June 26, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/06/26/steep-growth-in-same-sex-couples-on-the-far-southeast-side-south-shore-hegewisch-census-gay-lesbian-chicago
https://chicago.suntimes.com/wnba/2026/06/25/the-wnba-is-doing-it-for-the-gays
https://chicago.suntimes.com/arts-and-culture/2026/06/26/chicago-area-trans-authors-representation-pride

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Gary Grasso: Linking Italian Americans to the mob in news stories needs to stop
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/opinion-italian-americans-news-reporting-mafia-associations/
— Civil servants should refuse to implement cruel policies, even if it costs them. DD: My fighting political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination in the federal government cost me big time. To advance in the federal government, you have to be a Democrat. If I had become a Democrat, even though I was not a minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 because I earned three job-related masters degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. None of my coworkers came anywhere near close to doing what I did. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/opinion-immigrant-deporations-donald-trump-civil-servants-shackelford/
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/chicago-syrian-immigration-tps-supreme-court/

SOUTHERN
— Postal Service says it will not deliver ballots if states refuse to turn over voter lists under Trump proposal.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/06/25/postal-service-says-it-will-not-deliver-ballots-if-states-refuse-to-turn-over-voter-lists-under-trump-proposal/

WIFR TV
— Illinois Lt. Gov. candidates focus on affordability in pitch to Rockford voters.
https://www.wifr.com/2026/06/26/illinois-lt-gov-candidates-focus-affordability-pitch-rockford-voters/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPe5WpDWg

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/25/chicagos-played-a-key-role-in-lgbtq-history-here-are-9-historical-sites/
— Video gambling. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. My critics/opponents continue to use that against me big time.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/25/is-chicago-ever-getting-video-gambling-machines-bars-wait-for-answers-as-city-council-spars/

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026/06/25/chicago-public-schools-slow-to-roll-out-black-student-success-plan/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/26/coaching-candidates-on-israel-00977430

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-759/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To advance under socialism, you have to be a socialist. To advance in the federal government, you have to be a Democrat. If I had become a Democrat, even though I was not a minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 because I earned three job-related masters degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. None of my coworkers came anywhere near close to doing what I did. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more RINO that you are. RINOs have far more in common with Democrats and with Libertarians than with Republicans, and especially RINOs who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Most commonly, RINOs reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Far too many RINOs are really Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. How strongly do the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct promote the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform? RINO and Democrat plant leaders want Republican candidates to downplay, if not ignore, if not work against the aforesaid planks. RINO and Democrat plant leaders want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. The Whig Party collapsed in the mid-1850s because it failed/refused to oppose slavery. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. My critics/opponents want me to leave the Republican Party. They want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They want the Republican Party to officially change its name to the Democrat Lite Party. According to them, I am far too conservative. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. They reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. They are RINOs if not Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— There are far too many RINO leaders in the Republican Party. There are no DINO leaders in the Democrat Party. That is why the Republican candidates are defeated why Democrat candidates are elected. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CHICAGO CONTRARIAN
— Another Chicago Hate Scare Goes up in Smoke.
https://www.chicagocontrarian.com/blog/chicago-hate-scare-up-in-smoke

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— New York socialist surge reveals warning signs for Schumer.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/4625908/new-york-socialist-surge-warning-signs-schumer/

NEW YORK POST
— Dems stunned after anti-Israel, anti-capitalist socialists sweep NYC primaries.
https://www.aol.com/articles/dems-stunned-anti-israel-anti-110912894.html
— Antisemitism: From New York to LA, a new political scourge.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/opinion/antisemitism-rises-along-with-socialism-in-new-york-la/
— Entitlement of NYC’s Knicks trash-can thief exposes the ingrained flaws of the DEI movement.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/25/opinion/entitlement-of-nycs-knicks-trash-can-thief-exposes-the-ingrained-flaws-of-the-dei-movement/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UCLA fellowship gives students $7,000 for immigration activism work
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-fellowship-gives-students-7000-immigration-activism-work/30137

CHRISTIAN POST
— Supreme Court sides with Trump on ending TPS for Haitians and Syrians, rules illegals outside US aren’t arrivals.
https://www.christianpost.com/news/scotus-sides-with-trump-on-ending-tps-policy-on-asylum-seekers.html

COLLEGE FIX
— North Carolina lawmakers override governor’s vetoes to pass sweeping DEI bans.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/north-carolina-lawmakers-override-governors-vetoes-to-pass-sweeping-dei-bans/

CONTRARIAN
— Tucker Carlson’s Reason For Leaving The GOP Is Unpatriotic. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. My critics/opponents want me to leave the Republican Party. They want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They want the Republican Party to officially change its name to the Democrat Lite Party. According to them, I am far too conservative. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. They reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. They are RINOs if not Democrat plants.
https://www.contrariannews.org/p/tucker-carlsons-reason-for-leaving

DAILY SIGNAL
— America’s New Socialists Are Coming From the Upper Class.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/25/americas-new-socialists-upper-class/

FEDERALIST
— Treasury Department Pushes Debanking Illegal Aliens.
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/executive/treasury-department-pushes-debanking-illegal-aliens

FOX BUSINESS
— Trump vows US will ‘NEVER’ be a communist country after NY socialist primary victories.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dttU99MiJgc

FOX NEWS
— Socialism vs capitalism: House Dems clash over what NY election results mean for party.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/socialism-vs-capitalism-house-dems-clash-ny-election-results-mean-party
— Progressives are getting ‘OBLITERATED’ by democratic socialists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4g1coj5LXY
— The rise of socialism within the Democratic Party. Candidates endorsed by Mamdani are winning primaries. They’re on the wrong side of normal.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399320949112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399387253112
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399403734112
— ‘Allure’ of socialism is always going to exist. DD: The allure of being a Democrat in the Democrat federal government. If I had become a Democrat, even though I was not a minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 because I earned three job-related masters degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. None of my coworkers came anywhere near close to doing what I did.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399414842112
— Democrats sound alarm over party’s socialist shift
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399403734112
— The Democrat Party’s Socialist Civil War
https://radio.foxnews.com/2026/06/25/the-democrat-partys-socialist-civil-war/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Kansas U. Course Teaches How to ‘Deconstruct Gender’ Through ‘Queer Theory’
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/kansas-u-course-teaches-how-to-deconstruct-gender-through-queer-theory/

NEWS BUSTERS
— Sanitizing the Hateful Mamdani-Endorsed Radicals.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/tim-graham/2026/06/25/newsbusters-podcast-sanitizing-hateful-mamdani-endorsed-radicals
— CNN Excited About Socialist Shift: ‘The Revolution is Being Televised’
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/james-waterman/2026/06/25/cnn-excited-about-socialist-shift-revolution-being-televised

NEWSMAX
— Democrats Handed Party to Socialists.
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/brandon-gill-zohran-mamdani-democrats/2026/06/25/id/1260937/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

C-SPAN
— Trump Delivers Remarks at Faith & Freedom Conference. He was joined by administration officials, Republican lawmakers, and conservative activists. DD: Who are the leading conservative activists in Illinois? How do they treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters?
https://www.c-span.org/event/campaign-2026/president-trump-delivers-remarks-at-faith-freedom-conference/444473

AOL
— Socialism no longer feared within Democratic Party.
https://www.aol.com/articles/socialism-no-longer-feared-within-070000000.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/opinion/ice-jobs-economy-immigration.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Bill to raise minimum wage to $25 an hour will be introduced in Senate. DD: I did not start earning $25/hour in today’s dollars until after I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/25/bill-raise-minimum-wage-25-an-hour-will-be-introduced-senate/
— After wins by democratic socialists, centrist Democrats unite to push back.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/25/centrist-democrats-unite-against-democratic-socialists/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/25/what-supreme-court-rulings-mean-americas-immigrants-nation/
— Meet the megadonors pouring more than $1.3 billion into the 2026 election. Billionaires and newly minted trillionaire Elon Musk make up the top individual donors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/interactive/2026/06/25/these-are-biggest-individual-donors-2026-election-cycle/

NEW YORK SUN
— Democrats’ Socialist Surge Sets Up a Dilemma for Hakeem Jeffries. If he decides to legitimize the radicals, he will put every Democratic candidate in the country on the line.
https://www.nysun.com/article/democrats-socialist-surge-sets-up-a-dilemma-for-hakeem-jeffries

USA TODAY
— New York’s democratic socialist sweep is a warning for USA.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/26/mamdani-democratic-socialists-win-ny-warning/90690699007/
— ‘Eternal debt of gratitude’: Trump, conservative leaders celebrate Charlie Kirk. DD: What positions do the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct have on Charlie Kirk? What positions do the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization have on Charlie Kirk?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/09/21/charlie-kirk-memorial-service-live-updates/86203128007/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/06/18/karmelo-anthony-verdict-parents-black-children/90527039007/

POST REGISTER
— DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more RINO that you are. RINOs have far more in common with Democrats and with Libertarians than with Republicans, and especially RINOs who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Most commonly, RINOs reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Far too many RINOs are Democrat plants.
https://www.postregister.com/opinion/guest_column/opinion-its-time-to-meet-in-the-middle/article_54699edd-ca4b-40a3-a36d-3e680033d960.amp.html

FLORIDA’S VOICE
— Conservative leaders endorse Dan Green for Florida’s 9th Congressional District. DD: Who are the conservative leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200? How do they treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters?
https://flvoicenews.com/conservative-leaders-and-veterans-endorse-dan-green-for-floridas-9th-congressional-district/

FORBES
— AMERICA’S BEST EMPLOYERS FOR DIVERSITY. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.forbes.com/lists/best-employers-diversity/

CHALKBEAT
— DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used the subjectivity in their pay-for-performance system to get rid of their Republican employees who were conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2026/06/25/teacher-merit-pay-benefits-student-learning-in-texas-and-south-carolina/

PBS
— Charlie Kirk helped shape a conservative force for a new generation. DD: What positions do the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct have on Charlie Kirk? What positions do the leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, your Republican county party organization, and your Republican township party organization have on Charlie Kirk?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/how-charlie-kirk-helped-shape-a-conservative-force-for-a-new-generation

SALON
— DD: My critics/opponents attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/25/the-white-working-class-myth-that-made-jd-vance/

June 24, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2 & WGN RADIO & FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly run Illinois. They ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. Soon, if not already, Democrat employers in Illinois will display signs that say that you need not apply if you do not promote LGBTQ. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat employers presume that you do not promote LGBTQ: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/windy-city-times-honors-new-30-under-30-lgbtq-community/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/windy-city-times-honors-30-under-30-in-chicagos-lgbtq-community/
https://wgnradio.com/news/entertainment-news/ap-first-of-its-kind-queer-museum-in-san-francisco-chinatown-amplifies-chinese-lgbtq-artists/amp/
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/first-of-its-kind-queer-museum-in-san-francisco-chinatown-amplifies-chinese-lgbtq-artists/article_c7c54059-fe83-5fb0-bc5c-83a407262738.html

FOX32
— Ex-Illinois teacher awaiting deportation linked to Tren de Aragua mass shooting in Chicago.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-teacher-tren-de-aragua-mass-shooting-chicago-ice

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Chicago made a deal with Bally’s casino. It did not include video gaming terminals in bars. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton. My critics/opponents continue to use that against me big time.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/24/editorial-ballys-casino-video-gaming-terminals-contract-dispute/
— Federal appeals court allows Trump administration to resume expanded use of speedy deportations.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/23/trump-administration-speedy-deportations/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use reparations to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/24/opinion-evanston-reparations-trump-administration/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker is leading Chicago fundraiser for Senate candidate and rising Democratic star James Talarico.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/06/23/gov-pritzker-top-chicago-fundraiser-senate-candidate-james-talarico-texas
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/23/states-attorneys-office-says-it-will-make-it-harder-for-ice-to-access-sensitive-data

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260623/nation-and-world-politics/four-years-after-roes-reversal-illinois-still-a-destination-for-women-seeking-abortion-care/

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://pantagraph.com/news/state-regional/business/health-care/article_05743e30-544e-5478-bc92-021d0d78cdc4.html

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Mike Walters discusses Madison County GOP race strategy.
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/mike-walters-madison-county-gop-illinois-22305062.php

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters hate Charlie Kirk.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-23/people-fired-over-charlie-kirk-posts-get-big-payouts-for-first-amendment-retaliation

POSITIVELY NAPERVILLE
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.positivelynaperville.com/2026/06/23/dupage-county-wins-two-national-awards/159354

OAK PARK
— Elimination of single-family zoning move closer in Oak Park. DD: Since at least 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton on the south side of Roosevelt Road.
https://www.oakpark.com/2my 026/06/18/single-family-zoning-changes/

CWB CHICAGO
— Father’s Day weekend shootings soar 105% in Chicago as city sees bloodiest day since 2024.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/fathers-day-weekend-shootings-soar-100-in-chicago-as-city-sees-bloodiest-day-since-2024.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-abortion-landscape-continues-to-evolve-amid-persistent-growth-in-demand/

DURBIN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote voter fraud.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/videos/view/durbin-calls-out-president-trumps-attacks-to-americans-voting-rights-and-our-free-and-fair-elections

INJUSTICE WATCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.injusticewatch.org/civil-courts/immigration/2026/illinois-immigrants-habeas-corpus-cases/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/24/illinois-dems-keep-dobbs-in-play-00972972

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/24/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-757/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/23/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-542/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— When “Clean Slate” Becomes a Blindfold; New Concerns from Inside Illinois’ Criminal Justice System. DD: Your past predicts your future.
https://johnkassnews.com/when-clean-slate-becomes-a-blindfold-new-concerns-from-inside-illinois-criminal-justice-system/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is still open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153  The deadline is Friday, June 26. The cost is $175. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What distinguishes/distinguished you from your coworkers? I am Republican, conservative, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who were liberal/moderate, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. They all a) had less education than I had, b) had less work experience than I had, c) had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or c) had no professional license like the one I had. What does the aforesaid say about disparate impact? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— The Three Trap Doors of Springfield. Most Illinois voters assume that when a legislator files a bill, the bill gets a hearing, lawmakers debate it, votes are cast, and the public can see where everyone stands. That is not how Springfield works under Democrat House Speaker Chris Welch. In fact, one of the least-discussed realities of the Illinois House of Representatives is that there are three trap doors designed to prevent any bill the Speaker doesn’t want from ever reaching the point of public debate. Most voters never hear about these rules because the media doesn’t write about them.
https://illinoisfamily.org/politics/the-three-trap-doors-of-springfield/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Pritzker Headlines Chicago Fundraiser for Texas Democrat Who Claimed There Are Six Genders
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/pritzker-headlines-chicago-fundraiser-for-texas-democrat-who-claimed-there-are-six-genders-and-called-black-congressman-mediocre.html
— The Obama Presidential Center: An $850 Million Monument to Failure.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/the-obama-presidential-center-an-850-million-monument-to-failure.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Sanctuary cities revive America’s oldest constitutional heresy: nullification
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/23/sanctuary-cities-revive-americas-oldest-constitutional-heresy/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Reparations: Who would the payors and the payees be? DD: My critics/opponents want those who share my demographics to pay reparations. According to them, those who share my demographics benefitted tremendously from slavery. They stress that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In my ancestors’ defense, they always lived in northeast Illinois. They never were in a position to discriminate against anyone and they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4619731/question-new-jersey-slavery-reparations-push-cant-answer/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In June 2025, the New Jersey Reparations Council released its 244-page report, “For Such a Time as This,” calling on the state to provide “repair” for a claimed $643,000 per-family racial wealth gap and endorsing sweeping reparations-related policies. Since then, several New Jersey reparations advocacy groups have again invoked Juneteenth to renew calls for lawmakers in Trenton to take up the Council’s recommendations. I will leave ethicists to debate the fairness of coercing one generation that committed no sin to compensate people against whom no sin was committed. Instead, I pose a simpler question: Who are the payors and payees? Reparations require neat racial bookkeeping at a time when America has become anything but neat. Since Loving v. Virginia in 1967, interracial and interethnic relationships have become commonplace. Roughly one-quarter of coupled Americans now have a partner of a different race or ethnicity, while millions of children have mixed-race parentage. As racial lines blur with each decade, advocates rarely explain who qualifies, who pays, and who collects. Does a half-white Patrick Mahomes pay… himself? The Council’s report declares that “all Black people in New Jersey are eligible for reparations,” while expressly declining to limit eligibility to descendants of enslaved people. Yet it never offers a workable definition of “Black” in a state where race and ethnicity overlap. Is eligibility based on ancestry percentage, self-identification, mixed-race status, ethnicity, appearance, family history, or length of residence? The report does not say. And who pays? The report simply demands that “New Jersey” pay hundreds of billions of dollars in reparations — $178,000 to each black person or $642,800 to each black family — without clearly explaining how such payments would be funded or where Hispanics, Indians, Asians, Middle Easterners, recent African immigrants, and other nonwhite residents fit into this racial accounting. That lack of clarity exposes the deeper problem: Morality aside, the sheer complexity, subjectivity, and administrative arbitrariness of reparations make them untenable on their face. Targeting New Jerseyans is especially strange. During the Civil War, New Jersey sent more than 88,000 citizens to fight for the Union, not the Confederacy. More than 6,000 died, many of them boys and young men. Adjusted for today’s population, that would be the equivalent of nearly 90,000 New Jerseyans dying — more than the state’s entire number of male high-school seniors. One would think a state that sacrificed the flower of its youth in the war that ended slavery had made a rather substantial atonement. Nor are today’s New Jerseyans even remotely the same population. Millions descend from families who arrived decades after Appomattox, often penniless and facing discrimination themselves. Indeed, one in four New Jersey residents today was not even born in the United States. It is hard to see how they bear moral or financial liability for a long-abolished institution. Reparations advocates such as Social Justice Matters, Inc, often emphasize that New Jersey once held “more than two-thirds of all enslaved black people in the North.” But two-thirds of what? Notice the move: percentages instead of raw numbers. “Two-thirds of all Northern slaves” sounds far more damning than 2,254 — the actual number still held in bondage in New Jersey in 1830, according to the census. I say “still” because that figure had fallen from roughly 12,422 in 1800, an 82% decline. Slavery remained technically legal, yes, but it was rapidly withering. By 1840, the number was down to 674. By Juneteenth 1865, the Garden State could count exactly 18 remaining elderly slaves. That puts New Jersey’s wartime sacrifice in perspective. For each of New Jersey’s remaining enslaved black people freed at war’s end, some 350 white New Jerseyans had died in the struggle that ended bondage. Was New Jersey guilty of participating in slavery? Absolutely. Did slavery create disadvantages that lingered for generations? No doubt. No one should deny either truth. But guilt is not a blank check, and history is not an accounting ledger that can be balanced two centuries later by sorting today’s residents into crude racial categories. If the Reparations Council wants to impose vast costs on New Jerseyans, it should at least answer the simplest questions first: Who qualifies? Who pays? How is liability assigned? What happens to mixed-race families? What about immigrants, recent arrivals, and descendants of Union soldiers? Until those questions are answered, New Jersey reparations remain less a serious policy proposal than a moral slogan in search of a workable system.)

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— James Talarico Called To Slash Police Budgets and Spend the Money on Social Programs: ‘We Could Make Prisons Obsolete’
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/exclusive-james-talarico-called-to

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin warns colleges to stop ‘disturbing trend’ of race-based housing, says they will face ‘maximum accountability.’ DD: I stayed at the University Plaza (UP) dormitory in DeKalb for three semesters 1969-1970. I should write about the roommates who UP assigned me to live with and their impact on me.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/us-news/trump-admin-warns-colleges-race-based-dorms-violate-federal-law-neo-segregation/
— Woman who emptied Knicks trashcan on street— then stole it — fired from JPMorgan Chase, was DEI exec. DD: One thing that my critics/opponents have not accused me of is having been a DEI hire.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/23/business/woman-who-emptied-knicks-trashcan-on-street-then-stole-it-was-dei-exec-worked-at-jpmorgan-chase/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A woman caught on video emptying a public trash can on the street then stealing it during New York City’s Knicks championship parade was a director at JPMorgan Chase who was fired Tuesday over the incident. Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago, according to her LinkedIn profile. She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle and experiential content.)

BREITBART
— Most Democrats Say Illegals Should Remain in U.S. and Eventually Apply for Citizenship. DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/23/poll-most-democrats-say-illegal-aliens-should-remain-in-u-s-and-eventually-apply-for-citizenship/amp/
— Federal Court Allows Trump to Restart ‘Expedited’ Deportations of Illegals.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/23/federal-appeals-court-allows-trump-restart-expedited-deportations-illegal-aliens/amp/

CAMPUS REFORM
— China’s STEM-focused universities rise as American institutions fall in global rankings. DD: Democrats run education in America. Democrat educators focus on cranking out good little Democrats.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/chinas-stem-focused-universities-rise-american-institutions-fall-global-rankings/30142
— Coast Guard ends race-based officer recruitment program criteria. DD: All the Democrats and all the RINOs over me have always crowed about their success in giving preference to those who are minority, female, and/or younger, that is, they have always crowed about their success in discriminating against those who are White, male, and/or older.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/coast-guard-ends-race-based-officer-recruitment-program-criteria/30077

FEDERALIST
— D.C. Appeals Court Greenlights Trump’s Expedited Deportations.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/23/d-c-appeals-court-greenlights-trumps-expedited-deportations/
— Senate RINOs Too Busy Scolding Trump To Pass Voter ID Bill.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/24/senate-rinos-too-busy-scolding-trump-to-pass-voter-id-bill/

FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor ridiculed for touting trans violence ‘state of emergency’ amid murder-plagued Juneteenth weekend. DD: Ever-increasingly, Democrats focus on promoting more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chicago-mayor-ridiculed-touting-trans-violence-state-emergency-amid-murder-plagued-juneteenth-weekend

JUDICIAL WATCH
— HHS Dedicates Another $258 Million to Support Illegal Immigrant Minors Living in U.S.  DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/illegal-immigrant-minors-in-us/

PJ MEDIA
— Years Ago, a Criminal Alien Got a Visa to Visit Disney World. He’s Still in the United States.
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/23/years-ago-a-criminal-alien-got-a-visa-to-visit-disney-world-hes-still-in-the-usa-n4954299
— Chicagoland illegal immigrant teacher detained by ICE over link to Venezuelan gang shooting.
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-chicagoland-illegal-immigrant-teacher-detained-by-ice-over-link-to-venezuelan-gang-shooting

POST MILLENNIAL
— Chicagoland illegal immigrant teacher detained by ICE over link to Venezuelan gang shooting.
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-chicagoland-illegal-immigrant-teacher-detained-by-ice-over-link-to-venezuelan-gang-shooting

TOWNHALL
— Maine Mom Couldn’t Enjoy Kid’s Graduation Because She Thought ICE Was in the Parking Lot. DD: How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2026/06/24/maine-mom-couldnt-enjoy-kids-graduation-because-she-thought-ice-was-in-the-parking-lot-n2678165

WESTERN JOURNAL
— A former Illinois teacher who is alleged to have helped gang members involved in a 2024 mass shooting in Chicago has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations.
https://www.westernjournal.com/illegal-alien-teacher-arrested-allegedly-aiding-tren-de-aragua-mass-shooting/

SEAN HANNITY
— Brandon Johnson Renews Chicago’s ‘Transfemicide State of Emergency’
https://hannity.com/media-room/state-of-stupidity-brandon-johnson-renews-chicagos-transfemicide-state-of-emergency/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors have not been in America for a long time ever-increasing promote more hatred against Republicans who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long for a long time.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/5934239-juneteenth-celebration-threatened-freedom/

CBS NEWS
— Growing U.S. inequality is worsening Social Security’s financial crunch. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was always grossly overpaid. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-security-insolvency-income-inequality-tax-cap/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Social Security’s looming funding crisis is usually blamed on demographics, with an aging U.S. population and declining birth rates leaving fewer workers to support retirees. But another force is also draining the program’s finances: widening income inequality. In the last few decades, incomes of higher-paid Americans have soared, far outpacing those of low- and middle-class workers. That’s become a problem for Social Security because the program only taxes annual earnings up to $184,500, meaning it loses out on much of the faster income growth among top earners. As a result, Social Security’s revenue base is eroding, according to the program’s latest trustees’ report. The share of total wages subject to Social Security taxes has fallen from almost 87% in 1984 to roughly 83% today, largely because high earners’ pay has grown much faster than everyone else’s, lifting more of their income above the tax cap, the report found.)

YAHOO
— DD: Who are your critics/opponents and what do they hold you responsible for? DD: My critics/opponents who claim that they want Republican candidates to win hold me and hold my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. The want me to stop sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and they want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They  Previously, they blamed what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. Most commonly, they hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I promote candidates in Republican primary elections who are too conservative to win in general elections and/or b) that I paint Republican candidates in general elections as being more conservative than they want to be painted. Who do you hold responsible for Republican defeats since 2000 in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Warrenville School District 200 and why?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/science/articles/worlds-top-10-responsible-5-034400657.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly run Illinois. They ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. Soon, if not already, Democrat employers in Illinois will display signs that say that you need not apply if you do not promote LGBTQ. The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat employers presume that you do not promote LGBTQ: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/us/politics/gay-marriage-backlash-republicans-trans-rights.html
— Child left behind. DD: When I was in high school, no one saw me as being college material.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/schools-testing-accountability.html
— DD: Ever-increasingly, to vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/us/politics/democratic-socialist-mayors.html

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly badmouth America to badmouth Trump. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly furious at America and at Americans for electing Trump. They ever-increasing fight to import more America-haters and to keep them here.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/usa250/2026/06/22/advocates-push-back-americas-birthday/90473379007/

FLORIDA POLITICS
— ‘The race is wide open’: Poll shows Jim Schwartzel, Jim Oberweis leading crowded CD 19 field.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/803531-the-race-is-wide-open-poll-shows-jim-schwartzel-jim-oberweis-leading-crowded-cd-19-field/

VISUAL CAPITALIST
— Household Income by Race in America. DD: For Asian, it is $122K. For White, it is $93K. For Hispanic, it is $71K. For Black, it is $56K. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for Hispanics and Blacks earning less.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-household-income-by-race-in-america/

INVESTOPIDIA
— Average Salary for 25- to 34-Year-Olds: How Yours Stacks Up Against National Medians. DD: In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year when I was 23, $83,482/year when I was 24, $100,059/year when I was 25, and $113,402/year when I was 31. In today’s dollars, my GAO salary was $89,703/year when I was 31, $118,984/year when I was 38, and $154,682/year when I was 49. I earned a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21. I earned an MBA when I was 27. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. I earned four more job-related professional certifications when I was 41, 45, 47, and 48. I earned a master’s degree in finance when I was 48. According to my critics/opponents, I was always grossly overpaid.
https://www.investopedia.com/average-salary-for-25-to-34-year-olds-how-does-your-stack-up-to-the-typical-paycheck-12000037
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Median earnings for workers ages 25 to 34 are $59,800 a year—almost 50% higher than for workers under 25.

SMITHSONIAN
— 100 Years Ago, Students Across the U.S. Took the First SAT. Today, Relatively Few Colleges Require the Test. DD: UIC admitted me in 1966 because my ACT score was 24 and I graduated in the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/100-years-ago-students-across-the-us-took-the-first-sat-today-relatively-few-colleges-require-the-test-where-is-it-headed-180988997/

HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.aol.com/articles/gop-makes-pointed-dig-family-120017000.html

REASON
— DD: Those who promote illegal drugs hate Trump.
https://reason.com/2026/06/23/trump-says-his-task-force-is-fighting-a-foreign-invasion-its-busting-americans-for-drugs-instead/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT
— Marjorie Taylor Greene joins Tucker Carlson and ditches Republican party. DD: My critics/opponents who claim that they want Republican candidates to win want me to ditch the Republican Party. The want me to stop sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and they want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They blame me and they blame my newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. Previously, they also blamed what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. Most commonly, they hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I promote candidates in Republican primary elections who are too conservative to win in general elections and/or b) that I paint Republican candidates in general elections as being more conservative than they want to be painted. Who do you hold responsible for Republican defeats since 2000 in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Warrenville School District 200 and why?
https://www.aol.com/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-joins-tucker-105305000.html

June 23, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Those celebrating Israel’s and US’ independence in Skokie express optimism, concern about Iran talks.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/attendees-skokie-illinois-israel-independence-day-event-express-optimism-concern-us-iran-talks/19358767/
— DHS proposes 75% increase in fees for US citizenship paperwork. The proposed rule says current fees do not cover the costs of applications.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/dhs-proposes-75-increase-fees-us-citizenship-paperwork/19357641/

CBS2
— Fresh wave of ICE arrests has begun, with new tactics in play.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-accountability-commission-chicago-ice-arrests-new-tactics/

FOX32
— Teen takeover problem remains unresolved. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/why-chicagos-teen-takeover-problem-remains-unresolved

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/23/zoo-same-sex-animals-pride/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Chicago faith leaders call for new Department of Gun Violence Prevention. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. The Republican Part platform promotes prosperity and safety.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/department-of-gun-violence-prevention-chicago-faith-leaders/
— Conservative commentator Tucker Carlson says he’ll no longer support the Republican Party. DD: My critics/opponents who claim that they want Republican candidates to win want me to leave the Republican Party. The want me to stop sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and they want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They blame me and they blame my newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. Previously, they also blamed what I did as the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman 2005-2012 and as an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007. Most commonly, they hint/imply/argue/shout a) that I promote candidates in Republican primary elections who are too conservative to win in general elections and/or b) that I paint Republican candidates in general elections as being more conservative than they wanted to be painted. Who do you hold responsible for Republican defeats since 2000 in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Warrenville School District 200 and why?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/tucker-carlson-republican-party/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Daily Herald sale to Tribune Publishing is complete.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/media-marketing/ccb-daily-herald-alden-tribune-sale-esop-20260622/

WGN RADIO
— Student Loans. DD: Did you get a student loan? I did not. When I was in high school, no one saw me as being college material. At best, they thought that Prairie State Community College in Chicago Heights might accept me. I could not have gotten a student loan. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses, I got an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC. I had to work my way through college and I did by delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office. My critics/opponents stress that college expenses were much lower back then and that my parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969. I graduated debt-free from NIU in August of 1970 with a bachelor’s degree in business and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE.
https://wgnradio.com/bob-sirott/how-to-find-out-if-youre-eligible-for-student-loan-forgiveness/

JOURNAL COURIER
— DD: What percent of food produced in America is given by Democrat government leaders to Democrats free of charge?
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/cuts-hitting-food-assistance-recipients-22314014.php

FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders say that Trump is the frontman for his own party as rival groups vie to shape America’s 250th anniversary. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America to demonize, denigrate and condemn Trump. Democrat leaders are ever-increasingly furious at Americans because they elected Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly bring in America-haters from foreign countries.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-is-the-frontman-for-his-own-party-as-rival-groups-vie-to-shape-america/article_8d384901-5b7d-57bc-860d-612a44d3aad9.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-22/a-federal-judge-finds-a-trump-data-system-to-verify-voters-is-unlawful
— DD: So far, which of the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct a) have sought Trump’s endorsement and b) have gotten Trump’s endorsement? Which ones are unofficially or officially running as anti-Trumps?
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-23/how-trumps-complete-and-total-endorsement-has-reshaped-the-republican-party
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-23/as-republican-party-looks-to-future-without-trump-in-office-utah-could-be-a-road-map

WCBU
— Peoria Riverfront Museum leader stresses its inclusion in Great American State Fair is not political. DD: Ever-increasingly, to promote more hatred against Trump, Democrat leaders promote more hatred against America because Americans elected Trump.
https://www.wcbu.org/local-news/2026-06-22/peoria-riverfront-museum-leader-stresses-inclusion-in-great-american-state-fair-is-not-political

CITIES 92.9
— ‘Half-baked’ Illinois social media tax poised to tee up court challenges. DD: Of course, to discourage/stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, my critics/opponents want the federal government, Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton to tax them. They could not care less that my newsletters are not-for-profit and that all the money I spend to put them together and to send them out comes out my Civil Service Retirement System pension, my Social Security, and my retirement savings.
https://www.cities929.com/2026/06/22/half-baked-illinois-social-media-tax-poised-to-tee-up-court-challenges/

ADVANTAGE NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.advantagenews.com/news/local/illinois-venezuelans-face-economic-double-whammy/article_f5d23406-e433-4383-ac55-4342c6f6ced1.html

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/22/candyland-prom-in-little-village-celebrates-lgbtq-youth/

CHOOSE CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.choosechicago.com/blog/lgbtq/what-to-eat-drink-and-do-in-boystown-chicago/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Giannoulias.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/23/local-150-makes-a-move-00970957

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-541/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What does it mean to be a conservative? It includes not doing things that are anti-conservative. It includes leading your life in accordance with conservative principles. It includes personal responsibility. It includes getting an education, getting a job, and becoming a contributing member of society and staying a contributing member of society. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

— What does it mean to be a conservative activist/leader? It includes not doing things that are anti-conservative. It includes promoting conservative principles. It includes promoting personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment rights, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

— What does it mean to be a Republican? It includes casting Republican primary ballots. It includes voting for Republican candidates in general elections. It includes not doing things that are anti-Republican. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

— What does it mean to be a Republican activist/leader? It includes promoting Republican candidates. I includes promoting planks in the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

— What does it mean to be a conservative Republican reporter/journalist? It includes publishing articles monthly, if not weekly, if not daily that promote conservative planks in the Republican Party platform, including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Federal agents are not enough without local buy-in, Blanche says of Chicago violence.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/22/federal-agents-not-enough-without-local-buy-todd-blanche-says-chicago/
— Trump vows to enforce law against vandalizing D.C. statues and fountains.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/22/trump-vows-enforce-law-vandalizing-dc-statues-fountains/
— Judge rules Trump’s voter database violates Americans’ privacy. DD: Your voting record is public record. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors always knew that I always cast Republican primary ballots. They always used that against me.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/22/judge-rules-trumps-voter-database-violates-americans-privacy/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Democrats become the party of socialists and Third-Worldism.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4619261/democrats-become-party-socialists-third-worldism-new-york-city-primaries/
— Mamdani renews call to abolish ICE.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/immigration/4619302/zohran-mamdani-renews-call-to-abolish-ice/
— Work permits. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponent cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4618058/resolve-refugee-crises-less-charity-more-permits/

NEW YORK POST
— Mamdani still backs his handpicked House candidate who now says she wouldn’t deport anyone — even criminals.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/mamdani-stands-by-his-handpicked-candidate-who-doesnt-want-to-deport-criminal-immigrants/
— Alberta is Canada’s Texas. It threatens secession and will vote whether to become the 51st US state.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/world-news/canadas-texas-threatens-secession-and-could-become-51st-us-state/
— Trump’s IGs are doing the job that past IGs let slide and the old guard hates it. DD: While I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had lots of interactions with IG employees. While I served on the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Executive Committee for 13 years, I had lots of interactions with IG employees. I worked for GAO on an audit of EPA’s IG office in 1985. SEE:  https://www.gao.gov/products/afmd-86-43
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/opinion/trumps-federal-watchdogs-are-doing-the-job-past-igs-ignored/
— California’s Glock ban sets stage for nationwide gun control. DD: Democrats want to get rid of Republicans once and for all. Because of that, Democrats want to disarm Republicans. Because of that, Republicans should be buying more and more and more firearms and ammunition for their self-defense.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/opinion/californias-glock-ban-sets-stage-for-nationwide-gun-control/
— Chicago sanctuary policies let Tren de Aragua mass shooting getaway driver walk free.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/22/us-news/chicago-sanctuary-policies-let-alleged-tren-de-aragua-mass-shooting-getaway-driver-walk-free/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Border crossings collapse 96 percent after Trump policy changes
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/22/border-crossings-collapse-96-percent-after-trump-policy-changes-1647324/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— DD: What percent of illegals are minority, female, and/or younger and want/need/demand massive government assistance, lack education, lack job skills, have health and/or other problems, have committed crimes, etc.? What percent are on track to be permanent wards of the state? All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponent cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://cis.org/Richwine/Course-Illegal-Immigrants-Access-Public-Health-Benefits

COLLEGE FIX
— More than half of Jesuit colleges celebrate LGBT ‘Pride Month.’ DD: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/more-than-half-of-jesuit-colleges-celebrate-lgbt-pride-month/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Politics and Parenthood: Why Liberals Are Having Fewer Kids Than Conservatives. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/22/politics-and-parenthood-liberals-fewer-kids-than-conservatives/

FOX NEWS
— Obama Center isn’t a traditional presidential library. Critics say it’s an activism center. Illinois GOP chairman Bob Grogan says the project was sold as a library to win support before evolving into something else.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-center-isnt-traditional-presidential-library-critics-say-activism-center.amp

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Justice Dept. Joins Challenge to Evanston Reparations. DD: Did your ancestors own slaves. Mine did not. To get more votes from Blacks and to atone for their ancestors’ slave ownership, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. If anyone should pay reparations, it should be Democrat leaders whose ancestors owned slaves. Affirmative Action (AA) is reparations. Democrat leaders have always used AA to make Republicans who are the following pay reparations: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government made me pay reparations big time. It culminated when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate.
https://www.judicialwatch.org/justice-dept-joins-challenge-to-evanston-reparations/

PJ MEDIA
— Illinois Illegal Alien Teacher Linked to Tren de Aragua Mass Shooting
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/06/22/illinois-illegal-alien-teacher-linked-to-tren-de-aragua-mass-shooting-n4954250

TOWNHALL
— Federal Judge Declares That Common-Sense Election Integrity Is Illegal.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/06/22/we-arent-allowed-to-have-secure-elections-according-to-this-federal-judge-n2678116

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Trump comments on Juneteenth weekend violence in Chicago.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trump-comments-on-juneteenth-weekend-violence-in-chicago/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders decry an Indiana professor losing her job for promoting hatred against Trump in her classroom. Democrats and RINOs did not decry my losing my job for opposing Democrat political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. In fact, they applauded it.  My critics/opponents promote political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. They despise/hate Republicans like me who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/indiana-professor-white-supremacy-lesson-maga.html

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America and punish Americans for electing Trump.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/22/america-at-250-is-anxious-about-today-pessimistic-about-whats-next/90564030007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— JD Vance’s Faith-Based Ambition. Like the vice president’s religious beliefs, his politics seem rather too conveniently flexible. DD: My parents had me baptized as a Missouri Synod Lutheran (MSL) at Trinity Lutheran Church in 1948, sent me to Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete 1953-1961, sent me to Hope Lutheran Grade School in Park Forest 1961-1962 to stay with the Missouri Synod, and had me confirmed as a MSL in 1962. My critics/opponents have always used the aforesaid against me. One could call it religious discrimination.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-vances-faith-based-ambition-022f7388

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— DD: What helped you endure the negatives of your jobs? For me, the following helped me endure the ever-increasing tremendous efforts of my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me: a) I needed a job, b) the importance of the missions of the agencies that I worked for, c) federal employee benefits including the federal government paying 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums for life, and d) Civil Service Retirement System benefits. The aforesaid helped me survive for almost 18 years at GAO, for almost 9 years at IRS, and for almost 3 years at the Post Office.
https://hbr.org/2018/01/when-burnout-is-a-sign-you-should-leave-your-job

NEW YORKER
— American Dream. DD: What is/was your American dream? When I was younger, it included having a successful career in the automotive industry. But that all ended when I was 22 in 1971 when my Firestone Store boss rudely fired me when I told him that I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile. But Oldsmobile withdrew that job offer saying that it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I had to have a job. That directly resulted in my accepting a job offer from IRS. I had not specifically applied for that job. I got that offer solely a) because I had passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, b) because I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business, and c) because the Democrats who ran IRS could not find a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/06/29/the-curious-career-of-the-american-dream

PSY POST
— Age is the strongest predictor of how people view their dating prospects. DD: If I had not met my outstanding wife at a church sponsored singles social event when I was 28 in 1977, I might never had gotten married. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I got married when I was 29 in 1978. To get rid of me, they had painted me being an extremely bad person because I had refused to become a Democrat. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.psypost.org/the-surprising-way-income-and-age-dictate-how-we-view-the-dating-market/

SPLC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hopewatch/pride-month-reminds-lgbtq-youth-need-love-support/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT
— Pritzker rejects Trump’s call for federal help in Chicago crime crackdown
https://www.the-independent.com/bulletin/news/donald-trump-jb-pritzker-chicago-truth-social-b3001175.html

TIMES OF INDIA
— How illegals slip into city’s workforce.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/gurgaon/from-border-to-builder-how-illegals-slip-into-citys-workforce/articleshow/131916816.cms

ECONOMIC TIMES
— DD: What do your critics/opponents do to discredit/stop you? My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/african-proverb-of-the-day-do-not-follow-a-person-who-is-life-lessons-on-judgment-awareness-decision-making-responsibility-and-why-understanding-a-situation-matters-more-than-following-the-crowd/articleshow/131908386.cms

June 21, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Drive-by shooters fire into crowd, injuring at least 13 people in Princeton Park
https://abc7chicago.com/post/mass-shooting-chicago-drive-shooters-injure-least-12-people-princeton-park-95th/19337727/

NBC5
— Trump Tower in Chicago could soon be located on ‘Barack Hussein Obama Way’
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-tower-in-chicago-could-soon-be-located-on-barack-hussein-obama-way/3951459/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been making young people in your county, township, municipality. and school district LGBTQers? My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-pride-fest-kicks-off-with-music-drag-performances-dancing-and-more/3951436/

CBS2
— At least 12 injured after mass shooting on Chicago’s South Side. A mass shooting on Chicago’s South Side left at least 12 people injured on Friday night.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/at-least-12-injured-after-mass-shooting-on-chicagos-south-side/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been making young people in your county, township, municipality. and school district LGBTQers? My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-pride-fest-2026-northalsted/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-FV43bRnDI

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE WITH PHOTOS: State law could help address housing needs for ‘missing middle’ in DuPage, Will counties. DD: When were you middle income? In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year when I was 23, $83,482/year when I was 24, and $100,059/years when I was 25. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21 and I had completed 12 graduate evening MBA courses when I was 25. According to my critics/opponents, I was always grossly overpaid.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260620/news/state-law-could-help-address-housing-needs-for-missing-middle-in-dupage-will-counties/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In 2024, the U.S. Census listed the median home value in DuPage County at $391,400 and the county’s median household income at $112,096.)

MUDDY  RIVER NEWS
— Bailey sees path to secure Governor’s office in Springfield.
https://muddyrivernews.com/noteworthy/illinois-republican-darren-bailey-sees-path-to-secure-governors-office-in-springfield/20260620120730/

SHAW LOCAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been making young people in your county, township, municipality. and school district LGBTQers? My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://www.shawlocal.com/gallery/2026/06/20/photos-dekalb-pride-fest-celebrates-love-diversity-and-equality/

INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE
— Libertarian Party of Indiana intent on maintaining ballot access. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. My critics/opponents want me to leave the Republican Party. They want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman. They want the Republican Party to officially change its name to the Democrat Lite Party. According to them, I am far too conservative. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. They reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. They are RINOs if not Democrat plants.
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/20/indiana-libertarian-party-intent-on-maintaining-ballot-access/

FOX2
— DD: St. Louis police work to prevent Democrat teen takeovers this weekend. What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://fox2now.com/news/missouri/st-louis-police-work-to-prevent-teen-takeovers-this-weekend/
https://fox2now.com/video/getting-ahead-of-teen-takeovers-in-st-louis/11898067/

CWB CHICAGO
— Illinois state Rep. Chris Miller: Pritzker should condemn ‘MAGA hate’ after anti-Trump cross-burning in Grant Park
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/lawmaker-says-pritzker-should-condemn-maga-hate-after-anti-trump-cross-burning-in-grant-park.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois state Rep. Chris Miller says Pritzker reacted too quickly to Grant Park cross burning
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_db2db1ca-87ca-4089-a7e2-8b65588e786c.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Welfare has sapped the Midwestern work ethic. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more welfare.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/18/welfare-sapped-midwestern-work-ethic/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: From 2000 to 2023, the labor force participation rate in Illinois fell by 7%. . .Look at Ohio, where the last reliable audit in 2019 found that 43.5% of Medicaid spending went to recipients who were wrongly enrolled in the program. That is the worst error rate in America. Ditto, more than one-third of Medicaid spending in Illinois and nearly one-fifth in Indiana.)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The California Department of Housing and Community Development released its “Official State Income Limits” for the state’s low-income housing programs last month, and individuals making up to $104,200 now qualify as “low income” in Orange County. DD: Are/were you low income? In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year when I was 23, $83,482/year when I was 24, and $100,059/years when I was 25. I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21 and I had completed 12 graduate evening MBA courses when I was 25. According to my critics/opponents, I was always grossly overpaid.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/premium/4613191/californias-100000-poor-people/

NEW YORK POST
— Blue states are obsessed with protecting illegal-migrant criminals — and only voters can make it stop. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting their illegal immigrant criminals in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://nypost.com/2026/06/20/opinion/blue-states-are-obsessed-with-protecting-illegal-migrant-criminals-and-only-voters-can-make-it-stop/
— American Olympic canoeist arrested for vandalizing Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/20/us-news/american-olympic-canoeist-david-hearn-arrested-for-allegedly-vandalizing-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool/
— Our campuses are corrupt — and higher education is due for its comeuppance
https://nypost.com/2026/06/20/opinion/our-campuses-are-corrupt-and-higher-education-is-due-for-their-comeuppance/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Inevitable Differences. John Staddon challenges prevailing views on race and inequality, arguing that science, economics, and history—not ideology—should guide the debate.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/21/book-review-inevitable-differences-by-john-staddon/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Research can prove anything–even envy. DD: How has envy been used against you? To turn my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government against me, my Democrat superiors promoted envy. My Democrat Post Office superiors 1966-1969 stressed a) that I was avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments, b) that I was earning a college degree, c) that my parents were providing me with room and board, and d) that I owned a 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint and then a 1968 Oldsmobile 442 and then a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. My Democrat IRS superiors 1971-1980 stressed a) that I was taking graduate evening business and accounting courses, b) that I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, c) that I bought a new townhome in 1972, d) that I bought a studio condo in downtown Chicago in 1974, e) that I earned an MBA in 1976, f) that I bought a one bedroom condo in downtown Chicago in 1976, g) that I got married in 1978 and that my wife had a good job, h) that my wife and I bought a home in Wheaton and two new cars in 1978, and i) that I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. My Democrat GAO superiors stressed a) that I earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, b) that I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, c) that I became a licensed CPA in 1981, d) that my wife and I had a home built in Wheaton in 1984, e) that I earned four more job-related professional certifications in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, f) that I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, and g) that my wife and I had saved lots of money for our retirement.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/research_can_prove_anything_even_envy.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Trump says left trying to ‘destroy our beautiful work’ after reported arrested for sabotaging Reflecting Pool.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/20/trump-says-left-trying-to-destroy-our-beautiful-work-after-reported-arrested-for-sabotaging-reflecting-pool-1646990/

BLAZE
— Britain is paying the price for years of woke ideology.
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/britain-is-paying-the-price-for-years-of-woke-ideology

BREITBART
— Top Chip Company Gets $6.6 Billion from the Feds, but Excludes American Workers. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/20/lawsuit-top-chip-company-gets-6-6-billion-from-the-feds-but-excludes-american-workers/amp/

CAMPUS REFORM
— Tuition tops $100K at 16 colleges while schools expand administrative staff and activist programs
https://www.campusreform.org/article/tuition-tops-100k-16-colleges-schools-expand-administrative-staff-activist-programs/30119

DAILY WIRE
— Disparate-impact began as a tool to combat intentional discrimination now enables race-based liability against employers. DD: All those over me have always used disparate-impact to justify their patronage, race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. All those who they promoted over me a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-civil-rights-standard-turning-race-based-employment-on-its-head

FOX NEWS
— Illinois GOP chair Grogan says Obama Center is political operation on public land.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398949572112
— Obama Center embeds ‘Indigenous’ land message on controversial site. The Center spent years battling lawsuits over the transfer of 19.3 acres of public parkland for a $10 payment.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-center-embeds-indigenous-land-message-controversial-site
— Trump administration vows to stop reparations programs, accuses officials of ‘virtue signaling’ to get ‘votes.’ Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon says Evanston’s initiative cannot withstand strict scrutiny under the 14th Amendment. DD: My critics/opponents are virtue signalers.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-admin-vows-stop-reparations-blacks-accuses-officials-virtue-signaling-get-votes

PJ MEDIA
— Is American Urban Culture Beyond Repair? ‘Poverty As a Driver of Crime.’ DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/06/20/is-american-urban-culture-beyond-repair-poverty-as-a-driver-of-crime-narrative-pt-iv-n4954171
— Sodom and Gomorrica: On the Crossing of the Rubicon. DD: LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/06/20/sodom-and-gomorrica-on-the-crossing-of-the-rubicon-n4954170
— The Left Hates Trump so Much That It’s Trying to Sabotage the Reflecting Pool.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/20/the-left-hates-trump-so-much-that-its-trying-to-sabotage-the-reflecting-pool-n4954173

SCALISE
— Republicans Are Making America Safer, Stronger, and More Affordable While Democrats Talk America Down.
https://scalise.house.gov/press-releases/scalise-republicans-are-making-america-safer-stronger-and-more-affordable-while-democrats-talk-america-down

TOWNHALL
— What Democrats Have Done to Los Angeles. DD: Look at what Democrats have done to Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. More and more and more voters in the aforesaid are filled with hatred against those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/06/21/what-democrats-have-done-to-a-once-great-american-city-n2678037

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Bush Family Member’s Electoral Failure in Maine Is More Evidence RINO Establishment Is Dead. My critics/opponents are RINOs. DD: I did lots to help elect Bush in 2000 and 2004. But his DOJ sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me in Diersen v. GAO.  SEE:  https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  To side with my Democrat GAO superiors against me is to side with race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.westernjournal.com/please-clap-bush-family-members-electoral-failure-maine-evidence-rino-establishment-dead/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ROLL CALL

— MARCH 7, 2017 FLASHBACK: Roskam Blames Trump for Ugly Politics. Says his constituents aren’t interested in judgments, only solutions. DD: My critics/opponents have always a) painted me as being and operative/dupe for Trump and b) blamed me and blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for Roskam’s defeat in 2018.
https://rollcall.com/2017/03/07/rep-roskam-blames-trump-for-ugly-politics/

CBS NEWS
— Abbott urges Republican unity at Texas GOP Convention, slams Democratic candidates: “The Austin woke agenda is on the ballot”
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/governor-abbott-urges-republican-unity-texas-gop-convention-slams-democratic-candidates/

AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been making young people in your county, township, municipality. and school district LGBTQers? My critics/opponents promote LGBTQ.
https://www.aol.com/articles/lgbtq-people-americas-promise-refuge-194905302.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/articles/pope-leo-xiv-heads-northern-090707000.html

MSN
— DD: RINOs promote RINOs. My critics/opponents are RINOs.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/trumps-unhinged-threat-to-fox-news-reporter-and-her-rino-fianc%C3%A9-as-he-lashes-out-at-her-question/ar-AA23FGk3

WASHINGTON POST
— Rule of law. DD: Affirmative Action (AA) used to be the rule of law. In Diersen v. GAO ( https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf ), my Democrat GAO superiors argued that they followed the rule of law, that is, they implemented AA, that is, they wasted my career and forced me to retire because I opposed their race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/28/judges-trump-administration-rule-of-law/

TRIBUNE DEMOCRAT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.tribdem.com/news/latest_news/pope-leo-xiv-exalts-first-american-saint-cabrini-as-a-model-for-christians-for-her/article_bfec36dd-0e76-5538-b81b-7c859b17a569.html

FORBES
— DD: All those who my critics/opponents promoted over me were yes-men or yes-women. They all a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents not only want yes-men and yes-women, they have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/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 f) who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/cherylrobinson/2024/03/08/power-of-no-rethinking-the-yes-person-attitude-for-career-success/

ACCOUNTING TODAY
— Predicting the next 15 years in accounting. DD: Anticipate/expect that fewer and fewer and fewer of those in the accounting profession will be conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.accountingtoday.com/podcast/predicting-the-next-15-years-in-accounting

GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Who watches the watchdogs? GAO finds flaws in inspector general oversight system. Trump has fired nearly 20 IGs, and his administration last year put a hold on funding for the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency. DD: While I worked for GAO for almost 18 years, I had lots of interactions with IG employees. While I served on the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter Executive Committee for 13 years, I had lots of interactions with IG employees. I worked for GAO on an audit of EPA’s IG office in 1985. SEE:  https://www.gao.gov/products/afmd-86-43
https://www.govexec.com/oversight/2026/06/who-watches-watchdogs-gao-finds-flaws-inspector-general-oversight-system/414195/

FEDWEEK
— Within Grade Increases. DD: My critics/opponents were furious that I got within grade increases. Because I got within grade increases, in today’s dollars, a) my GAO salary increased from $118,984/year to $154,692/year 1986-1997, b) my IRS salary increased from $100,059/year to $113,402/year 1974-1980, and c) my Post Office salary increased from $19.57/hour to $20.87/hour 1966-1969.
https://www.fedweek.com/ask/federal-pay/within-grade-increases/

COWBOY STATE DAILY
— Park County Republican Party Sends Platform Loyalty Tests To GOP Candidates. Republican candidates for office in Park County received a letter warning them if they don’t commit to backing at least 80% of the state GOP platform, they won’t receive an endorsement or support from the party. “They is not a purity test,” it reads. DD: My critics/opponents reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all of the planks in the Republican Party platform. Most commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and or equal opportunity (no race of gender based preference giving) planks. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and/or Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and/or Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) leaders of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and/or TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, e) conservative leaders, and f) religious leaders.
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2026/06/11/park-county-republican-party-sends-platform-loyalty-tests-to-gop-candidates/

PR DAILY
— Where D.C. insiders get their news. DD: Since 2000, my critics/opponents have done everything that they can a) to stop me from sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and b) to stop everyone from reading them. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and/or Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Wheaton, Wheaton Park District, and/or Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) leaders of the Illinois Center Right Coalition and/or TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois, e) conservative leaders, and f) religious leaders.
https://www.prdaily.com/by-the-numbers-where-d-c-insiders-get-their-news/

DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/20/800058513/community/this-week-in-the-war-on-women-6-14-20-26-semi-open-thread-edition/

AXIOS
— DD: LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/20/lgbtq-americans-housing

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDIA WEEKLY
— Survey finds many Indian Americans back Democrats in the US and Modi in India
https://www.indiaweekly.biz/indian-americans-politics-modi-democratic-party-republicans/

June 20, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Pritzker vetoes spending items accidentally included in Illinois budget, including $500B typo. $500,250,000,000 mistakenly allocated to Chicago Westside Branch NAACP.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/governor-jb-pritzker-issues-item-vetoes-spending-accidentally-included-illinois-budget-including-500-billion-typo/19319094/
— DOJ investigating MLB for religious rights violations after San Francisco Giants Pride hat warning. DD: I should write about the warnings that my Democrat superiors in the federal gave me, that is, the adverse actions they took against me because I refused to become a Democrat. I should write about the warnings that RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois gave me, that is, the adverse actions that they took against me because I refused to become a RINO.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/department-justice-investigating-major-league-baseball-religious-rights-violations-san-francisco-giants-pride-hat-warnings/19332694/

FOX32
— DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/inside-chicagos-teen-takeovers-organizers-say-violence-isnt-goal

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the Democrat Party platform that is, more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action, DEI, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/19/daywatch-a-beacon-of-hope-for-democracy/
— ICE arrests shift to courthouses and immigration check-ins as enforcement intensifies in Chicago area. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/19/chicago-ice-arrests-uptick/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage if not force students to be LGBTQers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/19/community-news-pride-walk-set-in-berwyn-students-named-national-merit-scholars/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. How successful have Democrat leaders been making young people in your county, township, municipality. and school district LGBTQers?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/19/lgbtq-pride-faces-tough-moment-social-political-acceptance-raymond-crossing-justin-sia
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump and against those who voted for Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/19/america-robert-de-niro-trump-republicans-julyfouth-250-mona-charen
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/06/17/state-rep-rashid-calls-for-probe-after-ice-detain-man-without-presenting-a-warrant-at-bridgeview-courthouse

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260619/news/group-holds-anti-ice-protest-at-hoffman-estates-police-station/
— Friction between Trump and Republican senators is growing before the pivotal midterm elections.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260619/nation-and-world-politics/friction-between-trump-and-republican-senators-is-growing-before-the-pivotal-midterm-elections/

MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Conservative activist Riley Gaines gives keynote speech at Lincoln Reagan Trump Dinner in Quincy.
https://muddyrivernews.com/communities/illinois/adams-county-illinois/quincy/conservative-activist-riley-gaines-gives-keynote-speech-at-lincoln-reagan-trump-dinner-in-quincy/20260620071509/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: What percent of food produced in America is bought by government entities and given to Democrats?
https://www.nprillinois.org/illinois/2026-06-19/federal-cuts-are-hitting-illinois-food-assistance-recipients-and-the-farmers-who-feed-them

KSDK
— Corvette museum destroyed after tornado tears through Effingham.
https://www.ksdk.com/article/syndication/ott/weather-plus/corvette-museum-destroyed-after-tornado-tears-through-effingham-leveled-homes-farms-national-weather-service/63-af17e4f2-2aee-4b87-a917-aec3c80ecb46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch4bh3SVaAU

IPM NEWS
— Effingham tornado flattens family-owned Corvette museum, downs trees, power lines.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/effingham-tornado-flattens-family-owned-corvette-museum-downs-trees-power-lines/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— 10th Congressional District Republicans Have a Newsletter, This Week Featuring White House Events. DD: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman (RPC) since 1999. It would be great if each of the 17 Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members would send monthly newsletters to the RPCs and Precinct Captains in their congressional districts.
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/20/10th-congressional-district-republicans-have-a-newsletter-this-week-featuring-white-house-events/
— Don DeWitte Says Pritzker Temporary Cut in Gas Tax Offset By Transferring Much More To the General Fund Is a Shell Game
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/19/don-dewitte-says-pritzker-temporary-cut-in-gas-tax-offset-by-transferring-much-more-to-the-general-fund-is-a-shell-game/

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Paid by the Head. On June 11, 2026, three federal officials stood before a room full of journalists in Washington, described a crime scene the size of a city, and revealed that the government itself was responsible for it. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and Acting Office of Refugee Resettlement Director Angie Salazar told the country what their investigators had found. More than 475,000 unaccompanied children were referred to the federal government during the Biden administration. By the end of 2024, more than 300,000 of them could not be accounted for. In the eighteen months since, a federal task force has located roughly 146,000.
https://illinoisfamily.org/marriage/child-exploitation/paid-by-the-head/
— Turning the Trans Ship. Congress Takes on Protections for Minors. It’s taken years, but it looks like cracks are beginning to show in the transgender “medical” complex. Tragically, this blessing of a development comes largely as a result of the devastation of thousands of young men and women who have now come to regret their decision to “transition” to the opposite sex when they were minors.
https://illinoisfamily.org/homosexuality/turning-the-trans-ship/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How successful have Democrat leaders been advancing the Democrat Party platform in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct. That is, how successful have they been advancing more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action, DEI, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, advancing more race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination? Democrat leaders in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, and Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 are having ever-increasing success because RINO leaders ever-increasingly fail/refuse to defend or advance the Republican Party platform. The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. The Democrat Party platform drives out of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District, and my precinct those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Who are your peers? Who are your competitors? Who are your critics/opponents? Who has power over you? What are you doing to gain their acceptance? What will you NOT do to gain their acceptance? I have NOT and I will NOT deemphasize, downplay, or dump conservative principles or planks in the Republican Party platform. The aforesaid have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I should deemphasize, downplay, if not dump the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. They want me be to be RINO/Democrat Lite like them. I have not and I will not do that. Consequently, they ever-increasingly work harder against me. So be it. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— D.C. now has a socialist mayor. Urban America’s race to the bottom was inevitable.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/19/editorial-dc-socialist-mayor/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Minneapolis residents are still paying the price for the Black Lives Matter riots. DD: What are you doing to defend yourself from future Democrat rioters?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4616759/minneapolis-residents-businesses-paying-price-black-lives-matter-riots/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Mamdani-Backed Socialist House Hopeful Demanded End To Rule Barring Violent Criminals From Public Housing.
https://freebeacon.substack.com/p/mamdani-backed-socialist-house-hopeful

NEW YORK POST
— The one growing gap between Democrats and Republicans that shouldn’t ever exist — patriotism. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly hate America because the majority of its voters elected Trump.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/opinion/the-one-growing-gap-between-dems-and-republicans-that-shouldnt-ever-exist-patriotism/
— Staggering number of Berkeley Law students claim they’re disabled as ‘emotional disorders’ skyrocket. DD. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/19/us-news/number-of-uc-berkeley-law-students-who-claim-theyre-disabled-skyrockets/

AMERICAN MIND
— The Price of Wokeness. DD: Wokeness destroys everything. My critics/opponents are woke.
https://americanmind.org/salvo/the-price-of-wokeness/

BREITBART
— Duckworth: FAA Should Block Trump’s Triumphal Arch. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly oppose anything and everything that might possibly redound positively to Trump.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/18/dem-sen-duckworth-faa-should-block-trumps-triumphal-arch/

CAMPUS REFORM
— DEI leaders group joins lawsuit against Trump order.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/dei-leaders-group-joins-lawsuit-trump-order/30108

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Squashes Biden’s Border Release Numbers To Zero.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/19/trump-border-security-illegals-biden-zero-releases/

EPOCH TIMES
— How the Trump Admin Achieved Record Drug Seizures. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more illegal drugs. To push illegal drugs in America is to destroy America. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-the-trump-admin-achieved-record-drug-seizures-6039670

FEDERALIST
— Why Juneteenth Proves The ‘1619 Project’ Crowd Wrong.  DD: Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that Democrats ended slavery. My parents, my grandparents, and the rest of my ancestors were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/19/why-juneteenth-proves-the-1619-project-crowd-wrong/
— Los Angeles Moves To Let Noncitizens Vote After Democrats Pinky-Promised They Weren’t Doing That.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/19/los-angeles-moves-to-let-noncitizens-vote-after-democrats-pinky-promised-they-werent-doing-that/
— Democrat AGs Behind Lawfare Coordinated With Leftist Groups About ‘How To Stop Trump’
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/19/court-filing-democrat-ags-behind-lawfare-coordinated-with-leftist-groups-about-how-to-stop-trump/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Trump Ramps Up War on the Birth Tourism Industry.
https://www.fairus.org/opinion/trump-ramps-war-birth-tourism-industry

FOX NEWS
— Los Angeles proposal to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections sparks online backlash. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/los-angeles-proposal-allow-noncitizens-vote-local-elections-sparks-online-backlash
— DHS Secretary Mullin: How do we expect you to respect laws if you’re here illegally? DD: To come to a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect not only for that country, but for the rule of law.
https://www.aol.com/news/dhs-secretary-mullin-expect-respect-030027831.html

JONATHAN TURLEY
— The ABCs of Educational Success: Arkansas Shows Continued Testing Improvements From Reforms. DD: Neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, my mother never attended high school. But they sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://jonathanturley.org/2026/06/19/the-abcs-of-educational-success-arkansas-shows-continued-testing-improvements-from-reforms/

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Arkansas Student Scores Improve After State Rejected DEI and Focused on Fundamentals. DD: Neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, my mother never attended high school. But they sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/arkansas-student-scores-improve-after-state-rejected-dei-and-focused-on-fundamentals/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Rot of Rooting Against America.
https://www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-jolt/the-rot-of-rooting-against-america/amp/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— George W. Bush gifts Michelle Obama a tin of Altoids at Obama Center opening in an ode to their friendship. DD: Bush’s DOJ sided with my Democrat GAO superiors against me in Diersen v. GAO.  SEE:  https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf  To side with my Democrat GAO superiors against me is to side with race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/george-w-bush-michelle-obama-altoids-friendship/

NEW YORK TIMES
— 2028 Republican Presidential Primary: Latest Polls
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/president-republican-primary-polls-2028.html
— 2028 Democratic Presidential Primary: Latest Polls
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/polls/president-democratic-primary-polls-2028.html
— DD: Hegseth’s war against Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, his war against race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/politics/hegseth-navy-blocked-promotions-diversity.html
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly hate America because the majority of its voters elected Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/opinion/trump-freedom-250-america-ufc-birthday.html?searchResultPosition=1

JD SUPRA
— DD: Since the 1960s, the Democrats and RINOs above me have ever-increasingly crowed about their success in giving preference to minorities and to females, that is, they have crowed about their success in discriminating against Whites and against men.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/doj-says-eeoc-guidance-on-unintentional-3453533/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Can Restore Standards to Federal Hiring. Restoring the civil-service exam would bring fairer selection and a more competent workforce. DD: I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) when I was 21 in 1970. Democrats run the federal government. Almost all federal employees are Democrats. The more of the following that you are, the more that you NEED NOT APPLY for a federal job: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. 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. GAO would not have hired me if I had not passed the CPA examination on my first attempt and earned an MBA. IRS would not have hired me if I had not passed the FSEE and earned a bachelor’s degree in business. The Post Office would not have hired me if I had not passed the postal employment test and earned a high school diploma.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-can-restore-standards-to-federal-hiring-07b64da0
(FROM THE ARTICLE: These problems have a solution that worked from the 1883 passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Act until the advent of federal-hiring affirmative action in the 1960s. As of the late 1950s, the federal hiring process went like this: Applicants for entry-level positions received an admission card for the Federal Service Entrance Examination for a specific time, date and location. The examination assessed general knowledge, vocabulary, math, reasoning and specific job skills. Tests were administered in high-school auditoriums, armories, federal buildings or college lecture halls. They were proctored by Civil Service Commission employees. Applicants had to present their admission card and photo ID to enter the examination room, where talking and notes were prohibited. The test lasted up to four hours. Applicants with an honorable discharge from the armed forces got five extra points added to their raw score, or 10 points if they were disabled. Spouses and widows of veterans got 10 points. The Civil Service Commission maintained separate registers of applicants for a variety of job types and grade levels. Agencies looking for new employees requested candidates from the Civil Service Commission that matched the job category and grade level they were trying to fill. The commission sent them a “certificate of eligibles” applying the “Rule of Three” that had been in force since 1888. It limited the hiring official to a choice among the three highest-scoring candidates—the only truly effective way to limit the role of personal preferences in hiring decisions. If the federal government could administer proctored tests in the 1950s, it can do so now. If it could limit hiring officials’ discretion then, it can do so now. Bring back an updated version of the Federal Service Entrance Examination and apply the Rule of Three for all new hires. It won’t transform the civil service immediately, but it would dramatically improve the competence of new hires and the fairness of their selection.)
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/why-the-bisexual-man-is-hollywoods-breakout-star-f1a6de95
— DD: My critics/opponents promote race and gender based preference giving.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/wisconsin-supreme-court-racial-preferences-annette-ziegler-adc1ab2a

CPA JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly force those who are the following out of the accounting profession: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.cpajournal.com/2026/06/19/the-power-of-organizing-in-accounting-for-social-justice-and-equity-2/

NEW ONE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly work harder to get Blacks to hate Republicans.
https://newsone.com/6863873/juneteenth-freedom-arrived-late-remains-incomplete/

NEW YORKER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-the-trump-administration-pushed-judges-to-deport-children

GREEN STATE
— Stratton calls for federal cannabis legalization. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. To push pot in America is to destroy America. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.greenstate.com/news/juliana-stratton-calls-for-federal-cannabis-legalization/

DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. How successful have Democrat leaders been making Blacks hate Republicans in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had getting my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates to hate me.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/19/800056553/culture/juneteenth-evokes-resilience-as-trump-continues-war-on-black-history/

AXIOS
— First jobs.  DD: What was your first job? The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. The Post Office would not have hired me if I had not passed the postal employment test and earned a high school diploma. IRS would not have hired me if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business. GAO would not have hired me if I had not passed the CPA examination on my first attempt and earned an MBA.  I would not have become a postal employee in 1966 if my high school friend had not asked me to take the postal employment test with him. I would not have become an IRS employee in 1971 if my Firestone Store boss had not fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile, an offer that Oldsmobile withdrew saying it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. I would not have become a GAO employee in 1980 if my Democrat IRS superiors had not made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13.
https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2026/06/15/first-jobs-central-ohio-leaders-cosi-crew

June 17, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-familys-journey-sparks-national-movement-focused-understanding-transgender-binary-youth/19312233/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use reparations to get more votes from Blacks and promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-administration-department-justice-seeks-halt-evanston-reparations-program/19312433/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/06/16/school-districts-trans-kids-pay-anti-trans-lawsuits
— DD: What do major Republican donors in Illinois think of you? I should write about major Republican donors in Illinois since 2000 and what they think of me and of my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters and what they thought of my leadership of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois 2005-2012 and Illinois Center Right Coalition 2003-2007. I would focus on the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2022/2/14/22932871/ken-griffin-donation-richard-irvin-gop-governor-campaign

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: DD: DuPage Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) blame Republicans for gun violence and b) dimmish Second Amendment rights.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260616/news/people-still-care-dupage-county-dedicates-new-park-to-victims-of-violence/

WJBC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wjbc.com/2026/06/16/prairie-pride-coalition-supporting-lgbtq-community-since-1995/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Man Says He Burned Cross In Grant Park To Protest Trump.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/16/man-says-he-burned-cross-in-grant-park-to-protest-trump-nbc-reports/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/17/obama-center-beauty-in-the-beholders-eye-00964455

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MORNING ANSWER
— Ted Dabrowski: Illinois Loses a Bears Stadium Worth of People Every Year and Nobody Treats That as the Crisis
https://morninganswerchicago.com/ted-dabrowski-illinois-loses-a-bears-stadium-worth-of-people-every-year-and-nobody-treats-that-as-the-crisis/

JOHN KASS
— Americans Are Sick of Paying the Democrat DEI Blood Price
https://johnkassnews.com/were-sick-of-paying-the-dei-blood-price/

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Two Local Legislators Sponsor Rational Revision of Drivers License Law Ending Discrimination Against Senior Citizens
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/17/two-local-legislators-sponsor-rational-revision-of-drivers-license-law-ending-discrimination-against-senior-citizens/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you publish? Who reads what you publish? Since 2000, I have sent out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters, and since 2004, I have published copies of my newsletters at http://www.gopillinois.com . Since 2004, my newsletters have included links to more than 542,100 articles. But according to my critics/opponents, no one reads my newsletters and they have no impact. But nevertheless, since 2000, they have had their operatives and their dupes take many big adverse actions against me to stop me from sending out my newsletters. My critics/opponents blame me and blame my newsletters for all of their problems, for all of your problems, for all of my problems, and for all of everyone’s problems. Since 2000, they have blamed me and have blamed my newsletters for all the losses suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct. I should write about my critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Vallas: Pritzker signs a budget giving Illinois tax hikes, higher spending
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzkers-2027-budget-gives-illinois-tax-hikes-higher-spending/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Newsom camp says investigation is not about finding a crime, but sending a message. DD: With their ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions that they took against me, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors sent bigger and bigger and bigger messages to my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. With their ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions that they took against me, RINO leaders in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois sent bigger and bigger and bigger messages to conservatives, that is, to platform Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4610661/doj-investigation-about-sending-message-gavin-newsom/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Texas’s James Talarico, 37, Shares His Only Checking Account With His Mom. DD: What were your accomplishments by the time you were 37? My critics/opponents have always painted me as being an unmitigated failure. In my defense, by the time I was 27, I had become a licensed CPA (32), passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination in my first attempt (32), earned a master’s degree in accounting (31), passed the CPA examination on my first attempt (30), earned an MBA (27), earned a bachelor’s degree in business (21), gotten married (29), bought real estate (35, 29, 27, 25, and 24), and bought new cars (29, 25, 23, 20, 19, and 17).
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/texass-james-talarico-37-shares-his-only-checking-account-with-his-mom/

NEW YORK POST
— Chicago cross-burning feared to be hateful racist threat turns out to be idiotic anti-Trump protest.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/chicago-cross-burning-feared-to-be-hateful-racist-threat-turns-out-to-be-idiotic-anti-trump-protest-saw-the-wikipedia-page/
— MLB issues warning to Giants pitchers for Bible verses printed on LGBTQ+ Pride Night caps.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/sports/mlb-warns-giants-pitchers-over-bible-verses-on-lgbtq-pride-night-caps/

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— For years, the federal government kept its thumb on the scale. The weapon of choice was “disparate-impact” theory — the notion that if a fair test or a fair hiring process doesn’t match someone’s preferred demographic chart, the process itself must be racist and torn down. In a stunning reversal, the Department of Justice has declared that theory unconstitutional. The scheme was sold as a way to root out unintentional discrimination by treating individuals as mere statistics. Instead, it produced intentional discrimination — not as a flaw, but by design.
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/16/trumps-doj-just-did-what-decades-of-speeches-never-could-1646240/

BREITBART
— Ohio Cracks Down on Illegal Foreign Truck Drivers, Revokes over 1K CDLs.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/16/ohio-cracks-down-illegal-foreign-truck-drivers-revokes-1k-cdls/
— MLB Issues Warning to SF Giants Pitchers Wearing Bible Verses During Pride Night.
https://www.breitbart.com/sports/2026/06/16/mlb-issues-warning-to-sf-giants-pitchers-wearing-bible-verses-during-pride-night/

CITY JOURNAL
— The Justice Department Restores Equality. The Office of Legal Counsel concluded that disparate-impact guidelines encourage employers to engage in racial discrimination, violating the U.S. Constitution.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/equal-opportunity-commission-disparate-impact-racial-discrimination

COLLEGE FIX
— Asian Chicago college student admits to burning cross as part of Trump protest.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/asian-chicago-college-student-admits-to-burning-cross-as-part-of-trump-protest/
— Mohsen Madawi is a perpetual learner who needs to go.  After 11 years of being a student in America, on top of another six in Israel, Mohsen Madawi may finally be heading home. Madawi is one of a number of pro-Palestinian activists who are seemingly always in school despite being in their 30s or older. The Trump administration is seeking to deport Madawi on the grounds his anti-Israel activism undermines American foreign policy. The ACLU is challenging the deportation on First Amendment grounds. An immigration judge okayed his deportation, but a separate federal case is pending, meaning he remains in the country for now. Regardless of the potential free-speech issues at play, Madawi should be leaving the country because he has clearly abused the visa system.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/17-years-a-student-foreigner-may-finally-leave-the-country/

DAIILY WIRE
— Anti-Trump Activist Behind Burning Cross That Sparked MAGA Blame. The arson sparked outrage from Democrats who initially called it the “seeds of racism and fascism.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/anti-trump-activist-behind-burning-cross-that-sparked-maga-blame

EPOCH TIMES
— How Flash Mobs of Teens Are Taking Over Towns, Beaches. Teen takeovers started in Chicago in 2024 and become a nationwide phenomenon in 2025. They often devolve into violence.  DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/how-flash-mobs-of-teens-are-taking-over-towns-beaches-6045096

FEDERALIST
— Your Political Party Is Code For Whether You Love Or Hate America.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/16/your-political-party-is-code-for-whether-you-love-or-hate-america/

FOX NEWS
— Conservative group targeted in SPLC-inspired terror attack demands restitution after DOJ indictment. Shooter Floyd Lee Corkins II said he found the Family Research Council on the SPLC’s list of ‘anti-gay groups’ online.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservative-group-targeted-splc-inspired-terror-attack-demands-restitution-doj-indictment.amp

NEWSBUSTERS
— ABC Downplays Illegal Alien Ramming Car into ICE Agent as ‘Suspect’
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/jorge-bonilla/2026/06/16/abc-downplays-illegal-alien-ramming-car-ice-agent-suspect

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://thehill.com/policy/sports-gaming/5926143-giants-pride-night/amp/
— What it takes to win elections. DD: RINO leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly make it clear that to win elections, they want the Illinois Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party and to officially dump its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5858539-schumer-mills-campaign-miscalculation/

WASHINGTON POST
— Texas’s GOP platform is getting more extreme — and influential. Texas is often first to introduce proposed legislation that is copied by other conservative states or picked up by national candidates. DD: RINO leaders in Illinois ever-increasingly make it clear that to win elections, they want the Illinois Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party and to officially dump its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/13/texass-gop-platform-is-getting-more-extreme-influential/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use reparations to get more votes from Blacks and promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/16/illinois-reparations-trump-department-of-justice-race/81deb420-69e6-11f1-830e-133d20cadd28_story.html

AUSTIN POST
— Texas Republicans add IVF ban and mail-in voting restrictions to party platform.
https://www.statesman.com/news/politics/article/texas-gop-platform-2026-convention-22289377.php

TEXAS TRIBUNE
— At Texas GOP convention, friction overshadows talk of unity. The Republican Party of Texas’ meeting in Houston offered a look at the state GOP’s next chapter and messaging heading into the fall’s midterm elections.
https://www.texastribune.org/2026/06/14/texas-gop-convention-houston-2026/

KVUE
— After Texas GOP convention, cracks emerge in push for party unity.
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/politics/vote-texas/texas-gop-convention-party-fractures-calls-for-unity/269-31aa2bf6-4a67-4514-9fb3-2f3b3f68df45

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What ‘Created Equal’ Means in America. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was born with tremendous unfair advantages because I was born a White male. In addition, my father earned enough money that he could send me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/what-created-equal-means-in-america-e38ca51c

FORTUNE
— DD: What did you do to qualify yourself for better paying jobs? I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/16/gallup-american-jobs-quality-study-gates-foundation-gen-z-work-life-balance/

FED SMITH
— Probationary procedures. DD: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. Nevertheless, they did everything that could to get me to transfer back to IRS, transfer to another federal agency, or quit. They gave me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, and unfair performance appraisals. They kept me off audits of IRS. They delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. Further, previously, in 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree and he disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete.
https://www.fedsmith.com/2026/06/16/most-2025-probationary-federal-employee-separations-were-voluntary/

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— NDA proposal draws concerns of ‘chilling effect’ on federal employees. Whistleblower protection advocates and a member of Congress said an NDA proposal may cause federal employees to stay silent instead of reporting disclosures. DD: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly complained about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors’ ever-increasing political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. Consequently, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions against me.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/06/nda-proposal-draws-concerns-of-chilling-effect-on-federal-employees/

FEDERAL RETIREMENT
— Retirement cost analysis. DD: My Civil Service Retirement System pension is dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://federalretirement.net/retirement-cost-analysis/

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Campus Graduation Chaos Shows Higher Education Needs a Serious Moral Rese.
https://www.heritage.org/education/commentary/campus-graduation-chaos-shows-higher-education-needs-serious-moral-reset

LAW
— DD: What are your demographics? According to Democrat and RINO leaders, if you have problems, and if you have the following demographics, conservatives cause your problems: liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2026/06/16/eeoc-moves-to-end-collection-of-demographic-data-but-states-may-fill-the-void/

CREATORS SYNDICATE
— DD: Democrat leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to promote hatred against Republicans.
https://www.creators.com/read/Crime-and-Conduct/06/26/trump-administration-continues-onslaught-on-diversity

ADVOCATE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/travel/route-66-dispatch-history

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

WORKERS WORLD
— DD: Hate-filled America-hating America-haters use Blacks to promote more hatred against America.
https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93270/

June 16, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker for President.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/16/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-bruce-rauner-presidential-bid/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/06/16/mayoral-working-group-recommends-policy-changes-reducing-barriers-for-trans-chicagoans
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker for President.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2026/06/16/gov-pritzker-potential-2028-presidential-run-democrats-have-lost-our-way
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/16/birthright-citizenship-is-before-the-supreme-court-heres-what-illinois-families-should-know
— DD: Pritzker budget takes more money away from those who have demographics that vote Republicans and gives that money to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/springfield/2026/06/16/pritzker-signs-illinois-budget-trump-social-media-tax
— DD: Democrat leaders use Trump’s cage fight against him.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/16/coinciding-birthdays-donald-trump-80th-neil-steinberg-granddaughter

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260616/marijuana/des-plaines-easing-sign-rules-for-cannabis-stores/

WGN9
— New Illinois GOP Chair Bob Grogan on growing the party ahead of November
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/wgn-the-point-politics-chicago-illinois/new-illinois-gop-chair-bob-grogan-on-growing-the-party-ahead-of-november/

FOX32
— Man charged with assaulting federal employee outside Chicago courthouse. DD: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for almost 29 years. My critics/opponents despise/hate federal employees and federal retirees.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/man-charged-with-assaulting-federal-employee-outside-chicago-courthouse/ar-AA1HByjC

WBEZ
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/06/16/school-districts-trans-kids-pay-anti-trans-lawsuits

RIVER BENDER
— Plummer Criticizes Pritzker After Signing of FY2027 State Budget
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/senator-plummer-criticizes-pritzker-after-signing-of-fy2027-state-budget-94323.cfm

FOX ILLINOIS & WAND TV
— Illegal immigration increased car insurance premiums
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/fact-focus-trump-says-illegal-immigration-increased-car-insurance-premiums-experts-say-otherwise/article_fbddc322-4be7-59e2-a797-9382b24dda6d.html
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/fact-focus-trump-says-illegal-immigration-increased-car-insurance-premiums-experts-say-otherwise/article_0c22cc98-1059-5dc7-91c9-23423ebf96c2.html

CWB CHICAGO
— Grant Park cross burner was sending a message to ‘MAGA Christian nationalist supporters’ of Donald Trump
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/grant-park-cross-burner-was-sending-a-message-to-maga-christian-nationalist-supporters-of-donald-trump.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A 21-year-old University of Illinois Chicago senior says he is the person who set fire to a cross in Grant Park last week, though he insists he had no idea that burning crosses are a symbol of the Ku Klux Klan. Merlin Lu told NBC 5 in an interview Monday that his target was not a racial group, but rather supporters of President Donald Trump, whom he described as “MAGA Christian nationalist supporters.” His chosen method of protest: placing a red baseball cap atop a cross, the central symbol of Christianity, and setting it ablaze.)

CHALKBEAT CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/chicago/2026/06/16/illinois-rep-chuy-garcia-introduces-house-legislation-to-protect-immigrant-children/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Bailey Supporters Say Top Dabrowski Allies Continue Primary Fight Months After Election
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/06/bailey-supporters-say-top-dabrowski-allies-continue-primary-fight-months-after-election.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Republicans will hold a midterm convention in Dallas this September. Senate candidate Ken Paxton announced the convention during a tele-town hall. President Trump is expected to speak at the convention. The GOP aims to boost voter turnout and enthusiasm with this convention.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/16/gop-picks-dallas-midterm-convention-says-ken-paxton/
— Foiled plot targeting UFC event at White House meant to set off revolution by killing Trump
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/16/foiled-plot-targeting-ufc-event-white-house-meant-set-revolution/
— Vance blames the political left’s rhetoric for planned attacks targeting the UFC event
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/16/jd-vance-blames-political-lefts-rhetoric-planned-attacks-targeting/
— Is removal of Trump’s name from Kennedy Center a metaphor? DD: Trump opposes abortion. Democrat leaders remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center building. In 2025, Democrat leaders removed Hyde’s name from the DuPage County Courthouse because he opposed abortion.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/15/removal-trumps-name-kennedy-center-metaphor/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Vance praises Trump’s ‘rebellion’ against GOP donors in new book. DD: Far too many major Republican donors reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/presidential/4610021/vance-praises-trump-rebellion-against-gop-donors-new-book/

NEW YORK POST
— Freedom 250 White House attack suspect posted wild anti-Trump, antisemitic TikTok memes
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/vile-social-media-posts-of-alleged-ufc-250-plotter-exposed-as-feds-say-tiktok-was-used-to-recruit/
— ‘Assassination culture’ and anti-Christian extremism fueled alleged plot against Erika Kirk
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/us-news/assassination-culture-and-anti-christian-extremism-fueled-alleged-plot-against-erika-kirk-report/
— Cornell student who ‘won’t work for Jews’ is a symptom of a far darker hatred that must be stopped. DD: Far too many of my Democrat GAO superiors, supervisors, coworker, and subordinates were antisemitic. They were furious when I volunteered to work for the office’s Jewish GS-15 (currently $165,386-$197,200/year manager in late 1989.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/16/opinion/cornell-student-who-wont-work-for-jews-is-a-symptom-of-a-far-darker-hatred-that-must-be-stopped/

JUDICIAL WATCH
— United States Seeks to Intervene in Judicial Watch Lawsuit Challenging Evanston Reparations Program
https://www.judicialwatch.org/evanston-reparations-program/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
— A Person Is in Custody in a Chicago Cross Burning Investigation.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/illinois/articles/2026-06-16/a-person-is-in-custody-in-a-chicago-cross-burning-investigation-police-say
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The man said he protesting President Donald Trump and not making a racist statement. “I did know about this historical relevance beforehand. But I didn’t know the severity, how racially motivated it may seem from what I did,” the man told the TV station. “Cause my protest has nothing to do with race, nothing to do with gender.” Cross burnings in the U.S. have historically been seen as symbols of hate and intimidation against Black people and have often been connected to the Ku Klux Klan. The Chicago Police Department’s communications office confirmed that a person was in custody in connection with the case, but no other details were released. The man interviewed on WMAQ said he was protesting the “ruling class” and Christian nationalists who support Trump. He said he put a red MAGA hat on the cross.)

MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. I should write about Democrat success in doing that in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West district, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. Ever increasingly, I am a minority in more ways.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/relationships/donald-trump-and-the-republican-party-love-and-hate/ar-AA25JaRx

PEW RESEARCH
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2013/07/31/whither-the-gop-republicans-want-change-but-split-over-partys-direction/

SALON
— Working class. DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I had to work my way through college. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/16/trumps-white-working-class-base-may-finally-have-had-enough/

June 16, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage Blacks to be LGBTQers.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/15/juneteenth-events-2026/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Brave Space Alliance envisions Chicago as a place where the lives of Black and brown LGBTQ people are protected, valued and thriving. As part of their ongoing initiatives, the nonprofit will launch “Embodied, a Juneteenth and Pride Month Celebration.” This performance-forward event features a mix of drag, burlesque, music and dance performances by some of the city’s most celebrated Black transgender, gender nonconforming and queer artists. The inaugural event’s lineup includes performers like Sasha Love, Luv Ami-Stoole, Trans Voices Cabaret, Mo Swallowtail and the Tap’Root Fluidity, and Po’Chop in what is sure to be a celebratory and revelatory event. 7:30 pm June 20 at Thalia Hall, 1807 S. Allport St.; the event is 18+, more information at ticketweb.com )

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/15/immigrant-moms-worry-babies-could-be-left-stateless-as-they-await-supreme-court-decision-on-birthright

ABC7
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/daca-news-recipients-face-donald-trump-administration-processing-delays-uncertainty-legal-challenges-continue/19303983/
— California Gov. Gavin Newsom says DOJ is investigating him and his wife. DD: To get rid of me, my IRS superiors not only investigated my travel vouchers and education deductions, they disallowed them.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/california-gov-gavin-newsom-says-department-justice-is-investigating-wife/19303418/

NBC5
— New head of Illinois GOP discusses state of the party in the Land of Lincoln. The new head of the Illinois Republican Party sat down with Mary Ann Ahern to discuss President Trump, and the state of the GOP in today’s political climate in Illinois.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/new-head-of-illinois-gop-discusses-state-of-the-party-in-the-land-of-lincoln/3949044/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yxmYDG38Fg

FOX32
— Bob Grogan elected as new Chair of Illinois Republican Party.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-nmyzv71x0n9w4mhg
— Teen takeovers: What’s driving them and how they can be prevented. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? The Democrat Party platform drives Democrat teen takeovers. It destroys traditional marriage and family. It destroys personal responsibility. It destroys respect for the rule of law.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-w84czbsm358oipul
https://www.yahoo.com/news/videos/bob-grogan-elected-chair-illinois-213556651.html

WGN RADIO
— Time to invest in a whole-home generator.
https://wgnradio.com/john-williams/lou-manfredini-time-to-invest-in-a-whole-home-generator/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD & WJBC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/video/prairie-pride-coalition-supporting-lgbtq-community-since-1995/11886502/
https://www.wjbc.com/2026/06/15/53399/

Q98.5
— DD: Because pot pushers are losing sales to intoxicating hemp sellers, Pritzker cracks down on intoxicating hemp sellers.
https://q985online.com/new-illinois-hemp-thc-law-minors/

IPM NEWS
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI are reparations. Blacks have already received many trillions of dollars in AA and DEI, that is, they have already received many trillions of dollars in reparations. My Democrat Black GAO subordinate is just one example. My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my Democrat Black GAO subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. Democrats make Republicans pay the price of AA and DEI, that is, they make Republicans pay reparations. They especially make Republicans who are the following pay the price of AA and DEI: conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/should-descendants-of-enslaved-black-americans-receive-reparations-an-illinois-commission-wants-your-opinions/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Senate race: Don Tracy, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, has beefed up his political team, hiring nationally known Republican strategists Joe King and Scott Schweitzer of The Strategy Group Company as general consultants and Illinois political consultant Dennis Cook, founder of Strive Strategies, to his campaign. The move came after Collin Corbett of Cor Strategies exited after the primary in order to make an independent run for governor.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/16/three-decades-in-one-question-left-00962697

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do your critics/opponents want the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to be? My critics/opponents want the IRP to be the Illinois Democrat Lite Party. But political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. What do you hope that the IRP will do differently under Bob Grogan? I hope that it will dump its Democrat Lite approach and instead promote the Republican Party platform, and especially its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. Of course, I certainly hope that the IRP will encourage everyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How will Bob Grogan treat me and treat my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters? According to my critics/opponents, I have caused all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. They have had their operatives and their dupes take many bid adverse actions against me since 2000. They had them a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) rudely defeat my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position in 2004.

http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you have in common with Illinois Republican Party (IRP) chairman Bob Grogan? Grogan and I are both long-time DuPage County residents, Republican Precinct Committeemen, CPAs, Certified Fraud Examiners, and members of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, and Illinois CPA Society. Grogan was my IRP State Central Committee member 2018-2022. I worked hard to elect and to reelect Grogan as DuPage County Auditor in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you wanted to run for a government office? Since I was 49 years old in 1997, my DuPage County critics/opponents have falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I wanted to run for DuPage County Auditor. To discourage me from considering doing that, they have taken many big adverse actions against me. I should write about my DuPage County critics/opponents and the many big adverse actions that they have taken against me. Of course, they ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth what did to help elect and to reelect Jim Rasins DuPage County Auditor in 2000 and 2004 and Bob Grogan in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024. My critics/opponents base their false accusations against me on my being highly qualified for the office. I became a licensed CPA. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I earned professional certifications in fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years as a Revenue Officer, the last 5 1/2 years at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year and I worked for GAO for almost 18 years as an Analyst, the last 11 years of at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $118,984-$154,682/year. I have master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance. I first visited the DuPage County Auditor’s office in 1986 when I became the Membership Director for the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Chicago Chapter (CC). I remember recruiting Rasins to speak at an AGA CC event. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Congress should make E-Verify Trump’s lasting immigration legacy. Mandatory worksite checks would dry up the jobs magnet and outlast future Democrat reversals. DD: To be conservative, that is, to be Republican, is to promote E-Verify. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money. They are easier to exploit. They vote for Democrats.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/15/congress-make-e-verify-trumps-lasting-immigration-legacy/
— Too many Americans do not appreciate America
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/15/many-americans-not-appreciate-america/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Birthright citizenship: A battle for the survival of our republic. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4608345/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-14-amendment/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The land, infrastructure, institutions, and accumulated wealth of the United States constitute real property and wealth, built, defended, and held in perpetuity as an endowment by and for generations of American citizens and those who entered lawfully. These assets exist because citizens labored, sacrificed, paid taxes, and, when necessary, gave their lives in defense of the nation. It is therefore preposterous to assert that the fertilization of an egg by two foreign nationals abroad, followed by a deliberate legal or illegal border crossing, creates a constitutional birthright to our inheritance. The word inheritance requires the person who bequeathed it to have owned it. A geographic point on a map, North, South, East, or West of a border, has no volition and cannot bequeath anything. Virtually no other nation allows such a preposterous practice.)
— Why no reckoning over the SPLC ‘hate map’?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4608149/why-no-reckoning-over-the-splc-hate-map-guy-benson/

AMERICAN INTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Working class. DD: My critics/opponents look down on the working class. I was a member of the working class 1964-1997. I had to work my way through college. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assemble line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971. I pumped more gasoline 1971-1972. I collected delinquent taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. I should write about my critic/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.aei.org/podcast/the-identity-of-the-gop-with-patrick-ruffini/

AMERICAN THINKER
— 250 Years Into The Experiment, Democrats Threaten Catastrophe. What happens if they win the midterms? DD: If Democrats take control of the U.S. House and Senate, what adverse actions will they take against you first?
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/06/250_years_into_the_experiment_democrats_threaten_catastrophe.html

BIZ PAC REVIEW
— DD: How many of their illegals will Democrat leaders have vote in the November 3, 2026 election?
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/06/15/midterm-polls-now-apparently-include-ice-agents-says-mullin-1645975/

DAVID CYCLEBACK
— Hidden Costs of Affirmative Action. How preferences intended to reduce discrimination can create new forms of stigma. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) 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. My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my Democrat Black GAO subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://davidcycleback.substack.com/p/a-hidden-cost-of-affirmative-action
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Their concern is that when institutions openly acknowledge that race and other identity characteristics My Democrat GAO superiors used AA and DEI to force me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my Democrat Black GAO subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. are primarily considered in admissions, hiring, promotions, and scholarships, and when selection criteria are modified to increase representation, observers may begin to wonder whether a particular individual’s success was earned solely through merit or partly through preferential treatment. Over time, some beneficiaries begin asking themselves the same question. As a result, highly qualified minority students and professionals may find their achievements viewed with skepticism and, in cases, may wrestle with uncertainty about whether others regard their success as fully earned.)

FEDERALIST
— ‘Inclusive’ Left Attacks Giants Players For Expressing Christian Faith On ‘Pride Night.’ Most leftists believe that Christians shouldn’t be allowed to express their faith or live it out in the public square.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/15/inclusive-left-attacks-giants-players-for-expressing-christian-faith-on-pride-night/

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— D.C. Escalating Response to Teen Takeover Chaos. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? The Democrat Party platform drives Democrat teen takeovers. It destroys traditional marriage and family. It destroys personal responsibility. It destroys respect for the rule of law.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/06/15/dc_escalating_response_to_teen_takeover_chaos__154225.amp.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— They’ll call everyone else a Nazi, but the media aren’t sure about their Nazi tattoo guy.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5921173-maine-senate-campaign-nazi-tattoo/

MSN
— Newsom alleges Trump ordered DOJ probe into him, wife. DD: To get rid of me, my IRS superiors not only probed my travel vouchers and my education deductions, they disallowed them.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/newsom-alleges-trump-ordered-doj-probe-into-him-wife/gm-GMDBBF91E3

ACCOUNTING
— Certified Public Accountant. DD: I have been a CPA since I was 30 in 1979. My critics/opponents have always stressed that while I passed the examination on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.accounting.com/certifications/certified-public-accountant/

INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS
— Certified Internal Auditor. DD: I have been a CIA since I was 32 in 1981. My critics/opponents have always stressed that while I passed the examination on my first attempt, my scores were not that great.
https://www.theiia.org/en/certifications/cia/

YAHOO FINANCE
— Certified Fraud Examiner. DD: I have been a CFE since I was 41 in 1990. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/certified-fraud-examiner-cfe-195723273.html

ASSOCIATION OF GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTANTS
— Certified Government Financial Manager. I have been a CGFM since I was 45 in 1994. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://www.agacgfm.org/cgfm-certification/

INSTITUTE OF INTERNAL AUDITORS
— Certified Financial Services Auditor. I have been a CFSA since I was 47 in 1996. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://www.theiia.org/globalassets/documents/certifications/ccsa-cfsa-cgap-transition-faqs.pdf

ASSOCIATION OF CERTIED FRAUD EXAMINERS
— Forensic Accountant. I have been a Forensic Accountant since I was 48 in 1997. My critics/opponents have always stressed that I became one not by passing an examination, but by grandfathering in.
https://www.acfe.com/career/career-paths/career-path-accounting/career-path-detail-forensic-accountant

NEW YORK TIMES
— ICE Wants Local Police to Enforce Immigration Law. These Officers Signed Up. DD: None have signed up in Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/06/12/us/politics/ice-local-police-immigration-287g.html
— Trump’s decision to host Ultimate Fighting Championship bouts at the White House on Sunday put him at the center of a sport that is popular with many young men — a demographic that swung toward him in the 2024 election but has since shifted away. DD: I have never been a fan of contact sports, neither were my parents, neither were my ancestors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/us/politics/trump-ufc-politics-midterms.html
— DD: Anti-Christians and anti-Americans are against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/opinion/christian-nationalism-maga-france.html
— Trump’s Fight Night Was as Absurd as Promised.  DD: I have never been a fan of contact sports, neither were my parents, neither were my ancestors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/trump-ufc-fight.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. I should write about Democrat success in doing that in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton’s West district, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. Ever increasingly, I am a minority in more ways.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/15/aapi-asian-american-america-250-immigration/3aab21e6-6870-11f1-830e-133d20cadd28_story.html

SACRAMENTO BEE
— Certified Internal Auditor Exam. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when I passed the CIA exam on my first attempt when I was 32 in 1981. None of my coworkers who they wanted to promote over me had taken the exam, let alone passed it.
https://www.sacbee.com/careers-education/certified-internal-auditor-exam/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Passing the Certified Internal Auditor exam can open doors to better pay, prestigious job titles, and long-term career growth. But let’s face it—the Certified Internal Auditor exam is tough.

GULF TODAY
— DD: When those who have demographics that vote for Republicans do better at something than those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, Democrat leaders blame that on discrimination against those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Overwhelmingly, a) those who earned master’s degrees with me in business (1976), accounting (1980), and finance (1997) were White males, b) those who passed the CPA examination with me (1979) and Certified Internal Auditor (1981) examination on our first attempt were White males, c) those who became certified fraud examiners with me (1990), government financial managers (1994), financial services auditors (1996), and forensic accountants (1997) were White males, and d) those who became licensed CPAs with me (1981) were White males. My critics/opponents have always used the aforesaid to turn minorities and females against me.
https://www.gulftoday.ae/opinion/2026/06/15/corporate-america-is-no-meritocracy

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Medical Bills Threaten to Derail Young Adults’ Finances. DD: My critics/opponents are ever-increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance premiums since 1966 and 72% of my wife’s health insurance premiums since 1978 because I was a federal employee for almost 30 years and because I have been a federal retiree for almost 29 years.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/young-adult-finance-medical-bill-debt-e39b0123

FORBES
— Illinois Bill Could Reshape Disparate Impact Challenges To Hiring. DD: Democrats and RINOs have always used disparate impact against Republicans. 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. In 2000, RINOs got a woman to unsuccessfully run against me for Republican Precinct Committeeman (RPC). Since then, they have tried hard, but they have failed to get a minority, female, younger person, or veteran to run against me for RPC. In 2015, to defeat me, they drew me into Jeanee Ives’ precinct, but I succeeded in getting that redrawing rescinded.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alonzomartinez/2026/06/15/illinois-bill-could-reshape-disparate-impact-challenges-to-hiring/

CATHOLIC ANSWERS
— The Fantasy Spouse Is Keeping Catholics Single. DD: My wife and I met at a Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago social event. I am Missouri Synod Lutheran and she is Catholic. What helped you become marriage material? By the time we got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.catholic.com/magazine/blog/the-fantasy-spouse-is-keeping-catholics-single

CATHOLIC STAND
— DD: What role did your ancestors play in slavery? My critics/opponents have always stressed that my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://catholicstand.com/pope-leo-xiv-asks-pardon-for-the-vaticans-role-in-slavery-the-apology-that-took-centuries/comment-page-1/

AMERICAN BAZAAR
— American students are no longer majority in schools. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats, anticipate/expect that in your school district, fewer and fewer and fewer students will be White, male, German American, or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://americanbazaaronline.com/2026/06/14/american-students-are-no-longer-majority-in-schools-482800/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: An analysis of newly released U.S. Census Bureau data found that American students who are neither Latino nor multiracial represented fewer than 50% of students enrolled from nursery school through graduate programs in 2024. The shift follows decades of declining American enrollment and rising participation among Hispanic, Asian, Black immigrant, and multiracial populations. The figures show American student enrollment falling from 46.7 million in 2000 to 36.6 million in 2024, a decline driven largely by lower birth rates, an aging population, and slower demographic growth among American Americans. At the same time, Latino enrollment has expanded significantly, reshaping classrooms across the country, particularly in early childhood and K-12 education.)

ROGER EBERT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.rogerebert.com/black-writers-week/250-years-later-and-blacks-are-still-politically-and-racially-enslaved

June 15, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— At least 19 shot, 6 fatally, in weekend gun violence across Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-least-eight-shot-fatally-gun-violence-city-police-department-says/19287969/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: The Democrat Party platform drives Democrat teen takeovers. It destroys traditional marriage and family. It destroys personal responsibility. It destroys respect for the rule of law.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/15/chicago-teen-takeovers-causes/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/summer-heats-driving-chicago-teen-100000507.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/14/annual-pride-parade-in-downtown-aurora-seen-as-having-impact-around-the-fox-valley-this-is-important/

ABC7 & CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE & FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders decry Trump celebrating his turning 80 with a UFC cage-fight at the White House.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ufc-fight-white-house-today-trump-turns-80-showstopping-spectacle-cage-fights-south-lawn/19294864/
https://www.news-gazette.com/trump-celebrates-turning-80-with-a-ufc-cage-fighting-event-while-big-issues-loom-over/article_8451420e-8a76-5861-a15e-b68665aaab64.html
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/the-latest-trump-celebrates-his-80th-birthday-with-a-ufc-cage-fight-at-the-white/article_ca828266-2098-5b6d-bcea-dcbca0d5e579.html

BELLEVIEW NEWS DEMOCRAT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/lgbtq-families-metro-east-belleville-112101579.html

CENTRALILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/prairie-pride-picnic-normal/amp/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn America to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Confederates.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-14/fate-of-historic-slavery-exhibit-targeted-by-trump-hangs-in-the-balance

DELIA RAMIREZ
— DD: Ramirez ever-increasingly promotes the Democrat Party platform.
https://ramirez.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/ramirez.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/-spanish-1362026-19315-2.pdf

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Money’s worth: Conservative YouTuber Nick Shirley packed the ballroom at Friday’s Illinois GOP fundraiser in Elk Grove Village. But some Republicans wonder whether the $30,000 speaking fee bought much beyond a one-night appearance. Despite his sizable online audience — including 1.6 million followers on X — we haven’t seen Shirley post about Friday’s Red Gala. Targeted audience: Illinois GOP Chair Bob Grogan said bringing Shirley in was part of a larger effort to connect with younger voters, a group that Republicans have long struggled to reach. “The Republican Party’s age-old problem is that we have failed to attract young people,” he said. Republicans “sort of bucked that trend” in the last election cycle, Grogan added, by finding messages and communication channels that resonated with younger audiences. The generational divide was on display Friday. While a few older attendees had never heard of Shirley, Grogan said younger Republicans were eager to see him in person. He said that underscores the need for the party to meet voters where they are — on YouTube and other digital platforms. The challenge, of course, is that the reach doesn’t end when the event wraps up. If the goal is to introduce the Illinois GOP to Shirley’s audience, it would help if some of that content actually made it onto his social media feeds. . .Events: June 24: The DuPage County GOP is holding its summer kickoff party.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/15/the-obamas-back-in-chicago-00961830

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What are your demographics? When did your ancestors immigrate? According to Democrat leaders, the more of the following that you are and the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from slavery the more that you should pay the price of Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, and/or German American. I am all of the aforesaid and all of my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. My critics/opponents have always made me pay the price of AA and DEI big time. In my defense, I have always stressed that all my ancestors have always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— My critics/opponents want Blacks to get preference. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Life is a series of choices. What big choices in life did you make? Mine include a) following and promoting conservative principles, b) not becoming a Democrat or a RINO, c) working my way through college rather than relying on the G.I Bill, d) avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment, e) earning enough money to pay for my college expenses and to buy new cars and real estate, f) earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license to advance my career, g) making myself marriage material and getting married, h) staying a federal employee once I became one, i) complaining about my federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, j) becoming the subject of a 4-page Money Magazine One Person’s Finances article, k) taking a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, l) becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat superiors with the aforesaid discrimination, m) succumbing to my Democrat superiors’ threats and retiring when I was 49 in 1997, n) filing lawsuits, o) becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman, p) becoming the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, q) backing Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Illinois Republican Party gubernatorial primary, r) becoming an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, s) becoming the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, t) organizing Wheaton’s 9/11 events, u) promoting Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, and v) leading efforts to ban video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Nick Shirley Headlines Major GOP Fundraiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/15/nick-shirley-headlines-major-gop-fundraiser/
— One End of a New Crude Oil Pipeline Would Terminate in Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/14/one-end-of-a-new-crude-oil-pipeline-would-end-in-illinois/
— What McHenry County’s Water Expert Has To Say about Data Centers
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/14/what-mchenry-countys-water-expert-has-to-say-about-data-centers/
— Bizarrely, Apartment Fire in Oak Lawn Qualifies McHenry, Will, DuPage, Kane and Lake County Homeowners, Renters, Non-Profits and Businesses for Low Cost Small Business Administration Loans
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/13/bizzarely-apartment-fire-in-oak-lawn-qualifies-homeowners-renters-non-profits-and-businesses-for-low-cost-small-business-administration-loans/
— Pritzker Presidential Support Within the Margin of Error
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/13/pritzker-presidential-support-within-the-margin-of-error/
— Unintended Consequences of Action at Algonquin Township’s Annual Meeting
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/12/unintended-consequences-of-action-at-algonquin-townships-annual-meeting/
— Bailey Greatly Outraising Corbett
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/bailey-greatly-outraising-corbett/
— 2.4% to 12.5% of Illinois Homeowners Face Federal Capital Gains Taxes Upon Sale, Plus 4.9% State Income Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/2-4-to-12-5-of-illinois-homeowners-face-federal-capital-gains-taxes-upon-sale-plus-4-9-state-income-tax/
— Crystal Lake Trump Store Holding Potluck Celebration of Trump’s June 14th Birthday
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/crystal-lake-trump-store-holding-potluck-celebration-of-trumps-june-14th-birthday/
— Althoff and Gottemoller Fund Raiser June 29th in Crystal Lake
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/althoff-and-gottemoller-fund-raiser-june-29th-in-crystal-lake/
— Danijela Sandberg Schedules Fund Raiser
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/danijela-sandberg-schedules-fund-raiser/
— Distributing Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/distributing-taxes/
— NITA (New Name for RTA) Raising Sales Taxes on August 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/11/nita-new-name-for-rta-raising-sales-taxes-on-august-1st/
— Imagine If Politicians Had to Gain Voter Approval Before Raising Taxes
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/image-if-politicians-had-to-gain-voter-approval-before-raising-taxes/
— Ness Passes Four Bills
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/ness-passes-four-bills/
— Emanuel Sets Up Pritzker for a Fall, Whether Illinois Loses or Subsidizes the Bears
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/emanuel-sets-up-pritzker-for-a-fall-whether-illinois-loses-or-subsidizes-the-bears/
— Allen Skillicorn as Kingmaker
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/10/allen-skillicorn-as-kingmaker/
— Assisted Suicide, Other Bills Take Effect July 1st
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/09/assisted-suicide-other-bills-take-effect-july-1st/
— Laurie Parman Schedules Fundraiser for State Rep. Campaign Wednesday, June 17th
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/09/laurie-parman-schedules-fundraiser-for-state-rep-campaign-wednesday-june-17th/
— Jeanne Ives Publishes Cartoon of JB’s Punting Bears to Indiana
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/08/jeanne-ives-publishes-cartoon-of-jbs-punting-bears-to-indiana/
— Governance: Indiana vs. Illinois
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/07/governance-indiana-vs-illinois/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— ‘Pride Month’ nothing to be proud of
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/14/pride-month-nothing-proud/

NEW YORK POST
— How the Southern Poverty Law Center drives demonization of its conservative foes
https://nypost.com/2026/06/14/opinion/southern-poverty-law-center-doesnt-just-go-against-the-bad-guys/

BREITBART
— Restaurant Let Illegals Use SSNs of Former Employees
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/14/report-former-employees-face-big-tax-bills-after-north-carolina-restaurant-allowed-illegals-to-steal-social-security-numbers/
— Biden-Appointed Judge: Trump Administration Must Restore Leftist Ideology to National Parks
https://www.breitbart.com/law-and-order/2026/06/14/biden-appointed-judge-trump-administration-must-restore-leftist-ideology-to-national-parks/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Increasing Support for ‘Mass Deportations’
https://cis.org/Arthur/Latest-HarvardHarris-Poll-Shows-Increasing-Support-Mass-Deportations

COLLEGE FIX
— University broke state law to hire black candidate over more qualified white one. DD: My critics/opponents want Blacks to get preference. They were overjoyed when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less work experience than I had. He had less education than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-broke-state-law-to-hire-black-candidate-over-more-qualified-white-one/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Academic Achievement Gap Is a Knowledge Gap. DD: Neither of my parents attended college, my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, my mother never attended high school. But they sent me to Missouri Synod grade schools. That put me on track to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/14/academic-achievement-gap/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Children of married parents with high education levels are more likely to be healthy and succeed in school and life than their peers. Children from these families are also more likely to live above the poverty line and benefit from extracurricular activities such as music lessons, sports, and summer camp. These activities offer students prized background knowledge. Students from families with lower education levels must rely more on schools to provide information. Poor reading and math scores nationwide do not give confidence that schools in low-income areas are bridging the gap. Many schools have reduced time spent on history, science, geography, literature, and civics in favor of generic reading strategies, so-called social-emotional learning, and “gender” studies. Schools often cut the very subjects that help students.)
— Lawsuit Exposes Virginia’s Neo-Confederate Approach to Immigration. DD: Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War against Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/13/blatantly-unconstitutional-new-lawsuit-exposes-virginias-neo-confederate-immigration-policies/

FOX NEWS
— Katie Abraham’s father: Open borders were insane, politicians didn’t care, families like mine paid the price.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/open-borders-insane-politicians-didnt-care-families-like-mine-paid-price
— DHS directs ICE to deport illegal immigrants who vote in American elections
https://www.aol.com/articles/dhs-directs-ice-deport-illegal-191737993.html
— SPLC chief doubles down on placing Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA on ‘hate map.’  DD: TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were conservative groups. My critics/opponents are anti-conservative. I served as the TAPROOT chairman from 2005 until 2012 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. My critics/opponents hint/imply/argue that TAPROOT and ICRC were hate groups.
https://www.aol.com/articles/watch-splc-chief-doubles-down-191116000.html

PJ MEDIA
— DD: Leftist ideology is poison.
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/14/a-new-study-just-confirmed-the-lefts-worst-kept-secret-n4953961
— DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/06/14/the-dirty-little-secret-why-newspaper-dailies-are-killing-their-editorial-pages-n4953960

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/news/house-republicans-hold-another-hearing-210300406.html

MSN
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly blame all problems on Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/american-ideals-and-the-reality-of-inequality/ss-AA25vO8U
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/governor-desantis-signs-dei-ban-bill-in-jacksonville/ar-AA21ypBk

NEW YORK TIMES
— Americans Aren’t Money Savvy, and They’re Only Getting Worse. DD: I worked for IRS’s Collection Division for almost 9 years. Many delinquents taxpayers ask for payment agreements. I took many financial statements from them to determine ability to pay.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/your-money/americans-financial-knowledge.html
— FRONT PAGE: Wages Are Falling. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I have always  been overpaid. To qualify myself for better paying jobs, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/business/economy-trillionaire-wealth-wages.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. I argue that my wife and I are far better off today because we got married in 1978. Our marriage motivated me to earn a) two more master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-05-26/1950s-marriage-family-nostalgia-economic-inequality
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A majority of Americans believe our country’s culture and way of life have “mostly changed for the worse” since the 1950s, according to the Public Religion Research Institute’s 2025 American Values Survey. That includes 55% of white people, 53% of Black people and 57% of Latinos. For many, the problem lies in the collapse of the marriage system of that decade, when the majority of women married before they turned 21, only 6% of men and women reached age 35 without having married, and divorce rates fell to a postwar low of 9.2 divorces per 1,000 married women. The solution, according to the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” blueprint for family policy, is to incentivize early marriage and childbearing (for heterosexual partners only) and abolish no-fault divorce.)

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2026/06/10/olympic-gene-testing-woman-trans-athletes-2028-olympics/89948469007/

PRESS READER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. I argue that my wife and I are far better off today because we got married in 1978. Our marriage motivated me to earn a) two more master’s degrees, b) six professional certifications, and c) a professional license.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/rockdale-citiizen/20260614/281629606966269

CLICK 2 HOUSTON
— Americans fault news media for dividing nation. DD: The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/2023/05/01/poll-americans-fault-news-media-for-dividing-country/

COURIER JOURNAL
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racists.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-courier-journal-louisville-/20260614/282505780294786

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

GUARDIAN
— Choices in life. DD: What big choices in life did you make? Mine include a) following and promoting conservative principles, b) not becoming a Democrat or a RINO, c) working my way through college rather than relying on the G.I Bill, d) avoiding the Vietnam War draft with student deferments and a financial hardship deferment, e) earning enough money to pay for my college expenses and to buy new cars and real estate, f) earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license to advance my career, g) making myself marriage material and getting married, h) staying a federal employee once I became one, i) complaining about my federal superiors’ political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination, j) becoming the subject of a 4-page Money Magazine One Person’s Finances article, k) taking a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, l) becoming an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat superiors with the aforesaid discrimination, m) succumbing to my Democrat superiors’ threats and retiring when I was 49 in 1997, n) filing lawsuits, o) becoming a Republican Precinct Committeeman, p) becoming the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, q) backing Pat O’Malley in the 2002 Illinois Republican Party gubernatorial primary, r) becoming an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member, s) becoming the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairman, t) organizing Wheaton’s 9/11 events, u) promoting Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, and v) leading efforts to ban video gambling and the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/02/the-big-idea-could-you-have-made-different-choices-in-life

June 14, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Juneteenth. DD: Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/juneteenth-elgin-music-festival-panton-family/
— Side-by-side Wheaton mansions are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M. DD: How diverse is your precinct economically? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse economically. Generally, the further south that you go in my precinct, the higher that household incomes and housing values are. Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road. Currently, the aforesaid side-by-side mansions in my precinct are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/05/wheaton-mansions/

ABC7
— JANUARY 8, 2023 FLASHMACK: DD: Those who want the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) to be the Illinois Democrat Lite Party are destroying the IRP.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/jim-durkin-illinois-house-republican-resigning/12678017/

CBS2
— DD: Trump opposes abortion. Democrat leaders remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center building. In 2025, Democrat leaders removed Hyde’s name from the DuPage County Courthouse because he opposed abortion.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/trumps-name-removed-from-kennedy-center-building/

WGN9
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-weekend-morning-news/12th-annual-chicago-juneteenth-parade-set-to-take-over-west-side/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/local/2026/06/12/here-are-events-happening-to-celebrate-juneteenth-in-springfield/90456349007/

JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/lincoln-library-museum-celebrating-juneteenth-22302668.php

STATELINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly disparage America to disparage Republicans.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/national/ap-judge-orders-trump-administration-to-restore-national-park-changes-at-sites-that-disparaged-us/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— House conservatives mount push to codify Trump border policies.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/hill-politics/house-conservatives-mount-push-to-codify-trump-border-policies/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump turns 80 with a showstopping spectacle of cage fights at the White House. But big issues loom. Trump celebrates turning 80 with a UFC cage-fighting event on the White House’s South Lawn.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-turns-80-with-a-showstopping-spectacle-of-cage-fights-at-the-white-house-but/article_2b136f66-ab21-5bd9-a498-36187534c370.html
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/juneteenth-family-day-celebration/article_1f3fee3d-9725-582c-b5f9-db89efa79f1a.html

WCIA
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.aol.com/news/guide-celebrating-juneteenth-central-illinois-013447577.html

WSIL TV
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.wsiltv.com/news/illinois/city-of-carbondale-announces-juneteenth-celebration-series/article_bd518684-ccf3-4af0-b590-49ee55f64dac.html

WAND TV
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://www.wandtv.com/community/5-things-to-do-this-weekend-across-central-illinois-june-12-14/article_a2bb17de-bc1f-47c1-bc7a-a5602ca4c1b7.html

WQAD
— Illinois distributes first $25M to local pharmacies in low-income areas to help them compete. DD: How wealthy is/was your hometown. To demonize, denigrate, and condemn my parents and me as being filthy rich, my critics/opponents have always falsely hinted/implied that Crete was filthy rich when I lived there 1948-1972.
https://www.wqad.com/article/news/state/illinois-distributes-first-25m-to-local-pharmacies-to-help-them-compete/526-88ae94bf-9520-493b-9c33-68b81b4811de

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/a-look-inside-new-obama-museum-ahead-of-its-juneteenth-official-opening/

IPM NEWS
— DD: Juneteenth. Were it not for Republicans, there would be no Juneteenth. All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They always lived in northeast Illinois. They all were Republicans because Republicans ended slavery.
https://ipmnewsroom.org/champaign-danville-and-urbana-to-mark-juneteenth-by-celebrating-black-freedom-and-families/

CWB CHICAGO
— A 21-year-old Indiana man was killed when a gunman armed with an illegally modified pistol opened fire during a stunt driving “sideshow” in the Ford City Mall parking lot early Saturday.
https://cwbchicago.com/2026/06/gunman-sprays-ford-city-parking-lot-with-automatic-gunfire-killing-man-during-car-sideshow.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Glen Ellyn residents say spiking encounters with volatile homeless population, lack of policing ‘not a compassionate answer’ from the village. DD: The Democrat Party platform destroys traditional marriage and family, that is, it promotes homelessness.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/glen-ellyn-residents-say-spiking-encounters-with-volatile-homeless-population-lack-of-policing-not-a-compassionate-answer-from-the-village

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago’s sustainable community high schools: Lower outcomes, higher costs. The Chicago Teachers Union’s preferred model fails in academic proficiency, absenteeism and cost. DD: My parents sent me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicagos-sustainable-community-high-schools-lower-outcomes-higher-costs/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Registration is open for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day Parade. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153  The deadline is June 26. The cost is $183.58. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Since I became a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Wheaton in 1999, I have encouraged Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct to walk in Wheaton Independence Day parades. In 2003, the day after all the announced Republican candidates for U.S. Senate attended (Cox, Kathuria, McKenna, Oberweis, and Ryan) had walked in the parade, they all attended a picnic that I had organized in the Prairie Path Park in my precinct. More than 200 attended. In 2005, I started raising $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders to help sponsor the parade and fireworks. Each year I would hand-deliver 500 parade flyers to the homes and businesses along the parade route. In 2007, I raised $2,000 for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade. But my critics/opponents ended that in 2021 by having the Wheaton Park District stop parade and fireworks sponsorships. 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. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take many other adverse actions against me. They want to de-politized the parade, that is, they want to keep Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders out of the parade.
— What discourages/stops you from helping elect Republican candidates? For me, it is knowing that far too many of them will blame me and will blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for their defeats. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What do you attribute your successes in life to? I attribute my successes in life to my parents who promoted personal responsibility and conservative principles. Their sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license. But my critics/opponents attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your purpose in life? My purpose in life is to promote conservative principles. My following conservative principles enabled me to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative and that I promote conservative principles. I have always used my personal experiences to promote conservative principles. According to my critics/opponents, that disqualifies me as being a journalist. But they have no problem with journalists who falsely claim to be nonpartisan. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Who do your critics/opponents side with? My critics/opponents side with a) liberals and moderates who are against conservatives, b) Democrats and RINOs who are against Republicans, c) minorities who are against Whites, d) women who are against men, e) younger people who are against older people, f) those who have less money who are against those who have more money, g) unmarried people who are against married people, h) those who have children who are against those who do not have children, i) those who are against federal employees and retirees, j) those who are against reporters and journalists, k) veterans who are against draft avoiders, l) non-Protestants who are against Protestants, m) non-German Americans who are against German Americans, n) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time who are against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, o) countries that are against America, and/or p) citizens of foreign countries who are against citizens of America. – Dave Diersen
http:http://www.gopillinois.com
— Have you had adverse actions taken against you? When your critics/opponents have had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against you, who has come to your defense? My critics/opponents continue to stress that when they had their operatives and their dupes take adverse actions against me, virtually no one came to my defense. They had their operatives and their dupes a) rudely throw me off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost getting ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, h) rudely defeat my bid to serve as MTRO Treasurer in 2004, i) etc. Who have you hoped would have come to your defense, but did not? For me, it is those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who I did the most to help elect and to help reelect in general elections. Further, my critics/opponents stress that when my Democrat superiors in the federal government took many big adverse actions against me including my Democrat GAO superiors forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, the following did not come to my defense: my Republican U.S. Senators and Representatives, Speakers Gingrich and Hastert, and the six professional associations that I was a member of: Illinois CPA Society, Institute of Internal Auditors, Nation Association of Fraud Examiners, Association of Government Accountants, National Association of Financial Services Auditors, and National Association of Forensic Accountants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Mayhem mars euphoria as New York City celebrates the Knicks’ first championship in 53 years
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/14/mayhem-mars-euphoria-new-york-city-celebrates-knicks-first/

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— Pritzker Depicts White People, Cops as Mosquitoes in Microaggression Training That Rails Against ‘Color Blindness.’  The training from Pritzker’s Department of Human Rights—offered to ‘private-sector, government, and public participants’—also shows a black woman torching the mosquitoes with a flamethrower.
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/jb-pritzker-admin-depicts-white-people-cops-as-mosquitoes-in-microaggression-training-that-rails-against-color-blindness/

AMERICAN THINKER
— The kids are not alright. Trump’s team is working night and day to track down all the alien minors “lost” by Joe Biden.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/the_kids_are_not_alright.html

ANN COULTER
— This Week in Hate Crimes. DD: My critics/opponents despise/hate Ann Coulter. My critics/opponents side with a) liberals and moderates who are against conservatives, b) Democrats and RINOs who are against Republicans, c) minorities who are against Whites, d) women who are against men, e) younger people who are against older people, f) those who have less money who are against those who have more money, g) unmarried people who are against married people, h) those who have children who are against those who do not have children, i) those who are against federal employees and retirees, j) those who are against reporters and journalists, k) veterans who are against draft avoiders, l) non-Protestants who are against Protestants, m) non-German Americans who are against German Americans, n) those whose ancestors have not been in America for a long time who are against those whose ancestors have been in America for a long time, o) countries that are against America, and/or p) citizens of foreign countries who are against citizens of America.
https://prescottenews.com/2026/06/13/opinion-this-week-in-hate-crimes-ann-coulter/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On Tuesday this week, 19-year-old Karmelo Anthony was convicted of murder for fatally stabbing a competitor at track meet in Texas last year. The killing quickly became national news because Anthony is black, his victim was white and black people were rooting for the stabber. The events that led to Anthony’s plunging a knife into Austin Metcalf’s heart are these: Driven for some reason to sit in a rival team’s tent, Anthony was repeatedly asked to leave by Metcalf. He refused, and tauntingly dared, “Touch me and see what happens.” Metcalf pushed him, whereupon Anthony knifed him. For killing a white kid who had the affrontery to 1) ask him to leave a tent he was not supposed to be in, and 2) touch him, Anthony collected more than $600,000 in donations and gained a small group of protesters outside the courthouse, yelling racist abuse at white people. Anthony’s admirers claimed to be protesting “white supremacy.” Don’t these white people realize Anthony is black? You can’t ask a black person to move! A minister outside the courthouse denounced the entire justice system as the “final frontier of racism and it’s legalized here.” A potential juror admitted, “I don’t know if I feel right putting a brother in jail.” One thing you’ll never see is a group of white people rooting for whites who kill blacks — or anyone else for that matter — just because the accused is white. Nobody protested the arrests of Derek Chauvin, Kim Potter, George Zimmerman or Jake Gardner, and two of those were accidents, the other two self-defense. [Point of law: Lying on your back, having your head smashed into a concrete sidewalk, or being locked in a chokehold so lethal that police are no longer allowed to use it, is not remotely similar to being pushed.] Gardner, for example, an Omaha bar owner, shot and killed a black career criminal who was choking him to death during a BLM riot. The district attorney, along with his entire homicide department, investigated and concluded the shooting was justified. But realizing he was white, the Democratic D.A. recused himself and assigned a black special prosecutor to the case. The black prosecutor promptly issued an arrest warrant for Gardner’s arrest, charging him with manslaughter, attempted first-degree assault, making terroristic threats, and use of a weapon to commit a felony. With a legion of white people rushing to disavow him, evict him, destroy his business, and manipulate the system to ensure his conviction, Gardner killed himself. In other news this week, a 14-year-old black kid in Indianapolis fatally shot a 23-year-old white man in the head during a carjacking. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department chief of police (the city’s first female police chief!!!) and deputy chief of police (a black guy, naturally) held press conferences, emoting over the horrible thing that had happened — to the killer. Chief Tanya Terry, who looks like Janet Reno’s younger, more butch sister, barely mentioned the victim, Brett Scrogham, a serious Christian, who’d been returning from having dinner with his family when he was attacked. Terry began by saying she had “mixed emotions” about his murder — as one does when an innocent man has been shot in the head. In her telling, the vicious cold blooded crime was merely a “tragic incident.” Tearing up, she bemoaned the fact that the suspected killer would “face lifelong consequences,” his life “forever impacted and changed by short-sighted, impulsive, and reckless decisions.” You know, if you think about it, you could say that Scrogham’s life was also impacted, in a way. Finally remembering him, Terry added, “There are victims on the other side of those decisions. And those victims matter.” Yes, we all remember the “tragic incident” in Minneapolis when police officer Derek Chauvin’s life was forever “impacted and changed.” It’s easy to forget, but there was another victim in that encounter, too. Deputy Chief Kendale Adams also called the unprovoked attack a “tragedy,” saying it was “a setback for all of us.” Yes, especially Scrogham. He then called on the community to ensure that potential teenage killers feel valued. “I know that those community-based organizations are out there doing this kind of work, and I would like to keep encouraging them to continue to do the work. … we have to do more.” Everybody has to step up and “do more,” except the teenagers who keep killing people. This is like Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) saying, the day after the Oct. 7 terrorist attack, that she grieved for both “the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost yesterday,” or Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) referring to the 9/11 terrorist attack as a day when “some people did something.” Sometimes it seems as if, no matter who kills whom, it’s either the white person’s fault or it’s nobody’s fault.)

COLLEGE FIX
— Professor: Should Americans not cheer for the U.S. World Cup team … because Trump? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America to punish Trump.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-should-americans-not-cheer-for-the-u-s-world-cup-team-because-trump/
— Pro-Palestinian Swarthmore College activists arrested for 2025 encampment demand all charges be dropped.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/pro-palestinian-swarthmore-college-activists-arrested-for-2025-encampment-demand-all-charges-be-dropped/

COMMON SENSE
— The World Has Moved Past Peak Woke. The high point of the ideology has passed, the direction of travel has changed, and that is a very good thing. DD. All my critics/opponents either a) are woke or b) pander to those who are woke.
https://www.thecommonsense.co.za/editorials/world-has-moved-past-peak-woke

DAILY SIGNAL
— California’s Election System Keeps Democrats in Power. DD: The Illinois Republican Party’s (IRP) system for electing IRP State Central Committee members keeps conservatives, that is, platform Republicans, out of power.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/12/californias-election-system-power/

FOX NEWS
— San Francisco Giants pitcher writes Bible verse on hat in defiance of Pride Night
https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/san-francisco-giants-pitcher-writes-bible-verse-hat-defiance-pride-night.amp

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Talarico Worked As ‘Equitable Education’ Consultant for Firm that Designed DEI Strategies for Texas Schools
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/talarico-worked-as-equitable-education-consultant-for-firm-that-designed-dei-strategies-for-texas-schools/amp/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Los Angeles City Council has approved amendments that would slow the implementation schedule for the City’s Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance and related airport worker wage provisions. The move revises the framework adopted in 2025, which had been set to increase covered hotel and airport worker wages to $30 per hour by 2028. DD: In today’s dollars, I did not earn $27/hour until I was 22 in 1971 and I had earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. In today’s dollars, I did not earn $33/hour until I was 23 in 1972 and had completed three job-related evening graduate courses.
https://natlawreview.com/article/los-angeles-amends-hotel-worker-minimum-wage-ordinance-advance-july-2026

NEW AMERICAN
— Illinois DEI Training Equates Whites With Mosquitoes — Which Can Be Killed With Fire
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/illinois-dei-training-equates-whites-with-mosquitoes-which-can-be-killed-with-fire/

TOWNHALL
— Let’s Have a Serious Conversation About Race.
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2026/06/14/lets-have-a-serious-conversation-about-race-n2677727
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “What the hell is wrong with these people?” I heard someone ask as a clip of Jasmine Crockett played on the television at the restaurant bar the other day. What was Crockett talking about? Her sympathy for the murderer named Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Yes, that’s why she cares, or at least pretends to care, about the fate of the man who’ll spend at least the next 17.5 years of his life in prison in Texas. How could anyone, real or not, go on camera and express sympathy for a murderer, at the expense of the murder victim and his family, no less? There’s really only one possibility: the cancerous cultural rot Democrats have forced and enforced on the black community.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

AOL
— Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced Friday that eligible state employees will receive merit-based pay increases tied to their most recent performance evaluations. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use the subjectivity in their performance evaluations to get rid of their Republican employees who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my attention was drawn to the aforesaid because my undergraduate degree was personnel management and my MBA area of concentration was personnel management.
https://www.aol.com/articles/arkansas-state-employees-receive-merit-160000000.html

MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. Traditional marriage and family put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/experts-call-for-rethinking-traditional-marriage-roles-amid-strain-on-women/ss-AA25whgN

NBC NEWS
— JANUARY 17, 2016 FLASHBACK: Jeb Bush: Trump Has ‘No Proven Leadership Skills.’  Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush tells NBC’s Chuck Todd that his campaign has the resources to “go the distance.” DD: One could stress the conservative principles that Trump rejects.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/jeb-bush-trump-has-no-proven-leadership-skills-n498176
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush remained defiant in his contrasts with Donald Trump during an exclusive interview with Chuck Todd for “Meet the Press.” “He has no proven leadership skills in the public domain,” he said of the Republican frontrunner. “So my path is to say I do.” Bush focused his attack further on Trump’s conservative bona-fides and insisted he’s the only person willing to go after Trump on those issues, saying simply, “He’s not a conservative.” “I’m gonna continue to be critical of him when he doesn’t advocate conservative principles,” Bush said. “He’s running for the conservative party’s nomination. He should be a conservative, and he hasn’t shown it.” The former Florida governor acknowledged Trump’s ability to “entertain” but said his ideas won’t help people and questioned Trump’s ability to bring people together.)

NEW YORK TIMES
— Americans Flee to Red States. DD: The Democrat Party platform promotes poverty and crime. That is why Democrats flee to Republican areas. Democrats want to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that Republicans created there.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/opinion/build-baby-build-how-blue-states-can-stop-losing-population.html
— How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War. DD: My critics/opponents have always used against me the fact that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/books/review/andrew-delbanco-war-before-the-war.html
— ‘All Men Are Created Equal’? Not Everyone Agrees. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I was born with tremendous unfair advantages because I was born a White male. In addition, my father earned enough money that he could send me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/opinion/inequality-musk-thiel-carvalho-billionaires.html
— Republicans Thought They Owned ‘Values.’ Not Anymore.  DD: Far too often, far too many candidates have run for offices as Republicans, but they should not have because they have far too much personal baggage. Voters hold Republican candidates to far higher standards than they hold Democrat candidates. I should write about the many big adverse actions that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct and their major donors, fundraisers, political consultants, pollsters, campaign managers, campaign staff, and campaign volunteers have taken against me since 2000 because I included links to articles in my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters that they did not like because they were critical of them or reported their wrong doing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/opinion/democrats-politics-morality-values.html
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly use Epstein against Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/13/opinion/epstein-trump-white-house.html

HARVARD GAZETTE
— Democrats and Republicans do live in different worlds. DD: How diverse is your precinct economically? My DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton is extremely diverse economically. Generally, the further south that you go in my precinct, the higher that household incomes and housing values are. Since 1984, my critics/opponents have wanted public housing to be built on the north border of my precinct on the south side of Roosevelt Road. Currently, side-by-side mansions in my precinct are for sale at $2.4M and $3.3M.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/03/democrats-and-republicans-live-in-partisan-bubbles-study-finds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Most Democratic and Republican voters live in partisan bubbles, with little daily exposure to those who belong to the other party. For instance the typical Democrat has “almost zero interactions” with Republicans in their neighborhood, according to an article by Harvard doctoral student Jacob R. Brown and government Professor Ryan D. Enos published March 8 in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. “There’s a lot of evidence that any separation between groups has a lot of negative consequences. We see this in race; we see this in religion; we see this in all kinds of things,” said Enos. “And increasingly, we see this in partisanship in the United States.”)

BARRON’S
— Wealthy parents. DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, parents, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/wealthy-parents-have-turned-into-banks-for-their-children-why-thats-a-problem-f6f1878b

FORBES
— DD: Democrat leaders used to promote integration, but now the promote segregation. They promote Black power, Hispanic power, Asian power, female power, youth power, non-Christian power, non-German American power, and immigrant power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8CClX5w-E4

CAREERS IN GOVERNMENT
— Virtually all government entities are run my Democrats or by RINOs. Because of that, the more of the following that you are, the more that you “need not apply:” conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.careersingovernment.com/

POLITICO
— Freedom 250’s fair on National Mall highlights conservative groups. In May, several musical artists dropped out of planned performances at the fair after learning of its ties to Trump. DD: TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) were conservative groups. My critics/opponents are anti-conservatives. I served as the TAPROOT chairman from 2005 until 2012 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. I served as an ICRC Steering Committee member from 2003 until 2007 when my critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes get rid of me and destroy the group. My critics/opponents hinted/implied/argued that TAPROOT and ICRC were hate groups. One could stress the conservative principles that Trump rejects.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/12/freedom-250-national-mall-fair-conservative-groups-00960904

ADVOCATE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-abandons-lgbtq-veterans

DERRICK
— DD: to get more votes from women, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn men.
https://www.thederrick.com/news/entertainment/beth-kowitt-corporate-america-is-no-meritocracy-just-ask-women/article_25ed6a9c-63d5-5bbf-a325-a1d1159329b7.html

TRUTHOUT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Blacks to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://truthout.org/articles/over-160-years-after-abolition-anti-black-racism-still-structures-us-economy/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use displays and exhibits to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-national-park-crackdown-backfires-091310942.html

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALIS’ NETWORK
— Personal perspectives can be valuable when transparently articulated. As the industry has recognized the importance of giving space for people to tell their own stories, knowing how to incorporate personal experiences in your reporting can be an effective approach. DD: My following conservative principles enabled me to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. I have always fully disclosed that I am conservative and that I promote conservative principles. I have always used my personal experiences to promote conservative principles. According to my critics/opponents, that disqualifies me as being a journalist. But they have no problem with journalists who falsely claim to be nonpartisan.
https://ijnet.org/en/story/how-journalists-can-implement-personal-experiences-their-reporting

MAGZTER
— Why we are haunted by the choices we didn’t make. DD: I should have majored in accounting from the beginning. My undergraduate major at UIC and NIU should have been accounting, my graduate major at Loyola should have been accounting, and I should have taken and passed the CPA examination much sooner than I did. I did not start taking graduate accounting courses at DePaul until I was 27 in 1976. I did not take the CPA examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting at DePaul until I was 31. I did not take the Certified Internal Auditor examination and pass it on my first attempt until I was 32. I did not become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late for me because the accounting profession saw me as being too old to have a successful career in accounting and because the accounting profession was under tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote minorities, females, and veterans, and I was none of the aforesaid.
https://www.magzter.com/stories/newspaper/The-Straits-Times/WHY-WE-ARE-HAUNTED-BY-THE-CHOICES-WE-DIDNT-MAKE

MIBOLSILLO
— Rich vs. Poor? The Money Habits That Separate Wealth Builders.  DD: According to my critics/opponents, I owe all the money that I have to my benefiting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, parents, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://www.mibolsillo.co/tips/rich-vs.-poor-the-money-habits-that-separate-wealth-builders-20260613-0003.html