FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. The Republican Party platform promotes prosperity and safety.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/studies-show-strong-links-between-poverty-violence-chicago/16610703/
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/support-same-sex-marriage-gallup
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Huntley ‘Trump Truth’ store hosts dueling rallies as owner vows to stay open
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/31/huntley-trump-truth-store-hosts-dueling-rallies-as-owner-vows-to-stay-open/
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/men-voters-trump-democrats/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Who owns most of the farmland in Illinois? Not farmers. My great great grandfathers a) homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township and b) sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/illinois-farming-ownership-climate-change/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters side with Harvard against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/editorial-harvard-university-trump-attacks-graduation/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/chicago-history-june-1/
— Illinois lawmakers pass budget with tax hikes on tobacco, gambling — but adjourn without transit, Bears stadium
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/01/democrats-propose-tax-hikes-on-cigarettes-vaping-and-gambling-to-balance-55b-budget/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Sizzling hot campaign season forecast for Chicago and Illinois. What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? How strongly are the leaders of the following recruiting candidates: Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization? The leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have never recruited me to run for anything. Why is that? I should write about that.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/30/brandon-johnson-dick-durbin-giannoulias-mendoza-krishnamoorthi-stratton-chicago-illinois-rich-miller
— Illinois legislators unveil $55.2 billion spending plan that cuts immigrant health care program.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/05/30/illinois-budget-bill-hbia
— 23 students at Whitney Young Magnet High School get perfect ACT scores. My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ACT score was only 24. In my defense, my score would have been higher if I had not spent so many hours washing dishes instead of studying during my junior and senior years.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/30/whitney-young-magnet-high-school-perfect-act-scores
— Is Chicago’s interim U.S. attorney here to stay? The U.S. Attorney in Diersen v. GAO sided with the Democrats who ran GAO, that is, he promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, he promoted race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/05/30/andrew-boutros-interim-us-attorney-chicago-judges-role-pam-bondi
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/big-10-being-black-in-america-5-years-later/article_dfa73136-5167-4984-8ed9-7829b12d8d41.html
STATELINE
— Illinois Democrat leaders one step closer to legalizing medically-assisted suicide
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-one-step-closer-to-legalizing-medically-assisted-suicide/
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/black-lives-matter-solidarity-rally-takes-over-the-streets-of-springfield/video_f982a8a6-d344-55df-b10e-d40652a0ea6a.html
— Illinois House, Senate Democrats send $55.2 billion budget to Pritzker
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois-house-senate-democrats-send-55-2-billion-budget-to-pritzker/article_9525cf0d-5345-499a-870c-ad2e0d0841b1.html
ILLINOIS TIMES
— State officials eye Chicago mayor’s race
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/state-officials-eye-chicago-mayors-race-20240906
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. How many limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs live in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How strongly do they want to protect the value of their homes and their personal safety? Can the conservative Republicans who live there count on them to stop the worst Democrat and RINO policies that promote poverty and crime there? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What offices are on the March 17, 2026 Republican primary ballot in your precinct? Who are the candidates for those offices? What do you know about them? How strongly are the leaders of the following recruiting candidates: Illinois Republican Party (IRP), your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization? The leaders of the IRP, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization have never recruited me to run for anything. Why is that? I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. If Democrat and RINO leaders had promoted LGBTQ back then like they do now, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me, b) if the Post Office had hired me, it would have forced me to resign sooner than it did, c) if IRS had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) if GAO had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1986 and would have forced me to resign in 1993 instead of 1997, d) the RINOs who have run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) since 1999 would not have appointed me as a precinct committeeman in 1999 and they would have defeated me when I ran for precinct committeeman in 2000. If they had failed to defeat me, they never would have made me MTRO webmaster in 2000 and 2008. When I ran for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, I would have gotten zero votes instead of just 13. Topinka dominated the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has Gingrich impacted you? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. What if Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it? GAO would have offered me a promotion instead of a pay cut to transfer from IRS in 1980. GAO would have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $153,151/year, before I was 40 in 1988. I had worked 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. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976. I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. I had earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. All my GAO coworkers who my Democrat GAO 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 were minority, female, and/or younger than me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Those who are liberal or moderate use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Those who are anti-older people use DEI to get rid of older people. Those who are anti-Protestant use DEI to get rid of Protestants. Those who are anti-German American use DEI to get rid of German Americans. Those who are anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time use DEI to get rid of those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Republicans see Darin LaHood as ‘best chance’ for Senate flip in blue Illinois. I hope that he walks in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade. I spoke with his father just before he walked in the parade 20 years ago.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3427031/darin-lahood-republicans-illinois-senate-race/
NEW YORK POST
— Gov. Tim Walz calls on Democrats to be ‘fierce’ and ‘bully the s–t’ out of President Trump
https://nypost.com/2025/05/31/us-news/gov-tim-walz-calls-on-democrats-to-be-meaner-and-bully-the-s-t-out-of-wannabe-dictator-president-trump/
BREITBART
— Giving Illegals Free Health Care Is a Magnet for Illegal Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/05/31/maher-california-giving-illegals-free-health-care-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigration/
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Hopes To Bring ‘Thousands’ Of Refugees From South Africa By Late Summer
https://dailycaller.com/2025/05/31/trump-admin-thousands-afrikaner-refugees-south-africa-late-summer/
FOX BUSINESS
— Price of eggs have dropped 61% since Trump took office
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/price-eggs-have-dropped-61-since-trump-took-office
FOX NEWS
— Who is Julius Malema, the South African politician behind ‘kill the farmer’ chant? Critics say politician’s luxurious lifestyle clashes with his calls to protect the country’s poor.
https://www.foxnews.com/world/who-julius-malema-south-african-politician-behind-kill-farmer-chant
— Trump warns Rand Paul he’s playing into ‘hands of the Democrats’ with ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ opposition. The Kentucky senator said he would support the bill’s ‘wimpy and anemic’ tax and spending cuts if the bill wasn’t going to ‘explode the debt.’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-warns-rand-paul-playing-hands-democrats-big-beautiful-bill-opposition
NEW AMERICAN
— Blagojevich: Democrats Are “Monumental” “Hypocrites” and “Liars”
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/democratic-former-gov-blagojevich-democrats-are-monumental-hypocrites-and-liars/
PJ MEDIA
— Trump Shakes Up ICE Leadership Looking to Speed Deportations
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/05/31/faster-please-trump-shakes-up-ice-leadership-looking-to-speed-deportations-n4940319
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Democrat and RINO leaders discriminate against those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/05/31/lgbtq_organizations_seeing_substantial_cuts_in_funding_as_corporations_move_away_from_dei_advocacy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly dive the stock market down to punish Trump.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/economy/tariffs-apple-401k-savings
ASSOCITED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://apnews.com/article/steel-aluminum-tariffs-trump-groceries-0f8bd5f3cd9b8a2860d60125b9e8f2b2
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump budget cuts for everything that is bad.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-cuts-threaten-safety-training-workers-americas-most-dangerous-jobs-2025-05-31/
MSN
— Pope Leo to hold mass in Chicago – and people think it’s some ‘top tier’ Trump trolling
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pope-leo-to-hold-mass-in-chicago-and-people-think-it-s-some-top-tier-trump-trolling/ar-AA1FMj1W
— Democrat leaders give minorities preference. Trump gives them prosperity.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-study-reveals-why-trump-is-so-popular-among-minority-voters/ar-AA1FJavr
— Trump administration halts use of race, gender data in federal hiring. 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, minority, female, veteran, or younger person who would take the job.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-administration-halts-use-of-race-gender-data-in-federal-hiring/ar-AA1FJW4C
— ‘America is back’: US military thriving under Trump administration with a surge of new recruits
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/america-is-back-us-military-thriving-under-trump-administration-with-a-surge-of-new-recruits/ar-AA1FR6sQ
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Those who are liberal or moderate use DEI to get rid of conservatives. Those who are anti-older people use DEI to get rid of older people. Those who are anti-Protestant use DEI to get rid of Protestants. Those who are anti-German American use DEI to get rid of German Americans. Those who are anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time use DEI to get rid of those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/here-s-what-the-data-says-about-who-actually-benefits-from-dei/ar-AA1FQFAK
— My critics/opponents a) attribute all their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trumps-new-wildly-unhinged-assault-is-exposing-magas-deeper-scam-analysis/ar-AA1FDwe4
CNBC
— Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-retailers-raising-prices.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama. As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO sellers raise their prices and blame it on Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/politics/doge-cuts-elon-musk-trump.html
— The U.S.-Canada Border Runs Through This Library. That’s Now a Problem. A wealthy widow built a library and opera house on the border between Quebec and Vermont, a symbol of binational friendship. Now U.S. officials are restricting access to Canadians.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/world/canada/haskell-free-library-opera-house-quebec-vermont-border.html
WASHINGTON POST
— White House budget office rebukes GAO over ‘invasive’ probes.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/30/white-house-gao-spending-battle/
— Illegals criminally charged after failing to register with U.S. government.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/31/trump-immigrants-registry-doj-justice/
— It’s called the Library of Congress. But Trump claims it’s his.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/library-of-congress-trump-executive-branch/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Earlier this month, DOGE — the Elon Musk-run cost-cutting effort, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency — sought to “assign a team” to the Government Accountability Office, the congressional watchdog agency, which rejected the request, according to the GAO. . .GAO spokesperson Sarah Kaczmarek said in a statement that the agency had told DOGE that GAO is a legislative branch agency, not subject to executive orders and “has therefore declined any requests to have a DOGE team assigned to GAO. DOGE acknowledged receipt of our letter. GAO considers the matter closed [and] we are focused on our mission of supporting Congress.”)
— The Democrat Party ever-increasingly moves further to the left.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/31/tim-walz-democrats-2028/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. I was baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran. I have always opposed the promotion of LGBTQ. If Democrat and RINO leaders had promoted LGBTQ back then like they do now, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me, b) if the Post Office had hired me, it would have forced me to resign sooner than it did, c) if IRS had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, c) if GAO had hired me, it would not have promoted me in 1986 and would have forced me to resign in 1993 instead of 1997, d) the RINOs who have run the Illinois Republican Party (IRP), DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC), and Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) since 1999 would not have appointed me as a precinct committeeman in 1999 and they would have defeated me when I ran for precinct committeeman in 2000. If they had failed to defeat me, they never would have made me MTRO webmaster in 2000 and 2008. When I ran for MTRO Treasurer in 2004, I would have gotten zero votes instead of just 13. Topinka dominated the IRP, DCRCC, and MTRO.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2025/06/01/when-pride-month-2025-lgbtq-june-nyc/53a4612e-3e9d-11f0-912d-d5f4792db3e4_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/05/30/world-pride-dc-trump-capital-pride/
— To argue disparate impact is to argue that if you are minority and/or female and have problems, those problems are never your fault, but they are always the fault of those who are White and/or male.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/01/trump-disparate-impact-discrimination-cases-civil-rights/
USA TODAY
— Trump abandons his most impressive presidential legacy: conservative judges. I should write about the judges and justices in the lawsuits that I have filed. I would focus on those who promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, who promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/06/01/trump-federalist-society-supreme-court-judges/83947867007/
— Musk, the Trump campaign and ketamine: What to know about the powerful drug.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/05/30/elon-musk-ketamine-trump-campaign/83942817007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America’s enemies want America to be ever-increasingly dependent on foreign countries. Ever-increasingly, what Americans buy is made in foreign countries.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-economy-trump-tariffs-forecast-27f5f6a0
BOOMBERG
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with Putin against Trump.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-31/trump-s-appetite-for-punishing-putin-is-about-to-get-a-key-test
FORBES
— Homan blasts sanctuary jurisdictions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fOg6X9lW1Q
FAST COMPANY
— My critics/opponents a) attribute all their successes to meritocracy and b) attribute all my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who share their demographics. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91342985/dei-economy-costs-benefits-evidence-research
STATISTA
— A Third of Americans Worry About Manipulated News. The mainstream news media a) promotes the Democrat Party platform and b) demonizes, denigrates, and condemns the Republican Party platform.
https://www.statista.com/chart/34390/survey-news-attitutes-gci/
BROADBAND BREAKFAST
— Republicans Claim Google ‘Throttles’ Conservative Speech in FTC Filing. Scott and Hudson claim Google routes GOP emails to users’ spam. The Democrats who run Google ever-increasingly steer everyone a) to websites that promote the Democrat Party platform and b) away from websites that promote the Republican Party platform.
https://broadbandbreakfast.com/republicans-claim-google-throttles-conservative-speech-in-ftc-filing/
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— White House says it will cooperate with GAO only when it does not ‘unduly burden’ Trump’s agenda
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2025/05/white-house-says-it-will-cooperate-top-watchdog-only-when-it-does-not-unduly-burden-trumps-agenda/405713/
TIME
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. How many limousine liberal Democrats and RINOs live in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? How strongly do they want to protect the value of their homes and their personal safety? Can the conservative Republicans who live there count on them to stop the worst Democrat and RINO policies that promote poverty and crime there?
https://time.com/4322883/limousine-liberal-history-excerpt/
GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Land Reparations Are Possible − and Over 225 Us Communities Are Already Working to Make Amends for Slavery and Colonization. If I sought a political or government office, my critics/opponents would stress that my great great grandfathers a) homesteaded a farm in southeast Crete Township and b) sharecropped a farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/land-reparations-are-possible-%E2%88%92-and-over-225-us-communities-are-already-working-to-make-amends-for-slavery-and-colonization/
POLITICO
— Inside the split between MAGA and the Federalist Society. Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society used to advise Trump on judges. Now the president and his most loyal allies are going after them.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/30/trump-federalist-society-leonard-leo-maga-00378303
NEW YORKER
— According to Democrat leaders only, White Republicans are racists.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/06/09/trump-makes-americas-refugee-program-a-tool-of-white-racial-grievance
GUARDIAN
— Trump’s pardoning of Black celebrities is a cynical ploy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/31/trump-pardon-nba-youngboy-larry-hoover
FINANCIAL TIMES
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate/dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or who refuse to give them money.
https://www.ft.com/content/53db0578-9beb-4369-9d79-b6287f8d031f
Tag: Committeeman
May 26, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7 & NBC & CBS2 & FOX32 & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/george-floyd-day-action-protest-federal-plaza-downtown-chicago-commemorates-5-years-police-brutality-murder/16545551/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-area-organizations-host-rally-5-years-after-george-floyds-murder/3753730/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/group-protests-chicago-anniversary-murder-george-floyd/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS_pXlHG-VE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mT28bXhpvw
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1647262
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/chicago-protest-george-floyd-anniversary/
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/05/25/5-years-after-george-floyds-murder-chicagoans-protest-trumps-rollback-on-police-reforms
ABC7
— At least 18 shot, 2 fatally, in Memorial Day weekend violence
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-18-shot-2-fatally-memorial-day-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/16543468/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— According to Democrat leaders, only Whites can be racist.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/26/south-africa-trump-ramaphosa/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: Few suburban Congressional candidates met financial disclosure deadline. Federal salaries are public record. My critics/opponents have always viciously demonized, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary increased from $117,807/year in 1986 to $153,151/year in 1997. In my defense, I earned a) job-related professional certifications in 1997 (forensic accounting), 1996 (financial services auditing), 1994 (government financial management), 1990 (fraud examination), 1981 (internal auditing), and 1979 (accounting), b) job-related master’s degrees in 1997 (finance), 1980 (accounting), 1976 (business), and 1970 (management), and c) a job-related professional license in 1981 (CPA).
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250525/us-congress-politics/few-suburban-congressional-candidates-met-financial-disclosure-deadline/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Only three of the more than two dozen candidates for congressional seats serving the North, West or Northwest suburbs turned in federal financial disclosure reports by a May 15 deadline, a Daily Herald analysis revealed. One, 9th District Democratic hopeful and internet personality Kat Abughazaleh, is a political newcomer whose campaign has received national media attention. The other two — Republicans Niki Conforti of the 6th District and Jim Marter of the 14th — are campaign veterans who lost previous bids for federal office. Designed to reveal potential conflicts of interest, the disclosure reports detail information about the source, type and amount of a candidate’s income, personal investments, spousal income, gifts, contracts and more. They’re published online at disclosures-clerk.house.gov. . .A Glen Ellyn resident, Conforti is making her third run at the 6th District seat held by Democrat Sean Casten of Downers Grove since 2019. Last November, Casten beat Conforti by 8 percentage points; she placed third in the 2022 GOP primary. Conforti spent less than $151,000 on her 2024 campaign, a sum dwarfed by the roughly $2.4 million Casten spent. The Conforti campaign ended the first quarter of this year with less than $9,800 in the bank. Casten ended the quarter with more than $947,000 saved. Conforti reported income this year and last from consulting and from an unidentified employer. She didn’t respond to emails asking for more information about that job. She listed bank, credit union and retirement accounts among her assets, and reported a partnership in a Palos Park limited liability company called Existential Matrix. . .An Oswego resident whose four-year term on his local library board ends this week, Marter will make his sixth bid for federal office in 2026. Democratic incumbent Lauren Underwood of Naperville, who’s represented the 14th District since 2019 and is running again, beat Marter by 10 percentage points in November. Marter spent $322,950 on his 2024 congressional campaign, a fraction of the nearly $3.9 million Team Underwood spent. His campaign ended the first quarter with about $5,500 saved, while Underwood ended the quarter with $1.1 million banked. According to his report, Marter’s primary source of income is a global information technology company called Tenthpin Management Consultants. He previously had been a software consultant. Marter reported bank and retirement accounts, life insurance policies and a coin collection among his assets.)
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/05/25/illinois-attorney-general-kwame-raoul-fight-against-donald-trump
DEKALB DAILY JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in DeKalb.
https://www.shawlocal.com/daily-chronicle/2025/05/25/edible-tastings-anyone-dekalb-dispensary-proposes-new-in-house-cannabis-experience/
DEPAULIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://depauliaonline.com/77499/news/how-a-trade-war-could-impact-illinois-farmers/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Glenbard South H.S. Senior Wears Keffiyeh to Accept Diploma–Administrators Do Nothing
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/23/glenbard-south-h-s-senior-wears-keffiyeh-to-accept-diploma-administrators-do-nothing
— Illinois’ Most Despicable Lawmaker Kelly Cassidy Hits New Low
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/05/21/illinois-most-despicable-lawmaker-kelly-cassidy-hits-new-low
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Reick Punches Holes in School Mental Health Screening Bill
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/22/reick-punches-holes-in-school-mental-health-screening-bill/
— Keicher Continues Criticism of Tax Increment Districts
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-continues-criticism-of-tax-increment-districts/
— Keicher-Initiated Idea to End Discrimination against Seniors Concerning Drivers License Tests Passes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/23/keicher-initiated-idea-to-end-discrimination-against-seniors-concerning-drivers-license-tests-passes/
— No Warning from Health Department about Unsanitary Conditions at Applebee’s
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/no-warning-from-health-department-about-unsanitary-condictions-at-applebees/
— Legislature Attacks Human Trafficking
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/legislature-attacks-human-trafficking/
— Defenders Urge Tax Hike to Bail Out RTA Again
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/24/defenders-urge-tax-hike-to-bail-out-rta-again/
— Congressional Republicans Pass Gas Tax Replacement Fee for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/congressional-republicans-pass-gas-tax-replacement-fee-for-electric-and-hybrid-vehicles/
Illinois Has the Mostest Local Governments
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/05/25/illinois-has-the-mostest-local-governments/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump agenda bill’s proposed increase to debt ceiling draws pushback from fiscal hawk in Senate
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/25/rand-paul-kentucky-republican-threatens-oppose-big-beautiful-bill/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— US spent over $6 billion on military recruitment in past three years. Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3421763/united-states-spent-over-6-billion-military-recruit-three-years/
(FROM A RELATED ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, to keep their jobs and to get promoted, my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates who shared my demographics, that is, were White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time said there was no political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, veterans preference, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. I should write about the aforesaid who helped my Democrat superiors waste my career and get rid of me the most.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/05/24/insider-case-closed-john-bolton-tells-cnn-theres-no-white-genocide-in-south-africa-1546034/
DAILY CALLER
— Illegal Migrants Can Now Book Their Own Deportation Flights. What percent illegally return to America illegally?
https://www.aol.com/illegal-migrants-now-book-own-150052440.html
EPOCH TIMES
— Beyond Lt. Dan: Gary Sinise Reflects on Grief, Gratitude, and a Life Devoted to Honoring America’s Heroes
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/beyond-lt-dan-gary-sinise-reflects-on-grief-gratitude-and-a-life-devoted-to-honoring-americas-heroes-5862874
TOWNHALL
— This Is Why the Southern Poverty Law Center Claims Turning Point USA Is an ‘Extremist’ Group. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were extremist groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. 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 biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/05/25/this-is-why-the-southern-poverty-law-center-claims-turning-point-usa-is-an-extremist-group-n2657616
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The SPLC put out an article on Thursday, labeling TPUSA as an “anti-government extremist group” for its supposed promotion of white nationalist conspiracy theories, hawkish immigration stance, and Christian nationalism — which has become one of the left’s favorite buzzwords over recent years. Of course, when the organization uses the term “extremist,” they really mean, “anyone who isn’t a progressive.”)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Foreign students at Harvard taking US spots. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5318381-trump-targets-harvard-over-foreign-students/
CBS NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly flood America with foreign students. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966, but they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/trump-defends-move-to-block-international-students-from-attending-harvard/
NEWSWEEK
— Anticipate/expect that Trump will get more and more and more support from young voters who are White and/or male. Democrat leaders give tremendous preference to young voters who are minority and/or female, that is, they discriminate against young voters who are White and/or male.
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-ratings-young-americans-2075210
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Pope Leo XIV declares ‘I am Roman!’ as he completes formalities to become bishop of Rome. What if you had never left your hometown? I left my hometown of Crete for University Park when I was 24 years old in 1972. I left University Park for Chicago in 1976. I left Chicago for Wheaton when I got married in 1978. The Democrats and RINO who run Wheaton have never accepted me. They continue to treat me as my being a newcomer. They stress that I never attended any schools or churches in Wheaton, that I never sent any children to Wheaton schools, etc. I am too conservative for them, that is, I am too Republican for them. I should write about the biggest adverse actions that they have taken against me. I would focus on those who despise/hate my demographics the most.
https://apnews.com/article/rome-pope-bishop-ceremony-basilicas-ae01507115934e82a15e5f6758d08637
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/05/21/immigration-schools-colorado-trump-administration/
CNN
— Trump wants a ‘baby boom,’ but an ultra-conservative agenda may hurt IVF access. I should write what my Democrat GAO superiors did to punish me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. According to them, if my wife and I had children, a) I would not have been able to pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, become a licensed CPA in 1981, etc. and b) my wife would not have been able to keep her good job and earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986. All my GAO superiors had children and spouses who had little or no income. They always decried the time and money needed to raise children.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/25/us/ivf-access-babies-trump-administration
MSN
— Could you pass the Army’s new physical fitness test? Did you try to enlist.? I did not. If I had, would I have been accepted? I could not run because I had a bone disease. My eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20. I had partial red/green colorblindness. Nevertheless, I was 1-A for the draft. What if I had appealed?. My critics/opponents have always used against me my being 1-A and my avoiding the draft with student draft deferments and a financial hardship draft deferment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/could-you-pass-the-army-s-new-physical-fitness-test/ar-AA1FncMS
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There are five exercises in the test: Three-repetition maximum deadlifts, hand-release push-ups with arm extensions, a sprint-drag-carry exercise, holding the plank position, and finally, a two-mile run.)
— Trump Criticizes Biden`s DEI Policies in West Point Commencement Speech. Democrat and RINO leaders used DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/watch-trump-criticises-biden-s-dei-policies-in-west-point-commencement-speech/vi-AA1FqAbm
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO leaders continue to use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-race-civil-right-white-men.html
— We look at “triple-trending counties,” where either the Republicans or the Democrats gained vote share in all of the last three presidential elections. I should write about why Democrat candidates are getting more votes in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. I should write about past and present DuPage County Republican Central Committee and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for that. Previously, they blamed what I did as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010179976/the-counties-where-trump-made-gains.html
— What have you done that has put you in crosshairs? While I was young, I avoided the draft. While I was a federal employee, I refused to become a Democrat, I complained about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. Since I became Wheaton resident in 1978, I successfully fought the installation of a traffic signal at Harrison and President, I filled lawsuits against Wheaton, its powerful developer, Milton Township, and DuPage County, and I successfully led efforts to stop video gambling and the sale of pot. Since I have been a Milton Township Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, I led Pat O’Malley’s 2002 Republican gubernatorial campaign in Milton Township, I served as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and I served as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/nyregion/lamonica-mciver-newark-assault-charges.html
— Trump seeks extensive data on international students in pressure campaign to control Harvard. What about getting data on federal employees? All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government 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. It is called political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2025/may/25/trump-seeks-extensive-student-data-in-pressure-cam/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/police-killings-george-floyd.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/george-floyd-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Senators eye more budget bill cuts despite House speaker’s plea for few changes. The biggest hurdle in the Senate for Trump’s tax and immigration bill could come — like it did in the House — from deficit hawks who demand more cuts.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/25/senate-tax-bill-spending-cuts/
USA TODAY
— Because Democrats run the federal government, to get promoted in the federal government, you have to promote the Democrat Party platform, and especially its Affirmative Action and DEI planks, that is, you have to promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. That stopped IRS from promoting be beyond GS-12 and stopped GAO from promoting me beyond GS-13. I never would have made GS-13 if I had not earned an MBA, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and became a licensed CPA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/05/24/dei-medical-schools-wont-be-graded/83815603007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Harvard against Trump and against the 77 million who voted for Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/harvard-trump-lawsuits-fight-d5f8ec8a
ECON LIB
— My critics/opponents who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, a) say they owe all their successes in life to meritocracy and b) blame all their failures in life on those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critic/opponents who continue to blame me and my GOIPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their failures in life.
https://www.econlib.org/the-ethics-of-inequality/
ADVOCATE
— Democrat leaders evert-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/kennedy-center-drag-season
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting sellers to raise their prices. For 2 weeks while I was an IRS Revenue Officer trainee in 1971, Nixon had me and my classmates make phone calls to fight inflation.
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/25/trump-tariffs-brands-increase-prices
GOOGLE AI
— The decline of American muscle cars was a multi-faceted process, primarily driven by government regulations and economic factors in the 1970s. My critics/opponents despise/hate cars, and especially American nameplate cars, and especially American nameplate muscle cars. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in 1966, a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, a new 1972 Chevy Corvette in 1971, a 1962 Chevy Impala SS show car in 1989, a new 1990 Ford Thunderbird LX in 1989, a new 1993 Thunderbird in 1992, a 1968 Charger R/T show car in 1994, a new 1996 Thunderbird LX in 1995, a new 2005 Corvette in 2005, a new 2013 Dodge Charger R/T Max in 2012, a new 2023 Ford Mustang GT Premium in 2023, and a new 2025 Charger Daytona R/T Plus this year. I continue to own the 1972 Corvette, 1996 Thunderbird, 2013 Charger, 2023 Mustang, and 2025 Charger. If you share my interest in any of the aforesaid American nameplate muscle cars, please let me know.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22american+nameplate+muscle+cars”
May 25, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump addresses West Point graduates following DEI crackdown at military academies. The school removed diversity related curriculum after Trump order.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-west-point-graduation-2025-president-address-us-military-academy-grads-following-dei-crackdown/16529248/
— 14 suspects wanted in beating, robbery of couple on CTA Red Line downtown.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-crime-14-suspects-wanted-beating-robbery-couple-cta-red-line-train-downtown-printers-row-police-say/16525737/
— Israeli Embassy staffers’ alleged killer railed against Gaza war online, protested at Emanuel’s home.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/elias-rodriguez-washington-dc-shooting-suspect-posted-gaza-war-online-protested-chicago-mayor-rahm-emanuels-home/16532127/
— IL lawmakers push for additional security funds for cultural, religious orgs after DC shooting.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-lawmakers-push-additional-security-funds-cultural-religious-organizations-couple-shot-washington-dc/16524210/
— Chicago Black pastors gather in solidarity with Mayor Brandon Johnson amid DOJ hiring investigation. Gathering appeared to be attempt to help shore up mayor’s political base, but it could be a risky strategy. Chicago Black pastors could stress that Chicago Republican leaders did not come to my defense when my Chicago Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. Chicago Black pasters could use that to argue that both Democrats and Republicans want Blacks to get more preference over non-Blacks.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-black-pastors-gather-solidarity-mayor-brandon-johnson-amid-department-justice-hiring-investigation/16523946/
NBC5
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/what-historic-medicaid-snap-cuts-in-house-republican-bill-would-mean-for-coverage/3752913/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-republican-tax-bill-skipped-aca-credits-marketplace-health-insurance-will-get-pricier-without-them/3752867/
— House Republican tax bill favors the rich — how much they stand to gain, and why. How rich are you? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid, and therefore rich. They stress that in today’s dollars, I earned a) $19.37/hour in when I was 16, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, d) $82,655/year when I was 24, e) $99,069/year when I was 25, f) $112,280/year when was 31, g) $117,807/year when I was 38, and h) $153,151/year when I was 49. In today’s dollars, since I was 49 in 1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension has been $66,780/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a Job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/house-republican-tax-bill-favors-the-rich-how-much-they-stand-to-gain-and-why/3752573/
CBS2
— Trump threatens to hit Apple with 25% tariff on iPhones made outside U.S.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/trump-apple-25-tariff-iphones/
FOX32
— Jewish leaders criticize Chicago mayor over handling of antisemitism. I should write about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/jewish-leaders-criticize-chicago-mayor-handling-antisemitism
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: ‘Our people hire our people’: Long before DOJ probe into Mayor Brandon Johnson, racial politics coursed through City Hall hiring. Under the Democrats, ever-increasingly, in Illinois, and especially in Democrat-run counties and cities, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/25/mayor-brandon-johnson-racial-politics-city-hall-hiring/
— Trump’s speech to West Point graduates mixes praise, politics and grievances.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/24/trumps-speech-west-point-graduates/
— New Aurora Mayor John Laesch chooses his leadership team at City Hall. Have leaders chosen you? My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, b) an Illinois Republican Party State Convention delegate since 2000, c) served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, d) a member of many MTRO Oktoberfest fundraising committees, e) a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee 2003-2007, f) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and g) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020, MTRO leaders a) never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer and b) rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/24/new-aurora-mayor-john-laesch-chooses-his-leadership-team-at-city-hall/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid
https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/05/24/what-trumps-cuts-to-medicaid-will-mean-for-nursing-homes-long-term-care-facilities-in-illinois
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/05/23/medicaid-affordable-care-act-health-insurance-nutrition-programs-snap-congress-rich-miller
— Chicago Public Schools lays off hundreds of tutors before CPS school year ends. My mother never attended high school. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/05/23/chicago-public-schools-lays-off-hundreds-of-tutors
DAILY HERALD
— Trump hails West Point cadets for their accomplishments and takes credit for US military might.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250524/nation-and-world/trump-hails-west-point-cadets-for-their-accomplishments-and-takes-credit-for-us-military-might/
WBEZ
— How dependent on government spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/2025/05/25/northwestern-uic-medical-researchers-diabetes-hiv-trump-funding-budget-cuts
https://www.wrex.com/news/illinois-news/state-budget-talks-enter-final-week-amid-fears-of-congressional-cuts/article_a753258a-5fc1-41d9-92c6-b73b0f1ff93b.html
WAND TV
— House passes IL plan allowing first time weapon offenders to apply for FOID cards while participating in diversion programs. I have had a FOID card since I was 20 in 1968.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/house-passes-il-plan-allowing-first-time-weapon-offenders-to-apply-for-foid-cards-while/article_4deb582a-ea35-4f9f-bae5-29f569279a93.html
CWB CHICAGO
— Wilding alert: 14 suspects sought in violent robbery, battery aboard CTA train in downtown Chicago. Chicago today, your municipality tomorrow.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/05/14-suspects-sought-in-violent-robbery-battery-aboard-cta-train-in-downtown-chicago.html
WHEATON PATCH
— Memorial Day Parade To Honor Fallen Service Members In Wheaton Monday May 26. Please join me in watching the parade. The parade route includes the eastern border of my precinct – Warrenville Road between Roosevelt Road and the Wheaton Cemetery.
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/memorial-day-parade-honor-fallen-service-members-wheaton
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Memorial Day is Monday, May 26. Wheaton will honor fallen service members with a Memorial Day Parade that is set to begin at Memorial Park at 10 a.m. Members of the Wheaton Police and Fire Departments will lead the parade. From Memorial Park, the parade will make its way west on Union before heading south on West Street. The parade will end at Wheaton Cemetery, where a ceremony will take place.)
Scheduled for 11 a.m., the Memorial Day Ceremony will be conducted by American Legion Post 76.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Confused, Starving Reporters Now Desperate for Food After Killing American Journalism. Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
https://johnkassnews.com/confused-starving-reporters-desperate-for-food-after-killing-and-devouring-journalism/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Republican leaders should reform federal agencies rather than gut them. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat politicians force them to push the Democrat Party platform, that is, to push dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. About 1/3 of Americans are Republicans and about 1/3 are Democrats. The federal workforce should look like America. I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and 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. They gambled and lost that I would become a Democrat. In the U.S. Congress, committee membership is determined by a combination of factors, including party affiliation. Federal agencies should be like congressional committees. For example, about 1/3 of their employees at each grade level should be Republicans and about 1/3 should be Democrats. Further, all hiring, retention, and promotion decisions should be based on merit, that is, AA and DEI should be abolished. If that had been the case when I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, I might still be a GAO employee. GAO would have promoted me into its Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned a) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, b) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and c) a job-related professional license when I was 32. None of my GAO coworkers came close to doing that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on preference giving? Chicago Black pastors could stress that Chicago Republican leaders did not come to my defense when my Chicago Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with my Black subordinate. Chicago Black pasters could use that to argue that both Democrats and Republicans want Blacks to get more preference over non-Blacks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How rich are you? My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid, and therefore rich. They stress that in today’s dollars, I earned a) $19.37/hour in when I was 16, b) $55,850/year when I was 22, c) $68,315/year when I was 23, d) $82,655/year when I was 24, e) $99,069/year when I was 25, f) $112,280/year when was 31, g) $117,807/year when I was 38, and h) $153,151/year when I was 49. In today’s dollars, since I was 49 in 1997, my Civil Service Retirement System pension has been $66,780/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and d) a job-related professional license when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What have Democrat leaders done to you? I should write about how my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take big adverse actions against me. They stressed that I was conservative, Republican, Protestant, German American, a Crete resident 1948-1972, and a Wheaton resident since 1978. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have leaders chosen you? My critics/opponents stress that even though I have been a) a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, b) an Illinois Republican Party State Convention delegate since 2000, c) served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010, d) a member of many MTRO Oktoberfest fundraising committees, e) a member of the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee 2003-2007, f) the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, and g) the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2020, MTRO leaders a) never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer and b) rudely ended my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Illinois Democrat leaders stress Pritzker’s great success in promoting more of the following in Illinois: a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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. Illinois Democrat leaders stress that Illinois RINO leaders not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are/were you an American worker, that is, are/were you an American wage earner? I was 1964-1997. My critics/opponents were never wage earners and/or they despise/hate wage earners. The especially despise/hate unions and union members. They stress that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had not been a union member, my salary would never have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars during that time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and two job-related master’s degrees and b) I earned a job-related professional certification. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To get more votes from those who are minority, female, younger, etc., Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at those who are minority, female, younger, etc. that Republicans cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, younger. etc. have and b) give those who are minority, female, younger, etc. more preference over those who are Republican. I should write about the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Southern Poverty Law Center has put Turning Point USA on its list of hate groups. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. 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 biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your position on a) EVs and those who own them and b) American nameplate muscle cars? I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought. The articles ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact that it does the quarter mile in 12.6 seconds at 135 MPH. I have owned my 2013 Charger R/T Max since 2012. I owned a 1968 Charger R/T show car 1994-2005. I owned a 1969 Charger SE 1968-1971. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Was your career wasted? I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, I might still be working for GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I had worked 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. Instead of forcing me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, GAO should have promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. GAO should have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. If GAO had done that, I would have soon been promoted to GS-14, currently $139,211/year, GS-15, currently $163,749/year, and Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. But the Democrats who ran GAO wasted all that. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pritzker preps for presidential run carrying weight of Illinois failures. Illinois Democrat leaders stress Pritzker’s great success in promoting more of the following in Illinois: a) dependency on government and charity, b) LGBTQ, c) abortion, d) mass/illegal immigration, e) booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, f) diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and g) 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. Illinois Democrat leaders stress that Illinois RINO leaders not only have no problem with the aforesaid, they applaud the aforesaid.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-preps-for-presidential-run-carrying-weight-of-illinois-failures/
— Illinois’ opaque budget process drives mismanagement, harms taxpayers.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-opaque-budget-process-drives-mismanagement-harms-taxpayers/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump tells West Point cadets he’s returning military to core function: ‘annihilate’ America’s foes. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly side with America’s foes not only against Trump, but against America.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/24/trump-tells-west-point-cadets-hes-returning-military-core-function/
— Antisemitism may well be the downfall of America. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring into America more antisemites and Jew-haters.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/23/antisemitism-may-well-downfall-america/
— Make America safe for Jews again
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/may/24/editorial-make-america-safe-jews/
NEW YORK POST
— Pritzker is acting presidential — too bad his state is in such shambles
https://nypost.com/2025/05/25/opinion/jb-pritzker-is-acting-presidential-to-bad-his-state-is-in-shambles/
— Hey, Bruce: The Democrats long ago abandoned the American workers of your lyrics — like roadkill. Are/were you an American worker, that is, are/were you an American wage earner? I was 1964-1997. My critics/opponents were never wage earners and/or they despise/hate wage earners. The especially despise/hate unions and union members. They stress that I was a union member 1966-1969 and 1971-1980. They hint/imply/argue/shout that if I had not been a union member, my salary would never have increased from $19.37/hour to $112,280/year in today’s dollars during that time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle that during that time, a) I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and two job-related master’s degrees and b) I earned a job-related professional certification.
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/opinion/spare-us-your-tds-bruce-springsteen-stick-to-the-hits/
— Republicans aren’t coming CLOSE to cutting Medicaid as much as America actually needs
https://nypost.com/2025/05/23/opinion/republicans-arent-coming-close-to-cutting-medicaid-as-much-as-america-actually-needs/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— How America Went Crazy on Race. A new book traces the genealogy of extremist racial ideas that have gone mainstream. To get more votes from those who are minority, female, younger, etc., Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) shout at those who are minority, female, younger, etc. that Republicans cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, younger. etc. have and b) give those who are minority, female, younger, etc. more preference over those who are Republican. I should write about the aforesaid.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/how-america-went-crazy-on-race/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Crime Rates of Illegal Migrants Underreported
https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/25/crime-rates-of-illegal-migrants-underreported/
AMERICAN WIRE
— ‘Racist’ Chicago mayor changes subject to ‘monster Trump’ in response to DOJ probe.
https://americanwirenews.com/racist-chicago-mayor-changes-subject-to-monster-trump-in-response-to-doj-probe/
BREITBART
— Trump Delivers West Point Commencement Speech: You ‘Have the Bravest Hearts and Noblest Souls’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/24/donald-trump-delivers-west-point-commencement-speech-you-have-bravest-hearts-noblest-souls/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Southern Illinois University accused of offering unlawful race-based scholarships in federal complaint
https://www.campusreform.org/article/southern-illinois-university-accused-offering-unlawful-race-based-scholarships-federal-complaint/27929
DAILY SIGNAL
— Southern Poverty Law Center Puts Largest Conservative Grassroots Youth Group (Turning Point USA) on ‘Hate Map’ With Klan Chapters. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois were hate groups. I was an ICRC Steering Committee member 2003-2007 and I was the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012. 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 biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/05/24/southern-poverty-law-center-puts-largest-conservative-grassroots-youth-group-hate-map-klan-chapters/
NATIOINAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER
— How Soros Created & Underwrote the Illegal Immigration Crisis.
https://nlpc.org/government-integrity-project/how-soros-created-underwrote-the-illegal-immigration-crisis/
PJ MEDIA
— Will Sanctuary Cities Survive the Coming Political Reckoning?
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/24/will-sanctuary-cities-survive-the-coming-political-reckoning-n4940124
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly increase government spending. How dependent on government spending is your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? He who pays the piper calls the tunes.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-research-funding-cuts-brain-drain-f1ac9fe5c8a90f5d5ec9b2726475e10e
MSN
— Biden was a ‘figurehead’ controlled by unelected bureaucrats. Democrat and RINO leaders got Biden elected by falsely painting him as being a centrist, a moderate.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/joe-biden-was-a-figurehead-controlled-by-unelected-bureaucrats/ar-AA1FfYuH
NEW YORK TIMES
— How Electric Vehicles are Targeted by the Republican Policy Bill. The measure, passed by the House, would roll back incentives for people to buy electric vehicles and for automakers to make them in the U.S. I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/electric-vehicles-house-tax-bill.html
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote Springsteen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/opinion/bruce-springsteen-trump-conflict.html
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/us/george-floyd-derek-chauvin-republicans.html
WASHINGTON POST
— America’s enemies want America to be dependent on America’s enemies. Hate-filled Trump-hating Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly side with America’s enemies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/25/siemens-medical-devices-trump-tariffs/
— Democrat leaders will forever use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-dei-police-reform/
— The U.S. has more than 1 million foreign students. Here’s who they are. International students are at the center of Trump’s latest escalation against Harvard University. IIT admitted me in 1992, DePaul in 1976, Loyola in 1972, NIU in 1969, and UIC in 1966. But if they could have admitted foreign students instead of me, they would have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/05/25/international-students-harvard-trump/
NEW YOR DAILY NEWS
— Did you pay less federal income tax because you itemized? I did starting in 1972 and my wife and I did starting in 1978. But SALT ended that. My critics/opponents have always been furious that I deducted my graduate evening a) business and accounting course 1972-1980 and b) finance courses 1992-1997.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/05/25/big-not-beautiful-house-budget-bill-is-a-mess-that-must-be-amended/
USA TODAY
— Schools that promote Affirmative Action and DEI are in Trump’s crosshairs, that is, schools that promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination are in Trump’s crosshairs.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/trump-k-12-public-school-funding-dei-order/83458073007/
— Car shaming is real: What to do if someone criticizes your gas-powered vehicle. I should write about the many critical/nasty articles that have been published about the new 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV that I just bought.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/2025/05/23/gas-electric-rentals-summer-road-trips/83774805007/
— The next Democrat or RINO U.S. President will again import as many millions of illegals as they can.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/23/republican-senators-trump-border-wall/83823629007/
— Democrat leaders continue to use George Floyd to promote more hatred against Republicans and against police.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/24/george-floyd-murder-five-year-anniversary-memorials/83621486007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Judges Weigh Taking Control of Their Own Security Amid Threats. U.S. marshals, sworn to protect federal judges, ultimately answer to President Trump, who has ramped up criticism of the judiciary. I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO for almost 18 years 1980-1997. GAO works for Congress. Gingrich has always been extremely critical of GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, I might still be working for GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I had worked 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. Instead of forcing me to take a $23,472 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, GAO should have promoted me to GS-13, currently $117,807/year. GAO should have immediately and always assigned me to audits of IRS. If GAO had done that, I would have soon been promoted to GS-14, currently $139,211/year, GS-15, currently $163,749/year, and Senior Executive Service, currently $195,200/year. I earned master’s degrees in business in 1976, accounting in 1980, and finance in 1997. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981. I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I became a Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Government Financial Manager in 1994, Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997. But the Democrats who ran GAO wasted all that. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 years 1986-1988. They always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. Democrat leaders do not want Republicans to audit IRS. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me that they did.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-judges-security-marshals-6e080ac6
April 23,2025 Evening Edition
WHITE HOUSE
— RESTORING EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND MERITOCRACY
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/restoring-equality-of-opportunity-and-meritocracy/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— US Sen. Dick Durbin says he won’t run for sixth term. I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, distributing campaign literature and getting sign locations in my precinct for Durbin’s Republican opponents Curran in 2020, Oberweis in 2014, Sauerberg in 2008, and Durkin in 2002. Further, I remember, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, doing that for Duckworth’s opponent Salvi in 2022, for Kirk in 2016 and 2010, and Keyes in 2004. Because they all were statewide races, my critics/opponents had a harder time blaming me and blaming my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Republican defeats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/us-sen-dick-durbin-says-he-wont-run-for-sixth-term/
— Democrat leaders say that orders to leave the country — some for US citizen — sow confusion among immigrants
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/orders-to-leave-the-country-some-for-us-citizen-sow-confusion-among-immigrants/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Senate race to replace Durbin boasts ‘at least a dozen’ serious contenders
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-senate-reelection-decision-krishnamoorthi-underwood-stratton
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Durbin’s retirement sets off a stampede — and a massive generational shift in Illinois politics
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-retirement-sets-race-open-seats-illinois
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The GOP appears less poised to field a competitive Senate candidate in what is now a heavily Democratic state, but there has been some discussion about Richard Porter, an attorney who serves as the state’s Republican national committeeman. Also being touted by some Republicans is Rep. Ray LaHood, who represents Peoria and other downstate areas.)
— Durbin makes it official: He won’t seek re-election
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/dick-durbin-will-not-seek-re-election-senate
ABC7
— Illinois among 12 states suing Trump administration to stop tariff policy
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-among-12-states-suing-president-donald-trumps-administration-stop-tariff-policy/16232793/
— Trump administration looking at $5K ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more children
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-looking-baby-bonus-incentivize-public-have-more-children/16231863/
FOX32
— Trump says he’ll reduce tariffs against China ‘substantially’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1629873
WTTW
— Long-Stalled Push for Reparations in Chicago Moving Forward
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/23/slow-moving-push-reparations-chicago-moving-forward-johnson-says
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats, sooner or later, everyone will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/
STATELINE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Kilmar Abrego Garcia to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-deportation-el-salvador/
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-trump-administration-is-still-resisting-the-judges-orders-in-abrego-garcia-deportation-case/
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
— The 10 Pols Who Could Replace Dick Durbin
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/february-2024/the-10-pols-who-could-replace-dick-durbin/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: When U.S. senator Peter Fitzgerald announced his retirement in 2004, 16 candidates ran to succeed him. “Don’t you think it would be cool to be a senator?” one remarked. (Barack Obama, a state senator at the time, won — you might have heard of him.) . . . 5. Darin LaHood
The GOP will run a candidate, too, and LaHood is likely to be it. The last two times an Illinois Republican won a Senate race were 1998 and 2010 — nonpresidential years when a Democrat was in the White House, which seems to indicate that a Joe Biden reelection would help LaHood. (The Democrats also ran weak candidates those years.) Of the three Illinois Republicans in Congress, LaHood, elected to the House in 2015, is the most moderate. He’s from Peoria, which is Middle America personified. “He’s a guy who is politically disciplined and has not alienated the base,” says a conservative activist. “He can appeal to independents, too. He’s not a crazy MAGA.” Democrats would attack LaHood on abortion (he opposes) and voting with Trump on issues such as repealing Obamacare. He needs “to keep the race on economics and the lack of federal leadership, particularly with the border crisis,” the activist says.)
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/arts-culture/trump-immigration-actions-are-only-latest-in-white-supremacy-tradition-20072014
PRITIZKER
— Pritzker ever-increasingly promotes more hatred.
https://gov.illinois.gov/news/press-release.31180.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Question of the day: If LaHood does run for US Senate, what do you believe are his chances in both the primary and the general?
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/question-of-the-day-3727/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-291/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGOLAND JOURNAL
— Aaron Del Mar Returns as Cook County GOP Chairman After Overwhelming Vote
https://thechicagolandjournal.com/aaron-del-mar-returns-as-cook-county-gop-chairman-after-overwhelming-vote/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— LaHood Campaign Says Durbin Retirement “Long Overdue”
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/lahood-campaign-says-durbin-retirement-long-overdue/
— Durbin Retiring, Second Tier Dems Ready for Fight
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/durbin-retiring-second-tier-dems-ready-for-fight/
— Second Old Illinois Member of Congress–Jan Schakowsky–Says Bye-Bye, People Lining Up
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/second-old-illinois-member-of-congress-jan-schakowsky-says-bye-bye/
— Month after Characterizing Trump to Nazis Pritzker Calls for End to Hate Crimes, Reports Big Hike Since Biden Took Office
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/month-after-characterizing-trump-to-nazis-pritzker-calls-for-end-hate-crimes-big-hike-since-biden-took-office/
— Passenger Pot Citation in Cary after Car Stopped for Missing Headlight, Bill To End Smell Test Passes Illinois Senate (with Roll Call)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/passenger-pot-citation-in-cary/
— McHenry Awarded $771,000 to Revitalize Riverside Drive, Woodstock Gets $1 Million for Opera House Block
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/mchenry-awarded-771000-to-revitalize-riverside-drive-woodstock-gets-1-million-for-opera-house-block/
— State Claims 6 to 1 Benefit from Subsidizing Filming
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/state-claims-6-to-1-benefit-from-subsidizing-filming/
— Randi Freese Reports McHenry County Share of Most Recent Opioid Settlement Unknown at This Point
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/randi-freese-reports-mchenry-county-share-of-most-recent-opioid-settlement-unknown-at-this-point/
— Illinois Pot Taxes Drive Pot Shop Growth in SW Michigan
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/22/illinois-pot-taxes-drive-growth-in-sw-michigan/
— Trump-Endorsed Florida Gubernatorial Candidate Bryon Donalds Speaking to State GOP Fundraiser Friday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/21/trump-endorsed-florida-gubernatorial-candidate-bryon-donalds-speaking-to-state-gop-fundraiser-friday/
— Details on Walgreen’s Whistleblower Opioid Settlement
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/details-on-walgrens-whistleblower-opioid-settlement/
— Congressional Dems Vote to Keep Taxing Tips
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/congressional-dems-vote-to-keep-taxing-tips/
— Court Shuts Down Rockford Abortion Clinic
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/04/23/court-shuts-down-rockford-abortion-clinic/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— An abortion clinic operating in a residential neighborhood in Illinois lost its legal fight with neighbors after a state court reversed the facility’s zoning approval.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/23/neighbors-win-court-battle-home-based-abortion-clinic/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Britain bans French philosopher who conceptualized the ‘great replacement’ theory, from entering country
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/04/britain_bans_french_philosopher_who_conceptualized_the_great_replacement_theory_from_entering_country.html
BREITBART
— Americans Overwhelmingly Side with Trump on Deportations
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/04/23/poll-americans-overwhelmingly-side-with-trump-on-deportations/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Durbin Announces Retirement, Leaving a Power Vacuum
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/23/prospect-durbins-retirement-shakes-up-illinois-democrats/
FOX NEWS
— If we can’t deport illegals, here’s how we can make it impossible to stay
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/david-marcus-we-cant-deport-illegals-heres-how-we-can-make-impossible-stay
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Durbin retirement tees up competitive Senate primary in Illinois
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5263818-dick-durbin-retirement-senate/
NEWSWEEK
— Who Might Run for Dick Durbin’s Soon-to-Be Vacant Senate Seat?
https://www.newsweek.com/dick-durbin-retirement-potential-candidates-illinois-senate-2063156
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On the Republican side, Representative Darin LaHood also told NOTUS he would not “close the door” on a Senate run. “I’ve had a lot of people encourage me to think about doing it,” he told the publication.)
CNN
— Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in Senate, announces he won’t seek reelection.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/politics/dick-durbin-senate-retirement
CBS NEWS
— Trump signs executive order to influence college accreditation process
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-executive-order-to-eliminate-woke-ideology-in-college-accreditation-process/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Durbin, No. 2 Senate Democrat, to Retire After 44 Years in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/dick-durbin-retires-senate.html
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in driving Trump’s approval rating down
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approval-rating.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in manipulating/dominating young people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/23/trump-presidency-news/
POLITICO
— Durbin was first elected to the Senate in 1996, succeeding Democratic Sen. Paul Simon. In the primary that year, Durbin defeated Pat Quinn, who would later become governor of Illinois. In the general election that year, Durbin defeated Al Salvi, the husband of Kathy Salvi, who now chairs the Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/23/dick-durbin-retiring-from-senate-illinois-00305833
WIKIPEDIA
— 2026 United States Senate election in Illinois
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_Senate_election_in_Illinois
(FROM THE POSTING: Republican primary: Declared: John Goodman, former police officer ( https://goodmanforillinois.com/meet-john/ ). Publicly expressed interest: Darin LaHood, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 16th congressional district (2015–present) Potential: Jim Durkin, former minority leader of the Illinois House of Representatives (2013–2023) from the 82nd district (2006–2023) and 44th district (1995–2003), Mary Miller, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 15th congressional district (2021–present). Declined: Mike Bost, U.S. Representative from Illinois’s 12th congressional district (2015–present))
April 23, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Some 5 million Americans with defaulted student loan payments will have their loans sent for collections on May 5. Where did the money come from to pay for your undergraduate degree? Mine came from my washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, and working on an automotive assemble line. The aforesaid enabled me to graduate debt-free from NIU in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charge SE. But my GPA suffered.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/default-student-loans-debt-collection-trump-administration-announces-end-period-leniency-began-during-covid-pandemic/16217800/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign students.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-student-visas-revoked-illinois-indiana-college-students-celebrate-order-donald-trump-admin-reinstate/16225550/
FOX32
— ‘It’s unsafe’: Chicagoans sound off about migrant crowds outside Home Depot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzhpIMM2iy0
WTTW
–Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/pritzker-balances-messaging-some-dems-encourage-party-avoid-lgbtq-issues
— Ever-increasingly, leaders of universities in Illinois reject Trump’s election.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/04/22/illinois-university-leaders-join-condemnation-trump-administration-s-unprecedented
WLS AM
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.wlsam.com/2025/04/22/gorka-to-newsmax-due-process-push-for-illegals-strange/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois GOP has to do better than the likes of Thomas DeVore, lockdown critic
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/23/devore-misconduct-attorney-general-gop/
— Mayor Brandon Johnson will head to Springfield again, to demand Chicago ‘receives its just due’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/mayor-brandon-johnson-springfield-chicago-just-due/
— Several police departments disperse large crowd of juveniles from Sky Zone in Orland Park
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/police-disperse-juveniles-sky-zone-orland-park/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/opinion-illinois-immigration-crackdown-protect-communities/
— Pritzker calls it ‘ironic’ that inaugural committee accepted donation from Chinese firm Trump has criticized.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/22/gov-jb-pritzker-calls-it-ironic-that-inaugural-committee-accepted-donation-from-chinese-firm-trump-has-criticized/
— What did you do for Earth Day? I spent about an hour pulling out blown-in plastic trash from the wetlands west of my Iron Gate Motor Condo in Naperville.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/21/orland-grasslands-earth-day/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion, a Republican target, gave big to Trump inaugural
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/gotion-target-trump-gave-1-million-inauguration
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly attack Musk to attack Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-treasurer-co-signs-letter-tesla-board
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, soon, everyone in America will be on Medicaid.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/04/23/illinois-families-brace-for-possible-medicaid-cuts/82673254007/
SOUTHERN
— How marginalized are you? Who marginalizes you? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, the more of the following that you are, the more that Republicans marginalize you: Democrat, RINO, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, citizen of a foreign country, have less money than others, have financial, health, and/or other problems, boozer, gambler, stoner, prostitute, etc.
https://thesouthern.com/life-entertainment/faith/siu-s-father-brown-pope-francis-legacy-is-advocating-for-the-marginalized-forgotten/article_139e56eb-5ede-52eb-a9ee-448ac0f406c4.html
DAILY NORTHWESTERN
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat universities will ever-increasingly oppose Trump.
https://dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/opinion/harvard-is-resisting-the-trump-administrations-invasive-demands-nu-should-follow-suit/
JOURNAL GAZETTE
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.journalgazette.net/opinion/columnists/judgment-day-drawing-nigh/article_ba1d63e7-b9fd-4210-a47b-0577c76944c8.html
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/illinois-legislative-black-caucus-condemns-trumps-attack-on-dei-pledges-to-defend-racial-equity-in-the-workplace/
WJBC
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.wjbc.com/2025/04/22/his-dad-would-be-ashamed-of-him-large-rally-in-uptown-normal-to-protest-rep-lahood/
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote AOC.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-23/the-next-aoc-young-democrats-are-aiming-to-topple-incumbents-inside-their-own-party
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-22/nationwide-anti-trump-protests-arrive-in-small-town-northern-illinois
WAND TV
— Public education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/education/multiple-university-presidents-in-illinois-sign-letter-criticizing-federal-government-overreach/article_4762b0ab-a8a7-4a5b-bcee-f54282cb9674.html
WIFR
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in the Democrat Army.
https://www.wifr.com/2025/04/23/illinois-voting-advocates-worry-bill-requiring-citizenship-proof-vote/
WVIK
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote globalism, that is, they ever-increasingly promote cheap foreign labor and making America more and more and more dependent on foreign countries, that is, they ever-increasingly promote the destruction of America.
https://www.wvik.org/2025-04-22/the-global-economy-will-be-hit-hard-by-trumps-tariffs-imf-warns
25 NEWS NOW
— Trump administration mulls $5,000 baby bonus to boost population
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/22/trump-administration-mulls-5000-baby-bonus-boost-population-report-says/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump’s policies.
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/04/23/trump-policies-dominate-peoria-town-hall-with-rep-sorensen/
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/pritzker-balances-messaging-as-some-dems-encourage-party-to-avoid-lgbtq-issues-20068650
BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/04/22/chicagos-venezuelan-community-in-limbo-amid-trumps-push-to-end-deportation-protections/
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-497/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-290/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Escaping Illinois Doesn’t Mean You’ve Escaped Pritzker
https://johnkassnews.com/escaping-illinois-doesnt-mean-youve-escaped-pritzker/
WIREPOINTS
— It’s hard to tell when Illinois will ‘break,’ but eventually Illinoisans will connect the dots and demand change.
https://wirepoints.org/its-hard-to-tell-when-illinois-will-break-but-eventually-illinoisans-will-connect-the-dots-and-demand-change-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
— Illinois metro areas have the nation’s 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-highest property taxes. People leave because they simply can’t pay that anymore.
https://wirepoints.org/illinois-metro-areas-have-the-nations-1st-2nd-3rd-and-4th-highest-property-taxes-people-leave-because-they-simply-cant-pay-that-anymore-wirepoints-on-with-wjols-scott-slo/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats 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. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and 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. I should write about that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Did you consider majoring in accounting? Did you consider a career in accounting? The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division 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) and 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) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— The left’s hatred of Trump boils over: Death threats spread to just about anyone working for him. Are you a Republican Precinct Committeeman? If you are, anticipate/expect ever-increasing hatred against you from those who voted for Harris. 478 voted for Harris in my precinct.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/22/lefts-hatred-trump-boils-death-threats-spread-anyone-working/
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump slams SCOTUS for ridiculous idea of giving trials to all illegals. Democrat and RINO judges and justices deny Republicans their 7th Amendment right to trials. I should write about that.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/04/22/trump-slams-scotus-for-ridiculous-idea-of-giving-trials-to-all-illegals-1538008/
BLAZE
— Trump lashes out at Supreme Court for blocking deportations
https://www.theblaze.com/news/trump-lashes-out-at-supreme-court-for-blocking-deportations
DAILY SIGNAL
— GOP Lawmakers Showcase How Trump ‘Restored Law and Order’ to US Borders
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/22/exclusive-gop-lawmakers-showcase-how-trump-restored-law-and-order-to-us-borders/
EPOCH TIMES
— Tesla’s First-Quarter Profits Tumble 71 Percent. Will Democrat leaders succeed in driving Tesla out of business, and if so, how soon? How will that impact the EV industry? How will that impact America?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/business/teslas-1st-first-quarter-profits-tumble-71-percent-5845648
FOX NEWS
— Gore compares Trump admin to Hitler’s Third Reich. Trump faced similar comparisons from political rivals during 2024 presidential campaign.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/al-gore-compares-trump-admin-hitlers-third-reich
PJ MEDIA
— SCOTUS Sides With Illegal Aliens Again
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/04/22/breaking-scotus-again-sides-with-illegal-aliens-n4939139
REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Trump’s Migrant Hunt Digs Into the IRS and Social Security
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2025/04/23/trumps_migrant_hunt_digs_into_the_irs_and_social_security_1105145.html
TOWNHALL
— Young Conservatives Rise Against Wokeness. Liberals and moderates use wokeness to get rid of conservatives.
https://townhall.com/podcasts/townhallreview/2025/04/23/the-pendulum-swings:-young-conservatives-rise-against-wokeness–%7C-charlie-kirk-with-megyn-kelly
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Gore compares Trump administration to Nazis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5260405-gore-compares-trump-third-reich/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Harvard.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/harvard-takes-lead-in-fight-against-trumps-higher-ed-agenda/amp/
NBC NEWS
— Gore likens the Trump administration’s ‘attacks on liberty’ to Nazi Germany
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/al-gore-likens-trump-administrations-attacks-liberty-nazi-germany-rcna202357
— Gore compares Trump administration’s actions to Nazi Germany’s attacks on the truth
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/gore-compares-trump-administration-s-actions-to-nazi-germany-s-attacks-on-truth-238082629661
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/venezuela-immigrant-disappear-deport-ice.html
— How has EEOC impacted you? When I was 22 years old in 1971, my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I had to have a job, I then accepted a job offer from IRS.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/eeoc-trump-dei-law-firms.html
— To Escape the Grind, Young People Turn to ‘Mini-Retirements.’ Some young people are spending their savings on an extended break earlier in their careers rather than waiting until retirement. I did not take any days off at all while I worked for Firestone Stores August 1970-December 1972 and for IRS June 1971-June 1973.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/young-people-work-mini-retirement.html
USA TODAY
— New York Times compares Trump to Hitler. Media allows an ugly double standard. It’s extremely insulting to the 77 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump for The New York Times to publish an opinion piece that compares the president to Adolf Hitler.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/larry-david-essay-hitler-trump/83209680007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying Tesla to destroy Musk to destroy Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/04/22/musk-tesla-first-quarter-earnings/83217370007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly crow about the success that they had importing their illegals.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/04/23/trump-afghanistan-refugee-resettlement-immigration/83126557007/
LEXINGTON HERALD LEADER
— Kentucky among the ‘most federally dependent states.’ How will Trump cuts affect it? How dependent on federal spending are the following: your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct?
https://www.kentucky.com/news/state/kentucky/article302508724.html
WOAI
— Return to Sender: More Illegals Self-Deporting
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2025-04-22-return-to-sender-more-illegals-self-deporting/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Tesla Profit Sinks, Hurt by Backlash Over Elon Musk’s Political Role. CEO says he will spend significantly less time on DOGE starting in May; electric-vehicle maker’s net income falls 71%. How strongly are hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punishing Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump to punish Republicans to punish Americans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/tesla-tsla-q1-earnings-report-2025-f7120a39
— How America Lost Manufacturing. My brother lost manufacturing jobs in Chicago Heights because his employers moved to Mexico to take advantage of cheap labor and less regulation.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/how-america-lost-manufacturing-reporter-1980s-watched-us-industries-fail-to-adapt-926753f0?mod=opinion_lead_pos5
FORBES
— Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson (D-IL) ever-increasingly promotes more class warfare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dk2pmRluDiuQ
HUFFINGTON POST
— Gore Likens Trump Admin To Nazi Germany: ‘Trying To Create Their Own Version Of Reality’
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/al-gore-donald-trump-administration-nazi-germany_n_68078b17e4b00edf27f4ce86
GOVERNING
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans. Liberals and moderates use DEI to get rid of conservatives. White-haters use DEI to get rid of Whites. Male-haters use DEI to get rid of males. Older people-haters use DEI to get rid of older people. Protestant–haters use DEI to get rid of Protestants. German American-haters use DEI to get rid of German Americans.
https://www.governing.com/policy/the-conservative-case-for-dei
ILLINOIS CPA SOCIETY
— The Rise and Retreat of DEI. The accounting profession and IRS and GAO had no interest in me a) because I was not a minority or a female, b) because I did not earn an MBA until I was 27, c) because I did not major in accounting until I was 27, d) because I did not pass the CPA examination until I was 30, e) because I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31, f) because I did not pass the Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) examination until I was 32, and g) because I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. Further, while I passed the CPA and CIA examinations on my first attempt, my scores were not that great. Further, the experience that I gained working for IRS’s Collection Division 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) and 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) was not viewed favorably. Further, IRS never promoted me beyond GS-12 and took adverse actions against me. Further, GAO forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer, delayed my promotions, never promoted me beyond GS-13, and took adverse actions against me including always ranking me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and forcing me to retire when I was 49.
https://www.icpas.org/information/copy-desk/insight/article/spring-2025/the-rise-and-retreat-of-dei-navigating-the-uncertain-future-of-workplace-culture
NARFE
— Democrats run the federal government. According to them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats, and especially Democrats 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. All my coworkers who my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and 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.
https://www.narfe.org/blog/2025/04/22/opm-proposed-rule-aims-to-remove-competitive-service-protections-for-50000-feds/
TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Liberal and moderate Jews ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn conservative Jews.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/over-100-chicago-area-rabbis-cantors-condemn-trumps-crackdown-on-campus-antisemitism/
INDEPENDENT
— Musk to ‘significantly’ step back from DOGE role after Tesla profits plunge
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-musk-doge-tariffs-china-stocks-live-updates-b2737788.html
— Gore compares Trump team to Nazi Germany saying they are ‘trying to create their own preferred version of reality’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/al-gore-trump-nazi-germany-b2737278.html
GURADIAN
— Gore draws parallels between Trump and early Nazi Germany
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2025/apr/22/al-gore-trump-early-nazi-germany
April 2, 2025
All eight Republican township candidates on my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 ballot lost because the Democrats in the township, including my precinct, voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. How successful were your Republican township candidates? Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. Since 2000, as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I have done much to help elect and reelect Republican Milton Township candidates, including hand-delivering their campaign literature to the residences in my precinct (currently 400) that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Richard Irvin concedes defeat to John Laesch in Aurora mayoral race
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/richard-irvin-concedes-defeat/
— Orland Park Mayor Keith Pekau concedes defeat in bid for third term
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/orland-park-mayoral-race-results/
— Evanston voters re-elect Daniel Biss as mayor, per unofficial results
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/evanston-mayor-election-results/
— Illinois AG Kwame Raoul warns legal community against ‘being complicit’ with Trump. Federal law trumps state and local law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/illinois-ag-kwame-raoul-warns-legal-community-against-being-complicit-with-trump/
— Lawsuit claims Chicago approval for cannabis store in Streeterville was illegal
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/streeterville-cannabis-store/
— Wisconsin votes to enshrine voter ID requirement in state constitution
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-election-education-official-voter-id-amendment/
— Democratic-backed Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, cementing liberal majority
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-control/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-liberation-day/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/01/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use pollution to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/trump-epa-pollution-climate-change/
— Democrats on Illinois’ high court must recuse themselves on gerrymandering. I should write about the gerrymandering my precinct in 2015.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/04/02/opinion-illinois-gerrymandering-state-supreme-court/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/04/01/trumps-tariff-smarter-trade-strategy-american-workers-environment-manufacturing-ben-jealous
DAILY HERALD
— School board incumbents fare well in DuPage County
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/school-board-incumbents-fare-well-in-dupage-county/
— Burket edges past Fasules in Glen Ellyn village president’s race; mayors losing in other DuPage towns
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250401/local-politics/burket-edges-past-fasules-in-glen-ellyn-village-presidents-race-mayors-losing-in-other-dupage-town/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Republicans eye $25,000 SALT cap as Trump’s tax cuts take shape. I started itemizing in 1972 and my wife and I in 1978. We paid less federal income tax because we itemized. But SALT ended our itemizing.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/trump-tax-cuts-gop-eyes-raising-salt-cap
— Democrat leaders promote the lawyer leading Jenner’s battle with Trump.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/jenner-blocks-rep-trump-case-michael-attanasios-backstory
ABC7
— Aurora mayoral election: Two-term incumbent Richard Irvin concedes race to challenger John Laesch. Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss is projected to win a second term in office.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/aurora-mayor-election-2025-voters-head-polls-mayoral-race-incumbent-richard-irvin-facing-challenger-john-laesch/16114822/
— Jason House projected to win Dolton mayoral election, replacing Tiffany Henyard: ‘It’s a new day’ State Sen. Napoleon Harris projected to win the Thornton Township supervisor election.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dolton-illinois-election-results-today-voters-seek-replace-tiffany-henyard-mayor-thornton-township-supervisor/16116392/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC8_DMNhvFo
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use “financial experts” to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-news-today-financial-experts-raising-concerns-consumer-protections-costs-current-administration/16116870/
NBC5
— Suburban Chicago race results
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/2025-illinois-election-results-wisconsin-supreme-court/3711433/
— Chicago suburb hires private security to help patrol amid police shortage
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-winnetka-private-security-police-help/3711369/
— Liberal wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, GOP keeps House specials
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/trump-administration-tariffs-wisconsin-florida-elections-april-01-2025-live-updates/3710727/
CBS2
— Dodge wins in Orland Park, Biss wins another term in Evanston
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/2025-municipal-elections-chicago-suburbs/
— Chicago area school district prepares for potential drop in federal funding
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicago-area-school-district-prepares-for-potential-drop-in-federal-funding/
WGN9
— Illinois court rules lawsuit against maker of gun used in Highland Park mass shooting can proceed. What if he had used an SUV to kill people?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/illinois-court-rules-lawsuit-against-222626925.html
FOX32
— Illinois election results
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-election-results-live-updates
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Duckworth to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617771
— Trump administration begins mass layoffs of federal workers. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997. They used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s 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. The agency shrank from more than 6,000 to less than 3,000. It was almost always under hiring and/or promotion freezes. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617888
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use farmers to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1617885
WBEZ
— Because Democrats run Illinois, 25% of Illinois residents are on Medicaid.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/04/01/potential-medicaid-cuts-leave-25-of-illinois-at-risk
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/immigration/2025/04/01/venezuelans-in-chicago-relieved-their-deportation-protection-is-safe-for-now
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-newsletter/2025/04/01/the-rundown-what-tariffs-could-mean-for-your-budget
EFFINGHAM DAILY NEWS
— Effingham GOP celebrates second Trump presidency. How strongly have the leaders of your county and township Republican organizations celebrated Trump’s second presidency?
https://www.effinghamdailynews.com/news/local_news/effingham-gop-celebrates-second-trump-presidency/article_4146c186-2160-42a8-9b6a-04b4e65258fb.html
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use foreign college students to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/04/01/some-foreign-college-students-are-being-targeted-for-deportation-what-rights-do-they-have/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Dan Brady wins Bloomington mayor race
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/your-local-election-hq/dan-brady-wins-bloomington-mayoral/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call you a racist if you do not promote illegal immigration.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/no-tip-for-illegal-customers-leave-racist-note-for-lax-server/
— — Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/business/ap-trump-is-set-to-announce-reciprocal-tariffs-in-a-risky-move-that-could-reshape-the-economy/
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump and Musk support not enough to overturn the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/wnij-news/2025-04-02/trump-and-musk-support-not-enough-to-overturn-the-wisconsin-supreme-courts-liberal-majority
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use bad weather to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2025-04-01/weather-experts-say-federal-cuts-could-impact-forecasting
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump’s executive orders to promote more hatred against him.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-04-01/administration-lawyers-make-missteps-in-defending-trumps-orders
IPM NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/transgender-day-of-visibility-means-resistance-and-solidarity-for-c-us-lgbtq-community/
CWB CHICAGO
— New law would ban fines, criminal penalties for homeless people occupying public land
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/04/new-law-would-ban-fines-criminal-penalties-for-homeless-people-occupying-public-land.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Election Night winners and losers
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/04/02/election-night-winners-and-losers-00265592
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In DuPage County, Democratic Party Chair Reid McCollum said “we’re leading in 48 of 49 partisan races and only down in the one by 35 votes. Several of our townships have never had an elected Dem, and it’s sweep after sweep tonight,” via BlueSky. . .Greg Hart elected Hinsdale president)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/02/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-487/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/04/01/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-280/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How successful were your Republican township candidates? All eight of my Republican Milton Township candidates lost both townshipwide and in my precinct. Ever since my wife and I moved to Milton Township in 1978, all of the Milton Township elected officials have been Republican. The eight lost in this election because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— The numbers don’t lie. Illinoisans aren’t prospering, our neighbors are.
https://wirepoints.org/the-numbers-dont-lie-illinoisans-arent-prospering-our-neighbors-are-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
JOHN KASS
— NPR & Public Television: Leftists Using Government to Take Your Money Without Asking
https://johnkassnews.com/npr-public-television-using-government-to-take-your-money/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— IL Attorney General vows to use resources to sue Trump administration
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4cfeb377-1e98-4d45-98fa-0f44547b8106.html
ILLINOIS RECORD
— Inside DuPage County Sheriff Mendrick’s Social Media Meltdown
https://www.illinoisrecord.com/p/inside-dupage-county-sheriff-mendricks
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Brandon Johnson’s war against Chicago’s Black community
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-brandon-johnsons-war-against-chicagos-black-community/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— DOGE Reportedly Finds Millions of Illegals on Social Security Rolls
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/irs-ice-partnershiptrump-administration-nears-historic-deal-as-doge-reportedly-finds-millions-of-illegals-on-social-security-rolls/
— Democrats Appointed 92% of Judges Blocking Trump Agenda: ‘Judicial Coup D’Etat’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/01/democrats-appointed-92-of-judges-blocking-trump-agenda-judicial-coup-detat/
DAILY CALLER
— Anti-Musk Group Behind ‘Day Of Action’ Against Tesla Offers Tips On ‘Jail Support,’ Finding ‘Target’s’ Home Address
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/anti-musk-group-behind-day-of-action-against-tesla-offers-tips-on-jail-support-finding-targets-home-address/
— How Small Town America Stopped A Chinese Communist Party Takeover
https://dailycaller.com/2025/04/01/small-town-michigan-stopped-chinese-communist-party-takeover-gotion/#google_vignette
DAILY SIGNAL
— Hegseth Bids Adieu to Military Wokeness
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/01/hegseth-bids-adieu-to-military-wokeness/
FOX NEWS
— ‘A bubble of unreality’: Illinois GOP chair blasts governor for Mexico trade agreement. Illinois GOP Chair Kathy Salvi joins ‘Fox & Friends First’ to discuss Gov. JB Pritzker signing a trade agreement with Mexico despite business fleeing the state.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370868324112
POST MILLENNIAL
— Trump demands Republicans defund, ‘totally disassociate’ from NPR, PBS
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-trump-demands-republicans-defund-totally-disassociate-from-npr-pbs
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use tariffs to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/trumps-tariffs-cause-recession-experts/story?id=120329597
— Democratic base’s anger puts some party leaders on shaky ground
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/democratic-bases-anger-puts-party-leaders-shaky-ground-120326767
REUTERS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Venezuelans to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-deported-238-venezuelans-el-salvador-dozens-have-active-asylum-cases-2025-04-01/
MSN
— Pritzker Bans Capitol Rioters Pardoned by Trump From Being Hired for Government Jobs. Constructively, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49years old in 1997, they banned me from being hired for any job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/illinois-governor-bans-capitol-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-from-being-hired-for-government-jobs/ar-AA1yclU8
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Musk to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/04/01/elon-musk-social-security-immigrants/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— In Chicago, the Union Wins Again. Teachers get hefty raises, while test scores and enrollment fall.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/chicago-teachers-union-contract-public-schools-students-brandon-johnson-e9f4b64e?mod=opinion_lead_pos4
— U.S. Looks for More Countries to Take Migrants. Officials say they have asked several countries in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe. Migrants prefer America because Democrat and RINO leaders give citizens of foreign countries tremendous preference over citizens of America.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/u-s-looks-for-more-countries-to-take-migrants-3db9af5a
— The Campus DEI Retreat Is a Tactical Withdrawal. Colleges are learning to rebrand and lie low during the Trump years. Enjoy the sanity while it lasts.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-campus-dei-retreat-is-a-tactical-withdrawal-enjoy-it-while-it-lasts-636f88d0
— Mike Johnson Loses Battle to Limit GOP Rebels’ Power. House speaker fails to kill proposal allowing proxy voting by House lawmakers who are new parents. All my Democrat GAO superiors were parents who hinted/implied/argued/shouted a) that parents should get more preference and b) that I was unfairly advantaged because I was not a parent.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/mike-johnson-republican-proxy-voting-parents-3a48ccf4
FORBES
— Duckworth ever-increasingly takes the lead in promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYiV7gWpnc
NPR
— Democrat and RINO leaders use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229709/trump-dei-ban-whats-lost
INDEPENDENT
— Democrats want to punish Trump in the 2026 midterms. All eight Republican township candidates on the ballot in my precinct lost because the Democrats in the township voted for the Democrat candidates to punish Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/democrats-want-punish-trump-2026-184520308.html
March 12, 2025
Ever-increasing, the mainstream news media serves as a mouthpiece for Democrat leaders.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders say “Trump checks out Teslas at White House as Musk’s auto company stock sinks.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-checks-teslas-white-house-elon-musks-auto-company-stock-sinks/16008302/
— Democrat leaders say “Nearly half of Department of Education workforce to be eliminated.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-education-layoffs/16008462/
— Democrat leaders say “US Dept. of Education cuts could profoundly impact schools, students.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI5RApBsoxI
— Democrat leaders say “USDA cuts two programs worth roughly $1B, impacting local schools, food banks and farmers.”
https://abc7chicago.com/post/usda-cuts-programs-worth-roughly-1b-impacting-local-schools-farmers-food-banks-including-northern-illinois-bank/16009649/
— Democrat leaders call for boycott of retailers who cut DEI programs
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-leaders-inspired-boycott-retailers-cut-dei-programs-encourage-purposeful-local-spending/16008915/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders say “Rally at University of Chicago in support of Columbia University pro-Palestine activist after ICE arrest.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/university-of-chicago-rally-columbia-university-pro-palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more people rely on food banks.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-area-food-bank-programs-usda-funding/
FOX32
— Democrats say “Illinois Republicans slam Democrats for focusing on ‘bad bills’ amid budget crisis.”
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-republicans-slam-democrats-bad-bills
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois Republicans slam bills that Democrats are prioritizing.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_ix8_GtqXQ
— Democrat leaders say “Durbin calls out Trump, Musk partnership.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMCahOgoiEM
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders say Illinois farmers criticize USDA funding freezes
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/11/farmers-usda-general-assembly/
— Democrat leaders say “Illinois farmers, schools and food banks will lose millions with USDA funding cuts.”
https://chicago.suntimes.com/editorials/2025/03/11/illinois-farmers-schools-food-banks-department-agriculture-cuts-trump
— Democrat leaders say “Chicago needs a new presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney Immediately.” My critics/opponents were overjoyed Bush-appointed U.S. Attorney General Patrick Fitzgerald who sided with the Democrats who ran GAO in Diersen v. GAO.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/editorial-us-attorney-chicago-trump/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders say “Some CPS teachers claim REACH evaluation system disproportionately targets Black educators.” (COMMENT: When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire and replaced me with my Black subordinate who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/12/cps-teacher-evaluation-biased/
— Democrat leaders say “Access is not a trophy the White House can hand out to its favorite reporters.” (COMMENT: Needless-to-say, I am not a favorite reporter of those who want/demand that I a) glorify and praise them, b) pander to them, c) serve as one of their operatives or dupes, d) cover up their wrong doing, and/or e) give them money.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/28/heidi-stevens-white-house-reporters-access/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2025/03/12/trans-people-facing-gender-affirming-care-bans-flee-to-illinois-shield-law-states
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders say “DuPage County to pay $11 million to settle lawsuit over detainee’s death in jail.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250311/news/dupage-county-to-pay-11-million-to-settle-lawsuit-over-detainees-death-in-jail/
— Democrat leaders endorse the non-Republican candidates in the Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 race.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250312/endorsements/dist-200-school-board-blatner-ebbesen-hanlon-paver/
— Kevin Coyne: Board’s egregious conduct
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250312/letters-to-the-editor/boards-egregious-conduct/
(FROM THE LETTER: In 20 years of being deeply involved in DuPage County politics, I have never seen elected officials behave as disrespectfully and unprofessionally as the numerous Democratic Board members during the recent hearing on whether or not the board would remove Henry Hyde’s name from our county courthouse. The incredibly insulting idea to cancel the name of the prolific Henry Hyde was bad enough. But to cut off public comment on the proposal, after just 30 minutes, was something none of the many current and former officials in attendance had ever seen before. It was a terrible insult to all of the people who cared deeply about the legacy of Henry Hyde. People came from all over to speak at this hearing. Sadly, the majority of the board did not care to hear them. While these board members try to paint Hyde as a conservative extremist, Hyde’s legacy is not extreme and is very nuanced. Yes, Hyde was pro-life and he sponsored the Hyde Amendment (a bill that both Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy also voted for). Hyde led on the Brady Bill and Family Leave Act. Jesse Jackson Jr. gave remarks at Hyde’s memorial services and pointed to Hyde’s ability to work across the aisle. Hyde was very bipartisan in approach, a concept that is unfortunately lost by politicians today…certainly by the Democratic members of the DuPage County Board. Hyde’s collaborating and inclusive approach to legislating is sorely missed. We should do our best to remember his name and style, not forget it. Hopefully residents learn about what happened at this hearing. It was evident to all in attendance that the Board cared a whole lot more about pandering to their political activists than about good government.)
JOURNAL COURIER
— Democrat leaders say “Federal workers deserve respect, not cruelty.” (COMMENT: I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. According to them, federal employees are grossly overpaid and their benefits are far too generous, and for federal retirees, their pensions and health insurance benefits are far too generous. I was a despised/hated federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a despised/hated federal retiree for more than 27 years. While I was a federal employee, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.)
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/opinion/article/federal-workers-deserve-respect-not-cruelty-20210388.php
STATELINE
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s USDA cuts hurt Illinois farmers and food-insecure communities.”
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-farmers-trump-usda-cuts/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “Trump cuts vital Illinois food programs, impacting farmers and food banks.”
https://foxillinois.com/news/local/trump-cuts-vital-illinois-food-programs-impacting-farmers-and-food-banks
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders say “Stocks slump as worry grows over Trump tariffs and a possible recession.” How far will Democrat leaders drive stocks down?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-11/stocks-slump-as-worry-grows-over-trump-tariffs-and-a-possible-recession
— Trump administration slams brakes on government’s adoption of electric vehicles (COMMENT: I just bought a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV. Please let me know if you share my interest in the car.)
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/trump-administration-slams-brakes-on-governments-adoption-of-electric-vehicles
— Democrat leaders say “Trump’s policies are destabilizing mental health care for veterans.”
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-03-12/trumps-policies-are-destabilizing-mental-health-care-for-veterans-sources-say
25 NEWS NOW
— Democrat leaders push more pot in Pekin
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/03/12/new-cannabis-dispensary-coming-pekin/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders have always backed Democrat candidates in non-partisan elections.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/partisan-politics-infiltrating-non-partisan-local-illinois-elections/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/11/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-265/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats Rally Support for Their Terrorist Hamas Campus Cheerleader
https://johnkassnews.com/democrats-rally-support-for-their-hamas-campus-cheerleader/
WIREPOINTS
— Chicago continues to be the nation’s bloodiest city when it comes to the sheer number of homicides
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-continues-to-be-the-nations-bloodiest-city-when-it-comes-to-sheer-number-of-homicides-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Have you been a candidate? Have you been primaried? In 1999, I was the Assistant Precinct Committeeman (PC) for the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. The PC for that precinct resigned and endorsed me to me to be appointed to fill the vacancy, and that happened in December of 1999. But for the 2000 election, my Milton Township Republican Organization critics/opponents recruited a female registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me. I won because both Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren endorsed me in writing. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Are/were you bureaucratic bloat? To deal with Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. They did not do that to my coworkers who were also eligible to retire, but who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I had more work experience, more education, and/or more professional certifications than all my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors did not force to retire. I was the only one in the office who had a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I should write about my critics/opponents who despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees the most. According to them, federal employees are grossly overpaid and their benefits are far too generous, and for federal retirees, their pensions and health insurance benefits are far too generous. I was a despised/hated federal employee for almost 30 years and I have been a despised/hated federal retiree for more than 27 years. While I was a federal employee, my salary increased from $19.37/hour to $153,151/year in today’s dollars. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $66,780/year. The federal government pays 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. In my defense, while I was a federal employee, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at veterans that they are especially hard-hit by federal cuts. While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans. Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, to turn them against me, my Democrat superiors stressed to them that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) earn a professional license when I was 32, e) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, g) go on vacations when I was 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, etc., g) get married when I was 29, h) buy collector cars when I was 40 and 45, i) etc. I should write about my Democrat superiors who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
— Democrats run the federal government. They determine which of their employees suffer the most when Republicans cut their budgets. Potential federal employees who are the following should be warned that they will suffer the most when Republicans cut their agency’s budgets: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Debt, Deficits and DOGE
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-debt-deficits-and-doge.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Biden’s final tally: 8.3 million new immigrants, most of them here illegally
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/12/joe-bidens-final-tally-83-million-new-immigrants-illegally/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Sean Hannity among latest string of celebrities to buy Teslas in solidarity
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/business/3343919/sean-hannity-among-celebrities-buy-teslas-musk/
NEW YORK POST
— Columbia University refuses to help DHS identify pro-Hamas protesters for deportation
https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/us-news/columbia-university-refusing-to-help-id-anti-israel-protesters-for-deportationwhite-house/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Will the MAGA Barbarian Invasion Succeed?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/will_the_maga_barbarian_invasion_succeed.html
BREITBART
— Democrats Opened the Border Because They Can’t Win Elections with Only American Votes
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/expert-witness-democrats-opened-the-border-because-they-cant-win-elections-with-only-american-votes/
— Trump Administration Is Working To Exclude Illegals From Welfare Programs (COMMENT: How many illegals are Democrats and RINO leaders giving welfare to in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Illegals are going to vote for Democrats, if they aren’t already.)
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/11/trump-admin-working-to-exclude-illegals-from-welfare-programs/
FOX NEWS
— Education secretary says department took first steps to eliminate ‘bureaucratic bloat.’ (COMMENT: Are/were you bureaucratic bloat? To deal with Gingrich-led Republican budget cuts in the 1990s, my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire in 1997. They did not do that to my coworkers who were also eligible to retire, but who were Democrat, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I had more work experience, more education, and/or more professional certifications than all my coworkers who my Democrat GAO superiors did not force to retire. I was the only one in the office who had a professional license.)
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6369901522112
NEWSMAX
— Musk Eyes Social Security, Entitlements for Cuts Amid Widespread Fraud
https://www.newsmax.com/us/doge-cuts-entitlements/2025/03/10/id/1202240/
PJ MEDIA
— Here’s Why Trump Is Calling for a Republican Congressman to Be Primaried (COMMENT: Have you been a candidate? Have you been primaried? In 1999, I was the Assistant Precinct Committeeman (PC) for the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 9 in Wheaton. The PC for that precinct resigned and endorsed me to me to be appointed to fill the vacancy, and that happened in December of 1999. But for the 2000 election, my Milton Township Republican Organization critics/opponents recruited a female registered Republican voter in my precinct to run against me. I won because both Peter Roskam and Randy Hultgren endorsed me in writing.)
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/03/11/heres-why-trump-is-calling-for-a-republican-congressman-to-be-primaried-n4937786
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
MSN
— Democrat leaders say “Fired Federal Worker Who Voted for Trump Didn’t Expect the Devastation His Administration Would Cause.” (COMMENT: Democrats run the federal government. They determine which of their employees suffer the most when Republicans cut their budgets. Potential federal employees who are the following should be warned that they will suffer the most when Republicans cut their agency’s budgets: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/i-feel-a-little-bit-betrayed-fired-federal-worker-who-voted-for-trump-says-she-didn-t-expect-the-devastation-his-administration-would-cause-to-her-life/ar-AA1AGLqd
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat leaders say “Trump Vows to Buy a Tesla to Support Musk After Shares Plunge. The president defended Elon Musk, a key donor and adviser, after shares in the electric-car maker hit their lowest point since before Election Day.” (COMMENT: All the cars and the SUV that I have bought are American nameplate.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/trump-elon-musk-tesla.html
— Democrat leaders say “Musk Suggests His Team Will Scrutinize Social Security and Entitlement Spending.” (COMMENT: My critics/opponents have always painted my federal salary, benefits, and pension as being entitlements instead of earned. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents a) were wealthy, b) paid for their college expenses, and/or c) got them good jobs in the private sector. My parents were not wealthy. I had to work my way through college. My father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21. I would focus on my critics/opponents who never applied for a federal job or who applied and were rejected a) because they lacked qualifications and/or b) because they could not pass a background investigation. Even though I was conservative, Republican, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors had been in America since 1844, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office hired me in 1966, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980. I had qualified myself by a) passing the postal employment test and earning a high school diploma in 1966, b) passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, c) earning an MBA in 1976, and d) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/us/politics/musk-doge-social-security-entitlement-spending.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/business/economy/immigrant-workers-deportation-fears.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders say “U.S. revamps immigration app to add ‘self-deportation’ function.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/11/cbp-home-self-deportation-app-immigration/
— Democrat leaders say “White House insists Musk cuts to Social Security, Medicare won’t affect benefits. Elon Musk alleged that up to $700 billion in entitlement spending could be “waste and fraud,” raising alarm among Democrats.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/11/white-house-insists-musk-cuts-social-security-medicare-wont-affect-benefits/
HUDSON VALLEY PRESS
— Democrat leaders say “New York Attorney General Letitia James and a coalition of 19 other attorneys general last Thursday filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for illegally firing thousands of probationary federal workers.” (COMMENT: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that because I had served my probationary period when I was an IRS employee, they could not just fire me.)
https://hudsonvalleypress.com/2025/03/12/james-sues-trump-administration-over-firings-of-federal-workers/
LAKE COUNTY NEWS
— Democrat leaders say “5 reasons veterans are especially hard-hit by federal cuts.” (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, many, most, and at times, virtually all my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were veterans. Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966, to turn them against me, my Democrat superiors stressed to them that I avoided the Vietnam War draft and they ever-increasingly hinted/implied/argued/shouted at them that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21, b) earn master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48, c) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, d) earn a professional license when I was 32, e) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., f) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, g) go on vacations when I was 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, etc., g) get married when I was 29, h) buy collector cars when I was 40 and 45, i) etc. I should write about my Democrat superiors who were veterans and who took the most/biggest adverse actions against me.)
https://lakeconews.com/news/81048-5-reasons-veterans-are-especially-hard-hit-by-federal-cuts
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Federal law requires employers to give veterans an advantage in hiring over people who have not served in the military. Under the 1944 Veterans Preference Act, employers should hire veterans over other candidates and retain veterans over other employees during layoffs. The idea is to compensate for the economic loss of serving in the military and acknowledge the government’s obligation, especially, to support disabled veterans. Due to this veterans preference, nearly 30% of federal workers are veterans, half of whom are disabled. This means that veterans, who make up 6.1% of the U.S. population, are disproportionately affected by federal worker cuts. One estimate is that of the 38,000 federal employees fired in the first five weeks of the Trump administration, 6,000 are veterans.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders say “A Big Downside of Retirement: We Have More Time to Worry About Our Health.” (COMMENT: Since 2000, my promoting conservative principles and the Republican Party platform has harmed my health big time. Instead of exercising, I put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out.)
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/retirement-health-worries-b25bf759
FORTUNE
— Democrat leaders say “Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledges.”
https://fortune.com/2025/03/12/president-trump-vandalize-tesla-property-domestic-terrorist-elon-musk/
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat leaders say “Smugglers Charge $550 to Move Migrants Away From Trump’s America.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-11/smugglers-are-charging-550-to-move-migrants-away-from-the-us
FLORIDA POLITICS
— Democrat leaders say “Jim Oberweis becomes first Republican to file for Byron Donalds’ seat in Congress.”
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/725612-jim-oberweis-becomes-first-republican-to-file-for-byron-donalds-seat-in-congress/
SPLC
— The U.S. Department of Education has acted like it was an arm of the Democrat Party.
https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-president-condemns-actions-dismantle-department-education/
March 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-threatens-new-tariffs-canada-including-250-tax-dairy/15992544/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more gender based preference giving.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF5ujLyO_7E
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Something should be done’: Illinois Democratic lawmakers hear from public frustrated about President Donald Trump’s initiatives (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/something-should-be-done-illinois-democratic-lawmakers-hear-from-public-frustrated-about-president-donald-trumps-initiatives/
— Hundreds gather to criticize Trump, Musk’s spending cuts at ‘Takedown Tesla’ protest (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/hundreds-gather-to-criticize-trump-musks-spending-cuts-at-takedown-tesla-protest/
— FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/08/fema-national-fire-training-academy/
— Five years ago, COVID gripped the world in fear. Now local scientists, doctors warn Trump’s policies are weakening public health. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use everything that Trump says and does against him.)
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/09/five-years-later-pandemic-response-fears-return/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Purdue star blows whistle on Illinois’ ‘Orange Krush’ fans, alleging racist comments directed at brother, 13. The teams played Friday night at State Farm Center.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/college-sports/2025/03/08/purdue-boilermakers-trey-kaufman-renn-illinois-fans-racist-state-farm-center
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more preference for women.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250308/nation-and-world-politics/we-wont-be-silent-hundreds-show-support-for-international-womens-day-in-geneva/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
JOHN KASS
— Democrats lost in the wilderness of their own making (COMMENT: From what I see, Democrat leaders plan on winning again by promoting even more a) 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 nation origin discrimination. From what I see, Democrat leaders plan on winning again by promoting even more hatred against Trump, against the 77 million who voted for Trump, and especially against those who share Trump’s demographics. Trump is conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and his ancestor have been in America for a long time.)
https://johnkassnews.com/democrats-lost-in-the-wilderness-of-their-own-making/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Rep. Martin McLaughlin, R-Barrington, says Illinois’ liberal policies are to blame for the state’s poor demographic showing.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_7a35b4be-fb9a-11ef-8f9c-e3450e6997a2.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to the following who state that they are Republican, but who ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderate/centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican: candidates, elected officials, and party leaders? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In your precinct, how many voted for Harris? 478 voted for Harris in my precinct. Who do the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters in your precinct take their hatred of Trump out against? Anticipate/expect it will be against their Republican Precinct Committeeman. I will get a measure of that hatred while I hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots for the April 1, 2025 election to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Independent voter. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? As Democrats move into DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, more and more and more are dependent of government spending. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Republicans and their Republican Party platform create prosperity and safety. Democrats and their Democrat Part platform create poverty and crime. Republicans created a prosperous DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. But as Democrats ever-increasingly move in and take over, poverty and crime increase. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The less money that your parents have/had, the less money that you have, the less protection that you have against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I had to work my through college. My father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. The more of the following that you are, the more that you will be forced to pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. If my parents had not sent me Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, I never would have been able to get an ACT score of 24, graduate in the upper 20% of my class, earn a bachelor’s degree, earn three master’s degrees, earn six professional certifications, and earn a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http:///www.gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they ever-increasingly fought Republican-led budget cuts. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors took their hatred against Republicans out on me. They took many adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that. SEE: NBC NEWS: “You lose all hope: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts. In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more” at https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-gripped-mental-health-instability-trump-cuts-rcna194485 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Employers have an extremely low opinion of federal employees. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. I should write about that. The longer that you are a federal employee, the more impossible it is to get a job in the private sector. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been an unemployed federal retiree for more than 27 years. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. SEE: MSN: Nearly 12,000 federal employees file unemployment claims in DC at https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-12-000-federal-employees-file-unemployment-claims-in-dc/ar-AA1AtTS5 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What has harmed your Republican Precinct Committeeman’s credibility? My credibility has been harmed big time by the many big adverse action that the following have taken against me since 1999. 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) conservative and religious leaders and activists, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, and e) Republican donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff members, campaign volunteers, etc. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have the most religious, government, political, and/or financial clout. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have their operatives and dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I took delivery of my red 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV yesterday. If you share my interest in the car, please let me know. I owned a 1969 Dodge Charger SE 1968-1971. Some at NIU called me “Daytona Dave” because I drove it to Daytona Beach for the 1969 and 1970 spring breaks. SEE: TOP SPEED: 10 Ways The Dodge Charger Daytona EV Will Change Muscle Cars Forever at https://www.topspeed.com/how-dodge-charger-daytona-ev-change-muscle-cars-forever/ FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Dodge Charger Daytona name carries a legacy of power, performance, and bold design. First introduced in 1969 as a revolutionary muscle car built for NASCAR dominance, the original Daytona became an icon, breaking records and turning heads with its striking aerodynamic design. Over the decades, the Daytona has symbolized Dodge’s relentless pursuit of speed and innovation.” – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democratic politicians continue race-baiting hysteria
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3341274/democratic-politicians-continue-race-baiting-hysteria/
— Democrats kneel for criminals but won’t stand for a child cancer survivor
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3340576/democrats-kneel-criminals-wont-stand-child-cancer-survivor-dj-daniel/
— DOGE must audit and disarm the IRS (COMMENT: GAO audits IRS. Democrats run GAO and IRS and do not want Republicans employees. Nevertheless, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/faith-freedom-self-reliance/3340559/department-of-government-efficiency-must-audit-disarm-irs/
— The less money that your parents have/had, the less money that you have, the less protection that you have against political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. I had to work my through college. My father never made more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. He died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21. The more of the following that you are, the more that you will be forced to pay the price of Affirmative Action and DEI: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/3311108/dei-and-deviancy-wealth-doesnt-always-buy-protection/
NEW YORK POST
— Purdue’s Trey Kaufman-Renn alleges Illinois fans hurled racist taunts at family
https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/sports/purdues-trey-kaufman-renn-alleges-illinois-fans-hurled-racist-taunts/
— Some House members have mental faculties so diminished they can no longer do their jobs — and others voting drunk, high: lawmakers
https://nypost.com/2025/03/08/us-news/some-house-members-have-mental-faculties-so-diminished-they-can-no-longer-do-their-jobs-and-others-voting-drunk-high-lawmakers/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Does mourning brutally murdered children who are white mean you are a ‘white supremacist?’ Some leftists think so.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/does_mourning_brutally_murdered_children_who_are_white_mean_you_are_a_white_supremacist_some_leftists_think_so.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Trump says and does creates economic worries.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/us-economic-worries-mount-as-trump-implements-tariffs-cuts-workforce-and-freezes-spending/ar-AA1AuInz
— What do you say to the following who state that they are Republican, but who ever-increasingly paint themselves as being moderate/centrist, RINO, Democrat Lite, anti-conservative, if not anti-Republican: candidates, elected officials, and party leaders? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-opposition-principles-first-076bf16a73a9c66f10ad3a2fbc0df1c1
MSN
— ‘Cruel and Disrespectful’: Musk’s Ultimatum To Federal Workers Sparks Backlash (COMMENT: If I was still a federal employee, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates would have killed me by now figuratively if not literally.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cruel-and-disrespectful-musk-s-ultimatum-to-federal-workers-sparks-backlash/ss-AA1AfHY1
— Nearly 12,000 federal employees file unemployment claims in DC (COMMENT: Employers have an extremely low opinion of federal employees. Democrats run the federal government. Democrats despise/hate Republicans. I should write about that. The longer that you are a federal employee, the more impossible it is to get a job in the private sector. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been an unemployed federal retiree for more than 27 years. I would not have become a postal employee when I was 18 years old in 1966 if my high school classmate had not asked me to join him taking the postal employment test. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 a) if I had not taken the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 as backstop if I could not get a job in the private sector and b) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me in 1971 because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint.)
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/nearly-12-000-federal-employees-file-unemployment-claims-in-dc/ar-AA1AtTS5
YAHOO
— Millions of Americans will get a Social Security boost thanks to new law — find out if (and when) you’ll get paid (COMMENT: Yesterday, Social Security deposited $3,237.90 into my checking account for 2024. Great, but I hoped that it would have been more.)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/millions-americans-social-security-boost-103400386.html
ABC NEWS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, everything that Trump says and does harms everyone.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/funding-cuts-could-harm-global-efforts-to-fight-tuberculosis-who-warns/ar-AA1AoKkh
NBC NEWS
— ‘You lose all hope’: Federal workers gripped by mental health instability amid Trump cuts. In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more. (COMMENT: All during the almost 18 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they fought Republican-led budget cuts. I was one of the last Republicans who GAO hired. My Democrat GAO superiors took their hatred against Republicans out on me. They took many adverse actions against me and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. I should write about that.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/federal-workers-gripped-mental-health-instability-trump-cuts-rcna194485
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/activists-march-for-lgbtq-shows-at-kennedy-center/3862284/
CBS NEWS
— DHS administering lie detector tests to employees in effort to find leakers
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-lie-detector-tests-employees-leakers-immigration-raids/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrats say that “Musk Is Making Republicans Sweat and Giving Democrats a New Target.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/politics/elon-musk-trump-politics.html
— State Republicans Eager to Climb on Cost-Cutting Bandwagon
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/state-doge-oklahoma.html
— Democrats say “Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/us/politics/veterans-affairs-doge-cuts.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/08/medicaid-cuts-rural-hospitals/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/09/trump-mexico-asylum-migrants-refugees/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-03-09/donald-trump-race-gender-dei-pete-hegseth-cq-brown-college-military-amazon-target-boycott-robin-abcarian
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks, and at everyone else, that Trump is a racist.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/03/08/trump-dei-black-people-fight-racism-civil-rights/81609951007/
HUFFINGTON POST
— How many of those on Medicaid voted for Trump and why?
https://www.aol.com/gop-sen-josh-hawley-warns-110010376.html
NEW YORKER
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/09/trump-mexico-asylum-migrants-refugees/
DAILY KOS
— Democrats do not want Republicans to audit Democrats. GAO audits IRS. Democrats run GAO and IRS. Nevertheless, I worked for IRS for almost 9 years for GAO on audits of IRS for 3 years.
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/3/8/2308932/-Trump-through-Musk-uses-government-waste-race-handout-code-words-to-destroy-it-for-tax-cut
GUARDIAN
— Democrats say that “Chaos on campuses as schools warn Trump cuts could harm US for decades.” (COMMENT: How dependent on government spending are those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/trump-universities-higher-education-cuts
TIMES
— More Americans seeking asylum in Ireland since Trump’s comeback. Growing political unease in the United States has led many people to seek sanctuary in stable EU countries.
https://www.thetimes.com/world/ireland-world/article/more-americans-seeking-asylum-in-ireland-since-trumps-comeback-57kngc03j
March 6, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/trumps-tariffs-explainer/
— The historic Crown Point Courthouse saw one of several demonstrations organized across 50 states ahead of President Donald Trump’s speech to Congress Tuesday evening.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/region-residents-join-nationwide-demonstrations-on-eve-of-trump-speech-in-congress/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/lake-countys-congressmen-give-trump-speech-the-cold-shoulder-he-stands-for-only-one-thing-himself/
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, homelessness will ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/06/opinion-homelessness-criminalization-grants-pass-camping-bans-illinois-legislation/
— Early voting for April 1 election begins Friday in Kane County
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/05/early-voting-for-april-1-election-begins-friday-in-kane-county-officials-say/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly a) promote the hate-filled Trump-hating Mayor of Chicago and b) demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump..
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/03/05/brandon-johnson-sanctuary-city-hearing-chicago-house-oversight-committee
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/small-business/2025/03/05/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china-illinois-businesses-facing-scary-times
— Robert Crimo III signs trial waiver ‘Donald Trump’ after pleading guilty to Highland Park parade shooting. Experts say his guilty plea should stand. “He can sign Mickey Mouse or Donald Trump,” said Richard Kling, a law professor at Kent College of Law. What matters, he said, is that there is a transcript of Crimo orally pleading guilty, which Crimo did Monday.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/highland-park-parade-shooting/2025/03/05/highland-park-parade-shooting-robert-crimo-trial-waiver-donald-trump
DAILY HERALD
— Early voting ahead of April 1 election begins Friday for some, March 17 for others (COMMENT: As a Republican Precinct Committeeman, I will use 805 mailing labels to hand-deliver Republican campaign literature and marked sample ballots to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican or one Independent voter.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/local-politics/early-voting-ahead-of-april-1-election-begins-friday-for-some-march-17-for-others/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Lisle mayor, trustees at odds over police chief hiring process (COMMENT: How did you get your jobs? 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, or veteran who would take the job. For the Post Office job, I had passed the postal employment examination and I had earned a high school diploma. For the IRS job, I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU. For the GAO job, I had earned an MBA from Loyola, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul.)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250305/news/lisle-mayor-trustees-at-odds-over-police-chief-hiring-process/
NBC5
— Appeals court allows Trump to remove Office of Special Counsel (OSC) ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger — for now (COMMENT: OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/appeals-court-allows-trump-administration-to-remove-federal-ethics-watchdog/3689910/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “The Special Counsel’s job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals,”)
— DOGE recommends closing multiple Social Security offices across the U.S., including in Illinois. The proposed closure comes after reports that the Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off least 7,000 people from its workforce. (COMMENT: My Medicare is more than my Social Security. That may explain why I did not get a SSA-1099. But the Social Security website would not let me request one and no one answered at Social Security after hours of being in hold.)
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/doge-recommends-closing-multiple-social-security-offices-across-the-u-s-including-in-illinois/3689639/
FOX32
— LaHood calls Johnson ‘tone deaf’ to needs of Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DTtTNdlAl7lA
SOUTHERN
— Trump administration hit with over 100 lawsuits since inauguration
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/03/06/trump-administration-hit-with-over-100-lawsuits-since-inauguration/
RIVER BENDER
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/trump-administration-cuts-funding-for-grants-that-support-illinois-farmers-and-food-banks-80297.cfm?
STATELINE
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.mystateline.com/news/illinois-gov-pritzker-warns-1-million-may-lose-health-care-coverage-if-medicaid-funding-cut/
CLINTON JOURNAL
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn tariffs.
https://theclintonjournal.com/stories/tariffs-on-illinois-largest-trading-partners,86466
WAND TV
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/legislative-leaders-urge-illinois-gop-congressional-delegation-to-vote-against-medicaid-cuts/article_88944766-fa08-11ef-b1f9-632b456fc219.html
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Appeals court rules that Trump can remove head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-03-05/trump-administration-can-remove-head-of-federal-watchdog-agency-appeals-court-rules
(FROM THE ARTICLE: OSC is responsible for guarding the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions, such as retaliation for whistleblowing. It investigates whistleblower claims of reprisal, can pursue disciplinary action against employees who punish whistleblowers and provides a channel for employees to disclose government wrongdoing.)
AXIOS CHICAGO
— What percent of those in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct are dependent on federal spending?
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/03/05/house-budget-medicaid-cuts-illinois
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Brandon Johnson gets a D.C. grilling
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/03/06/brandon-johnson-v-darin-lahood-00215402
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-468/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— One of the first targets for an Illinois DOGE? Chicago’s 20 nearly-empty, failing schools. Here’s the 2025 list.
https://wirepoints.org/one-of-the-first-targets-for-an-illinois-doge-chicagos-20-nearly-empty-failing-schools-heres-the-2025-list-wirepoints/
COOK COUNTY RECORD
— Illinois officials have the constitutional authority to essentially thumb their nose at federal immigration agents and complicate federal efforts to locate and remove illegal immigrants, according to a new filing from Illinois’ state attorney general. (COMMENT: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject the rule of law.)
https://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/670297274-new-filing-illinois-has-constitutional-authority-to-ignore-immigration-law-complicate-deportations
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Democrat-led mainstream news media ever-increasingly spins negatively everything that Trump says and does. – Dave Diersen
http://gopillinois.com
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Office of Special Counsel’s (OSC) job is to look into and expose unethical or unlawful practices directed at federal civil servants, and to help ensure that whistleblowers who disclose fraud, waste, and abuse on the part of government agencies can do so without suffering reprisals, But OSC did not come to my defense when my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors took many big adverse actions against me a) because I blew the whistle on their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination and b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 years old in 1988 that charged my GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Oberweis Tries for Congress Again (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/05/oberweis-tries-for-congress-again/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Trump Declares ‘America is Back’ as House Speaker Removes Rep. Al Green for Disrupting Presidential Speech to Congress
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/trump-declares-america-is-back-as-house-speaker-removes-rep-al-green-for-disrupting-presidential-speech-to-congress.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
U.S. HOUSE
— Sanctuary Mayors Refuse to Change Policies That Obstruct Federal Immigration Enforcement and Protect Dangerous Criminal Aliens
https://oversight.house.gov/release/hearing-wrap-up-sanctuary-mayors-refuse-to-change-policies-that-obstruct-federal-immigration-enforcement-and-protect-dangerous-criminal-aliens/
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats are delusional in their open embrace of illegals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/6/democrats-delusional-open-embrace-illegals/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Trump’s triumphant vision as America’s renewal shines in historic address
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/trump_s_triumphant_vision_as_america_s_renewal_shines_in_historic_address.html
BREITBART
— Trump Reforms Yield Several Arrests of Illegal Aliens Taking American Jobs
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/trump-reforms-yield-several-arrests-illegals-taking-american-jobs/
— The more demographics that you have that vote for Republicans and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more hatred that Democrat and RINO leaders promote against you.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/03/05/there-is-no-america-without-migrants-says-democrat-attorney-general/
DAILY CALLER
— Soaring Levels Of Non-English Speaking Students May Be Driving National Reading Test Scores Into Ground (COMMENT: Delay in dumping German held my ancestors back big time. All my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. Yet, all my grandparents still spoke German. Neither of my parents attended college. My father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma. My mother never attended high school.)
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/05/soaring-levels-of-non-english-speaking-students-may-be-driving-national-reading-test-scores-into-ground/
FOX BUSINESS
— Mayors gave ‘woke wonderment’ and ‘double-talk’
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6369653272112
FOX NEWS
— DNC hires new top exec with long history of pushing racial grievances, leftist ideology. Roger Lau previously worked for progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dnc-hires-new-top-exec-with-long-history-pushing-racial-grievances-leftist-ideology?lid=4j232h861vbo
— Republican, independent voters react positively to Trump declaring US ‘woke no longer’ Democrats in the focus groups tests did not react at all favorably to Trump’s statements during his address to Congress.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/republican-independent-voters-react-positively-trump-declaring-us-woke-no-longer
GREG GIROUX
— Former Illinois state Sen. Jim Oberweis (R), who relocated to SW Florida after close loss to Rep. Lauren Underwood (D) in 2020, filed papers to seek #FL19 seat Rep. Byron Donalds (R) is giving up to run for governor. (COMMENT: I did much to help Oberweis win general elections. Of course, my critics/opponents always hinted/implied/argued/shouted at him that I caused all his defeats. I should write about my critics/opponents.)
https://x.com/greggiroux/status/1897388737275031939
JAMES A. FUREY
— Education bureaucrats lower standards in the name of ‘equity’ and call it progress. In reality, they are condemning students, particularly the most vulnerable, to a lifetime of limited opportunity. (COMMENT: All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.)
https://x.com/JamesAFurey/status/1897400171593654726
JIM OBERWEIS FOR CONGRESS
https://votejimo.com/
NEWSMAX
— Sanctuary City Mayors ‘Put Illegals First’
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/james-comer-chicago-denver/2025/03/05/id/1201616/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US
https://www.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-trump-plans-revoke-legal-111130604.html
NEWSWEEK
— Sanctuary City Hearing Descends Into Chaos: ‘This Is My Right!’ (COMMENT: How strongly are your county, county district, township, municipality, municipal district, school district, and precinct sanctuaries for illegals?)
https://www.newsweek.com/sanctuary-city-hearing-james-comer-ayanna-pressley-chaos-2040235
C-SPAN
— Trump Praises Efforts to End DEI “Woke” Policies in Defense Dept.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5155812/president-trump-praises-efforts-end-dei-woke-policies-defense-dept
CBS NEWS
— Highland Park parade shooter signed “Donald Trump” on trial waiver rather than his own name after guilty plea
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/highland-park-parade-shooter-donald-trump-name-document/
NEW YORK TIMES
— More Than 70 Million Americans Are on Medicaid. This Is Where They Live. (COMMENT: How many are on Medicaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Why are they on Medicaid?)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/27/us/politics/medicaid-enrollment.html
— There Is No Musk Exception in the Constitution
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/opinion/elon-musk-trump-constitution.html
— ‘Hamilton’ Cancels Kennedy Center Run Over Trump’s Takeover. “We’re not going to be a part of it while it is the Trump Kennedy Center,” said the show’s creator, Lin-Manuel Miranda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/theater/hamilton-kennedy-center-trump-miranda.html
WASHINGTON POST
— D.C. U.S. attorney tells Georgetown he won’t hire from any school with ‘DEI’ (COMMENT: To promote DEI is to lower standards for Democrats who are minority, female, and/or younger.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/03/05/dc-us-attorney-ed-martin-georgetown-law-dei/
— The Democratic fight over how to respond to Trump has already begun (COMMENT: I wonder what the hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters will shout at me as I hand-deliver sample ballots and Republican campaign literature in my precinct.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/05/democrats-trump-speech-reaction-debate/
USA TODAY
— Canadian province leader threatens to cut off energy to 3 US states, imposes 25% surcharge
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/04/ontario-canada-tariff-retaliation-energy-states/81350351007/
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/04/trump-dei-backlash-explained/81170427007/
NEW YORKER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-many-immigrants-will-die-in-us-custody
FINANCIAL REVIEW
— All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government, they ever-increasingly lowered standards to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless a) my job-related bachelor’s degree, b) my three job-related master’s degrees, c) my six job-related professional certifications, and d) my job-related professional license. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were the aforesaid and a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/gender-data-shows-any-lack-of-meritocracy-is-working-in-favour-of-men-20250225-p5lf18
PRESS AND GUIDE & NEWS HERALD
— Today in history: John Belushi’s death shocks hometown of Wheaton
https://www.pressandguide.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
https://www.thenewsherald.com/2025/03/05/today-in-chicago-history-john-belushis-death-shocks-the-city/
March 2, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Mayor Brandon Johnson’s upcoming testimony before Congress will unfold in an arena of political risk — and theater
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/02/mayor-brandon-johnsons-upcoming-testimony-before-congress-will-unfold-in-an-arena-of-political-risk-and-theater/
— Democrat leaders organize a protest against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/01/at-rally-in-st-charles-protestors-decry-trump-policies-show-support-for-ukraine/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/01/judge-blocks-trump-trans-youth-care-order/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly use DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America fora long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/02/column-reverse-discrimination-marlean-ames-page/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/21/heidi-stevens-banning-dei-and-race-based-programs-in-schools-chips-away-at-the-very-mission-of-education/
NBC5
— Pentagon sending about 3,000 more active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border. Already, about 9,200 U.S. troops in total are at the southern border, including 4,200 deployed under federal orders and about 5,000 National Guard troops under the control of governors.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/pentagon-sending-3000-active-duty-troops-us-mexico-border/3686444/
— Zelenskyy’s fiery White House visit gets ‘SNL’ cold open treatment. The sketch featured comedian Mike Myers as billionaire Elon Musk.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/zelenskyys-white-house-visit-snl-cold-open/3686448/
— To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. To promote reparations, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at Blacks that all the problems that Blacks have are caused by Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkEr7AI_JBg
— Trump objected to Zelenskyy’s tone and body language in Oval Office clash, White House says
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/trump-objected-to-zelenskyys-tone-and-body-language-in-oval-office-clash-white-house-says/3686305/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders organize a protest against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZx_r7TE9NY
— Judge rules head of federal watchdog agency fired by Trump must keep job. A judge has ruled the head of a federal watchdog agency must stay in his job, saying President Trump’s bid to remove the special counsel was unlawful. (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel had no problem with my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors taking big adverse actions against me a) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination or b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/judge-rules-head-of-federal-watchdog-agency-fired-by-trump-must-keep-job/
WGN9
— Democrat leaders organize a protest against Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz0EBtMaqng
FOX32
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-sanctuary-city-explainer
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Multiple Republicans contemplate challenging Pritzker in 2026 (COMMENT: Aaron Del Mar is mentioned.)
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/jim-dey-multiple-republicans-contemplate-challenging-pritzker-in-2026/article_dc32bae0-f546-11ef-ab51-779479fadd55.html
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— The head of the U.S. Office of Special Counsel must remain in his job, a judge in Washington ruled on Saturday, saying Trump’s bid to remove him was unlawful. (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel had no problem with my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors taking big adverse actions against me a) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination or b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-judge-rules-head-of-watchdog-agency-must-keep-his-job-says-trumps-bid-to-oust-him-was-unlawful/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sided with Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, in a legal battle over the president’s authority to oust the head of the independent agency that’s likely headed back to the U.S. Supreme Court. Dellinger sued Trump last month after he was fired, even though the law says special counsels can be removed by the president “only for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.” Jackson, who was nominated to the bench by Democratic president Barack Obama, quickly reinstated Dellinger in the job while he pursued his case. Jackson rejected the Trump administration’s claims that the special counsel’s removal protections are unconstitutional because they prevent the president from rightfully installing his preferred agency head. The judge said allowing the president to remove the special counsel at will would have a chilling effect on his crucial duties, which include guarding the federal workforce from illegal personnel actions, such as retaliation for whistleblowing. “The Special Counsel is supposed to withstand the winds of political change and help ensure that no government servant of either party becomes the subject of prohibited employment practices or faces reprisals for calling out wrongdoing — by holdovers from a previous administration or by officials of the new one,” Jackson wrote in her decision.)
DAILY ILLINI
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly organize protests against Trump’s deportation policies. What if Republican leaders had organized protests against Biden’s invasion policies?
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/university-news/protests-strikes/2025/03/01/psl-rally-trumps-deportation-policies/
WHEATON RECORD
— Democrat leaders organize a Wheaton College student protest against Trump
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2025/03/01/wheaton-prayer-demonstration-trump-tower/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What is your Republican Precinct Committeeman/Captain going to do to help elect Republican candidates on the April 1, 2025 ballot in your precinct? In my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, I am going to hand-deliver campaign literature from Republican candidates and a marked copy of the sample ballot to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or Independent registered voter. I will use 800 mailing labels to do that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The more of the following that you are, the more that your critics/opponents use DEI against you: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or if your ancestors have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. I should write about the following who have used DEI against me the most: 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) conservative leaders and activists, and d) religious leaders and activists. Of course, because political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination are illegal, the aforesaid use pretexts. I would focus on the pretexts that they have used to justify their adverse actions against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you say to those who work against those who share their demographics to curry favor with those who do not share their demographics? What do you say to those who falsely claim to religious, conservative, and/or Republican to give themselves standing to destroy those who are religious, conservative, and/or Republican? I should write about my critics/opponents who do the aforesaid. I would focus on those who 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 biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To harm you, what do your critics/opponents stress about you? My critics/opponents stress a) that I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, including almost 9 years for IRS, b) that my superiors took many big adverse actions against me and never promoted me beyond GS-13 even though I had 3 job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, c) that my GAO superiors forced me to take their early retirement “offer” and that I have been a federal retiree for more than 27 years, d) that so far, in today’s dollars, the Civil Service Retirement System has paid me more than $1.8 million dollars, e) that the federal government continues to pay 72% of my and my wife’s health care insurance premiums, f) that the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), let alone the DuPage County Republican Central Committee (DCRCC) and Illinois Republican Party (IRP) have never asked me to serve as an officer, g) that MTRO, DCRCC, and IRP leaders have taken many big adverse actions against me, h) that Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have taken many big adverse actions against me, i) that many religious and conservative leaders have taken many big adverse actions against me, j) that Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois took big adverse actions against me, k) that many Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats, and l) that my demographics are terrible. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
JOHN KASS
— Zelensky the Fool
https://johnkassnews.com/zelensky-the-fool/
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Darin LaHood Interviewed on WGN Radio, Blames Putin for Starting the War
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/darin-lahood-interviewed-on-wgn-radio-blames-putin-for-starting-the-way/
— Evidence of Campaign Against Democrats’ Sales Tax in Kane County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/evidence-of-campaign-against-democrats-sales-tax-in-kane-county/
— A Story about Lobbyists That You Won’t Read in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/a-story-about-lobbyists-that-you-wont-read-in-illinois/
— Bribery Makes the Comics
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/bribery-makes-the-comics/
— Minutes from Administrative Services Committee Meeting on Increasing Peter Austin’s Salary to $250,000
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/minutes-from-administrative-services-committee-meeting-on-increasing-peter-austins-salary-to-250000/
— Schakowsky Joins Protest in Chicago
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/01/schakowsky-joins-protest-in-chicago/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— ICE has not yet arrested children in school under Trump
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/3333502/ice-no-children-arrested-school-education-leaders-trump/
NEW YORK POST
— Jamie Dimon’s woke demons won’t halt JPMorgan’s DEI
https://nypost.com/2025/03/02/business/jamie-dimons-woke-demons-wont-halt-jpmorgans-dei/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Donald Trump and the American Cultural Renaissance
https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/02/donald-trump-and-the-american-cultural-renaissance/
AMERICAN THINKER
— DEI Universities Defy Trump
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/dei_universities_defy_trump.html
BREITBART
— Rahm Emanuel on Chicago: We Have ‘Disaster’ on Crime in Some Dem Cities Due to Permissiveness
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/01/rahm-emanuel-on-chicago-we-have-disaster-on-crime-in-some-dem-cities-due-to-permissiveness/
ONE AMERICA NEWS
— Trump Administration Orders Military To Remove All DEI Content (COMMENT: How has DEI impacted you? My Democrat superiors in the federal government used DEI big time to waste my career and to get rid of me. My RINO superiors in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois continue to use DEI big time to get rid of me. I should write about that.)
https://www.oann.com/newsroom/trump-admin-orders-military-to-remove-all-dei-content/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media acts like Democrat leaders pay it to do what it does, namely, demonize, denigrate, and condemn Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/news/trump-claims-media-paid-write-152811489.html
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Protests erupt at Tesla stores nationwide over Musk’s role in Trump spending cuts
https://businessmirror.com.ph/2025/03/02/protests-erupt-at-tesla-stores-nationwide-over-musks-role-in-trump-spending-cuts/
REUTERS
— Anti-Musk protesters arrested outside New York Tesla dealership
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW556002032025RP1/
MSN
— Hollywood is run by Democrats who promote the Democrat Party platform
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-has-demonized-dei-practices-across-the-us-but-hollywood-will-fight-back-says-sitcom-alum/ar-AA1A3Pso
— Nine arrested at New York Tesla dealership as anti-Musk protests break out
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/money/news/nine-arrested-at-new-york-tesla-dealership-as-anti-musk-protests-break-out/ar-AA1A52H4
NBC NEWS
— ‘SNL’ recreates Trump-Zelenskyy clash, with appearance by Mike Myers as Musk
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/snl-recreates-trump-zelenskyy-clash-appearance-mike-myers-musk-rcna194376
— ACLU sues Trump administration to halt immigrant transfers to Guantanamo
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/aclu-sues-trump-administration-halt-immigrant-transfers-guantanamo-rcna194358
CBS NEWS
— In the room where it happened: Trump advisers recall what led up to Oval Office confrontation
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-advisers-recall-what-led-up-to-oval-office-confrontation-volodymyr-zelenskyy/
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy. The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies. (COMMENT: There would be no need for DOGE if Gingrich had reformed and expanded GAO instead of gutting it.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/us/politics/musk-federal-bureaucracy-takeover.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats say “How the Trump-Zelensky Oval Office meeting spiraled into chaos.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/01/how-trump-zelensky-oval-office-meeting-spiraled-into-chaos/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly force everyone in America to speak, read, and write Spanish. They want to make it illegal to employ anyone who does not speak, read, and write Spanish.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/03/01/trump-english-official-language-explainer/
USA TODAY
— Peter Navarro: Trump tariffs will save American jobs and level the playing field. Trump’s tariffs on aluminum imports is about far more than a trade battle. It’s a fight for the survival of an essential American industry. (COMMENT: My brother lost manufacturing jobs because of unfair foreign competition.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/02/28/trump-tariffs-aluminum-steel-canada-mexico-economy/80694166007/
— ‘Illegal actions’? Trump tried to remove officials who could save federal workers’ jobs (COMMENT: While I was a federal employee for almost 30 years, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel had no problem with my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors taking big adverse actions against me a) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination or b) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/trump-firing-federal-employees-labor-board/79339420007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The fired officials, all nominated by Democrat Joe Biden and confirmed to fixed terms by the Senate, have sued Trump and his administration in an effort to be reinstated, saying their firings are illegal. Judges have temporarily reinstated two of them. The officials run independent agencies that were designed by Congress to be the only place that federal workers can go to challenge a firing. The firings came right before Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency fired thousands of probationary, early-hire status employees. . .The law created the Office of Special Counsel as an independent agency whose head, the Special Counsel, is nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate to serve a set term but cannot be removed on a whim. The office is designed to be a first stop for federal employees who think they’ve been unlawfully fired, especially as a result of whistleblowing. The Special Counsel can make requests on employees’ behalf to the Merit Systems Protection Board, the same way a prosecutor would make a case to a judge. The three-member board can then decide on whether a firing was wrongful. Presidents nominate board members to terms, and the Senate confirms them, in a similar system designed to be insulated from politics. Permanent workers can also go directly to the Merit Systems Protection Board in order to get a decision on a wrongful firing, but probationary employees can only get there if the Office of Special Counsel represents them.)
— ‘Inseminated person’ vs. ‘mother’? Dems keep proving they’ve lost common sense
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/28/inseminated-person-wisconsin-evers/80491973007/
— Trump’s federal workforce cuts: A timeline of firings and court reversals (COMMENT: I should write about Republican GAO workforce cuts 1980-1997.)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/03/01/key-dates-trump-federal-workers-firings/80835324007/
— I’m a veteran and I worked with USAID. It is essential to our national security. Trump and Musk are destroying a vital tool of American soft power – a tool that protects US interests at home and abroad.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/03/01/cutting-usaid-trump-musk-demonizing-patriots/80259032007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Executive Orders Put Trump’s Opponents on Back Foot. Most of president’s efforts remain standing, after advisers rewrote 2017 playbook.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/all-gas-executive-orders-put-trumps-opponents-on-back-foot-ddae594b
INDIA TODAY
— Trump touts ‘record-low’ illegal immigration numbers: Invasion of US is over
https://www.indiatoday.in/world/us-news/story/trump-touts-record-low-illegal-immigration-numbers-invasion-of-us-is-over-2687666-2025-03-02