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ILLINOIS REPUBLICAN PARTY
— SCC & RCCA 2026 Agenda.  DD: I have been a Republican Precinct Committeeman (RPC) since 1999. It would be great if RPCs got monthly emails from the Illinois Republican Party chairman, their IRP State Central Committee member, and their county/township/ward party leader that kept them up-to-date on what RPCs should know.
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=000001a0-1753-d3c1-a7b2-3f5bf2970000

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Google AI, “Roughly 43% to 49% of Americans view the Republican Party’s political stance as “too conservative,” according to long-standing national tracking polls. The phrase “too conservative” is frequently used in American political discourse to describe public perception of the party’s platform, specific legislative proposals, and judicial rulings.” According to my critics/opponents, I have always been too conservative, that is, I have always promoted conservative principles and Republican Party platform planks that they reject, most commonly 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. But political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Democrat leaders aggressively promote the anti-conservative Democrat Party platform. RINO leaders fail/refuse to defend and advance the Republican Party platform. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivates you to donate to Republican candidates’ campaigns? For me, it includes their demonstrated commitment, qualifications, and ability to defend and advance the Republican Party platform including 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What is your Republican Precinct Committeeman going to do to get out the vote? As the Republican Precinct Committeeman for DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton, I will hand-deliver to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one Independent registered voter a copy of the sample ballot, campaign literature from all the candidates who provide their literature to the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), and a MTRO voter guide. I have obtained a PDF file from the DuPage County Election Division mailing labels for the 660 Republican and Independent registered voters in my precinct. I have printed out those labels, I have affixing them to envelopes provided by MTRO, and put them into five batches in walk order. I will be stuffing those envelopes with MTRO’s voter guide, literature from the candidates, and the sample ballot. The Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct are: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. Literature from the 17 Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct, the voter guide, and the sample ballot is 19 X 400 or 7,600 pieces. As soon as I have at least 100 literature pieces from each of the candidates, I will start stuffing with the sample ballot to be added last. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-bills-lgbtq-illinoisans/

WTTW
— At State Fair, Illinois Democrats Focused on Trump as They Seek Third Sweep of Statewide Races.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/08/19/state-fair-illinois-democrats-focused-trump-they-seek-third-sweep-statewide-races

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/20/illinois-regulators-propose-allowing-licensed-cannabis-producers-to-grow-outdoors/
— Orland Park to use $1 million grant for Marley Creek flood mitigation. DD: Since 1984, I have spent many thousands of dollars and lots of my labor mitigating flood risk for my home in Wheaton because the stormwater drainage plan for its subdivision was woefully inadequate and because of construction defects.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/18/orland-park-marley-creek-flood-mitigation/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Jesse White Tumbling Team eliminated from ‘America’s Got Talent.’ DD: During one of the 14 years that I raised $2,500/year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders 2005-2019 for “DuPage Republicans” to be the lead sponsor of Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks, Wheaton used the money to have the Jesse White Tumbling Team in the parade.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/movies-and-tv/2026/08/19/jesse-white-tumbling-team-americas-got-talent-live-results-show

DAILY HERALD
— Bartlett has no marijuana dispensaries. It could soon have two at the same intersection. DD: In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260819/news/bartlett-has-no-marijuana-dispensaries-it-could-soon-have-two-at-the-same-intersection/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Governor’s Day at Illinois State Fair focused on U.S. Senate race.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/state/2026/08/19/illinois-democrats-focus-on-trump-during-governors-day/91377294007/

WAND TV
— Democrats bash Trump, celebrate Durbin during Governor’s Day at Illinois State Fair.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/democrats-bash-trump-celebrate-durbin-during-governors-day-at-illinois-state-fair/article_17ebf0d0-13eb-4aa4-be57-ed32305c3518.html

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— GOP trails Democrats by 8 points on congressional ballot in new poll.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/gop-trails-democrats-by-8-points-on-congressional-ballot-in-new-poll/

DAILY LINE
— Illinois Democrats position state party’s success as an example for Democrats nationwide at annual Governor’s Day.
https://www.thedailyline.com/illinois-democrats-state-party-success-example-nationwide-governor-day

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Illinois Dems dodge left flank wars. DD: Ever-increasingly, to vote for Democrats is to vote first for socialism, then for communism, and then for totalitarianism. How strongly are the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct stressing that?
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/08/20/illinois-dems-dodge-left-flank-wars-01043103
(FROM THE NEWSLETTER: Party moves: Jeff Castle has been named State Central Committeeman for the 6th Congressional District. He replaces Bob Grogan, the Illinois GOP chair, who resigned from the committee seat. Castle is also chair of the Milton Republican Party and secretary of the DuPage Republican Party.)

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/08/20/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-795/
— Pritzker campaign launches ‘Too Extreme’ TV ad targeting Bailey. DD: Pritzker is extremely extreme.
https://capitolfax.com/2026/08/20/pritzker-campaign-launches-%e2%80%98too-extreme%e2%80%99-tv-ad-targeting-bailey/
— Governor’s Day coverage roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/08/20/governors-day-coverage-roundup/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

RAY HANANIA
— Why is Pritzker pushing the massive 57 percent Tollway hike & other taxes? Pritzker needs the cash to cover his massive funding of undocumented residents (illegal aliens, non-citizens) by increasing more taxes. Meanwhile, seniors struggle under rising state taxes & fees.
https://hanania.substack.com/p/why-is-pritzker-pushing-the-massive

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— COLA increase estimated to be 3.2% in 2027. DD: What has helped you deal with inflation? COLAs have helped me deal with inflation big time. My critics/opponents are furious that I got COLAs while I worked for the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997 and that I have continued to get COLAs as a federal retiree since 1997 and as a Social Security recipient since 2010.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4686000/social-security-cost-of-living-adjustment-2027-inflation/

NEW YORK POST
— The SAT isn’t racist — but woke activists sure are. DD: According to my critics/opponents, I got an ACT score of 24 when I was 17 in 1966 because I benefitted tremendously from discrimination against minorities, females, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and those whose ancestor had not been in America for a long time.
https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/opinion/the-sat-isnt-racist-but-woke-activists-sure-are/

1819
— Democrats’ disgusting and despicable embrace of socialist candidates. DD: Ever-increasingly, to vote for Democrats is to vote first for socialism, then for communism, and then for totalitarianism. How strongly are the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct stressing that?
https://1819news.com/news/item/they-actually-hate-america-britt-blasts-democrats-disgusting-and-despicable-embrace-of-socialist-candidates

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— Some Shattering Illusions of Our Declining Empire. Americans are waking up to ugly truths.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/some-shattering-illusions-of-our-declining-empire/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Underwhelming Ideas: A Federal Jobs Guarantee. DD: According to Google AI, “Perception of Productivity: Private-sector employers may view state-guaranteed jobs as inferior, creating a secondary tier of worker stigma for program participants. Association with Welfare: Public work programs targeted strictly at individuals unable to find traditional work can carry the cultural baggage of dependency or perceived personal failure.” Private sector employers look down on public sector employees. I was a public sector employee 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. According to my critics/opponents, if I had been a private sector employee, I never would have been able to earn $154,682/year in today’s dollars even though I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.  Even worse than that, according to my GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates, if GAO had hired me when I was 22 instead of IRS, GAO would not have promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25. GAO employees look down on executive branch employees.
https://www.aei.org/economics/underwhelming-ideas-a-federal-jobs-guarantee/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: In the smart and whimsical 1993 political comedy Dave, the eponymous character is the owner of a temp agency who has a side gig impersonating the president. And when the real deal suffers a stroke, a cabal of White House advisers offer Dave his own temp job: playing the commander-in-chief until the genuine article recovers. Many twists and turns later, the pretend president announces his very own plan to have Washington find a job for every American who wants one. Pull up the Wikipedia entry for Dave and you’ll see that last plot beat is hyperlinked. Clicking that link brings you to the Wikipedia entry for “job guarantee,” defined as an “economic policy proposal aimed at providing a sustainable solution to the dual problems of inflation and unemployment. Its aim is to create full employment and price stability, by having the state promise to hire unemployed workers as an employer of last resort.” So, yeah, it’s the kind of a silver-bullet solution a left-of-center screenwriter might think is pretty cool. Hey, if someone needs a job and can’t find a job, just have the government give them a job doing something or other. Public policy is so easy peasy.)

AMERICAN THINKER
— The Islamic Republic of NYC. Organized Radical Islam has learned that it is not necessary to mount a frontal assault on our buildings or hijack our planes.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/08/the-islamic-republic-of-nyc/
— Socialism’s rise is fueled by business leaders’ retreat.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/08/socialism-s-rise-is-fueled-by-business-leaders-retreat/

BREITBART
— DSA Is Absolutely Funded By and Tied to the Communist Chinese Party.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/08/19/anna-paulina-luna-dsa-is-absolutely-funded-and-tied-to-the-communist-chinese-party/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— DD: I avoided Democrat indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/peers-not-professors-push-students-left-politically-brown-u-study/

DAILY SIGNAL
— The Federal Bureaucracy Helped Build DEI’s Infrastructure. A New Rule Seeks to Change That. DD: While I worked 1964-1997, my employers were under ever-increasing pressure from the federal government to hire, to retain, and to promote minorities and females. I should write about that. Because of that, if I had not earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, I never would have earned $154,682/year in today’s dollars in 1997.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/19/the-federal-bureaucracy-helped-build-deis-infrastructure-heres-how-you-can-push-back/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A federal regulation intended to combat workplace racial discrimination has become a weapon for the race-obsessed diversity, equity, and inclusion movement—but President Donald Trump’s administration is seeking to get rid of it. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, a federal agency, has required specific employers to file an annual report summarizing data on their employees’ race and sex. The regulations currently apply to more than two million employers, at an estimated cost of $275 million each year and $4 million for the agency to administer the data collection. While the government required this data collection to prevent racial discrimination, it has arguably undermined the key goal of securing a colorblind workplace.)

FEDERALIST
— America Can’t Be A Welfare State And A Republic At The Same Time. DD: To get elected, Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly promise more welfare.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/18/america-cant-be-a-welfare-state-and-a-republic-at-the-same-time/

FEDERATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION
— DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote first for socialism, then for communism, and then for totalitarianism. How strongly are the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct stressing that?
https://fee.org/articles/the-welfare-state-has-slowly-but-surely-eroded-nordic-character/

FOX BUSINESS
— Victor Davis Hanson condemns ‘Woke 1,’ raises concerns about second manifestation.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6403730272112

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Oregon Gun Buyers Raced Ahead Of New Restrictions. DD: Oregon today, Illinois tomorrow.
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/oregon-gun-background-checks-measure-114-surge
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Oregon voters narrowly approved one of the nation’s most restrictive gun control measures in 2022. It’s been a boondoggle process of court challenges and implementation delays since then. But Oregonians have responded to the impending restrictions by racing to exercise their Second Amendment rights before the government could make doing so substantially more difficult. New research now puts hard numbers behind that response. Researchers studying Oregon’s Ballot Measure 114 found firearm-related background checks surged 157 percent immediately following the election. The rush to lawfully purchase firearms wasn’t a flash in the pan, either. Eighteen months later, researchers still identified roughly 63,000 additional firearm-related background checks beyond what otherwise would have been expected. The message is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. When government threatens to put a constitutional right behind a permission slip, Americans exercise that right in massive numbers before the restrictions arrive. Oregonians Saw the Door Closing. Measure 114 passed with just 50.7 percent of the vote in November 2022. It created a permit-to-purchase requirement, mandated firearm safety training, implemented an additional completed background check before a permit could be issued and prohibited the manufacture, sale and transfer of magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds, with limited exceptions. NSSF challenged the ballot measure at the time as unconstitutional. Oregonians were clear-eyed about what was coming.)

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Democrats Choose Socialism in the Sunshine State.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/08/democrats-choose-socialism-in-the-sunshine-state/
— Don’t Fall for Fake Polls
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/dont-fall-for-fake-polls/

PJ MEDIA
— The Democratic Socialists of America Are ‘Deminazis.’ DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote first for socialism, then for communism, and then for totalitarianism. How strongly are the Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in your precinct stressing that?
https://pjmedia.com/tim-o-brien/2026/08/14/the-democratic-socialists-of-america-are-deminazis-n4956152
(FROM THE ARTICLE: There is no entry in the Associated Press (AP) style book for “Deminazi,” and there likely never will be. That doesn’t make it any less accurate a descriptor for the dominant faction of the left known as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). The closest I could come to a correct usage is to refer back to the inspiration behind the term – Rush Limbaugh’s descriptor for the feminist movement: “feminazis.” All one word, no capital “n.” Works for me. Along these same lines, it’s a shame Graham Platner had to drop out of the Senate race in Maine and go home, taking his Nazi tattoo along with him. Since the DSA has conducted its takeover of the Democrat Party, that was the only notable instance of truth in advertising. Still, if we’re not careful, the socialists are on their way to taking over the country. Any DSA cult member who might read this would likely repeat the party’s key message point: “We’re not socialists, we’re Democratic socialists.” Right. Aesop, the creator of those classic and rather dark children’s fables, may have had the DSA in mind when he wrote “The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing.” He could just as easily have called the tale, “The Commie Who Will Lie and Do Anything It Takes to Win the 2026 Midterms.” That said, one of the tricks today’s “DSA wolf” uses to seduce young people and unsuspecting voters is to skip over all of the lessons of socialism and communism throughout history and go right back to that age-old doctrine on paper that sounds so good to so many. Concepts like: “Each according to his ability, to each according to his needs;” “People over profit;” “Redistribution of wealth;” and more bluntly, “Tax the rich.” All of it is designed to appeal to that part of us that just doesn’t always want to do the work it takes to succeed in life, but instead, to become a nameless, faceless part of a larger group that will take care of us. Those of us who ignore that part of ourselves are not the targeted market for the DSA. If you’re talking to the right people, usually the powerless or those who feel powerless, the concept practically sells itself. Just ask Lenin, Mao, Castro, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Hasan Piker, and now Abdul El-Sayed. Socialism is a loss leader for totalitarianism. Those who’ve actually read a history book or two know that socialism is always a soft-sell – the loss-leader, the gateway drug to communism. While the two aren’t interchangeable, they’re on the same road. While socialism calls for the state to own and control the means of production, in reality, once the state gets that far, it pretty much finishes the job and takes control of everything. Karl’s Marx’s vision for a communist utopia called for a classless society where there is common ownership of the means of production. Sounds just so nice, doesn’t it? Both socialist and communist idealism quickly falls apart when you realize that someone has to be in charge. Someone has to set priorities, oversee all of this, and be the boss. In other words, some human being still has to have more power than everyone else. But since under socialism and communism, self-governance is not really their thing (that would be something akin to American democracy), in practice, socialists find other ways to determine who’s in charge. In China, Mao Zedong rose to power through his own embrace and interpretation of Marxist ideology, applying it to Chinese society, particularly in rural areas. He became the dominant leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the mid-1930s. Then in 1949 he established the People’s Republic of China. Mao’s version of communism, the brand Piker seems to favor these days, was responsible for the deaths of 40 to 80 million Chinese, due largely to famine, but also a million or two were killed as part of his “Cultural Revolution.” People who weren’t quite on board with Mao suffered violent deaths through purges and in his famous “re-education camps.” Once someone decides your country is going to be socialist, which is a stepping stone to communism, you’ve pretty much given up your own rights and voice. You’ve surrendered them to the group. But since everyone else did the same thing, “the collective” will always consist of a small handful of people at the top (oligarchs) who knew all along it was a ruse, something they had to use to eventually win absolute power over you. Funny thing is, if you visit an American college campus this Fall, and you see that the DSA and socialism are all the rage, just like Taylor Swift and Black Lives Matter (BLM) were in recent years, none of those kids will know much about that whole absolute-power-over-you thing. They’re not thinking this through. Even if they did, they’d be hard-pressed to comprehend that socialist totalitarians have a tendency to let people die or actively kill them to consolidate power. Why totalitarians like socialism. One of the catchphrases about socialism is that, “Yes it has been tried before, but they have never done it the right way,” or some variation of that. In Russia, Vladimir Lenin led the Bolsheviks from the October 1917 Revolution until his death in 1924, which was preceded by a series of strokes. Like Mao, Lenin sold the people on what New York’s Mamdani has called “the warmth of collectivism.” They ate that stuff up. But as is always the case, since under socialism and communism, there is no democratic decision-making, the shots are called by one or two or a handful of people who aren’t bashful about grabbing power and wielding it, usually mercilessly, and often violently. Lenin personally oversaw something called “The Red Terror,” which killed 140,000 to 200,000 threats to his power. Joseph Stalin succeeded Lenin, and he wasn’t all that into empathy or mercy, either. His brand of socialism and communism looked much like that of every other socialist or communist leader, except to scale. To make sure the people knew who was in charge under “Stalinism,” he oversaw the direct killing of 6 million people who didn’t fall in line, but that number rises to 9 million if you count famine. From an economic standpoint, socialism and communism are shortcuts to mass starvation and death as well. At the same time, what always starts as an ideology that promises a perfect world through the power of the collective always ends with a totalitarian in charge. And to make sure that totalitarian stays in charge, many, many people have to pay the price, always with their freedom, often with their lives. This all brings us to perhaps the most notorious socialists in history and his fascist sidekicks, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Since both Hitler and Mussolini were known as much for waging war against the rest of the world as for destroying lives and killing large segments of their own populations, for our purposes here, we’ll keep the focus narrower and center on a couple of terms. This is important because one thing the DSA and its allies like to do is frame Hitler as “far right,” and fascism as far right. The presumption is that socialism by definition is leftist, and so it can’t be fascist. Hitler was a socialist. Hitler was part of and eventually led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), also known as the Nazi Party. Mention this to any leftist today, and you’ll hear a word salad about how Hitler’s version of socialism wasn’t the same thing that they espouse, or that he really wasn’t a true socialist because he was a fascist. The fact is, however, there was a reason Hitler called himself a socialist, and that’s because he was one. Then he did what just about all socialist leaders do when they get power: They add “totalitarian” to their resumes. Mussolini is credited with serving as the father of fascism, an ignoble moniker if ever there was one. He entered politics as a socialist and became a prominent member of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). That party kicked him out in 1914 due to his advocacy for Italian intervention in the First World War. After that, he said something like, “Screw it, I’m just going to come up with my own thing and call it fascism,” though I believe he said it in Italian. Mussolini’s fascism retained or adapted several socialist characteristics, including the way the party was organized, the way the people were mobilized, a hatred of individualism, the rhetoric of revolution, and most importantly, the belief that your economic life exists to serve the larger collective. That’s Mussolini, the OG of fascism. The pattern through all of these examples is that socialism is an excellent pathway, and a well-worn one, on the way to communism, then to dictatorial fascism and totalitarianism. ‘Deminazis’ want to follow in the socialist tradition. Against this backdrop, the DSA today has built itself on a platform that may sound familiar to students of history, particularly students of German socialist or Nazi history. The DSA wants universal healthcare, which means government control over every citizen’s health decisions and health outcomes, not to mention government access to every citizen’s private health information. Imagine that kind of power in the hands of a totalitarian. The DSA wants “housing for all,” which like the healthcare item, puts government in control over every citizen’s home, whether he or she has a home, and the quality of that home. In the process, it puts government, and the small group of people in charge of government, in control over your quality of life. This sort of power can be wielded to reward you or punish you. The DSA wants free college for all. Not that universities need much encouragement here, but such a policy would codify that university campuses serve as nothing more than indoctrination camps. True to its organized labor roots, the DSA has much to say when it comes to work. Shorter workweeks, unionized workforces, higher wages, and likely higher union dues that end up finding their way back into “The Party.” To create dependency on government, rather than on individual industriousness, hard work, and innovation, the DSA really likes policies that require employers to pay people for not working, and policies that kill profitability and productivity. These agenda items include long periods of paid family leave, costly regulations tied to “climate change,” and higher taxes on businesses and business owners. The DSA’s “Free Palestine” pillar has been widely used as cover for antisemitism and all of the targeted discrimination and targeted and violent attacks on Jews, which are on the rise. It’s also been used to attack federal policymaking and foreign relations, including the country’s relationship with Israel. The DSA wants to cut U.S. military spending while knowing that the country’s adversaries, like China and Russia, are building their military strength. And why would that be? I’m getting a “Manchurian candidate” vibe here. The DSA is working to make it palatable to the masses to consider the piece-by-piece destruction of American democracy, starting with the dilution of citizen self-governance, declaring that non-citizens be given the same rights and the same voice in the nation’s governance. It wants to abolish the Senate, abolish the Electoral College, jerry-rig and expand Congress in accordance with its own designs, reduce the power of the Supreme Court, and pack the Supreme Court. None of this happens overnight, of course, but if they are eventually successful, it will be because we lost democracy piece by piece. Every single one of these items, if implemented, would help to put America on the same well-trodden path that failed socialist and communist states have followed before. But failure is in the eye of the beholder. If you really believe in socialism as written on paper, then maybe these others have failed. But if you see socialism as a pathway to totalitarianism, then they were wildly successful, the most notable one being the case of that little German guy with the funny mustache who showed us what socialism looks like if you follow it to its logical conclusion. In America, as we look ahead to the 2026 midterms, the DSA has enough momentum to constitute too much momentum. We as a nation should know by now socialism just can’t be on the table, but it is. And that’s why the Democratic Party is no longer a “democratic” party; it’s why the DSA has nothing to do with democracy; and it’s why the most fitting brand for the Democrats and the DSA is the “Deminazis.”)

TOWNHALL
— Back to Empty Classrooms.
https://townhall.com/columnists/johnandandyschlafly/2026/08/19/back-to-empty-classrooms-n2681500
— ICE Keeps Arresting Predators. Sanctuary Cities Keep Calling It Fearmongering.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jay-rogers/2026/08/20/ice-keeps-arresting-predators-sanctuary-cities-keep-calling-it-fearmongering-n2681552

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— Democratic candidate for FL governor says Trump is ‘promoting socialism’ as president.
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/democratic-candidate-for-fl-governor-says-trump-is-promoting-socialism-as-president-268551237672

CNN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/politics/video/we-are-united-dnc-chair-on-democrats-civil-war-amid-socialist-surge-lcl

NEWSWEEK
— Many Floridians Escaped Socialism; Now They Could Elect One to the Senate.
https://www.newsweek.com/many-floridians-escaped-socialism-now-they-could-elect-one-to-the-senate-12344087

NEW YORK TIMES
— Ocasio-Cortez Rewrites the Rules. The latest shot heard ’round the world came not from a gun but from a syringe of fertility hormones belonging to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/opinion/aoc-egg-freezing-women-politics.html
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: Trump Fired the Watchdogs. Their Replacements Have a Different Mission. President Trump is installing his allies in the offices of inspector general, which are meant to provide independent government oversight. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997 and for the Democrats who ran the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, I had lots of interactions with the Democrat Chicago offices of Inspector Generals. None of them came to my defense when my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. None of them were interested in hiring me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/us/politics/trump-inspector-general.html
— Fake Polls in Wisconsin and California Were Part of a ‘Social Experiment.’
https://gvwire.com/2026/08/19/fake-polls-in-wisconsin-and-california-were-part-of-a-social-experiment/

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/19/how-democratic-socialist-angie-nixon-pulled-off-an-upset-win-florida/
— For the first time in 50 years, college grads are losing their edge. DD: If I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business, Firestone Stores would not have hired me in 1970. If I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination, the Democrats who ran IRS would not have hired me in 1971. If I had not been taking graduate evening business courses, my Democrat IRS superiors would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974. If I had not earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have hired me in 1980. If I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, and became a licensed CPA, the Democrats who ran GAO would not have promoted me in 1986. If I had not been taking graduate evening finance courses, my Democrat GAO superiors might have succeed in forcing me to retire in 1993 instead of 1997.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/31/labor-market-gap-trade-workers-white-collar/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/09/28/golden-era-traditional-marriage-was-never-what-conservatives-thought/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/08/19/dsa-candidates-2026-midterms-democratic-socialism/91368818007/
— DD: To be woke is to be anti-conservative, anti-Republican, anti-American, anti-White, anti-male, anti-older people, anti-Christian, anti-German American, and/or anti-those who have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/08/19/woke-1-woke-2-meme-origin-aoc/91351078007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— How a Democratic Socialist Caught Fire in Florida. Angie Nixon scored an upset with her left-wing economic message but now faces an uphill battle against GOP Sen. Ashley Moody.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/how-democratic-socialism-caught-fire-in-florida-19333a53

FORBES
— Obama, Warren, Pritzker, & More Honor Dick Durbin’s Career In Senate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MK0s5ICRCs
— How To Build A Career That Isn’t Dependent On One Job.  DD: Private sector employers look down on public sector employees. The longer that you work in the public sector, the harder it is to get a job in the private sector. My having been a public sector employee for almost 3 years harmed my efforts to get good job in the private sector after I earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU when I was 21 in 1970. In anticipation of that, as a fallback, I took and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination before I graduated. I would not have become an IRS employee when I was 22 a) if my Firestone Store boss had not rudely fired me because I had accepted a job offer from Oldsmobile and b) if Oldsmobile had not withdrawn that offer because it had just agreed to stop hiring Whites to settle an EEOC complaint. Because I refused to become a Democrat, my Democrat IRS superiors did everything they could to get rid of me. They got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in when I was 23, 24, and 25. They disallowed my travel vouchers when I was 25. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my earning an MBA when I was 27. They disallowed my education deductions when I was 29. They ignored/dismissed/belittled my passing the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. They ever-increasing made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. Of course, the aforesaid made it ever-increasingly impossible for me to get any kind of job anywhere. Because of the aforesaid, to get promoted to GS-13, I took a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer to GAO. My Democrat GAO superiors did promote me to GS-13, but not until I was 38. They would never have promoted me a) if I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, b) if I had not passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, c) if I had not became a licensed CPA when I was 32, and d) if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer had not gotten back into power.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shodewan/2026/06/26/how-to-build-a-career-that-isnt-dependent-on-one-job/

FAST COMPANY
— 5 underrated career strategies for getting promoted. DD: To get promoted, my Democrat coworkers in the federal government a) stressed that they were Democrat, minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, b) stressed that they blindly loyal to the Democrat Party platform, c) painted themselves as being yes-men and yes-women, d) stressed that their spouse, if they had one, had little or no income, e) stressed the tremendous amount of time and money that they spent raising their children, if they had children, and f) destroyed their fellow coworkers who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91586421/5-underrated-promotion-strategies

MOTLEY FOOL
— Millions of Americans Are Retiring Earlier Than They’d Planned To. You will face multiple problems if you’re forced to retire early. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. But far worse than that, my critics/opponents viciously use against me my being forced to retire early. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I am a bad person and that is why I was forced to retire early. They hint/imply/argue/shout that I am an extremely bad person because I was forced to retire even though I had three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license. They stress that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, something that none of my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, or subordinates did.
https://www.fool.com/retirement/2026/06/14/millions-of-americans-retiring-earlier-than-plan/

LAW
— DD: Democrats and RINOs will always use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.law.com/article/almID/900005518698/