FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/25/no-kings-protests-donald-trump/
DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260324/transportation/people-are-being-evicted-tsa-union-says-shutdown-is-pushing-workers-to-economic-brink/
NBC5
— Politicians battle over immigration policy after Loyola student’s death. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle acknowledge failures helped lead to the student’s death, but disagree on who is to blame for those failures. DD: What have you been blamed the most for? Since 2000, Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have blamed me the most for their defeats. They stress a) my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters since 2000, b) my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois leadership 2000-2012, and c) my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) leadership 2003-2007. I should list all the Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have suffered defeats and write about those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the biggest adverse actions against me including their ending my leadership of ICRC and TAPROOT.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/politicians-battle-over-immigration-policy-after-loyola-students-death/3913223/
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/local/2026/03/25/march-28-no-kings-rallies-list-of-illinois-times-and-locations-chicago/89300162007/
PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/24/march-28-no-kings-rallies-list-of-illinois-times-and-locations-chicago/89286040007/
OAK PARK
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote their March 28 No Kings protests. How successful will their protests be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.oakpark.com/2026/03/24/another-no-kings-protest-set-for-oak-park-march28/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/25/dems-arent-done-battling-00842558
CAPITOL FAX
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/25/subscribers-only-todays-edition-of-capitol-fax-use-all-caps-in-password-2714/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— As U.S. stockpiles dwindle, low-cost alternatives to Pentagon’s munitions are still years away. 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.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/24/us-stockpiles-dwindle-low-cost-alternatives-pentagons-munitions-still/
BREITBART
— Pritzker, Johnson Smear Trump for Murder of Sheridan Gorman by Migrant in Chicago
https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2026/03/24/democrats-blame-trump-for-murder-by-migrant-in-chicago/amp/
COLLEGE FIX
— Cornell course explores ‘nightlife’ of ‘queer communities of color’
https://www.thecollegefix.com/cornell-course-explores-nightlife-of-queer-communities-of-color/
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— Elite Universities Abandoned Merit
https://mindingthecampus.org/2026/03/24/elite-universities-abandoned-merit/
PJ MEDIA
— As Pritzker Mourns Lefty Protestors, Illegal Alien Victim’s Dad Highlights the Hypocrisy
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2026/03/24/pritzker-mourns-lefty-protestors-illegal-alien-victims-dad-highlights-the-hypocrisy-n4951032
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Springsteen to perform at ‘No Kings’ rally in Minnesota. DD: How successful will the Democrats’ March 28 No Kings events be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5799018-springsteen-performs-no-kings/
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5798317-no-kings-protests-trump/
REUTERS
— DD: Democrat leaders and their mainstream news media ever-increasingly drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-approval-hits-new-36-low-fuel-prices-surge-amid-iran-war-reutersipsos-2026-03-24/
TIME
— No Kings Protests May Draw Biggest—and Most Diverse—Anti-Trump Crowds Ever. DD: How successful will the Democrats’ March 28 No Kings events be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://time.com/article/2026/03/24/no-kings-protests-march-28-biggest-anti-trump-crowds-ever/
NEW YORK TIMES
— 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.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/books/review/chain-of-ideas-ibram-x-kendi.html
— Young Degree Holders Are Facing the Grimmest Prospects for Employment in Years. DD: When you graduated from college, what frustrated your job search? For me, when I graduated when I was 21 in 1970, it was potential employers viewing me as being draft bait. I was 1-A and they did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. In addition, my GPA suffered because instead of studying, I worked far too many hours to work my way through college. In addition, potential employers were under ever-increasing pressure to hire those who did not share my demographics.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/business/economy/college-graduates-job-market-hiring.html
WASHINGTON POST
— The real reason behind the growing marriage gap: About 40 percent of women surveyed identify as liberal, compared with just 19 percent who said they’re conservative. Young men were more likely to identify as conservative than liberal. Why would anyone be inclined to want to marry someone who does not share their basic values?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/23/glp-1-title-vi/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— What if Your Salary Is Too High for Today’s Job Market? DD: According to my critics/opponents, the federal government grossly overpaid me. Back when I was 49 in 1997, GAO paid me $154,682/year (GS-13 Step 10) in today’s dollars. But in my defense, that was not until after I had worked for the federal government for almost 30 years, earned a bachelor’s degree (management) when I was 21, earned master’s degrees in business, accounting, and finance when I was 27, 31, and 48, earned professional certifications in accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting when I was 30, 32, 41, 45, 47, and 48, and earned a job-related professional license (CPA) when I was 32. In today’s dollars, my IRS salary was $56,409/year (GS-7) when I was 22 in 1971, $68,999/year (GS-9) when I was 23, $83,482/year (GS-11) when I was 24, $100,059/year (GS-12) when I was 25, and $113,402/year (GS-12 Step 5) when I was 31. My GAO salary was $89,703/year (GS-9 Step 10) when I was 31 and $118,984/year (GS-13) when I was 32. Ever since then, pressure has increased to hire, retain, and promote those who do not share my demographics. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me were Democrats who had less work experience than I had, had less education, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or did not share my demographics.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/job-market-overpaid-salary-9eeabbaa
FORTUNE
— ICE agents can make twice the salary of TSA employees—and economists warn their pay is more ‘shutdown proof’ than other government jobs. DD: While I worked for IRS for almost 9 years, I was an IRS Revenue Officer in its Collection Division. Sadly, far too many Democrat IRS Revenue Agents in its Audit Division look down on Republican IRS Revenue Officers. Democrat IRS Revenue Agents were more than happy to follow orders from my Democrat IRS superiors to disallow my education deductions when I was 29 in 1978. I had deducted graduate evening business and accounting courses. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically argued in tax court a) that the courses I deducted did not relate to my job duties, b) that the courses did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) that I took the courses to get a job in the private sector, and d) that I took the courses to qualify myself for a new trade or business. They outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically ignored the fact that a) my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take the courses, b) the content of my position descriptions, and c) that I stated in my applications that I wanted to take the courses to maintain and improve my IRS job skills. They would not have done that a) if they did not look down on Republican IRS Revenue Officers, b) if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, younger, or veteran, and/or c) if I had not complained about IRS’s political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination.
https://fortune.com/2026/03/24/how-much-do-ice-agents-make-compared-to-tsa-salary-government-shutdown/
FED SCOOP
— GAO has been ‘hard hit’ by departures. DD: During the 1980s and 1990s, the Democrats who ran GAO handled Gingrich-led budget cuts by getting rid of its employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. They succeed in getting rid of me when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://fedscoop.com/gao-it-workforce-congress-watchdog-retirements/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Appearing before the House Appropriations Legislative Branch Subcommittee, Orice Williams Brown was asked by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., how the agency has handled the departures of “almost 200 employees” across the GAO’s workforce following funding fights on Capitol Hill last year. The GAO, which avoided a proposed 40% cut to essentially remain flat year over year, dealt with separations throughout the organization, Brown said, covering everyone from “analysts that directly do the work” to “operations and support across the agency.”)
BUSINESS
— Graduates Face 90% Rejection Rate in Job Hunt. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I would not have gotten the Post Office job if I had not earned a high school diploma and passed the postal employment examination. I would not have gotten the IRS job if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination. I would not have gotten the GAO job if I had not earned an MBA and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.business.com/hiring/new-graduates-job-search-experiment/
MONEY TALKS
— Half of Middle-Aged Americans Are Forced to Retire Early. An unplanned early retirement can have devastating financial consequences. DD: Based on my personal experience, if you retire one minute sooner than you want to, your critics/opponents will forever use that to hint/imply/argue/shout that you were forced to retire because you are a very bad person and even worse things. The more of the following that you are, anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early: conservative, Republican, American, 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. Were you forced to retire early? Will you be forced to retire early? My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. What if I had not succumbed to their threats? Their threats included making my next 6 years until I would be eligible for regular retirement a living hell for me. Their threats included constructively demoting me, giving me adverse transfers, giving me unfair performance expectations, giving me unfair performance appraisals, and continuing to rank me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. GAO was not unionized. It did not unionize until 2007. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should not have retired. I should have fought to keep my job a) because my critics/opponents have used my being forced to retire early against me so viciously and b) because of the tremendous loss of income that I have suffered and will suffer for the rest of my life.
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/heres-why-half-of-middle-aged-americans-are-forced-to-retire-early/
HR DRIVE
— Employers opting to eliminate job requirements. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years and GAO for almost 18 years, they ever-increasingly lowered promotion requirements to promote their Democrat employees who were minority and/or female. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, and my job-related professional license.
https://www.hrdive.com/news/report-us-employers-opting-to-eliminate-job-requirements/529375/
VA NEWS
— Veterans’ Preference. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. All during the almost 30 years that I worked for the federal government, many, most, virtually all, and at times, all of my superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans. They gave tremendous preference to their Democrat employees who were veterans. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War, and they especially blamed Republicans like me who were 1-A for the Vietnam War draft but who avoided it with draft deferments. They were furious that because I avoided the Vietnam War draft, I was able to earn a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21, earn an MBA when I was 27, pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, earn a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and become a licensed CPA when I was 32. They took many big adverse actions against me.
https://news.va.gov/140986/common-misconceptions-about-veterans-preference/
BROOKINGS
— Retaining staff. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS for almost 9 years and GAO for almost 18 years, to retain and promote their Democrat employees who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran, they ever-increasingly lowered retention and promotion standards. 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.brookings.edu/articles/how-100-large-and-urban-districts-are-attracting-and-retaining-staff/
AXIOS
— More than 3,000 No Kings protests set for Saturday. The Twin Cities will serve as the flagship event, according to organizers, with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Maggie Rogers, Jane Fonda and Bruce Springsteen scheduled to perform or speak at the State Capitol in St. Paul. DD: How successful will the Democrats’ March 28 No Kings events be in your county, township, municipality, and school district and why?
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/24/bruce-springsteen-joan-baez-no-kings-twin-cities
PBS
— Pentagon will remove media offices after judge reinstates NYT’s press credentials. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have hinted/implied/argued/shouted the most that I falsely claim to be reporter. According to them, to be a reporter, you have to have a degree in journalism, you have to be paid for what you do, and you have to claim to be nonpartisan. They ignore/dismiss/belittle/badmouth the fact a) that I worked for GAO as an Analyst for almost 18 years, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $118,984-$154,682/year, b) that much of what GAO Analysts do is very similar to what reporters do, and c) that I have been the Illinois Reporter for GOPUSA since 2000. I would focus on my critics/opponents who are past and present 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.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/pentagon-will-remove-media-offices-after-judge-reinstates-nyts-press-credentials
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ECONOMIC TIMES
— 8 ways job requirements have changed drastically in last 15 years. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly lowered hiring, retention, and promotion requirements to hire, retain, and promote more Democrats who were minority, female, and/or younger. That ever-increasingly rendered worthless my job related bachelor’s degree, my three job-related master’s degrees, my six job-related professional certifications, my job-related professional license, my almost 9 years of experience working for IRS, and my almost 18 years of experience working for GAO. My Democrat Black subordinate who my Democrat GAO superiors replaced me with when I was 49 in 1997 a) had less work experience than I had, b) had less education than I had, c) had one professional certification while I had six, and d) no professional license like the one I had.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/wealth/earn/8-ways-job-requirements-have-changed-drastically-in-last-15-years-and-what-remains-constant/articleshow/125943456.cms
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March 23, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Transportation Secretary Duffy says ICE agents are trained and can assist TSA at airports. Duffy’s statement comes after the president said ICE would go to airports Monday.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/transportation-secretary-sean-duffy-says-ice-agents-are-trained-can-assist-tsa-airports/18751008/
— ICE agents expected at airports Monday, long TSA lines continue at O’Hare, Midway in Chicago
https://abc7chicago.com/post/ice-agents-expected-airports-monday-long-tsa-lines-continue-ohare-midway-chicago-amid-dhs-shutdown/18751949/
NBC5
— Chicago travelers prepare as Trump pledges to place ICE agents at airports
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/chicago-travelers-prepare-as-trump-pledges-to-place-ice-agents-at-airports/3912008/
CBS2
— 4 dead, 17 injured in Chicago weekend shootings
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-weekend-shootings-march-20-to-23/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/23/judge-temporarily-bars-government-from-revoking-work-authorization-of-former-hanover-park-cop-arrested-by-ice/
— ICE lodges arrest detainer against suspect in Loyola student’s shooting death
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/22/ice-lodges-arrest-detainer-against-suspect-in-loyola-students-shooting-death/
— Enhanced role for immigration officers at US airports as shutdown frustrates travels and screeners
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/22/immigration-officers-airports-shutdown/
CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Democrats sharpen criticism of Vance as they look past Trump to the 2028 presidential campaign. DD: What have your critics/opponents criticized you the most for? My critics/opponents have criticized me the most for my being conservative, for my promoting conservative principles, for my promoting the Republican Party platform, and for my promoting conservative candidates. My critics/opponents blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. According to my critics/opponents, to win, Republican candidates should officially dump the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform and officially proclaim that they are Democrat Lite.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/ap-democrats-sharpen-criticism-of-vance-as-they-look-past-trump-to-the-2028-presidential-campaign/
DAILY LINE
— Illinois House committee approves bill extending state pension buyout program. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO during the 1990s used buyouts to get rid of their employees who were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.thedailyline.com/illinois-house-committee-approves-bill-state-pension-buyout-program
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Pritzker brings heat — and 2028 buzz
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/23/pritzker-brings-heat-and-2028-buzz-00839505
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WIREPOINTS
— New IRS Migration Numbers: Illinois Taxpayers Continue to Flee With Their Income. DD: Illinois Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly do everything that they can to drive conservatives out of Illinois. If you are conservative, what keeps you in Illinois? For me, it includes a) my ancestors having lived in northeast Illinois since 1844, b) my having lived in Wheaton since 1978, c) my wife and I living in our home since 1984, d) my parents, my brother, and virtually all of my relatives having died, e) my having earned my bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license in northeast Illinois, and f) the conservative-created prosperity and safety that remains in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton. I have seen from what has happened in DuPage County, in Milton Township, and in Wheaton that sooner or later, where conservatives create prosperity and safety, Democrats and RINOs move in and destroy it. The Democrat Party platform creates poverty and crime.
https://wirepoints.org/new-irs-migration-numbers-illinois-taxpayers-continue-to-flee-with-their-income-wirepoints/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— White supremacy, the latest race hustle. It has all the elements of classic Marxism. DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat candidates, elected officials, and party leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Whites, and especially against Whites who are conservative, male, older, married, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/22/white-supremacy-latest-race-hustle/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The war on White supremacy is recycled Marxism. Because many who denounce it the most bitterly are themselves White, it’s also self-hatred. Whether they are politicians, bureaucrats, academics or authors, leftists can hardly open their mouths these days without blaming White supremacy for something. Earlier this month, when terrorists threw explosive devices at protesters outside Gracie Mansion, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s initial response was to condemn not the terrorists, who by their own admission wanted to create another Boston Marathon bombing, but rather those protesting the growing influence of Islam on the city. (Mr. Mamdani called the demonstration “a vile protest rooted in White supremacy.”) Wait, I thought Islam was a religion, not a race. Even the city’s Marxist mayor is a moderate compared with Cea Weaver, head of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, which sounds like a cross between an AWFUL (Affluent White Female Urban Liberal) and Josef Stalin. Ms. Weaver charges that “private property is a weapon of White supremacy” and the United States “built wealth for White people through genocide, slavery, stolen land and labor.” I wonder whom her mother exploited to get her $1.6 million home in Nashville, Tennessee.)
— Americans are defaulting on their loans at a record rate.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/20/americans-defaulting-loans-record-rate/
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal migrant accused of executing Loyola student Sheridan Gorman was cut loose twice under Biden
https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/venezuelan-illegal-migrant-accused-of-killing-loyola-student-sheridan-gorman-entered-country-under-biden-dhs-confirms/
— White House installs Christopher Columbus statue made from remains of toppled sculpture
https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/us-news/white-house-installs-christopher-columbus-statue-made-from-remains-of-toppled-sculpture/
— Why today’s immigrants to America are so hostile to their new country. DD: Far too many come to America a) to take advantage of the tremendous benefits and preferences that Democrats and RINOs give immigrants, b) to turn America into their motherland, and/or c) to convert everyone to their religion. My ancestors did nothing to turn America into Germany or to make everyone Missouri Synod Lutherans. They did homestead a 240-arce farm in southeast Crete in 1854, but that was not until after they had worked in brick factory in Chicago for 10 years.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/22/opinion/why-todays-immigrants-to-america-are-so-hostile-to-their-new-country/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: While America is at war with Iran, crowds of immigrants, visitors and foreign students scream anti-American slogans as they cheer our enemies. On campuses, thousands of Middle Eastern international students have staged often violent demonstrations. They’re not shy about cheering on the Hamas slaughter of Israeli civilians. They haven’t just damned Israel but also often harassed Jewish Americans. . .In the mid-1960s, new laws junked the prior merit-based system and instead admitted immigrants chiefly on the basis of family ties and the purported need of the host country for inexpensive labor. In the 60 years since, Democrats began welcoming in anyone, legal or not, who simply crashed the border or claimed they wanted to study in the US. The old melting pot was banished, replaced by the “salad bowl.” Immigration was seen by the Left as the answer to why they’d never been able to complete their socialist agendas. The new “diversity” ideology peaked under Barack Obama and Joe Biden. It dictated that traditional America was still too white, too traditionalist, too Christian, too unfairly successful — and too hostile to the Democratic-socialist agenda.)
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— Americans Replacing Americans: Fleeing Diversity and Threatening Regional Identities. Mass immigration and internal flight are dissolving America’s historic state identities, replacing rooted communities with transient populations and accelerating cultural and political upheaval. DD: As more and more and more anti-conservatives move into DuPage County to take advantage of the prosperity and safety that conservatives created there, poverty and crime will increase.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/22/americans-replacing-americans-fleeing-diversity-and-threatening-regional-identities/
AMERICAN THINKER
— The Islamization of Britain is Almost Complete. British institutions are relentlessly embracing Islam, attacking classic British culture, and turning a blind eye to Islamic crime and antisemitism. DD: Hope Lutheran Church and Grade School in Park Forest where I graduated from and I was confirmed at as a Missouri Synod Lutheran in 1962 is long gone. But Trinity Lutheran Church and Grade School in Crete where I was baptized at as a Missouri Synod Lutheran at in 1948 and I attended grade school at 1953-1961 continues on. My father (John R.), my grandfather (John A.), and my great grandfather (John C.) graduated from Trinity Lutheran Grade School in Crete. Trinity Lutheran Church and Grade School in Crete left the Missouri Synod and joined the Wisconsin Synod in 1961.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/the_islamization_of_britain_is_almost_complete.html
BREITBART
— Transportation Secretary Duffy: TSA Wait Times ‘Going to Get Much Worse
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/03/22/transportation-secretary-duffy-tsa-wait-times-going-to-get-much-worse/
CAMPUS REFORM
— 2026 MIDTERMS: University of Illinois system employee donations in the 2026 cycle favored Democrats by about 56 to 1
https://www.campusreform.org/article/2026-midterms-university-illinois-system-employee-donations-2026-cycle-favored-democrats-56-1-/29553
FOX NEWS
— Democrats fight ICE airport deployment
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6391441724112
— Pritzker pushes prosecutions of Trump officials as part of Dem ‘Project 2029’ agenda. Pritzker’s calls to criminally prosecute law enforcement agents and Trump officials comes amid a months-long standoff with Trump over immigration enforcement policies. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat superiors in the federal government never prosecuted me. But they took many big adverse actions against me. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, they always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, they delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS13, and they forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS when I was 31. My Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, they disallowed my education deductions when I was 29, and they disallowed my travel vouchers when I was 25. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign when I was 20 and they disallowed my sick leave requests when I was 19 and 20.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pritzker-pushes-prosecutions-trump-officials-part-dem-project-2029-agenda
— Pence: Trump upended ‘some aspects’ of GOP agenda but ‘hasn’t really changed the Republican Party.’ Pence tells Fox News: ‘I think that on the fringe and on the margins, voices of antisemitism in the party all need to be confronted.’ DD: The more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat and RINO leaders hint/imply/argue/shout that you are an antisemite: conservative, Republican, Protestant, and/or German American. My Democrat superiors stressed that I am all of the aforesaid and that I lived in Crete 1948-1972 and in Wheaton since 1978 to my many Jewish superiors and supervisors. They took many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pence-trump-upended-some-aspects-gop-agenda-hasnt-really-changed-republican-party.amp
NEWS BUSTERS
— Pritzker Says Trump Has Dementia. DD: What would Pritzker say about you? From what I see, Pritzker would say that I am a White supremacist, Nazi, KKK member, racist, sexist, bigot, hater, and even worse things. Pritzker would stress that I share the following demographics with Trump: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Vietnam War draft avoider, Protestant, German American, and our ancestors have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/steve-malzberg/2026/03/22/gov-pritzker-says-trump-has-dementia-cnns-erin-burnett-doesnt
PJ MEDIA
— Legacy Press Desperately Tries to Lose Another War for America. DD: Many, most, and at times, virtually all of my Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors and supervisors were Democrat veterans who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They especially blamed Republicans like me who were 1-A for the Vietnam War draft but avoided it with deferments. Further, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was an unmitigated disgusting hypocritical coward because I probably would not have been sent into combat because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness. My many Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors and supervisors who were veterans took many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2026/03/22/legacy-press-desperately-tries-to-lose-another-war-for-america-n4950941
— California Bill Seeks to Recognize Muslim Holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha as Official State Holidays
https://pjnewsletter.com/ca-muslims-bill-gift/
TOWNHALL
— DHS Identifies Chicago Murder Suspect As Venezuelan National Released by Biden Admin in 2023
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/03/22/venezuelan-migrant-released-by-biden-administration-now-accused-of-killing-chicago-student-n2673262
— You Won’t Believe Why Democrats are Trying to Kick Chicago Residents Out of Their Homes
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2026/03/22/chicago-residents-mobilize-to-fight-democrats-seeking-to-displace-them-for-obama-center-n2673256
— 300+ TSA Agents Quit As Democrats’ DHS Shutdown Drags into Sixth Week
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/03/22/300-tsa-agents-quit-over-unpaid-wages-as-dhs-shutdown-drags-into-fifth-week-n2673257
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WASHINGTON POST
— The ugly truth about ‘merit’ promotion in the federal government. DD: Democrats run the federal government. The more of the following that federal employees are, the faster that they can get promoted: Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. The Democrats who run the federal government use “up-or-out” to get rid of their employees who are Republican, male, and/or non-veteran who they do not promote to 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/22/federal-jobs-compost-toilets-potomac/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— DD: My critics/opponents have always been woke and will always be woke, that is, they always have blamed and always will blame conservatives for all the problems that those who are the following have: Trump-haters, liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, unmarried, LGBTQ, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or are in America illegally.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/woke-goes-up-in-smoke-474db388
— Hoping for a Big Raise This Year? Adjust Your Expectations. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, the agency was almost always under promotion freezes because of Gingrich budget cuts. Nevertheless, I got finally promoted to GS-13 in 1986 because a) I had earned an MBA in 1976, b) I had passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, c) I had had earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, d) I had passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA in 1982, and e) the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 finally got back into power and assigned me to audits of IRS and promoted me in 1986.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/hoping-for-a-big-raise-this-year-adjust-your-expectations-88e044f2
FLORIDA TIMES-UNION
— DD: What do you attribute your successes in life to? I attribute my successes in life to my parents and my teachers who promoted personal responsibility. They 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. My critics/opponents attribute my successes to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are minority, female, younger than me, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.jacksonville.com/press-release/story/1007351/joseph-hyacinthe-jr-releases-new-book-on-personal-development-emphasizing-character-faith-and-life-foundations/
HECHINGER REPORT
— DD: What worked against your getting a better ACT/SAT score and better GPAs? Instead of studying, I washed dishes for 28 hours a week during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School 1964-1966 and for 40 hours a week during the summer of 1965. Instead of studying, I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during the summer of 1966. Instead of studying, I delivered mail for all the part-time hours that I could during my freshman and sophomore years at UIC 1966-1968 and junior year NIU in 1969 and full-time during the summers of 1967, 1968, and 1969. Instead of studying, I worked full-time for a Firestone Store while I took a graduate evening business course at UIC in 1971. Instead of studying, I worked both full-time for IRS and part-time for a Firestone Store pumping gasoline while I took my first 4 graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972. Instead of studying, I worked for IRS full-time while I took graduate business courses at Loyola 1973-1976. Instead of studying, I worked for IRS full-time 1976-1980 and then for GAO full-time in 1980 while I took graduate accounting courses at DePaul 1976-1980. Instead of studying, I worked for IRS full-time while I prepared to take the CPA examination in 1979. Instead of studying, I worked for GAO full-time while I prepared to take the Certified Internal Auditor examination in 1981. Instead of studying, I worked for GAO full-time while I took graduate finance courses at IIT 1992-1997.
https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-winning-a-prestigious-award-can-make-anyones-day-but-for-a-working-class-student-it-can-transform-a-life/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
FBC NEWS
— Calls for transparency in civil service recruitment. DD: The Democrats who ran IRS in 1971 would not have hired me if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE). The Democrats who run the federal government abolished the FSEE because too few Democrats, minorities, females, and veterans passed the examination. Federal employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran have no Civil Service protections.
https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/news/calls-for-transparency-in-civil-service-recruitment/
March 19, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
WGN9
— Bailey addresses supporters
https://wgntv.com/video/darren-bailey-addresses-supporters/11617116/
— Chicago vets denounce Iran war, urge current service members to resist. DD: Many, most, virtually all, and at times all of my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrat veterans who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They especially blamed me because I was a Republican, I was 1-A for the draft, and I had avoided the draft with four student deferments and a financial hardship deferment. Further, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was an unmitigated disgusting coward because I probably would not have been sent into combat because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness. They took many big adverse actions against me.
https://wgntv.com/military/chicago-vets-denounce-iran-war-urge-current-service-members-to-resist/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Planned Parenthood of Illinois agrees to pay $500K over allegations of discrimination against white employees
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/19/planned-parenthood-illinois-eeoc-discrimination/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— FCC attempt to alter broadcast news is unconstitutional. Brendan Carr aims to reshape TV programming by requiring that broadcasters serve “the public interest” as he defines it, which evidently precludes news coverage that annoys the president. DD: My critics/opponents want to stop me from sending out my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they want to stop everyone from reading my newsletters. Failing that, they want to pressure/threaten me into a) including links in my newsletters only to article that they approve of and b) stop me from including my comments in the newsletters. They blame me and they blame my newsletters for all the losses that Republican candidates in ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/03/19/fcc-brendan-carr-tv-news-journalism-unconstitutional-trump-jacob-sullum
DAILY HERALD
— DuPage clerk’s election loss won’t end legal fight with county board
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260319/news/dupage-clerks-election-loss-wont-end-legal-fight-with-county-board/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Despite losing her reelection bid, DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek says she will continue with an appeal challenging recent court rulings in her ongoing feud with the county board. The Glen Ellyn Democrat has been locked in a yearslong battle with the board over how she runs the county clerk’s office and how bills get paid. That fight ended up in court and was a key factor in why the two-term incumbent found herself facing a challenger in the Democratic primary election. On Tuesday, DuPage County Board member Paula Deacon Garcia defeated Kaczmarek to become the Democratic nominee for county clerk. In November, she will face Republican Patricia Kladis-Schiappa, an attorney from Burr Ridge. Deacon Garcia and Kladis-Schiappa both say they would end the legal battle with the county board if they are elected. However, Kaczmarek will continue to serve as county clerk until the end of November. In the meantime, she says she intends to pursue an appeal she filed earlier this year. “The need for clear legal standards to govern the relationship between different elected offices is of much greater and wider consequence than the results of any individual election,” Kaczmarek said in a statement. Noting that a DuPage judge sided with the county in two recent rulings, a spokesman for the DuPage County state’s attorney’s office said the office will “continue to vigorously defend the county in this matter.” Kaczmarek has argued that multiple opinions issued by the Illinois attorney general’s office have supported the contention that elected officials have internal control over their office. In addition, Kaczmarek claims the county has tried to require her office to make unnecessary budget transfers in order for bills to be paid. County board members counter that they don’t want to tell Kaczmarek what to do. However, they say the county can require its elected officials and department heads to follow basic accounting procedures and state laws on bidding. Still, Kaczmarek insists that the county board and the state’s attorney’s office “continue to mislead the public regarding the fact that they are simply ignoring” everything that the attorney general’s office has advised. “There must be independence of county officers from county board interference,” Kaczmarek said. “Nothing has changed regarding the need for higher courts to clarify whether every attorney general’s opinion on these issues for decades has simply been wrong. The rest of the state is operating under different rules than DuPage County.” The county board filed a lawsuit in 2024 seeking a judge’s order to compel Kaczmarek into compliance with county accounting procedures for bill payments. At the time, Kaczmarek would not fill out the requested paperwork for budget transfers to get bills paid, arguing that it wasn’t necessary because there was enough money in her budget to cover the expenses. Last August, a judge ruled in the county’s favor and compelled Kaczmarek to follow the county’s accounting procedures. Then in December, the same judge ruled against Kaczmarek’s request for summary judgment, where she argued contracts with two election-related vendors were exempt from bidding rules because they fell under professional services. In January, Kaczmarek’s attorney filed the notice of appeal challenging both rulings. On Wednesday, Kaczmarek’s attorney, Ken Florey, said legal briefs from both sides should be filed in the coming months. He was hopeful a ruling could be issued before the November election. DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek released the following statement Wednesday after her election loss: “The DuPage County Board and State’s Attorney continue to mislead the public regarding the fact that they are simply ignoring everything the Attorney General’s Office has advised for over 40 years. There must be independence of county officers from county board interference. Nothing has changed regarding the need for higher courts to clarify whether every Attorney General’s opinion on these issues for decades has simply been wrong. The rest of the state is operating under different rules than DuPage County. The need for clear legal standards to govern the relationship between different elected offices is of much greater and wider consequence than the results of any individual election.”)
— What Americans are giving up to afford ACA health insurance. DD: Ever since I became a federal employee when I was 18 in 1966, my critics/opponents have been increasingly furious that the federal government has paid 72% of my health insurance premiums. Since I got married when I was 29 in 1978, they have been increasingly furious that the federal government has also paid 72% of my and my wife’s health insurance premiums. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who never qualified themselves to become a federal employee, b) who would never stoop to take a federal job, and/or c) who despise/hate federal employees.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260319/nation-and-world/what-americans-are-giving-up-to-afford-aca-health-insurance-according-to-a-new-poll/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Lately, Priscilla Brown has had to choose between properly managing her Type 2 diabetes and affording other necessities, like gas in her car. Some days, she takes half or a third of her prescribed insulin dose — just to stretch it out longer. “Sometimes I don’t even take my medicine,” said the 48-year-old truck dispatcher in Orlando, Florida. “It’s so much with insurance, it’s crazy.” About 8 in 10 Americans, like Brown, who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are “a lot” higher, according to a new survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF. A main reason for increased costs was the Dec. 31 expiration of enhanced tax credits that had offset premiums for most enrollees. For Brown and others, those spiking costs are having real impacts on daily life. Of the 1,117 Americans surveyed who had ACA marketplace coverage in 2025, including those who dropped coverage or changed plans, about 55% said they’re planning to deal with health care costs by cutting spending on food and other basic household needs.)
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Planned Parenthood of Illinois settles EEOC case alleging discrimination against white employees
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/ccb-planned-parenthood-eeoc-dei-discrimination-03192026/
WJBC
— Proposed bill would require Illinois high schools to offer voter registration. DD: Democrats use high schools to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.wjbc.com/2026/03/19/proposed-bill-would-require-illinois-high-schools-to-offer-voter-registration/
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/19/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-490/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Illinois Republicans Face Permanent Super Minority as Voter Turnout Collapses in 2026 Primary
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/03/illinois-republicans-face-permanent-super-minority-as-voter-turnout-collapses-in-2026-primary.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: The headline number is stark: only about 33 percent of Illinois Republicans’ own modeled voter base showed up to vote. According to voter data, just 561,000 Republicans cast ballots in the primary. Campaign voter models estimate there are approximately 1.69 million Republican-leaning voters in Illinois. That means two out of every three Republican voters stayed home. By comparison, Republicans turned out about 47 percent of their base in 2022 – marking a 14-point drop in enthusiasm in just four years. Meanwhile, Democrats moved in the opposite direction.)
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Vehicle Emission Testing Available in Johnsburg on Saturday, March 21st and How Crystal Lake Got a Testing Station
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/19/vehicle-emission-testing-available-in-johnsburg-on-saturday-march-21st/
— With 100% of Precincts in McHenry County Board District 7 & 8, Challengers Jeff Schwartz and Marty Mohr Defeat Brian Sager & Larry Smith
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/with-100-of-precincts-in-mchenry-county-board-district-7-8-challengers-jeff-schwartz-and-marty-mohr-defeat-brian-sager-larry-smith/
— Misleading Headlines on Schwartz/Mohr Victories
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/19/misleading-headlines/
— UPDATE: Election Judge Dies in McCullom Lake, COUNTY CLERK JOE TIRIO’S STATEMENT
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/18/election-judge-dies-in-mccullum-lake/
— 56% Approve Referendum Seeking Opinion on Illinois’ Participation in Federal Scholarship Program
— https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/18/56-approve-referendum-seeking-opinion-on-illinois-participation-in-federal-scholarship-program/
— Biss Issues Victory Email
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/18/biss-issues-victory-email/
— Don Tracy on His GOP Senate Victory, Goes After Democratic Party Opponent Juliana Stratton
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/18/don-tracy-on-his-gop-senate-victory-goes-after-democratic-party-opponent-juliana-stratton/
— In the Two Hot GOP Committeeperson Contests Early & Absentee Ballots Show Interesting Results
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/in-the-two-hot-gop-committeeperson-contests-early-absentee-ballots-show-interesting-results/
— Contested McHenry Township GOP Precinct Committeeperson Results
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/contested-mchenry-township-gop-precinct-committeeperson-contest-results/
— Laura Fine Did Not Win the Democratic Party Nomination for Congress, But She Is Leading Daniel Biss for State Central Committeeperson, at Least in McHenry County
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/laura-fine-did-not-win-the-democratic-party-nomination-for-congress-but-she-is-leading-daniel-biss-for-state-central-committeeperson-at-least-in-mchenry-county/
— Hebron Township Citizens Vote Down Road Money
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/hebron-township-citizens-vote-down-road-money/
— Raja Wins McHenry County in Early & Absentee Votes, While Stratton Wins the State
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/raja-wins-mchenry-county-in-early-absentee-votes-while-stratton-wins-the-state/
— The $66.50 Ballot
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/the-66-50-ballot/
— Mohr Innovates in Campaign for County Board
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/mohr-innovates-in-campain-for-county-board/
— Biss Gets Taken to the Woodshed after Former Student Tells of Uncomfortable Situation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/biss-gets-taken-to-the-woodshed-after-former-student/
— Real Reason To Have Voted Early
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/a-real-reason-to-have-voted-early/
— Democrats Vastly Outnumber Republicans in Early and Mail In Ballots
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/17/democrats-vastly-outnumber-republicans-in-early-and-mail-in-ballots/
— Another Example of Excessive State Regulation
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/16/another-example-of-excessive-state-regulation/
— McHenry County Animal Cruelty Case Makes Kankakee-Area Newspaper
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/15/mchenry-county-animal-cruelty-case-makes-kankakee-area-newspaper/
— An Election Cartoon
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/15/an-election-cartoon/
— Paul Harvey Talking about 2026 in 1965
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/15/paul-harvey-talking-about-2026-in-1965/
— Critique of GOP Gubernatorial Candidates’ Nights
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/15/critique-of-gubernatorial-candidates-nights/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders asked to leave restaurant because it made people ‘uncomfortable’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/19/sarah-huckabee-sanders-asked-leave-croissanterie-made-people/
— Trump faces internal sabotage as Iran war exposes disloyalty. Kent resignation, Gabbard questions and intelligence leaks raise alarms.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/19/trump-faces-internal-sabotage-iran-war-exposes-disloyalty/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Congress should reject Pentagon’s $200 billion Iran war request
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/courage-strength-optimism/4497964/congress-reject-pentagon-iran-war-request/
BREITBART
— Illinois Democrat Pushes Serial Number Requirement for Handgun Ammunition
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/03/19/illinois-democrat-pushes-serial-number-requirement-for-handgun-ammunition/
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Sanctuaries Are a Public Safety Disaster. Sanctuary policies strain taxpayers and shield illegal immigrants with criminal records.
https://cis.org/Oped/Sanctuaries-Are-Public-Safety-Disaster
DAILY SIGNAL
— Biden CIA Warned About ‘Traditional Motherhood’ and ‘Homemaking’ as White Extremist Tactics. DD: How successful have Democrats been destroying traditional marriage and family in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/19/biden-cia-warned-traditional-motherhood-homemaking-white-extremist-tactics/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— Sanctuary States Consider Bills to Hold ICE Officers Liable for Simply Doing Their Jobs
https://www.fairus.org/legislation/state-and-local/sanctuary-states-consider-bills-hold-ice-officers-liable
MINDING THE CAMPUS
— American Graduates Need Not Apply. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, ever-increasingly, those who are the following need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, non-poor, heterosexual, married, Protestant, German America, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://mindingthecampus.org/2025/12/29/american-graduates-need-not-apply/
NEWSMAX
— Democrats Want to Make It Easy to Cheat at Polls
https://www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/ron-johnson-election-integrity-donald-trump/2026/03/18/id/1249998/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Pritzker knocks AIPAC after pro-Israel group spent big in Illinois races
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5791548-jb-pritzker-aipac-illinois-races/
CBS NEWS
— In voting process, photo ID gets wide support, Republicans more likely to believe there’s fraud. DD: Illegals have false IDs.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/voting-process-photo-id-opinion-poll/
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker and Stratton
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03/18/us/illinois-election-primary-midterms
March 18, 2026
Illinois Democrats ever-increasingly elect candidates who are further and further and further off the cliff to the left.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— 2026 Illinois primary day election results
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/illinois-primary-day-election-results/
— Noonan tops Moore by nearly double the vote in DuPage sheriff primary
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/dupage-county-sheriff-primary-results-republican/
DAILY HERALD
— Harris beats Adamczyk in GOP primary race for secretary of state
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260317/illinois-state-politics/early-returns-show-adamczyk-leading-harris-in-republican-secretary-of-state-primary/
— GOP voters back Noonan over Moore in DuPage sheriff’s primary
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260317/local-politics/noonan-comfortably-leading-moore-in-dupage-sheriffs-primary/
— Newcomers win Democratic nod for DuPage County Board seats
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260317/local-politics/newcomers-win-democratic-nod-for-dupage-county-board-seats/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: District 4 Wheaton Democrat Paula McGowen is poised to take on incumbent Grant Eckhoff, the second-longest serving Republican on the board, this fall. McGowen, a Milton Township trustee who also sits on the DuPage regional school board, had 9,996 votes, while her opponent, Syed Hussain, had 7,905 votes.)
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DuPage Democrats pick Deacon Garcia for county clerk. With all precincts reporting, unofficial vote totals showed Deacon Garcia with 54,761 votes and Kaczmarek with 42,670 votes.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260317/local-politics/dupage-democrats-pick-deacon-garcia-for-county-clerk/
CBS2
— Results for 2026 Illinois primary elections
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/live-updates/illinois-midterm-primary-election-results-2026/
— Illinois approves plan to lower proficiency scores for standardized tests
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-approves-plan-lower-proficiency-scores-standardized-tests/
WGN9
— Pritzker, Bailey set for Illinois governor showdown in November
https://wgntv.com/news/politics/pritzker-bailey-set-for-illinois-governor-showdown-in-november/
MUDDY RIVER NEWS
— Stratton defeats Krishnamoorthi, now faces Tracy in November for U.S. Senate seat
https://muddyrivernews.com/politics/stratton-defeats-krishnamoorthi-now-faces-tracy-in-november/20260318065419/
JACKSONVILLE JOURNAL COURIER
— Bailey wins west-central Illinois vote
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/darren-bailey-face-jb-pritzker-november-22079473.php
EDWARSVILLE INTELLIGENCER
— Illinois Senate race set as Stratton, Tracy win primaries
https://www.theintelligencer.com/news/article/illinois-senate-race-stratton-tracy-primary-result-22082841.php
TELEGRAPH HERALD
— Former Illinois Republican Party chairman Don Tracy wins GOP primary for US Senate seat
https://www.telegraphherald.com/ap/national/article_ecb0e744-7d46-5982-b60d-f254a5280cdf.html
STATELINE
— Illinois Senate battle set: Stratton vs. Tracy in 2026 showdown
https://www.mystateline.com/news/local-news/illinois-senate-battle-set-stratton-vs-tracy-in-2026-showdown/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Diane Harris wins Republican Illinois Secretary of State Primary
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/election/diane-harris-wins-republican-illinois-secretary-of-state-primary/article_a0ca61f4-3766-5863-b86b-e411a7a662ca.html
NEWS CHANNEL 20
— Darren Bailey wins Republican Illinois Governor Primary
https://www.newschannel20.com/news/elections/darren-bailey-wins-republican-illinois-governor-primary/article_778d4a16-6461-4fed-8007-ff6b544c99b0.html
WAND TV
— Stratton set for November General Election matchup against Tracy
https://www.wandtv.com/news/illinois/juliana-stratton-set-for-november-general-election-matchup-against-don-tracy/article_cb48e3ca-a8b0-491c-b446-739e728001b8.html
— Pritzker vs. Bailey Round 2: 2026 race is on
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-vs-bailey-round-2-2026-race-is-on/article_8bb4ddff-5d68-4762-8d18-c517736e16a6.html
WREX
— Stratton vs. Tracy in Illinois U.S. Senate race, Bailey/Pritzker rematch for governor
https://www.wrex.com/news/election/stratton-vs-tracy-in-illinois-u-s-senate-race-bailey-pritzker-rematch-for-governor/article_5fba04c3-ada6-4070-b181-57006863c487.html
WIFR TV
— Stratton, Tracy to go head-to-head for Durbin’s Senate seat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36aIe9ONkNY
WMBD
— Illinois governor’s race will be a rematch in 2026
https://wmbdradio.com/2026/03/17/illinois-governors-race-will-be-a-rematch-in-2026/
CAPITOL CITY NOW
— Tracy: Elect me, and make Illinois a ‘two-party state’ again
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-tracy-elect-me-and-make-illinois-a-two-party-state-again/
— It’s Bailey v. Pritzker again
https://capitolcitynow.com/news/248842-its-bailey-v-pritzker-again/
CAPITOL NEWS ILLINOIS
— Stratton defeats Krishnamoorthi with help from Chicago, downstate voters. Former Illinois GOP Chair Don Tracy set to face Stratton in November.
https://capitolnewsillinois.com/news/stratton-defeats-krishnamoorthi-with-help-from-chicago-downstate-voters/
DUPAGE COUNTY ELECTION DIVISION
— Election Results DD: About 105,000 voted for a Democrat U.S. Senate candidate while only about 46,000 voted for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate. About 100,000 voted for Pritzker while only about 47,000 voted for a Republican gubernatorial candidate. According to the DCED website, 331 (30.48%) of the 1,086 registered voters in my Milton 59 precinct voted. I got 120 votes. I anxiously await posting of how many Republican and Democrat ballots were cast in my precinct and how many votes each candidate got in my precinct. I anxiously await a listing of those voters who cast Republican ballots. I want to hand-deliver a precinct letter to them that thanks them for voting and gives them election results.
https://www.dupageresults.gov/IL/DuPage/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Stratton victory boosts Pritzker clout
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/18/stratton-victory-boosts-pritzker-clout-00833636
CAPITOL FAX
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The outcome of Mark Senak v. Jason Helland for Illinois Third District Appellate Court will be posted at:
https://ballotpedia.org/Illinois_intermediate_appellate_court_elections,_2026 – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Stratton vs. Tracy to replace Durbin
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_2fa9ee45-aacb-4dae-896f-cc39b3b30f5f.html
— Illinois voters to see Pritzker, Bailey rematch in November
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4c72a31a-1fba-4769-90f9-cea9d806b9d7.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
NEW AMERICAN
— American Women Are Struggling — With Rampant Sexual Confusion
https://thenewamerican.com/us/culture/american-women-are-struggling-with-rampant-sexual-confusion-exhibit-a/
PJ MEDIA
— Hollywood’s Climate Virtue Signaling Ends Where Personal Responsibility Begins
https://pjmedia.com/michaelcantrell/2026/03/17/hollywoods-climate-virtue-signaling-ends-where-personal-responsibility-begins-n4950752
SPEAKER JOHNSON
— Democrats Refuse to Reopen DHS for the American People Until They Can Reopen American Borders for Illegal Aliens
https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=2856
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Stratton scores ‘major victory’ in Illinois Democratic primary
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/18/politics/video/juliana-stratton-won-democratic-primary-illinois-david-chalian-hnk-vrtc-digvid
NEW YORK TIMES
— Stratton Wins
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/elections/illinois-primary-elections-takeaways.html
— How Many Americans Are Marriage Material? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 in 1978, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/29/opinion/marriage-kearney.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: It used to be that an overwhelming majority of Americans married, and an overwhelming majority of American children were raised within two-parent families. Over the past six decades this has changed. Now, roughly 40 percent of children are born outside of wedlock and about a quarter live in single-parent homes. The share of Americans who are married has fallen significantly since 1960, with a further decline portended by the marriage rates of the younger generations.)
— Florida University Bars Student G.O.P. Group. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who had their operatives and their dupes destroy the Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) in 2007 and TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois in 2012. They ever-increasingly blamed ICRC and TAPROOT for Republican defeats. They ever-increasingly blamed conservative principles and the conservative planks in the Republican Party platform for Republican defeats. I served as an ICRC officer 2003-2007 and as the TAPROOT chairman 2005-2012.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/politics/university-of-florida-republicans-antisemitism.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Stratton wins Illinois Senate primary in victory for Pritzker
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/17/illinois-senate-house-pritzker-stratton/
FORBES
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2026/03/17/continued-considerations-for-corporations-on-the-dei-battlefield/
POLITICO
— King of Illinois: Pritzker swings Senate race as he targets Trump. Juliana Stratton’s victory in a heated Senate primary vindicates the governor’s political operation heading into 2028.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/pritzker-kingmaker-illinois-senate-stratton-00833545
— Stratton wins Illinois primary, giving Dems another Black female senator. Stratton won with the help of outside spending — much of it from Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/juliana-stratton-wins-illinois-senate-democrat-primary-00833523
March 17, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Can anyone beat Darren Bailey in the Republican primary for Illinois governor? The campaign trail reaches a head Tuesday for Darren Bailey, Ted Dabrowski, Rick Heidner and James Mendrick for a shot against Gov. JB Pritzker in the general election.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2026/03/17/governor-illinois-republican-race-primary-results
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their ever-increasing domination of Illinois.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/editorial-dont-cry-for-me-in-november-primary-election-day-is-what-matters-most-in-this-state/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/opinion-iran-war-donald-trump-china/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/17/column-iran-war-donald-trump-oil-strait-of-hormuz-depetris/
CBS2
— Cook County and Chicago set records for early voting turnout in 2026 Illinois primary elections. DD: How many have voted so far 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.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-early-voting-turnout-2026-illinois-primary-election/
ABC7
— Family of Rev. Jackson clarifies endorsement confusion in hotly contested Senate race
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-election-2026-family-rev-jesse-jackson-retracts-endorsement-juliana-stratton-polls-show-close-senate-race/18722230/
NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders always fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.nprillinois.org/news/2026-03-16/u-s-senator-dick-durbin-says-the-save-act-will-diminish-the-number-of-people-who-can-vote-first-listen
ASBURY PARK PRESS
— Immigration a central issue in Illinois primary
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/asbury-park-press/20260317/281625311818131
WHEATON RECORD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ in Wheaton.
https://thewheatonrecord.com/2026/03/16/two-wheaton-college-lectures-offer-different-perspectives-on-gender-identity/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— The DuPage County clerk is warning federal immigration agents not to appear at polling places during Tuesday’s primary election, saying such activity could violate federal law and intimidate voters.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_4635f98c-2181-4360-b837-18042b1e610a.html
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— I anticipate/expect that fewer Democrats will crossover today because there is less need to because of the ever-increasing total Democrat domination of Illinois. How soon will 100% of all elected offices in Illinois be held by Democrats? With no elected Republicans to blame for Illinois’ ever-increasing problems, who will Democrat leaders blame? They will ever-increasingly blame those still in Illinois who share Trump’s demographics: heterosexual, married, non-poor, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will elect some RINOs to give Democrat elected officials some cover. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In Illinois, it is public record that you voted in primaries and which party you cast a ballot for. As Democrat domination of Illinois becomes ever-increasingly absolute, anticipate/expect that because of fear of retaliation from Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer Republican primary ballots will be cast. I have cast Republican primary ballots since I was 18 in 1966. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. They ever-increasingly used my being a Republican against me. They also knew that I was a draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, I lived in Crete 1948-1972, and I lived in Wheaton since 1978 and they ever-increasingly used that against me. Federal employees who have the aforesaid demographics have no Civil Service protections. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrats and RINOs believe that their end justifies their means. Democrats and RINOs promote dependency on government and charity, 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, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats ever-increasingly dump those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. Minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America a long time ever-increasingly dump those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To what extent should voters assume a) that candidates who promote pot use pot themselves, b) that candidates who promote gambling are gamblers themselves, c) that candidates who promote LGBTQ are LGBTQers themselves, d) that candidates who promote mass/illegal immigration benefit from mass/illegal immigration themselves, and e) that candidates who promote Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI benefit from AA and DEI themselves? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leader have decided that they cannot win without their illegals, so therefore, they will never stop a) glorifying and praising their illegals and b) fighting their deportation. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders run a protection racket. They ever-increasingly claim to protect those who vote for Democrats from those who vote for Republicans. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to be a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. As I got older, they ever-increasingly wasted what I had learned earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license. As I got older, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions to get rid of me culminating in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BILLY GRAHMEVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION
— First Grade Christian Teacher Secures Right to Opt-Out of Reading LGBTQ Books
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/articles/first-grade-christian-teacher-secures-right-to-opt-out-of-reading-lgbtq-books
FOUNDATION FOR GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY
— Foreigners are snapping up US homes and stealing the American dream out from under families
https://thefga.org/op-eds/foreigners-are-snapping-up-us-homes-and-stealing-the-american-dream-out-from-under-families/
PJ MEDIA
— Dems Aren’t Even Hiding Their Election Shenanigans Now
https://pjmedia.com/stephen-kruiser/2026/03/16/the-morning-briefing-dems-arent-even-hiding-their-election-shenanigans-now-n4950678
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Jackson family says staff member led to erroneous Stratton endorsement
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5786706-jesse-jackson-juliana-stratton-no-endorsement/
— Divides on display in Illinois Democratic primaries
https://thehill.com/newsletters/morning-report/5787236-illinois-democrats-primary-battle/
NBC NEWS
— Illinois primary puts Democratic divides on display up and down the ballot. A hard-fought Senate race, several raucous open House primaries and Gov. JB Pritzker’s bid to extend his control over Illinois politics are all at stake Tuesday.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/illinois-primary-election-senate-ballot-pritzker-durbin-what-watch-rcna263527
ASSOCIATED PRESS
— As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find
https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-data-numbers-deportations-000a289890193c94474f19b877eb37d1
MS NOW
— DD: Democrat judges and justices ever-increasingly defend and advance the Democrat Party platform. I should write about the judges and justices in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf
https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/judges-political-affiliation-president-appointment-deadline-newsletter-rcna214086
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/nobody-wants-a-traditional-marriage-anymore-17-uncomfortable-truths-couples-need-to-face/ss-AA1XKTA2
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
NEW YORK TIMES
— Poverty in New York City Inched Higher in 2024 for Third Year in a Row. DD: Under the Democrats, poverty and crime ever-increasingly increase.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/nyregion/poverty-new-york-city-report.html
— We Have Reached End-Stage Polarization. DD: Should I write about my critics/opponents who have had the most success promoting hatred against me?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/opinion/trump-talarico-maga-religious-political-division.html
— Trump’s Efforts to Target Rivals Stall as Judges Cut Short Investigations. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who have had the most success getting their operatives and their dupes to take adverse actions against me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/us/politics/trump-justice-department-investigations.html
USA TODAY
— Democrats joust over ICE, Trump donors in Illinois Senate primary. An aggressive style, including calls to abolish ICE, has helped Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton surge in the polls, which have recently swung between her and Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2026/03/17/democrats-ice-trump-donors-illinois-senate-primary/89001554007/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— California’s Never-Ending Race Preferences. Again activists attempt to gut the Golden State’s ban on affirmative action.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/californias-never-ending-race-preferences-0e7b74a2
FORBES
— 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.forbes.com/sites/adiaharveywingfield/2026/03/16/what-comes-after-dei-a-different-future-for-race-work-and-policy/
WEEK
— DD: Those who have demographics that vote for Democrats ever-increasingly dump those who have demographics that vote for Republicans. Minorities, females, younger people, non-Protestants, non-German Americans, and/or those whose ancestors have not been in America a long time ever-increasingly dump those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or those whose ancestors have been in America a long time.
https://theweek.com/politics/instant-opinion-travel-politics-religion-middle-east
NATIONAL TODAY
— California Activists Renew Push for Racial Preferences. Effort to gut state’s ban on affirmative action faces uphill battle after Supreme Court ruling.
https://nationaltoday.com/us/ca/san-diego/news/2026/03/16/california-activists-renew-push-for-racial-preferences/
COLLEGE RECRUITER
— Pros and cons of working for the federal government under the Trump Administration. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to be a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. As I got older, they ever-increasingly wasted what I had learned earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license. As I got older, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions against me to get rid of me culminating in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2026/03/16/pros-and-cons-of-working-for-the-federal-government-under-the-trump-administration
PENN STATE
— DD: Democrats and RINOs believe that their end justifies their means. Democrats and RINOs promote dependency on government and charity, 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, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination.
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/political-affiliation-may-help-drive-and-shape-persons-morals
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
— DD: Your political affiliation is public information. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. From the beginning, when I was 18 in 1966, they knew that I was a Republican and they used that against me. They also knew that I was a draft avoider, Protestant, German American, my ancestors had been in America since 1844, I lived in Crete 1948-1972, and I lived in Wheaton since 1978 and they ever-increasingly used that against me.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/political-affiliation-influences-our-fear-of-data-collection/
SECURITY MANAGEMENT
— Political Affiliation Bias Heightens Workplace Tensions. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. They ever-increasingly made it clear that they wanted to get rid of me because I was a Republican who was conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America for a long time. Federal employees who have the aforesaid demographics have no Civil Service protections.
https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/latest-news/online-exclusives/2022/how-political-affiliation-bias-heightens-workplace-tensions/
SIRM
— Can Workers Be Fired for Their Political Affiliation and Activity? DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to be a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. As I got older, they ever-increasingly wasted what I had learned earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license. As I got older, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions against me to get rid of me culminating in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/employment-law-compliance/fired-political-affiliation-activity
HARVARD GAZETTE
— DD: What is your first recollection of seeing a Black? For me, it was in the 1950s when I saw young Blacks throwing stones at the grade school bus that I was in as it left the Museum of Science and Industry.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2021/06/study-explores-link-between-diverse-upbringing-and-later-political-affiliation/
PEW RESEARCH
— DD: For Democrats, democracy exists to take away opportunities, money, and everything else from Republicans and to give it to Democrats. That is, democracy exists to take away opportunities, money, and everything else from those who are White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time and to give it to those who are minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/03/08/negative-views-of-democracy-more-widespread-in-countries-with-low-political-affiliation/
GOVERNING
— DD: I anticipate/expect that fewer Democrats will crossover today because there is less need to because of the ever-increasing total Democrat domination of Illinois. How soon will 100% of all elected offices in Illinois be held by Democrats? With no elected Republicans to blame for Illinois’ ever-increasing problems, who will Democrat leaders blame? They will ever-increasingly blame those still in Illinois who share Trump’s demographics: heterosexual, married, non-poor, conservative, Republican, White, male, older, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Anticipate/expect that Democrat leaders will elect some RINOs to give Democrat elected officials some cover.
https://www.governing.com/politics/why-states-should-think-again-before-closing-primaries
NPR
— DD: In Illinois, it is public record that you voted in primaries and which party you cast a ballot for. As Democrat domination of Illinois becomes ever-increasingly absolute, anticipate/expect that because of fear of retaliation from Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer Republican primary ballots will be cast. I have cast Republican primary ballots since I was 18 in 1966. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government 1966-1969 and 1971-1997. They ever-increasingly used my being a Republican against me.
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/04/nx-s1-5129679/can-someone-find-out-whom-you-voted-for-explained
POLITICO
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat jurors decide against Republicans. That is why I was denied my 7th Amendment rights to a jury trial in Diersen v. GAO. SEE: https://gopillinois.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/DiersenGAOFifthAmendedComplaint.pdf The jury pool in Chicagoland is overwhelmingly Democrat. Further, my demographics are terrible. In addition to being Republican, I am conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and my ancestors have been in America since 1844. Because of the aforesaid, no jury would decide in my favor.
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/trump-lawyer-e-jean-carroll-jurors-00096308
March 16, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout that if you want illegal immigration, vote for Democrats.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2026/03/16/operation-midway-blitz-immigration-campaign-chicago-suburban-democratic-voters-poll
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/war-iran-trump-analysis/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/16/trump-iran-war-israel-tomahawk-hormuz/
— Heads up, Georgia voters. One Tiffany Henyard will be on some of your November ballots. DD: Political parties should have the power to stop candidates from running for offices as members of their party. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Candidates can run as Independents.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/16/tiffany-henyard-dolton-thornton-township-georgia-fulton-county/
NBC5
— How to research the Illinois judges on your ballot for the 2026 primary election. Several local professional associations of attorneys release recommendations for judicial candidates ahead of elections. DD: Are/were you a member of professional associations? What if the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) made such recommendations and I had ran for a government office? While 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 $100,069-$113,402/year, I earned an MBA and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. While I worked for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $118,984-$154,682/year, earned master’s degrees in accounting, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, I became a licensed CPA, I became a certified fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant, and I earned a master’s degree in finance. What if the ICPAS had come to my defense when my Democrat IRS superiors refused to promote me to GS-13? What if the ICPAS had come to my defense when my when my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and refused to promote me to GS-14, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old? While I worked for GAO, I served on ICPAS’s membership committee for 9 years and I served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Midwest Chapter for 13 years. What if ICPAS, Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and AGA had come to my defense when my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors took the aforesaid adverse actions against me? ICPAS, IIA, and AGA would have come to my defense if I had been a Democrat, a minority, younger, or a veteran.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/illinois-election-2026/how-to-research-the-illinois-judges-on-your-ballot-for-the-2026-primary-election-2/3908316/
WCIA
— FCC chair threatens networks’ licenses after Trump complains about Iran coverage. DD: My critics/opponents continue to be furious that I have been the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000. I should write about those who have complained about my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most. I would focus on those who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who blame my newsletters the most for defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on those who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.wcia.com/news/fcc-chair-threatens-networks-licenses-after-trump-complains-about-iran-coverage/
WHEATON PATCH
— Guide For Voters In Wheaton For 2026 Primary Election
https://patch.com/illinois/wheaton/guide-voters-wheaton-2026-primary-election
POLITICO
— When endorsements raise questions
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/16/when-endorsements-raise-questions-00829476
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/03/16/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-699/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Party That Forgot Its Base: How the GOP Has Failed White America. Republicans cheered “colorblind” meritocracy—but in practice, affirmative action shifted opportunity from white voters to Asians, leaving the party’s base unprotected. DD: Many, most, if not virtually all Republican leaders reject the equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) plank in the Republican Party platform. They all dumped me.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/03/16/the-party-that-forgot-its-base-how-the-gop-has-failed-white-america-part-1/
AMERICAN THINKER
— Is Lesbianism Ruining America’s Future? How is the unprecedented growth of lesbianism contributing to America’s demographic demise, and what can be done? DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/03/is_lesbianism_ruining_america_s_future.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Today, most of those self-identifying as LGBTQ are young women. The growth has been dramatic. In the US, some thirty percent of Gen Z women (age 18-27) are self-identifying as LGBTQ, etc.—mainly lesbian and—compared to around 1-2% for women in the World War 2 generation. This means that almost a third of traditionally marital-age women are likely disinterested in traditional marriage. This is a significant factor in why almost half of Americans are unmarried. As a result of the decline in marriages, the American replacement rate continues its slide south of the 2.1 children per couple needed for replacement. It is now hovering at 1.6. If one argues that lesbian couples can also raise children, the data show that, when looking at children with two parents, 99.5% of those parents are heterosexual. However, of the children in homosexual households, 3/4 of those households are headed by lesbians. The effect of this unprecedented lesbian phenomenon is producing societal and demographic challenges that do not bode well for the US as the beacon of hope, strength, and the protector of Western traditional family values. Many will claim that: 1) there is no choice or free will with sexual identity and identity is fixed for life, and 2) pursuing a long-term lesbian relationship can be an equivalent substitute for traditional marriage, so the long-term societal impacts are not a worry. Are they correct? Is there free will? Is there a biological, chemical, DNA, or physical test for people to self-diagnose their sexual orientation? There is not. It follows then that it is a non-measurable trait, such as is the case with anger or other temperament issues.)
CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Sanctuary Cities: The Cost of Undermining Law and Order.
https://cis.org/Testimony/Sanctuary-Cities-Cost-Undermining-Law-and-Order
DAILY CALLER
— Democrats And Their Border And ID Attack On Democracy
https://dailycaller.com/2026/03/15/opinion-democrats-and-their-border-and-id-attack-on-democracy/
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Marxist Wing of the Democratic Party
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2026/03/16/the_marxist_wing_of_the_democratic_party.html
TOWNHALL
— Texas Ends Professional Licensure for Non-Citizens
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/03/16/tx-citizenship-for-licenses-hairdressers-etc-n2672883
— We have been told for years that there is no need for stricter identification requirements in American elections. The Left has claimed that our elections are secured, and that the Right has simply lied about the issue, or they want to put up restrictions on women or minorities voting by instituting measures to prove citizens and identity before casting a ballot. When put on the record, it seems that those on the Left are finally telling the truth about the matter: illegals are easily able to vote in American elections.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/03/15/minnesota-elections-n2672870
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— The post-boomer GOP is coming — 2028 will define it. DD: RINO leaders are ever-increasingly move the GOP further to the left. Ever-increasingly, the more of the following that you are, the faster that you are pushed out: conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5782988-republican-party-generational-shift/amp/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders are ever-increasingly moving further to the left.
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5548505-left-leaning-electoral-success/
ABC NEWS
— In Illinois’ Democratic primaries, generational change and heavy spending take center stage
https://abcnews.com/Politics/illinois-democratic-primaries-generational-change-heavy-spending-center/story?id=131049815
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/nobody-wants-a-traditional-marriage-anymore-17-uncomfortable-truths-couples-need-to-face/ss-AA1XKTA2
— DD: What do you promote? Because I promote personal responsibility, my critics/opponents hold me responsible for my problems, for their problems, for your problems, and for everyone’s problems. I should write about that. I would focus on my critics/opponents who have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me. I would focus on those who blame my newsletters the most for defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct have suffered since 2000. I would focus on those who reject the most planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/i-m-sick-and-tired-of-hearing-my-grandkids-whine-about-how-the-system-isn-t-fair-whatever-happened-to-taking-personal-responsibility/ss-AA1XEFuS
NEW YORK TIMES
— Why a House Candidate in Illinois Is Attacking an Ad Praising Her. In a Democratic primary, accusations are flying that allies of a hardline pro-Israel group are trying to divide progressives, exploiting a broader rift in the party.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/us/politics/illinois-democrats-ad-israel-congress-aipac.html
— Why the Kids Won’t Farm. DD: All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s. They all were farmers. My mother was born on a farm. My grandmother on my father’s side was born on a farm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/opinion/who-will-farm-america.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Chicago careens toward insolvency
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/03/14/chicago-pensions-bonds-downgrade-default-elections/
— Trump’s cancellation of licenses for immigrant truckers takes effect
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/16/trump-immigrants-trucks/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Terrorists Are Now Often Made in the USA. Last week’s attackers in Michigan and Virginia were naturalized citizens, possibly radicalized here.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/terrorists-are-now-often-made-in-the-usa-160df209
— Teenagers Have Easy Access to Cannabis. Science Says It’s Bad for Them. New research shows even infrequent marijuana use during adolescence is linked to increased risk of mental-health disorders and poor performance in school.
https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/marijuana-use-teenage-impact-b463ec2f
BEST COLLEGES
— 40 Companies That Pay for College With Tuition Reimbursement. DD: How much of your tuition was reimbursed? None of my employers reimbursed my tuition except for token amounts by GAO. I worked for the Post Office 1966-1969, Firestone Stores 1970-1972, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997. I spent lots of my money to earn a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a master’s degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997. Worse yet, even though my IRS employee manual encouraged me to take graduate business and accounting courses, my Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my tuition deductions outrageously, disgustingly, falsely, and unethically arguing that the courses a) did not relate to my job duties, b) did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) were taken by me to get a job in the private sector, and d) were taken by me to qualify me for a new trade or business. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.bestcolleges.com/resources/companies-with-tuition-reimbursement/
GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Are America’s Top Colleges Letting in More Students From Low-Income Backgrounds? DD: Which colleges let you in and why? In 1966, UIC let me in because I had an ACT score of 24 and I had graduated in the upper 20% of my class. In 1969, NIU let me in because of my UIC record. In 1972, Loyola let me in because of my NIU record and my GMAT score. In 1976, DePaul let me in because of the aforesaid. In 1992, IIT let me in because of the aforesaid.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/are-americas-top-colleges-letting-in-more-students-from-low-income-backgrounds/
FED WEEK
— What to Know About the New Executive Core Qualifications. DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, they ever-increasingly made it clear that to keep your job, you not only had to be a Democrat, you had to be a minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. As I got older, they ever-increasingly wasted what I had learned earning a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and job-related professional license. As I got older, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions to get rid of me culminating in their forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.fedweek.com/careers/what-to-know-about-the-new-executive-core-qualifications/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
ONREC
— The New Talent Equation: Why Traditional Hiring Models Are Breaking Down in 2026. DD: What jobs did you apply for why did you get hired? GAO audits IRS. When I applied to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31 years old in 1980, I stressed that I had worked for IRS for almost 9 years, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year. I stressed that my knowledge of IRS would help GAO’s audits of IRS. I stressed that I had earned an MBA in 1976, passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, and almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, the Democrats who ran GAO did not want me to transfer because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. To stop me from transferring, they offered me a transfer only if I accepted a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars, a downgrade from GS-12 Step 5 to GS-9 Step 10. They anticipated/expected that I would not suffer that pay cut to transfer, but I did, and they were furious. They immediately did everything that they could to get rid of me. They gave me bad job assignments, unfair performance expectations, unfair performance appraisals. They delayed my promotions back to GS-12. Of course, they kept me off audits of IRS. To counter that, I completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and I became a licensed CPA in 1981. Finally, in 1986, the GAO manager who had arranged my transfer got back into power and assigned me to audits of IRS and promoted me to GS-13. But in 1987, because he had done that, they forced him to retire. In 1989, to get rid of me, they threw me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career. They gave me a very bad job assignment, very unfair performance expectations, and a very unfair performance appraisal. They ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance and made it clear that they would always do that. They would have taken even stronger adverse actions against me if my Congressman Henry Hyde had not come to my defense. Because they wanted to get rid of me, they were furious when I became a certified fraud examiner in 1990, government financial manager in 1994, financial services auditor in 1996, and forensic accountant in 1997 and when I earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997. They succeeded in forcing me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/the-new-talent-equation-why-traditional-hiring-models-are-breaking-down-in-2026
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For decades, many organizations relied on a familiar hiring formula: post a job description, review CVs, shortlist candidates based on degrees and experience, and hire locally. Today, that model is increasingly ineffective. . .Skills are replacing qualifications
One of the most important changes in recruitment is the shift toward skills-based hiring. Historically, employers often used academic qualifications or previous job titles as the primary filters when selecting candidates. In 2026, that approach is rapidly losing relevance. Instead, organizations are increasingly prioritizing demonstrable skills and capabilities. Industry research suggests that the vast majority of employers now view skills as a more reliable indicator of job performance than formal qualifications.)
March 15, 2026 Evening Edition
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— These are 8 races to watch in the 2026 Illinois primary election
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/these-are-8-races-to-watch-in-the-2026-illinois-primary-election-2/3908065/
EVANSTON ROUNDTABLE
— DD: Democrat ever-increasingly push more vice. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://evanstonroundtable.com/2026/03/15/here-in-evanston-marijuana-vs-hemp/
LAST WARD
— What happened to Chicago’s Irish machine?
https://www.thelastward.org/p/what-happened-to-chicagos-irish-machine
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— The Illinois State Bar Association evaluates candidates and makes recommendations. What if the Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) did that and I had ran for a government office? While 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 $100,069-$113,402/year, I earned an MBA and I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt. While I worked for GAO, the last 11 years of which at the GS-13 Step 1-10 Levels, currently $118,984-$154,682/year, earned master’s degrees in accounting, I passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt, I became a licensed CPA, I became a certified fraud examiner, government financial manager, financial services auditor, and forensic accountant, and I earned a master’s degree in finance. What if the ICPAS had came to my defense when my Democrat IRS superiors refused to promote me to GS-13? What if the ICPAS had came to my defense when my when my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut to transfer from IRS to GAO, b) delayed my promotions and refused to promote me to GS-14, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and e) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old? While I worked for GAO, I served on ICPAS’s membership committee for 9 years and I served on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants (AGA) Midwest Chapter for 13 years. What if ICPAS, Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), and AGA had came to my defense when my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors took the aforesaid adverse actions against me? ICPAS, IIA, and AGA would have came to my defense if I had been a Democrat, a minority, younger, or a veteran.
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does it mean to follow conservative principles? it means holding yourself personally responsible to make the most of your potential, to be a contributing member of society, to take care of your health, to avoid vices, to follow the rule of law, to get an education, to get jobs, to qualify yourself for better paying jobs, to live within your means, to get married and have children, to keep your marriage vows, to be financially prepared for retirement, to promote conservative principles, etc.
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS REVIEW
— Before the Unity Breakfast, Grassroots Tell IL GOP: Unite Behind the Governor Nominee and Fund the Fight. DD: I hope that all the Republican candidates in contested primary races will attend the Illinois Republican Party Unity Breakfast on Wednesday, March 18, at 11:00 AM, at Maggiano’s Little Italy in Naperville.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2026/03/before-the-unity-breakfast-grassroots-tell-il-gop-unite-behind-the-governor-nominee-and-fund-the-fight.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Hollywood trades faith, family and heroism for violence, sex and despair. Today’s movies should be excoriated not celebrated.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/15/hollywood-trades-faith-family-heroism-violence-sex-despair/
NEW YORK POST
— Obama Presidential Center wants 100 unpaid volunteers — while CEO Valerie Jarrett makes $740K
https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/us-news/obama-presidential-center-wants-100-unpaid-volunteers-as-valerie-jarrett-makes-740k/
— The far-left media sympathizes with extremists who come to the US to cause chaos
https://nypost.com/2026/03/14/opinion/the-far-left-media-sympathizes-with-extremists-who-come-to-the-us-to-cause-chaos/
FOX NEWS
— Mamdani defends wife when confronted on work with anti-Israel author, decries rhetoric. DD: Voters should assume that a candidate’s spouse has a tremendous impact on the candidate. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if the candidate’s spouse wants the following, if elected, the candidate will provide the following: dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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://noticias.foxnews.com/media/mamdani-defends-wife-when-confronted-work-anti-israel-author-decries-rhetoric
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— 2 former federal workers turned their firings into a movement to help hundreds of others
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2-former-federal-workers-turned-their-firings-into-movement-to-help-hundreds-of-others/
WFMD
— New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani defended his wife, Rama Duwaji, on Friday during a press conference when confronted about her work with an author who called the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, “spectacular,” and described Jewish Israelis as “rootless, soulless ghouls.” DD: Voters should assume that a candidate’s spouse has a tremendous impact on the candidate. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if the candidate’s spouse wants the following, if elected, the candidate will provide the following: dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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.wfmd.com/2026/03/15/mamdani-defends-wife-when-confronted-on-work-with-anti-israel-author-decries-rhetoric/
BUZZ FEED
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly have their operatives and their dupes demonize, denigrate, and condemn Erika Kirk and young White men.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/erika-kirk-facing-backlash-her-152325616.html
SAVING ADVICE
— Why Nearly 40% of U.S. Homeowners Are Mortgage‑Free — And Boomers Lead the Way
https://www.savingadvice.com/articles/2026/03/15/10725793_why-nearly-40-of-u-s-homeowners-are-mortgage-free-and-boomers-lead-the-way.html
PUBLIC INTEREST NETWORK
— Telling your personal story for a cause. How to use your personal experiences to connect and inspire action. DD: Obviously, I use my personal story to promote the conservative principles in the Republican Party platform. If I had not followed conservative principles, I would not have been able to a) work my way through college, b) earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license, c) buy a 6-year-old car when I was 16 and new cars when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc. d) buy a new townhome when I was 24, condos when I was 25 and 27, a home when I was 29, and have one built when I was 35, d) get married when I was 29, e) earn a Civil Service Retirement System pension, f) etc.
https://publicinterestnetwork.org/resources/telling-your-personal-story-for-a-cause/
March 15, 2026
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— What to know for Tuesday’s primary election
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/daywatch-special-edition-what-to-know-for-tuesdays-primary-election/
ABC7
— DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare because the Democrat Party platform discourages/destroys traditional marriage and family and personal responsibility. Under the Democrats, fewer and fewer and fewer Americans are becoming productive members of society.
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/18714014/
FOX32
— Chicago Teachers Union calls for school shutdown on May Day to protest Trump. DD: To send your child to a Chicago public school is to make your child hate not only Trump, but to hate all those who voted for him.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-teachers-union-school-shutdown-may-day-protest-trump
FOX ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Iran against America.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/two-weeks-into-war-with-iran-trump-has-been-knocked-back-on-his-political-heels/article_b59d2a98-3a3f-58a8-a215-ff64c2fba0d5.html
WCIA
— Illinois Secretary of State’s Office accepting applications for annual summer job program. DD: What summer jobs did you have? I did yard work and delivered newspapers in 1962, 1963, and 1964. I washed dishes in 1965. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivered mail in 1967, 1968, and 1969. While the aforesaid jobs provided me with Social Security credits starting in 1964, Civil Service Retirement System credits starting 1966, and money to buy cars and to pay for my college expenses, they did not provide me with valuable work experience. In today’s dollars, my Post Office job paid $19.57-$20.87/hour.
https://www.wcia.com/news/illinois-news/illinois-secretary-of-states-office-accepting-applications-for-annual-summer-job-program/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Positions are available at Secretary of State facilities in Chicago, the surrounding suburbs, Springfield and locations throughout downstate Illinois. High school students earn $17 per hour, while college and trade school students earn $18 per hour. Graduate and law school students in select contractual positions earn $25 per hour.)
EVANSTON NOW
— Four protesters charged with conspiracy to impede federal officers, including one congressional candidate on Tuesday’s Democratic primary ballot, are asking a federal judge to order the White House to turn over communications that may have played a role in bringing forth charges last October. DD: I should write about my Democrat superiors in the federal government who took adverse actions against me. I would focus on my Democrat GAO superiors who a) forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997, b) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, c) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, d) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, and e) forced me to take $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980. I would focus on my Democrat IRS superiors who a) never promoted me beyond GS-12, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and c) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. I would focus on my Democrat Post Office superiors who a) forced me to resign in 1969 and b) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. They would not have taken any of the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. Federal employees who are Republican, White, male, and/or nonveteran do not have Civil Service protections.
https://evanstonnow.com/ice-protesters-want-info-on-trump-admin-influence/
NAPERVILLE PATCH
— LTC (Ret) Michael Pierce: SAFE-T Act harming Illinois citizens while Bill Foster stays silent. Pierce urges repeal of SAFE-T Act.
https://patch.com/illinois/naperville/amp/33795965/ltc-ret-michael-pierce-safe-t-act-harming-illinois-citizens-while-bill-foster-stays-silent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiMaVWlTzoU
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— How interested in the March 17 primary are the voters in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? Do they know which offices are on the ballots in their precinct and who the candidates are? Which contested races are they most interested in and why? What do they know about the candidates in the contested races? What criteria do they use to pick candidates? How much weight do they give to endorsements and fundraising success? Have they voted already? Will they vote? Have they/will they cast a Republican or Democrat ballot and why? Do they know that casting a partisan ballot affiliates them with that party for 2 years? How successful have Democrat leaders been shouting that if you do not like what Trump has said or done, you should cast a Democrat ballot, and if not that, you should do not vote at all? I am very interested in the election results in my precinct. I spent many hours a) putting 800 mailing labels for the Republican and NA voters in my precinct and 400 return address labels on 400 DuPage County GOP envelopes, b) putting them into walk order, c) stuffing them with an unmarked sample ballot, a Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Voter Guide, and campaign literature the five Republican candidates who provided MTRO with their literature, d) dividing them into 5 batches, and e) hand-delivering them. I used my photocopier, paper, and ink to copy the unmarked 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. Only one registered hard-D voter in my precinct threatened me for what I did. – Dave Diersen
— Under Pritzker, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all the candidates on ballots in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district will be Democrats or RINOs. Anticipate/expect that if elected, sooner or later, they will promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Voters should assume that a candidate’s spouse and a candidate’s running mate have a tremendous impact on the candidate. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if the spouse or running mate wants dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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, if elected, the candidate will provide the aforesaid. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout a) that noncitizens have the “right” to come into America and to stay in America if they want to, b) that if you need/want/demand housing, food, clothing, medical care, education, transportation, etc., America must provide you with the aforesaid free, c) that no one really needs to make the most of their potential or become a contributing member of society, and d) that if you are minority, female, and/or younger, America must give you preference over those who are White, male, and/or older. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— When, from where, and why did your ancestors immigrate? I will never forget the diversity event that my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors held at which we were all forced to publicly disclose when, from where, and why your ancestors immigrated. Of course, I disclosed that all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany and that they immigrated to escape problems where they lived. Virtually all of my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. Virtually none in the office was conservative and Republican like me. Virtually all of them had parents, grandparents, etc. who had been killed by the Germans in WWI and/or WWII. I stressed that my grandfather on my father’s side fought the Germans in WWI and that my uncles on my mother’s side fought the Germans in WWII. From what I see, more and more and more of those who come to America do so a) because they want to take advantage of the tremendous benefits that Democrat and RINO leaders give them, b) because they want to turn America into their motherland, and/or c) because they want to convert everyone in America to their religion. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BIZ PAC REVIEW
— Mayor Mamdani creates LGBTQIA office, names dude in dress as head
https://www.bizpacreview.com/2026/03/14/mayor-mamdani-creates-lgbtqia-office-names-dude-in-dress-as-head-1627316/
DAILY CALLER
— Mamdani Asked About Wife Liking Social Media Posts That Celebrate Oct. 7 Attack. DD: Voters should assume that a candidate’s spouse and a candidate’s running mate have a tremendous impact on the candidate. Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, if the spouse or running mate wants dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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, if elected, the candidate will provide the aforesaid.
https://www.aol.com/articles/zohran-mamdani-asked-wife-apparently-203514576.html
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— Trump snarls GOP’s midterm message
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5783575-trump-midterm-message-affordability-iran-reconciliation/
REUTERS
— Vietnam votes as Communist Party fields nearly 93% of parliamentary candidates. DD: Under Pritzker, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all the candidates on ballots in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district will be Democrats or RINOs. Anticipate/expect that if elected, sooner or later, they will promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/communist-party-fields-nearly-93-candidates-vietnam-holds-parliament-elections-2026-03-15/
— The Florida Federation of College Republicans disbanded its University of Florida chapter and asked the school to remove it as a student organization due to alleged misconduct that includes antisemitism.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/republicans-close-university-of-florida-chapter-over-alleged-antisemitism/ar-AA1YCXXI
AOL
— What salary is needed to afford a house in Chicago in 2026? DD: In today’s dollars, my IRS Revenue Officer salary increased from $56,409/year to $68,999/year when I was 24 in 1972. That enabled me to buy a new townhome in University Park ( https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ ). My critics/opponents were furious about that. They were even more furious than when I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971. In my defense, the down payment for the townhome came from what I had earned working for IRS for 15 months and for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that and half of the money for the Corvette came from an insurance settlement, the rest was a loan. According to my critics/opponents, I would not have been able to buy that Corvette or that townhome a) if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft and b) if I had not been grossly overpaid by IRS. In my defense, I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970 and I completed a graduate evening business course at UIC in 1971 and four graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972. According to Zillow, the townhome is currently worth $87,100.
https://www.aol.com/articles/salary-afford-house-chicago-2026-191831571.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Housing affordability: Chicago: Income needed to afford a home: $81,624, Median household income: $98,878, Share of income required to afford monthly housing payments: 24.8%, Share of listings affordable for median earners: 65.5%)
MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS?ocid=iehp_%25#image=2
USA TODAY
— No Kings Protest planned March 28, 2026
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/no-kings-protest-march-28-164302445.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Trump targets housing affordability in new executive orders. DD: My critics/opponents were furious when I bought a new townhome when I was 24 in 1972. They were even more furious than when I bought a new 1972 Corvette in 1971. In my defense, the down payment for the townhome came from what I had earned working for IRS for 15 months and for a Firestone Store part-time for 18 months and full-time for 7 months before that and half of the money for the Corvette came from an insurance settlement, the rest was a loan. According to my critics/opponents, I would not have been able to buy that Corvette or that townhome a) if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft and b) if I had not been grossly overpaid by IRS. In 1972, my IRS Revenue Officer salary increased from $56,409/year to $68,999/year in today’s dollars. In my defense, I had earned a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970 and I completed a graduate evening business course at UIC in 1971 and four graduate evening business courses at Loyola in 1972.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/trump-targets-housing-affordability-in-new-executive-orders/ar-AA1YzwCf
KPBS
— Professor sees echoes of Vietnam, Iraq in Iran war rhetoric. DD: Many, most, virtually all, and at times all of my Democrat superiors and supervisors in the federal government were Democrat veterans who blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. They especially blamed me because I was a Republican, 1-A for the draft, and had avoided the draft with four student deferments and a financial hardship deferment. Further, they hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I was an unmitigated disgusting coward because I probably would not have been sent into combat because I could not run because I had a bone disease, because my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and because I had partial red/green color blindness.
https://www.kpbs.org/news/military/2026/03/10/san-diego-state-professor-sees-echoes-of-vietnam-iraq-in-iran-war-rhetoric
GOOD NEW PROJECT
— Personal Growth Today: Responsibility and Better Choices 2026 Personal growth in 2026 means owning choices: lead with emotional control, reduce decision fatigue, and build habits that stay steady under pressure.
https://goodmenproject.com/everyday-life-2/personal-growth-today-responsibility-and-better-choices-2026/
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.epi.org/blog/a-more-diverse-workforce-isnt-dei-motivated-discrimination-its-just-demographic-change-how-trump-is-weaponizing-the-eeoc-against-the-workers-it-was-built-to-protect/
COLLEGE RECRUITER
— Skills-based hiring: How employers should explain it to degree holders. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that what I learned earning the following a) was not job-related, b) did not maintain or improve my job skills, c) was done by me to get a job in the private sector, and/or d) was done by me to qualify myself for a new trade or business: a) a bachelor’s degree in management in 1970, b) an MBA in 1976, c) a CPA certificate in 1979, d) a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, e) a Certified Internal Auditor certificate in 1981, f) a CPA license in 1981, g) a Certified Fraud Examiner certificate in 1990, h) a Certified Government Financial Manager certificate in 1994, i) a Certified Financial Services Auditor certificate in 1996, j) a Forensic Accountant certificate in 1997, and k) a master’s degree in financial markets and trading in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2026/03/14/skills-based-hiring-how-employers-should-explain-it-to-degree-holders
INC.
— DD: Have you ever worked a second job? While I was an IRS employee, I pumping gasoline part-time for the Firestone Store in Chicago Heights for 18 months 1971-1972. The money I earned helped me a) buy a new 1972 Corvette in 1971, b) buy a new townhome in University Park in 1972, and c) pay for four graduate business evening courses at Loyola in 1972. During that time, my IRS salary increased from $56,409/year to $68,999/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.inc.com/chris-morris/5-fastest-growing-side-hustles-in-2026/91313118
MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE
— Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the United States. DD: When, from where, and why did your ancestors immigrate? All my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s from what is now Germany. They immigrated to escape problems where they lived. From what I see, more and more and more of those who come to America do so a) because they want to take advantage of the tremendous benefits that Democrat and RINO leaders give them, b) because they want to turn America into their motherland, and/or c) because they want to convert everyone in America to their religion.
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/frequently-requested-statistics-immigrants-and-immigration-united-states
POLITICO
— Trump administration highlighted ‘mass deportations’ for months. Not anymore.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/14/deportations-have-a-different-look-after-minneapolis-white-house-changes-rhetoric-on-immigration-00828758
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
AL JAZEERA
— Vietnam holds general election, 93% candidates from ruling Communist Party. Vietnamese elect members of parliament from a list of candidates almost exclusively fielded by the governing party. DD: Under Pritzker, anticipate/expect that sooner or later, all the candidates on ballots in Illinois, in your county, in your township, in your municipality, and in your school district will be Democrats or RINOs. Anticipate/expect that if elected, sooner or later, they will promote dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vice, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and/or 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.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/15/vietnam-holds-general-election-93-candidates-from-ruling-communist-party
EURASIA REVIEW
— Whose ‘Stolen’ Land Is It, Anyway? DD: If I had ran for a government office, my critics/opponents would attributed everything that I have to my benefitting from my ancestors on my father’s side homesteading a 240-acres in southeast Crete Township in 1854. They sold that land and bought 10-acres just north of downtown Crete in 1864. My grandfather had 1286 Wood Street built on that land in 1926. I lived in that home 1954-1972. I recently inherited that home and sold it.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/09032026-whose-stolen-land-is-it-anyway-oped/
INDEPENDENT
— ICE slashed its training hours for recruits during hiring blitz to fulfill Trump’s deportation demands. DD: The first 6 months that I worked for IRS as a Revenue Officer in 1971 was classroom training. While I worked for IRS 1971-1980 and for GAO 1980-1997, the agencies provided me with lots of classroom training. But the Democrats who ran IRS and GAO wasted what I learned form that training as well as what I learned a) earning a bachelor’s degree in management from NIU in 1970, b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979, d) earning a master’s degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, e) passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and f) earning a master’s degree in finance from IIT in 1997. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.aol.com/articles/ice-slashed-training-hours-recruits-174424228.html
March 14, 2026
NOTE: My newsletters starting last Thursday morning have had fewer links to articles in them because my very expensive doorstep home delivery subscriptions to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Naperville Sun newspapers have stopped.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) blame Republicans for the problems that Black students have and b) give more preference to Black students.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/14/chicago-public-schools-black-student-support-plan/
— State Department slashes fee to renounce US citizenship by 80% to $450. DD: From what I see, more and more and more of those who come to America do so a) because they want to take advantage of the tremendous benefits that Democrat and RINO leaders give them, b) because they want to turn America into their motherland, and/or c) because they want to convert everyone in America to their religion.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/13/renounce-us-citizenship-fee/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— CTU plans to join May 1 ‘no school, no work’ day of action, wants classes canceled. The union is asking the mayor and the school board to draw upon a state law that allows middle and high school students one excused absence per year to attend a “civic event.” DD: How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/03/12/chicago-teachers-union-plans-to-join-may-1-no-school-no-work-day-of-action-wants-classes-canceled
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/03/13/chicago-trump-abughazaleh-justice-department-broadview-midway-blitz-ice
— Independent campaign expenditures surged big time in state races. Total spending, including the race for the open state comptroller position, was at $5.5 million for the calendar year.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/03/13/independent-campaign-expenditures-state-races-elections-rich-miller
DAILY HERALD
— DD: Political parties should have the power to stop candidates from running for offices as members of their party. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Candidates can run as Independents.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260313/us-congress-politics/congressional-candidate-apologizes-for-suggesting-attack-on-catholic-school-in-satirical-video/
CITIES 92.9
— Early voting, vote-by-mail numbers trend higher as Illinois primary approaches. DD: How many have voted so far 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.cities929.com/2026/03/13/early-voting-vote-by-mail-numbers-trend-higher-as-illinois-primary-approaches/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Early voting numbers are trending up in Illinois before the state’s primary elections Tuesday. Illinois State Board of Elections Public Information Officer Matt Dietrich told The Center Square on Friday that about 250,000 early votes had been cast, slightly higher than the state reported before the 2022 midterm. Dietrich said he is seeing a strong response on vote by mail. “In 2022 we had about 275,000 vote-by-mail ballots cast for the primary. We’re already at 290,000, and we’ll have quite a few of those coming in now and up until two weeks after Election Day that will still be added to that count,” Dietrich said. Dietrich said the state does not track partisan turnout in its pre-election reporting, but Illinois generally sees more Democratic ballots than Republican ballots in primaries. “I would expect that to continue this year, mainly because, first of all, you have a very hotly-contested U.S. Senate race,” Dietrich said. Dietrich said open congressional seats would also draw voters. The Chicago Board of Elections reported more than 123,000 ballots received as of Thursday night, up from under 71,000 five days before the 2022 primary. The Chicago board would not provide a breakdown of votes by party without a Freedom of Information Act request.)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Max Solomon Needs Your Vote to Become thee Republican Candidate for State Treasurer
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/03/13/max-solomon-needs-your-vote-to-become-thee-republican-candidate-for-state-treasurer/
CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Early voting, vote-by-mail numbers trend higher as Illinois primary approaches. DD: How many have voted so far 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.aol.com/articles/early-voting-vote-mail-numbers-200000941.html
ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— IFA’s 2026 Primary Election Endorsements
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/03/ifas-2026-primary-election-endorsements/
ILINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago Teachers Union demands ‘no work, no school’ May 1 shutdown. The union wants teachers and students to skip school for rallies and “mass resistance training.” DD: How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-teachers-union-demands-no-work-no-school-may-1-shutdown/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: 1. High absenteeism is already a problem for CPS students, teachers. . .2. Most CPS students can’t read at grade level. . .3. CTU is using this “holiday” with communist ties to push its radical agenda on kids. . .4. CTU wants the mayor and school board to grant an “excused absence” for teachers and students May 1. . .5. Just 27.5% of Chicagoans have a favorable opinion of the union.)
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
BREITBART
— Supermajority Support for Fair Worksite Enforcement of Immigration Laws. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/03/13/poll-shows-supermajority-support-for-workplace-enforcement/amp/
DAILY CALLER
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites, and especially Whites who are conservative, Republican, American, 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.aol.com/news/jasmine-crockett-potential-replacement-congress-215459627.html
— DD: For Democrat leaders, illegals are future Democrats.
https://www.aol.com/news/gop-gov-kevin-stitt-says-151706740.html
DAILY WIRE
— Hegseth Declares War On Wokeness In Military Schools, Launches 90-Day Review
https://www.dailywire.com/news/rip-em-out-hegseth-declares-war-on-wokeness-in-military-schools-launches-90-day-review
FEDERALIST
— Hegseth Orders Task Force To Probe DEI Indoctrination At America’s War Colleges
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/13/hegseth-orders-task-force-to-probe-dei-indoctrination-at-americas-war-colleges/
LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Local Officials Double Down on Policies That Block ICE
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/tompkins-county-officials-double-down-block-ice-sanctuary-policy
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
REUTERS
— Backlash to Trump immigration policies fuels Illinois primary
https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW384913032026RP1/?chan=hp-us-2024-01-04
MSN
— Personal responsibility. DD: My parents and my teachers encouraged conservatism and personal responsibility. That put me on tack to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/i-m-sick-and-tired-of-hearing-my-grandkids-whine-about-how-the-system-isn-t-fair-whatever-happened-to-taking-personal-responsibility/ss-AA1XEFuS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success in promoting LGBTQ, that is, their success in destroying traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/why-men-are-walking-away-from-dating-and-the-12-hard-truths-women-need-to-hear/ss-AA1XqQEm
AOL
— Vance says universities are racially discriminating against whites and Asians
https://www.aol.com/vice-president-jd-vance-says-152536316.html
NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/magazine/jb-pritzker-interview.html
— Will Another Black Woman Join the Senate? This Messy Primary Is Set to Decide. Two Black female candidates may split Democratic primary voters in Illinois, and anger is growing at well-funded efforts to widen the divide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/us/politics/illinois-senate-primary-stratton-kelly-krishnamoorthi.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Negative campaigning. DD: Far too many races turn negative. I should write about what my critics/opponents did to defeat me when I ran for the open Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer position in 2004.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/09/20/trump-negative-campaigning/
— Pentagon tightens control of Stars and Stripes after blasting it as ‘woke’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/03/13/pentagon-memo-stars-stripes/
— Discrimination against young White men was an open secret in hiring. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by earning a high school diploma and passing the postal employment test. I qualified myself for the IRS job by earning a bachelor’s degree in business and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/21/diversity-hiring-white-men/
— AI-powered hiring tools favor black and female job candidates over white and male applicants. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by earning a high school diploma and passing the postal employment test. I qualified myself for the IRS job by earning a bachelor’s degree in business and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/business/ai-hiring-tools-favor-black-female-candidates-over-whites-males/
— Boomers are staying in the job market as Gen Z struggles to break through. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they ever-increasingly got rid of their older employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran to make way for their younger employees who were Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/14/workers-age-new-jobs-baby-boomers/
USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to stop voter fraud.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/03/14/trump-republicans-congress-save-act-elections-voters/89118447007/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote antisemitism and then blame it on Republicans.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/13/temple-israel-synagogue-attack-michigan-antisemitism/89134399007/
BLOOMBERG
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers want to hire Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, and/or younger.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/features/2024-07-29/white-men-the-most-likely-to-get-hired-even-with-dei-finds-research
— Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did. DD: Because of ever-increasing pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young females, 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 ever-increasingly became worthless.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/?embedded-checkout=true
BUSINESS INSIDER
— Public Sector vs. Private Sector. DD: I spent almost 30 years working in the public sector. In today’s dollars, my ending salary in 1997 was $154,682/year. I should write about my critics/opponents in the private sector. According to them, I was grossly overpaid and if my career had been in the private sector, I never would have earned as much money as I did. In my defense, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree (management), three job-related master’s degrees (business, accounting, and finance), six job-related professional certifications (accounting, internal auditing, fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting), and a job-related professional license (CPA). In my defense, I spent the last 18 years of public sector career working for a federal agency (GAO) that shank from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees because of Republican-led budget cuts. The agency was almost always under promotion freezes.
https://www.businessinsider.com/pros-cons-working-public-sector-private-sector-2025-6
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— 7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process. DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by earning a high school diploma and passing the postal employment test. I qualified myself for the IRS job by earning a bachelor’s degree in business and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt. Because of ever-increasing pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young females, 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 ever-increasingly became worthless.
https://hbr.org/2017/06/7-practical-ways-to-reduce-bias-in-your-hiring-process
HIRING LAB
— Educational Requirements Are Gradually Disappearing From Job Postings. Amid growing support for skills-first hiring practices, employers are becoming less likely to require formal education credentials for jobs. DD: Because of ever-increasing pressure to hire, retain, and promote young minorities and young females, 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 ever-increasingly became worthless.
https://www.hiringlab.org/2024/02/27/educational-requirements-job-postings/
HR EXECUTIVE
— EEOC puts Fortune 500 on notice over DEI. DD: When I graduated from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21 in 1970, I applied to many fortune 500 firms. Only Firestone Stores offered me a job, and it was for a job that really did not require a college degree. All the firms that I applied to were under tremendous pressure from EEOC to hire minorities, females, and veterans. I was not a minority, female, or veteran. To make matters worse, potential employers saw me as being Vietnam War draft bait. They did not believe that my financial hardship draft deferment application would be approved. Beyond that, my GPA was not that great because I had spent far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying to work my way through college.
https://hrexecutive.com/from-nike-to-coca-cola-eeoc-puts-fortune-500-on-notice-over-dei/
JD SUPRA
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers want to hire Democrats and RINOs who are minority, female, and/or younger.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/new-study-shows-ai-resume-screeners-4832175/
CPA JOURNAL
— Glass Ceiling Shattered? Audit Partner Gender Diversity Within Accounting Firms. 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 in 1976 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.cpajournal.com/2026/03/13/glass-ceiling-shattered/
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA
— Melt ICE, Stop War, Build Labor. DD: How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://www.dsausa.org/news/mar2026_npc_newsletter/
LA PROGRESSIVE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame those who have demographics that vote for Republicans for the problems that those who vote for Democrats have.
https://www.laprogressive.com/hypocrisy-or-hope/more-equal-than-others
FINANCIAL CONTENT
— Remote Jobs for College Students: Best Online Work Options in 2026. DD: I worked my way through college by delivering mail for the Park Forest Post Office. That provided me with a) money for my education expenses and two new cars, b) almost 3 years of Civil Service Retirement System credit, and c) almost 3 years of Social Security credit. But it did not provide me with career-building work experience and it harmed my GPA. I worked far too many hours delivering mail instead of studying.
https://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/article/globeprwire-2026-3-13-remote-jobs-for-college-students-best-online-work-options-in-2026
ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly demonize, denigrate, and condemn Whites, and especially Whites who are conservative, Republican, American, 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.epi.org/blog/weve-been-here-before-and-we-know-what-comes-next-white-supremacy-has-always-been-used-to-usher-in-massive-economic-inequality/
DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrats and RINOs use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/forms/sign-the-petition-denounce-the-trump-administrations-assault-on-affirmative-action
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— How the Mexican flag became the symbol of the LA protests
https://www.aol.com/mexican-flag-became-symbol-la-184516132.html
— As the war in Iran ramps up, Pete Hegseth orders ‘woke review’ of military colleges nationwide
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hegseth-woke-review-military-colleges-iran-b2938216.html
— Stephen Miller actively hiring young federal workers loyal to Trump. DD: My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.aol.com/articles/stephen-miller-actively-hiring-young-181111069.html
CAMBRIDGE CORE
— How voters respond to negative campaign messaging. DD: Far too many races turn negative. I should write about what my critics/opponents did to defeat me when I ran for the open Milton Township Republican Organization Treasurer position in 2004.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-political-research/article/personal-attacks-or-policy-debates-how-voters-respond-to-negative-campaign-messaging/F5FFB75ED2A130C7924CF6E763F233E0
INTERNATIONAL SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE
— The Case for a Nationwide General Strike on May 1. DD: How soon will the Democrat Party officially change its name to the Socialist Party?
https://internationalsocialist.net/2026/03/united-states-the-case-for-a-nationwide-general-strike-on-may-1/
FROM OTHER SOURCES
AUTO GUIDE
— The Middle Class Is Dropping Out Of The New Car Market. DD: Back in the good old days, I was able to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), a poor man’s GTO, with money I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage part-time for 15 months and full-time for 3 months.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto/auto-news/the-middle-class-is-dropping-out-of-the-new-car-market-44630815
March 13, 2026
NOTE: This newsletter and yesterday’s newsletters have fewer links to articles in them because my very expensive home delivery subscriptions to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Naperville Sun newspapers suddenly stopped. I am paying $100/month for doorstep delivery.
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
NBC5
— Hundreds of workers across Illinois to be laid off in coming months, WARN Act shows
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/hundreds-of-workers-across-illinois-to-be-laid-off-in-coming-months-warn-act-shows/3906996/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Chicago Teachers Union’s May 1 walkout puts politics ahead of education
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/13/chicago-teachers-union-activism-chicago-public-schools-strike-chicago-education/
— Muslim-run food pantry in Glendale Heights helps neighbors but faces halal meat shortage during Ramadan
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/13/food-pantry-ramadan/
— DuPage board may give $2.5 million to Loaves & Fishes hub expansion. DD: Soon, under the Democrats, everyone in Illinois will be a) handing out welfare and/or b) receiving welfare.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/12/dupage-board-loaves-hub-expansion-naperville-aurora/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Chicago police, other agencies take in millions by seizing cars, cash even without an arrest or conviction. DD: To collect delinquent federal taxes, as an IRS Revenue Officer 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year, I had the power and I used that power to seize wages, bank accounts, paychecks, vehicles, real estate, receivables, business equipment, etc. See Google AI at: https://www.google.com/search?q=IRS+%22revenue+officer%22+powers
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2026/03/13/civil-asset-forfeiture-chicago-police-department-cook-county-property-seizures
— DD: Democrat leaders exist to promote more hatred against Trump.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/03/13/trump-economy-jobs-doge-layoffs-wages-tariffs-immigration-marc-morial
DAILY HERALD
— Election fatigue? It’s real, but tuning out is not the answer. DD: My critics/opponents do not want anyone to read my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want everyone to read only what they put out. They destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260313/editorials/daily-herald-opinion-election-fatigue-its-real-but-tuning-out-is-not-the-answer/
— Service to unincorporated areas an issue in Democratic primary for Kane County sheriff
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260312/local-politics/service-to-unincorporated-areas-an-issue-democratic-primary-for-kane-county-sheriff/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— City Council budget coalition blocks local video gambling bans. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-ballys-brandon-johnson-2026-budget-20260312/
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/03/13/its-a-3-way-senate-headache-00827611
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— In Illinois, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) demonize, denigrate, and condemn everything that Trump says or does and b) shout at Illinois voters that if you do not like what Trump says or does, cast a Democrat primary ballot, but if not that, do not vote at all. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What motivates you to help elect candidates? For me, it is their promise, their demonstrated ability, and their track record to defend and advance the Republican Party platform, including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. From what I see, what motivates far too many to help elect candidates is their promise, their demonstrated ability, and their track record to use government to give more preference to those who share their demographics. Democrat elected officials ever-increasingly use government to give more preference to those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-rich, non-married, LGBTQ, 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
— How many candidates on the Republican primary ballot in your precinct are going to lose March 17? In my precinct, three of the four governor candidates will lose. Five of the six U.S. Senate candidates will lose. One of the two Secretary of State candidates will lose. One of the two DuPage County Sheriff candidates will lose. If the future repeats the past, my critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout at the losing candidates that me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters caused them to lose. Further, my critics/opponents will hint/imply/argue/shout at the winning candidates that if they lose on November 3, it will be because of me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Should I name my critics/opponents? Should I list the adverse actions that they have had their operatives and their dupes take against me to stop me from sending out my newsletter and to stop everyone from reading my newsletters? My critics/opponents destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— On March 3, 2026 DuPage County Clerk Jean Kaczmarek issued a news release titled “ICE Go Away, Do Not Even Try. You Will Fail!” SEE: https://www.dupagecounty.gov/county_clerk/ice_go_away__do_not_even_try__you_will_fail__1655.php What is the status? What exactly will happen if someone dials 630-407-5634? Kaczmarek demonizes, denigrates, and condemns ICE, military, and federal agents. But to do that is demonize, denigrate, and condemn not only Trump, but to demonize, denigrate, and condemn all Republicans. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a registered Republican voter, I am an elected Republican Precinct Committeeman, I am the GOPUSA Illinois Editor, and my wife is an election judge. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What has your Republican Precinct Committeeman done to increase the number of Republican ballots cast in your precinct in the March 17 primary? I spent many hours a) putting 800 mailing labels and 400 return address labels on 400 DuPage County GOP envelopes, b) putting them into walk order, c) stuffing them with an unmarked sample ballot, a Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) Voter Guide, and campaign literature the five candidates who provided MTRO with their literature, d) dividing them into 5 batches, and e) hand-delivering them. I used my photocopier, paper, and ink to copy the unmarked 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois’ open U.S. Senate race tests Gov. Pritzker’s influence ahead of possible presidential bid
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/mar/12/illinois-open-us-senate-race-tests-jb-pritzkers-influence-ahead/
FEDERALIST
— Senate RINOs Are Squandering Golden Opportunity To Fix Cracked Election System
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/13/senate-rinos-are-squandering-golden-opportunity-to-fix-cracked-election-system/
FOX NEWS
— Trump-backed affordable housing overhaul clears Senate, while House GOP raises red flags. DD: I was able to buy a new townhome when I was 24 in 1972 because it was affordable. SEE: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ According to Zillow, it is worth only $87,100 today.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-backed-affordable-housing-overhaul-clears-senate-while-house-gop-raises-red-flags
NEW AMERICA
— Rural Residents Turn to Community Colleges for Bachelor’s Degrees. DD: When I was in high school, my being able to commute from my parent’s home in Crete to classes at UIC motivated to earn enough money washing dishes to buy a new car to do that in. In May of 1966, I 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 ), a poor man’s GTO.
https://www.newamerica.org/insights/rural-residents-turn-to-community-colleges-for-bachelors-degrees/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CNN
— Largest housing affordability package in a generation passes in the Senate. DD: I was able to buy a new townhome when I was 24 in 1972 because it was affordable. SEE: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/774-Sunset-Ct-5-University-Park-IL-60484/5451474_zpid/ According to Zillow, it is worth only $87,100 today.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/business/housing-affordability-bill-senate
NEW YORK TIMES
— What Can’t You Afford That You Believe You Should Be Able To? DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/opinion/middle-class-americans-affordable-finances.html
WASHINGTON POST
— Rep. Clyburn, 85, to seek reelection amid Democrats’ generational debate. The announcement from Clyburn, who turns 86 in July, comes as younger Democrats are challenging the old guard in primaries throughout the country. DD: When I was 25 years old in 1974, my Democrat IRS superiors wrote me as being too old to be promoted to GS-13. I finally did make GS-13 when I was 38, but not until after I a) earned an MBA when I was 27, b) passed the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, c) transferred to GAO and earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, and d) passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt and became a licensed CPA when I was 32.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/12/jim-clyburn-reelection-decision/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— JB Pritzker’s Political Brand Is at Stake—in a Race He’s Not Even Running In. Illinois’s governor has given at least $5 million to a group. backing his lieutenant governor and upsetting the Congressional Black Caucus
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/illinois-senate-primary-jb-pritzker-de0600ce
— The Forgotten 444 Days in Tehran. In 1979 Iranians held 52 Americans hostage for more than a year.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-forgotten-444-days-in-tehran-f3ec0360
— New York City’s $30 Minimum-Wage Proposal Rattles Small Businesses. DD: I did not start earning $27/hour in today’s dollars until 10 months after I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business from NIU in 1970.
https://www.wsj.com/business/hospitality/new-york-city-minimum-wage-800eb107
NATIONAL TODAY
— Illinois Gubernatorial Candidate Targets High School Superintendent Salaries. Ted Dabrowski calls for consolidating school districts to reduce administrative costs and improve education outcomes.
https://nationaltoday.com/us/il/dalton-city/news/2026/03/13/illinois-gubernatorial-candidate-targets-high-school-superintendent-salaries/
COLLEGE RECRUITER
— Is the federal hiring freeze really over? DD: The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. I qualified myself for the Post Office job by earning a high school diploma and passing the postal employment test. I qualified myself for the IRS job by earning a job-related bachelor’s degree and passing the Federal Service Entrance Examination. I qualified myself for the GAO job by earning an MBA and passing the CPA examination on my first attempt.
https://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2026/03/12/is-the-federal-hiring-freeze-really-over-5-signs-your-agency-is-opening-up
INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Most Low-Income Students Find Bachelor’s Degrees Unaffordable. DD: Back in the good old days, back in 1970, I was able to earn enough money to graduate debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in management and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE. I worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office for 25 months and full-time for 9 months. In today’s dollars, my salary increased from $19.57/hour to $20.87/hour.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/college-experience/2025/09/23/bachelors-degrees-unaffordable-most-low-income
POLITICO
— Democrats are trouncing Republicans in state elections since Trump took office. Voter turnout in state elections over the last 14 months has Republicans concerned as the midterms approach.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/12/dems-flip-28-state-legislature-seats-in-trump-2-0-00827125
WARDS AUTO
— New-car affordability challenges may drive used-vehicle demand. DD: Back in the good old days, I was able to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ), a poor man’s GTO, with money I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage part-time for 15 months and full-time for 3 months.
https://www.wardsauto.com/news/new-car-affordability-challenges-may-drive-used-vehicle-demand/814450/