FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— U.S. District Judge William Orrick in San Francisco ruled late Friday that Trump cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/22/trump-sanctuary-city-funding-ruling/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Democrat leaders promote Chicago pastor Donovan Price who says to Trump “Stay out of our city.”
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250822/nation-and-world-politics/stay-out-of-our-city-chicago-officials-slam-trumps-threat-to-target-city-in-next-crime-crackdown/
NBC5
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/pritzker-says-safety-of-illinois-people-the-highest-priority-as-trump-targets-chicago-in-crime-crackdown/3813798/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-mayor-has-grave-concerns-as-trump-threatens-to-send-in-national-guard/3813669/
CBS2
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/mayor-brandon-johnson-president-trump-chicago-federal-law-enforcement-crime-national-guard/
WBEZ
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly do things that increase poverty and crime.
https://www.wbez.org/politics/2025/08/22/donald-trump-national-guard-troops-chicago-threat-brandon-johnson-jb-pritzker-washington-dc
WAND TV
— Democrat leaders threaten to use the Texas fight against Democrat gerrymandering to gerrymander Illinois, California, and New York even more.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/texas-lawmakers-give-final-approval-to-redrawn-congressional-map-favoring-gop-send-to-governor/article_4f5e4910-98d8-570f-8a42-c522ebbbb7cd.html
25 NEWS NOW
— Republican central Illinois official responds to White House calls for the end of mail-in voting
https://www.25newsnow.com/2025/08/22/central-illinois-official-responds-white-house-calls-end-mail-in-voting/
WCIA
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/new-statewide-hotline-helps-lgbtq-people-navigate-illinois-laws/
AXIOS CHICAGO
— Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2025/08/22/illinois-lgbtq-hotline-pride-connect-trump-legal-rights
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Chicago Mayor Still Wallows in the Worst Job Approval Rating in the Country
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-mayor-worst-job-approval-rating
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Trump Pushes Major Election Reforms
https://illinoisfamily.org/federal/trump-pushes-major-election-reforms/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Wirepoints Faces 74% Revenue Drop Since 2020 as Spending Spikes 57% as Leader Eyes Governor Run on Fiscal Issues. Since its peak, the number of GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletter subscribers has decreased a) because subscribers give up on Illinois politics and government, b) because subscribers die, and c) because subscribers move out of Illinois. But the number of my subscribers who are my critics/opponents and who read my newsletters for opposition research increases. Further, subscribers and potential subscribers see that the following not only do not encourage reading my newsletters, but that they discourage reading my newsletters by taking adverse actions against me including more recently removing me from the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee last year and ending by service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. Further, subscribers and potential subscribers see that while I promote my direct competitors, they do not promote me.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/wirepoints-faces-74-revenue-drop-since-2020-as-spending-spikes-57-as-leader-eyes-governor-run-on-fiscal-issues.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Dabrowski, a close ally of state central committee member Jeanne Ives and Naples-based Chicago radio host Dan Proft, regularly offers commentary on Illinois’ finances and economy. He has led Wirepoints since its founding in 2018. . .For years, Dabrowski has maintained his distance from Trump, carefully avoiding any hint of an endorsement. Dabrowski will face DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick in the Republican primary for governor, with additional candidates expected to enter the race in the coming months.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW YORK POST
— Words Democrats should avoid to stop sounding like ‘enforcers of wokeness’ — according to center-left think tank
https://nypost.com/2025/08/22/us-news/words-democrats-should-avoid-to-stop-sounding-like-enforcers-of-wokeness/
— National Guard mobilizing up to 1,700 in 19 states amid immigration, crime crackdown
https://nypost.com/2025/08/23/us-news/trump-to-mobilize-national-guard-in-19-states-in-crackdown-on-crime-illegal-immigration/
DAILY WIRE
— Your Child’s School Might Still Be Pushing Transgender Ideology Despite Trump’s Orders. Many schools still allow boys in girls’ bathrooms and to participate in girls’ sports.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/your-childs-school-might-still-be-pushing-transgender-ideology-despite-trumps-orders
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— New York State Claims Right to Give Welfare to Illegal Aliens. States should not get federal money for breaking the law.
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/new-york-state-claims-right-give-welfare-illegal-aliens
NEW AMERICAN
— Is Wokeness Really Dying? Or Is It Just Undergoing a Luciferian Change in Form?
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/is-wokeness-really-dying-or-is-it-just-undergoing-a-luciferian-change-in-form/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker slams Trump’s threat to target Chicago next: ‘We don’t play those games’
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5467209-jb-pritzker-donald-trump-chicago-crime-crackdown/
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Democrat Chicago leaders vehemently oppose Trump cracking down on crime in Chicago. A Chicago pastor says ““Stay out of our city.” Because of crime, I left Chicago in 1971 and my wife and I left Chicago in 1978. While I worked for IRS in Chicago, a) my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and b) my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-chicago-likely-next-193746631.html
— Florida puts rainbow crosswalks in the crosshairs, as cities face deadlines to remove them. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://apnews.com/article/florida-lgbtq-rainbow-crosswalks-desantis-58b22e99150bc89f91362e0bd99aa52a
NEWSWEEK
— Florida Locals Defy Ron DeSantis By Restoring Pulse Rainbow Crosswalk. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://www.newsweek.com/florida-locals-ron-desantis-pulse-rainbow-crosswalk-2117628
MSN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint Democrats as having fought against slavery in the Civil War and b) paint Republicans as having fought for slavery in the Civil War. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Democrats. All my ancestors were Republicans because Republicans fought against slavery.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-we-go-again-trump-wants-smithsonian-to-focus-on-americas-brightness-and-hide-the-dark-truth-about-slavery/ar-AA1KT09s
MSNBC
— Trump admin lowers FBI recruitment standards in a deeply ironic twist. The administration is reportedly set to lower its education and training standards for people looking to work for the nation’s top law enforcement agency.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-patel-fbi-recruitment-standards-lower-rcna226690
— Quigley: FBI’s search of Bolton will have ‘extraordinary chilling effect.’ The adverse actions that my critics/opponents have had their operatives and dupes take against me have had a chilling effect on conservatives in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/fbi-s-search-of-bolton-will-have-extraordinary-chilling-effect-rep-quigley-245600325582
NBC NEWS
— Pulse Memorial’s rainbow crosswalk removed. If you do not promote LGBTQ, Democrat and RINO employers a) will not hire you and b) will get rid of you if you are an employee.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/pulse-memorial-rainbow-crosswalk-removed-orlando-florida-rcna226335
NEW YORK TIMES
— Democrat and RINO Leaders Decry That Republicans Elect Joe Gruters, a Trump Ally From Florida, to Lead the R.N.C.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/rnc-joe-gruters-trump-republicans.html
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governors. According to the judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO, the Democrats who run the federal government can fire federal employees because they are Republican, and especially if they are Republican and White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. And even more especially if they complain about political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/can-trump-fire-a-fed-governor.html
— Year Will End With 300,000 Fewer Federal Workers. The reduction would be the largest single-year decline in civilian federal employment since World War II. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/us/politics/trump-federal-workers.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump nominates his presidential personnel chief Sergio Gor to be U.S. ambassador to India. Gor has hired almost 4,000 people into government roles. My undergraduate major and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management. If I could do it over again, it would have been accounting. I say that because I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt when I was 30 and 32 respectively and I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But by the time I did the foresaid, the accounting profession deemed me to be far too old to have a successful career in accounting.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/23/sergio-gor-trump-india-ambassador/
— Democrat leaders say that FBI raid on Bolton is part of a Trump revenge campaign. My Democrat superiors in the federal government took adverse actions against me a) because I refused to become a Democrat, b) because I complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, and c) because I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. They would not have taken adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. But if I had been any of the aforesaid, I would not have had anything to complain about.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/22/john-bolton-trump-fbi-revenge-search/
— Trump turns $11B in US government funds into a 10% stake in downtrodden Intel. Trump on Friday announced the U.S. government has secured a 10% stake in the struggling Silicon Valley pioneer Intel in a deal completed just a couple weeks after he depicted the company’s CEO as a conflicted leader unfit for the job. Constructively, my Democrat IRS superiors treated me like I was unfit to be a GS-13 and my Democrat GAO superiors treated me like I was unfit to be a GS-14. In my defense, while I worked for IRS, I earned an MBA when I was 27 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30 While I worked for GAO, I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32, I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48, and I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-intel-us-equity-stake/1d42ac44-7f8e-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— Trump ever-increasingly fights race based preference giving. My critics/opponents promote race and gender based preference giving, that is, they discriminate against Whites and men.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/22/college-grants-hispanic-populations/
— Appeals court rules that the $515 million in fines against Trump were excessive. The adverse actions that my Democrat superiors in the federal government took against me because I opposed their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination were excessive. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old, delayed my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions, and disallowed my travel vouchers. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign and disallowed my sick leave requests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-james-fraud-lawsuit-appeal/3bbdbd24-7fa9-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
— ‘Stay out of our city’: Chicago officials slam Trump’s threat to target city in next crime crackdown. President Donald Trump says Chicago will likely be the next target of his efforts to address crime, homelessness and illegal immigration. Because of crime, I left Chicago in 1971 and my wife and I left Chicago in 1978. While I worked for IRS in Chicago, a) my 1969 Dodge Charger SE was stolen in Chicago in 1971 and b) my 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air was stolen in Chicago in 1973.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/22/trump-crime-crackdown-dc-chicago-new-york/948da974-7f8f-11f0-971c-6c8e53bd2f21_story.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Test That Rules Chinese Society. The gaokao is China’s college entrance exam, but it shapes the country and its people far beyond the classroom.
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/the-test-that-rules-chinese-society-dd9c8dc7
— The Price of Parenting. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they needed to raise their children. Their spouses had little or no income.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/the-price-of-parenting-284b505a
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders say that what Texas is doing is gerrymandering.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/23/texas-passes-congressional-map-gerrymander-00519116
DAILY KOS
— For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats. If my parents had sent me to Crete Elementary instead of Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete and Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest, I would not have been able to earn an ACT score of 24, graduate from Crete-Monee High School in the upper 20% of my class, and get accepted by UIC.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/22/2339791/-Oklahoma-Imposes-PragerU-Wokeness-Test-on-Teachers-Undermining-Education-and-Democracy
AXIOS
— Sooner or later, all my critics/opponents who falsely claim to be Republican will not only switch parties and become Democrats, they will crow that they have always done everything that they could to destroy Republicans. Far too many get involved in Republican politics to get the Republican Party to strike the following planks from its platform: personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). The more of the aforesaid planks that they reject, the harder that they work against me.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/23/fbi-probes-trumps-political-enemies
GOOGLE AI
— Ukraine officially declared its independence from the Soviet Union on August 24, 1991, a declaration overwhelmingly supported by a popular referendum on December 1, 1991. This established Ukraine as an independent nation, though it has since faced numerous challenges to its sovereignty, particularly Russian aggression, which escalated into a full-scale invasion in 2022.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ukraine+independence
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FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Texas House approves redrawn congressional maps sought by Trump ahead of 2026 elections. Will this prompt Pritzker to redraw Illinois congressional maps so that absolutely no Republican candidates can win in Illinois? How badly has Pritzker gerrymandered your congressional district? I should write about Pritzker’s 3rd Congressional District that I live in. Pritzker is an expert at cracking and packing.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/20/texas-house-approves-redrawn-maps/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/20/cash-assistance-gender-domestic-violence-net-ameya-pawar-amanda-pyron
DAILY HERALD
— Marter slams mail-in voting as ‘a scam.’ Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250820/us-congress-politics/gop-house-hopeful-marter-slams-mail-in-voting-as-a-scam/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Judge tosses Trump-era challenge to Illinois E-Verify law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/illinois-wins-fight-over-trump-e-verify-challenge
ABC7
— Pritzker says he supports independently drawn legislative maps if done on national basis
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-says-he-supports-independently-drawn-legislative-maps-done-national-basis/17598750/
— Newly installed U.S. attorney in the Northern District of Illinois encourages former federal prosecutors to apply. For course, after my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they never encouraged me to apply. For them, GAO exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicagos-legal-community-buzzing-us-attorney-northern-district-illinois-andrew-boutros-recruiting-mail/17600171/
NBC5
— New college program allows Illinois students to apply with only a GPA. One reason why UIC admitted me in 1966 was that my ACT score of 24.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/new-college-program-allows-illinois-students-to-apply-with-only-a-gpa/3812390/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more dependency on government
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/illinois-snap-education-program-end-amid-federal-funding-cuts-how-could-impact-local
— CTU President Rejects Pritzker’s Assertion No More Money to Be Found in Springfield for Schools. During the 1950s and 1960s, Crete-Monee School District 201-U did not spend anything to give my brother and I grade school educations because my parents sent us to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools in Crete and Park Forest. For me, 1953-1962, and for my brother, 1958-1968.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/20/ctu-president-rejects-pritzker-s-assertion-no-more-money-be-found-springfield-schools
SAUK VALLEY
— State Rep. Brad Fritts, R-Dixon, has withdrawn his Sauk Valley Chamber of Commerce membership after the organization published a DEI statement on its website and removed the word “God” from a prayer at a recent scholarship fundraiser that it hosted.
https://www.shawlocal.com/sauk-valley/2025/08/21/state-rep-nixes-sauk-valley-chamber-membership-over-prayer-wording-at-fundraiser-dei-statement-on-its-website/
HERALD NEWS
— Will County Board member accused of illegally accessing fellow board member’s emails
https://www.shawlocal.com/the-herald-news/2025/08/20/will-county-board-member-accused-of-illegally-accessing-fellow-board-members-emails/
SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders have their protesters heckle Vance, Hegseth at photo op to thank National Guard troops in DC.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/20/protesters-heckle-vance-hegseth-miller-as-they-get-photo-op-with-dc-national-guard/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Mail-in voting ban could affect 1/3 of voters in Tazewell County. Democrats run elections in America. Democrats run the postal service in America. Democrats hate Republicans. Why do hate-filled Republican-hating Republican-haters promote mail-in voting so strongly?
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/illinois-voting-machine-restrictions/
WSIU
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot
https://www.wsiu.org/siu/2025-08-20/2025-hemp-cannabis-symposium-at-siu-to-focus-on-agronomy
ILLINOIS PUBLIC MEDIA
— Your food probably traveled a long way before reaching the grocery store.
https://will.illinois.edu/217today/episode/217-today-your-food-probably-traveled-a-long-way-before-reaching-the-grocery-store-heres-why
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly reject federal law
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/21/illinois-to-bondi-sanctuary-status-stands-firm-00517387
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/21/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-573/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-366/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CHANGE ILLINOIS
— Long-time redistricting reform advocates raise concerns about the new “fair maps” ballot question.
https://www.changeil.org/2025/08/long-time-redistricting-reform-advocates-raise-concerns-about-the-new-fair-maps-ballot-question/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Pritzker defends mental health mandate, rejects parental consent plan. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_6fd339b5-6d3a-4ff1-9288-cffd18017e8b.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Trump’s right: America should end mail-in voting. It’s a stupid practice rife with fraud potential.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/trumps-right-america-end-mail-voting/
— Blue state tax hikes drive residents out. Democrats double down on taxing the wealthy while red states like Texas and Florida reap the rewards of migration.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/blue-state-tax-hikes-drive-residents/
— Little of DOGE’s work likely to survive
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/20/little-doges-work-likely-survive/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump isn’t trying to ‘erase history’ at Smithsonian — he’s reversing a destructive woke takeover
https://nypost.com/2025/08/20/opinion/trump-isnt-trying-to-erase-history-at-smithsonian-hes-reversing-a-destructive-woke-takeover/
BREITBART
— State Department employee fired after questioning talking points on Israel and Gaza. My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career, took many adverse actions against me, and forced me to retire early because I questioned their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/state-department-employee-fired-after-questioning-talking-points-on-israel-and-gaza/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration Court No-Shows Increase as Backlog Falls and Asylum Denials Rise
https://cis.org/Arthur/Immigration-Court-NoShows-Increase-Backlog-Falls-and-Asylum-Denials-Rise
FOX NEWS
— It would be wonderful to get Chicago Democrats on board in the migrant crime crackdown
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377161503112
— Sanctuary cities defy Bondi’s deadline to cooperate
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sanctuary-cities-defy-bondis-deadline-cooperate-no-intention-changing
— ICE unveils plans for new detention facilities across the US
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377144130112
NRCC
— Illegals get handouts, cops get demonized, and Americans foot the bill
https://www.nrcc.org/2025/08/20/illegals-get-handouts-cops-get-demonized-and-americans-foot-the-bill-under-harder/
WESTERN JOURNAL
— Pritzker Accused of Betraying Citizens by Signing Bill to Give Illegals a Big Handout
https://www.westernjournal.com/illinois-gov-j-b-pritzker-accused-betraying-citizens-signing-bill-give-illegals-big-handout/
— Target CEO Who Steered Struggling Retail Giant Into Wokeness to Step Down
https://www.westernjournal.com/target-ceo-steered-struggling-retail-giant-wokeness-step-company-lost-grip/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Democrats go ‘Trump Lite’ in latest plan to save democracy. Not in Illinois.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/politics/newsom-obama-trump-texas-california-redistricting-analysis
NBC NEWS
— Japanese American groups blast use of Fort Bliss, former internment camp site, as ICE detention center
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044
NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis. The party is bleeding support beyond the ballot box.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/democratic-party-voter-registration-crisis.html
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-transgender-children-care-subpoena.html
— He Tried to Endorse From the Pulpit. He Wound Up Without a Church. In 1961, if the pastor of the Missouri Synod Trinity Lutheran Church in Crete had taken a calling from a Wisconsin Synod church instead of splitting Trinity and switching it to the Wisconsin Synod, my entire post-1961 life would have been dramatically different. In 1961, to stay with the Missouri Synod, when I was in eight grade and my brother was in second grade, my parents transferred to Hope Lutheran Church in Park Forest and transferred my brother and I to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22trinity+lutheran+church%22+crete+1961+missouri+wisconsin+synod
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/us/politics/church-endorsements-irs-kenosha.html
— Trump demanded on Wednesday that a Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook resign. My Democrat GAO superiors deliberately misled me to believe that they were going to let me work for GAO until I was eligible for regular retirement when I would be 55 in 2003. But in September of 1997, when I was 49 years old, they succeeded in forcing me to take their early retirement “offer” that expired on September 30, 1997. I should write about that. Their forcing me to retire early has had a tremendous negative impact on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/08/20/us/trump-news
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise foreign students.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/trump-visa-vetting-international-students.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal drugs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/opinion/trump-cartel-mexico-fentanyl.html
— Democrats ever-increasingly infiltrate, invade, infest, and conquer churches.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/irs-church-free-speech.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump says Smithsonian is too focused on slavery. Democrats fought the Civil War against Republicans to preserve slavery. Ever-increasingly, since the Civil War, Democrat leaders have tried to a) paint Democrats as having been the Union Army and b) to paint Republicans as having been the Confederate Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/art/2025/08/20/trump-smithsonian-slavery-historians/
USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage children to be sexually active LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/18/she-spoke-up-for-trans-rights-at-8-now-her-family-is-leaving-texas/85454513007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote mail-in voting.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/19/trump-mail-in-voting/85725029007/
COURIER & PRESS
— Vanderburgh GOP leaders install supporters ahead of crucial Saturday election. Anti-conservative RINOs succeeded in getting someone to run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman in 2000, but not since then. I should write about anti-conservative RINOs. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/vanderburgh-gop-leaders-install-supporters-ahead-of-crucial-saturday-election/80497015007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Send Harvard’s Chinese Students Home. It makes no sense for the U.S. to be educating the scientific and leadership class of a future adversary.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/send-harvards-chinese-students-home-national-security-risk-research-2e43313d
— Surrogacy is typically the most expensive path to parenthood. My Democrat GAO superiors viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me because my wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF. I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/surrogacy-cost-parenting-eb87c3b3
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Trump Administration Loses Bid to Block Illinois E-Verify Law. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/trump-administration-loses-bid-to-block-illinois-e-verify-law
ACCOUNTING TODAY
— IRS flouted procedures when terminating employees. My Democrat GAO superiors did far more than just flout regulations when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They flushed my Civil Service protections down their toilets. My critics/opponents stand with my Democrat GAO superiors. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/news/irs-flouted-procedures-when-terminating-probationary-employees
FIVE THIRTY EIGHT
— Opposition Research Far too many who read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time and read my newsletters for opposition research. I should write about them. I would focus on past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/an-introduction-to-the-dark-arts-of-opposition-research/
PEW RESEARCH
— How Americans View Journalists in the Digital Age. According to my liberal and moderate critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a conservative. According to my Democrat and RINO critics/opponents, I am not a journalist because I am a Republican. They stress a) that none of my four college degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license are in journalism, b) that I have never been paid for what I have done as your GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, c) that I send my newsletters out free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth a) that my newsletters have included links to more than 520,000 articles since 2004, b) that I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $117,807-$153,151/year, c) that much of what I did for GAO is very similar to what journalists do, d) that my professional certifications are in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting, and e) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981. I should write about the following who not only treat me like I am not a journalist, but who do everything that the can to stop me from sending out newsletters and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters: past and present a) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party, b) Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, major donors, fundraisers, pollsters, campaign managers, and campaign volunteers, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. The aforesaid have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on the aforesaid who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/08/20/how-americans-view-journalists-in-the-digital-age/
August 19, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call police racist
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-police-department-officers-face-new-lawsuit-controversial-stop-search-tactic-gold-coast/17571017/
NBC5
— Republican lawmakers look to strip funding for Postal Service’s EV fleet
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/republicans-usps-electric-vehicles-funding/3811239/
WGN9
— Chicago’s total number of ‘school adjacent’ shootings tops among 13 cities
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/analysis-chicagos-total-number-of-school-adjacent-shootings-tops-among-13-cities/
FOX32
— Trump expands ‘Good Moral Character’ review for US citizenship
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/us-citizenship-good-moral-character
WTTW
— Democrat leaders use the Proud Boys against Republicans.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/18/billboard-promoting-far-right-group-proud-boys-pops-southern-illinois
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/15/adams-county-sheriff-has-been-cooperating-ice-does-violate-illinois-law
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— A state law giving school kids mental health screenings leaves the sensitive details to bureaucrats.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/19/editorial-schools-mental-health-screenings-illinois/
— Chicago public schools bus shortage. To get to classes at UIC from my parents’ home in Crete 1966-1968, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School part-time during the school years 1964-1966 and full-time during the summer of 1965 in between. I used the money that I earned to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), a poor man’s GTO, in May of 1966 for that to commute.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/19/opinion-chicago-public-schools-bus-route-shortage/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— CPS seeks $1 billion of short-term debt as cash gone
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/cps-seeks-1-billion-short-term-debt-cash-gone
KANE COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Over 1,700 homeless in Kane County in 2024. Seniors, disabled, children among those affected. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.shawlocal.com/kane-county-chronicle/2025/08/19/over-1700-homeless-in-kane-county-in-2024-new-report-says/
RIVER BENDER
— Pritzker Signs Bill Adding Pathways to CPA Licensure in Illinois. In 1978, in Diersen v. IRS, the judge declared that accounting courses cannot be deducted until you have taken enough to sit for the CPA examination.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/governor-signs-bill-adding-pathways-to-cpa-licensure-in-illinois-85377.cfm?
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Mexicans have.
https://qctimes.com/life-entertainment/local/events/article_c91980b3-de2b-4bd4-a872-be630b1744c7.html
WAND TV
— Newsmax agrees to pay $67 million in defamation case over bogus 2020 election claims
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/conservative-network-newsmax-agrees-to-pay-67-million-in-defamation-case-over-bogus-2020-election/article_cd2bc0db-28a5-5810-a27e-023391a5d498.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly threaten more gerrymandering. They want to make America look like Illinois.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-18/trump-prompted-a-battle-over-voting-maps-heres-how-redistricting-affects-voters
— Trump wants to stop states from voting by mail and using voting machines.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-18/trump-wants-to-stop-states-from-voting-by-mail-and-using-voting-machines
NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— Trump announces on Truth Social that he’ll ban mail-in voting and voting machines.
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/2025-08-18/trump-announces-on-truth-social-that-hell-ban-mail-in-voting-and-voting-machines
ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://dceo.illinois.gov/oe3/cannabisequity/cannabis-social-equity-r3.html
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-571/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-364/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their gerrymandering
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/land-doesnt-vote-and-these-new-illinois-maps-help-illustrate-that-fact/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Mottl attacks Grasso. If I ran for an office, my critics/opponents would stress the big adverse actions that they had their operatives and dupes take against me.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/stories/674156153-mottl-on-gary-grasso-s-bid-for-dupage-county-chair-he-s-got-more-baggage-than-a-747
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— 1,805 days since Chicago Teachers Union’s last “annual audit”
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/its-been-1805-days-since-chicago-teachers-unions-last-annual-audit/
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— IL GOP Governor Hopeful Ted Dabrowski Steers Clear of Trump at Illinois State Fair
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/08/il-gop-governor-hopeful-ted-dabrowski-steers-clear-of-trump-at-illinois-state-fair.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Minneapolis socialism is directing the Democratic Party
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3501720/minneapolis-socialism-is-directing-the-democratic-party/
— Trump administration funded organization that supports transgender children
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3500506/trump-administration-lgbt-life-center-funding/
NEW YORK POST
— Trump knows the dangers of addiction — he must reject Big Weed’s push to reclassify marijuana.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/17/opinion/trump-knows-the-dangers-of-addiction-he-must-reject-big-weeds-push-to-reclassify-marijuana/
— Illegal migrant truck driver in deadly Florida crash was given work permit under Biden after being denied by Trump.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/illegal-migrant-truck-driver-suspect-in-deadly-florida-crash-was-given-work-permit-under-biden-after-being-denied-by-trump-dhs/
— Biden threw open the border to rig the census — and elections for Democrats.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/opinion/joe-biden-threw-open-the-border-to-rig-the-census-and-elections-for-democrats/
— Driver’s license given to deadly illegal migrant trucker shows how blue states undermine border security
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/opinion/drivers-license-given-to-deadly-illegal-migrant-trucker-shows-how-blue-states-undermine-border-security/
— RFK Jr., challenges Pete Hegseth to friendly exercise competition as Trump admin promotes ‘fit’ over ‘fat’ My health has suffered greatly because I spend at least 10 hours each and every day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/18/us-news/rfk-jr-challenges-pete-hegseth-to-friendly-exercise-competition-as-trump-admin-promotes-fit-over-fat/
BREITBART
— Oklahoma Partners with ICE to Deport 500 Illegal Aliens Currently Serving Prison Sentences
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/18/oklahoma-partners-with-ice-to-deport-500-illegal-aliens-currently-serving-prison-sentences/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Notre Dame swaps DEI office label for religious name, retains LGBT, race programs. Notre Dame has renamed its Center for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) without seemingly changing its primary functions amid ongoing federal and state scrutiny over DEI. Notre Dame has rebranded its DEI office as the Sister Thea Bowman Center.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/notre-dame-swaps-dei-office-label-religious-name-retains-lgbt-race-programs/28468
DAILY CALLER
— ‘You Better Comply, Or You’re Next’: Pam Bondi Announces What’s In Store For Sanctuary Cities
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/18/pam-bondi-sanctuary-city-penalty/
DAILY WIRE
— ‘End Racism’: NFL To Keep Virtue Signaling With End Zone Messages. Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/end-racism-nfl-to-keep-virtue-signaling-with-end-zone-messages
FOX NEWS
— Pritzker signs bill opening financial aid to illegals. ‘Our state is drowning in debt, yet JB Pritzker is determined to drain even more taxpayer dollars to reward illegals,’ commented Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/slap-face-major-blue-state-governor-signs-bill-opening-financial-aid-illegals
— ‘GREAT DISHONESTY’: Trump ridicules what is ‘very sad’ in American media. Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLFZKvSJn14
NEWSMAX
— UN Spends US Taxpayer Money on ‘Gender Diversity’ Training
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ustaxpayer-dei-gender/2025/08/18/id/1222937/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC NEWS
— Judge issues injunction preventing Trump’s FTC from investigating watchdog Media Matters. Of course, my critics/opponents want me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters to be investigated. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/judge-issues-injunction-preventing-trumps-ftc-investigating-watchdog-124759242
NBC NEWS
— Trump says he’ll sign an executive order to get rid of mail-in voting
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/trump-says-he-ll-sign-an-executive-order-to-get-rid-of-mail-in-voting-245237317990
CBS NEWS
— Newsmax to pay $67 million settlement in Dominion Voting Systems defamation case
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/conservative-channel-newsmax-settlement-dominion-voting-systems-defamation-case/
— Illinois is now requiring police recruits to allow background records like previous performance reviews to be released in order to be hired by a new department in the state. The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 hired me even though my personnel folder showed that my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. They would not have hired me if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 hired me even though my personnel folder showed that my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers, disallowed my education deductions, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. They would not have hired me if I had not earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/unpacking-illinois-new-law-reforming-police-hiring/
CNN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their mail-in ballots.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/politics/mail-voting-trump-states-rights-analysis
— Democrat leaders say that Trump has remade the press corps to Trump’s liking. When Democrat leaders attacked GOPUSA in 2005, Bush did not come to GOPUSA’s defense.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/18/media/trump-zelensky-brian-glenn-peter-doocy-press-corps
REUTERS
— Trump administration in talks to take 10% stake in Intel
https://www.reuters.com/business/trump-administration-talks-take-10-stake-intel-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-08-18/
MSNBC
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? My approval rating is very low with those who reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/trump-approval-tanking-with-the-american-public-new-poll-shows-245251141643
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down. What is your approval rating? My approval rating is very low with those who reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, illegal drugs, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
— Mississippi and Louisiana Will Send National Guard Troops to D.C. Ohio, West Virginia and South Carolina have also deployed the Guard to Washington to support President Trump’s crackdown on the city.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/national-guard-dc-trump-mississippi-louisiana.html
— Trump Wants to End Mail-In Voting Ahead of Next Year’s Midterms. The president does not have the power to unilaterally change voting laws, and any executive order regarding elections is likely to see immediate legal challenges.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/trump-mail-ballots-voting-machines-election.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/us/politics/washington-dc-homeless.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Over 6,000 student visas revoked for crimes and overstays. A small number were revoked for “support for terrorism,” a State Department official said, without elaborating. Other crimes included assault and burglary.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/08/19/student-visas-revoked-6000-trump/
— Trump says he will ‘lead a movement’ to eliminate mail-in voting. The Constitution gives states the authority to regulate how elections are run, making it unlikely Trump can change voting rules unilaterally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/18/trump-mail-in-constitution-elections/
— My critics/opponents promote not only more LGBTQ, they promote more dependency on government and charity, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/18/trans-rights-bathroom-north-carolina/
USA TODAY
— Brand advertising on news sites isn’t risky, it’s absolutely necessary. News junkies are more likely to show interest in your brands and buy your products. They hold more favorable views of brands, trusting them more and recommending them to others. My direct competitors are beyond furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation to put together and send out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters every morning without any advertising or donation requests. Everyone sees how my direct competitors treat me and treat my newsletters.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/08/18/brand-ads-online-media-digital-marketing/85578029007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— For financial freedom by age 30, optimize ruthlessly during your peak physical and cognitive years. I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21. I earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But according to my critics/opponents, all of the aforesaid was too late.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/work-life-balance-will-keep-you-mediocre-25bdf073
— Who’s Really Rich in New York? Firefighter pensions would qualify by Andrew Cuomo’s standard. According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me and my Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension and 72% health insurance subsidy are much too generous. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $153,151/year when I was 49 in 1997. My CSRS pension is $66,780/year. To get the aforesaid, I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27, 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/whos-really-rich-in-new-york-4ce746a1
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says you’re wealthy in New York City if you make more than $200,000. By his standard, nearly 800 New York City retired firefighters get pensions that qualify them as rich. Behold why New York’s not-so-rich pay taxes as if they are rich. A new analysis by the Empire Center for Public Policy finds that New York City firefighters who retired last year after full careers were entitled to an average annual pension of $171,336. Nearly 95% of new retirees were eligible for six-figure pensions, and a quarter qualified for annuities of more than $200,000. Mr. Cuomo recently claimed his Democratic opponent in the mayoral race, Zohran Mamdani, was “very rich” because he and his wife likely made more than $200,000 combined. So in his view, are the city’s 46 retired firefighters with pensions of more than $300,000 super-rich? They certainly have super-sized retirement benefits compared to most workers in private industry. City firefighters can retire at any age with full benefits as long as they have worked 20 years (22 for more recent hires). Their pensions are also exempt from state and city tax—a 9.9% combined top rate for individuals making more than $200,000—and they receive free healthcare.)
— FRONT PAGE: What It’s Really Like to Support a Big Family on a Modest Income in America. More Americans are choosing to put off having children—or not having them at all. The Ivys are an exception. ‘It is hard. But it’s not impossible.’ I should write about my Democrat GAO superiors. They viciously demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me a) because my wife and gave up trying to have children without trying IVF, b) because we did not depot, and c) because we did not become foster parents. According to them, if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, d) become a licensed CPA, e) etc. My Democrat GAO superiors a) had children, b) decried the time and cost needed to raise children, and/or c) had spouses who had little or no income.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/children-costs-finances-families-f489be7c
— Ever since my parents sent me to kindergarten at Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete in 1953, my critics/opponents have demonized, denigrated, and condemned my parents as having been filthy rich. But my father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars and my mother never worked outside of our home until after he died suddenly when he was 47 and I was 21 in 1969.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/kindergarten-search-school-choice-291737ed
BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Schools Seeks $1 Billion of Short-Term Debt as Cash Gone
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-18/chicago-schools-seeks-1-billion-of-short-term-debt-as-cash-gone
FORTUNE
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/dei-diversity-equity-inclusion-words-public-filings-10k-secretive-meritocracy/
REVIEW TIMES
— The fewer planks in the Republican Party platform that you defend and advance, the more RINO that you are. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders defend and promote planks in the Republican Party platform, that is, there are far too many RINOs.
https://reviewtimes.com/news/619871/republican-by-name-yes-but-in-actions/
POLITICO
— DNC Falling Far Behind RNC In Fundraising
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/18/dnc-fundraising-donor-problems-midterms-00512473
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Trump administration seeks permission to finalize mass layoffs at HHS. During the 1980s and 1990s, Gingrich got Congressional permission to gut GAO. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it, there would be no need for DOGE and I might still be a GAO employee. The Democrats who ran GAO used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of the agency’s few remaining Republican employees, including me. In 1980, I was one of the last Republicans GAO hired.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/trump-administration-seeks-permission-finalize-mass-layoffs-hhs/407528/
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— Trump Moves to Reinstate Restrictions on Legal Immigration Proposed in His First Term. From what I see, more and more and more come to America a) to get the free stuff and preferences that Democrat and RINO leaders give them, b) to advance their religion, and/or c) to a turn America into their motherland.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-reinstates-immigration-policies/
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/labor-unionization/2025/08/19/aaup-president-higher-ed-alone-cannot-save
WIKIPIEDIA
— Party switching. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all my critics/opponents will officially become Democrats.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_switching_in_the_United_States
August 18, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Illinois and Texas Democrat leaders glorify and praise each other.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-democrats-illinois-arrive-ohare-airport-chicago-go-home/17575353/
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-house-democrats-illinois-protesting-redistricting-visit-chicagos-saint-sabina-church-prepare-travel-home-week/17569909/
NBC5
— Trump halts visas for people from Gaza
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/trump-administration-halts-visas-gaza/3810913/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more poverty and crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/column-washington-dc-national-guard-makes-things-worse-page/
— The Democrat Party platform is extremely anti-religious. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/17/texas-rep-james-talarico-sermon-south-side/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. To push pot is to push destruction.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/marijuana/2025/08/17/marijuana-reclassification-would-sprout-many-benefits-for-businesses-industry-leaders-say
— For Democrat educators, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/17/sustainable-community-schools-cps-trump-black-brown-communities-stacy-davis-gates
RIVER CITY READER
— Illinois GOP Split on Whether to Appease Teachers Unions; Dems Expect to be the Cui That Bonos in Next Race
https://www.rcreader.com/commentary/illinois-gop-split-whether-appease-teachers-unions-dems-expect-be-cui-bonos-next-race
WMBD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://wmbdradio.com/2025/08/16/over-300-protests-held-saturday-against-trump-redistricting-push/
TRI STATE PUBLIC RADIO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their protests against Trump.
https://www.tspr.org/2025-08-17/with-more-national-guard-troops-on-the-way-to-d-c-hundreds-march-in-protest
WSIL TV
— Six generations gather in Marion for a rare family reunion. All my ancestors were Missouri Synod Lutherans. Their big family reunions on both sides of my family ended in the 1960s because of a religious split. About half of them left the Missouri Synod for the Wisconsin Synod starting in 1961 when I was in eighth grade.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/six-generations-gather-in-marion-for-a-rare-family-reunion/article_1302d801-6ba9-47f7-9fd1-698a974cfd12.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois and Texas Democrat leaders glorify and praise each other
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
— Which Congressional District do you live in? Who is your Republican State Central Committee member? Is he/she running again?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
(FROM THE ARTICLE: — Kevin Lamm is running for the State Central Committee in the 16th District, and he’s been endorsed by Rockford Mayor Tom McNamara and state Rep. Dave Vella, among others. He talked to WGLT’s Ben Howell about his campaign.)
— While I served as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012, the organization encouraged Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to defend and advance the Republican Party platform.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/18/the-hot-commodity-in-illinois-texans-00513312
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Sept. 9: The Edgar Fellows Chicago Dinner takes place.)
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/18/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-570/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Primary Election Candidate Preview
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/08/17/primary-election-candidate-preview/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois takes over health insurance marketplace in 2026 amid skepticism
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_aa4fc075-0fe6-4b68-b8f3-b18278a1f627.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Expands Parental Replacement Centers Disguised as “Schools”
https://illinoisfamily.org/education/chicago-expands-parental-replacement-centers-disguised-as-schools/
BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Mentally Disordered IL Dems Force All Schools to “Screen” Kids’ Mental Health
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2025/08/14/mentally-disordered-il-dems-force-all-schools-to-screen-kids-mental-health
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats push ‘free stuff’ agenda as welfare dependency and mass immigration threaten America. Decades-old strategy pushes U.S. to the brink.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/17/democrats-push-free-stuff-agenda-welfare-dependency-mass-immigration/
— Big cities are the face of the Democratic Party. Trump can make America safe again.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/17/big-cities-face-democratic-party/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Democrats Support the New Slavery. Illegal immigration is a horror show of exploitation and human misery. Yes, but RINOs are just as bad.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/democrats-support-the-new-slavery/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Hundreds of white karens protest against Trump’s crime crackdown in Washington, D.C.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/hundreds_of_white_karens_protest_against_trump_s_crime_crackdown_in_washington_d_c.html
BREITBART
— Migrant Detention Center Opening in Texas Will Be Largest in History
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2025/08/17/video-migrant-detention-center-opening-in-texas-will-be-largest-in-history/
COLLEGE FIX
— University of Michigan Law Review sued for discrimination against white men. My critics/opponents use Affirmative Action and DEI to discriminate against White men like me who are conservative, Republican, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I should write about my critics/opponents. They rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024. They rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. They rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. They rudely ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004. They rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007. They almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. They rudely ended my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/corrupt-and-illegal-umich-law-review-sued-for-alleged-discrimination-against-white-men/
DAILY CALLER
— Woke Banks Are Cancelling Americans – Here Is How They Should Fight Back
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/17/opinion-woke-banks-are-cancelling-americans-here-is-how-everyday-americans-should-fight-back-bob-rubin/
FOX NEWS
— Newsom lashes out at universities for agreeing to ‘sell their soul’ to Trump for federal funding
https://www.foxnews.com/media/newsom-lashes-out-universities-agreeing-sell-soul-trump-federal-funding
— Democrats ‘wielded the deep state’ to ‘undermine’ Trump. Democrats run the federal government. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrats exist to destroy Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377021366112
— How many in America are loyal to Taylor Swift before anyone else? What does Swift think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/former-fbi-director-james-comey-confesses-hes-swiftie-new-anti-trump-video-message
— Far Left media calling Trump-Putin summit a ‘disaster’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6377020886112
NEWS BUSTERS
— Legacy Newscasts OMIT Illegal Alien Trucker Causing Deadly Crash in FL
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2025/08/17/legacy-newscasts-omit-illegal-alien-trucker-causing-deadly-crash
TOWNHALL
— Newsom is running for President. We get it. No doubt about it.
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2025/08/18/newsom-mandering-faces-major-headwinds-n2661956
— Don’t Do the Democrats’ Dirty Work. Politics is nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes do their dirty work. I should write about them. They rudely ended my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolution Committee in 2024. They rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021. They rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015. They rudely ended my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012. They rudely ended my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004. They rudely ended my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007. They almost got ICRC to rudely censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006. They rudely ended my bid to serve as the MTRO Treasurer in 2004.
https://townhall.com/columnists/alanjosephbauer/2025/08/18/dont-do-the-democrats-dirty-work-n2661945
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Trump tells Zelensky to give up Crimea and agree to never join NATO. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-ukraine-zelensky-russia-putin-08-18-25
UPI
— Trump declares that Kyiv would not be regaining Moscow-annexed Crimea, nor would it be allowed to join NATO. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/08/18/Trump-Ukraine-Crimea-NATO/8291755485345/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Is Pushing India Back Toward China. In WWIII, which countries will side with America? How many millions are in America who continue to side with their motherland? I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/world/asia/india-china-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— U.S. ready to give Ukraine security guarantees when Trump meets Zelensky. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/17/trump-zelensky-meeting-europe/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/17/dc-arrests-violent-takedown-immigration/
— Eligible for asylum in Canada, stuck in ICE detention.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/18/canada-afghan-migrants-ice-detention/
LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Black mayors of cities claim that crime is down.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-08-17/black-mayors-of-cities-trump-decries-as-lawless-tout-significant-declines-in-violent-crimes
USA TODAY
— Ever-increasingly, Democrats side with their motherlands against America. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/17/oklahoma-requires-blue-state-teachers-america-first-curriculum/85510568007/
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat and RIO leaders destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/17/gay-marriage-supreme-court-lgbtq-rights/85666114007/
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/palm-springs/2025/01/22/dei-meaning-dei-candidate-meaning-what-is-dei-hire-dei-hire-meaning-trump-executive-orders-ca/77879316007/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2019/02/26/workplace-diversity-should-list-minority-status-job-application/2950883002/
— Cities hope to attract more police officers by cutting education requirements. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered their hiring, retention, and promotion requirements 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.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/10/police-jobs-college-requirements/85324780007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: $50,000 Signing Bonus, No Age Caps: The Blitz to Hire ICE Officers. 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, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/ice-recruitment-tactics-trump-d4bc32cf
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/50-000-signing-bonus-no-age-caps-the-blitz-to-hire-ice-officers/ar-AA1KFxxg
— How Rich Are the 1% of ‘The Gilded Age’ in 2025? How much is $300,000 really worth in 1883 New York?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/the-gilded-age-rich-prices-today-2025-2c8f3b38
BLOOMBERG
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/eeoc-commissioners-urge-caution-care-for-employers-dei-programs
FORTUNE
— Trump’s education reform hasn’t touched ‘affirmative action for the rich’: legacy admissions. What about legacy admissions when alumni are minority, female, LGBTQ, non-rich, and/or members of other marginalized/oppressed groups?
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/what-is-legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-for-the-rich-trump/
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://hbr.org/2013/06/is-your-firm-really-an-equal-o
SUSAN S. LEWIS, CPA
— How to Avoid the Illinois Estate Tax
https://www.lewis.cpa/blog/how-to-avoid-illinois-estate-tax
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While the government discusses the bill that will raise the estate tax exemption to $8 million, the Illinois estate tax, with rates up to 16 percent, still impacts estates that exceed the threshold of $4 million as of 2025. Effective estate planning can potentially lower the estate’s taxable burden and maximize the assets passed on to intended beneficiaries. It’s also important to consider the implications of federal estate taxes alongside the state tax. At Lewis.cpa, our experienced team can provide tailored advice and assistance with estate and trust tax preparation services to help you achieve your estate planning goals. Contact us if you want to know how to avoid the Illinois estate tax in your case. What Is the Illinois Estate Tax Rate? As of 2025, the Illinois estate tax applies to estates with values exceeding the $4 million exemption. The tax is assessed on a graduated scale, with rates escalating to 16 percent. The estate’s value over the exemption amount determines the precise estate tax liability using the most current tax rate table. Understanding these rates is essential for strategic estate planning, which can impact the structure of an estate and the amount of tax levied. For meticulous planning and execution, we recommend seeking the expertise of a tax professional or estate planning specialist who is up-to-date with the latest tax laws and rates. . .Please note that the marginal rates are applied incrementally, not to the entire estate’s value over the exemption amount. For instance, an estate valued at $5 million would not incur a flat 16 percent on the taxable amount. Instead, it would be taxed at varying rates according to each estate portion within the specified tax brackets.)
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrat educators use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not admit Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican students.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2025/08/18/federal-district-judge-rules-against-trumps-anti-dei-orders
JD SUPRA
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/trump-revokes-executive-order-11246-8672003/
ATLANTIC
— According to my critics/opponents, a) those who share their demographics advance because of meritocracy and b) those who advance who do not share their demographics advance because they benefit from discrimination. My critics/opponents negatively stress that I am White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritocracy-college-admissions-social-economic-segregation/680392/
POLITICO
— The tech company stocking up on Democrats as Silicon Valley turns right. Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/08/17/trump-dc-takeover-protests-lawsuits
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/6/2337083/-Are-you-an-old-uneducated-racist-Join-the-ICE-gestapo-today
— Zelensky responds to Trump comments: “Russia must end” war it started. One could argue that America exists to stop foreign countries from invading each other. But why does America alone have to have that role? Far too many foreign countries want to invade each other.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-russia-ukraine-zelensky-european-leaders-summit
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/trump-equal-employment-executive-order
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/22/trump-dei-lbj-rollback
SALON
— Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/19/reverses-decades-of-civil-rights-advances/
GOOGLE AI
— Assessing reporter credibility. I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Reporter since 2000. My critics/opponents have always demonized, denigrated, and condemned my credibility. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate or dominate, b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or d) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000. Better yet, I should sue them.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Assessing+reporter+credibility
August 15, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Illinois Republicans rally around President Donald Trump, but internal infighting continues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/14/illinois-republicans-rally-around-president-donald-trump-but-internal-infighting-continues/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Trump for everything that is bad
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/14/us-hiring-down/
— How dependent on foreign students are the colleges in your area? Foreign students displace American students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But they would have admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/14/governors-state-university-trump-visas/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois Republicans rally behind Texas GOP redistricting plan, celebrate Trump bump. Redistricting was a large focus at an annual gathering of the state party’s central committee and the Republican County Chair’s Association in Springfield, with a pre-taped message from Texas Gov. Greg Abbott that dubbed his push “fair” and “necessary” setting the tone for the day.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/08/14/illinois-republican-day-springfield-texas-gop-redistricting-plan
— Republicans still searching for statewide candidates as GOP rallies at State Fair. More than a decade removed from the last time a Republican won a statewide election in Illinois, state GOP leaders say they have plenty of time to build a strong ticket.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/08/14/illinois-republican-candidates-statewide-primary-2026
— Pritzker signs union protection bills amid Trump war on federal unions. The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2025/08/14/jb-pritzker-union-protection-bills-trump-war-federal-unions
— Past his term’s midpoint, Mayor Johnson’s job approval rating stands at 26%, survey shows. Chicagoans are disenchanted with Brandon Johnson no matter where they live, how old they are, what race they are or how much money they earn.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2025/08/14/mayor-brandon-johnson-job-approval-rating-university-of-chicago-norc-survey
ABC7
— Republicans optimistic for 2026 elections on GOP Day at Illinois State Fair
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-state-fair-2025-republicans-optimistic-2026-elections-gop-day-don-tracy-says-he-will-run-us-senate/17535530/
— California moving forward with partisan redistricting effort to counter Texas’ move
https://abc7chicago.com/post/governor-newsom-expected-announce-california-redistricting-plans-setting-standoff-republican-led-opposition/17535682/California moving forward with partisan redistricting effort to counter Texas’ move
— Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract ‘extremely salacious’ Epstein comments
https://abc7chicago.com/post/melania-trump-demands-hunter-biden-retract-extremely-salacious-epstein-comments/17534096/
NBC5
— Illinois Republicans use State Fair GOP Day to recruit potential candidates
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/illinois-republicans-use-state-fair-gop-day-to-recruit-potential-candidates/3809778/
— Yorkville approves measure that would fine or jail homeless people who sleep on public property. Violators will be assessed fines beginning at $75 for a first offense, rising up to $750 for a fifth violation.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-approves-ordinance-that-would-fine-or-jail-homeless-people-who-sleep-on-public-property/3809932/
WGN9
— Illinois Republicans push Trump message at State Fair’s GOP Day
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/illinois-republicans-push-trump-message-at-state-fairs-gop-day/
FOX32
— These states may try redrawing congressional maps in response to, or in support of, Texas
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/states-react-to-texas-redistricting-push
— Judge blocks Trump plan to curb DEI initiatives at schools. Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/judge-blocks-trump-dei-guidance
WTTW
— Texas Democrats Join Planned Parenthood Leaders to Highlight Illinois’ Role in Providing Abortion Care for Out-of-State Patients
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/13/texas-democrats-join-planned-parenthood-leaders-highlight-illinois-role-providing
— Chicago Program Put 30,000 Young People to Work This Summer. How many of today’s young people would take the summer jobs that I took? I did yard work, delivered newspapers, washed dishes, cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, pumped gasoline, and delivered mail.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/13/chicago-program-puts-30000-young-people-work-each-summer
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— Republicans see ‘golden age’ of America during annual rally at Illinois State Fair
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_1cbcbaeb-6c08-4561-b752-211279e6ba2c.html
— Trump’s cuts are costing Black women their jobs. According to my critics/opponents, all the jobs that I had a) were bad jobs that they would never have stooped to take and b) were jobs that should have been given to minorities and to females. Virtually all my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were minorities and/or females a) who had less work experience than I had, b) who had less education than I had, c) who had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) who had no professional license like the one I had.
https://pantagraph.com/opinion/column/article_f5a7791b-6ff0-4e70-8bca-08fc22724993.html
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois Republicans address in-fighting, strategy ahead of 2026 midterms
https://www.lincolncourier.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/14/illinois-republicans-attack-pritzker-address-in-fighting-at-state-fair/85656208007/
WIBQ
— Pritzker signed a bill package Thursday aimed at protecting workers and supporting organized labor. The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://wibqam.com/2025/08/14/illinois-governor-signs-new-laws-to-protect-workers/
CHICAGO DEFENDER
— Democrat leaders use a California couple against Trump.
https://chicagodefender.com/pro-trump-couple-regrets-vote-after-wrongful-detainment-by-border-patrol/
CITY JOURNAL
— Racial Preferences at Northwestern? Faculty believe that Donald Trump is Hitler, but their university allegedly oversaw a system of identity-based spoils.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/northwestern-university-president-michael-schill-race-admissions?skip=1
ELMHURST PATCH
— Addison Township Sign Slams Ex-Official. The ex-official demanded that the township remove it. The township did.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/addison-township-sign-slams-ex-official
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Ted Dabrowski, the president of a conservative public policy research organization, said he plans to announce his campaign for governor. Dabrowski joins DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick in the Republican primary for governor. Former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy announced he will run for U.S. Senate in 2026.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/new-republican-to-run-for-illinois-governor-as-election-season-begins/
— Texas GOP chairman calls Illinois a winnable ‘purple state.’ Republicans recruiting candidates and trying to hone message ahead of 2026 elections
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/texas-gop-chairman-calls-illinois-a-winnable-purple-state/
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders defend Pritzker from Republican criticism
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/15/illinois-gop-makes-pritzker-the-foil-00510815
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-569/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-362/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois GOP State Fair rally takes aim at Pritzker, ‘woke agenda’
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_c0b49abd-912d-4728-9426-47a95382ac0b.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Ask President Trump to Oppose The Reclassification of High Potency Pot
https://illinoisfamily.org/marijuana-2/ask-president-trump-to-oppose-the-reclassification-of-high-potency-pot/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago alderman’s $120K pension shows why city fund is broken. Chicago alderman’s $120K pension shows why city fund is broken. Chicago’s municipal pension is one of the worst-funded pension systems in the nation despite sky-high taxes dedicated to paying into it. Fat pensions such as former Ald. Walter Burnett’s show why. Former Ald. Walter Burnett’s retirement after 30 years on the City Council means retirement pay of $120,608. If, as expected, he gets the job as CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority, he can retire again in three years with a pension paying him $209,976, according to WTTW.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-aldermans-120k-pension-shows-why-city-fund-is-broken/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON IMES
— Trump says he kicked nearly 275,000 illegal immigrants off Social Security
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/14/trump-says-kicked-nearly-275000-illegal-immigrants-social-security/
— Texas’ runaway Democrats head home in defeat, but California joins the redistricting fight
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/14/texas-runaway-democrats-head-home-defeat-california-joins/
NEW YORK POST
— Bondi declares DC ‘will not remain a sanctuary city’ under Trump — cops ‘must’ alert ICE to illegal migrants
https://nypost.com/2025/08/15/us-news/ag-pam-bondi-declares-dc-will-not-remain-a-sanctuary-city-under-trump-cops-must-alert-ice-to-illegal-migrants/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/14/media/joe-rogan-rips-trump-administrations-ice-raids/
AMAC
— Trump is Creating a Lasting Republican Majority
https://amac.us/newsline/politics/trump-is-creating-a-lasting-republican-majority/
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— DC No Longer a Sanctuary City While Under Federal Control
https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/14/tom-homan-says-dc-no-longer-a-sanctuary-city-while-under-federal-control-libs-melt-down-over-crime-crackdown/
AMERICAN WIRE
— Obama pines for the good old days of Paul Ryan, John Boehner
https://americanwirenews.com/dollar-store-obama-pines-for-the-good-old-days-of-paul-ryan-john-boehner/
BREITBART
— Rahm Emanuel: Illinois Is Gerrymandered, ‘I Have Participated’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/15/rahm-emanuel-illinois-is-gerrymandered-i-have-participated/
— Noem: Exit of 1.6 Million Illegals Helps Americans Get Jobs
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/08/14/kristi-noem-exit-of-1-6-million-illegals-helps-americans-get-jobs/
— Rep. Mary Miller to Introduce Bill Combating Illinois Law Requiring ‘Invasive’ Student Mental Health Screenings. According to Democrats, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/15/exclusive-rep-mary-miller-introduce-bill-combating-illinois-law-requiring-invasive-student-mental-health-screenings/
DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Is Right: Illegal Immigrants Shouldn’t Be Counted in Census
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/14/trump-is-right-illegal-immigrants-shouldnt-be-counted-census/
DAILY WIRE
— Trump Moves To Rid Smithsonian Of Left-Wing Spin, Highlight American History
https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-moves-to-rid-smithsonian-of-left-wing-spin-highlight-american-history
— ‘The World Got The Message’: Noem Says 1.6 Million Illegals Have Self-Deported.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-world-got-the-message-noem-says-1-6-million-illegals-have-self-deported
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Ramirez’s Remarks Underscore How Unchecked Mass Migration Discourages Assimilation
https://www.fairus.org/blog/2025/08/14/illinois-rep-delia-ramirez-guatemala
FOX NEWS
— Bondi puts sanctuary cities on notice after DC federal takeover, answers if other areas could be next
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376926352112
— Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown operation. DEA Administrator Terry Cole granted full powers over Metro Police Department as AG Pam Bondi rescinds sanctuary city policies in Washington, DC.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ag-bondi-strips-power-from-dc-police-chief-rescinds-sanctuary-city-protections-crime-crackdown-operation
— American history won’t be displayed ‘in a woke manner’ at Smithsonian, Trump says
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/american-history-wont-displayed-in-woke-manner-smithsonian-trump-says
NEWSMAX
— Trump: 275,000 Illegals Booted Off Social Security
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/donald-trump-social-security-illegal-immigrants/2025/08/14/id/1222508/
— Trump: D.C. ‘Fudged’ Crime Stats
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-crime-dc/2025/08/14/id/1222518/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— Bondi scraps limits on cooperation between D.C. police and federal immigration agents
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bondi-scraps-limits-on-cooperation-between-d-c-police-and-federal-immigration-agents/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their criminals against Trump.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/chicagoans-march-in-solidarity-with-d-c-as-president-trump-sends-troops-to-capital/
REUTERS
— Trump extends federal control over Washington police
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-wants-extend-federal-control-over-washington-police-2025-08-13/
NEWSWEEK
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally is to demonstrate gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-illegal-immigration-trump-criminal-arrests-2113623
— Democrat leaders promote protests against Trump Saturday, August 16, 2025
https://www.newsweek.com/fight-trump-takeover-protests-saturday-2113930
NEW YORK TIMES
— Bondi Tightens Trump Administration’s Grip on D.C. Police. The attorney general cleared the way for the police to aid in immigration enforcement and named an “emergency” commissioner, setting the stage for a conflict with local authorities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/dc-police-federal-immigration-enforcement.html
— Judge Halts White House Effort to Defund Schools With D.E.I. Programs. Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/us/politics/trump-dei-schools.html
— Democrat and RINO leaders shout at refugees that Republicans cause all the world’s problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/wisconsin-refugees-trump-cuts-migrants.html
— The Democrats who run Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton ever-increasingly use government to destroy 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. I should write about that.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/magazine/gerrymandering-democrats-texas.html
— America’s New Segregation. My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse in terms of household income and hone values.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/opinion/trump-democrats-resistance-reform.html
— Does Earning $142,000 a year in New York City Make You Rich? My critics/opponents ever-increasingly demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree when I was 21. I earned job-related master’s degrees when I was 27 31, and 48. I earned job-related professional certifications when I was 30 32, 41, 45, 47 and 48. I earned a job-related professional license when I was 32.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/nyregion/who-is-rich-new-york-city.html
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly gerrymander
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/politics/democrats-redistricting-trump.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their homeless against Trump.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/15/trump-homeless-encampments-washington-dc/7b3820c4-7992-11f0-a013-3892e10b2f53_story.html
NEW YORK SUN
— Obama’s Criticism of Texas GOP’s Redistricting at Odds With His Past Support for Gerrymandering. Left-leaning ProPublica suggests that the former president ‘may have propelled his political career forward by gerrymandering a Chicago district to include rich supporters.’
https://www.nysun.com/article/obamas-criticism-of-texas-gops-redistricting-at-odds-with-his-past-support-for-gerrymandering
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use their criminals against Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/13/trump-national-guard-washington-dc-crime/85614091007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: How Blue States Plan to Get More Taxes From Wealthy Residents
https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/whats-news/how-blue-states-plan-to-get-more-taxes-from-wealthy-residents/4d189763-6420-4dcb-adf1-167c6a850599
BLOOMBERG
— Chicago Public Schools Struggle to Make the Math Work
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-14/chicago-public-schools-budget-deficit-is-one-example-of-education-shortfalls
BLOOMBERG LAW
— 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, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/in-house-counsel/dojs-growing-war-on-illegal-dei-adds-risk-to-corporate-hiring
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight E-Verify.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/doj-bid-to-preempt-illinois-e-verify-law-risks-hit-to-all-states
TIME
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals.
https://www.aol.com/history-demonizing-words-used-against-165111099.html
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly tout faulty stats
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/08/social-securitys-90th-birthday-trump-administration-continues-tout-faulty-stats/407471/
TIMES OF INDIA
— How Trump’s executive order could reshape college admissions and campus diversity across the US. Foreign students displace American students. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But they would admitted foreign students instead of me if they could have.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/how-trump-s-executive-order-could-reshape-college-admissions-and-campus-diversity-across-the-us/ar-AA1KhcpE
August 14, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-judge-blocks-dhs-using-medicaid-recipient-information-deportations-including-illinois/17529636/
— Democrat leaders promote Newsom.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/newsom-says-california-draw-congressional-maps-end-trump-presidency/17524737/
NBC5
— Dangerous teen ‘street takeover’ trend reported in numerous Chicago suburbs. The “street takeovers” involve 30 to 40 teenagers on “motorized devices,” including e-bikes, e-scooters and dirt bikes.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dangerous-teen-street-takeover-trend-reported-in-numerous-chicago-suburbs/3809086/
— My ZIP code 60189 in south Wheaton makes list of ‘hottest’ ZIP codes in US for real estate
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-suburb-makes-list-of-hottest-zip-codes-in-us-for-real-estate/3809030/
— Melania Trump demands Hunter Biden retract ‘extremely salacious’ Epstein comments. The statements are false, defamatory and “extremely salacious,” Melania Trump’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, wrote in a letter to Biden.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/melania-trump-demands-hunter-biden-retract-epstein-comments/3809396/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their gerrymandering advantage.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/illinois-dems-against-blast-trump-redistricting-plan-at-state-fair/3809184/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/13/texas-democrats-join-planned-parenthood-leaders-highlight-illinois-role-providing
— Democrats exist to promote hatred against Trump.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/13/illinois-democrats-say-state-should-be-blueprint-national-fight-against-donald-trump
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrats exist to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/illinois-democrats-trump-resistance-state-fair/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more gerrymandering and abortion.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250813/illinois-state-politics/we-signed-up-for-this-texas-democrats-in-illinois-vow-to-continue-fight-against-gop-redistricting/
— Cool Party Balloons CEO Melissa Martinez appointed to DuPage County Board seat
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250813/news/cool-party-balloons-ceo-appointed-to-dupage-county-board-seat/
SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Don Tracy jumped into the U.S. Senate race on the Republican side
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2025/08/13/springfield-attorney-don-tracy-is-running-for-u-s-senate/85640118007/
— Democrats exist to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/13/pritzker-dems-try-to-preserve-democracy-during-governors-day/85615328007/
SOUTHERN
— Newsom says California to draw congressional maps to ‘END TRUMP PRESIDENCY’
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2025/08/13/newsom-says-californias-new-congressional-maps-will-take-down-trump/
BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH & JOURNAL GAZETTE TIMES COURIER
— Democrats promote Democrats.
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_89a66f33-f21a-466a-bd6c-534ab3332a53.html
https://jg-tc.com/news/state-regional/government-politics/article_2b4c0587-47b2-51f8-a7af-3ac715497d27.html
WQAD
— Homeless shelters in the Quad Cities running out of room
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/homeless-shelters-quad-cities-capacity-issues/526-08f5aa5c-d030-43bf-b3f8-bcfcba20aed6
WGLT & NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats exist to promote more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.wglt.org/illinois/2025-08-13/jeffries-says-working-class-focus-is-key-to-democrats-retaking-u-s-house
https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2025-08-13/jeffries-says-working-class-focus-is-key-to-democrats-retaking-u-s-house
NPR ILLINOIS
— Percentage of Americans who say they drink alcohol hits record low. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. The more pot that you use, the boozed that you drink.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-13/percentage-of-americans-who-say-they-drink-alcohol-hits-record-low-gallup-says
ILLINOIS TIMES
— Democrats run naturalization. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at immigrants that Republicans cause all the problems that immigrants have and that America has.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news-opinion/naturalization-ceremony-at-the-state-fair-20581154
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Democrats promote Democrats.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-dems-say-state-should-be-blueprint-in-national-fight-against-trump/
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/jeffries-says-working-class-focus-is-key-to-democrats-retaking-u-s-house/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Democrat leaders go further and further and further to the left while America moves further and further and further to the right.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/14/pritzker-rallies-dems-no-more-funk-00508955
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/14/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-568/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-361/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— $734M budget shortfall? Well, 1-in-3 Chicago Public Schools desks is empty
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/734m-budget-shortfall-well-1-in-3-chicago-public-schools-desks-is-empty/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Booze consumption falls to all-time low 54% of adults in Gallup polling
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/13/booze-consumption-falls-time-low-54-adults-gallup-polling/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Rescheduling marijuana would be dangerously premature
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/3498895/marijuana-reschedule-would-be-dangerously-premature/
NEW YORK POST
— Illinois parents, policy experts concerned over new school mental health screening law
https://nypost.com/2025/08/13/lifestyle/illinois-parents-policy-experts-concern-over-new-school-mental-health-screening-law/
— UCLA spent millions of taxpayer dollars on DEI, has professors who compared Israel to Nazis
https://nypost.com/2025/08/13/us-news/ucla-spent-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-on-dei-has-professors-who-compared-israel-to-nazis-watchdog/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Democrats and Their ‘Affordability Crisis’ Scam. What helped you afford things? For me, it was the money that I earned doing yard work, delivering newspapers, washing dishes, cleaning golf shoes, chipping slag, pumping gasoline, delivering mail, working on an automotive assembly line, selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances, pumping more gasoline, collecting delinquent taxes, and auditing federal agencies.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_democrats_and_their_affordability_crisis_scam.html
BREITBART
— Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are solders in their Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/13/maxine-waters-says-trump-leading-us-into-civil-war-for-cracking-down-on-illegal-immigration/
COLLEGE FIX
— New Iowa policy prohibits professors from indoctrinating students. Because I attended Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools and Crete-Monee High School, my teachers did not try to make me a good little Democrat. Because I majored in business, accounting, and finance, fewer of my professors tried to make me a good little Democrat.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/new-iowa-policy-prohibits-professors-from-indoctrinating-students/
DAILY SIGNAL
— DC Is No Longer a Sanctuary City
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/13/dc-police-federal-control-tom-homan-says-dc-longer-sanctuary-city/
— Illegal Aliens Staying Away From Border Amid Trump Admin’s 3-Month Zero-Release Record
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/13/illegal-aliens-staying-away-border-amid-trump-admins-3-month-zero-release-record/
— Trump’s Counterrevolution Is Succeeding Beyond Expectations
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/13/the-left-is-gearing-up-against-trumps-counterrevolution/
FEDERATION FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Biden Administration Migrant Crisis Reshaped the Illegal Alien Population
https://www.fairus.org/news/misc/fair-2025-study-update-shows-state-populations
— Trump Administration Moves to Conduct New Census
https://www.fairus.org/news/executive/trump-administration-new-census-american-citizens
FOX NEWS
— Mamdani says he’s interested in keeping New York City’s status as a ‘sanctuary city’
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376897400112
— Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly lower standards to advance those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-changes-benchmarks-proved-proficiency-math-english-standardized-tests
CONGRESSMAN GLENN GROTHMAN
— Congressman Glenn Grothman (WI-06) issued a statement in response to Rep. Delia Ramirez’s recent comments in Mexico City, where she described herself as “a proud Guatemalan before an American.”
https://grothman.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=4830
HOT AIR
— Politico Hacks Insist Gerrymandering Is Different When Democrats Do It
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/08/13/politico-hacks-insist-gerrymandering-is-different-when-democrats-do-it-n3805769
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Dem Rep Ramirez Who Called Herself ‘Guatemalan First’ Slams ICE as ‘Terrorist Organization’ “Well Tom Homan, let me tell you. … We will continue to call out the terrorist organization that is ICE.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/dem-rep-who-called-herself-guatemalan-first-slams-ice-as-terrorist-organization/
MRC TV
— Illegal Aliens ‘Crawling Out of the Woodwork in D.C.’
https://mrctv.org/blog/craig-bannister/ice-illegal-aliens-crawling-out-woodwork-dc
PJ MEDIA
— Migrant Employment Drops, U.S.-Born Employment Rises
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/08/13/migrant-employment-drops-us-born-employment-rises-n4942662
PATRIOT INSIDER
— Supreme Court Asked to Overturn Major 2015 Ruling Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
https://pjnewsletter.com/supreme-court-kentucky/
RED STATE
— Is Trump Coming for Chicago? Dem Alderman Says Mayor and Gov. Pritzker Hate President More Than Criminals.
https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2025/08/13/is-chicago-next-dem-alderman-says-no-because-johnson-and-pritzker-hate-trump-more-than-criminals-n2192764
TOWNHALL
— PBS Has Found a Way to Legalize Illegals
https://townhall.com/columnists/bradslager/2025/08/13/wapo-is-now-begging-for-the-rampant-immigrants-stories-and-pbs-has-found-a-way-to-legalize-illegals-n2661798
— You Knew Some Whack Job Dem Was Going to Go There Regarding the Ongoing ICE Raids
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/08/13/dem-rep-ice-is-a-terrorist-organization-n2661749
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At Netroots Nation, Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) proudly called ICE a terrorist organization. Why? Is it because they’re enforcing immigration laws that have been on the books for generations, or is it over the fact that these federal agents are removing the political lifeblood of Democrats? It might be a little bit, but Ramirez is one of many Democrats who are willing to tolerate and enable rape, murder, assault, robbery, and other violent crimes over some pseudointellectual drivel about policing, prisons, and racism.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— A $200 million endowment focused on Black Americans is taking shape. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout that Republicans cause all the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.whec.com/ap-top-news/a-200-million-endowment-focused-on-black-americans-is-taking-shape/
NEW YORK TIMES
— The Democrat Party exists to destroy Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/video/opinion/100000010330631/is-trump-a-test-or-triumph-for-democracy.html
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Asian students are better than American students. Why do Asian students do better than American students?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/us-international-students-trump.html
— How College Financial Troubles Could Reshape the Student Experience. I had to work my way through college. I was able to graduate debt-free from NIU when I was 21 in 1970 owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE a) because I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office while classes were in session at UIC 1966-1968, my first semester at NIU in 1969, and full-time during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969 and b) because my parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/us/college-financial-troubles-student-experience.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/12/trump-washington-murder-crime-national-guard/
USA TODAY
— Democrat leaders promote same-sex marriage to promote LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/12/trump-same-sex-marriage/85614479007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly oppose everything that Trump wants.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/08/14/trump-troops-dc-republican-support/85630939007/
— Democrat and RINO leaders have always used Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI to get rid of Republicans. I have always opposed AA and DEI, that is, I have always opposed race and gender based preference giving. According to my critics/opponents, I was never a victim of political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, or national origin discrimination. According to my critics/opponents, I brought all my problems on myself.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/08/14/president-trump-maxes-out-his-victim-card-elaine-harris-spearman/85574900007/
COURIER JOURNAL
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to destroy Republicans.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/opinion/contributors/2025/08/14/diversity-dei-anti-racist-initiatives-white-supremacy/85624761007/
ORLANDO NEWS 6
— Florida has issued nearly 9K recruitment bonuses to law enforcement
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/politics/2025/08/13/florida-gov-ron-desantis-speaks-at-hillsborough-county-sheriffs-office/
NEWS ONE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly focus on making Blacks hate Republicans.
https://newsone.com/6379410/naacp-town-halls-aim-to-mobilize-black-voters-for-midterms/
NEWSBREAK
— Republicans Call for Deportation of Illinois Democrat. I am 100% German American. I am proud to say that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI, that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the German in WWII, and that my father would have fought the Germans in WWII if he had not been 4-F.
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-kansas-city-star-1592484/4172530226629-republicans-call-for-deportation-of-illinois-democrat
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-IL) has sparked nationwide GOP backlash after she claimed she identifies as a “proud Guatemalan” before identifying as an American. The remarks, made while speaking at a Mexico City conference, have led to online calls for her deportation. Her statement led to accusations of disloyalty and the trending hashtag #DeportDelia. Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) wrote, “Denaturalize, deport, and kick her off Homeland Committee. We know where her allegiances lie.” Ramirez said, “Let’s call it what it is: today’s attacks are a weak attempt to silence my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist, white supremacist, authoritarians in government. It is the definition of hypocrisy that members of Congress —who betray their oath each day they enable Trump— are attacking me for celebrating my Guatemalan-American roots.” Ramirez said, “No one questions when my white colleagues identify as Irish-American, Italian-American, or Ukrainian-American to honor their ancestry. I’ve consistently expressed pride in my heritage and history – a pride also often reflected in the origin stories of my colleagues.” Ramirez added, “Only those who believe America should not include the children of immigrants or be diverse would attack me – and Americans like me – for honoring my roots.” Ramirez has strongly opposed President Donald Trump’s policies, including his $170 million Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funding bill. Elected in 2022, Ramirez has presented her identity as a symbol of U.S. diversity. Ramirez’s husband is a DACA recipient, and she remained a strong advocate for legal status for Dreamers. Ramirez stated, “Anyone who denies our claim on this country simply because we dare to honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how fragile and small-minded their own idea of America really is.”)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: This Family Couldn’t Be Prouder Of the Adult Living in the Basement. Because my father died suddenly in 1969 when he was 47 and I was 21, I applied for a financial hardship draft deferment to help support my mother and brother. After I graduated from NIU in 1970 debt free and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE, I lived with them and helped support them in Crete until 1972 when I bought a new town home in University Park. During that time, I worked a) full-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights 1970-1971 and part-time 1971-1972 and b) full-time for IRS in Chicago in 1971 and in Harvey in 1972. My financial hardship deferment was approved in early 1971. But soon, I was no longer subject to the draft because my draft number was more than 100. Later in 1971, I bought a new 1972 Corvette because my Charger was stolen. During 1972, I paid for tuition and books for four graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/brett-berard-new-york-rangers-e1923d7b
FORBES
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ykCCBCeJj4
GOVERNING
— My Democrat superiors in the federal government focused on hiring, retaining, and promoting Democrats who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. By the time my Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, most, if not virtually all of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were most, if not virtually all of the aforesaid.
https://www.governing.com/urban/lapds-black-recruitment-declines-as-diversity-programs-get-dismantled
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— For Democrats, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/challenge-building-diverse-faculty-world-has-turned-diversity
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their gerrymandering advantage.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/14/gop-redistricting-00508626
DAILY KOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote crime.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/13/2338288/-Trump-s-border-czar-is-super-stoked-to-bring-gestapo-tactics-to-DC
AXIOS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight to keep their gerrymandering advantage.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/georgia-swing-voters-focus-group
August 13, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Top candidates for the US House in Illinois’ 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th districts for the 2026 election
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/illinois-house-top-candidates-2nd-7th-8th-9th/
— Chicago officials, workers protest EPA canceling contract with unions. The Democrats who ran GAO forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had unionized earlier, I might still be a GAO employee.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/chicago-officials-workers-protest-epa-canceling-contract-with-unions/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/editorial-donald-trump-crime-chicago-federal-takeover/
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/texas-illinois-gerrymandering-church-political-politics-sabina/
— To win in 2026, Democrat candidates ever-increasingly promise more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, booze, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/hakeem-jeffries-midterm-democratic-strategy/
— To get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/13/opinion-male-suicide-lost-my-friend/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Illinois students could see new testing standards with proposed state board revisions. Government and politics are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/12/illinois-new-testing-standards/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Illinois redistricting effort possible, but unlikely to yield more Democratic seats. Pritzker touts redistricting in response to Texas, but his legislative allies cite no signs of movement on the issue in Springfield.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2025/08/12/illinois-redistricting-jb-pritzker-texas-democrats-greg-abbott-remap
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) unite minorities against Whites, b) unite women against men, c) unite younger people against older people, d) unite LGBTQers against heterosexuals, e) unite unmarried people against married people, f) unite non-Protestants against Protestants, g) unite non-German Americans against German Americans, h) unite those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, i) unite those who have less money against those who have more money, j) unite non-Americans against Americans, k) unite etc. against etc.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2025/08/13/black-brown-communities-immigration-trump-ice-robin-kelly-jesus-chuy-garcia
— Illinois wants to lower the bar for passing state tests, saying the standard is unfair to students. The State Board of Education will vote Wednesday on new exam benchmarks. Education officials say the existing standards have led high schoolers to believe they aren’t ready for college when they actually are. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/08/12/illinois-wants-to-lower-cut-scores-on-state-tests-saying-standard-is-unfair-to-students
DAILY HERALD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans are racists.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250812/nation-and-world-politics/trumps-rhetoric-on-dc-echoes-a-history-of-racist-narratives-about-urban-crime/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pace’s Rideshare Access Program
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250811/transportation/pace-paratransit-rideshare-program-is-victim-of-its-own-success/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: State education board to adopt new proficiency benchmarks for state tests. Government and politics are nasty/vicious. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250812/education/state-education-board-to-adopt-new-proficiency-benchmarks-for-state-tests/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Gotion to start making EV batteries in Manteno next month
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing-logistics/gotion-start-making-ev-batteries-manteno-next-month
WGN9
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://wgntv.com/news/washington-dc-bureau/will-president-trump-reclassify-marijuana/
WTTW
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that police are racist.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/08/12/lawyers-ask-judge-expand-lawsuit-accusing-cpd-targeting-black-latino-chicagoans-traffic
WGN RADIO
— You can’t argue that Illinois maps are fair
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/eric-zorn-you-cant-argue-that-illinois-maps-are-fair/
WBEZ
— As homelessness is criminalized, how are Chicagoans getting people from encampments to housing? The city says that the number of homeless people is down but that the number of people living in “unsheltered locations” like encampments is up. The Democrat Party platform promotes homelessness.
https://www.wbez.org/reset-with-sasha-ann-simons/2025/08/12/as-homelessness-is-criminalized-how-are-chicagoans-getting-people-from-encampments-to-housing
STATELINE & WAND TV
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/trump-admin-may-reclassify-marijuana-would-that-make-it-legal-in-the-us/
https://www.wandtv.com/news/city-of-springfield-approves-third-round-of-cannabis-tax-grants/article_ec67b5c9-2152-4011-aadc-1931a54e8c87.html
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Jil Tracy talks about being deputized for Texas lawmaker case
https://muddyrivernews.com/noteworthy/tracy-talks-about-being-deputized-for-texas-lawmaker-case/20250810075841/
CITY JOURNAL
— Illinois’ Disastrous School Mental-Health Program. The Prairie State wants to screen all kids for mental-health issues. That’s a mistake. Democrats run education. According to Democrat leaders, if you are not a Democrat, you have mental problems.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/pritzker-mental-health-screenings-illinois-schools
WJOL
— Local Republican Diane Harris Is Running For Illinois Secretary Of State
https://www.wjol.com/local-republican-diane-harris-is-running-for-illinois-secretary-of-state/
WGLT
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-08-12/city-of-bloomington-to-host-a-free-symposium-discussing-the-future-of-inclusion-and-access
WMBD
— Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, more and more and more people become addicted to drugs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdU4OdV-l0Q
NPR ILLINOIS
— Democrats exist to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.nprillinois.org/government-politics/2025-08-12/jeffries-top-illinois-dems-hope-voters-will-punish-republicans-in-2026
CITIES 92.9
— Chicago Flips Red says Illinois officials break laws as they blast Trump
https://www.cities929.com/2025/08/12/chicago-group-says-illinois-officials-break-laws-as-they-blast-trump/
BLOCK CKUB CHICAGO
— The Never-Ending Line For Benefits Is Back, With Some Immigrants Sleeping Outside To Get A Spot. Immigrants, many who came to Chicago three years ago from the southern border, are camping outside after a state program that offers health insurance, food and cash assistance reopened enrollment at the end of July. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/08/12/the-never-ending-line-for-benefits-is-back-with-some-immigrants-sleeping-outside-to-get-a-spot/
CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— Illinois proposes lowering scores students need to be deemed proficient on state tests. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that I never got any scholarships or internships, b) that my ACT score was only 24, c) that I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my high school class, d) that while I passed the postal employment and Federal Service Entrance Examination on my first attempt, my scores could have been better, e) that while I earned a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, my GPAs could have been better, and f) that while I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, my scores could have been better.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2025/08/12/illinois-proposes-new-cut-scores-for-state-standardized-tests/
CAPITOL FAX
— State Senator Mary Edly-Allen Announces Candidacy for 10th District State Central Committeewoman. I have always promoted direct election of Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members. My critics/opponents have always vehemently opposed it.
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-567/
(FROM THE PRESS RELEASE: State Senator Mary Edly-Allen (Grayslake), proudly announces her candidacy for the open seat for State Central Committeewoman for Illinois’ 10th Congressional District. A lifelong advocate for Democratic values, Senator Edly-Allen brings over 25 years of experience living, working, and organizing in the district she calls home. For nearly two years, Edly-Allen has served as the President of Lake County Democratic Women (LCDW) and has led with energy, vision, and purpose. She has worked hard mentoring, supporting, and helping elect a new generation of strong Democratic candidates to local offices across the 10th Congressional District and throughout Lake County. Her leadership has revitalized local engagement and strengthened the Democratic bench.)
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/13/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-567/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/08/12/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-360/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders discourage Republicans from running for offices. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly successful doing that in Illinois and in DuPage County. I remember when almost every Republican primary was contested and all the candidates were highly qualified. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
WIREPOINTS
— Don Tracy announces run for U.S. Senate. SEE: https://dontracyforil.com/ One could compare and contrast the Illinois Republican U.S. Senate 2004 primary with the 2026 primary. All five announced candidates (John Cox, Chirinjeev Kathuria, Andrew McKenna, Jim Oberweis, and Jack Ryan) walked in Wheaton’s 2003 Independence Day parade and then attended a picnic in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. My critics/opponents were not only furious that Ryan won the primary instead of their candidate McKenna, they blamed me for McKenna’s defeat. I was not only the GOPUSA Illinois Editor back then, I was also an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois. Neither organization endorsed McKenna. Ryan withdrew after he won the primary and then the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee replaced him with Alan Keyes who lost to Obama.
https://wirepoints.org/don-tracy-announces-run-for-u-s-senate/
— Chicago crime is low? Tell that to the thousands of victims.
https://wirepoints.org/chicago-crime-is-low-tell-that-to-the-thousands-of-victims-wirepoints-on-am-560-chicagos-morning-answer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Sonya Massey bill requiring full employment history for police candidates now law. GAO hired me in 1980 notwithstanding the fact that IRS had not promoted me since 1974 and had disallowed my education deductions in 1978 and my travel vouchers in 1974 to get rid of me. IRS hired me in 1971 notwithstanding the fact that the Post Office had forced me to resign in 1969 and had disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. GAO and IRS hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and earning an MBA in 1976. I qualified myself for the IRS job by earning a bachelor’s degree in management and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_d5c67017-51a9-40d4-8cb1-c5db834b81fa.html
CONTRARIAN
— Vallas: Illinois Stands as the Poster Child for Gerrymandering and Its Consequences
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/illinois-poster-child-gerrymandering-consequences
— When Is Chicago Going to Go Bankrupt?
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/when-is-chicago-going-bankrupt
JOHN THOMAS
— John Thomas announces campaign for Governor of Illinois
https://www.wpri.com/business/press-releases/ein-presswire/838910052/john-thomas-announces-campaign-for-governor-of-illinois/
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Less than 22% of voters approve of Chicago Teachers Union. When my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 to get rid of me, the National Treasury Employees Union successfully came to my defense. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/products/b-180010.11-0 But that disallowance ended my IRS career.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/less-than-22-of-voters-approve-of-chicago-teachers-union/
— Illinois ranks last in U.S. for financial transparency
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-ranks-last-in-u-s-for-financial-transparency/
— Vallas: Pritzker works on national profile as Illinoisans tire of him
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzker-works-on-national-profile-as-illinoisans-tire-of-him/
— Businesses moving out of Illinois triples since pandemic
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/businesses-moving-out-of-illinois-triples-since-pandemic/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democratic Party approval hits a new rock bottom among Democrats. Those who are anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Protestant, anti-German American, and/or anti-those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time want the Democrat Party to do even more to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/democratic-party-approval-hits-new-rock-bottom-among-democrats/
— Trump tariff revenue jumps to $25B monthly as inflation holds steady
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/12/bipartisan-analysis-shows-trump-tariffs-generated-billions-new/
— ‘Woefully out of balance’: U.S. debt surpasses $37 trillion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/13/us-debt-surpasses-37-trillion-woefully-balance/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Recriminalize, don’t decriminalize marijuana
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3496447/recriminalize-marijuana-trump-drug-reclassification/
— How E-Verify can be outsmarted, and how Congress can fix it. Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/3496192/e-verify-can-be-outsmarted-how-congress-can-fix-it/
— DeSantis says Obama and Holder gerrymandered ‘brutally’ in most recent census
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/3498223/desantis-obama-eric-holder-gerrymandered-census/
WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Dems’ Plan: Curse More, Obey Less, Protect Criminals & Illegals
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/the-emerging-democratic-consensus-for-2026-curse-more-obey-less-protect-criminals-and-illegal-immigrants-at-all-costs/
NEW YORK POST
— Just say no to Big Dope — and its push for even more legal pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/12/opinion/just-say-no-to-big-dope-and-to-even-more-legal-marijuana/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Old American Ruling Class Has Lost the Revolution
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_old_american_ruling_class_has_lost_the_revolution.html
BLAZE
— Police CAUGHT TAMPERING with crime rates as Trump federalizes DC
https://www.theblaze.com/shows/sara-gonzales-unfiltered/police-caught-tampering-with-crime-rates-as-trump-federalizes-dc
— Foreign-born population dropped by historic number during Trump’s first 6 months in office
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cis-illegal-aliens-deported-millions
BREITBART
— Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez: Some ‘Politicians in My Own Party’ ‘Enamored with’ Criminals, Pritzker, Johnson Blinded by Trump Hate
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/08/12/chicago-alderman-there-are-politicians-in-my-own-party-enamored-with-criminals-pritzker-johnson-blinded-by-trump-hate/
— Ramirez Calls ICE a ‘Terrorist Organization’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/watch-democrat-rep-delia-ramirez-calls-ice-terrorist-organization/
— Newsom’s Gerrymander Is ‘Illegal and Unconstitutional’
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/demaio-newsoms-gerrymander-is-illegal-and-unconstitutional/
— Before Trump Federalized D.C. Police, White House Reporters Complained for Years About Crime in Capital
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/before-trump-federalized-d-c-police-white-house-reporters-complained-for-years-about-crime-in-capital/
— Media Members Share Their D.C. Crime Stories as Trump Moves to Clean Up Capital
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/exclusive-media-members-share-their-d-c-crime-stories-as-trump-moves-to-clean-up-capital/
— More than 100,000 Americans Apply to Join ICE, Help Deport Illegal Aliens
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/12/more-than-100000-americans-apply-to-join-ice-help-deport-illegal-aliens/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— We signed the United Nations refugee protocol, but we never signed up for mass migration. The rest of the world sees America as being its dumping ground.
https://cis.org/Oped/We-signed-United-Nations-refugee-protocol-we-never-signed-mass-migration
COLLEGE FIX
— Court sides with Christian university over firing professor who officiated same-sex wedding. Lawyers say Calvin University has freedom to employ professors who ‘uphold and model its beliefs’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/court-sides-with-christian-university-over-firing-professor-who-officiated-same-sex-wedding/
DAILY CALLER
— Pritzker’s presidential aspirations are growing ever more evident as he inserts himself in the Texas gerrymandering brouhaha – and he’s no longer denying it. He heralded many of the 57 Texas Democrats who fled to stop the state’s congressional maps from being redrawn to benefit Republicans, all the while deflecting the blatancy of Illinois’ gerrymandering and trivializing it as something drawn by “kindergarteners.” Instead of advocating for taking mapmaking power away from state lawmakers, whether in Texas or Illinois, he’s embraced the sin: if he believes Illinois needs to counteract new Texas maps that put more Republicans in Congress, he’s considered making Illinois’ maps even more lopsided to send more Illinois Democrats to oppose President Trump. Pritzker is telling voters that Illinois’ districts aren’t a right for them to express their views and pick their leaders. They’re a tool for political parties, or at least the political party with the most money and power at the moment. In his eyes: two wrongs may not make a right, but when those on the right do it then it’s wrong. All of which provides a perfect illustration of why Illinois needs fair maps. The congressional map Pritzker approved in 2021 yielded 14 districts dominated by Democrats and only three downstate districts held by Republicans – after forcing the downstate GOP to battle it out over the shrinking state’s lost seat.
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/13/opinion-pritzker-says-gerrymander-can-be-gerry-more-mandered-if-he-works-at-it-brad-weisenstein/
— Ramirez Who Said She Is Guatemalan Before American Calls ICE ‘Terrorist Organization’
https://www.aol.com/democrat-said-she-guatemalan-american-193000010.html
FEDERALIST
— Arizona Leftist Senator Doubles Down On Her ‘Right’ To Tip Off Illegals To ICE Operations. Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their solders in their Democrat Army.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/12/arizona-leftist-senator-doubles-down-on-her-right-to-tip-off-illegals-to-ice-operations/
FOX NEWS
— Cuban-born congressman calls for Ramirez’s removal over ‘Guatemalan before American’ remark
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/cuban-born-congressman-calls-for-squad-member-s-removal-over-guatemalan-before-american-remark/ar-AA1KaP7v
NEWS BUSTERS
— PBS Uses New Euphemism for Illegals: ‘People Without Legal Status’ To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/clay-waters/2025/08/12/pbs-drops-new-euphemism-illegals-people-without-legal-status
NEWSMAX
— Newsom Won’t Stop Trump
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-gavin-newsom-donald-trump-ice/2025/08/12/id/1222242/
— Percent of ICE Arrests Are of Criminals. To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/tom-homan-ice-arrests/2025/08/12/id/1222237/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— DeSantis: We Have The Basis To Redistrict In Florida, Lingering “Racial Gerrymandering” We Have To Correct. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders gerrymander to give preference to minorities.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/12/desantis_we_have_the_basis_to_redistrict_in_florida_lingering_racial_gerrymandering_we_have_to_correct.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— University of Illinois on high alert about highly infectious disease
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5448214-university-of-illinois-measles/
NEW YORK TIMES
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/donald-trump-approval-rating-polls.html
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
— Texas Dems spotlight disaster called Illinois
https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/08/13/texas-dems-spotlight-disaster-called-illinois/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: After the 1990 general election, the state of Illinois found itself in a predicament. Democrats controlled the House and Senate in Springfield, while Republican Jim Edgar occupied the governor’s mansion. With legislative redistricting the following year, the Democrats would be unable to send a new map that the governor wouldn’t veto. It was at this point that a nine-person Legislative Redistricting Commission would be established, with four Democrats and four Republicans. The final seat was determined by a coin flip that the GOP won. Many Republicans salivated at the opportunity to redraw the map, especially the 9th congressional district. Represented by 25-term Democratic Congressman Sidney Yates, the district ran along Chicago’s affluent lakefront, including the suburbs of Evanston and Skokie. The seat was regarded as impenetrable by the Republicans. But to the dismay of the GOP, ousting Yates was thwarted by Republican Senate Minority Leader James “Pate” Philip. The veteran politician believed the 9th district must always be winnable by a member of the Jewish community due to its large Jewish constituency. Yates served three more terms.)
NEW YORK SUN
— Trump Phenomenon’s Political Implications Are Coming Into Focus as Democrats Fade Into Irrelevance. The opposition’s principal leaders are superannuated logrollers, Marxists, and authoritarian reverse racists.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trump-phenomenons-political-implications-are-coming-into-focus-as-democrats-fade-into-irrelevance
USA TODAY
— Got ‘range anxiety’? Trump halts massive EV charger project. Many would-be EV purchasers have cited what’s known as ‘range anxiety’ in their reluctance to switch over from a gas car.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/11/biden-ev-charger-project-trump/85563143007/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/08/07/parent-trans-kids-gender-affirming-care-trump/85428839007/
CBS MINNESOTA
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZOa5u1Ecyg
DESERT NEWS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everyone’s problems, but especially for the problems that minorities, females, younger people, veterans, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time have.
https://www.deseret.com/opinion/2025/08/12/equal-protection-unequal-conditions/
TAMPA FREE PRESS
— Homan Rips Illinois Rep. Ramirez For Declaring Allegiance To Guatemala
https://www.aol.com/news/border-czar-tom-homan-rips-200234293.html
CENTER SQUARE
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. If I had used pot, I would not have been able to a) earn a bachelor’s degree when I was 21 and master’s degrees when I was 27, 31 and 48, b) earn professional certifications when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, c) earn a professional license when I was 32, d) get hired by the Post Office when I was 18, e) get hired by Firestone Stores when I was 21, f) get hired by IRS when I was 22 and promoted when I was 23, 24, and 25, and g) get hired by GAO when I was 31 and promoted when I was 38.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_6f47043c-ffc6-4b26-b2b3-399c072955a2.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump, Chicago and No Cash Bail. Pritzker’s defense of soft-on-crime policies won’t help him in 2028.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-chicago-and-no-cash-bail-97cecb22
— Trump Demands the Truth About Affirmative Action. He requires colleges to submit data proving they don’t engage in racial discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-demands-the-truth-about-affirmative-action-education-college-school-084fb08c
— The Illinois Voter Suppression Strategy. Elections in odd-numbered years are a gift to unions.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-illinois-voter-suppression-strategy-election-politics-turnout-26f192a5
— The Era of Big Raises for Low-Paid Workers Is Over. Wage growth for top earners once again outstrips gains for those at the bottom. My critics/opponents at the same time hint/imply/argue/shout a) that the federal government grossly overpaid me and b) that my never being paid more than $153,151/year in today’s dollars even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license proves that I was an extremely bad person.
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/low-wage-employees-pay-growth-cdf3cd36
FORBES
— Ramirez would not have been elected if Pritzker had not created a gerrymandered 3rd Congressional District for her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ63FnVRHks
— Ramirez Presses VA Official On Number Of Department Staff Lost Due To ‘Natural Attrition’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojVYRGSsxUc
FED SMITH
— Probationary Employees: Retained or Fired? New Guidance from OPM Designed to Hire Quality Workforce. OPM is directing agencies to “designate at-least the second-line supervisor….” to make continued employment decisions for probationary employees. My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary rule to get rid of me because I had served my probationary period working for IRS.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2025/08/11/probationary-employees-guidance-from-opm/
BLOOMBERG LAW
— Illinois E-Verify Law Imposes on Federal Authority. Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their solders in their Democrat Army.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/illinois-e-verify-law-imposes-on-federal-authority-doj-argues
LAW 360
— Illinois E-Verify Law Imposes on Federal Authority. Democrats ever-increasingly make it clear that they have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans and that illegals are their solders in their Democrat Army.
https://www.law360.com/articles/2376171/doj-asks-judge-to-block-ill-e-verify-restrictions
PMC RESEARCH
— Why People Prefer Higher Educated Politicians. My critics/opponents have always used against me my having three master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a professional license (CPA).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9989228/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Higher educated participants preferred higher to less educated candidates over and above their level of competence, particularly when they identified strongly with their educational level. This reflects ingroup bias among the higher educated. Less educated participants preferred higher educated candidates in Study 1, but did not prefer higher educated candidates when competence was manipulated independently from education in Study 2. The less educated, unlike the higher educated, therefore, seem to show deference to the assumed competence of the higher educated, because it disappears when more reliable competence information is available. A recurring question in intergroup relations is whether low-status groups challenge the status quo, accept their inferior position and defer to the high-status group, or even actively support the hierarchy. A topical example of this is the place of the less educated in the political arena. When voting for political candidates, do less educated voters show ingroup bias and prefer “one of their own” over higher educated candidates?1 Or do they defer to the supposed superior (cognitive or academic) competence of the higher educated (Baker, 2014; Spruyt & Kuppens, 2014) and prefer a higher educated candidate? For higher educated voters, there is no such dilemma because both possible ingroup bias and the desire to pick a competent candidate point in the same direction and should lead them to prefer higher educated politicians. However, for the higher educated, the question then becomes whether candidate competence or ingroup bias matters more for vote choice. The rise of populism investigating the processes underlying the choice of political leaders is topical and timely. One reason to expect education-based ingroup bias in voting preferences is that education (and not income) plays an important role in current political conflicts. Populist radical-right parties criticize technocratic elements of modern politics and often appeal to the (less educated) “common man” (sic; Mudde, 2004; Rooduijn, 2014). In general, the less educated are in many countries2 indeed more likely to support these parties and their anti-immigration policies, and this is, demographically speaking, related to their educational level, rather than income or occupation (Rooduijn, 2017; Spruyt et al., 2016). In contrast, others have argued for a more technocratic nature of democracy. For example, some have proposed that the right to vote should depend on political knowledge, effectively excluding many, and mostly, less educated citizens (Bell, 2016; Brennan, 2016). In other words, education (and not income) is central to a major current political divide, both in terms of voter behavior and political rhetoric (Evans & Tilley, 2017; Zhang, 2018).)
PEW RESEARCH
— Candidate quality and what drives elected officials to run for office.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/candidate-quality-and-what-drives-elected-officials-to-run-for-office/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: What motivates people to run for office? Self-interest – whether in the form of making a lot of money, potentially running for a higher-level office later, or gaining fame and attention – is widely seen as the motivating force for all or most elected officials. In contrast, just 15% of Americans think all or most elected officials ran because they wanted to serve the public.
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-state-department-human-rights-report-lgbtq-asylum_n_689bd895e4b03bdc474fc073
POLITICO
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote illegal drugs.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/08/13/trump-drug-cartels-mexico-00506084
— Black Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for the problems that Blacks have.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/12/black-cities-mayors-trump-dc-takeover-00505773
PROGRESSIVE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://progressive.org/magazine/a-sanctuary-fights-back-duda-20250812/
AXIOS
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/12/trump-bls-ej-antoni-economists
GUARDIAN
— To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country. Just because Democrat and RINO leaders encourage you to falsely claim asylum does not make you legal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/12/asylum-seekers-leaders-sexual-offences-women-girls
— Democrat leaders fight transparency concerning criminals.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/disclosing-asylum-status-suspects-transparency
August 11, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/10/letters-081025/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Higher education pays off in Illinois. Without my 1970 bachelor’s degree in management from NIU, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970 and IRS in 1971. Without my taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola, IRS would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. Without my earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, GAO would not have hired me in 1980. Without my earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and my becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. Without my earning four more professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 and my earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors would have succeeded in forcing me to retire sooner than they did.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/higher-education-economic-mobility/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/08/06/immigrants-deportations-shrinking-health-care-workforce
NORTHWEST HERALD
— Which McHenry County offices are up next year and who’s running for reelection? Nominating petitions are circulating for the March 2026 primary election.
https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/08/10/which-mchenry-county-offices-are-up-next-year-and-whos-running-for-reelection/
HERALD REVIEW
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://herald-review.com/opinion/columnists/article_975e3036-fc97-549f-9b12-62ece3f00ee8.html
WQAD
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/nation-world/trump-judicial-picks/507-c6195acd-84c9-4ff9-8d62-3482e2d0f813
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-illinois-texas-politics/
OAK LAWN PATCH
— Robert Cruz: IL-GOP on life support. Can the il-GOP swing the pendulum and compete. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders must focus on defending and advancing the Republican Party platform.
https://patch.com/illinois/oaklawn/il-gop-life-support
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2025/08/11/texas-dems-preach-defiance-in-chicago-00502628
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who is your Republican Precinct Committeeman (PC)? Is he/she running again? I am running again to be the DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 Republican PC in Wheaton. Google AI’s overview of the Republican Precinct Committeeman position is at: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22precinct+committeeman%22+republican I was appointed as an Assistant PC in 1999 and then as a PC in 1999 to fill a vacancy. I was elected PC in 2000 and reelected every 2 years since. I served as the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster 2000-2004 and 2008-2010 and I served on all the MTRO fundraising committees 2000-2010. But those who continue to dominate MTRO a) rudely terminated as me as MTRO webmaster in 2004 and 2010, b) rudely defeated me when I ran for the open MTRO Treasurer office in 2004, c) rudely gerrymandered my precinct in 2015, d) rudely ended my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, and e) rudely ended my Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee membership in 2024. They have never asked me to serve as an MTRO officer. They continue to demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. They ever-increasingly blame me, blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, blame my serving as the Milton Township campaign coordinator for Pat O’Malley’s Republican gubernatorial campaign in 2002, blame my Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee membership 2003-2007, blame my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship 2005-2012, and blame my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks 2005-2012 for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They especially blame me for Jim Ryan losing to Blagojevich in 2002. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/10/sordid-history-gerrymandering/
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Trump’s Full-Court Press on Immigration
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trumps-full-court-press-on-immigration/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump cracks down on covert affirmative action with admissions transparency order
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-cracks-down-on-covert-affirmative-action-with-admissions-transparency-order/
DAILY WIRE
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/illinois-gov-says-his-states-gerrymandering-is-ok-because-democracy
FEDERALIST
— Is Equal Outcome the Same as Equal Opportunity. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/videos/disparate-impact-is-equal-outcome-the-same-as-equal-opportunity
FOX NEWS
— Vance calls on Republicans to take ‘decisive action’ to counter Democratic gerrymandering. Vance says Democrats benefit from illegal immigration through skewed census counts and gerrymandered maps.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jd-vance-calls-republicans-take-decisive-action-counter-democratic-gerrymandering
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376777340112
— Trump DOJ to fight ‘race-based gerrymandering.’ Illinois 3rd Congressional District is race-based gerrymandering.
https://www.aol.com/watch-trump-doj-fight-race-210941546.html
PJ MEDIA
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/08/10/the-left-is-trying-to-have-it-both-ways-on-gerrymandering-n4942582
PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION
— Illinois family battles state’s race-based scholarship. My critics/opponents have always used against me my not getting any scholarships.
https://pacificlegal.org/illinois-family-battles-states-race-based-scholarship/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— Reince Priebus: The House Is Already Completely Gerrymandered — There Are What, 10 Competitive Seats Out Of 435?
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/reince_priebus_the_house_is_already_completely_gerrymandered_–_there_are_what_10_competitive_seats_out_of_435.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/08/10/eric_holder_gop_gerrymandering_is_a_threat_to_our_democracy_dems_must_gerrymander_to_save_our_democracy.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The damaging effects of shifting from equal opportunity to ‘equal outcomes.’ My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/529262-the-damaging-effects-of-shifting-from-equal-opportunity-to-equal-outcomes/
MSN
— Since the 1960s, ever-increasingly, all those above me have been under ever-increasing pressure to give preference to those who are minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. That is, they have been under ever-increasing pressure to discriminate against those who are White, male, older, heterosexual, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/how-many-women-on-the-board-fewer-companies-are-saying/ar-AA1JTlM7
NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump Attacked California’s Congressional Maps. Republicans Want to Save Them. The independent body that redraws the state’s political maps isn’t perfect, many Republicans say. But they prefer that to the gerrymander that Gov. Gavin Newsom seeks to offset one proposed in Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/california-redistricting-independent-commission.html
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/supreme-court-voting-redistricting.html
— Minimum Wage in L.A. Could Rise to $30 an Hour. In today’s dollars, I started earning $32.84/hour when I was 23 years old in 1972. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970. I had worked for IRS for 15 months and for Firestone Stores for 7 months before that. I had completed 3 graduate evening business courses at Loyola.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/minimum-wage-olympics-losangeles.html
— Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos. Young adults without jobs that provide insurance find that their options are limited and expensive. The problem is about to get worse. The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance helped withstand tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/health/young-adults-health-insurance-26.html
— FRONT PAGE: The more that fight Trump, the more that Democrat leaders promote you.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/us/politics/mayor-bass-los-angeles-raids.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Cannabis Poisonings Are Rising, Mostly Among Kids. As products like weed gummies proliferate, more children and teens are suffering symptoms including seizures and life-threatening breathing problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/health/cannabis-poisoning-children.html
— Unions Push Democrats to Win Back Members Who Went to Trump. My critics/opponents despise/hate unions. I was a union member for almost 12 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/us/politics/democrats-labor-unions-nevada.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/10/gerrymandering-school-choice-elections/
NEW YORK SUN
— Vance Assails 2020 Census as Flawed, Demands Complete Do-Over as Redistricting War Rages. Argument over mid-decade redistricting takes a new turn as the vice president declares U.S. Census Bureau made ‘major statistical error’ in 2020.
https://www.nysun.com/article/vance-assails-2020-census-as-flawed-demands-complete-do-over-as-redistricting-war-rages
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.wsj.com/video/series/journal-editorial-report/wsj-opinion-texas-reopens-the-gerrymander-wars/20F020D8-3963-4D25-9BAB-9B28FFB903B9
— Equity, Equality, Fairness and Good Sense. My critics/opponents want equal outcome, not equal opportunity. For example, they want just as many minorities and females to take and pass the CPA examination as Whites and males. Because that has not been the case, they accuse Whites and males with benefitting from discrimination against minorities and females if not discriminating against minorities and females themselves.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/equity-equality-fairness-and-good-sense-11612903580
— Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Solve U.S. Chip-Making Dilemma. Because Chevrolet suspended Malibu production in 2021 because of chip shortage, I bought one off the showroom floor instead of ordering one.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/trumps-tariffs-wont-solve-u-s-chip-making-dilemma-c5aec29b
— Make Cars Beautiful Again. Congress quietly axed the fuel-economy standards that help drive the ugliness.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/make-cars-beautiful-again-design-auto-requirements-policy-e08fcfac
— FRONT PAGE: More Job Hunters Seek Pricey Help To Land New Roles. When my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they made it impossible for me to get a job appropriate for my work experience, education, professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-hunting-expenses-resume-linkedin-887b4bd2
FORBES
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2krf_LvgI1o
TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— Democrats and RINOs use DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/edi-meritocracy-why-hard-understand
AXIOS
— Which federal workers could lose protections under Trump order. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2025/01/28/trump-executive-order-federal-workforce
HUFFINGTON POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Ramirez.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/out-of-control-republicans-are-viciously-attacking-a-congresswoman-with-calls-to-deport-her/ar-AA1KcZAb
DAILY KOS
— Democrats win because they gerrymander.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/8/10/2337315/-Americans-hate-gerrymandering-Texas-Republicans-don-t-care
BUSINESS STANDARD
— How quota system looks across the globe. Around the world, quota systems in government jobs are employed as a tool to enhance the representation of historically marginalized or underrepresented groups. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats and most are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat who was minority, female, younger, and/or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for my Post Office job by passing the postal employment examination and earning a high school diploma. I qualified myself for my IRS job by passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earning a bachelor’s degree in management. I qualified myself for my GAO job by working for IRS for almost 9 years, earning an MBA, passing the CPA examination on my first attempt, and almost completing the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.tbsnews.net/analysis/how-does-quota-system-look-across-globe-894951
August 9, 2025 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Democrats cannot win unless they gerrymander. Most gerrymandering is done to create more minority districts. Look at Illinois 3rd Congressional District.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/08/09/texas-democrats-illinois-rainbow-push-hq-redistricting
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2025/08/09/illinois-texas-trump-pritzker-gerrymandering-alden-loury
DAILY HERALD
— ‘What more could the governor do?’: Illinois lawmakers doubt state’s districts could be more gerrymandered
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250809/illinois-state-politics/what-more-could-the-governor-do-illinois-lawmakers-doubt-states-districts-could-be-more-gerryma/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “Illinois is one of the most gerrymandered states in the country,” said Republican state Rep. Martin McLaughlin of Barrington Hills. “What more could the governor do?” . . . Senate Republican Leader John Curran of Downers Grove accused Pritzker of “meddling in other states’ redistricting issues for national press coverage.” “He should be working to increase voter choice here in Illinois by calling for fair maps like he pledged when running for office,” Curran said. . . Illinois’ current congressional map was drawn to give Democrats an edge in nearly all of the state’s 17 districts, even though roughly 41% of the state’s voters supported Trump in the 2020 election and 44% of voters did so in 2024. Likewise, Trump carried 88 of Illinois’ 102 counties in 2020 and again in 2024. The gerrymandering is particularly obvious in the West and Northwest suburbs, where some districts curl through a dozen or more communities in multiple counties like ribbons in the wind. Curran said it’d be “impossible” to gerrymander the map more than it already has been. “Gerrymandering weakens our democracy and removes choice from voters,” Curran said. “It should be ended throughout the country — starting here in Illinois.”)
CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— Those who illegally bring children into America illegally should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/trump-administration-asks-judge-to-end-policy-on-protections-for-immigrant-children-in-custody/article_7768a439-53c4-521e-be43-70ac6bcdfdd5.html
WAND TV
— IL Freedom Caucus members blame Pritzker, Biden for skyrocketing electric bills
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-freedom-caucus-members-blame-pritzker-biden-for-skyrocketing-electric-bills/article_e4faf09e-3abf-4bb5-b0c8-2960b0d49e9f.html
NPR ILLINOIS
— Who are your enemies? They are those who have taken adverse actions against you. I should write about my enemies.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2025-08-08/justice-department-escalates-its-campaign-against-trumps-perceived-political-enemies
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois newsrooms receive $4 million from state through tax credits. My direct competitors are beyond furious that I have the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation needed to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and send them out every morning free of charge and without any advertising or donation requests. I should write about my direct competitors who have their operatives and their dupes do everything that they can a) to stop me from sending the newsletters out and b) to stop everyone from reading them.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-newsrooms-receive-4-million-from-state/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Jil Tracy argues IL should honor TX warrants for absconding Dems
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_64210fc0-f2cb-4e62-a5c8-3916c15bf866.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The depraved success of Hamas propaganda
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/3494721/depraved-success-hamas-propaganda/
— The census should ask about citizenship
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/3494535/census-immigrants-citizenship-trump-house-apportionment-constitution/
NEW YORK POST
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot, it is fair to ask them if they use pot and if they say yes, how much, and if they say no, why not.
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/trump-eyes-reclassifying-marijuana-as-less-dangerous-drug-report/
— Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic Socialists of America comrades push ‘abolition’ of traditional family
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/us-news/dsa-leaders-tapping-into-mandanis-popularity-to-push-abolition-of-traditional-family/
— Why racial discrimination is so deeply institutionalized in US higher education
https://nypost.com/2025/08/09/opinion/why-racial-discrimination-is-so-deeply-institutionalized-in-us-higher-education/
AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.aei.org/op-eds/personal-responsibility-not-victimhood-is-the-path-to-success/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Canada’s prime minister tells Canadians to get their news from state-controlled media. Of course, my critics/opponents do not anyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/08/canada_s_prime_minister_tells_canadians_to_get_their_news_from_state_controlled_media.html
BREITBART
— Trump Quashes Joe Biden’s ‘Quiet Amnesty’ for Illegal Aliens as DHS Reopens Deportation Cases
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/09/trump-quashes-joe-bidens-quiet-amnesty-illegal-aliens-dhs-reopens-deportation-cases/
CAMPUS REFORM
— Yale grad credits success to conservative values. My parents and teachers promoted conservative values. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/yale-grad-credits-success-to-conservative-values/10953
DAILY WIRE
— ‘America Is Not A Short-Term Thing’: Lawmakers Urge Young Republicans Take Up The Fight. Over a thousand young conservatives gathered in Nashville for the largest National Young Republican Convention in decades. If I had been involved in Republican politics when I was young, a) the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966 would not have hired me, b) the Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me, and c) the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/america-is-not-a-short-term-thing-lawmakers-urge-young-republicans-take-up-the-fight
FEDERALIST
— Blue-State Governors Harbor Texas Fugitives To Help Democrats Get Control Of Congress
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/blue-state-governors-harbor-texas-fugitives-to-help-democrats-get-control-of-congress/
FOX NEWS
— Illinois gov JB Pritzker lambasted for new ‘disastrous policy’ requiring mental health screenings for kids
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-lambasted-new-disastrous-policy-requiring-mental-health-screenings-kids
NEWSMAX
— DEI Under Another Name Is Not Reform
https://www.newsmax.com/reagan/choice-discrimination-harvard/2025/08/09/id/1221864/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— America’s white majority is aging out. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/4138228-americas-white-majority-is-aging-out/
ABC NEWS
— The easiest way to understand gerrymandering is through the lens of two basic techniques: cracking and packing. Cracking splits groups of disfavored voters among multiple districts. With their electoral strength divided, cracked groups struggle to elect their preferred candidates in any of the districts because they are too small a share of the electorate to be effective. Packing is the opposite of cracking. With packing, map drawers cram members of disfavored groups or parties into as few districts as possible. The packed groups are able to elect their preferred candidates by overwhelming margins, but their voting strength is weakened everywhere else. These techniques are not mutually exclusive — both may be deployed by map drawers to engineer a decided partisan advantage. Illinois 3rd Congressional District is an example Hispanic packing.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/closely-congressional-delegations-reflect-people-vote-124488387
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/militias-hate-groups-grow-response-minority-population-boom/story?id=16370136
CNN
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/23/politics/race-immigration-replacement-theory-demographics
https://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/kfile-steve-king-prediction
REUTERS
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-the-great-replacement-what-are-its-origins-2022-05-16/
NEW YORK TIMES
— To Tackle Poverty, We Need to Focus on Personal Responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/01/05/does-the-us-need-another-war-on-poverty/to-tackle-poverty-we-need-to-focus-on-personal-responsibility
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/30/opinion/letters/whites-replacement-theory.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/22/us/white-americans-minority-population.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/22/business/economy/trump-election-ethnic-diverse-whites.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/06/us/politics/capitol-riot-study.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/20/us/white-minority-population.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/world/asia/sri-lanka-populism-ethnic-tensions.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/22/nyregion/minorities-a-majority-in-new-york.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/05/16/white-americans-speak-against-great-replacement-theory/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/06/buffalo-shooting-replacement-theory-violence-whites-blacks-terrorism/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/census-minority-babies-are-now-majority-in-united-states/2012/05/16/gIQA1WY8UU_story.html
USA TODAY
— The key to success? Personal responsibility. My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a) a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.today.com/parents/key-success-personal-responsibility-wbna6847246
— Trump accounts give newborns $1,000. It could transform generational wealth in US. I was born in 1948. Adjusted for inflation, $1,000 today was $70 in 1948.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2025/08/08/trump-accounts-kids-investment-economy/85547265007/
FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— EPA terminates federal union contracts, effective immediately. GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized earlier, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to a) force me retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delay my promotions and never promote me beyond GS-13, c) always rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) keep me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) force me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/08/epa-terminates-federal-union-contracts-effective-immediately/
WASHINGTONIAN
— One my greatest regrets in life is my counting on civil service protections. I ever-increasingly came to realize that the more of the following that federal employees are, the fewer civil service protections that they have: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-union member, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/08/06/displaced-federal-employees-have-legal-options-heres-what-to-know/
CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/white-supremacy-returned-mainstream-politics/
ATLANTIC
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/06/myth-majority-minority-america/619190/
PBS & NPR
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-is-great-replacement-theory-and-how-does-it-fuel-racist-violence
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/17/1099223012/how-the-replacement-theory-went-mainstream-on-the-political-right
OUTSIDE THE BELTWAY
— Two Americas, Redux. Are Red and Blue states even part of the same country anymore? Ever-increasingly, elected officials who represent me in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton are not Republican.
https://outsidethebeltway.com/two-americas-redux/
LAW 360
— 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.
https://www.law360.com/employment-authority/articles/2374835
BROOKINGS
— The US will become ‘minority white’ in 2045, Census projects. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-us-will-become-minority-white-in-2045-census-projects/
PEW RESEARCH
— Future immigration will change the face of America by 2065. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2015/10/05/future-immigration-will-change-the-face-of-america-by-2065/
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2020/09/23/the-changing-racial-and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate/
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2012/05/17/explaining-why-minority-births-now-outnumber-white-births/
FOREIGN POLICY
— Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/22/us-white-majority-minority-nation-demographic-change/
GUARDIAN
— Gen Z will be last generation with white majority in US. Because minorities vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring minorities in from foreign countries.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/08/gen-z-americans-white-majority-study
August 9, 2025
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— ‘ICE Academy’ training materials for warrantless arrests challenged in Chicago court. I should write about the 6 months of training that IRS gave me in 1971 to be a GS-7 (currently $55,850/year) Revenue Officer. SEE: https://www.google.com/search?q=IRS+%22revenue+officer%22+training Democrats run IRS and Democrats run GAO. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO In 1980 after working for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $99,069-$112,280/year. Democrats do not want Republicans to audit IRS. My Democrat GAO superiors succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/immigration-customs-enforcements-ice-academy-training-materials-warrantless-arrests-challenged-chicago-court/17476470/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While in the Chicago area Friday, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem touted her department is in the midst of a hiring surge, with more than 80,000 applications received in the past week. To meet the demand, Noem said training at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Academy that once took up to a year to complete could be hastened to a matter of weeks, if the applicant has the relevant training and experience. The ABC7 I-Team had a rare look at some of the ICE Academy training materials for new agents that immigrant rights advocates say is concerning and their lawyers argue is illegal.)
— Trump offers $50M for Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro arrest. The Trump administration accused Maduro of being one of the world’s largest narco-traffickers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-offers-50m-venezuela-president-nicols-maduro-arrest-accuses-being-worlds-largest-narco-traffickers/17474129/
RIVER BENDER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. Because Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot, it is fair to ask them if they use pot and if they say yes, how much, and if they say no, why not.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/loan-applications-for-all-cannabis-social-equity-licensees-set-to-open-august-11th-85158.cfm
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Who wants to be the next chairman of the Illinois Republican Party? Leading a political organization is a thankless job. I served as an officer of the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) 2003-2007 and as the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012. My critics/opponents ever-increasingly blamed ICRC and TAPROOT for losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct suffered. My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes not only end my aforesaid roles, they destroyed the aforesaid organizations. I should write about my critics/opponents. They demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being too conservative. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and/or Illinois. They have always been Democrat plants who have always done everything they could to destroy Republicans, and sooner or later, they will proudly proclaim that. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASINGTON TIMES
— Trump hunts for colleges still using race in student selection. UIC admitted me in 1966, NIU in 1969, Loyola in 1972, DePaul in 1976, and IIT in 1992. But because of my bad demographics, I doubt that they would admit me today.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/aug/8/trump-orders-colleges-prove-ended-race-based-admissions/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Indiana goes all-in to help ICE arrest, detain, and deport illegal immigrants
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/3495104/indiana-helps-ice-deport-illegal-immigrants-speedway-slammer/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Great Gerrymandering War Of 2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_great_gerrymandering_war_of_2025.html
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Adam Schiff says quiet part out loud about Dems needing illegals to win. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2025/08/08/adam-schiff-says-quiet-part-out-loud-about-dems-needing-illegals-to-win-1574766/
BREITBART
— Catholic Bishops Compare ICE Deportations to Nazis and Slave Catchers. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success invading, infiltrating, infesting, and conquering religion.
https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2025/08/08/catholic-bishops-compare-ice-deportations-to-nazis-and-slave-catchers/
— Andrew Cuomo Calls on Socialist Zohran Mamdani to ‘Move Out’ of His Rent Stabilized Apartment. The only rent that I have ever paid was while I was a student at NIU 1969-1970.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/08/andrew-cuomo-calls-on-socialist-zohran-mamdani-to-move-out-of-his-rent-stabilized-apartment/
COLLEGE FIX
— Trump orders more oversight of federal grants after funds went to drag shows, DEI
https://www.thecollegefix.com/trump-orders-more-oversight-of-federal-grants-after-funds-went-to-drag-shows-dei/
CREATORS SYNDICATE
— There Are 50 Million Illegal Aliens in the USA. We Can and Must Deport Them All. Here Are the Top 10 Ways for President Trump To Make It Happen Efficiently and Quickly.
https://www.creators.com/read/wayne-allyn-root/08/25/there-are-50-million-illegal-aliens-in-the-usa-we-can-and-must-deport-them-all-here-are-the-top-10-ways-for-president-trump-to-make-it-happen-efficiently-and-quickly
DAILY CALLER
— Trump Moves To Keep Leftists From Pilfering Tax Dollars For Radical Agendas
https://dailycaller.com/2025/08/08/trump-move-liberals-left-pilfering-tax-dollars-radical-agendas/
DAILY SIGNAL
— DEI Will Implode. Here’s Why. I should write about my critics/opponents who have used DEI the most to destroy me. I would focus on a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government and b) past and present leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party; Republican leaders of Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois; Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their political consultants, pollsters, fundraisers, major donors, campaign managers, campaign staff members, and campaign volunteers; conservative leaders; and religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/08/08/how-trump-broke-the-dei-machine/
— The DEI Scam is Falling Apart, and Trump Broke It.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lh2dQrU1kA
FEDERALIST
— Education Dept. Demands Receipts From Universities That Do Affirmative Action Under The Table. Democrats and RINOs have always crowed about their giving preference to those who are Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/education-dept-demands-receipts-from-universities-that-do-affirmative-action-under-the-table/
— Trump Order Targets Self-Appointed ‘Experts’ Funneling Tax Dollars To Leftist Pet Projects
https://thefederalist.com/2025/08/08/trump-order-targets-self-appointed-experts-funneling-tax-dollars-to-leftist-pet-projects/
ICE
— ICE Houston arrests more than 350 gang members in past 6 months who illegally entered US over 1,400 times, been convicted of nearly 1,700 criminal offenses. Among those arrested were convicted murderers, child predators, thieves, and arsonists and an alien who illegally entered the US 40 times.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ice-houston-arrests-more-350-gang-members-past-6-months-who-illegally-entered-us-over
LEGAL INSURRECTION
— To promote wokeness is to promote the Democrat Party platform, that is, to promote more hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/08/can-wokeness-be-defeated/amp/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Gerrymandering Wars Have Begun. Threats have been exchanged, and now we wait until someone pulls the trigger.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/08/begun-the-gerrymandering-wars-have/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Pot pushers ever-increasingly push Trump to push pot. The more pot that you use, the less that you accomplish in life. If I had used pot, I would not have been able a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, or c) to earn a professional license. If I had used pot, a) the Post Office would not have hired me in 1966, b) Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970, c) IRS would not have hired me in 1971 or promoted me in 1972, 1973, or 1974, and d) GAO would not have hired me in 1980 or promoted me in 1986. If I had used pot, would not have been able to get married in 1978.
https://www.cnn.com/politics/trump-marijuana-reclassify-dea
NEWSWEEK
— Redistricting Wars: Map Shows How Many Seats Could Change Before Midterms
https://www.newsweek.com/redistricting-map-midterm-election-2026-gerrymandering-republicans-democrats-states-2110170
MSN
— ‘Worrying time for Irish in US’ as Trump makes good on illegals promise
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/worrying-time-for-irish-in-us-as-trump-makes-good-on-illegals-promise/ar-AA1Jq43p
MSNBC
— Why the Air Force is denying early retirement for longtime transgender service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/air-force-denying-early-retirement-longtime-transgender-service-member-rcna223839
NBC NEWS
— Air Force revokes approved retirement for trans service members. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/air-force-revokes-approved-retirement-trans-service-members-complete-u-rcna223876
NEW YORK TIMES
— Air Force Denies Early Retirement for Transgender Men and Women. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997. So far, that has forced the Civil Service Retirement System to pay me $1.9 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/air-force-transgender-service-members-early-retirement.html
— More Turmoil at I.R.S. as Trump Ends Chief’s Short Tenure. Democrats run IRS. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980, they were ever-increasingly angry against Nixon and Ford. They took their ever-increasing anger against Nixon and Ford out against me, one of their very few Republican employees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-billy-long-irs-commissioner.html
— Mexico ever-increasingly makes it clear that it is anti-American. Will Mexico side with America’s enemies in WWIII?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/world/americas/mexico-trump-military-cartels.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Trump administration weighs military actions against drug cartels
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/08/trump-mexico-pentagon-drug-cartels/
NEW YORK SUN
— Trump’s New Census Could Spell Trouble for Democrats, Like Ocasio-Cortez and Jeffries, in Districts With Many Non-Citizens. The number of blue state members of Congress is swelled by the constitutional requirement that the decennial census include an ‘actual enumeration’ of the population. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.nysun.com/article/trumps-new-census-could-spell-trouble-for-democrats-like-ocasio-cortez-and-jeffries-in-districts-with-many-non-citizens
— Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collapses Under Weight of Its Own Paradoxes, Even Before President Trump’s Order Banning It. Half of all Americans no longer approve of racial and gender preferences. My critics/opponents have always promoted race and gender based preference giving. I should write about my critics/opponents and the reasons why they promote race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.nysun.com/article/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-collapses-under-weight-of-its-own-paradoxes-even-before-president-trumps-order-banning-it
USA TODAY
— From Bibles to prayer groups: What Trump’s new religion memo for federal workers means. The memo provides guidance on religious expression for federal workers. Backers say it mirrors Clinton-era policies. But to others, the overtly Christian language raises First Amendment concerns. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Protestant and none that knew of were Missouri Synod Lutheran like me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/07/trump-religion-federal-employees/85516547007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Is Right on ‘Debanking’ Regulators have abused their power to cut off political opponents. What does your bank think of those who share your demographics?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-debanking-executive-order-bank-examiners-biden-obama-operation-choke-point-8396e49d
— How the West Was Really Won. If I had ever ran for a government office, my opponent would have used against me that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now German during the 1840s and 1850s, that on my father’s side they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete township, and that on my mother’s side, they sharecropped 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-undiscovered-country-review-into-the-west-13866720
— Trump Takes a Destructive Turn Against India. He has a point about New Delhi’s relationship with Russia, but 50% tariffs are a counterproductive policy. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-takes-a-destructive-turn-against-india-tariffs-d77a2a79
— Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America. How did socialism rise from the dead, and what can freedom-loving Americans do about it? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism. According to Democrat leaders, you cannot survive in America, let alone succeed in America, without massive government assistance, and especially if you are a minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or if your ancestors have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/living-in-zohran-mamdanis-america-44ea8b90
— Gerrymandering Is Deepening America’s Political Divide. Less than 20% of Americans live in a state where the minority party has a meaningful voice in governance. In Illinois, ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the less voice that you have in governance: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly I have no voice in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/us-gerrymandering-political-divide-a2a83a28
ATLANTIC
— Democrats cannot win without massive gerrymandering.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/08/lawlessness-fbi-against-texas-democrats/683804/
BRITANNICA
— American Civil War – Emancipation, Slavery, Union. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Illegals are soldiers in their Democrat Army. During their First Civil War, Democrats failed to get foreign countries to join them. But Democrats are succeeding during their Second Civil War.
https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War/The-Emancipation-Proclamation
GOOGLE AI
— Peers play a significant role in an individual’s life, influencing success, happiness, and overall well-being. I should write about the impact that my childhood peers had on me. I would focus on my childhood friends and classmates. Further, because one could argue that the most relevant criteria to use to measure one’s success in life is the success of one’s peers, I would focus on the successes that my childhood peers have had.
https://www.google.com/search?q=peers+success+life
— Living on one paycheck. Since I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, my critics/opponents have always been furious that my wife and I have always lived on just one of our paychecks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who are not married, b) whose spouse has little or no income, and/or c) who decry the tremendous amount of time and money needed to raise children. Initially, my wife and I lived on just one of our paychecks because we intended to have children. But because we gave up trying to have children because of our fertility problems, we then lived on just one of our paychecks to save more for our retirement.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22living+on+one+paycheck%22