOJ and DHS.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-democrats-tell-feds-stop-trying-usurp-state-authority-over-immigration

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— Why is Cook County in Illinois doling out $2M to the Chicago Abortion Fund?
https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2025/08/why-is-cook-county-in-illinois-doling-out-2m-to-the-chicago-abortion-fund/

PJ MEDIA
— Trump Takes Over D.C. Police, Vows to Revolutionize ’Slums’
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/11/breaking-trump-takes-over-dc-police-vows-to-revolutionize-slums-n4942593

THOMAS MOORE SOCIETY
— Cook County Doles Out $2M Grant to Bankroll Abortion Fund. Meanwhile, the Land of Lincoln continues to target pregnancy help ministries.
https://www.thomasmoresociety.org/news/cook-county-doles-out-2m-grant-to-bankroll-abortion-fund

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEWSWEEK
— Map shows governor approval rating
https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-governor-approval-rating-2111902

POLITICO
— Teamsters pour money into GOP, shifting away from Dems. After years of loyally backing Democrats, Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien is diversifying the union’s PAC to support Republicans, too.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/11/teamsters-donations-00502709

August 11, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/letters-081025/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Higher education pays off in Illinois. Without my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS in 1971. Without my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Without my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Without my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. Without my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/higher-education-economic-mobility/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce

NORTHWEST HERALD
— Which McHenry County offices are up next year and who’s running for reelection? Nominating petitions are circulating for the March 2026 primary election.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/08/10/which-mchenry-county-offices-are-up-next-year-and-whos-running-for-reelection/

HERALD REVIEW
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/article_975e3036-fc97-549f-9b12-62ece3f00ee8.html

WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-judicial-picks/507-c6195acd-84c9-4ff9-8d62-3482e2d0f813

EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-illinois-texas-politics/

OAK LAWN PATCH
— Robert Cruz: IL-GOP on life support. Can the il-GOP swing the pendulum and compete. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders must focus on defending and advancing the Republican Party platform.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/il-gop-life-support

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/11/texas-dems-preach-defiance-in-chicago-00502628

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman (PC)? Is he/she running again? I am running again to be the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican PC in Wheaton. Google AI’s overview of the Republican Precinct Committeeman position is at: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22precinct+committeeman%22+republican  I was appointed as an Assistant PC in 1999 and then as a PC in 1999 to fill a vacancy. I was elected PC in 2000 and reelected every 2 years since. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010 and I served on all the MTRO fundraising committees 2000-2010. But those who continue to dominate MTRO a) rudely terminated as me as MTRO webmaster in 2004 and 2010, b) rudely defeated me when I ran for the open MTRO Treasurer office in 2004, c) rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and e) rudely ended my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024. They have never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer. They continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. They ever-increasingly blame me, blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blame my serving as the Milton Township campaign coordinator for Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial campaign in 2002, blame my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007, blame my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and blame my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2012 for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/sordid-history-gerrymandering/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Full-Court Press on Immigration
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-full-court-press-on-immigration/

COLLEGE FIX
— Trump cracks down on covert affirmative action with admissions transparency order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-cracks-down-on-covert-affirmative-action-with-admissions-transparency-order/

DAILY WIRE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-says-his-states-gerrymandering-is-ok-because-democracy

FEDERALIST
— Is Equal Outcome the Same as Equal Opportunity. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity

FOX NEWS
— Vance calls on Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ to counter Democratic gerrymandering. Vance says Democrats benefit from illegal immigration through skewed census counts and gerrymandered maps.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-calls-republicans-take-decisive-action-counter-democratic-gerrymandering
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376777340112
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering.’ Illinois 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.aol.com/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-210941546.html

PJ MEDIA
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/the-left-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-on-gerrymandering-n4942582

PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
— Illinois family battles state’s race-based scholarship. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.
https://pacificlegal.org/illinois-family-battles-states-race-based-scholarship/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Reince Priebus: The House Is Already Completely Gerrymandered — There Are What, 10 Competitive Seats Out Of 435?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/reince_priebus_the_house_is_already_completely_gerrymandered_–_there_are_what_10_competitive_seats_out_of_435.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/

MSN
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, they have been under ever-increasing pressure to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-many-women-on-the-board-fewer-companies-are-saying/ar-AA1JTlM7

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Attacked California’s Congressional Maps. Republicans Want to Save Them. The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/california-redistricting-independent-commission.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html
— Minimum Wage in L.A. Could Rise to $30 an Hour. In today’s dollars, I started earning $32.84/hour when I was 23 years old in 1972. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for IRS for 15 months and for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. I had completed 3 graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/minimum-wage-olympics-losangeles.html
— Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos. Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse. The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance helped withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/health/young-adults-health-insurance-26.html
— FRONT PAGE: The more that fight Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/mayor-bass-los-angeles-raids.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids. As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/health/cannabis-poisoning-children.html
— Unions Push Democrats to Win Back Members Who Went to Trump. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/democrats-labor-unions-nevada.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-school-choice-elections/

NEW YORK SUN
— Vance Assails 2020 Census as Flawed, Demands Complete Do-Over as Redistricting War Rages. Argument over mid-decade redistricting takes a new turn as the vice president declares U.S. Census Bureau made ‘major statistical error’ in 2020.
https://www.nysun.com/article/vance-assails-2020-census-as-flawed-demands-complete-do-over-as-redistricting-war-rages

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-texas-reopens-the-gerrymander-wars/20F020D8-3963-4D25-9BAB-9B28FFB903B9
— Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/equity-equality-fairness-and-good-sense-11612903580
— Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Solve U.S. Chip-Making Dilemma. Because Chevrolet suspended Malibu production in 2021 because of chip shortage, I bought one off the showroom floor instead of ordering one.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-tariffs-wont-solve-u-s-chip-making-dilemma-c5aec29b
— Make Cars Beautiful Again. Congress quietly axed the fuel-economy standards that help drive the ugliness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-cars-beautiful-again-design-auto-requirements-policy-e08fcfac
— FRONT PAGE: More Job Hunters Seek Pricey Help To Land New Roles. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunting-expenses-resume-linkedin-887b4bd2

FORBES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krf_LvgI1o

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/edi-meritocracy-why-hard-understand

AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce

HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/out-of-control-republicans-are-viciously-attacking-a-congresswoman-with-calls-to-deport-her/ar-AA1KcZAb

DAILY KOS
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337315/-Americans-hate-gerrymandering-Texas-Republicans-don-t-care

BUSINESS STANDARD
— How quota system looks across the globe. Around the world, quota systems in government jobs are employed as a tool to enhance the representation of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/how-does-quota-system-look-across-globe-894951

August 9, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— ‘ICE Academy’ training materials for warrantless arrests challenged in Chicago court. I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 (currently $55,850/year) Revenue Officer. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=IRS+%22revenue+officer%22+training    Democrats run IRS and Democrats run GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO In 1980 after working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/immigration-customs-enforcements-ice-academy-training-materials-warrantless-arrests-challenged-chicago-court/17476470/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While in the Chicago area Friday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem touted her department is in the midst of a hiring surge, with more than 80,000 applications received in the past week. To meet the demand, Noem said training at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Academy that once took up to a year to complete could be hastened to a matter of weeks, if the applicant has the relevant training and experience. The ABC7 I-Team had a rare look at some of the ICE Academy training materials for new agents that immigrant rights advocates say is concerning and their lawyers argue is illegal.)
— Trump offers $50M for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro arrest. The Trump administration accused Maduro of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-offers-50m-venezuela-president-nicols-maduro-arrest-accuses-being-worlds-largest-narco-traffickers/17474129/

RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot, it is fair to ask them if they use pot and if they say yes, how much, and if they say no, why not.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-august-11th-85158.cfm

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who wants to be the next chairman of the Illinois Republican Party? Leading a political organization is a thankless job. I served as an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) 2003-2007 and as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly blamed ICRC and TAPROOT for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct suffered. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes not only end my aforesaid roles, they destroyed the aforesaid organizations. I should write about my critics/opponents. They demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois. They have always been Democrat plants who have always done everything they could to destroy Republicans, and sooner or later, they will proudly proclaim that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASINGTON TIMES
— Trump hunts for colleges still using race in student selection. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would admit me today.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/trump-orders-colleges-prove-ended-race-based-admissions/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Indiana goes all-in to help ICE arrest, detain, and deport illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3495104/indiana-helps-ice-deport-illegal-immigrants-speedway-slammer/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Great Gerrymandering War Of 2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_great_gerrymandering_war_of_2025.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Adam Schiff says quiet part out loud about Dems needing illegals to win. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/08/adam-schiff-says-quiet-part-out-loud-about-dems-needing-illegals-to-win-1574766/

BREITBART
— Catholic Bishops Compare ICE Deportations to Nazis and Slave Catchers. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success invading, infiltrating, infesting, and conquering religion.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/08/08/catholic-bishops-compare-ice-deportations-to-nazis-and-slave-catchers/
— Andrew Cuomo Calls on Socialist Zohran Mamdani to ‘Move Out’ of His Rent Stabilized Apartment. The only rent that I have ever paid was while I was a student at NIU 1969-1970.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/08/andrew-cuomo-calls-on-socialist-zohran-mamdani-to-move-out-of-his-rent-stabilized-apartment/

COLLEGE FIX
— Trump orders more oversight of federal grants after funds went to drag shows, DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-orders-more-oversight-of-federal-grants-after-funds-went-to-drag-shows-dei/

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— There Are 50 Million Illegal Aliens in the USA. We Can and Must Deport Them All. Here Are the Top 10 Ways for President Trump To Make It Happen Efficiently and Quickly.
https://www.creators.com/read/wayne-allyn-root/08/25/there-are-50-million-illegal-aliens-in-the-usa-we-can-and-must-deport-them-all-here-are-the-top-10-ways-for-president-trump-to-make-it-happen-efficiently-and-quickly

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Moves To Keep Leftists From Pilfering Tax Dollars For Radical Agendas
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/08/trump-move-liberals-left-pilfering-tax-dollars-radical-agendas/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DEI Will Implode. Here’s Why. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used DEI the most to destroy me. I would focus on a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government and b) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party; Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois; Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers;  conservative leaders; and religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/08/how-trump-broke-the-dei-machine/
— The DEI Scam is Falling Apart, and Trump Broke It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lh2dQrU1kA

FEDERALIST
— Education Dept. Demands Receipts From Universities That Do Affirmative Action Under The Table. Democrats and RINOs have always crowed about their giving preference to those who are Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/education-dept-demands-receipts-from-universities-that-do-affirmative-action-under-the-table/
— Trump Order Targets Self-Appointed ‘Experts’ Funneling Tax Dollars To Leftist Pet Projects
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/trump-order-targets-self-appointed-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-pet-projects/

ICE
— ICE Houston arrests more than 350 gang members in past 6 months who illegally entered US over 1,400 times, been convicted of nearly 1,700 criminal offenses. Among those arrested were convicted murderers, child predators, thieves, and arsonists and an alien who illegally entered the US 40 times.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-houston-arrests-more-350-gang-members-past-6-months-who-illegally-entered-us-over

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— To promote wokeness is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/can-wokeness-be-defeated/amp/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Gerrymandering Wars Have Begun. Threats have been exchanged, and now we wait until someone pulls the trigger.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/begun-the-gerrymandering-wars-have/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. The more pot that you use, the less that you accomplish in life. If I had used pot, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, or c) to earn a professional license. If I had used pot, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970, c) IRS would not have hired me in 1971 or promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, and d) GAO would not have hired me in 1980 or promoted me in 1986. If I had used pot, would not have been able to get married in 1978.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-marijuana-reclassify-dea

NEWSWEEK
— Redistricting Wars: Map Shows How Many Seats Could Change Before Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/redistricting-map-midterm-election-2026-gerrymandering-republicans-democrats-states-2110170

MSN
— ‘Worrying time for Irish in US’ as Trump makes good on illegals promise
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/worrying-time-for-irish-in-us-as-trump-makes-good-on-illegals-promise/ar-AA1Jq43p

MSNBC
— Why the Air Force is denying early retirement for longtime transgender service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/air-force-denying-early-retirement-longtime-transgender-service-member-rcna223839

NBC NEWS
— Air Force revokes approved retirement for trans service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/air-force-revokes-approved-retirement-trans-service-members-complete-u-rcna223876

NEW YORK TIMES
— Air Force Denies Early Retirement for Transgender Men and Women. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/air-force-transgender-service-members-early-retirement.html
— More Turmoil at I.R.S. as Trump Ends Chief’s Short Tenure. Democrats run IRS. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980, they were ever-increasingly angry against Nixon and Ford. They took their ever-increasing anger against Nixon and Ford out against me, one of their very few Republican employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-billy-long-irs-commissioner.html
— Mexico ever-increasingly makes it clear that it is anti-American. Will Mexico side with America’s enemies in WWIII?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/americas/mexico-trump-military-cartels.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration weighs military actions against drug cartels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/08/trump-mexico-pentagon-drug-cartels/

NEW YORK SUN
— Trump’s New Census Could Spell Trouble for Democrats, Like Ocasio-Cortez and Jeffries, in Districts With Many Non-Citizens. The number of blue state members of Congress is swelled by the constitutional requirement that the decennial census include an ‘actual enumeration’ of the population. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-new-census-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats-like-ocasio-cortez-and-jeffries-in-districts-with-many-non-citizens
— Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collapses Under Weight of Its Own Paradoxes, Even Before President Trump’s Order Banning It. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial and gender preferences. My critics/opponents have always promoted race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents and the reasons why they promote race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.nysun.com/article/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-collapses-under-weight-of-its-own-paradoxes-even-before-president-trumps-order-banning-it

USA TODAY
— From Bibles to prayer groups: What Trump’s new religion memo for federal workers means. The memo provides guidance on religious expression for federal workers. Backers say it mirrors Clinton-era policies. But to others, the overtly Christian language raises First Amendment concerns. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Protestant and none that knew of were Missouri Synod Lutheran like me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/07/trump-religion-federal-employees/85516547007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’  Regulators have abused their power to cut off political opponents. What does your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-debanking-executive-order-bank-examiners-biden-obama-operation-choke-point-8396e49d
— How the West Was Really Won. If I had ever ran for a government office, my opponent would have used against me that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now German during the 1840s and 1850s, that on my father’s side they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete township, and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-undiscovered-country-review-into-the-west-13866720
— Trump Takes a Destructive Turn Against India. He has a point about New Delhi’s relationship with Russia, but 50% tariffs are a counterproductive policy. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-a-destructive-turn-against-india-tariffs-d77a2a79
— Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America. How did socialism rise from the dead, and what can freedom-loving Americans do about it? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. According to Democrat leaders, you cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance, and especially if you are a minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/living-in-zohran-mamdanis-america-44ea8b90
— Gerrymandering Is Deepening America’s Political Divide. Less than 20% of Americans live in a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice in governance. In Illinois, ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the less voice that you have in governance: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly I have no voice in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/us-gerrymandering-political-divide-a2a83a28

ATLANTIC
— Democrats cannot win without massive gerrymandering.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/lawlessness-fbi-against-texas-democrats/683804/

BRITANNICA
— American Civil War – Emancipation, Slavery, Union. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War/The-Emancipation-Proclamation

GOOGLE AI
— Peers play a significant role in an individual’s life, influencing success, happiness, and overall well-being. I should write about the impact that my childhood peers had on me. I would focus on my childhood friends and classmates. Further, because one could argue that the most relevant criteria to use to measure one’s success in life is the success of one’s peers, I would focus on the successes that my childhood peers have had.
https://www.google.com/search?q=peers+success+life
— Living on one paycheck. Since I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have always been furious that my wife and I have always lived on just one of our paychecks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who are not married, b) whose spouse has little or no income, and/or c) who decry the tremendous amount of time and money needed to raise children. Initially, my wife and I lived on just one of our paychecks because we intended to have children. But because we gave up trying to have children because of our fertility problems, we then lived on just one of our paychecks to save more for our retirement.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22living+on+one+paycheck%22

August 8, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Noem accuses IL leaders of being ‘obstructionist’ in Chicago area visit
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-chicago-friday-speak-immigration/17470258/
— U.S. Sen. John Cornyn says FBI Director Kash Patel has approved a request for the FBI to assist Texas law enforcement in locating Texas House Democrats, many of whom came to Illinois.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-senator-john-cornyn-says-fbi-director-kash-patel-agreed-assist-finding-democrats-left-illinois/17461889/

NBC5
— Noem slams ‘sanctuary policies’ during Illinois visit. During a visit to Lombard Friday, Noem criticized both Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, saying they’re not cooperating with ICE.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-slams-sanctuary-policies-during-illinois-visit/3806766/

CBS2
— Noem touts ICE arrests in west suburbs, protest held outside
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem-in-chicago/

FOX32
— Demonstrators protest DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Chicago visit
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/demonstrators-protest-dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-chicago-visit

WTTW
— Homeland Security Head Noem Criticizes Pritzker, Johnson in Illinois Visit While Local Officials Brand Her a ‘Liar’
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/08/homeland-security-head-noem-criticizes-pritzker-johnson-illinois-visit-while-local

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas Republicans ask Illinois court to order arrest of House Democrats who fled state as part of remap battle
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/08/texas-republicans-illinois-court-enforce-arrest-warrants/
— Noem blasts Pritzker, Johnson during Chicago-area visit
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/08/kristi-noem-chicago-visit/
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/08/texas-partisan-gerrymandering-is-it-legal/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Noem highlights Illinois immigrant arrests, as Dems defend state’s legal sanctuary policies. Standing in front of a cache of fentanyl, guns and cash that were recently recovered in Illinois, Noem came to west suburban Lombard and briefly highlighted the arrests made by federal agents, “without the help of the governor or the mayor.” Noem did not say whether the men had been deported.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/08/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-illinois-arrests-sanctuary-policies-juliana-stratton

DAILY HERALD
— Noem calls Pritzker ‘obstructionist’ on immigration enforcement at Lombard news conference
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250808/news/dhs-secretary-kristi-noem-calls-pritzker-obstructionist-on-immigration-enforcement-at-lombard-news/
— Democrat leaders use reports of bomb threats against Republicans.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250808/crime/second-bomb-threat-at-st-charles-conference-center-where-texas-democrats-stayed/
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250807/nation-and-world-politics/pritzker-fbi-cant-arrest-texas-lawmakers-sheltering-in-illinois/

ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://dceo.illinois.gov/oe3/cannabisequity/cannabis-social-equity-r3.html
https://dceo.illinois.gov/oe3/cannabisequity.html

DOWNERS GROVE PATCH
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation or their illegals.
https://patch.com/illinois/downersgrove/casten-blasts-dhs-secretary-noems-visit-chicago-discuss-border-security-worst

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/08/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-358/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Newsom vows to ‘nullify’ Texas with 5 more Democratic seats in California
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/gov-gavin-newsom-vows-nullify-texas-5-democratic-seats-california/
— Trump removes IRS commissioner Billy Long, appoints him Iceland ambassador
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/trump-removes-irs-commissioner-billy-long-appoints-iceland-ambassador/
— Ivy League forced to drop left-wing indoctrination under federal pressure
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/editorial-ivy-league-forced-drop-left-wing-indoctrination-federal/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Chicago police refused to turn over 92% of illegal immigrants to ICE under Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3494647/chicago-illegal-immigrants-noem-police-ice-sanctuary-city/

AMAC
— Dems’ Foreign Loyalties Expose ‘America Last’ Agenda
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/dems-foreign-loyalties-expose-america-last-agenda/

BLAZE
— Expel Delia Ramirez — and enforce the oath of office
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/expel-delia-ramirez-and-enforce-the-oath-of-office
— Loyalty to the United States is non-negotiable for Congress members
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/loyalty-to-the-united-states-is-non-negotiable-for-congress-members

BREITBART
— Durbin on if IL Is Gerrymandered: We Had a ‘Partisan’ Process for Drawing Our Maps. Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/08/durbin-on-if-il-is-gerrymandered-we-had-a-partisan-process-for-drawing-our-maps/
— Noem: Sanctuary Democrats IL Gov. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Johnson ‘Choosing Criminals’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/08/kristi-noem-sanctuary-democrats-il-gov-pritzker-chicago-mayor-johnson-choosing-criminals/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DHS Chief Accuses Illinois Governor, Chicago Mayor of ‘Ignoring the Law’
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/08/dhs-chief-accuses-illinois-governor-chicago-mayor-of-ignoring-the-law/

FEDERALIST
— Mass Immigration, Legal Or Illegal, Is Incompatible With National Survival
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/mass-immigration-legal-or-illegal-is-incompatible-with-national-survival/

FOX NEWS
— Cuban-born congressman calls for ‘Squad’ member’s removal over ‘Guatemalan before American’ remark. ‘I have and will continue to use my voice, my heritage, and my experience to defend everyone in America, our Constitution, and our rights,’ Ramirez responded.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-who-fled-communism-seeks-squad-members-ouster-guatemalan-first-before-american-comments
— Noem, in Illinois, calls out Pritzker and Johnson over their handling of criminal illegal immigrants. Noem says they are ‘being obstructionist’ on criminal illegal immigrants.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/noem-illinois-calls-out-gov-pritzker-chicagos-mayor-over-handling-criminal-illegal-immigrants
— Texas asks Illinois court to enforce arrest warrants for Democratic lawmakers
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/texas-asks-illinois-court-enforce-arrest-warrants-democratic-lawmakers

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Democrat leaders use reports of bomb threats against Republicans.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5443451-texas-democrats-hotel-bomb-threat/

CNN
— GOP lawmaker pushes to strip Democrat of committee assignment after saying she’s ‘a proud Guatemalan before I am an American’
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/gimenez-resolution-strip-ramirez-homeland-security-committee-house
— Texas AG sues to remove Democratic lawmakers who remain absent from legislature. Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/texas-democrats-redistricting-house-quorum-08-08-25
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/gerrymandering-texas-house-outcomes

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Is Removing I.R.S. Chief 2 Months After He Was Confirmed
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-billy-long-irs-commissioner.html
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/us/texas-redistricting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/us/politics/congressional-gerrymandering-redistricting-game.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/08/redistricting-gerrymandering-voters-representation-elections-texas/e0c75080-747f-11f0-84e0-485bb531abeb_story.html

FLORIDA POLITICS
— ‘Unacceptable’: Carlos Giménez moves to boot Dem from Homeland Security Committee over loyalty remark
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/750848-unacceptable-carlos-gimenez-moves-to-boot-dem-from-homeland-security-committee-over-loyalty-remark/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Earning More but in Worse Shape: Hardship Overwhelms Many American Families
https://www.wsj.com/economy/earning-more-worse-shape-poverty-overwhelms-families-eab13800

FORBES
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1jTJlZ6ohw

NEW REPUBLIC
— Democrats cannot win without gerrymandering.
https://newrepublic.com/article/198936/texas-maps-gop-end-democracy

POLITICO
— Billy Long out as IRS commissioner. President Donald Trump is removing the former member of Congress from his post less than two months after his swearing in. Long is expected to get an ambassadorship.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/billy-long-irs-commissioner-trump-00500365

DAILY KOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/8/2337460/-Rep-Delia-Ramirez-calls-to-dismantle-ICE-and-stands-strong-for-immigrants-and-human-rights