June 30, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

 ABC7
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders praise mail-in ballot decision.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/supreme-court-mail-ballots-ruling-illinoisans-praise-decision-affirming-election-administration-largely-state-control/19415869/

FOX32
— DD: Ever-increasingly, to drive Trump down, Democrat leaders drive America down.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/american-pride-reaches-lowest-level-quarter-century-poll

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are causing all the problems that Blacks are having, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/30/opinion-evanston-reparations-housing-discrimination/

DAILY HERALD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260630/syndicated-columnists/days-of-disgrace-america-tells-refugees-to-pound-sand/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Chicago told us it was insolvent. Then it made the problem larger.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/commentary/ccb-pension-crisis-constitutional-amendment-oped-20260626/
— DD: Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly crow about their success to destroying Illinois Republicans. I was born in 1948. Because I have always been a Republican, if I had been born later, I never would have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-hinz-election-threats-250-anniversary-democracy-20260629/
— Illinois joins states’ lawsuit to kill Medicaid work requirements. DD: Democrat leaders do everything they can to put more people on Medicaid.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/health-care/ccb-illinois-lawsuit-medicaid-work-requirements-20260629/

INDIANA CAPITAL CHRONICLE
— Teen employment teaches responsibility and builds confidence. DD: I did yard work 1962-1964. I delivered newspapers 1962-1966. I washed dishes 1964-1966. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline in 1966. I delivering mail 1966-1969. I worked on an automotive assembly line in 1970.
https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2023/05/11/time-for-a-real-job-teen-employment-is-an-easy-win-win/

FOX ILLINOIS
— Half of states sue Trump administration over its strict interpretation of Medicaid work rules. DD: Democrat leaders do everything they can to put more people on Medicaid.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/half-of-states-sue-trump-administration-over-its-strict-interpretation-of-medicaid-work-rules/article_bae07ffb-9825-5a55-baeb-43822e9d5467.html

NEWS CHANNEL 20
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.newschannel20.com/news/national-day-of-action-highlighting-us-diversity-and-rally-for-equality/article_6d939b08-611b-4c39-8352-a575b452d4d1.html

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly fight efforts to fight voter fraud.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/30/illinois-keeps-counting-as-trump-fumes-00981156

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/29/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-546/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Illinois lawmaker promotes welfare water aid bill as critics raise concerns over federal expansion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_df353254-f66d-45d8-a570-b7096eeb805f.html

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Google AI, “If you can’t beat them, join them” is a popular proverb meaning that when you cannot defeat a competitor or opponent, it is often more practical to stop fighting them and instead cooperate, adopt their methods, or join their side.”  My critics/opponents who state that they are Republican are Democrat Lite. Constructively, they have joined the Democrat Party. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Most Commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They ever-increasingly destroy those like me who promote the aforesaid planks. To get rid of me, they have taken many big adverse actions against me since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Far-left candidates expose Democratic Party’s radical turn.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/29/far-left-candidates-expose-democratic-partys-radical-turn/

AMERICAN THINKER
— LGBTQ ‘pride’ destroys families.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/lgbtq-pride-destroys-another-family/

CENTER SQUARE
— Federal workforce shrank by 256,000 in 2025. DD: While worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, they used Gingrich-led budget cuts to cut the agency from more than 6,000 employees to less than 3,000 employees. Virtually all the employees they got rid of were Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_ed41f1cd-509e-4ff8-b0e1-344ff411f2f9.html

DAILY CALLER
— Inside Classroom Battle That Will Decide If Freedom Survives Next Generation. DD: My parents and teachers promoted personal responsibility. That put me on track to earn 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://dailycaller.com/2026/06/29/rooke-texas-state-board-education-bible-english-literature-american-founding/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: American liberty, as described in the Declaration of Independence, rests on the idea that rights come from a Creator and that people are capable of self-government under higher moral standards. Without basic exposure to the Christian principles that informed those ideas, students struggle to see why restraint, personal responsibility, and conscience matter more than raw individual desire. Even more worrisome is the rise in thought that our rights are not endowed by our Creator but by the government.)

FEDERALIST
— What Part Of ‘The Right To Keep And Bear Arms’ Do Democrat States Not Understand?
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/29/what-part-of-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-do-democrat-states-not-understand/

FOX NEWS
— Conservatives revolt after Trump-appointed Barrett joins liberals in ‘shockingly wrong’ mail ballot ruling. The 5-4 decision held that federal law sets no standard for when ballots must be received to be counted.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/conservatives-revolt-after-trump-appointed-barrett-joins-liberals-shockingly-wrong-mail-ballot-ruling
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/actress-leslie-jones-declares-traditional-marriage-legalized-slavery-may-well-involve-whip-chains

LAW ENFORCEMENT TODAY
— Black Communities and Firearm Violence.
https://lawenforcementtoday.com/new-data-on-black-communities-and-firearm-violence

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

NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.ncregister.com/cna/is-the-era-of-the-traditional-family-over-in-america-survey-suggests-yes

REAL CLEAR INVESTIGATIONS
— News of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated.
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2026/06/30/alive_and_kicking_news_of_wokes_death_is_greatly_exaggerated_1191570.html

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Meet Trump’s New ICE Director Nominee, Who Was Patrolling Oklahoma Highways for Illegals Just Months Ago. DD: How successful is/was your career? My critics/opponents have always stressed that I only made GS-13 Step 10, currently $154,682/year, and that I was forced to retire when I was 49 in 1997 a) even though I became a licensed CPA, b) even though I became a Certified Forensic Accountant, Financial Services Auditor, Government Financial Manager, Internal Auditor, and Public Accountant, and c) even though I earned master’s degrees in finance, accounting, and business. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that the aforesaid proves that I am an extremely bad person if not even worse things.
https://www.westernjournal.com/meet-trumps-new-ice-director-nominee-patrolling-oklahoma-highways-illegals-just-months-ago/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are causing all the problems that Blacks are having, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://www.wvua23.com/news/some-paid-the-ultimate-price-to-enact-voting-rights-their-survivors-see-america-turning-backward/article_6dd16ade-b2b2-5711-ad0c-84ab1b1057d3.html

CBS NEWS
— Supreme Court expands presidential firing power. DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-ftc-slaughter-humphreys-executor/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/opinion/heritage-foundation-women.html
— The Purging of General Donahue Is a Breaking Point. DD: My critics/opponents had no problem with if not applauded a) my Democrat superiors in the federal government purging me, b) leaders of the Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Milton Township Republican Organization, and other political organizations purging me, c) leaders of Illinois, DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton and other governments purging me, d) leaders of TAPRROT Republicans of Illinois, Illinois Center Right Coalition, and other conservative organizations purging me, and e) leaders of religious organizations purging me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/opinion/hegseth-donahue-military-purge.html

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: To badmouth Trump, Democrats ever-increasingly badmouth America.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/06/29/freedom-trucks-offer-simplified-upbeat-story-americas-founding/
— DD: ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are politically biased.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/06/24/are-ai-chatbots-like-chatgpt-politically-biased-we-tested-them/

USA TODAY
— Planning to work in retirement? Don’t count on it. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and made it impossible for me to find work appropriate for my work experience, professional license, professional certifications, and education.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/06/20/most-americans-plan-to-work-in-retirement-few-actually-do/90603686007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— America Is the Land of Endless Choice, Except in Politics. There’s a case to be made for a two-party system, but what do you do when your party loses its mind? DD: RINO leaders want conservatives like me to leave the Republican Party.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/america-is-the-land-of-endless-choice-except-in-politics-abea9604
— Trump Should Be Able to Fire Junior Employees, Too. Civil-service protections keep the president and the people from holding the government accountable. DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-should-be-able-to-fire-junior-employees-too-71204356

MORNINGSTAR
— Think you are facing age discrimination? Don’t get bitter, do this. DD: All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were younger than me, minority, female, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.morningstar.com/news/marketwatch/20260604230/think-you-are-facing-age-discrimination-dont-get-bitter-do-this

FORTUNE
— The Supreme Court upholds Fed independence by saving Lisa Cook’s job. DD: Have adverse actions been taken against you “for cause?” My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that GAO forced me to retire “for cause” when I was 49 in 1997. They stress the adverse actions that my GAO superiors had taken against me previously. They had always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance. They had delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. They had forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. Previously, my IRS superiors had never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974. Previously, my Post Office superiors had forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. My critics/opponents have always ignored/dismissed/belittled the fact a) that I have always been a Republican, b) that all my GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors who took the aforesaid actions against me were Democrats, c) that I become an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged my Democrat GAO superiors with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation since 1988, and d) that I had ever-increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation. My critics/opponents have always hinted/implied/argued/shouted that I must have been guilty of “gross malfeasance or negligence” or even worse things because the many big aforesaid adverse actions were taken against me even though I had earned job-related professional certifications in 1997, 1996, 1994, 1990, 1981, and 1979, I had earned job-related master’s degrees in 1997, 1981, and 1976, and had earned a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://fortune.com/2026/06/29/supreme-court-fed-independence-lisa-cook-us-debt-treasury-bonds/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Justices ruled 5–4 on Monday that President Donald Trump was wrong to try ousting Fed Governor Lisa Cook last August because she didn’t receive due process. Trump’s bid to fire her—the first such attempt ever—came as he was demanding the Fed lower interest rates, despite data showing inflation remained elevated, the result, in part, of his tariffs. While Fed officials can be removed “for cause,” which has been interpreted to mean gross malfeasance or negligence, Cook was accused of committing mortgage fraud before joining the Fed. She has denied the charges and said she wasn’t given the chance to rebut the claims. Lower courts agreed with her. “Under our precedents, Cook was entitled to notice and some opportunity to respond prior to her termination,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote. He also asserted the Trump administration’s argument that a president can remove a member of the Fed “at any time, for any reason, without any notice before, and without any judicial check” would render the “for-cause protection into little more than at-will employment.” Protecting the Fed from the whims of a president is vital to the central bank’s duty to set monetary policy free of political considerations, Roberts explained.)

FEDERAL RETIREMENT
— OPM Proposes Eliminating Time-in-Grade Rule. DD: My critics/opponents have always been furious that my IRS manager (Dave) promoted me as soon as I was eligible to GS-9 (currently $68,999/year) when I was 23 in 1972, to GS-11 (currently $83,483/year) when I was 24, and to GS-12 (currently $100,059/year) when I was 25. My Democrat IRS superiors got rid of Dave for doing that. According to them, those promotions should have been given to my Democrat IRS coworkers who were minority, female, younger, and/or veteran. Dave was impressed that I was taking graduate evening business courses at Loyola. None of my coworkers did anything like that.
https://www.myfederalretirement.com/eliminating-time-in-grade-federal-employees/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: For decades, one of the most predictable aspects of a federal career has been the time-in-grade (TIG) requirement. In most cases, General Schedule (GS) employees have had to spend 52 weeks at their current grade before becoming eligible for promotion to the next higher grade. However the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has proposed eliminating the federal government’s time-in-grade requirement for competitive service employees. If finalized, agencies could promote qualified employees based on their abilities and qualifications instead of waiting for a one-year clock to expire. For some employees, this could mean faster career advancement and higher lifetime earnings. For agencies, it could provide greater flexibility in recruiting and retaining talented employees. However, it also raises questions about consistency and fairness in promotion decisions. Key Takeaways. If this rule becomes final: The one-year time-in-grade requirement would be eliminated. Employees would still have to meet all qualification and specialized experience requirements.
Promotions would not become automatic. Agencies would have greater flexibility in deciding when employees are ready for promotion.
Faster promotions could increase lifetime earnings, TSP contributions, and potentially a federal employee’s High-3 average salary used to calculate a FERS pension.)

NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused all the problems that Blacks have had, are causing all the problems that Blacks are having, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://nationalcenter.org/ncppr/2026/06/29/what-americas-250th-anniversary-means-for-black-america/

BROOKINGS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-unfinished-work-of-the-civil-rights-movement/

BRITANNICA
— Bakke decision, ruling in which, on June 28, 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court declared affirmative action constitutional but invalidated the use of racial quotas. DD: I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980 and GAO 1980-1997. They rejected Bakke. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bakke-decision

VANGUARD
— DD: What do your critics/opponents hold you responsible for? My critics/opponents hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for all the defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000. They hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for the failure of efforts to directly elect Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee members. They hold me and my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters responsible for their problems, for your problems, for my problems, and for everyone’s problems. They blame my advocacy for conservative principles and for planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://davisvanguard.org/2026/01/personal-responsibility-vs-systemic-issues/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

CATHOLIC WORLD REPORT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout that GOD rejects the concepts of countries, borders, and the rule of law. They ever-increasing hint/imply/argue/shout that GOD condemns Trump and that GOD condemns those voted for Trump, and especially those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/06/29/procession-urges-dignity-and-respect-for-migrants-at-border-crossing/

June 29, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— The Great American State Fair kicks off in Washington in honor of the nation’s 250th anniversary.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/27/great-american-state-fair-kickoff/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD:  — DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/29/chicago-ice-venezuela-immigration/
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/29/column-pete-hegseth-military-diversity-segregation-page/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion. Why are there so many unwanted pregnancies?
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/28/steinberg-abortion-roe-wade-technology-pill

— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES & CHICAGO TRIBUNE & ABC7 & NBC5 & CBS2 & WGN9 & WAND TV & BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family. LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders fail/refuse to speak out against the ever-increasing Democrat promotion of LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/lgbtq/2026/06/28/55th-annual-chicago-pride-parade-lake-view
https://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/2026/06/29/trump-ended-crisis-lifeline-lgbtqi-988-youth-access-congress-bill-raja-krishnamoorthi
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/28/chicago-pride-parade-2026/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/when-is-pride-chicago-2026-what-know-parade-route-street-closures-parking-restrictions/19374061/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protest-new-hope-community-church-sign-draws-dozens-palatine-ahead-chicago-area-weekend-lgbtq-pride-celebrations/19392510/
https://abc7chicago.com/amp/post/chicago-celebrating-pride-month-northalsted/19398141/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/photos-scenes-from-chicagos-2026-pride-parade/3954645/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/top-videos-home/2026-chicago-pride-parade-steps-off-as-more-than-a-million-gather-to-celebrate/3954575/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/huge-crowds-gather-for-the-2026-chicago-pride-parade-how-to-watch-it-live/3954519/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-pride-parade-step-off-concerns-building-heat/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/video/pritzker-signs-3-bills-to-boost-protection-for-lgbtq-illinoisans/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3Oh5qcT_A0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap-jvPa7Iys
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/illinois-gov-jb-pritzker-bills-lgbtq-illinoisans/
https://wgntv.com/news/features/chicago-pride-parade-celebrates-55-years-of-pursuing-equality-and-acceptance/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PXklg13zT4
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/pritzker-signs-new-laws-expanding-lgbtq-protections-in-illinois/article_ba0ce8b4-ea62-485f-9568-673998176cf8.html
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/28/pride-parade-kicks-off-in-lakeview-as-thousands-celebrate-chicagos-lgbtq-community/

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/29/reunited-and-it-feel-so-good-in-texas-00979409

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. According to Google AI: “Democrat Lite is a pejorative political term used primarily by conservative or libertarian critics to describe moderate or establishment Republicans. It implies that these politicians lack core conservative principles and instead support a milder version of liberal or Democratic policies (such as big-government spending). Critics often use the phrase to argue that Republicans abandon their base by offering a watered-down agenda to appeal to the political center.” My critics/opponents who state that they are Republican are Democrat Lite. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. Most Commonly, they reject its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. They destroy those like me who promote the aforesaid planks. To get rid of me, they have taken many big adverse actions against me since 2000. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— According to Google AI: “Come to your defense is a phrase that means stepping in to protect, support, or justify someone when they are being criticized, attacked, or facing a challenge. Depending on context, it could refer to legal/physical self-defense, an academic thesis defense, or simply standing up for a friend.” Ever-increasingly, if you live in Illinois, the more of the following that you are, the more that you should not anticipate/expect that others will come to your defense: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. My critics/opponent stress those who I have done much to help elect and to help reelect since 2000, but who did not come to my defense when my critics/opponents had their operatives and dupes a) rudely through off the Illinois Republican Party State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee in 2024, b) rudely end my role as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks in 2021, c) rudely gerrymander my precinct in 2015, d) rudely end my TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois chairmanship in 2012, e) rudely end my Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) webmaster service in 2010 and 2004, f) rudely end my Illinois Center Right Coalition (ICRC) Steering Committee membership in 2007, g) rudely almost got ICRC to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters in 2006, and h) rudely defeat my bid for the open MTRO Treasurer position in 2004. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— From what I see spending 10+ hours a day putting GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, if you live in Illinois, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, heterosexual, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, those who are the aforesaid are leaving Illinois. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly dive those who are the aforesaid out of Illinois and replace them with those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, LGBTQ, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Wheaton College Professor’s Anti-White, Anti-Conservative Diatribe
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2026/06/25/wheaton-college-professors-anti-white-anti-conservative-diatribe
— DuPage County Dem Chair Excited To Install Government Housing. DD: My critics/opponents want to install government housing on the north end of my precinct.
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2026/06/28/dupage-county-dem-chair-excited-to-install-government-housing

HEARTLAND INSTITUTE
— DeSantis to speak at 42nd ANNIVERSARY BENEFIT DINNER, Thursday, September 3, 2026
https://benefit.heartland.org/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Socialism clashes with Christian teaching despite Pope Leo’s claims. Christians are not obligated to heed leader’s call for ‘equitable distribution.’ DD: To promote socialism is to destroy religion. Socialist leaders ever-increasingly manipulate/dominate religious leaders. Democrat leaders ever-increasing shout at those who have less money than others that capitalism caused that.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/28/socialism-clashes-christian-teaching-despite-pope-leos-claims/
— Democrats are the disloyal opposition. DD: Ever-increasingly, to destroy Trump, Democrat leaders a) destroy those who voted for Trump and b) destroy America. Democrat leaders will never “forgive” those who voted for Trump. Many voted for Trump because his Democrat opponents were so bad.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/28/editorial-democrats-disloyal-opposition/
— Minimum wage debate not about fairness. DD: Working for IRS, I did not start earning $27.12/hour in today’s dollars until I had earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970. I did not start earning $33.17/hour in today’s dollars until I had completed three graduate business courses in 1972 .I did not start earning $40.14/hour in today’s dollars until I had completed seven graduate business courses in 1973. I did not start earning $48.11/hour in today’s dollars until I had completed eleven graduate business courses in 1974.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/28/minimum-wage-debate-not-fairness/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: A bill introduced this year in the New York City legislature aims to raise the minimum wage level to as much as $30 per hour for all businesses. In California, where the minimum wage is approaching $17 per hour, large fast-food employers must pay $20 per hour. Beginning Wednesday, healthcare employers will have to start paying $25 per hour.)

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Socialism is winning our elections because it already won our classrooms. DD: I escaped socialist indoctrination by majoring in business, accounting, and finance. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing shout at those who have less money than others that capitalism caused that.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4626838/socialism-winning-elections-because-it-won-classrooms/
— America at 250: Still funding its largest abortion provider. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/community-family/4626937/america-250-still-funding-largest-abortion-provider/

NEW YORK POST
— Democrats are in desperate need of a new leader as communists overrun their party.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/28/opinion/miranda-devine-dems-are-in-desperate-need-of-a-new-leader-as-communists-overrun-their-party-but-all-they-got-is-obama/
— ‘Temporary’ deportation shield for immigrants has always been a total farce. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/28/opinion/temporary-deportation-for-immigrants-is-a-total-farce/

FOX NEWS
— Mamdani-backed socialists look to take New York playbook nationwide after primary victories. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing shout at those who have less money than others that capitalism caused that.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mamdani-backed-socialists-look-take-new-york-playbook-nationwide-after-primary-victories

TOWNHALL
— LA Votes to Give Illegals the Vote. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit. Democrat leaders ever-increasing shout at those who have less money than others that capitalism caused that.
https://townhall.com/columnists/arthurschaper/2026/06/29/la-votes-to-give-illegals-the-vote-n2678262
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Los Angeles, the city that no longer loves itself, the city that is casting out the angels and replacing them with progressive demons and rabid communists, has unleashed another political inferno with their latest diabolical election scheme. By a vote of 10 to 5, the Los Angeles City Council passed a charter amendment initiative which, if approved by the voters in November, would allow non-citizens to vote in Los Angeles’ local city and school board elections. The Democratic Socialist of America-allied (DSA) leader of the LA City Council’s progressive phalanx, Hugo Soto-Martinez, rolled out the usual dodgy reasons proffered for this scandalous proposal. The reasons are daunting and disturbing:)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family. LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. Far too many Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders fail/refuse to speak out against the ever-increasing Democrat promotion of LGBTQ.
https://www.wral.com/news/ap/c2301-lgbtq-pride-parades-set-for-sunday-in-nyc-and-san-francisco/

MSN
— Marriage is starting later than ever. DD: I did not get married until I was 29 in 1978. If I had not met my outstanding wife at a church sponsored singles social event when I was 28 in 1977, I might never had gotten married. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I got married. To get rid of me, they had painted me being an extremely bad person because I had refused to become a Democrat. They hinted/implied/argued that because of that, I would never get married. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-marriage-is-starting-later-than-ever/ss-AA26C1uz

NEW YORK TIMES
— The Latest in College Pricing: Tuition at 10% of Your Income. DD: My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/business/whitman-college-tuition-pricing.html

USA TODAY
— Forget Trump. Democrats have lost faith in America itself. New polling shows a historic, and deeply partisan, decline in how proud Americans feel about their country, with Democrats driving nearly all of the drop.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/06/22/democrats-less-patriotic-trump-america/90558433007/
— Americans are struggling to pay for health care. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance since 1966 and then also paying 72% of my wife’s health insurance since 1978 helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/06/25/health-care-affordability-crisis-worsens/90665306007/

SUN SENTINEL & BOSTON GLOBE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/06/28/a-devastating-reality-asylum-seeking-florida-workers-contribute-billions-to-economy-study-finds/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/27/metro/supreme-court-immigration-ruling-impact-on-tps-holders/

PENN LIVE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump to demonize, denigrate, and condemn America and Americans, and especially Americans who share Trump’s demographics: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. All of my ancestors were Protestants who immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s. In their defense, I stress that they always lived in northeast Illinois, that they never were in a position to discriminate against anyone, and that they never did discriminate against anyone.
https://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2026/06/america-250-is-a-reckoning-not-just-a-birthday-party-opinion.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Why Being ‘Progressive’ Is No Longer Enough on the Left. Leftist Democrats are losing to the Mamdani socialists who think they aren’t radical enough. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing shout at those who have less money than others that capitalism caused that.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-being-progressive-is-no-longer-enough-on-the-left-b3970c5d
— Trump Opened the Window for the DSA. Democrats’ hatred for him led them to tolerate radical, vicious ideas that are colonizing their party.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/trump-opened-the-window-for-the-dsa-0459c607
— As Prices Climb, Americans Shrink Vacations. DD: My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates became ever-increasingly furious as I ever-increasingly benefitted from my wife’s job as Corporate Secretary for the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. I went with her four annual business trips to luxury resorts across America 1978-1992. We almost always followed her business meetings with trips to national parks. According to my Democrat IRS and GAO superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates, they were grossly underpaid. They decried the time and money they spent raising their children. They decried their wives having little or no income. They ever-increasingly demonized, denigrated, and condemned my wife and I as being selfish disgustingly rich DINKs.
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/travel/these-americans-are-scrimping-to-save-their-summer-vacations-fba2419d
— DD: Without America’s military might, there would be no Catholicism, no Catholic Church, and no Pope.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/opinion/pope-leo-just-war-theory-encyclical-ai-iran.html

NPR
— DD: To get more votes from those who do not share Trump’s demographics, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against those who do share Trump’s demographics.
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/01/nx-s1-5827069/trump-eeoc-discrimination-dei-data

ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
— DD: To get more votes from those who do not share Trump’s demographics, Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly discriminate against those who do share Trump’s demographics.
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/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

FINANCIAL TIMES
— DD: To get more votes from non-Whites, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at non-Whites that Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestor who have been in America for a long time have always caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that non-Whites have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that with my many non-White superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates.
https://www.ft.com/content/3fa9d4d1-74f3-4e44-bd8e-0c359b85108f?syn-25a6b1a6=1

MONDAQ
— DD: Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO employers will use AI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/discrimination-disability-sexual-harassment/1808286/the-dangers-of-using-ai-in-hiring

LAVENDER HOTELS
— Civil Service Protections. DD: Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://weddings.lavenderhotels.co.uk/merit-systems-protection-board-battle-federal-job-protections-crumbling

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

June 28, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7 & NBC5 & CBS2 & WBEZ & WGN RADIO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family. LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ. Far too few Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders speak out against the ever-increasing Democrat promotion of LGBTQ.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-pride-parade-2026-route-barriers-police-officers-working-days-off-thousands-expected-attend/19396320/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/pete-buttigieg-kids-were-targeted-child-services-swatting-call-police-say/19396086/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/the-2026-chicago-pride-parade-steps-off-sunday-and-heres-the-route/3954413/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-pride-parade-2026-route-street-closures/
https://www.wbez.org/lgbtq/2026/06/27/what-to-know-about-chicagos-2026-pride-parade-route-street-closures-and-more
https://wgnradio.com/news/national/ap-lgbtq-pride-parades-set-for-sunday-in-nyc-and-san-francisco/amp/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/28/opinion-save-america-act-voting-constitutional-amendment/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives, and especially against conservatives who are Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders make it clear that they are not only anti-conservative, that they are not only anti-Republican, but that they are anti-American. They are ever-increasingly furious at America because the majority of American voters voted for Trump. To punish Trump, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/28/opinion-america-owes-fourth-of-july/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/06/26/takeaways-jb-pritzker-headliner-speech-texas-democrats-corpus-christi
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) flood America with citizens of foreign countries and b) put them on track to vote for Democrats. All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2026/06/26/chicagos-haitian-and-syrian-communities-in-limbo-after-supreme-court-decision-playing-with-peoples-lives

CHAMPAIGN/URBANA NEWS GAZETTE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot. In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. When people use firearms illegally, what percent of the time are they on booze and/or pot?
https://www.news-gazette.com/opinion/columns/the-law-q-a-getting-into-the-weeds-of-gun-possession-marijuana/article_15246ada-a0bb-4f27-bdaa-949e453fbcaf.html

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrats are ever-increasingly anti-American.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-27/as-america-turns-250-protesters-make-their-case

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use the reflecting pool against Trump.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/politics/ap-a-reflecting-pool-that-has-long-enticed-visitors-now-gains-police-scrutiny-under-trump/

WGLT
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.wglt.org/2026-06-27/as-supreme-court-expands-trumps-immigration-power-experts-warn-of-steeper-u-s-population-decline

FOX ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/america-split-from-monarchy-250-years-ago-trumps-presidency-is-testing-how-far-its-come/article_8801d4c5-4ea0-5a21-8979-56b1c54fcd71.html
— A new law could create a list of immigrants illegally living in Mississippi. Advocates are alarmed. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/nation-world/a-new-law-could-create-a-list-of-immigrants-illegally-living-in-mississippi-advocates-are/article_bc82eb74-e59f-576b-bf11-ee5b147e5451.html

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Ever-increasingly, Democrat leaders make it clear that they are not only anti-conservative, that they are not only anti-Republican, but that they are anti-American. They are ever-increasingly furious at America because the majority of American voters voted for Trump. To punish Trump, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly punish America. – Dave Diersen
http:// www.gopillinois.com
— Hopefully, the registration deadline for political entries in Wheaton’s July 4 Independence Day parade will be extended. SEE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wheaton-independence-day-parade-entry-2026-tickets-1984881886153  The deadline was Friday, June 26. The cost is $175+ tax. I hope that all the Republican candidates on the ballot in my precinct will walk in the parade: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— In 2021, to diminish if not stop Republican participation in Wheaton’s Independence Day parades, Democrat, RINO, and Democrat plant leaders ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for those parades, a role that I had since 2005. They falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their motive was to diminish politicization of the parades. To make DuPage Republicans the lead sponsor for the parades, I raised $2,500 or more each year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders. The aforesaid got lots of positive publicity for the sponsorships. Republicans got specific credit for sponsoring the Wheaton high school marching bands, bagpipers, and other entries. Each year, I hand-delivered 500 flyers to the homes and the businesses on the parade route that promoted the parade and listed the Republican entries and sponsorships. In 2007, I raised $2,000 on short notice for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade.
— My competitors reject conservative principles and planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. What do your competitors envy about you? My competitors envy my having the time, money, experience, ability, and motivation to put GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters together and to send them out every day that contain no advertising or donation requests. They ever-increasingly do everything they can to discourage/stop me from sending my newsletters out. My competitors who state that they are religious, conservative, and/or Republican demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. What do you say to my competitors? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How socialists took over the Democratic Party.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/congressional/4626998/how-socialists-took-over-democratic-party/
— Carville calls for formal ‘schism’ with socialist candidates: ‘Can’t be in the same party’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/4627756/carville-schism-socialist-candidate/
— Socialists will try to destroy the Democratic Party.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/entertainment/4627710/socialists-destroy-democratic-party-byron-york/

NEW YORK POST
— Fetterman ravages Democratic Party’s ‘orgy of socialism’ after primary turmoil.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/us-news/fetterman-calls-out-orgy-of-socialism-in-democratic-party/
— Democrat leaders welcome incoming socialists as Pelosi, Ilhan Omar refuse to comment on growing DSA influence.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/us-news/rep-hank-johnson-welcomes-incoming-socialists-as-pelosi-refuses-to-comment/
— Entitlement of NYC’s Knicks trash-can thief exposes the ingrained flaws of the DEI movement. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders dump meritocracy to advance minorities, females, and those who are younger. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/entitlement-nyc-knicks-trash-thief-225020010.html
— Expect DEI to be a non-factor in the horse race for Jamie Dimon’s JPMorgan successor. DD: I disagree. JPMorgan is a Democrat company. Democrat companies put defending and advancing the Democrat Party platform ahead of everything else. Enough said.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/27/business/expect-dei-to-be-a-non-factor-in-the-horse-race-for-jamie-dimons-jpmorgan-successor/

CAMPUS REFORM
— UCLA prioritizes illegal aliens for $7,000 immigration activism summer fellowship.
https://www.campusreform.org/article/ucla-prioritizes-illegal-aliens-7000-immigration-activism-summer-fellowship/30051

DAILY SIGNAL
— What Is Meritocracy? And Why Does It Matter? DD: Democrat and RINO leaders dump meritocracy to advance minorities, females, and those who are younger. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/27/a-meritocracy-if-you-can-keep-it/

DAILY WIRE
— Tax Hikes Are Coming To Left-Leaning Cities.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/tax-hikes-are-coming-to-left-leaning-cities

FOX NEWS
— Leftist Democrats are being thrown under the bus, and socialists are in the driver’s seat.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/leftist-democrats-thrown-bus-socialists-drivers-seat
— Carville says socialist Democrat shouldn’t be in the party, calls her views ‘a bridge too far’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/james-carville-says-socialist-dem-shouldnt-democratic-party-calls-views-bridge-far
— Jeffries welcomes democratic socialists into the fold as critics warn party is revealing ‘exactly who it is’
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jeffries-welcomes-democratic-socialists-fold-critics-warn-party-revealing-exactly
— Venezuelan immigrant warns of rise of socialism in US.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399549209112
— Socialist surge sparks Democratic Party divide.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399549268112
— Democratic socialist sweep shakes establishment Dems after NY primary.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399569794112

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— 14th Amendment Was Never Intended To Include Kids of Illegals.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2026/06/27/14th_amendment_was_never_intended_to_include_kids_of_illegals_703776.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CNN
— Is the Democratic party headed for a civil war over socialism? DD: Democrat socialists ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/27/politics/video/is-the-democratic-party-headed-for-a-civil-war-over-socialism

MSN
— 11 countries ranked by nonmarital birth rates. DD: Traditional marriage and family made America great.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/countries-with-the-lowest-marriage-rates/ss-AA1DrHWC

NEWSWEEK
— Socialists Surge: Leftists in Congress Poised to Double After Midterm.
https://www.newsweek.com/socialists-surge-leftists-in-congress-poised-to-double-after-midterm-12128675
— Turning Point USA Blamed for Election Losses. DD: Who blames you for what? I should write about my critics/opponents who in 2006 almost succeeded in getting their operatives and their dupes in the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They ever-increasingly blamed me and blamed my newsletters for defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct had suffered since 2000. I would focus on my critics/opponents who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. My critics/opponents blame conservative Republicans for Republican defeats, and especially conservative Republicans like me who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. They want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. On who/what do you blame Republican defeats. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://www.newsweek.com/turning-point-usa-blamed-for-election-losses-11803898

ABC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://abcnews.com/Politics/wireStory/supreme-courts-ruling-end-protections-haitian-syrian-immigrants-134223536
— DD: Democrat socialists ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/mayor-zohran-mamdani-touts-democratic-socialist-policies-political/story?id=134273884
— Millions drop Obamacare coverage after subsidies expire, costs rise. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance since 1966 and then also paying 72% of my wife’s health insurance since 1978 helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/millions-drop-obamacare-health-coverage-after-subsidies-expire-134277658

NBC NEWS
— Democratic rift over the party’s future widens amid the left’s New York victories.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/democratic-rift-partys-future-widens-lefts-new-york-victories-rcna351737

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against conservatives, and especially against conservatives who are Republican, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/freedom-con-christian-men.html
— Here’s What It Means to Be a Democratic Socialist. DD: Socialism destroys prosperity, safety, personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, and everything else that is good.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/heres-what-it-means-to-be-a-democratic-socialist.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: End Military Aid to Israel. . .Expand the Social Safety Net. . .Guarantee Free Health Care. . .Tax the Rich. . .Defund or Abolish Prisons and the Police. . .Raise the Minimum Wage, Shorten the Workweek)
— DD: For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, retain, and promote Democrats who are minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Virtually all federal employees are Democrats who are one or more of the aforesaid. All of my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time. Federal employees who are the following have no Civil Service protections: Republican, White, male, older, and/or non-veteran. Unions provide some protection. But GAO did not unionize until 2007. If GAO had been unionized when I transferred from IRS in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors would not have been able to take the many big adverse actions against me that they did. My Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997, b) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, c) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, and d) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980. But even though I was a union member at the time, a) my Democrat IRS superiors never promoted me beyond GS-12, disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974 and b) my Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign in 1969 and disallowed my sick leave requests in 1969 and 1968. That was because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/us/politics/trump-firings-workers-merit-systems-protection-board.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Four takeaways on Black unemployment in Trump’s economy. College-educated Black workers are finding themselves left behind. DD: Did your ancestors own slaves. Mine did not. To get more votes from Blacks and to atone for their ancestors’ slave ownership, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote reparations. If anyone should pay reparations, it should be Democrat leaders whose ancestors owned slaves. Affirmative Action (AA) is reparations. Democrat leaders have always used AA to make Republicans who are the following pay reparations: conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I am all of the aforesaid, my Democrat superiors in the federal government made me pay reparations big time. It culminated when they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997 and gave my job and my preferred corner office to my Black subordinate. He had less education than I had. He had less work experience than I had. He had one professional certification while I had six. He had no professional license like the one I had (CPA).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/06/28/four-takeaways-black-unemployment-trumps-economy/

DALLAS NEWS
— Bernie Sanders gives Texas Democrats a boost, Republicans an opening.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/article/sanders-headlines-texas-democratic-convention-22323452.php

HOUSTON CHRONICLE
— Talarico makes pitch to Black voters at Democratic Convention. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government focused on turning my many Democrat Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. I should write about their successes and their failures in doing that.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/talarico-black-voters-democrat-convention-22322732.php

SUN SENTINEL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2026/06/28/a-devastating-reality-asylum-seeking-florida-workers-contribute-billions-to-economy-study-finds/

DAILY GAZETTE
— A new law could create a list of immigrants illegally living in Mississippi. Advocates are alarmed. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.dailygazette.com/ap/national/a-new-law-could-create-a-list-of-immigrants-illegally-living-in-mississippi-advocates-are/article_fb019445-039f-579d-8d94-77ec58cdd94b.html

GAZETTE
— Unqualified. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://gazette.com/2026/06/26/will-one-unqualified-ag-replace-another-george-brauchler/

NPR
— DD: In 2021, to diminish if not stop Republican participation in Wheaton’s Independence Day parades, Democrat, RINO, and Democrat plant leaders ended my role as the Republican fundraiser for those parades, a role that I had since 2005. They falsely hinted/implied/argued/shouted that their motive was to diminish politicization of the parades. To make DuPage Republicans the lead sponsor for the parades, I raised $2,500 or more each year from Republican candidates, elected officials, and party leaders. The aforesaid got lots of positive publicity for the sponsorships. Republicans got specific credit for sponsoring the Wheaton high school marching bands, bagpipers, and other entries. Each year, I hand-delivered 500 flyers to the homes and the businesses on the parade route that promoted the parade and listed the Republican entries and sponsorships. In 2007, I raised $2,000 on short notice for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in the parade.
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/15/nx-s1-5433765/3-takeaways-from-the-military-parade-and-no-kings-protests-on-trumps-birthday

AMERICA MAGAZINE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2026/06/26/supreme-court-immigration-tps-asylum/

ATLANTIC
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/scotus-asylum-racial-discrimination/687710/

GOOD MEN PROJECT
— Ask for help. DD: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have always been a Republican. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should asked for help from federal Republican elected officials much sooner than I did. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors a) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and b) forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978,, and c) never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, 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, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. I did ask for help when I was 40 in 1989 and I did get some, but by then, it was too late.
https://goodmenproject.com/everyday-life-2/the-strength-in-asking-for-help-why-intensive-recovery-programs-matter-for-men/

SOLON
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.salon.com/2026/06/28/scotuss-immigration-decisions-prove-cruelty-is-still-the-point/

DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat socialists ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/27/800061108/series/why-the-rights-attack-on-socialism-is-a-failure/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/27/800061441/community/democratic-socialism-is-making-republicans-nervous/
— DD: How has envy been used against you? To turn my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government against me, my Democrat superiors promoted envy big time. They stressed a) the new cars that I bought when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., b) the real estate that I bought when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I earned, d) the vacations that I took, e) etc. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to do the aforesaid. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if I had not gotten married when I was 29, I would not have been able to accomplish what did after then. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to accomplish what I did after we got married. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they spent raising their children, They decried their wives having little or no income.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/6/27/800059679/cartoon/green-with-envy/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

BUSINESS TIMES
— Democrats cannot afford to ignore Mamdani and the socialist movement any longer. A slate of progressive candidates backed by the New York mayor sweeps primary elections in the state.
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/opinion-features/us-democrats-cannot-afford-ignore-mamdani-and-socialist-movement-any-longer

GUARDIAN
— DD: Democrat socialists ever-increasingly crow about their success in destroying America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/28/democratic-socialist-mayor-mamdani-wilson
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2026/jun/28/mamdani-democratic-socialist-2028-election

SEOUL ECONOMIC DAILY
— Veterans Vice Minister to Inspect Free Health Checkups for National Merit Recipients. DD: When I was 25 years old in 1974, because an IRS Collection Division manager promoted me to GS-12, currently $100,059/year, the federal government gave me a free health checkup. Typically, IRS employees who were Republican, White, male, and/or non-veteran were not promoted to GS-12 that young. My Democrat IRS superiors were furious that I got promoted that young because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran. They got rid of the IRS manager who promoted me. They disallowed my travel vouchers. They disallowed my education deductions. They refused to promote me to GS-13.
https://en.sedaily.com/politics/2026/06/28/veterans-vice-minister-to-inspect-free-health-checkups-for

TIMES OF ISRAEL
— Wheaton College’s Asymmetry: Naming Injustice, Except for Jews.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/wheaton-colleges-asymmetry-naming-injustice-except-for-jews/

June 27, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/blue-island-restricting-ice-activity/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Pritzker.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/06/26/jb-pritzker-donald-trump-texas-democratic-convention-speech

CHICAGO TRIBUNE & ABC7 & CBS2 & WGN9 & FOX32 & WBEZ & WIFR & MSN & CATHOLIC REVIEW & AXIOS CHICAGO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family. LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/26/lake-county-pride-month/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-pride-parade-2026-cpd-organizers-prepare-large-crowds-heightened-security-lakeview-event/19390081/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/protest-new-hope-community-church-sign-draws-dozens-palatine-ahead-chicago-area-weekend-lgbtq-pride-celebrations/19392510/
https://abc7chicago.com/post/windy-city-weekend-guest-hosts-cody-lagrow-jason-knowles-talks-chicago-pride-parade/19389701/
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-teacher-visiting-every-fbs-stadium-lgbtq-community/
https://wgntv.com/news/medical-watch/hiv-infections-surge-in-chicagos-hispanic-latino-communities-whats-being-done-to-help/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgFOfIXLgv8
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-pride-parade-2026
https://www.wbez.org/2026/06/26/the-rundown-what-to-know-about-chicagos-2026-pride-parade
https://www.wifr.com/2026/06/27/lgbtq-families-look-rockford-while-searching-safety-when-buying-home/?outputType=amp
https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS
https://catholicreview.org/outreach-2026-conference-highlights-lgbtq-discipleship-community-ministry-efforts/
https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2026/06/26/chicago-lgbtq-tourism-northalsted-hotels-pride-parade-rainbow-crosswalks

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PHOTO: Bartlett Library board censures trustee. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who in 2006 almost succeeded in getting their operatives and their dupes in the Illinois Center Right Coalition to censure me for my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They ever-increasingly blamed me and blamed my newsletters for defeats that Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct had suffered since 2000. I would focus on my critics/opponents who still have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois. My critics/opponents blame conservative Republicans for Republican defeats, and especially conservative Republicans like me who are White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. They reject some, many, most, virtually all, if not all the planks in the Republican Party platform. They want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. On who/what do you blame Republican defeats. Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260626/news/bartlett-library-board-censures-trustee-after-unforgivable-act-of-aggression-at-meeting/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Health insurance. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance since 1966 and then also paying 72% of my wife’s health insurance since 1978 helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-26/5-million-have-dropped-aca-insurance-after-trump-and-the-gop-let-prices-skyrocket

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— How has envy been used against you? To turn my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government against me, my Democrat superiors promoted envy big time. They stressed a) the new cars that I bought when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., b) the real estate that I bought when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I earned, d) the vacations that I took, e) etc. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to do the aforesaid. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if I had not gotten married when I was 29, I would not have been able to accomplish what did after then. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to accomplish what I did after we got married. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they spent raising their children, They decried their wives having little or no income. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Chicago’s potential ‘teen takeover’ solutions cost taxpayers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop teen takeovers?
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_90ee4b5f-5ade-42e9-9d2c-42b961f1a9e0.html

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Pritzker Doubles Down on Abortion and Transgender Secrecy.
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/06/pritzker-doubles-down-on-abortion-secrecy/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Carville calls for House Democrats to reject socialist candidate.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/26/james-carville-calls-house-democrats-reject-socialist-candidate/

AMERICAN THINKER
— What Republicans still get wrong about reaching black voters. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government focused on turning my many Democrat Black superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates against me. I should write about their successes and failures in doing that.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/what-republicans-still-get-wrong-about-reaching-black-voters/

COLLEGE FIX
— Professor: Europeans imposed their ‘temporal framework’ – or ‘white time’ – on colonized peoples.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-europeans-imposed-their-temporal-framework-or-white-time-on-colonized-peoples/

FEDERALIST
— Democrats’ Communist Revolution Will Destroy America If The Right Doesn’t Take It Seriously.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/26/democrats-communist-revolution-will-destroy-america-if-the-right-doesnt-take-it-seriously/

FOX BUSINESS
— DEI policies cost US economy by promoting unqualified managers. All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/white-house-study-claims-dei-policies-cost-us-economy-promoting-unqualified-managers

FOX NEWS
— DD: One could compare and contrast 40-year-old JPMorgan Chase executive Angie Báez with me. By the time I was 40, my Democrat GAO, IRS, and Post Office superiors had wasted my career and taken many big adverse actions against me.
https://www.aol.com/articles/knicks-fan-trash-grab-ends-234100956.html

LUBBOCK AVALANCHE JOURNAL
— Know when to ask for help. DD: I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have always been a Republican. In retrospect, with benefit of hindsight, I should asked for help from federal Republican elected officials much sooner than I did. To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office superiors a) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and b) forced me to resign in 1969. To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors a) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, b) disallowed my education deductions in 1978,, and c) never promoted me beyond GS-12. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO in 1980, 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, and d) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.lubbockonline.com/story/opinion/columns/2026/06/26/texas-ag-commissioner-sid-miller-on-mental-health-asking-for-help/90679841007/

NANCY MACE
— Bill Ensures Only American Citizens Are Hired by the Federal Government. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they had wealthy parents. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://mace.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-nancy-mace-introduces-bill-ban-non-citizens-federal-workforce

NATIONAL REVIEW
— The Temporary Immigration Program That’s Been Forever.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/06/the-temporary-immigration-program-thats-been-forever/

NEWS AND SENTINNEL
— Control your destiny. Take personal responsibility. Politicians rarely take personal responsibility. It is always someone else’s fault, a lack of leadership both parties are guilty of. If it is always someone else’s fault, the problem will not be solved. DD: I should write about the Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct since 2000 who have blamed me the most and who have blamed my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters the most for their defeats. I would start with candidates for federal offices, then for Illinois offices, then for DuPage County offices, then for Milton Township offices, and then for Wheaton Offices. I would focus on the aforesaid candidates who had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me.
https://www.newsandsentinel.com/opinion/local-columns/2026/06/cracking-the-code-control-your-destiny/

OKLAHOMA COUNCIL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS
— Envy. The Tenth Commandment and the rise of socialism. As socialism gains influence in American culture, parents and pastors must teach with renewed clarity that envy, jealousy, and covetousness are not political virtues—they are sins. A free society cannot survive when resentment is celebrated and covetousness is mistaken for compassion. DD: To turn my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government against me, my Democrat superiors promoted envy big time. They stressed a) the new cars that I bought when I was 17, 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., b) the real estate that I bought when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, and 35, c) the college degrees, professional certifications, and professional license that I earned, d) the vacations that I took, e) etc. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if I had not avoided the Vietnam War draft, I would not have been able to do the aforesaid. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if I had not gotten married when I was 29, I would not have been able to accomplish what did after then. They strongly hinted/implied/argued that if my wife and I had children, I would not have been able to accomplish what I did after we got married. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they spent raising their children, They decried their wives having little or no income.
https://ocpathink.org/post/analysis/the-tenth-commandment-and-the-rise-of-socialism

POST MILLENNIAL
— AI chatbots have massive left-wing bias—ChatGPT is worst offender
https://thepostmillennial.com/revealed-ai-chatbots-have-massive-left-wing-bias-chatgpt-is-worst-offender

REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Unchecked Politicization of Chicago Classrooms. DD: My parent sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track to earn a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2026/06/25/what_local_media_missed_washington_exposed_the_unchecked_politicization_of_chicago_classrooms_1190981.html

TOWNHALL
— Mamdani Once Again Promises to Defy SCOTUS to Protect Illegal Aliens.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/06/26/mamdani-promises-to-protect-illegals-after-scotus-rulings-n2678358
— An illegal alien from Honduras was sentenced earlier this week to 96 months in prison for his role in operating a years-long off-the-books cash payroll scheme that facilitated the employment of illegal aliens working in the United States. The scheme caused a total loss to the United States of more than $38 million. DD: While I worked for IRS’s Collection Division 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 increasingly collected delinquent payroll taxes. For 3 years while I worked for GAO at the GS-13 Step 1-3 Levels, currently $118,984-$126,917/year, I worked on audits of IRS’s Criminal Investigation Division.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/scott-mcclallen/2026/06/26/illegal-alien-sentenced-to-8-years-for-38-million-payroll-tax-fraud-scheme-n2678374

TRUMP STORE AMERICA
— 20% OFF ENTIRE STORE – 4TH OF JULY SALE
https://trumpstoreamerica.com/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Wokeness is still alive and well in our school libraries.  DD: How strongly do the libraries in your school district promote wokeness, that is, how strongly do those libraries promote more hatred against Republicans?
https://thehill.com/opinion/education/5940932-american-library-association-agenda/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote socialism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/us/politics/heres-what-it-means-to-be-a-democratic-socialist.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/nyregion/dsa-mamdani-congress-nyc.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/nyregion/dsa-mamdani-new-york.html
— DD: For Democrat leaders, education exists to crank out good little Democrats.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/defending-education-smith-transgender.html

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Options Trader Who Emerged as a Surprise Front-Runner to Succeed Jamie Dimon to lead JPMorgan. DD: My former next door neighbor in Wheaton Steve Samek was in line to run Arthur Andersen, but he did not make it.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/banking/the-options-trader-who-emerged-as-a-surprise-front-runner-to-succeed-jamie-dimon-d40e341a
— How to Build a Retirement That Actually Fits Your Life. DD: My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/retirement/how-to-build-a-retirement-that-actually-fits-your-life-d9fddd09

NEW YORKER
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation. Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Republicans. Their illegals are their soldiers in their Democrat Army. How many illegals do Democrat leaders have in Illinois and in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-supreme-court-enables-trumps-cruel-immigration-agenda

AXIOS & PSYCHOLOGY TODAY & FORBES
— Blind loyalty. DD: My critics/opponents demand blind loyalty. They have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me a) who they cannot manipulate/dominate b) who refuse to glorify and praise them, c) who refuse to pander to them, d) who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, e) who refuse to cover up their wrong doing, and/or f) who refuse to give them money.
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/26/trump-senate-republicans-blind-loyalty
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/insight-therapy/202504/eyes-wide-shut-the-temptation-of-blind-loyalty
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sunitasah/2021/01/13/storming-of-the-us-capitol-how-blind-loyalty-fuels-the-unthinkable/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

ECONOMIC TIMES
— Arthur Ashe: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” DD: My critics/opponents had wealthy parents. They attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents were the wealthiest.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/quote-of-the-day-by-arthur-ashe-start-where-you-are-use-what-you-have-do-what-you-the-american-tennis-players-life-lesson-reveals-the-secret-to-achieving-your-goals-and-why-small-steps-can-lead-to-big-success/articleshow/132018658.cms

INDIAN EXPRESS
— A strong woman is not marriage material. 95% of men want women who are helpless. Most men do not like strong women, especially those who have independent thoughts and are deeply committed to their work. DD: If I had not met my outstanding wife at a church sponsored singles social event when I was 28 in 1977, I might never had gotten married. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I got married when I was 29 in 1978. To get rid of me, they had painted me being an extremely bad person because I had refused to become a Democrat. They hinted/implied/argued that because of that, I would never get married. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/bollywood/a-strong-woman-is-not-marriage-material-neena-gupta-reveals-that-95-of-men-want-women-who-are-helpless-10462475/

June 26, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

June 22, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/editorial-250th-birthday-america-trump-rallies-celebration/
— Illinois union leaders feel they’re not getting an adequate return on their investment in our one-party state government. DD: My critics/opponents who are/were not union members are vehemently anti-union. According to my critics/opponents, I have always been grossly overpaid. They have always been furious that while I was a union member for almost 12 years, my salary increased from $19.57/hour to $113,402/year in today’s dollars. I my defense, during that time, I earned a bachelor’s degree in business, I earned an MBA, I passed the CPA examination on my first attempt, and I almost completed the requirements for a master’s degree in accounting.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/editorial-unions-springfield-democrats-tim-shea-endorsements/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/pride-bird-sit-south-shore/
— Elon Musk is a trillionaire — but the oligarchs of Congress wield more power.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/21/opinion-elon-musk-oligarch-congress-spending/
— DD: The mainstream news media exists to demonize, denigrate, and condemn Trump.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/column-donald-trump-250th-annivesary-ufc-obama-presidential-center-page/
— Illinois spends 65 cents on pensions for every dollar it spends on classrooms. DD: Since I was 49 in 1997, my critics/opponents have been furious that I get a Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) pension. In my defense, I worked for the federal government for almost 30 years. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire. I paid 7% of my federal salary into the CSRS.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/22/editorial-illinois-spends-65-cents-on-pensions-for-every-dollar-it-spends-on-classrooms/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote video gambling. I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in 2009.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/casinos-gambling/2026/06/19/chicago-video-gambling-machines-vgt-bars-restaurants

ABC7
— At least 36 shot, 6 fatally, in shootings across Chicago this weekend
https://abc7chicago.com/live-updates/chicago-shootings-weekend-shooting-incidents-police-department-says/19338035/

NBC5
— Trump denounces Chicago violence after weekend shootings leave at least 7 dead, 30 hurt. The wave of shootings captured Trump’s attention, with the president questioning why Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker hasn’t asked for his assistance.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/trump-denounces-chicago-gun-violence-after-weekend-shootings-leave-at-least-7-dead-28-injured/3951762/
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/local/trump-denounces-chicago-violence-after-shootings-leave-at-least-7-dead-30-hurt/3951784/

WGN9
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://wgntv.com/news/nexstar-media-wire/uss-fertility-rate-has-declined-since-2007-its-even-worse-in-these-states/

WGN RADIO
— Why a retirement income plan matters more than ever. DD: Anticipate/expect that you will be forced to retire early and especially if you are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. My retirement income and savings are dramatically less because my Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted my career and forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://wgnradio.com/the-alpha-wealth-hour/why-a-retirement-income-plan-matters-more-than-ever/

SOUTHERN
— Gun Control Act of 1968. DD: I have had a FOID card since I was 20 years old in 1968.
https://thesouthern.com/news/gun-control-act-of-1968/image_0cbc18ad-2bce-572f-8a82-6fba20c959cd.html
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://thesouthern.com/news/national/govt-and-politics/sanctuary-city-crackdown-comes-up-short-in-court/html_38dba7da-b921-5d1d-ac22-3e5891e0af15.html

BLOOMINGTON PANTAGRAPH
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Juneteenth to promote more hatred against Republicans. Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as being yesterday’s Union Army and b) paint today’s Republicans as being yesterday’s Confederates.
https://pantagraph.com/life-entertainment/local/events/article_db64a777-6189-4db4-a5e8-0e49d4d660d1.html

WFIN
— Obama Center isn’t a traditional presidential library. Critics say it’s an activism center.
https://wfin.com/fox-political-news/obama-center-isnt-a-traditional-presidential-library-critics-say-its-an-activism-center/

NPR ILLINOIS
— Despite state bans, abortions have almost doubled. The reason? Pills via telehealth. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-22/despite-state-bans-abortions-have-almost-doubled-the-reason-pills-via-telehealth

POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/06/22/bears-are-back-in-play-00969412

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/06/22/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-755/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WIRE POINTS
— New Study Spotlights Illinois’ Oversized Pension Burden on Public Schools
https://wirepoints.org/new-study-spotlights-illinois-oversized-pension-burden-on-public-schools-wirepoints/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Are you married? If I had not met my outstanding wife at a church sponsored singles social event, I might never had gotten married. My Democrat IRS superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were furious that I got married when I was 29 in 1978. To get rid of me, they had painted me being an extremely bad person because I had refused to become a Democrat. What helped you become marriage material? By the time I got married, I had worked for IRS for almost 7 years and my salary was $110,066/year in today’s dollars. I had earned an MBA from Loyola in 1976 and I was taking graduate evening accounting courses at DePaul. I lived in a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building that I had bought in 1976. I was renting out a town home in University Park that I had bought new in 1972. I owned a 1972 Corvette that I had bought new in 1971. See Money Magazine’s 4-page February 1978 article on my wife and I at https://gopillinois.com/documents/ Things that impressed me about my outstanding wife included that her first job after high school was working for the FBI. She soon became the Corporate Secretary of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986. My wife and I gave up trying to have children without trying IVF because we both had big fertility problems. But according to my Democrat GAO superiors, we gave up trying to have children, we did not adopt, and we did not become foster parents because I was a disgusting hypocritical DINK. My Democrat GAO superiors decried the time and money they spent raising their children. They decried their spouses having little or no income. According to them, if we had children, I would not have been able to a) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, b) suffer a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO when I was 31, c) earn a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, d) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, or e) become a licensed CPA when I was 32. Further, that we would not have been able to have a home built in Wheaton when I was 35. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What was your biggest mistake in life? For me, it was my avoiding the Vietnam War draft. My many Democrat superiors in the federal government who were veterans used my avoiding the draft with deferments against me viciously. They blamed Republicans for America losing the Vietnam War. Did you try to enlist. I did not. I have always asked myself would I have been accepted if I had tried to enlist. I was 1-A even though I could not run because I had an inherited bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponents have always used my health problems against me. They have always stressed that if I had been accepted, I would not have been sent into combat and that proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am a disgusting unmitigated hypocritical coward. According to my many Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government, if had not avoided the draft, I would not have been able to a) buy new cars when I was 19, 20, 23, 25, 29, etc., b) earn a bachelor’s degree in management when I was 21, c) buy real estate when I was 24, 25, 27, 29, 35, etc. d) earn an MBA when I was 27, e) get married when I was 29, f) pass the CPA examination on my first attempt when I was 30, g) earn a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, h) pass the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt when I was 32, or i) become a licensed CPA when I was 32. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend and advance their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you reject, the more RINO that you are. RINOs have far more in common with Democrats and with Libertarians than with Republicans, and especially RINOs who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time. Most commonly, RINOs reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform. RINOs want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. Far too many RINOs are Democrat plants. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON FREE BEACON
— The left-wing nominee for California’s 22nd Congressional District, political science professor Randy Villegas, authored an academic paper disparaging conservative residents of the Central Valley—which includes the district he seeks to represent—as creators of a “climate of fear in some Latinx immigrant communities” due to their opposition to illegal immigration.
https://freebeacon.com/california/climate-of-fear-california-dem-house-candidate-suggested-conservatives-in-his-district-created-hostile-environment-for-latinx-immigrant-communities/

NEW YORK POST
— GM replaces more than 1,000 workers with 50 robots at flagship Detroit plant: ‘We’re disgusted.’ DD: I worked part-time on an automobile assembly line when I was a NIU student in 1970.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/21/us-news/gm-replaces-more-than-1000-workers-with-50-robots-at-flagship-detroit-plant/
— Juneteenth: A reminder that affirmative action undermines equality. DD: My critics/opponents want Affirmative Action (AA) and DEI a) because they have personally benefitted from it, b) because they are personally benefitting from it, c) because they want to benefit from it, d) because they use it to pander to minorities and to females, and/or e) because they use it to curry favor with minorities and with females. My critics/opponents have not had to pay the price of AA or DEI. My critics/opponents use AA and DEI to get rid of those who are conservative, Republican, American, White, male, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aol.com/articles/juneteenth-reminder-affirmative-action-undermines-023440000.html
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Communities around California and the nation are gathering this weekend to celebrate Juneteenth, the traditional day marking liberation from slavery. It is a day that reminds us that we ought to be equal under the law. And Californians believe opportunity should be based on merit and hard work, not race. That is why every time the voters of California are asked to change the state constitution to allow for affirmative action, defined as preferential treatment for government jobs or admission to public universities based on background characteristics, they say no. Time and again. But the debate is reemerging once again — this time in the form of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7, a proposal that would repeal protections approved by voters in 1996 through Proposition 209.)

BREITBART
— Gun-Controlled Chicago: At Least 27 Shot Friday Into Saturday Evening.
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/06/21/gun-controlled-chicago-at-least-27-shot-friday-into-saturday-evening/amp/

COLLEGE FIX
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ. LGBTQ destroys traditional marriage and family.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/stanford-trans-students-still-confused-and-abandoned-two-years-after-discussion-group-shut-down/

DONALD TRUMP
— Presidential Message on Father’s Day
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/06/presidential-message-on-fathers-day/

EPOCH TIMES
— Military Hopefuls Hit the Pool to Get a Jump on Selection. DD: Did you try to enlist. I did not. I have always asked myself would I have been accepted if I had tried to enlist. I was 1-A even though I could not run because I had an inherited bone disease, my eyesight could not be corrected to 20/20, and I had partial red/green color blindness. My critics/opponents have always used my health problems against me. They have always stressed that if I had been accepted, I would not have been sent into combat and that proves beyond a doubt that I am a disgusting unmitigated hypocritical coward. I should write about my critics/opponents.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/military-hopefuls-hit-the-pool-to-get-a-jump-on-selection-6045631

FOX NEWS
— DD: When people cause accidents and when people commit crimes, what percent of the time are they using pot? In 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton. I have never used pot and I never will use pot. If I had used pot, I would never have been able to earn a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and professional license.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399041238112
— LA moves closer to allowing noncitizen voting, sparking election mayhem concerns. DD: All my employers would have hired noncitizens instead of me if they could have. Noncitizens work for less money and they are easier to exploit.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399046310112
— Rep Burchett rips Democrats over voter ID, says they allow ‘illegals’ to vote.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6399042910112

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Chick-fil-A doubles down on wokeness
https://www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/other/chick-fil-a-doubles-down-on-wokeness-after-getting-backlash-for-gay-marriage-stunt/ar-AA1SpKrE

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: Democrats have always done everything that they could to turn native Americans against Republicans, and especially since the Civil War. Ever-increasingly, if you are a Republican, the longer that your ancestors have been in America and the more of the following that you are, the more that Democrat leaders demonize, denigrate, and condemn you: conservative, White, male, non-poor, Protestant, and/or German American. My critics/opponents have always stressed a) that all my ancestors immigrated from what is now Germany during the 1840s and 1850s, b) that on my father’s side, they homesteaded a 240-acre farm in southeast Crete Township in 1854, c) that on my mother’s side, they soon after sharecropped a 180-acre farm in Grant Park along the Indiana border, and d) that they all were Republicans.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/06/18/native-american-perspectives-america-250-birthday-celebration/

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/relationships/11-reasons-why-more-women-are-walking-away-from-men-and-marriage/ss-AA1YvbfS?ocid=ob-fb-enph-376

AOL
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage women to join the military.
https://www.aol.com/news/hegseths-anti-woke-agenda-hits-100325789.html

CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/protecting-the-right-of-birthright-citizenship/

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrats are ever-increasingly becoming more anti-American because America elected Trump not only once, but twice.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/opinion/resistance-activist-protest-trump.html
— New Student Loans Are About to Get Pricier. DD: When I was in high school, no one saw me as being college material. At best, they thought that Prairie State College might accept me. But I took college preparatory courses, I got an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/your-money/student-loans-interest-rates-changes.html

LOS ANGELES TIMES
— After a weekend of gun violence in Chicago, Trump renews call for military intervention.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2026-06-21/after-weekend-of-gun-violence-in-chicago-trump-renews-call-for-intervention

USA TODAY
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH PICTURE. DD: Democrat leaders have always done everything they can to get people on SNAP and to keep people on SNAP.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/19/snap-food-stamps-work-requirements-fraud/90521556007/
— A 2024 Washington Post poll found that 9 in 10 Americans say being middle class means: A secure job. Health insurance. Being able to pay bills on time. Being able to afford emergency expenses without going into debt. Ability to save for the future. Ability to retire with dignity. DD: What helped you achieve the aforesaid? For me it was my earning a bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, six professional certifications, and a professional license.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2026/06/05/middle-class-inflation-food-healthcare/90275499007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— India Calls In Military, Blocks App to Lock Down College-Entrance Exam. The security measures follow a cheating scandal that forced a rerun of a test taken by two million prospective medical students. DD: I passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination (FSEE) when I was a 21-year-old NIU student in 1970. I wanted a job in the automotive industry.  But I took the FSEE as a backup. Potential employers saw me as being draft bait. They did not believe that application for a financial hardship draft deferment would be approved.
https://www.wsj.com/world/india/india-calls-in-military-blocks-app-to-lock-down-college-entrance-exam-b9a47ef3
— The Rise of the Democratic Socialists. They’re taking over big cities and bidding for gains in Congress. DD: Virtually all federal employees are Democrats. Democrat leaders want America to be like the federal government. For Democrats, the federal government exists to hire, to retain, and to promote Democrats. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-rise-of-the-democratic-socialists-e2f171c0
— Live Free and Prosper. Socialists claim they haven’t experienced American prosperity. All you have to do is look around.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/live-free-and-prosper-185b520f

GULF BUSINESS
— Most candidates assume that if they were turned down for a role, their qualifications, experience or capabilities simply failed to measure up against the competition. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly replace those who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://gulfbusiness.com/en/2026/jobs/the-hidden-filters-of-hiring-why-great-candidates-never-make-it-to-the-interview/

ENTREPRENEUR
— Why Am I Not Getting Promoted? DD: Democrat and RINO employers ever-increasingly replace their employees who have demographics that vote for Republicans with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats and for RINOs. Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply, the more likely that you will not be promoted, and the more likely that you will be gotten rid of: conservative, Republican, American, heterosexual, White, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Democrat and RINO employers want yes-people.
https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/why-am-i-not-getting-promoted-3-frustrating-reasons-high-performers-get-passed-over

BUSINESS JOURNALS
— DD: More than anything else, Democrat and RINO employers want yes-people.
https://www.bizjournals.com/bizwomen/news/latest-news/2026/06/women-execs-on-how-to-get-promoted.html

HUFFINGTON POST
— DD: LGBTQ promoters ever-increasingly destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-nuclear-family-pride-month-june_n_6a32fa19e4b04f5fa0bebee1

PBS
— 7 killed and dozens injured following series of weekend shootings in Chicago.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/7-killed-and-dozens-injured-following-series-of-weekend-shootings-in-chicago

POLITICO
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/20/daca-delays-dreamers-uscis-00968561

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— DD: According to Democrat leaders, minorities and females need government assistance to succeed because Republicans discriminate against them.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2026/06/22/risk-proposition-law-school-changing-opinion

PSYCOLOGY TODAY
— DD: My critics/opponents attribute their successes in life to meritocracy. They attribute my successes in life to my benefitting from discrimination against those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, poor, veteran, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, and/or noncitizen.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/divergent-minds/202606/the-long-tail-of-disadvantage

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

HINDUSTAN TIMES
— Happy Father’s Day. DD: What do you thank your farther the most for? I thank my father the most for his sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools. That put me on track to earn a) a job-related bachelor’s degree, b) three job-related master’s degrees, c) six job-related professional certifications, and d) a job-related professional license.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/festivals/happy-fathers-day-2026-wishes-150-plus-messages-images-greetings-whatsapp-status-to-share-with-your-dad-june-21-101781941584078.html

FROM OTHER SOURCES

WIKIPEDIA
— Societal effects of cars. DD: Are you interested in cars? My uncle who lived four doors south of my parents’ home in Crete got me interested in cars in the 1950s and 1960s. His wife had introduced my parents to each other. To get to/from classes at Crete-Monee High School and my dish washing job in Chicago Heights, I used the money I had earned doing yard work and delivering newspapers to buy a 1958 Chevrolet BelAir in November of 1964. To get to/from summer jobs in 1966, my Park Forest Post Office job, and classes at UIC, I used the money I had earned washing dishes to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966. To get to/from my Post Office job and classes at UIC and then NIU, I used the money I had earned delivering mail to buy a new 1968 Oldsmobile 442 in December of 1967 and then a new 1969 Dodge Charger SE in December of 1968.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_effects_of_cars

June 18, 2018

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrats protest Turning Point USA Educators’ Summit; ‘they’re not welcome here.’ DD: How successful have Democrat leaders in your county, township, municipality, and school district been in promoting more hatred against Charlie Kirk, TPUSA, conservates, Republicans, Trump, and America?
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/17/lake-county-protesters-turning-point-usa/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: On its website, Turning Point Education isn’t shy about its Christian and conservative goals; they’re two of the group’s five pillars, and the website says they’re dedicated to “reclaiming the education of our children, reviving virtuous education focused on truth, goodness and beauty, and restoring God as the foundation of education.” The summit’s webpage lists nearly 30 speakers, including TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk, the wife of the late Charlie Kirk. Other speakers include the founder of the ACE scholarship program, several Republican politicians, and an extensive mix of conservative activists, Christian authors, Christian school officials, and professors who support a “Biblical worldview” in classrooms, as described in an online event description. The protest saw about 60 to 70 people, chanting, carrying signs, and beating drums. Some chants alternated between targeting President Donald Trump and TPUSA. . .Over the last two decades, Lake County has leaned increasingly blue, with steadily rising numbers of Democratic voters completely flipping the county government and giving Lake County to Democratic presidential candidates in the last five presidential elections. Meanwhile, the number of Republican voters has hit record lows.)
— Chicago Fire stadium site should get $425 million subsidy, Mayor Brandon Johnson proposes
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/chicago-fire-stadium-425-million-220000449.html

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Cook County officials project $550M shortfall for next year
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/06/17/cook-county-officials-project-550-million-shortfall-next-year

DAILY HERALD
— Naperville man tells NBC 5 he burned cross in Grant Park, says he was unaware of racial implications
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260616/news/person-of-interest-in-custody-in-grant-park-cross-burning/

ABC7
— City Council rejects fine for parents in ‘teen takeover’ ordinance. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://abc7chicago.com/videoClip/19318181/

NBC5
— Naperville man says he doesn’t regret burning cross in Grant Park, explains motive
https://www.nbcchicago.com/investigations/i-dont-regret-it-man-explains-motive-for-burning-cross-in-nbc-5-exclusive/3949697/
— New Illinois law will change driver’s test policies for senior citizens. The bill officially goes into effect July 1.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/new-illinois-law-will-change-drivers-test-policies-for-senior-citizens/3950213/

FOX32
— Chicago alder wants to crack down on parents of kids involved in teen takeovers, other crimes. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/chicago-parents-crackdown-teen-takeovers-proposal

WBEZ
— A quarter-million student borrowers in Illinois need a new repayment plan. DD: Back in the good old days, I graduated debt-free from NIU with a bachelor’s degree in business when I was 21 in 1970 and owning a 1969 Dodge Charger SE that I had bought new. The money came from what I earned worked part-time for the Park Forest Post Office for 25 months and full-time for 9 months 1966-1969. In today’s dollars, my salary increased from $19.57/hour to $20.87/hour. My parents provided me with room and board in their Crete home while I took classes at UIC 1966-1968, weekends during my first semester at NIU in 1969, and the summer of 1969.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2026/06/17/many-student-loan-borrowers-in-illinois-need-a-new-repayment-plan-what-to-know-as-save-plan-ends

WGN RADIO
— DD: The Democrat mainstream news media continues to treat Pat Brady like he is still the chairman of the Illinois Republican Party.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/pat-brady-the-presidential-and-mayoral-runs/amp/

SOUTHERN
— Rep. Paul Jacobs was appointed Wednesday to fill the vacant 59th District Senate seat following a unanimous vote of Republican county chairpersons from across Southern Illinois.
https://thesouthern.com/news/gop-leaders-appoint-jacobs-to-vacant-senate-seat/article_62c1348e-5bb8-5dd6-a1f6-aab2e4ce5041.html

STATELINE
— Pritzker blames federal policies for rising Illinois cost of living as inflation concerns grow. DD: Democrats ever-increasingly blame Republicans for everything that is bad.
https://www.mystateline.com/news/pritzker-blames-federal-policies-for-rising-illinois-cost-of-living-as-inflation-concerns-grow/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— Nearly half of Americans don’t consider themselves a Democrat or Republican. DD: My critics/opponents want me to leave the Republican Party. They want me to stop sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. They want me to resign as a Republican Precinct Committeeman, They want the Republican Party to officially change its name to the Democrat Lite Party. According to them, I am far too conservative. They reject planks in the Republican Party platform that I promote. They reject the personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in the Republican Party platform.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/national/almost-half-in-new-poll-dont-consider-themselves-democrats-or-republicans/

LABOR TRIBUNE
— The Illinois Federation of Teachers and the Illinois Education Association have joined educator union leaders from across the country in urging governors to reject participation in President Trump’s federal private school voucher tax credit program and publicly reaffirm their commitment to public education. DD: My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Because he sent my brother and me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, he had less money. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. Because of that, my ACT score and my GPA suffered. But nevertheless, I earned a job-related bachelor’s degree, three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://labortribune.com/two-largest-unions-in-illinois-join-national-letter-from-educators-urging-democratic-governors-to-keep-out-of-trumps-federal-voucher-scheme/

DURBIN
— DD: Democrat leaders create an “Affordability Crisis” and then blame it on Trump.
https://www.durbin.senate.gov/newsroom/videos/view/durbin-condemns-president-trumps-inaction-during-affordability-crisis

WHEATON
— DD: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.wheaton.il.us/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/13915?fileID=19694

ILLINOIZE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Trump against Republicans.
https://www.theillinoize.com/articles/governors-race-between-pritzker-trump

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— School Attendance Down 10%!
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/17/school-attendance-down-10/
— Two Local Legislators Sponsor Rational Revision of Drivers License Law Ending Discrimination Against Senior Citizens
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/06/17/two-local-legislators-sponsor-rational-revision-of-drivers-license-law-ending-discrimination-against-senior-citizens/

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Congressional candidate Christian Maxwell caught in teen takeover. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers?
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_c1637b84-8e8c-4196-b908-6f27216d806d.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— DEI must be stopped.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4611193/dei-wont-disappear-until-intesectionality-is-stopped/

NEW YORK POST
— Federal government seeks to halt first US reparations program for black people. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/17/us-news/federal-government-seeks-to-halt-first-us-reperations-program-for-black-people/

AMERICAN THINKER
— California announces gay ‘certification’ program. It’s nothing but an Orwellian scheme to declare whether someone is ‘gay enough.’
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/california_announces_gay_certification_program.html
— Battling ‘Pride’ month with religious faith initiatives. DD: To promote LGBTQ is to destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/06/battling_pride_month_with_religious_faith_initiatives.html

BREITBART
— Chicago Cross Burning Hate Hoax Committed by Asian, Anti-Trump Leftist
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2026/06/17/nolte-chicago-cross-burning-hate-hoax-committed-by-asian-anti-trump-leftist/
— Federal government seeks to halt the first U.S. reparations program for Black people. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/federal-government-seeks-to-halt-the-first-u-s-reparations-program-for-black-people/
— States Beginning to Roll Back Free Healthcare for Illegals. DD: The federal government paying 72% of my health insurance since 1966 and then also paying 72% of my wife’s health insurance since 1978 helped me endure tremendous efforts by my Democrat superiors in the federal government to waste my career and to get rid of me.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/17/states-beginning-to-roll-back-free-healthcare-for-illegals/
— Mamdani-Backed Democrat: ‘All Deportations Are Wrong’ — Even for Convicted Murderers & Child Rapists.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/17/mamdani-backed-democrat-deporting-illegal-aliens-convicted-of-child-rape-murder-kidnapping-is-discriminatory/

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION STUDIES
— Immigration — Rules and Reality
https://cis.org/Vara/Immigration-Rules-and-Reality
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Some of the most basic of rules that apply to any person seeking to reside in another country indefinitely: 1. Assimilate. Keep your ethnic roots, but adhere to the norms of the society that you seek to join and claim to want to be a part of. 2. Contribute. Don’t look around at what other people have and expect that they will give it to you. Instead, open your eyes and see that in this country, much more so than in most countries, you have the opportunity to show what you are made of and not only get those things for yourself, but maybe even get more if you have what it takes. 3. Be Grateful. You may never be a billionaire, a millionaire, or even a high-net-worth individual. But in this country, those willing to work and realistically accept where they are at in their lives at any given moment will always have a home and a relatively good life. Certainly as compared to other countries, especially countries like Mexico and many of those in Latin America, Africa, and the non-affluent Middle East. Until and if you make it, you may have to live in a poor neighborhood. You may have to drive an old beat-up pick-up truck vs. a BMW. You might have to buy your clothes at Walmart vs. Neiman’s. And you may have to eat at Dominos, McDonalds, or a Taco Shack vs. Morton’s or Ruth’s Chris. But life will still be better than if you were back home in whatever third-world country you fled from to come here. Most importantly, in this country you will continue to have the chance to advance to an even better life. In some cases, far beyond your wildest dreams. 4. Obey the Rules. Whether you accept them or not, laws dictate. Violate the laws and risk your freedom and your ability to remain here. If you truly value the opportunity that has been handed to you, think twice before you take the risk. 5. Accept Reality. Immigration enforcement is not about racism. It is about the laws and norms of a nation and its society. Wealth and wealth-building are not dictated by racism. Neither is investment strategy. Neither is social stratification. Neither is living in a multi-million-dollar home vs. a $50,000 home. Neither is driving a very expensive car vs. driving a very inexpensive one. Neither is owning a yacht vs. owning a dinghy. . .6. Don’t Expect of Americans what Americans Should Not Expect of Others. Except for the extremely naive or foolish, Americans are not moving to Mexico or any other country and trying to get them to speak English.)

CITY JOURNAL
— The Justice Department Restores Equality. The Office of Legal Counsel concluded that disparate-impact guidelines encourage employers to engage in racial discrimination, violating the U.S. Constitution. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders have always used disparate-impact to get rid of Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/equal-opportunity-commission-disparate-impact-racial-discrimination

DAILY SIGNAL
— ‘Racial Discrimination, Pure and Simple’: Trump Administration Challenges Reparations Plan in Illinois. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/17/racial-discrimination-trump-administration-challenges-reparations/
— The Federal Trade Commission and four attorneys general filed a groundbreaking lawsuit Wednesday, aiming to hold the World Professional Association for Transgender Health accountable for allegedly deceptive trade practices, an action that may dismantle the child gender mutilation pipeline.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/06/17/trump-admin-cuts-right-heart-child-transgender-mutilation-pipeline/

FEDERALIST
— Chicago Cross Burning Is Latest Example Of Left-Wing Extremism Being Blamed On GOP
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/17/chicago-cross-burning-is-latest-example-of-left-wing-extremism-being-blamed-on-gop/
— Letting everyone into your country, regardless of their culture or willingness to assimilate, is not Christian charity. It’s chaos and civilizational collapse.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/16/pope-leo-says-migrants-should-integrate-and-obey-the-law/
— Why Americans Are Falling Out Of Love With LGBT ‘Pride’
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/16/why-americans-are-falling-out-of-love-with-lgbt-pride/
— The Left Never Loved Athletic Activism, Just Athletes Who Agreed With Them
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/17/the-left-never-loved-athletic-activism-just-athletes-who-agreed-with-them/
— DOJ Rejects Legal Theory (Disparate Impact) That Pushed Employers Into DEI Quotas
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/17/doj-rejects-legal-theory-that-pushed-employers-into-dei-quotas/
— Hawley Demands MLB Answer For ‘Pattern Of Discrimination’ Against Christians
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/16/hawley-demands-mlb-answer-for-pattern-of-discrimination-against-christians/
— Biden’s Border Crisis Will Return If We Don’t Close These Loopholes Now.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/18/bidens-border-crisis-will-return-if-we-dont-close-these-loopholes-now/

FOX NEWS
— Naperville student says cross burning in city park was anti-Trump MAGA protest, not racism. UIC student who claimed responsibility told NBC his protest ‘had nothing to do with race.’
https://www.foxnews.com/media/chicago-student-says-cross-burning-city-park-anti-trump-maga-protest-not-racism
— Only 27 percent of Democrats will display American flag on July 4. Nearly one-quarter of Democrats say they won’t celebrate Independence Day this year. DD: Ever-increasingly, to punish Trump, Democrats punish America.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/27-percent-democrats-display-american-flag-july-4-poll
— Trump admin wants to stop Illinois city’s reparations effort for ‘simply handing out money based on race.’ Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon says simply handing out money based on race ‘is illegal.’ DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-admin-wants-stop-illinois-citys-reparations-effort-simply-handing-out-money-based-race

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— Trump-Hating Asian Naperville UIC Student Planted Burning Cross in Chicago Park. “During an interview with Chuck Goudie, Lu shared that he had little knowledge of the Klan.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/06/trump-hating-asian-student-from-u-illinois-planted-burning-cross-in-chicago-park/

PATRIOT POST
— The Democrats’ Patriotism Gap. It’s not all about Trump. Democrats were less proud of the country than Republicans were even when Obama and Biden were president. DD: Ever-increasingly, to punish Trump, Democrats punish America.
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/128433-the-democrats-patriotism-gap-2026-06-17

PJ MEDIA
— Sodom and Gomorrica: ‘Straight out of Trumpland’
https://pjmedia.com/benbartee/2026/06/17/sodom-and-gomorrica-straight-out-of-trumpland-n4954051

TOWNHALL
— Who Will Be Held Accountable for the Border Policies of the Biden Years? DD: Who will be held responsible for the destruction of GAO during the Bowsher years? Who will be held responsible for Republican losses in Illinois starting in 2002?
https://townhall.com/columnists/joe-abraham/2026/06/17/who-will-be-held-accountable-for-the-border-policies-of-the-biden-years-n2677838
— Democrats are proving to be thoroughly anti-patriotic as the World Cup ramps up.  DD: Ever-increasingly, to punish Trump, Democrats punish America.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/josephchalfant/2026/06/16/look-who-these-democrats-are-supporting-in-the-world-cup-hint-its-not-the-united-states-n2677867

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

MSN
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/experts-call-for-rethinking-traditional-marriage-roles-amid-strain-on-women/ss-AA25whgN

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2026/06/15/what-is-american-dream-redefined/90359600007/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push Black men to be LGBTQers.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/16/black-gay-men-elijah-manley-shevrin-jones-congress/90505389007/

PEW RESEACCH & BROOKINGS & GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— DD: According to my critics/opponents, those who have demographics that vote for Republicans cause all the problems that those who have demographics that vote for Democrats have. That is, that those who are conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, married, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time cause all the problems that those who are liberal/moderate, Democrat, RINO, minority, female, younger, veteran, poor, unmarried, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/05/20/views-of-how-much-discrimination-racial-and-ethnic-groups-in-the-u-s-face/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-demographics-of-racial-inequality-in-the-united-states/
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/12/federal-workforce-generally-more-diverse-us-population-gaps-persist/401546/

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL & HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
— Performance evaluations. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders use the subjectivity in their performance evaluations to get rid of Republicans.
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policy-topics/gender-race-identity/self-ratings-and-bias-performance-reviews
https://hbr.org/2019/01/why-most-performance-evaluations-are-biased-and-how-to-fix-them

ROBERT REICH
— DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the more that you need not apply: conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. I am all of the aforesaid. The Democrats who ran GAO in 1980, IRS in 1971, and the Post Office in 1966 hired me because they could not find a qualified Democrat, minority, female, younger person, or veteran who would take the job. GAO would not have hired me if I had not passed the CPA examination on my first attempt and earned an MBA. IRS would not have hired me if I had not passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination and earned a bachelor’s degree in business. The Post Office would not have hired me if I had not passed the postal employment test and earned a high school diploma.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/experience-knowledge-and-talent-need

LA PROGRESSIVE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at Blacks that Republicans have caused, are causing, and will forever cause all the problems that Blacks have had, are having, and will have. I should write about the successes and failures that my Democrat superiors in the federal government had doing that.
https://www.laprogressive.com/racism/anti-black-racism-in-america

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

MEAWW
— Kristi Noem reveals intelligence on secret China pipeline moving migrants into US.
https://news.meaww.com/kristi-noem-reveals-intelligence-on-alleged-secret-china-pipeline-moving-migrants-into-us

FROM OTHER SOURCES

VETTE REGISTRY
— Mid America Motorworks Facility in Effingham Leveled by Tornado. DD: My wife and I have attended many Corvette Funfest events there, but not recently. I have spoken with founder Mike Yager many times, but not recently.
https://www.vetteregistry.net/vrforums/all-vettes-discussion/breaking-mid-america-motoworks-facility-leveled-by-tornado/560358/

June 15, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

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

June 14, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

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

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

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

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

June 12, 2026 Evening Edition

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS2
— Pritzker signs Illinois law banning sale of intoxicating hemp products to anyone under 21
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pritzker-signs-illinois-law-intoxicating-hemp-products/

WTTW
— Pritzker Signs Bill Banning Sale of Intoxicating Hemp to Anyone Younger Than 21
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/12/pritzker-signs-bill-banning-sale-intoxicating-hemp-anyone-younger-21
— As State Approves 1st Video Gambling Licenses in Chicago, Mayor Asks City Council to Reverse Course. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton, and in 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/06/12/state-approves-1st-video-gambling-licenses-chicago-mayor-asks-city-council-reverse

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Peoria museum to represent Illinois at Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’ as Pritzker administration opts out
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/peoria-museum-to-represent-illinois-at-trumps-great-american-state-fair-as-pritzker-administration-opts-out/
— Where Trump has lost support with independents, according to AP-NORC polling
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/trump-independent-support-poll/
— Oak Park home vandalized with antisemitic message
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/oak-park-home-vandalized-with-antisemitic-message-officials/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Pritzker can’t expect to escape Bears stadium bill blame. The Bears failure will overshadow everything else and highlight his national ambitions. And his low attendance rate in Springfield does him no favors.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/06/12/pritzker-bears-stadium-bill-springfield-low-attendance-national-presidency-rich-miller
— Mayor Johnson will ask City Council committee to repeal video gambling in Chicago. Brandon Johnson wants the City Council’s Committee on Workforce Development to meet Monday to consider an ordinance that would essentially reverse the Council’s decision to allow video gambling in the city. DD: In 2009, I led the successful effort to ban video gambling in Wheaton, and in 2019, I led the successful effort to ban the sale of pot in Wheaton.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2026/06/11/mayor-brandon-johnson-repeal-video-gambling-bid-chicago

PEORIA JOURNAL STAR
— Illinois Democrats opt out of Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/politics/government/2026/06/12/illinois-opts-out-of-trumps-great-american-state-fair-freedom-250/90529251007/

NPR ILLINOIS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at those who have financial problems that Republicans caused their financial problems.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-11/half-of-americans-cant-afford-necessities-report-finds
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly blame Republicans for problems that children have.
https://www.nprillinois.org/2026-06-11/socioeconomic-factors-are-becoming-biologically-embedded-in-childrens-brains

WAND TV
— Bill allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition arrives on Pritzker’s desk
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/bill-allowing-undocumented-immigrants-to-pay-in-state-tuition-arrives-on-pritzkers-desk/article_812e3443-761b-473d-ac01-67760006502d.html

MARIJUANA MOMENT
— Illinois Governor Signs Bill To Double Marijuana Possession Limit, Restrict Hemp THC Products And Reform Rules For Businesses
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/illinois-governor-signs-bill-to-double-marijuana-possession-limit-restrict-hemp-thc-products-and-reform-rules-for-businesses/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Presidential poll numbers show Pritzker at 2%
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/presidential-poll-numbers-show-pritzker-181200476.html

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Bernie Sanders pulls Democratic Party hard left as his primary picks rack up wins. DD: According to RINO leaders, Republican candidates have to be Democrat Lite to win.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/12/bernie-sanders-pulls-democratic-party-hard-left-primary-picks-rack/
— IRS overpaying supervisors to do grunt work after Trump budget cuts: Inspector general DD: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors tried to get me to go back to IRS.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/12/irs-overpaying-supervisors-grunt-work-trump-budget-cuts-inspector/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— The perpetual victimhood and racial tribalism of Karmelo Anthony’s defenders
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/4606786/victimhood-racial-tribalism-karmelo-anthony-defenders/
— Sins of fear and omission: How legacy media fuels conspiracy crisis
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4606022/fear-omission-legacy-media-fuels-conspiracy-crisis/
— Elephant takes a massive leak at the Texas GOP convention. DD: In 2007, I arranged for an elephant to walk behind Roskam in Wheaton’s Independence Day parade. Twice I had to shovel up two big dumps during the parade.
https://nypost.com/2026/06/12/us-news/elephant-takes-a-massive-leak-at-the-texas-gop-convention/

BREITBART
— Majority Believe Democrats Support Open Borders
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/06/12/poll-majority-believe-democrats-support-open-borders/

FEDERALIST
— Hundreds Of Noncitizens Found On New Jersey Voter Rolls
https://thefederalist.com/2026/06/12/hundreds-of-noncitizens-found-on-new-jersey-voter-rolls-after-senate-gop-helps-block-save-america-act/

FOX NEWS
— ‘60 Minutes’ devoted lots of time to aiding Democrats over the years. From the Clintons’ damage control to calling Biden ‘Catholic and devout,’ show’s pattern is hard to deny.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/60-minutes-devoted-lots-time-aiding-democrats-years.amp

GUN OWNERS OF AMERICA
— IL: Stop Illinois’ Backdoor Handgun Ban – TAKE ACTION
https://www.gunowners.org/il06122026/

NEWS BUSTERS
— CNN Bemoans ICE Arrest at School, Buries Illegals Fighting Cops
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/james-waterman/2026/06/12/cnn-bemoans-ice-arrest-school-buries-illegals-fighting-cops

PJ MEDIA
— Platner Is a Problem for the Entire Democrat Party
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2026/06/12/graham-platner-is-a-problem-for-the-entire-democrat-party-n4953903

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CBS NEWS
— Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-trillionaire-wealth/

NEW YORK TIMES
— To Defeat Democrats, Texas Governor Embraces the Hard Right. After years of keeping his distance, Gov. Greg Abbott is set to address Texas Republicans’ activist-led convention as hard-line conservatives gain influence within the party. DD: What do you say to those in Illinois who state that they are conservative Republicans but who ever-increasingly blame me and blame my blame GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for all the problems that the following have a) Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct, b) leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Illinois Republican Party (IRP), c) Republican elected officials in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois, and d) opponents and advocates direct election of IRP State Central Committee members?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/us/greg-abbott-texas-governor-hard-right.html

DES MOINES REGISTER
— DeSantis says Trump isn’t conservative, has ‘moved left’ on issues. DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too often, the Republican Party lets, if not encourages, candidates to run for and hold government and party offices who reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2023/12/13/ron-desantis-says-hes-more-conservative-than-donald-trump-iowa-caucuses-presidential-election-2024/71880946007/

ARKANSAS DEMOCRAT GAZETTE
— Decertify. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors constructively decertified me. I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980. I had earned an MBA when I was 27 and became a CPA when I was 30. After I transferred, I a) earned a master’s degree in accounting when I was 31, b) became a Certified Internal Auditor and licensed CPA when I was 32, c) became a Certified Fraud Examiner when I was 41, d) became a Certified Government Financial Manager when I was 45, e) became a Certified Financial Services Auditor when I was 47, f) became a Forensic Accountant when I was 48, and g) earned a master’s degree in financial markets and trading when I was 48. To constructively decertify me, my Democrat GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699 (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS, b) gave me bad job assignments, c) gave me unfair performance expectations, d) gave me unfair performance appraisals, e) kept off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, f) delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, g) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and h) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They would not have taken the aforesaid adverse actions against me if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, and/or veteran.
https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2026/jun/09/panel-declines-requests-to-decertify-former/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Overpaid Government Workers. DD: According to my critics/opponents, federal employees are overpaid and federal pensions are too generous. While I was a federal employee 1966-1997, my salary in today’s dollars increased from $19.57/hour to $154,682/year. In my defense, I earned a) a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, b) job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, c) job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981. My Civil Service Retirement System pension is $68,640/year. That is less than what my salary was in 1972 in today’s dollars.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/overpaid-government-workers-on-strike-47cb7627
— School Choice Benefits Low-Income Families. Vouchers and scholarships help children from cash-strapped families achieve the American dream. DD: My father never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars. Because he sent my brother and me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools, he had less money. Because of that, I had to work my way through college. Because of that, my ACT score and GPA suffered.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/school-choice-benefits-low-income-families-37bb8381

NARFE
— Advocacy Alert  DD: My Democrat GAO superiors were furious when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit when I was 40 in 1988 that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation.
https://narfe.informz.net/informzdataservice/onlineversion/ind/bWFpbGluZ2luc3RhbmNlaWQ9MzY1MzY0NiZzdWJzY3JpYmVyaWQ9NTI4MzExMjM1
(FROM THE ADVOCACY ALERT: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a notice with request for comment on a draft nondisclosure agreement (NDA) that new and existing federal employees be required to sign. NARFE opposes the new potential requirement as it imposes an implicit threat of retaliation for engaging in legal and protected speech. NARFE will be submitting formal comments on the notice, but we encourage you to share your views via the comments as well. Follow this link to leave a comment before the June 26th deadline: http://www.regulations.gov/commenton/OPM-2026-0100-0004  When drafting a comment, here’s a step by step guide NARFE has written to guide you. Thank you for your efforts to support NARFE’s advocacy and your federal community!)

FEDERAL NEWS NETWORK
— GAO: Federal workforce losses had steeper impact on probationary employees. DD: After I transferred from IRS to GAO when I was 31 in 1980, my Democrat GAO superiors were furious when they learned that they could not use probationary procedures to get rid of me. Further, in 1970, my Chicago Heights Firestone Store boss would never had hired me, but his boss had assigned me to him. He did not have a college degree. He refused to let me start until after I passed a probationary period in Indiana. He disapproved of my avoiding the Vietnam War draft, my being Protestant, my being German American, my having ancestors who had been in America since 1844, and my living in Crete.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/06/federal-workforce-losses-had-steeper-impact-on-probationary-employees/

ATLANTIC
— America’s ‘Marriage Material’ Shortage. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ, that is, they ever-increasingly destroy traditional marriage and family. 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 of the U.S. League of Savings Institutions. She did much to help elect Big Jim Thompson governor in 1976. She earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from DePaul in 1986.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/america-marriage-decline/681518/

HIGHER ED DRIVE
— Warren requests GAO investigation into Education Department employee reductions. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors used Gingrich budget cuts to get rid of their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, GS-13 or below, Protestant, German American, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I was all of the aforesaid. I survived until I was 49 in 1997 because I earned three job-related master’s degrees, six job-related professional certifications, and a job-related professional license.
https://www.highereddive.com/news/warren-requests-gao-investigation-education-department-layoffs/821144/

PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Political parties exist to help elect candidates who can and will defend their platform. The Republican Party platform is conservative. Far too often, the Republican Party lets, if not encourages, candidates to run for and hold government and party offices who reject far too many planks in the Republican Party platform, most commonly, its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2013/07/31/whither-the-gop-republicans-want-change-but-split-over-partys-direction/

GALLUP
— New High Say Supreme Court Is Too Conservative. DD: I should write about my critics/opponents who demonize me, denigrate me, and condemn me because I am “too conservative.”
https://news.gallup.com/poll/695759/new-high-say-supreme-court-too-conservative.aspx