FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Bailey moves into Chicago apartment
https://abc7chicago.com/post/illinois-republican-governor-candidate-darren-bailey-moves-chicago-apartment-south-side/18894497/
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pope doubles down on peace and unity message as Trump’s criticism continues
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/04/15/pope-doubles-down-on-peace-and-unity-message-as-trumps-criticism-continues/
DAILY HERALD
— Bailey moves into Chicago apartment as GOP candidate courts city, suburban votes
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260415/illinois-state-politics/bailey-moves-into-chicago-apartment-as-gop-candidate-courts-city-suburban-votes/
FOX ILLINOIS
— Illinois gun owners take stand against state regulation
https://www.foxillinois.com/news/local/illinois-gun-owners-take-stand-against-state-regulation/article_680a7738-6217-5dad-bb86-655de6c192b1.html
WAND TV
— IL House Democrats pass plan requiring K-12 Latin American history. DD: What is your race? What is your national origin?
https://www.wandtv.com/news/statehouse/il-house-democrats-pass-plan-requiring-k-12-latin-american-history/article_3af0272b-eb4f-4c64-9eed-3a139033d916.html
POLITICO ILLINOIS
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/04/16/wage-fight-exposes-policy-rift-00875186
CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/15/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-504/
— DeVore offers $5,000 reward for person behind oppo dump. Somebody mailed Republican precinct committeepersons in the 15th Congressional District a letter designed to dissuade them from voting for Tom DeVore for the state central committee.
https://capitolfax.com/2026/04/15/devore-offers-5000-reward-for-person-behind-oppo-dump/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
DUPAGE COUNTY REPUBLICAN CANTRAL COMMITTEE
— Tonight Kevin Coyne and Jeff Castle were unanimously elected as Chairman and Secretary, respectively, by the DuPage County GOP Precinct Committeemen at our County Convention.
https://www.facebook.com/DuPageGOP/photos/tonight-kevin-coyne-and-jeff-castle-were-unanimously-elected-as-chairman-and-sec/1358913306282038/
https://x.com/DuPageCountyGOP/status/2044606740222636185
MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— IRS: Who Pays How Much Income Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2026/04/15/who-pays-how-much-income-tax/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pope Leo XIV and Trump clash as Catholic faith pushes back against culture and government power. Public disagreement signals broader conflict over faith, authority and conscience.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/15/pope-leo-xiv-trump-clash-catholic-faith-pushes-back-culture/
— ICE sets 1 million deportation target for 2026, 2027.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/15/ice-sets-1-million-deportation-target-2026-2027/
— Women will decide the 2026 midterms.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/15/women-decide-2026-midterms/
— Dearborn, America’s first Muslim-run city. The extremist stronghold is gaining ground.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/apr/15/dearborn-americas-first-muslim-run-city/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— How Trump reshaped immigration court to crush asylum
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4530302/how-trump-reshaped-immigration-court-to-crush-asylum/
NEW YORK POST
— Illegal aliens cross border seeking ‘free’ sex changes in California
https://www.aol.com/articles/illegal-aliens-cross-border-seeking-150000325.html
DAILY SIGNAL
— Parents Want Civic Literacy and Colorblindness in Classrooms, Not Critical Race Theory
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/15/parents-want-civic-literacy-and-colorblindness-in-classrooms/
FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM
— America Cannot Survive Unlimited Birthright Citizenship
https://www.fairus.org/opinion/america-cannot-survive-unlimited-birthright-citizenship
FOX NEWS
— Chicago mayor warns of ‘teen trend’ after takeover chaos, violence concerns grow. The warning follows similar incidents nationwide, including a takeover in downtown Detroit over the weekend.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-mayor-warns-teen-trend-takeover-chaos-violence-concerns-grow
— Corey Brooks: Chicago’s deadly sanctuary madness is costing innocent Americans their lives
https://www.aol.com/articles/chicagos-deadly-sanctuary-madness-costing-140052956.html
TOWNHALL
— My Generation Cannot Sustain the America Democrats Are Creating. Over time, the United States has moved away from treating marriage and family formation as essential institutions. Public opinion reflects that change. Roughly 40 percent of Democrats say marriage is necessary for strong families, compared to approximately 80 percent of Republicans.
https://townhall.com/columnists/gregory-lyakhov/2026/04/13/my-generation-cannot-sustain-the-america-democrats-are-creating-n2674329
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
THE HILL
— GOP stops 4th attempt to curtail Trump’s Iran war powers
https://thehill.com/newsletters/defense-national-security/5833467-senate-rejects-iran-war-resolution/
ROLL CALL
— Republicans attach transgender issues to voter ID push. Trump made it clear control of Congress was part of strategy for SAVE America Act.
https://r’New girls clubs’ took on the old boys. Now Trump wants to ban themollcall.com/2026/04/15/republicans-attach-transgender-issues-to-voter-id-push/
CBS NEWS
— House Democrats file articles of impeachment against Hegseth
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pete-hegseth-impeachment-articles-house-democrats/
MSN
— Idaho Gov. Brad Little (R) signs severe anti-trans bill to ban kids from secretive transitions. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gop-governor-signs-severe-anti-trans-bill-to-ban-kids-from-secretive-transitions/ar-AA20S2cA
NEW YORK TIMES
— Vance Heckled in Antiwar Protest at Turning Point USA Event
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/jd-vance-turning-point-usa-protest.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000010841779/vance-turning-point-pope-heckle.html
USA TODAY
— ‘New girls clubs’ took on the old boys. Now Trump wants to ban them. DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly shout at everyone, and especially at those who minority, female, and/or younger, that old White men who are Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time cause everyone’s problems and that they especially cause all the problems that those who are minority, female, and/or younger have.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/04/15/trump-dei-crackdown-targets-women-networking/89426934007/
FOX DETROIT
— White House study says DEI policies cost US economy by promoting unqualified managers. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who had less work experience than I had, had less education than I had, had no professional certifications or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had and/or b) who were minority, female, younger than me, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time.
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/white-house-study-dei-policies-cost-economy-promoting-unqualified-managers
WOAI
— GOP Still Failing To Grasp Amnesty For Illegals Is Political Poison Pill
https://woai.iheart.com/featured/san-antonios-first-news/content/2026-04-14-gop-still-failing-to-grasp-amnesty-for-illegals-is-political-poison-pill/
NEWS NATION
— Democrats file articles of impeachment against Hegseth
https://www.newsnationnow.com/politics/democrats-impeachment-articles-against-hegseth/
NATIONAL TODAY
— California Shelters Provide Sex-Change Treatments to Homeless Illegal Aliens
https://nationaltoday.com/us/ca/san-francisco/news/2026/04/15/california-shelters-provide-sex-change-treatments-to-homeless-illegal-aliens/
CITY JOURNAL
— California Provides Sex-Change Procedures to Homeless Illegal Aliens. In San Francisco, ideology rules.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/homeless-illegal-immigrants-sex-change-california
— Mayor Mamdani’s Equity Plan Puts Group Identity Over Merit. Privileging ancestry risks dismantling the engine of opportunity that made New York City great.
https://www.city-journal.org/article/new-york-city-mamdani-racial-equity-plan
(FROM THE ARTICLE: New York City is one of the most opportunity-rich places on earth. It has attracted generations of immigrants of every race and creed, often arriving with little more than a suitcase and the firm belief that their hard work and determination would be rewarded. Yet Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s newly released Preliminary Citywide Racial Equity Plan—a 375-page monument to grievance politics and DEI—treats this urban engine of opportunity as a machine of oppression, in which “systemic racism” explains every gap in wealth, health, and achievement.
Released to great fanfare alongside a True Cost of Living report that dutifully slices data by race, Mamdani’s equity plan orders 45 agencies to view every budget line, hiring decision, and service through a “racial equity lens.” The result? More than 800 strategies and 600 indicators across seven domains—including economy, housing, education, and safety—that clothe institutionalized racial preferences in the garb of justice and will cost the city untold millions of dollars. The “missions and commitments” of city agencies are described with terms like diversity, equity, inclusion (listed separately so that the plan cannot be labeled DEI or critical theory), systemic disparity, racism, racial inequities, representation, discrimination, bias, segregation, and marginal. The agencies’ goals are to reinterpret their histories as structurally biased, to conduct extensive anti-bias trainings, to disaggregate data until disparities are all but guaranteed to appear, and then to align spending and policy decisions with predetermined equity targets, such as in hiring or minority- or women-owned business enterprise (M/WBE) procurement requirements. Mamdani’s equity plan is not the product of neutral analysis. It is a framework that presumes its conclusions and then operationalizes them. The result will be a city government less flexible and empirically oriented, one virtually obligated to see every outcome and process from a racial perspective. Searching keyword frequency offers insight into the plan’s identity hierarchy: “race,” including its variants “racist,” “racial,” and “racism,” appears 751 times. “Black” appears 189 times, “Latin” and “Hispanic” 97 times, “color” and “white” 49, “Asian” 27, and “Jew” or “Jewish” just once. In a sweeping, discrimination-obsessed government plan, a single, cursory mention of the group most disproportionately affected by bias attacks is striking. Jews have made up the largest share of hate-crime victims in New York City since 2000, when systematic tracking began. In recent years, even amid waves of attacks against Asians, attacks on Jews accounted for more than half of all hate-crime incidents (57 percent last year)—far in excess of the Jewish proportion of New York City residents. The word “merit” also gets but a single mention in the equity plan, relating to the New York State Civil Service Law requirement that candidates take a test to determine their qualifications for many jobs. The plan notes that this requirement reduced some groups’ “representation” in various positions. This suggests Mamdani’s readiness to favor identity-based characteristics over individual merit in civil service hiring. Dumbing down the test, for example, would align with the plan’s stated aim to produce equal employment outcomes across identity groups, reducing “gaps” without regard to actual performance in order to reach the goal of “equitable hiring.” This approach would undermine the very systems that once drove the city’s growth.)
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— Twenty-somethings are drinking less, exercising more—and changing the way they socialize with others. DD: While you were working, what did you do that your coworkers did not do? While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, virtually all my superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates were Democrats. While I worked for the Democrats who ran the Park Forest Post Office 1966-1969, I took job-related college courses 1966-1969, but none of my Democrat coworkers did that. While I worked for the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1980, I took job-related graduate evening courses 1972-1980, but none of my Democrat coworkers did that. I took the CPA examination and passed it on my first attempt in 1979, but none of my Democrat coworkers did that. While I worked for the Democrats who ran GAO 1980-1997, I took job-related graduate evening courses in 1980 and then 1992-1997, but none of my Democrat coworkers did that. I took the Certified Internal Auditor examination and passed it on my first attempt in 1981, but none of my Democrat coworkers did that. I became a licensed CPA in 1981, Certified Fraud Examiner in 1990, Certified Government Financial Managers in 1994, Certified Financial Services Auditor in 1996, and Forensic Accountant in 1997, but none of my Democrat GAO coworkers did that. To get promoted, my Democrat superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates in the federal government focused on getting rid of their superiors, supervisors, coworkers, and subordinates.
https://www.wsj.com/personal-finance/savings/gen-z-exercise-f33af2da
— IRS Chief Says Slimmer Tax Agency Is Pursuing Bad Actors. Frank Bisignano plans to lean on technology as tax enforcement staff shrinks. DD: My Democrat IRS superiors wasted my career. They wasted what I learned a) working for them 1971-1980, the last 5 1/2 years of which at the GS-12 Step 1-5 Levels, currently $100,059-$113,402/year, b) taking graduate evening business and accounting courses 1972-1980, and c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979. They would not have done that if I had been a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/irs-chief-says-slimmer-tax-agency-is-pursuing-bad-actors-abdcd520
GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— OPM cuts degree requirements. DD: Because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran GAO in 1980-1986 a) would not have hired me if I had not earned an MBA in 1976 and passed the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and b) would not have promoted me in 1986 if I had not earned a master’s degree in accounting in 1980, passed the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981, and became a licensed CPA in 1981. Because I was not a Democrat, minority, female, or veteran, the Democrats who ran IRS 1971-1974 a) would not have hired me in 1971 if I had not earned a bachelor’s degree in business in 1970 and passed the Federal Service Entrance Examination in 1970 and b) would not have promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974 if I had not been taking graduate evening business courses.
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/04/opm-cuts-degree-requirements-government-tech-jobs-new-standards/412886/?oref=ge-featured-river-top
FED WEEK
— ‘Career Compass’ Site for HR Positions Launched. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government wasted what I knew about HR. I earned a bachelor’s degree in HR from NIU when I was 21 in 1970. I earned an MBA from Loyola when I was 27 in 1976. HR was my area of concentration.
https://www.fedweek.com/federal-managers-daily-report/career-compass-site-for-hr-positions-launched/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
INDEPENDENT
— Tennessee drops ‘pride’ from June and renames its ‘Nuclear Family Month’ sparking outrage from LGBT community. Tennessee Republicans tried — and failed — to pass a measure that would ban the use of Pride flags inside government buildings.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-pride-nuclear-family-month-b2958328.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/pride-nuclear-family-month-june-tennessee-b2958453.html
DAILY MAIL
— Fury from LGBTQ community as Tennessee declares June as ‘Nuclear Family Month’ and DROPS ‘pride’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15736435/Tennessee-nuclear-family-month-pride.html
