March 6, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— IL Republican governor race candidates make last-minute pitches to voters before primary election
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-governor-race-republican-gubernatorial-candidates-make-last-minute-pitches-voters-before-2026-primary-election-day/18682312/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrats and RINOs are glad Trump fired Noem.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/06/editorial-kristi-noem-homeland-security-firing-donald-trump/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: As crime increases, the need for license-plate readers increases.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260306/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-driving-change-arlington-heights-penalties-for-improper-use-of-license-plate/

WGLT
— Early voting off to slow start in McLean County. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-03-05/early-voting-off-to-slow-start-in-mclean-county

EVANSTON NOW
— DD: Democrat leaders have their middle-schoolers walk out.
https://evanstonnow.com/middle-schoolers-hold-ice-walk-out/

DAILY ILLINI
— Gubernatorial candidate Ted Dabrowski discusses foreign enrollment, DEI, suing Champaign County
https://dailyillini.com/news-stories/world-news/state-news/illinois-state-government/state-elections/2026/03/06/ted-dabrowski-foreign-enrollment-dei/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— ‘Unseemly’ power play in Senate race
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/06/senate-races-familiar-power-play-00816189

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/06/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-693/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Why Chicago’s new $800 million bond offering smells so fishy
https://wirepoints.org/why-chicagos-new-800-million-bond-offering-smells-so-fishy-wirepoints-mark-glennon-on-am560s-the-real-story/

DUPAGE POLICY JOURNAL
— Support collapses for sheriff candidate Eddie Moore amid allegations that he ran over a busboy following Valentine’s Day dinner. DD: Because Moore is running as a Republican, no one should anticipate/expect that he will get fair treatment from the mainstream news media.
https://dupagepolicyjournal.com/support-collapses-for-sheriff-candidate-eddie-moore-amid-allegations-that-he-ran-over-a-busboy-following-valentine-day-dinner/

REPUBLICAN PATRIOTS
— We went directly to the source and asked Republican DuPage County Sheriff Candidate Eddy Moore about the incident. DD: Because Moore is running as a Republican, no one should anticipate/expect that he will get fair treatment from the mainstream news media.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/247913229897976/posts/1407552103934077/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— As Democrats move in and take over, poverty and crime increase. Democrats are ever-increasingly moving into DuPage County and taking over DuPage County. Do you live in DuPage County? How fast will poverty and crime increase in DuPage County? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I have been a member of the American Association of Political Consultants since 2001. I am one of a very few Republican political consultants based in Illinois. According to Democrat, Democrat plant, and RINO political consultants, to get more votes from those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time you have to belittle/badmouth/demonize/denigrate/condemn those who are conservative, White, male, older, married, heterosexual, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREITBART
— Sanctuary Cities Sought to Protect from ICE Nearly 18K Criminal Illegal Aliens Last Year
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/05/sanctuary-cities-sought-to-protect-from-ice-nearly-18000-criminal-illegal-aliens-last-year/amp/

DAILY SIGNAL
— DHS Officials React to Trump’s Replacing Noem
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/05/dhs-officials-express-optimism-following-noem-departure/amp/

EPOCH TIMES
— What to Know About Markwayne Mullin, Trump’s Pick to Replace Noem as DHS Head. The Oklahoma senator will replace Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on March 31, the president said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/what-to-know-about-markwayne-mullin-trumps-pick-to-replace-noem-as-dhs-head-5994919

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— FAIR Congratulates Senator Mullin on His Nomination as DHS Secretary. The nation’s largest immigration reform group looks forward to working with him as he carries out President Trump’s mass deportation mandate.
https://www.fairus.org/press-release/fair-congratulates-senator-mullin-his-nomination-dhs-secretary

FOX NEWS
— Jewish leaders want Chicago mayor to create antisemitism task force. The Chicago Commission on Human Relations found that the Jewish community experienced a 58% increase in hate crimes, spanning between 2023-2024.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/anti-defamation-league-pressures-chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-establish-antisemitism-task-force
— The more than six-year prison sentencing of illegal alien Jose Melgar-Rivas for causing serious injuries to a federal officer by dragging him with his vehicle shows why the agent who shot activist Renee Good feared for his life.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/illegals-dragging-ice-agent-shows-exact-danger-officer-who-shot-renee-good-feared-expert-says

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC NEWS
— Negative campaigning. DD: If you run for an office, anticipate/expect that your critics/opponents will campaign negatively against you. I should write about how my critics/opponents campaigned negatively against me when I ran for the open Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer office in 2004.
https://abcnews.com/WN/vote-2010-election-negative-campaigning-year-world-news/story?id=12021447

CBS NEWS
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/miami-dade-gop-racist-group-chat-resignation-expulsion/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/us/florida-gop-slurs-group-chat.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want Markwayne Mullin a) to stop ICE from deporting their illegals and b) to reopen the borders.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/05/dhs-shutdown-noem/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/05/kristi-noem-trump-fired-dhs/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: High Schools Are Losing the Struggle to Block Pot—Even During Class. Legalization makes marijuana culturally acceptable and easy to get; ‘it was a party in the bathroom.’ DD: in 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/marijuana-high-schools-legalization-vaping-642fe29d
— DD: Democrats and RINOs are glad Trump fired Noem.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/kristi-noem-fired-department-of-homeland-security-donald-trump-corey-lewandowski-senate-hearing-6ba9745d

BOSTON HERALD
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want Markwayne Mullin a) to stop ICE from deporting their illegals and b) to reopen the borders.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2026/03/06/editorial-noem-move-could-be-just-what-ice-america-needs/

MIAMI HERALD
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article314935780.html
https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article314937448.html

MIAMI TIMES
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/local/bipartisan-calls-for-accountability-mount-after-racist-antisemitic-gop-chat-revealed-in-miami-dade/article_18c0f949-9db2-4e0a-99bb-c70a0ce60e73.html

FLORIDA POLITICS
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/783592-bipartisan-calls-for-accountability-mount-after-racist-antisemitic-miami-dade-gop-chat-revealed/

FLORIDA VOICE
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://flvoicenews.com/miami-dade-gop-secretary-faces-resignation-calls-over-racist-antisemitic-group-chat/

DALLAS WEEKLY
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://dallasweekly.com/2026/03/ice-agents-racist-remarks-and-misconduct-revealed-in-court-records-and-footage/

WICHITA EAGLE
— For cause. DD: To be forced to retire and to resign like I was, is to be fired. If you are fired, your critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout that you were properly fired “for cause.” My critics/opponents have always done that. I should write about the real reasons why a) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, why my Firestone Store boss fired me when I was 22 in 1971, and why my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign when I was 20 on 1969.
https://www.kansas.com/sports/college/big-12/kansas-state/article314905670.html

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— A coalition of public service organizations and federal unions is suing the Trump administration over its looming plans to strip civil service protections from a broad swath of the career federal workforce. DD: Under the Democrats, federal employees who are the following do not have Civil Service protection: Republican, White, male, older, nonveteran, Protestant, and German American.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/03/lawsuit-contends-schedule-policy-career-exceeds-presidential-authority/

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION
— What does it mean to ‘make it’ in academia? DD: According to my critics/opponents, federal employees who are the following and did not make GS-13 ($118,984) by age 25, GS-14 ($140,604) by age 30, GS-15 ($165,386) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($197,200) by age 40 are failures: Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/what-does-it-mean-make-it-academia

POLITICO
— GOP restrainers say Trump abandoned them. The president’s restraint-minded backers accuse the administration of breaking its promise.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/05/gop-restraint-trump-iran-abandoned-00815962

ROLLING STONE
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/miami-group-chat-young-conservatives-racism-1235525657/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

LOCAL SWITZERLAND
— Why is personal responsibility so important in Switzerland?
https://www.thelocal.ch/20260305/why-is-personal-responsibility-so-important-in-switzerland

GURADIAN
— DD: What are your demographics? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are a racist, sexist, bigot, and even worse things: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, nonpoor, nonveteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/south-africa-president-cyril-ramaphosa-calls-donald-trump-policy-white-afrikaners-racist
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/florida-international-university-racist-group-chat

NTD
— House Foreign Affairs Committee Holds Hearing on State Department Promotions. The House Foreign Affairs Committee holds a hearing titled “Merit, Accountability, and Performance at State: Evaluating Promotion and Placement.”  DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.ntd.com/live-now-house-foreign-affairs-committee-holds-hearing-on-state-department-promotions_1129929.html

March 5, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump fires DHS secretary Kristi Noem. President Donald Trump says Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin will replace Kristi Noem as Department of Homeland Security secretary.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-says-markwayne-mullin-will-replace-kristi-noem-dhs-secretary/18680931/
— Gary student Araceli Cuevas awarded $9M in scholarships, accepted at 126 colleges. DD: Did you get any scholarships? I did not. My critics/opponents have always stressed that along with my ACT score being only 24 and my only just barely making it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/araceli-cuevas-gary-lighthouse-college-preparatory-campus-indiana-awarded-9m-scholarships-accepted-126-colleges/18681051/

NBC5
— Here’s how the SAVE Act could radically change voting in Illinois. The act is being mulled by the Senate, where it faces an uncertain future.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/heres-how-the-save-act-could-radically-change-voting-in-illinois/3903777/
— Who is Sen. Markwayne Mullin? What to know after Trump fires Kristi Noem. Trump made the announcement on social media on Thursday, two days after Noem faced a grilling on Capitol Hill from GOP members as well as Democrats.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/who-is-sen-markwayne-mullin-what-to-know-after-trump-fires-kristi-noem/3903651/
— Who’s on your ballot in Illinois’ primary election? Use this sample ballot tool. DD: I hand-delivered a copy of the sample ballot for my precinct to the 400 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or NA voter.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/whos-on-your-ballot-in-illinois-primary-election-use-this-sample-ballot-tool/3903802/
— Duckworth: Veterans’ concerns over mental health care limits ‘deeply troubling.’  VA denies it is limiting veterans’ mental health care services; vets and VA psychologists say it’s happening.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/duckworth-veterans-concerns-over-mental-health-care-limits-deeply-troubling/3903821/

WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders continue to treat Pat Brady like he is still the chairman of the Republican Party.
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/wgn-the-point-politics-chicago-illinois/darren-bailey-leads-4-way-gop-race-for-governor/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— ‘Don’t let the door hit you on the way out’: Illinois officials cheer Kristi Noem’s ouster at Homeland Security
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/trump-replacing-kristi-noem/

DAILY HERALD
— DuPage County undersheriff Eddie Moore put on leave
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260305/news/dupage-county-undersheriff-put-on-leave/

FOX32
— From “Good riddance” to “She gone!”, Illinois politicians responded with blunt and biting remarks after President Donald Trump announced the removal of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/dont-let-door-hit-you-illinois-politicians-react-after-trump-ousts-noem

ELMHURST PATCH
— DuPage County’s top prosecutor Robert Berlin said Thursday that he was rescinding his endorsement of Undersheriff Eddie Moore in the sheriff’s race.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/dupage-states-attorney-rescinds-sheriff-endorsement

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/05/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-481/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Illinois boosts universities losing students, punishes gainers
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-boosts-universities-losing-students-punishes-gainers/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democrats embrace antisemitism to win elections. The party is becoming a pawn of our enemies.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/5/democrats-embrace-antisemitism-win-elections/

DAILY SIGNAL
— Trump Says Kristi Noem Is Out as DHS Secretary
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/05/breaking-trump-says-kristi-noem-is-out-as-dhs-secretary/
— How the Trump Admin Is Reversing the Demonization of American History on the 250th Anniversary. Little-Known Agency That Funded CRT and DEI Under Biden Now Celebrates America Under Trump.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/05/un-woke-how-trump-admin-is-reversing-demonization-american-history-250th-anniversary/amp/

NEWSMAX
— 97% Support Trump Deporting Criminal Illegals
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/georgementz/trump-illegal-alien/2026/03/05/id/1248475/

TOWNHALL
— Mamdani Pledges Universal Child Care Services to Illegal Immigrants
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/dmitri-bolt/2026/03/05/zohran-mamdani-pledges-to-provide-free-child-care-to-illegals-immigrants-n2672369

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Inside the decision to remove Kristi Noem as DHS secretary
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/decision-to-remove-kristi-noem-dhs-secretary/

SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
— What being fired ‘for cause’ means. DD: To be forced to retire and resign like I was, is to be fired. If you are fired, your critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout that you were properly fired “for cause.” My critics/opponents have always done that. I should write about the real reasons why a) my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, why my Firestone Store boss fired me when I was 22 in 1971, and why my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign when I was 20 on 1969.
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/09/08/what-being-fired-for-cause-means/

March 5, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly glorify and praise their illegals and their protesters and b) fight deportation of their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/cook-county-ice-broadview-protesters-cases/
— The average Illinois household lost $1,500 in legal gambling, net of winnings, in 2025. I am not, however, concerned about the average family; I care about the paycheck-to-paycheck family that lost $10,000, often much more, to gambling. Gambling harms families. Gambling is ubiquitous in Illinois, and it is projected to expand dramatically, especially among the vulnerable young. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/opinion-illinois-gambling-addiction-expansion-online/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly destroy Republicans who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/05/opinion-stonewall-inn-pride-flag-symbols/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/03/05/gun-second-amendment-marijuana-war-drugs-aclu-ali-hemani-jacob-sullum

RIVER BENDER
— DD; Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Duckworth.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-calls-out-hegseth-for-caring-more-about-good-coverage-of-trump-than-our-troops-lives-91330.cfm
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-highlights-risks-of-trumps-iran-operation-on-troops-91220.cfm

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been getting students in your school district to protest? How soon, if not already, will they promise them free rides at Ivy League Universities?
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2026/03/04/why-milwaukee-students-protest-ice-actions/88745547007/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Iran war ripples to Illinois
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/05/iran-conflict-ripples-to-illinois-00813904

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been promoting hatred against conservatives in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about the success that they have had promoting hatred against conservatives in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. Democrat and RINO leaders blame conservatives for all the losses that Republican candidates have suffered. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What has driven you to the right? For me, it has been the ever-increasing adverse actions that those on the left have taken against me. They include a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government, b) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, c) Republican elected officials in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, d) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, e) conservative leaders, e) religious leaders, and f) voters in my precinct. I should write about the aforesaid. I would focus on those who have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Permissive parents skew left, strict ones right — US parenting has become political like never before. DD: My parents and all my ancestors have always been on the right, they have always been conservative, they have always been Missouri Synod Lutheran, they have always voted Republican. 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://nypost.com/2026/03/04/opinion/permissive-parents-skew-left-strict-ones-right-us-parenting-has-become-political-like-never-before/

AMERICAN THINKER
— They Can’t Give It Up. There are no moderates among elected Democrats.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/they_can_t_give_it_up.html

BILLY GRAHAM EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION
— Vermont Rescinds Gender-Ideology Mandate for Foster Parents
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/vermont-rescinds-gender-ideology-mandate-for-foster-parents
— Tenn. Teacher Removed from Classroom After Refusing to Promote Same-Sex Marriage
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/tenn-teacher-removed-from-classroom-after-refusing-to-promote-same-sex-marriage
— The Damaging Doctrine of Replacement Theology. Antisemitic incidents soar globally.
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/the-damaging-doctrine-of-replacement-theology

BREITBART
— Cruz: ‘Democrats Line Up to Effectively Defend the Ayatollah’
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/03/04/cruz-democrats-line-up-to-effectively-defend-the-ayatollah/

FOX NEWS
— Stop trusting political parties to save urban America. It’s time for us to rise and rebuild. Rooftop Revelations: I’ve come to believe that what Urban America needs most are American principles. Those principles do not belong to any political party. DD: American principles are conservative principles. The Republican Party platform promotes conservative principles.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/stop-trusting-political-parties-to-save-urban-america-its-time-for-us-to-rise-and-rebuild

MRC TV
— ‘The View’ Loves Illegals More Than Americans. Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin of ‘The View’ try to explain how illegal aliens are better people than actual Americans. If that’s true, Goldberg and Hostin should just give their mansions to the “undocumented.” DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money. Employers want cheap labor. Noncitizens are easier to exploit.
https://mrctv.org/author/nick-kangadis

REASON
— The GOP Is Becoming Anti-Conservative. DD: How successful have Democrat and RINO leaders been promoting hatred against conservatives in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about the success that they have had promoting hatred against conservatives in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. Democrat and RINO leaders blame conservatives for all the losses that Republican candidates have suffered.
https://reason.com/podcast/2026/03/04/jonah-goldberg-the-gop-is-becoming-anti-conservative/

TOWNHALL
— ICE’s Newest Undercover Vehicles Are Sure to Tick Off the Left
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/04/ice-undercover-subarus-n2672193

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy of Montana assisted several police officers in physically ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-sheehy-joins-police-in-ejecting-protester-from-capitol-hill-hearing/

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— Protester, three Capitol Police officers treated for injuries after scuffle in Senate hearing room
https://www.wowt.com/2026/03/05/protester-three-capitol-police-officers-treated-injuries-after-scuffle-senate-hearing-room/

AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders get their protester to protest at the White House.
https://www.aol.com/articles/protesters-rally-against-attacks-iran-041707837.html

MSN
— DD: According to Democrat leaders, Jesus is a liberal Democrat who promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, more gun control, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. According to Democrat leaders, Jesus wants to replace those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over your church?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-AA1WW18B

NEW YORK TIMES
— Representative Dan Crenshaw Loses G.O.P. Primary in Texas. The victory by Steve Toth, a hard-line Texas state representative, underscored how even a conservative House member could lose Republican voters by breaking with President Trump. DD: What do you say to my critics/opponents who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a Trump-lacky? They stress the many demographics that I share with Trump including Vietnam War draft avoider and Protestant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/us/elections/texas-district-2-primary.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Mr. Toth, 65, said in an interview before the election that he decided to challenge Mr. Crenshaw after watching him work with Democrats on a failed bipartisan immigration enforcement deal in 2024, during the waning months of the Biden administration. But some of Mr. Crenshaw’s troubles could be traced to his break with the president over his efforts to reverse the result of the 2020 election. Mr. Toth said that Mr. Crenshaw had lost many Republican primary voters in the deeply conservative district, Texas’s Second Congressional, by attacking fellow Republicans who questioned the 2020 results. Mr. Crenshaw, 41, has been a regular on cable news, offering praise to Mr. Trump in his second term. He has explained his “gruff” demeanor and breaks with fellow Republicans as deriving from his combat experience in Afghanistan, during which he lost an eye. “In the end, I’m doing the job I’m supposed to be doing,” he said in an interview before the vote. “I’m telling you the truth.”)
— How Latino Voters Helped Talarico Win in Texas. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want the Republican Party to officially dump conservatives to get more votes from Hispanics.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/04/us/elections/texas-primary-talarico-crockett-results-votes.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly call Republicans racist. The more of the following that Republicans are, the more that Democrat leaders call them racist: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/trump-racism-woodrow-wilson.html
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly analogize their protectorates with runaway slaves. Democrat protectorates include those who are liberal/moderate, non-Republican, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/us/trump-immigration-ice-raids-safe-houses.html

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/02/26/trump-lawsuit-affirmative-action/88291520007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why Johnny Can’t Read Anything Other Than Pronouns. Schools have become laboratories for esoteric ideological projects, not centers of learning.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-johnny-cant-read-anything-other-than-pronouns-3238e98a
— How Talarico Won Over Latino Voters to Win the Texas Democratic Senate Primary. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want the Republican Party to officially dump conservatives to get more votes from Hispanics.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/how-talarico-won-over-latino-voters-to-win-the-texas-democratic-senate-primary-96081edf
— Ominous Texas Signals for Republicans. As Democratic voter turnout surges, the GOP Senate majority is in serious jeopardy. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want the Republican Party to officially dump conservatives to get more votes from Latinos.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/texas-primaries-john-cornyn-ken-paxton-james-talarico-jasmine-crockett-gop-senate-midterms-f12cf045
— Trump supporters. DD: What do you say to my critics/opponents who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me as being a Trump-lacky? They stress the many demographics that I share with Trump including conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, married, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/the-trump-supporters-who-say-he-went-too-far-on-immigration-b03b2c56

FORBES
— What 10 Companies Discovered When They Took Action On Skills-First Hiring. DD: What skills do you have? GAO audits IRS. When I transferred to GAO from IRS when I was 31 in 1980, I brought with me almost 9 years of knowledge of IRS systems, policies, procedures, operations, terminology, etc. The last 5 1/2 years of that knowledge I acquired at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. But my Democrat GAO superiors wasted my knowledge of IRS. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS until 1986 when the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer got back into power, got me assigned me to audits of IRS, and promoted me to GS-13, currently $118, 984/year. But then my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced him to retire, b) threw me off audits of IRS at the end of 1988 for the rest of my GAO career, c) gave me a bad job assignment, gave me unfair performance expectations, gave me an unfair performance appraisal, and ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance (PFP) in 1989, d) ranked me in the lower half of my coworkers for PFP for the rest of my GAO career, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. While I worked on audits for 3 years, none of those audits were on IRS’s Collection Division, the division that I had most knowledge of. My Democrat GAO superiors also wasted what I had learned a) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, b) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, d) passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, e) becoming a licensed CPA in 1981, f) earning a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997, etc. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gradsoflife/2026/03/03/what-10-companies-discovered-when-they-took-action-on-skills-first-hiring/

ATHENS BANNER-HERALD
— Looking for work? DD: Are you looking for work? Have you looked for work? After my Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, I soon gave up looking for work because no employer would hire me because they had taken so many adverse actions against me. They had a) forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, and d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. Previously, my Democrat IRS superiors had a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) never promoted me beyond GS-12. Previously, my Democrat Post Office superiors had disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. The aforesaid adverse actions rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-relate professional license.
https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/2026/03/04/georgias-best-employers-are-these-2-big-businesses-forbes-says/88982542007/

PRESS HERALD
— Pausing work permits for asylum seekers would hurt Maine’s economy. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money. Employers want cheap labor. Noncitizens are easier to exploit.
https://www.pressherald.com/2026/02/26/pausing-work-permits-for-asylum-seekers-would-hurt-maines-economy-officials-say/

WECT
— NC primary turnout surges 25% as candidates set sights on November. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://www.wect.com/2026/03/05/nc-primary-turnout-surges-25-candidates-set-sights-november/

KWCH
— Kansas lawmakers considering parental consent for student protests during school hours. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been getting students in your school district to protest? How soon, if not already, will they promise them free rides at Ivy League Universities?
https://www.kwch.com/2026/03/05/kansas-lawmakers-considering-parental-consent-student-protests-during-school-hours/

KTVB
— Idaho lawmakers discuss unexcused absences for students participating in political protests. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been getting students in your school district to protest? How soon, if not already, will they promise them free rides at Ivy League Universities?
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/208/lawmakers-discuss-unexcused-absences-students-participating-political-protests/277-520395e7-af3b-4a89-802b-98efbee15d02

HR DRIVE
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/trump-anti-dei-orders-stand-future-challenges/813764/

SHRM
— DD: Workers Can Be Fired for Their Political Affiliation and Activity.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/fired-political-affiliation-activity
— Asking About Politics When Hiring Invites Legal Risk. DD: If I had been active in Republican politics, the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 would not have hired me.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/talent-acquisition/asking-about-politics-when-hiring-invites-legal-risk

POLITICO
— Texas Latinos turned out in massive numbers for Democrats. In multiple Latino-majority counties, more people cast Democratic votes on Tuesday than voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders want the Republican Party to officially dump conservatives to get more votes from Latinos.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/04/texas-latinos-turned-out-in-massive-numbers-for-democrats-talarico-00812807

March 4, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— US embassies ‘under direct attack,’ Rubio says. Rubio said 1,500 Americans have requested assistance to leave the Middle East.
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/iran-live-updates-trump-says-major-combat-operations-have-begun/18660347/

FOX32
— Reparations report released in Illinois. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been blaming Republicans for the problems that Blacks have in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats say that you benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more reparations that you should pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-odp4kr1gcva19i6r

WTTW
— Pritzker Denies Traveling on Epstein’s Plane After Bill Clinton’s Since-Recanted Testimony
https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/03/pritzker-denies-traveling-epstein-s-plane-after-bill-clinton-s-recanted-testimony
— Illinois Lawmakers Call for Epstein Investigatory Commission
https://news.wttw.com/2026/03/02/illinois-lawmakers-call-epstein-investigatory-commission

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/column-donald-trump-iran-george-w-bush-popularity-chapman/
— Controversial Elon Musk-funded mural of slain Ukrainian refugee vandalized in North Center
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/03/mural-ukranian-refugee-vandalized-north-center/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Chicago sees exodus of immigration judges during Trump’s second term
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/02/chicago-immigration-judges/

DAILY HERALD
— Noem blames ‘violent protesters’ for Minneapolis chaos under tough questioning in Senate hearing. DD: Who trains Democrat protesters in Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, your school district, and your precinct? I wonder who trained the Democrat voter in my precinct who recently threatened me. The more that Democrats threaten me, the more motivated that I am.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260303/nation-and-world-politics/noem-will-testify-in-the-senate-in-her-first-appearance-since-2-minneapolis-protesters-deaths/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Pritzker-owned bourbon company faces lawsuit alleging ‘pervasive gender bias.’  DD: All my female coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or d) had no professional license like the one I had. They all were minority, younger than me, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/consumer-products/ccb-pritzker-bourbon-lawsuit-sexism/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— See which colleges in Illinois produce the highest salaries. DD: In today’s dollars, when I was 25 in 1974, 4 years after I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, my IRS Revenue Officer salary was $100,059. I had completed 11 graduate evening business courses at Loyola. I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. In today’s dollars, in 1980, 4 years after I earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976, my GAO Analyst salary was only $89,703. In today’s dollars, in 1984, 4 years after I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, my GAO Analyst salary was $113,402. I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1981. In today’s dollars, in 2001, 4 years after I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997, my salary was $0.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/education/2026/03/04/see-which-colleges-in-illinois-produce-the-highest-salaries/88604901007/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Here are the colleges whose graduates, four years after graduation, earn the highest median salaries, according to the federal data. The data was published in December, 2025, and accounts for inflation. 1. University of Chicago: $107,896, 2. Rush University: $103,094, 3. Northwestern University: $98,916, 4. Illinois Institute of Technology: $89,808)

RIVER BENDER
— DD: Duckworth says Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-excoriates-trump-for-launching-an-illegal-attack-against-iran-putting-our-servicemembers-and-national-security-at-needless-risk—91273.cfm

NPR ILLINOIS
— Trump promised the MAGA base no new wars. Then he went to war with Iran.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-03-03/trump-promised-the-maga-base-no-new-wars-then-he-went-to-war-with-iran

JEAN KACZMEREK
— Video of March 2 news conference. DD: What will the Republican response be to this? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage voters from voting for Republican candidates. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn everything that Trump says or does and b) hint/imply/argue/shout at voters to protest Trump by voting for Democrat candidates. The more Democrat ballots that are cast than Republican ballots in the March 17 primary, the more that Democrat leaders will shout that Democrats will win November 3. That should discourage Democrats from crossing over and casting Republican ballots.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=953969057442009
https://www.facebook.com/dupagecountyclerk/videos/im-jean-kaczmarek-dupage-county-clerk-today-my-office-has-a-message-for-the-vote/953969057442009/

DUPAGE COUNTY
— ICE Go Away, Do Not Even Try. You Will Fail! DD: What will the Republican response be to this? Democrat leaders ever-increasingly discourage voters from voting for Republican candidates. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn everything that Trump says or does and b) hint/imply/argue/shout at voters to protest Trump by voting for Democrat candidates. The more Democrat ballots that are cast than Republican ballots in the March 17 primary, the more that Democrat leaders will shout that Democrats will win November 3. That should discourage Democrats from crossing over and casting Republican ballots.
https://www.dupagecounty.gov/county_clerk/ice_go_away__do_not_even_try__you_will_fail__1655.php

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Republican Ted Dabrowski will be endorsed today by Tracy Bost, wife of Congressman Mike Bost, in a get-out-the-vote rally today in Murphysboro.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/04/collins-withdraws-support-for-preston-00811491

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/04/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-691/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/03/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-479/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
—  If Democrat leaders are not having their illegals use their false identifications to vote, why are Democrat leaders so hyper about ICE at polling places? Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders have their illegals bring Democrats who share their demographics to the polls. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In Illinois, to cast a Republican or Democrat ballot in a primary is to publicly declare your political affiliation for the next 2 years. I have always cast Republican primary ballots. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. My Democrat superiors in the federal government have always known that I have always cast Republican primary ballots. Notwithstanding that, the Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO in 1980 hired me anyway. They could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. They erroneously believed that if they took enough adverse actions against me, I would become a Democrat. My Democrat Post Office superiors disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. My Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for them, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to resign when I was 49 in 1997. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a minority, female, or veteran. To be a Democrat is to promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The Democrats who run Illinois ever-increasing drive Republican employers out of Illinois. Because of that, it is ever-increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for Republicans to get hired, retained, and promoted in Illinois. That is especially true for Republicans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. How soon, if not already, will employers in Illinois post signs that say “Republican need not apply?”  – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— If you cast a Republican primary ballot in Illinois, that is on your record for the rest of your life. As Democrats ever-increasing run Illinois, anticipate/expect that those who have cast Republican primary ballot will ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that they despise/hate Trump, b) that they are not conservative, and/or c) that 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing hint/imply/argue/shout that you should vote for the candidates who promise to give the most preference to those who share your demographics. Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly promise to give more preference to voters who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Democrat leaders, Jesus is a liberal Democrat who promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, more gun control, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. According to Democrat leaders, Jesus wants to replace those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over your church? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What positions do the Republican candidates on the March 17 ballot in your precinct have on immigration? Which ones a) promote enforcement of immigration laws and b) promote illegal immigration? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Anti-Trump, Pro-Choice Mark Kirk Endorses Don Tracy in Illinois GOP Senate Race
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/03/anti-trump-pro-choice-mark-kirk-endorses-don-tracy-in-illinois-gop-senate-race.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Noem: No ICE at election polls
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/3/kristi-noem-no-ice-election-polls-year-dhs-doesnt-use-deportation/
— How race and religion have always played a role in who gets refuge in the U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/3/gets-refuge-us-race-religion-always-played-role/

NEW YORK POST
— Nashville teacher gets record cleared after being disciplined for not reading LGBTQ book to first-grade students. DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been promoting LGBTQ in your school district?
https://nypost.com/2026/03/03/us-news/nashville-teacher-eric-rivera-gets-record-cleared-after-being-disciplined-for-not-reading-lgbtq-book/

ARKANSAS BOARD OF ELECTION COMMISSIONERS
— Crossover voting is a crime. DD: I am vehemently against crossover voting. How many crossover votes do you estimate will be cast in the March 17 primary in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct and why?
https://sbec.arkansas.gov/wp-content/uploads/Crossover-voting-2026.pdf

BREITBART
— The western states of Idaho and Utah have begun to pull back from their former support for an influx of illegal aliens as they continue to struggle with the effects of their previous open-door policies, but cheap-labor employers and establishment Republicans are fighting against the efforts. DD: What positions do the Republican candidates on the March 17 ballot in your precinct have on immigration? Which ones a) promote enforcement of immigration laws and b) promote illegal immigration?
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/03/03/gop-divided-in-utah-idaho-over-state-govt-support-for-illegal-migrants/amp/
— Illinois Reparations Commission Report Delves into State’s History of ‘Racial Harms.’ DD: How successful have Democrat leaders been blaming Republicans for the problems that Blacks have in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrats say that you benefitted from slavery, and therefore, the more reparations that you should pay: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://www.breitbart.com/social-justice/2026/03/03/illinois-reparations-commission-report-delves-states-history-racial-harms/

EPOCH TIMES
— 50,000 Troops, 200 Fighters, 2 Aircraft Carriers Engaged in Attack on Iran, Commander Says. The Iranian regime’s ability to hit the United States and its partners is declining, a CENTCOM commander said.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/50000-troops-200-fighters-2-aircraft-carriers-engaged-in-attack-on-iran-commander-says-5993894

FEDERALIST
— DD: To what extent have the candidates on the Republican primary ballot in your precinct stressed that they will defend and advance the Republican Party platform if elected?
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/03/primary-season-gives-conservatives-the-chance-to-kick-feckless-rinos-to-the-curb/
— Thanks To Democrats, Potential Iranian Terrorists Are Already On American Soil
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/03/thanks-to-democrats-potential-iranian-terrorists-are-already-on-american-soil/

FOX NEWS
— DHS defends ad blitz amid Senate scrutiny, says campaign drove 2.2M self-deportations and saved taxpayers $39B.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dhs-defends-ad-blitz-senate-scrutiny-campaign-drove-self-deportations-taxpayers-billions

HERITAGE FOUNDATION
— Trump Has Sealed the Border. Now, Democrats Are Hell-Bent on Ending Immigration Enforcement
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/commentary/trump-has-sealed-the-border-now-democrats-are-hell-bent-ending

JUDICIAL WATCH
— Public Schools Use Federal Violence Prevention Grants to Accommodate Illegal Immigrants
https://www.judicialwatch.org/public-schools-federal-grants-accommodate-illegal-immigrants/

POST MILLENNIAL
— DHS probe of illegal alien workers in DC restaurants forces 130 staffers out of jobs. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money. Employers want cheap labor. Noncitizens are easier to exploit.
https://thepostmillennial.com/dhs-probe-of-illegal-alien-workers-in-dc-restaurants-forces-130-staffers-out-of-jobs

TOWNHALL
— ‘Diversity’ Is a Formula for Failure
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/03/vip-diversifying-mathematics-decreasing-scores-n2672227

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Early turnout in Texas Democratic primary outpaces GOP as Election Day kicks off. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5764802-early-turnout-texas-democrats-republicans-election-day/

MSN
— Islam and Christianity clash over Jesus. DD: According to Democrat leaders, Jesus is a liberal Democrat who promotes dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, more gun control, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. According to Democrat leaders, Jesus wants to replace those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, married, heterosexual, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time with those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, poor, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. How successful have Democrat leaders been taking over your church?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/islam-and-christianity-clash-over-jesus/gm-GM52BD7419

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing hint/imply/argue/shout that you should vote for the candidates who promise to give the most preference to those who share your demographics. Democrat and RINO candidates ever-increasingly promise to give more preference to voters who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, unmarried, LGBTQ, veteran, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/elections/texas-latino-voters.html

WASHINGTON POST
— ICE training was slashed, records show, corroborating whistleblower claims. Previously unreported records also offer new details about what was cut from ICE’s basic training program. Concerns about the quality of ICE agents’ training have mounted for months. DD: The first 6 months that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training. I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step-1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. GAO audits IRS. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. The Democrats who ran GAO wasted my knowledge of IRS. They succeeded in keeping me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/03/03/ice-training-cuts-graduation-rate/

USA TODAY
— Trump wants White men to sue for race discrimination. This man did. DD: My critics/opponents promote Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promote race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/03/04/white-men-discrimination-dei-trump/88847584007/

ABC LOS ANGELES
— California bill to bar police from taking second job with ICE advances in state Assembly. DD: I should write about a) what my Democrat IRS superiors did to get my Democrat GAO superiors to offer me a transfer only if I took a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars and b) what my Democrat GAO superiors did to stop me from getting a job after they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://abc7.com/post/california-bill-would-bar-police-taking-2nd-job-ice/18673938/

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— Trump administration plan could restrict work permits for asylum seekers for years. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money. Employers want cheap labor. Noncitizens are easier to exploit.
https://www.aol.com/articles/trump-administration-plan-could-restrict-161607997.html

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Texas sets new record for early voting in the primaries. More than 2.5 million people have voted in the Texas primaries even before election day polls open. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/texas-sets-new-record-early-voting-primaries-21951430.php

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Iran Attacks U.S. Embassies in Middle East
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/iran-attacks-u-s-embassies-in-middle-east-9ab4ffa6
— Is the U.S. Running Out of Ammo? DD: During the first 6 months of 1989, I worked for GAO at the Rock Island Arsenal on an audit of DOD’s 1990 ammunition budget request. SEE: https://www.gao.gov/assets/150/148194.pdf
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/u-s-iran-weapons-missiles-air-defense-pentagon-military-2c0e18b5

NEW PITTSBURG COURIER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting religious leaders to do their bidding.
https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2026/03/03/these-pittsburgh-churches-are-embracing-lgbtq-christians/

ABC NORTH CAROLINA
— Early voting turnout reported across Eastern North Carolina ahead of March 3 election. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://wcti12.com/news/local/early-voting-turnout-reported-across-eastern-north-carolina-ahead-of-march-3-election

CAROLINA JOURNAL
— NC primary sees strong turnout, early voting surge. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-primary-sees-strong-turnout-early-voting-surge/

ARKANSAS TIMES
— With early voting and absentee votes released, some local non-legislative races begin to come into focus. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2026/03/03/with-early-voting-and-absentee-votes-released-some-local-non-legislative-races-begin-to-come-into-focus

KGNS
— Webb County releases unofficial early voting results in 2026 Texas Primary. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://www.kgns.tv/2026/03/04/webb-county-releases-unofficial-early-voting-results-2026-texas-primary/

WOODLANDS ONLINE
— GOP Early voting results for Montgomery County. DD: How many have voted so far in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your precinct? How many Democrat, Republican, and NA ballots have been cast so far? Who does not want the aforesaid information to be reported and why?
https://www.woodlandsonline.com/npps/story.cfm?nppage=83517

FED MANAGER
— OPM Formally Proposes Major Overhaul of Federal Performance Ratings. DD: My Democrat superiors always used the subjectivity in their performance rating systems to justify the adverse actions that they took against me. I should write about the many big adverse actions that they took against me. At the Post Office, they disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and forced me to resign in 1969. At IRS, they disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and never promoted me beyond GS-12. At GAO, they forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.fedmanager.com/news/opm-formally-proposes-major-overhaul-of-federal-performance-ratings

CPA PRACTICE ADVISOR
— Illinois CPA Society Accepting Accounting Scholarship Applications. DD: Choosing the right college major is extremely important. I should have majored in accounting from the beginning, but I did not until I was 27 when I started taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30. I earned a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul when I was 31. I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32. I became a licensed CPA when I was 32. But by then, the accounting profession had no interest in me a) because it viewed me as being too old and b) because my demographics were terrible. The profession was under tremendous pressure to advance minorities and females. Why didn’t I major in accounting from the beginning? I erroneously believed that because I was not strong in math, I could never pass the CPA examination. But I belatedly came to realize that accountants do not use the types of math that I was not strong in.
https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2026/03/03/illinois-cpa-society-accepting-accounting-scholarship-applications/179123/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

MEAWW
— Coons pressed Noem under oath to rule out deploying ICE agents to polling places ahead of the 2026 midterms. Noem repeatedly stated there are “no plans” for officers at polling locations but refused to definitively rule it out. DD: If Democrat leaders are not having their illegals use their false identifications to vote, why are Democrat leaders so hyper about this? Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders have their illegals bring Democrats who share their demographics to the polls.
https://news.meaww.com/video/coons-questions-ice-at-polling-places-as-noem-fires-back-illegals-voting

CONSERVATIVE WOMAN
— Decades in the planning, the Islamic Republic of Britain
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/theres-nothing-accidental-about-the-kashmiri-colonisation-of-britain/

March 1, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— ‘Serious moment’: Most Republicans support strike as Dems demand answers. Republicans have so far praised President Donald Trump’s decision.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/serious-moment-reactions-pour-congress-trump-strikes-iran/18660811/
— Trump warns Iran ‘BETTER NOT’ retaliate after vow from leader. Iranian officials have vowed to hit back against the U.S. and Israel.
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/iran-live-updates-trump-says-major-combat-operations-have-begun/18660347/

NBC5
— A Supreme Court case over whether marijuana users can own guns is creating unusual alliances. The Trump administration will be defending a firearm restriction, with backing from gun-control groups typically more aligned with Democrats. DD: In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. I have had a FOID card since I was 20 in 1968.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/supreme-court-case-whether-marijuana-users-can-own-guns-unusual-alliances/3901367/

CBS2
— Anti-war protest against U.S., Israel strikes in Iran held in Chicago’s Federal Plaza. DD: What military actions can presidents take against countries without specific congressional authorization? What is an act of war against America? In my opinion, it is an act of war for a country to send their citizens into other country illegally. Far too many countries have send far too many of their citizens into America illegally with the help of Democrat and RINO leaders.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/anit-war-protest-iran-federal-plaza/
— Illinois leaders, Chicago communities react to U.S. and Israel military operation on Iran
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-chicago-react-u-s-israel-operation-iran/
— Iranians in Chicago celebrate U.S., Israel attack, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/iranians-chicago-celebrate-us-isreal-strikes/

FOX32
— Illinois leaders split over Trump’s Iran strike. Illinois political leaders are reacting swiftly to President Trump’s military strike on Iran — and most Democrats are sharply critical.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/fmc-jb4hjdxyb3hewyw4

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— When 20% of Illinois voters decide primary elections, democracy cowers. DD: The more Democrat primary ballots that are cast than Republican primary ballots are cast, the more that Democrat leaders will predict that Democrat candidates will win November 3. What has your Republican Precinct Committeeman done so far to increase the number of Republican primary ballots cast in your precinct? I have hand-delivered to the 400 residences in my precinct that have one or more registered Republican or NA voter a DuPage County GOP envelope that contained a copy of the sample ballot, a Voter Guide from the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), and campaign literature from the five Republican candidates on our ballot who provided their literature to the MTRO.  I split the 400 envelopes into 5 batches. Delivering each batch took about 3 hours or about 15 hours altogether. If I spent 6 minutes getting each envelope ready, that would be 40 hours.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/01/illinois-primary-election-vote-gerrymandering/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/01/antonio-romanucci-renee-good-george-floyd/
— UN chief condemns US-Israeli attacks on Iran during emergency Security Council meeting
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/28/un-chief-condemns-us-israeli-attacks/
— War powers debate intensifies after President Trump orders attack on Iran without approval by Congress
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/28/war-powers-debate-trump-iran-congress/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly get faith leaders to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/01/opinion-illinois-2026-primary-election-vote/
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will ever-increasingly fill their schools with their illegals.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/23/poll-shows-illinoisans-oppose-ice-near-schools/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE IN THE NAPERVILLE SUN: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in getting students to do their bidding.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/online-aurora-public-library-display-student-protests/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Protesters in Loop condemn U.S. attack on Iran: ‘War is not the solution.’  Dozens of people marched Saturday evening from Federal Plaza to Trump Tower after at least 200 people were killed in U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, according to reports. Earlier in the day, demonstrators who supported the strikes carried pre-revolution Iranian flags at a rally in Daley Plaza.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/02/28/protesters-in-loop-condemn-u-s-attack-on-iran-war-is-not-the-solution
— Pritzker backs Croke in comptroller race, but does that mean she’ll do governor’s bidding? Susana Mendoza, the current comptroller, and four Democratic primary candidates weigh in. DD: According to my critics/opponents:” Nobody can tell Diersen what to do.” Of course, I take that as a badge of honor. Far too many of those above me in Republican politics defend/advance only those a) who glorify and praise them, b) who pander to them, c) who serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who cover up their wrongdoing, and/or f) who give them money. I am independent, that is, no one can tell me what to do because I have a) a Civil Service Retirement System pension, b) Social Security, c) Medicare, d) a 72% federal subsidy for my and my wife’s health insurance premiums, e) retirement savings, and f) my wife and have no debts or dependents. My critics/opponents know that they cannot take the aforesaid away from me. But they have succeeded in taking the following away from me: a) my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) my Republican Precinct Committeeman position for half my precinct in 2015, d) my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, e) my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, and f) my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/02/27/contributions-state-comptroller-susana-mendoza-pritzker-croke-villa-kifowit-kim
— Your spring break guide to six Big 10 college towns in the Midwest. For college-bound students, March means touring prospective campuses for fit and vibe. Here’s what else to do while visiting. DD: The only college that I considered was UIC because I could commute the 35 miles to/from classes there and my parents’ home in Crete.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/travel/2026/03/01/things-to-do-champaign-urbana-bloomington-ann-arbor-iowa-city-madison-columbus-college-tours

RIVER BENDER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight for America’s enemies.
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-highlights-risks-of-trumps-iran-operation-on-troops-91220.cfm?

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Cannabis hyperemesis syndrome is on the rise: What symptoms to watch for
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/cannabis-hyperemesis-syndrome-is-on-the-rise-what-symptoms-to-watch-for/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Trump was once wary of ordering regime change in Iran. Here’s what made him change his mind. Saturday’s military operation against Iran shows the dramatic evolution in risk tolerance that President Donald Trump has made in a matter of months.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/trump-was-once-wary-of-ordering-regime-change-in-iran-heres-what-made-him-change/article_4bc643d1-f11a-5219-b9ac-7a6a4e9b52d0.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

JOHN KASS
— Can Democrats Erase Trump?
https://johnkassnews.com/can-democrats-erase-trump/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Physicians assistants leave for Iowa due to licensing wait times in Illinois. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors were beyond furious when Illinois approved my application to be a licensed CPA when I was 32 in 1981. None of GAO’s employees in its Chicago office were licensed CPAs. None of my Democrat coworkers who were minority or female and who they wanted to promote over me were licensed CPAs. Further, my Democrat coworkers who they wanted to promote over me a) had not taken the CPA or Certified Internal Auditor examinations, let alone passed them on their first attempt like I did, b) had less work experience than I had, I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years before I transferred to GAO in 1980, and/or c) had less education than I had, I had an MBA and a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_0199a16c-c73e-412d-ae61-1139c99399ca.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Lawmaker files anti-student bill right after getting CTU money
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/lawmaker-files-anti-student-bill-right-after-getting-ctu-money/
— Illinois top 10 for highest in-state tuition, new bill to find out why. DD: My critics/opponents acknowledge that I worked my way through college. But they stress that tuition at  UIC and NIU was much lower back then. Further, they stress that I had to work my way through college a) because I could not have gotten a student loan and b) because I got no scholarships. Many, if not most, if not virtually all of my critics/opponents got scholarships and use that against those like who did not get scholarships. Further, many, if not most of my critics/opponents got degrees from Ivy League universities and use that against those like me who did not get degrees from Ivy League universities.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-top-ten-for-highest-in-state-tuition-new-bill-to-find-out-why/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— The Trump administration is detaining and questioning refugees already admitted to the U.S.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/28/refugees-already-admitted-us-detained-questioned-trump-administration/

DAILY CALLER
— ‘Not What We Thought MAGA Was Supposed To Be’: America First Skeptics Blast Iran Strikes
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/28/america-first-reacts-donald-trump-iran-strikes-marjorie-taylor-greene-thomas-massie-tucker-carlson/
— Trump Officials Previously Mocked Opponents For Wanting War In Middle East
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/28/stephen-miller-jd-vance-trump-war-middle-east-iran-strikes/
— Trump set the tone for the 2026 midterms during his Tuesday State of the Union. The GOP will focus on making life more affordable for Americans. DD: What did you do to afford things? I took bad jobs that my peers would never stoop to take. I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, I earned six job-related professional certifications. I earned a job-related professional license. If I had not done the aforesaid, I would not have been able to a) buy a 6-year-old car when I was 16, b) buy new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, etc., d) etc.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/25/trump-gop-midterms-james-blair-2026-state-union-affordability/

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— Bad Bets: Massive EV Subsidies Not Paying Off. DD: My critics/opponents demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me for buying a 2025 Dodge Charger Daytona R/T EV ( https://www.kbb.com/dodge/charger-daytona/2025/r-t/ ). In my defense, if I could have bought the car with a Hemi in it, I would have.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/02/26/bad_bets_federal_and_state_ev_subsidies_are_not_paying_off_1167122.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump, the Self-Declared Peace President, Goes to War Seeking Regime Change. President Trump has become increasingly willing to assert American power overseas, a decade after propelling himself to the highest office by promising to focus on “America first.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/trump-peace-president-war.html
— The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/cia-israel-ayatollah-compound.html
— A Tyrant Falls. Dangerous Uncertainty Begins.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/opinion/iran-khamenei-killed-what-next.html
— ‘Mess Around and Find Out’: 4 Opinion Writers on the Khamenei Strike
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/opinion/khamenei-supreme-leader-iran-dead.html
— The Folly of Attacking Iran
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/opinion/trump-iran-war.html
— Trump Stays Out of Public View After U.S. Launches Military Assault on Iran. President Trump did not deliver a formal address to the American public to explain why the country was at war, a departure from his predecessors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/trump-iran-public-comments.html
— Why Diplomacy Was Doomed: Trump’s Issue Was Iran’s Leadership Itself
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/politics/iran-trump-diplomacy-fail.html
— ‘We Got to Win the Midterms’: Trump Takes His State of the Union Message on the Road
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/us/politics/trump-midterms-state-of-the-union.html
— Finding More Success With a Fresh Start. DD: I took a 21% pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I transferred because my Democrat IRS superiors had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. I was able to transfer because I had earned an MBA when I was 27 and I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 29. My wife and I could afford my taking that pay cut because of her salary and because we had no children. The Democrats who ran GAO did promote me to GS-13, but not until I was 38. They would ever had promoted me to GS-13 if I has not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, b)  passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, and c) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. They would never had promoted me to GS-13 if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer had not a) gotten back into power, b) assigned me to audits of IRS, and c) promoted me when I was 38. Because he did that, they forced him to retire when I was 39.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/business/kickstarter-everette-taylor-interview-remote-four-day-workweek.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: According to Democrats and to RINOs, the world will always need Affirmative Action and DEI because Republicans will always cause all the problems that minorities and females have.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/01/donald-trump-black-history-month/

AMERICAN PROGRESS
— Addressing the Wage Gap. DD: For federal employees who have similar education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional licenses, those who are minority and/or female are paid more than federal employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.americanprogress.org/series/addressing-the-gender-wage-gap/

BUZZ FEED
— “I Accepted A Job With A 20% Cut In Pay.” DD: Who do you know that took a pay cut? I took a 21% pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I transferred because my Democrat IRS superiors had made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. I was able to transfer because I had earned an MBA when I was 27 and I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 29.  My wife and I could afford my taking that pay cut because of her salary and because we had no children. The Democrats who ran GAO did promote me to GS-13, but not until I was 38. They would ever had promoted me to GS-13 if I has not a) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, b)  passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, and c) became a licensed CPA when I was 32. They would never had promoted me to GS-13 if the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer had not a) gotten back into power, b) assigned me to audits of IRS, and c) promoted me when I was 38. Because he did that, they forced him to retire when I was 39.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelley_greene/what-the-job-market-is-really-like-in-2026
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “I managed to find a job after being out of work for five months. I accepted a job with a 20% decrease in pay and way worse benefits. I’m now working in a horrible environment where people are treated like shit because the leadership is MIA and ignores abusive and illegal practices. They know the job market is tough, and they can easily replace people. It’s awful, but at least it’s a paycheck until I burn out and completely lose my shit.”

AMERICAN PHYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
— LGBTQ+ young people face large increases in depression, anxiety, suicidal thinking. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.apa.org/monitor/2026/03/lgbtq-mental-health

CONGRESSWOMAN DELIA RAMIREZ
— Congresswoman Ramirez Condemns Trump’s Unlawful Military Action on Iran. DD: What does your congress man/woman think of you? From what I see of Ramirez, she despises me if not hates me because of my conservatism, because of my Republicanism, and because I share so many demographics with Trump. Both Trump and I are: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, draft avoider, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://ramirez.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-ramirez-condemns-trumps-unlawful-military-action-iran-murder

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ECONOMIC TIMES
— You need to learn to live with your mistakes. DD: According to my critics/opponents, all my problems in life, and especially all my setbacks in life, were caused by my mistakes. They stress that unlike me, a) they did not avoid the Vietnam War draft, b) they became Democrats or RINOs, c) they became yes-men or yes-women, d) they always sided with those who had the most clout, e) they did not complain about anything, file any arbitration demands, or file any lawsuits, f) they promoted Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, they promoted political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and/or national origin discrimination, g) they promoted dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, and/or diminishment of Second Amendment rights, h) they etc.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/quote-of-the-day-by-russell-crowe-you-need-to-learn-to-live-with-your-mistakes-and-you-need-inspiring-quotes-by-the-gladiator-actor/amp_articleshow/128890538.cms

Febuary 28, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— US-Israel attack on Iran: Illinois leaders react, demonstrations held downtown Chicago. Strikes celebrated by many in Chicago’s Iranian community, demonstrators against US troops on ground.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/us-israel-attack-iran-illinois-leaders-react-demonstration-held-downtown-chicago-president-trump-says-irans-leader-is-dead/18662172/

NBC5
— Dozens gather in downtown Chicago for protest after U.S., Israel strike on Iran. “They rejected every opportunity to renounce their nuclear ambitions, and we can’t take it anymore,” Trump said after the attack.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/dozens-gather-in-downtown-chicago-for-protest-after-u-s-israel-strike-on-iran/3901470/

FOX32
— Illinois elected leaders blast Trump’s military strikes in Iran: ‘No justification’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-elected-leaders-blast-trumps-military-strikes-iran-no-justification

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Leading Illinois Democrats denounce President Donald Trump’s military strikes in Iran
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/28/illinois-democrats-pritzker-iran-trump/

DAILY HERALD
— Endorsement: Tracy for Republicans in U.S. Senate race
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260228/endorsements/endorsement-tracy-for-republicans-in-u-s-senate-race/

STATELINE
— Illinois Department of Labor analyzes wage gaps based on race and gender. DD: If IDL analyzed such gaps for federal employees, it would find that for federal employees who have similar education, work experience, professional certifications, and professional licenses, those who are minority and/or female are paid more than federal employees who are White and/or male.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/a-supreme-court-case-over-whether-marijuana-users-can-own-guns-is-creating-unusual-alliances/article_90ee8794-aca8-5782-8ec4-bac0157895c1.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YROHKZ2llfM

CHAMPAIGN/URBANS NEWS GAZETTE & CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— A Supreme Court case over whether marijuana users can own guns is creating unusual alliances. DD: I side with Trump. I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-world/a-supreme-court-case-over-whether-marijuana-users-can-own-guns-is-creating-unusual-alliances/article_90ee8794-aca8-5782-8ec4-bac0157895c1.html
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-a-supreme-court-case-over-whether-marijuana-users-can-own-guns-is-creating-unusual-alliances/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The Republican Trump administration will be defending a firearm restriction, with backing from gun-control groups typically more aligned with Democrats. On the other side is a pairing of the National Rifle Association and the American Civil Liberties Union.)

WGLT
— Duckworth calls Iran strikes ‘illegal’ as LaHood points to ‘direct consequence of Iran’s actions’
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-02-28/duckworth-calls-iran-strikes-illegal-as-lahood-points-to-direct-consequence-of-irans-actions

INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE
— Indiana keeps bucking marijuana legalization, tightening related laws instead. DD: I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/02/indiana-keeps-bucking-marijuana-legalization-tightening-related-laws-instead/

ILLINOIS TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the Republican Party’s BIG TENT policy to destroy the Republican Party. Far too many Republican organizations and candidates seek, accept, and/or give money to/from organizations and candidates that reject some, many, most, if not virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. I should write about the aforesaid organizations and candidates. I would focus on those that have sought/accepted/given the most aforesaid money and that have made it the most clear that 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. I would focus on the aforesaid that have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. since 2000.
https://www.illinoistimes.com/news/illinois-republicans-need-diversity-of-views-a-bigger-tent-20101601/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats rage over Trump’s ‘illegal’ war in Iran, demand Congress return to Washington for ‘immediate’ vote
https://nypost.com/2026/02/28/us-news/trumps-iran-attack-sets-off-furious-debate-in-congress-on-whether-war-is-necessary-or-illegal/
— Black voters should reject Newsom’s ‘I’m as dumb as you’ shtick
https://nypost.com/2026/02/27/opinion/black-voters-should-reject-newsoms-act/

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Black Republican Nukes Liberal for Implying the SAVE Act Targets Minorities: We’re ‘Educated Enough’ to Get an ID
https://www.westernjournal.com/black-republican-nukes-liberal-implying-save-act-targets-minorities-educated-enough-get/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— Trump’s Attack on Iran Is Reckless
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/opinion/iran-attack-trump-war.html
— Only 21% of Americans Support the United States Initiating an Attack on Iran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/poll-americans-support-iran-attack.html
— Trump’s Decision to Strike Iran Opens New Fissures in Midterms. Republicans largely supported the decision, while Democrats mostly opposed it — but divisions appeared in both parties.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/us/politics/trump-iran-attack-midterms.html
— Legalizing Marijuana Is a Big Mistake. DD: I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/17/opinion/marijuana-legalization-disaster.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump Enforces His Red Line on Iran. His war aims suggest a long campaign that could topple the regime.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-enforces-his-red-line-on-iran-a2ad85ab?mod=opinion_lead_pos1

AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL
— DD: Democrat leaders reject America’s immigration laws, that is, Democrat leaders reject America.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/fact-sheet/did-my-family-really-come-legally-todays-immigration-laws-created-a-new-reality/

February 28, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Trump, Pritzker trade shots after governor accuses him of plan to ‘steal’ 2026 midterm election
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-pritzker-trade-shots-after-governor-accuses-him-of-plan-to-steal-2026-midterm-election/3901204/
— Attorney general charges 30 more people who protested at Minnesota church. Protesters descended on Cities Church on Jan. 18 after learning that one of the church’s pastors also serves as an ICE official.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/president-trump/attorney-general-charges-30-more-protesters-minnesota-church/3901134/

WGN9
— DD: To get more votes from Blacks, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for all the problems that Blacks have. Democrats fought to keep slavery. Republicans fought to end it. Today’s Democrat leaders ever-increasingly falsely hint/imply/argue/shout that Republicans were the Confederacy during the Civil War and that Democrats were the Union Army. My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois and that they always voted Republican.
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/wgn-the-point-politics-chicago-illinois/illinois-adcrc-reveals-harms-report/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Candidate Questionnaires
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2026/candidate-questionnaires
— Pro-Israel group’s donors and affiliates pour $13.7 million into Chicago-area primaries
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/02/27/aipac-pro-israel-groups-chicago-area-democratic-congressional-primaries-miller-conyears-ervin-bean-fine
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deposition.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/27/chicago-ice-trump-bovino-marimar-martinez-crime-border-patrol-midway-blitz
— DD: When did your ancestors immigrate? My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/letters-to-the-editor/2026/02/27/black-history-slavery-racism-trump-smithsonian-bears-supreme-court-tariffs
— Baily’s critics/opponents call him “too conservative.” I should write about my critics/opponents who call me “too conservative.” My critics/opponents blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I should name and 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 Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican elected officials in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2026/02/23/illinois-republican-primary-governor-candidates-preview-bailey-dabrowski-heidner-mendrick
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/02/27/trump-state-union-congress-presidential-supremacy-mona-charen
— FRONT PAGE WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Fuentes.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/27/nick-fuentes-apologizes/

DAILY HERALD
— Despite encounter with resident, Simmons isn’t changing door-to-door campaigning tactics. DD: Because of an encounter with a Democrat in my precinct, I am changing my tactics. What have Democrats shouted at you lately? I am happy to report that only one Democrat voter in my precinct, albeit an aggressive, nasty, wealthy, and prominent realtor with a common name, shouted threats at me while I hand-delivered envelopes recently to residences in my precinct that have at least one Republican or one NA voter without knocking on any doors. He shouted at me in a very threatening tone that he had thrown my envelope in his trash, that I should not deliver anything there anymore, that he knew who I was, that he knew where I lived, and that if I ever did deliver anything there again, he would come to my home and dump it on my driveway. While I did not realize who he was until after the incident, he had known who I was for many years. He had been a registered D in my precinct very near my home years ago. I now know that after he sold that home, he bought a very expensive and prominent home in the new part of my precinct. I delivered to his new home only because there was a registered NA in his home. To avoid future threats like this from Ds, I will identify those homes in my precinct that have NAs and not deliver to those homes that also have Ds but no Rs, something I did not take the time to do this time. There are limits on the time that I can spend. I spend 10+ hours a day 7 days a week putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and sending them out. I spent many hours putting 800 mailing labels and 400 return address labels on 400 envelopes, putting them into walk order, stuffing them with a sample ballot, a Milton Township Republican Organization Voter Guide, and five candidate campaign literature pieces, dividing them into 5 batches, and hand-delivering them. I used 400 DuPage County Republican Central Committee envelopes and I used my photocopier, paper, and ink to copy the sample ballot 400 times 2-sided back-to-back. If I spent 6 minutes getting each envelope ready, that would be 40 hours. I spent about 15 hours hand-delivering the envelopes, or about 3 hours per batch.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260227/us-congress-politics/despite-encounter-with-resident-simmons-isnt-changing-door-to-door-campaigning-tactics/
— Charlie Kim: 2026 candidate for 11th Congressional District
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260227/us-congress-politics/charlie-kim-2026-candidate-for-11th-congressional-district/
— Rick Heidner: 2026 candidate for Illinois Governor
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260228/illinois-state-politics/rick-heidner-2026-candidate-for-illinois-governor/
— Ted Dabrowski: 2026 candidate for Illinois Governor
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260228/illinois-state-politics/ted-dabrowski-2026-candidate-for-illinois-governor/

MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders outrageously, disgustingly, and unethically call giving less preference to minorities and to females oppressing minorities and females.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/opinion/columnists/james-causey/2026/02/28/milwaukee-pastor-racism-ice-white-supremacy-mlk/88824713007/

WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.wandtv.com/transgender-youths-are-targeted-in-scouting-america-changes-pushed-by-the-pentagon/article_ce10e0f5-6b1b-5a8e-a06e-a8c598f5dce7.html

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/even-amid-partial-dhs-shutdown-illinois-remains-on-edge/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-477/
— DD: When did your ancestors immigrate? My critics/opponents have always stressed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. According to my critics/opponents, if you are White and/or male, the longer that your ancestors have been in America, the more that you have benefitted from slavery and should pay reparations. In my ancestors’ defense, I have always stressed that they always lived in northeast Illinois. Affirmative Action and DEI are reparations.
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/27/illinois-african-descent-citizens-reparations-commission-outlines-historic-ongoing-inequities-facing-black-illinoisans/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What do you say to Republican organizations and candidates that seek, accept, and/or give money to/from organizations and candidates that reject some, many, most, if not virtually all the planks in the Republican Party platform? Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. I should write about the aforesaid organizations and candidates. I would focus on those that have sought/accepted/given the most aforesaid money and that have made it the most clear that 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. I would focus on the aforesaid that have taken the most/biggest adverse actions against me. since 2000.


FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DD: Anti-Americans plead with Supreme Court to strike Trump’s birthright citizenship order
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court/4474279/left-wing-groups-plead-supreme-court-strike-trump-birthright-citizenship-order/
— DHS releasing some illegal border crossers into US despite claims of ‘zero’ releases
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/4474312/dhs-released-illegal-border-crossers-despite-claims-zero/

BREITBART
— DD: Denver has declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Denver’s illegals are Denver’s soldiers in Denver’s Democrat Army.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/02/27/denver-mayor-ice-makes-cities-less-safe-well-let-cops-intervene-if-theyre-excessive/
— A staggering 2,207,700 new migrants have arrived to Spain since 2021 as the European nation’s migrant population surpasses 10 million, DD: Soon, if not already, Spain will no longer be a Spanish nation.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/02/27/report-2-2-million-migrants-have-arrived-to-spain-since-2021/

COLLEGE FIX
— Community college enrollment outpaced university enrollment this school year. DD: What big education decisions did you make? For me, it was to earn a college degree. But beyond that, it was to get a job-related degree, to major in business, and to attend UIC instead of Prairie State Community College in Chicago Heights. Commuting to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete motivated me buy a new car to do that. That motivated me to take a job washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the SS Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School. I bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint, a poor man’s GTO, ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ) in May of 1966.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/community-college-enrollment-outpaced-university-enrollment-this-school-year/

FOX NEWS
— Notre Dame students applaud abortion advocate declining leadership appointment but say ‘war’ continues. Students organizing ‘March on the Dome’ rally over professor who supports abortion rights.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/notre-dame-students-applaud-abortion-advocate-declining-leadership-appointment-say-war-continues
— Hegseth bans military from attending Princeton, Columbia, other elite universities: ‘Wokeness and weakness.’ DD: I avoided liberal indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/hegseth-bans-military-attending-princeton-columbia-other-elite-universities-wokeness-weakness
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/hegseth-bans-military-attending-princeton-010611398.html
— Evanston’ Reparations Committee issued $25,000 to 44 residents earlier this month in reparations’ payments and is currently looking for other ways to keep the program funded. DD: Anticipate/expect that the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders will make you pay reparations: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/illinois-city-first-pay-black-residents-25k-reparations-how-find-more-funding
— Jimmy Lee Tillman: 2026 candidate for U.S. Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260228/us-congress-politics/jimmy-lee-tillman-2026-candidate-for-u-s-senate/
— Jeannie Evans: 2026 candidate for U.S. Senate
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260228/us-congress-politics/jeannie-evans-2026-candidate-for-u-s-senate/

TOWNHALL
— More than 20,000 illegal alien commercial truck drivers in California were about to lose their licenses, until a judge stepped in. DD: Anticipate/ expect that Democrat and RINO trucking companies always have, are, and always will hire noncitizens instead of citizens of America. Noncitizens work for less money and are easier to exploit. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/02/27/judge-bars-california-from-revoking-20000-immigrant-truckers-licenses-n2672011
— DD: All my coworkers who my Democrats superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. My critics/opponents not only have no problems with that, they applaud that.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/02/27/philadelphia-being-sued-for-denying-promotions-to-white-officers-n2671997

WESTERN JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats.
https://www.westernjournal.com/oklahomas-rino-governor-tells-npr-democrats-not-trying-replace-electorate-immigrants/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Hegseth says Pentagon cutting ties with top universities, calling them “woke breeding grounds.” DD: I avoided liberal indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth-pentagon-cutting-ties-with-top-universities-woke/

REUTERS
— US airlines must certify use of merit-based hiring for pilots. DD: The Democrats who ran the Post Office in 1966, IRS in 1971, and GAO hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, and/or veteran who would take the job. Since then, they have dramatically lowered standards to hire more Democrats, minorities, females, younger people, and veterans. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job-related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.aol.com/articles/us-airlines-must-certify-merit-222159223.html

MSN
— GOP candidates accused of faking Trump backing. DD: Which candidates on the ballot in your precinct has sought Trump’s endorsement? According to my critics/opponents, because I am “too conservative,” the more that do to help elect a candidate, the more votes that candidate will lose.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/gop-candidates-accused-of-faking-trump-backing/gm-D26B54FACD

AOL
— DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980, they always had strict race and gender quotas to meet for promotions to GS-13.  Because of that, they never promoted me to GS-13 even though I had earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they always had strict race and gender quotas to meet for promotions to GS-14. They never promoted me to GS-14 and they would not have promoted me to GS-13 in 1986 if I had not a) earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981. They would never have promoted me to GS-13 if the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 had not gotten back into power and assigned me to audits of IRS in 1986 and promoted me in 1986. Because he did that, my Democrat GAO superiors forced him to retire in 1987. If I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran, they would have promoted me to GS-14, then GS-15, and then Senior Executive Service before I was 40 in 1988.
https://www.aol.com/news/florida-ag-slams-starbucks-lawsuit-180739498.html
— Former Bachelor Host Chris Harrison’s New ‘Traditional Marriage’ Dating Show Lands At Fox Nation. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage. Traditional marriage helped me a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) get promoted in 1986, f) etc. Traditional marriage helped my wife and I a) buy a home in Wheaton in 1978, b) buy two new cars in 1978, c) afford my taking a $23,699/year pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, c) have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, d) etc. Traditional marriage helped my wife earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986.
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/former-bachelor-host-chris-harrisons-192347662.html

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: LGBTQ promoters destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. I should write about my critics/opponents who are/were the biggest LGBTQ promoters. I would focus on those who are/were a) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization, b) Republican elected officials in Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton, c) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, d) conservative leaders, and e) religious leaders. I would focus on the aforesaid who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me since 2000.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/republican-states-transgender-rights-restrictions.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Ranking the 2028 Republican presidential contenders. Most are all-in on MAGA. DD: Trump did not form a new MAGA Party. He ran as a Republican and got elected as a Republican. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/27/2028-republican-presidential-candidates-trump-vance-rubio-gop/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What Is a City When Its Wealthiest Leave? The stickiness that once anchored people and capital to great cities is gone. It is not coming back. DD: As Democrats move in, poverty and crime increase.
https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/miami-property-taxes-billionaires-future-cities-a9bdda45

FORTUNE
— More than 300,000 accountants and auditors have recently left their jobs. DD: While my critics/opponents acknowledge that I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt, they stress that my scores were not that great. Further, while they acknowledge that I am a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Government Financial Manager, Certified Financial Services Auditor, and Forensic Accountant, they stress that I got those certifications by grandfathering in instead of passing examinations. Of course, they stress how long ago I got those certifications: 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997 respectively. Further, while they acknowledge that I am a licensed CPA, they stress that my license has been inactive since 2000 and that I got it way back in 1981.
https://fortune.com/education/articles/accounting-certifications/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDEPENDENT
— DD: All my coworkers who my Democrats superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger than me, and/or veteran. My critics/opponents not only have no problems with that, they applaud that.
https://www.aol.com/articles/5-white-male-police-officers-232300050.html

February 27, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC5
— Hundreds of high school students in Cook County cast their first ballots. DD: Democrats a) run education in Illinois and b) shout at high school students that Republicans cause all their problems.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/hundreds-of-high-school-students-in-cook-county-cast-their-first-ballots/3900753/

FOX32
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicagos-first-luxury-gay-hotel-is-coming-northalsted-heres-what-we-know

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Video gambling machine legalization in Chicago clears hurdle. DD: I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/video-gambling-machine-legalization-clears-hurdle-chicago/

DAILY HERALD
— Harris for Republican secretary of state nomination
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260227/opinion/harris-for-republican-secretary-of-state-nomination/
— Suburban officials oppose Pritzker’s plan to reduce local control over residential zoning. DD: Democrat leaders always want to put low income public housing in Republican areas. Democrat leaders have always wanted to put low income public housing at the north end of my precinct.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260226/real-estate/its-just-a-bad-idea-suburban-officials-oppose-pritzkers-plan-to-reduce-local-control-over-zonin/
— Republican congressional candidate Jim Marter supports President Donald Trump’s oft-repeated claim that a “deep state” network of people and organizations is manipulating the U.S. government — and he claims Trump’s executive orders have helped lessen its influence. Marter’s rival for the GOP nomination in the 14th District, Somonauk resident Gary Vician, dismissed the conspiracy-laden concept. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. For them, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260226/us-congress-politics/gop-candidate-shares-trump-concerns-of-a-deep-state-rival-rejects-concept/
— Why it’s becoming so expensive to buy a car in America. DD: How much money have you spent on cars? Maybe I spent too much. But cars were cheaper back then. I bought used cars in 1964, 1971, and 2011. I bought new cars in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1978, 1989, etc. I bought collector cars in 1989 and 1994.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260221/business/real-sticker-shock-why-its-becoming-so-expensive-to-buy-a-car-in-america/

WBEZ
— 2026 Republican Primary Forum for the U.S. Senate in Illinois
https://www.wbez.org/wbez-news/2026/02/27/2026-republican-primary-forum-us-senate-illinois

WGLT & NORTHERN PUBLIC RADIO
— GOP Senate candidates make case for conservative replacement for Durbin. DD: Conservatives are dramatically underrepresented in Illinois, in DuPage County, in Milton Township, in Wheaton, and in Wheaton Warrenville School District 200.
https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2026-02-26/gop-senate-candidates-make-case-for-conservative-replacement-for-durbin
https://www.northernpublicradio.org/illinois/2026-02-26/gop-senate-candidates-make-case-for-conservative-replacement-for-durbin

WAND TV
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot in Danville. I led the successful effort to stop the sale of pot in Wheaton in 2019.
https://www.wandtv.com/seeing-green-first-cannabis-lounge-in-danville-hosts-grand-opening/video_c3f7c1ad-e58c-59db-931e-f01f05d150ae.html

ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY
— Call for Nominations: Celebrate Career Excellence. DD: Very few federal employees have excellent careers. Federal employees who are Republican, White, male. and/or non-veteran are gotten rid of if they do not make GS-13 ($118,984) by age 25, GS-14 ($140,604)  by age 30, GS-15 ($165,386) by age 35, and Senior Executive Service ($197,200) by age 40. Extremely few federal employees make the aforesaid promotion deadlines. The Democrats who run the federal government use “up-or-out” to promote their Democrat employees who are minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. My federal career is a case example.
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2026/02/call-for-nominations-celebrate-career-excellence-attend-ceremony/

ELMHURST PATCH
— Elmhurst Republican Backs Democratic County Hopeful. The candidate has the experience to manage the county’s budget, the Republican said. DD: Do not anticipate/expect that any Democrat will back a Republican candidate unless that candidate is RINO or a Democrat plant.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/elmhurst-republican-backs-democratic-county-hopeful

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Illinois legislators introduce bills to regulate pricing based on personal data. DD: Of course, Democrat and RINO sellers want Republicans to pay more, and especially Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, married, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/illinois-legislators-introduce-bills-to-regulate-pricing-based-on-personal-data/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Politics pauses for Jackson
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/02/27/politics-takes-a-pause-for-jackson-00803341

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/27/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-688/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-476/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— If America dramatically increased the number of work permits and the number that could immigrate legally, how many citizens of foreign countries would apply? Once you are in America legally, and especially once you become a citizen of America, you lose the tremendous protections and benefits that Democrats and RINOs give illegals. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— The more Democrat primary ballots that are cast than Republican primary ballots are cast, the more that Democrat leaders will predict that Democrat candidates will win November 3. What has your Republican Precinct Committeeman done so far to increase the number of Republican primary ballots cast in your precinct? I have hand-delivered to the 400 residences in my precinct that have one or more registered Republican or NA voter a DuPage County GOP envelope that contained a copy of the sample ballot, a Voter Guide from the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO), and campaign literature from the five Republican candidates on our ballot who provided their literature to the MTRO.  I split the 400 envelopes into 5 batches. Delivering each batch took about 3 hours or about 15 hours altogether. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Donald Trump’s cuts to federal workforce a real conservative win. DD: Democrats run the federal government. They use Republican budget cuts first to get rid of any remaining Republican employees and then to get rid of employees who are White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/26/donald-trumps-cuts-federal-workforce-real-conservative-win/
— Democrats cannot stand America. Their inability to put country before party.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/26/democrats-stand-america/
— Noncitizen voting threatens election integrity and national security.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/feb/26/noncitizen-voting-threatens-election-integrity-national-security/

FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— California to Spend $35 Million to Prevent the Deportation of Illegal Aliens
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/california-spend-35-million-prevent-deportation-illegal-aliens

HOUSE FOREIGN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
— Merit, Accountability, and Performance at State: Evaluating Promotion and Placement. DD: If Republicans had held such hearings on GAO since I starting working for GAO in 1980, they would have found a) that Democrats ran GAO, b) that virtually all GAO employees were Democrats, c) that virtually all their employees who they promoted were Democrats who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, and d) that virtually all their employees who they promoted were Democrats who had less work experience, who had less education, who had no or fewer professional certifications, and/or who had no professional licenses or fewer than their Republican coworkers had. Another words, Republicans would have found that the Democrats who ran GAO grossly discriminated against their Republican employees, and especially those who were White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. I would have been a case example. If Gingrich had held such hearings and had reformed GAO instead of gutting GAO, my entire life since 1980 would have been dramatically better.
https://democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/hearings?ContentRecord_id=BCA168B9-5972-42AD-B29A-E88053CA637C

PJ MEDIA
— How Much Was the Government LYING About the Illegal Immigrant Crime Wave? DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2026/02/26/how-much-was-the-government-lying-about-the-illegal-immigrant-crime-wave-n4949983

TOWNHALL
— The Judicial Coup Continues As Yet Another Judge Tries to Stop Trump’s Deportation Policy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/02/26/judge-strikes-down-trumps-third-country-deportation-policy-n2671905

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

FOX NEW YORK
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/lgbtq-gay-pride-flag-stonewall-nyc-trump-schumer

NEW YORK TIMES
— New A.C.A. Plans Could Increase Family Deductibles to $31,000. DD: My critics/opponents are furious that the federal government pays $21,000/year (72%) of my and my wife’s $30,000/year healthcare insurance premiums because I am a federal retiree. They started being furious when I became a postal employee when I was 18 in 1966. They got more furious when I got married when I was 29 in 1978. My critics/opponents would never stoop to take a federal job and/or they are not qualified for federal jobs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/health/obamacare-health-insurance-rollbacks.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrats ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote mass/illegal immigration.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/26/trump-immigration-democrats-sotu-midterms/

USA TODAY
— Personal Responsibility. DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. I took it upon myself to earn money a) to pay for my college expenses, b) to buy cars, c) to buy real estate, d) etc. I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes and chipped slag in 1966. I pumped gasoline in 1966, 1971, and 1972. I delivered mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970. I sold tires, automotive services, and major appliances 1970-1971.  I collected delinquent federal taxes 1971-1980. I audited federal agencies 1980-1997. My critics/opponents would never stoop to take the aforesaid jobs.
https://www.usatoday.com/press-release/story/26789/chuck-thompson-announces-release-of-new-book-exploring-manifestation-and-personal-responsibility-2/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— FRONT PAGE: Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers. More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries. “I wasn’t expecting to be surrounded by this many Americans.”
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/americans-leaving-the-us-migration-a5795bfa

WMUR
— High School student maintains 4.0 GPA while playing three sports. DD: What harmed your GPA? For me, it was my spending far too many hours doing the following while took courses instead of studying: a) doing yard work 1962-1964, b) delivering newspapers 1962-1966, c) washing dishes 1964-1966, d) pumping gasoline in 1966, 1971, and 1972, e) delivering mail 1966-1969, f) working on an automotive assembly line in 1970, g) selling tires, automotive services, and major appliances in 1971, h) collecting delinquent federal taxes 1972-1980, and i) auditing federal agencies in 1980 and 1992-1997.
https://www.wmur.com/article/plymouth-high-school-student-maintains-40-gpa-while-playing-three-sports/70440282

SACRAMENT BEE
— CPA vs MBA: Salaries, Career Paths & More. DD: I did not earn an MBA until I was 27. I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late because I was a White male. Employers were under ever-increasing tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young females.
https://www.sacbee.com/careers-education/cpa-vs-mba/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: CPA vs MBA: Why Not Have Both? You can, but it depends on what you want to do. Are you interested in management opportunities or consulting? If so, you can save a lot of time and money and just get your MBA. But if you enjoy working with numbers and want to get paid well for it, you should become a CPA and seek employment at one of the Big 4 Accounting Firms. However, there are unique career growth opportunities for a CPA who earned an MBA, including upper management positions. The inverse is also true: a finance-focused MBA interested in corporate finance or taxation could get a lot of mileage out of a CPA education.)

WASHINGTON MONTHLY
— DD: To come into a country illegally and/or to stay in a country illegally demonstrates gross disrespect for the rule of law and for that country.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/26/england-respects-the-rule-of-law-why-dont-we/

SWOON
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage. Traditional marriage helped me a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, b) earn a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, c) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, d) become a licensed CPA in 1981, e) etc. Traditional marriage helped my wife and I a) buy a home in Wheaton in 1978, b) buy two new cars in 1978, c) afford my taking a $23,699/year pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, c) have a home built in Wheaton in 1984, d) etc. Traditional marriage helped my wife earn a bachelor’s degree in finance in 1986.
https://www.swooon.com/1261285/chris-harrison-new-dating-show-traditional-marriage-reaction/

CRIMSON WHITE
— Affordability concerns hit students. DD: Back in the good old days, my working all the hours that I could for the Park Forest Post office 1966-1969 at $19.57-$20.87/hour in today’s dollars enabled me to pay for my UIC and NIU expenses, buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in 1967, buy a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in 1968, and graduate debt-free from NIU in August of 1970 owning that Charger. But my GPA suffered.
https://thecrimsonwhite.com/127201/news/affordability-concerns-hit-students/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Prepare Now, Succeed Later. It’s never too early to start career planning. DD: I should have majored in accounting. But I did not take and pass the CPA examination on my first attempt until I was 30. I did not earn a master’s degree in accounting until I was 31. I did not take and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA until I was 32. By then, it was too late because I was a White male. Employers were under ever-increasing tremendous pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young females.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/career-advice/carpe-careers/2025/07/14/importance-early-career-planning-opinion

HR DRIVE
— EEOC warns Fortune 500 to ‘reject identity politics.’ DD: Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/eeoc-warns-fortune-500-to-reject-identity-politics/813317/

February 26, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, you should vote for those Democrat candidates who promise to use government to give to those who share your demographics the most preference. Democrat candidates ever-increasingly promise to give those who are the following more preference: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-married, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are noncitizen. Further, ever-increasingly, according to Democrat leaders, you should want more of the following and you should vote for those Democrat candidates who promise to give you more of the following: government assistance, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/opinion-jb-pritzker-budget-black-hispanic-illinoisans/
— A little-known program allows CTA and Metra to suspend riders. Most of them are Black.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/26/cta-metra-suspensions/

DAILY HERALD
— Endorsement: Moore for DuPage County sheriff in Republican primary
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260226/endorsements/endorsement-moore-for-dupage-county-sheriff-in-republican-primary/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Illinois GOP candidates debate Trump, taxes, Bears stadium
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/politics/elections/state/2026/02/26/three-illinois-gop-governor-candidates-debate-trump-taxes-and-more/88863293007/

SOUTHERN
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Good and Pretti to promote more hatred against Republicans.
https://southernillinoisnow.com/2026/02/25/trump-didnt-mention-them-but-renee-good-and-alex-pretti-loomed-over-state-of-the-union-address/

JOURNAL COURIER
— GOP lieutenant governor candidates speak unity as their other halves get testy. DD: While I was the chairman of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in December of 2009, the organization hosted a Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate forum at which all six spoke: Jason Plummer, Matt Murphy, Don Tracy, Brad Cole, Dennis Cook, and Randy White.
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/illinois-lt-gov-candidates-jacksonville-unified-21940686.php

CITIES 92.9
— Illinois racial wealth gap among largest in country. DD: Democrats run Illinois, but they nevertheless blame Republicans for the gap. Since the 1960s, Democrats have used Affirmative Action and DEI to give tremendous preference to those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, those who are: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cities929.com/2026/02/25/illinois-racial-wealth-gap-among-largest-in-country/

ILLINOIZE
— Rep. Harry Benton (D-Plainfield) Removed from House Democratic Caucus. DD: What have your critics/opponents removed you from? My critics/opponents had their operatives and their dupes remove me from a) my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) my Republican Precinct Committeeman position for half my precinct in 2015, d) my chairmanship of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012, e) my service as the Milton Township Republican Organization webmaster in 2010 and 2004, and f) my membership on the Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee in 2007.  I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois.
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/rep-harry-benton-removed-caucus

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Giannoulias banks $9M amid mayoral buzz
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/02/26/giannoulias-banks-9m-mayoral-buzz-00799906

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-687/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIREPOINTS
— Blue City Spending Drives ‘Unaffordability,’ Not Relief
https://wirepoints.org/blue-city-spending-drives-unaffordability-not-relief-wirepoints-mark-glennon-on-chicagos-morning-answer-am560/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who are the following that Republicans cause all their problems: liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, non-married, non-rich, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Trump blasts Dems who refused to stand for protecting Americans over ‘illegal aliens’ at State of the Union: ‘You should be ashamed’
https://nypost.com/2026/02/25/us-news/trump-blasts-democrats-who-refused-to-stand-for-protecting-americans-over-illegal-aliens-at-state-of-the-union-2026/

CENTER SQUARE
— Illinois abortion bill sparks division between Republicans, pro-life advocates. DD: I support the Hyde Amendment. According to my critics/opponents on the left, I am too strong on abortion. According to my critics/opponents on the right, I am too weak on abortion.
https://www.aol.com/articles/illinois-abortion-bill-sparks-division-140000741.html

DAILY CALLER
— DD: Democrats and RINOs destroy you if you do not promote LGBTQ.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/02/25/human-rights-coalition-lgbtq-dei-corporate-equality-index/

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REPORTER
— Vatican issues sweeping defense of traditional marriage. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.ncronline.org/vatican/vatican-issues-sweeping-defense-traditional-marriage-pushing-back-polygamy

NEW AMERICAN
— Mamdani, Ocasio-Cortez Advertise Free Child Care for Illegals. DD: My mother stayed home and raised me and my brother. Her earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Consequently, I had to work my way through college.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/immigration/mamdani-ocasio-cortez-advertise-free-child-care-for-illegals/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrats smell blood in the water. They ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said and/or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on the ballot.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/trump-elections-midterms.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage pregnant citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America. They see these children as being future Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/opinion/birthright-citizenship.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Republicans stare down epic voter enthusiasm gap ahead of 2026 midterms. The 14-percentage-point advantage is the Democrats’ largest in decades. DD: Democrats smell blood in the water. They ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump and shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said and/or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on the ballot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/25/poll-democrats-trump-republicans-midterms/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/02/26/trump-lawsuit-affirmative-action/88291520007/

FLORIDA POLITICS
— House approves annual day of remembrance for fallen conservative icon Charlie Kirk
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/782009-house-approves-annual-day-of-remembrance-for-fallen-conservative-icon-charlie-kirk/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders fight against the War on Drugs.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-economics-of-illegal-drugs-ae89f0fa
— Vance, Newsom and Tales of Want. They romanticize a hard-knocks past that they don’t want anyone else to live. DD: My critics/opponents have always falsely painted my parents as being filthy rich. Ever since May of 1966 when I was 17 years old and bought a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), my critics/opponents have demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as having filthy rich parents. But I bought that car with money I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the SS Kresge in Chicago Heights for 28 hours a week during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School and 40 hours a week during the summer in between. I had to work my way through college. I bought that car, a poor man’s GTO, to commute to/from classes at UIC and my parents’ home in Crete.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/vance-newsom-and-tales-of-want-6d16b298

FAST COMPANY
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91498722/trump-said-he-ended-dei-in-america-heres-why-hes-wrong

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

SKY NEWS
— ‘Protecting criminal illegals’: Trump exposes Democrats’ shameful immigration stance
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/rita-panahi/protecting-criminal-illegals-trump-exposes-democrats-shameful-immigration-stance/video/fc5009912460887376180e71424a7eb2

HANS INDIA
— The role of opportunity and preparation in student outcomes. DD: What do your critics/opponents attribute your successes to? My critics/opponents attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. They ignore/dismiss/belittle the fact that neither of my parents attended college, that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, that my mother never attended high school, and that I had to work my way through college. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parent had lots of money. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money.
https://www.thehansindia.com/hans/young-hans/the-role-of-opportunity-and-preparation-in-student-outcomes-1051969
(FROM THE ARTICLE: At some point in school, we are introduced to a simple equation: effort equals success. It is presented as both encouragement and caution. If you work hard enough, you will rise. If you struggle, perhaps more effort is needed. The formula feels orderly and reassuring. It suggests that outcomes are earned and that the system is fair.)

FROM OTHER SOURCES

BIG NEWS NETWORK
— Balancing Security and Responsibility: The Debate Around Civilian Self-Defense Tools
https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/278889383/balancing-security-and-responsibility-the-debate-around-civilian-self-defense-tools
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Public safety concerns continue to shape daily decisions for many households. News cycles highlight break-ins, delayed emergency response times, and rising anxiety about personal security. For some civilians, the question is no longer whether safety planning matters, but how far personal responsibility should extend. . .Effective safety planning often includes: Home security systems, Environmental awareness. Emergency response plans, Defensive tools as a last resort)

BANKING RATES
— 6 Remote Jobs for Stay-at-Home Moms With a $2,000 a Month Paycheck. DD: My mother stayed home and raised me and my brother. Her earning potential was very limited because she never attended high school. My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Consequently, I had to work my way through college.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/6-remote-jobs-stay-home-110704035.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Customer Service Representative-Median wage: $20.59 per hour. . .Invoice/Billing Specialist- Median wage: $22.66 per hour. . .Verification Specialist- Median wage: $23.81 per hour. . .Administrative Assistant- Median wage: $22.82 per hour. . .Inside Sales Representative- Median wage: $57.69 per hour including base salary and commission. . .Account Executive-Median wage: $61.54 per hour including base salary and commission)

February 25, 2025 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Trump’s State of the Union address sparks debate over SAVE Act voting proposal. Illinois GOP says there is widespread support, League of Women Voters says law could disenfranchise millions of Illinois voters.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trumps-state-union-address-sparks-debate-save-act-voting-proposal-voter-id-election-rules/18650683/
— DD: Democrat leaders cause America’s problems.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/president-donald-trump-speech-today-fact-checking-state-union-sotu-2026-address/18646901/

NBC5
— DD: Democrat leaders cause America’s problems.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/politics/state-of-the-union-fact-check-what-president-trump-said-during-the-address/3899928/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— As primary looms, Illinois Republican governor candidates say they oppose abortion-is-murder bill
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/25/illinois-gop-candidates-oppose-aborton-murder/

CHICAGIO SUN-TIMES
— In fiery meeting, Rep. Delia Ramirez issues demands, reminds DHS head Noem of plans to pursue her impeachment. Ramirez came equipped with specific requests, including barring federal agents from churches, schools and hospitals — and revoking a controversial policy that allows U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to enter homes without a judicial warrant.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/02/25/rep-delia-ramirez-homeland-security-secretary-kristi-noem-meeting-dhs-actions-impeachment-plans
— DD: Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.  How successful have they been in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/02/25/trumps-state-union-low-approval-immigration-economy-s-e-cupp
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/02/25/state-union-speech-trumps-lies-immigrants-america-chicago-natalie-moore

DAILY HERALD
— Who’s the real Republican? And does Trump make mistakes? Gov hopefuls debate (sans Bailey)
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260225/illinois-state-politics/whos-the-real-republican-and-does-trump-make-mistakes-gov-hopefuls-debate-sans-bailey/
— Edmond (Eddie) Moore: 2026 candidate for DuPage County Sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260225/local-politics/edmond-eddie-moore-2026-candidate-for-dupage-county-sheriff/
— Sean T. Noonan: 2026 candidate for DuPage County Sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260225/local-politics/sean-t-noonan-2026-candidate-for-dupage-county-sheriff/
— Gary Vician: 2026 candidate for 14th Congressional District
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260225/us-congress-politics/gary-vician-2026-candidate-for-14th-congressional-district/
— GOP candidate deletes video of fake Trump endorsement
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260225/us-congress-politics/gop-candidate-deletes-video-of-trump-that-white-house-calls-fake/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Asked this week to comment, Kim said he didn’t know about the video until the Daily Herald asked about it. Kim said five people manage his social media accounts and that he rarely posts messages. On Wednesday, campaign manager Karolyn Radulovich said Kim requested his team remove the clip. “Charlie likes to be positive about our campaign, and he does not wish to deceive voters nor be negative,” Radulovich said in an email. The video was created using a stock video template through an online editing service, Radulovich said. The goal was to promote Kim’s campaign “and make people smile,” she said, not to make people believe Trump had endorsed Kim.)

WGN RADIO
–DD: Democrat leaders want Pat Brady to lead the Illinois Republican Party.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-reviewing-the-state-of-the-union/

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more pot.
https://www.news-gazette.com/news/danvilles-first-cannabis-consumption-lounge-opens/article_36f1f02a-7e82-4dde-bdd9-6f5882e0a62d.html

DAILY ILLINI
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote foreign languages.
https://dailyillini.com/life_and_culture-stories/culture-diversity/2026/02/24/arabic-program/

CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Republican candidates for governor — minus Bailey — try to distance themselves
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/republican-candidates-for-governor-minus-bailey-try-to-distance-themselves/

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-475/
— Dabrowski pledges to issue emergency order with the goal of killing SAFE-T Act, TRUST Act and ‘unite everybody who wants to take on the legislature’
https://capitolfax.com/2026/02/25/dabrowski-pledges-to-issue-emergency-order-with-the-goal-of-killing-safe-t-act-trust-act-and-unite-everybody-who-wants-to-take-on-the-legislature/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump endorses slate of Indiana Republicans running against anti-redistricting state senators
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/state/4471964/trump-endorses-indiana-republicans-primary-redistricting-state-senate/

BREITBART
— CNN Poll: 64% of SOTU Viewers Say Trump’s Policies Move U.S. in Right Direction
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/25/watch-trump-won-over-cnn-viewers-contradicting-networks-own-abby-phillips-post-speech-grading/
— Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-OR) says President Donald Trump’s asking lawmakers to stand for American citizens over illegal aliens was “thinly veiled racist language.”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/02/25/democrat-congresswoman-trump-asking-lawmakers-stand-americans-over-illegals-was-racist/

CENTER SQUARE
— Illinois racial wealth gap among largest in country
https://www.fwbusiness.com/news/national/article_584e4cde-63cb-58bb-a59e-3b6c57964eed.html

NATIONAL REVIEW
— Mamdani, AOC Offer Taxpayer-Funded Child Care to Illegal Immigrants in Spanish-Language Video
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/mamdani-aoc-offer-taxpayer-funded-child-care-to-illegal-immigrants-in-spanish-language-video/

NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
— Illinois launches new fund to pay for more abortions
https://nrlc.org/nrlnewstoday/2026/02/illinois-launches-new-fund-to-pay-for-more-abortions/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders cause America’s problems.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/state-of-union-fact-check-trump-speech-2026-rcna259900
https://www.nbcnews.com/video/trump-lays-into-congress-members-over-inflation-you-caused-that-problem-258243653574

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders cause America’s problems.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/25/us/fact-check-state-of-the-union-trump

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders cause America’s problems.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/25/trump-democrats-you-caused-that-problem/

NPR
— DD: Democrat leaders cause America’s problems.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5716277/trump-state-union-fact-check