FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Pritzker kicks off statewide bus tour as part of reelection campaign against Bailey.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/il-democratic-gov-jb-pritzker-kicks-off-statewide-bus-tour-governor-election-race-republican-darren-bailey-continues/19739557/
— Federal judge lifts all blocks on Trump mail-in ballots executive order.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/federal-judge-lifts-blocks-trump-mail-ballots-executive-order/19739846/
— State Department preparing to cancel tens of thousands of visas held by asylum seekers.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/state-department-preparing-cancel-tens-thousands-visas-held-asylum-seekers-officials/19738439/
NBC5
— Mayor Brandon Johnson defends administration’s approach to teen takeovers. DD: What is your municipality doing to stop Democrat teen takeovers? When you were a teen, what did you do when you were not in school? 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 delivered mail 1966-1969.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/mayor-brandon-johnson-defends-administrations-approach-to-teen-takeovers/3980831/
CBS2
— Grocery stores in Gary, Indiana, restocking after weeks without power. DD: The more that overhead lines bring power to your home, the more that those lines are near trees, the more that I recommend getting a whole-house backup electric generator.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/gary-crocery-stores-short-supply/
WBEZ
— Mayor’s executive order targets companies helping with deportation campaign. A national group behind the order says the city holds $3.19 billion in contracts with 42 companies doing business with ICE.
https://www.wbez.org/city-hall/2026/08/26/mayor-brandon-johnson-executive-order-contracts-city-business-deportation-campaign
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Pritzker pounces on President Donald Trump in campaign bus tour kickoff.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/gov-jb-pritzker-pounces-on-president-donald-trump-in-campaign-bus-tour-kickoff/
— Illinois joins lawsuit to block Postal Service from deciding mail-in voting eligibility.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/illinois-mail-in-ballot-lawsuit/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/chicago-immigration-court/
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/immigration-enforcement-contracts/
— Arab American activists rally outside Oak Lawn Village Hall, say police placed 14-year-old in chokehold.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/arab-american-activists-rally-oak-lawn/
— Today in Chicago History: 1968 Democratic National Convention begins with ‘the whole world watching.’ What did you do during August of 1968? I lived with my parents and brother in Crete. I delivered mail full-time for the Park Forest Post Office. I drove my 1968 Oldsmobile 442.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/08/26/august-26-chicago-history/
DAILY HERALD
— ‘Our contingency plans have contingency plans’: Officials preparing for potential changes ahead of Election Day.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260826/nation-and-world-politics/our-contingency-plans-have-contingency-plans-suburban-officials-preparing-for-potential-changes-a/
— Bailey implores GOP to improve turnout as campaign’s focus shifts to suburbs. DD: I hope that each of the 18 Republican candidates on the November 3, 2006 ballot in my precinct will provide enough of their campaign pieces to the Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO) so that I can pick them up 400 pieces and hand-deliver them to the 400 residences in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter. That is 7,200 pieces (400 X 18). So far, I have placed 660 DuPage County Election Division-provided mailing labels on 400 DuPage County GOP-provided envelopes. I have split them into five batches and put them in walk order. I want to start stuffing those envelopes with MTRO-provided outstanding Voter Guides and the literature pieces ASAP. I want to start stuffing as soon as I have at least 100 pieces from each of the candidates. As soon as the sample ballot for my precinct is available, I will make 400 photocopies, stuff them, and head out the door. The 18 candidates are Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Solomon, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260826/illinois-state-politics/bailey-implores-gop-to-improve-turnout-as-campaigns-focus-shifts-to-suburbs/
— Clerk’s tantrum doesn’t justify elections ‘blank check.’
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260826/letters-to-the-editor/clerks-tantrum-doesnt-justify-elections-blank-check/
CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Johnson puts city contractors on notice over ties to ICE.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-brandon-johnson-ice-executive-order-20260826/
— Illinois joins renewed push to stop Trump mail-ballot curbs.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics-policy/ccb-mail-ballots-lawsuit-supreme-court-20260826/
QUAD CITY TIMES
— Bailey speaks at Tyson plant.
https://qctimes.com/news/local/business/article_526f3c45-1c05-4d84-8e7f-0f48a8efdc1e.html
CITY OF WHEATON
— Community Invited to September 11 Remembrance Ceremony. DD: I organized Wheaton’s 2003 and 2004 9/11 remembrance ceremonies.
https://page.alertsense.com/content/1745/196982
(ALSO FROM WHEATON: Wheaton Car Show Draws Thousands to Memorial Park. The Wheaton Concours Car Show was a tremendous success, with an estimated 5,000 attendees gathering at Memorial Park on August 22. The free event, hosted in partnership with the Wheaton Police Department and The Hamilton Collection, brought the community together to see an impressive collection of exotic cars, supercars, classics and American muscle cars while supporting Special Olympics Illinois. Thank you to everyone who attended, participated and helped make the event such an incredible day in Wheaton!)
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Pritzker record: Illinois loses tens of thousands of residents during his tenure.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/illinois-population-loss-pritzker/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Half of America’s power plants are sitting idle while your electric bill soars.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4691404/building-transmission-lines-impact-electricity-prices-bottlenecks-cost-allocation/
BREITBART
— Trump Pauses Immigrant Visas Globally for Training to Avoid Deadbeats, Troublemakers.
https://www.breitbart.com/immigration/2026/08/26/nolte-trump-pauses-immigrant-visas-globally-for-training-to-avoid-deadbeats-troublemakers/
NATIONAL REVIEW
— It’s No Mystery Why Young Men Are Leaving the Workforce. DD: If I had been a woman, the Democrats who ran the federal government would have promoted me into their Senior Executive Service long before I was 40 in 1988. While I worked for them, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management, an MBA, and master’s degrees in accounting and in financial markets and trading. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I became a licensed CPA. I earned professional certifications in fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. But they delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13. None of my Democrat coworkers who were women who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/08/its-no-mystery-why-young-men-are-leaving-the-workforce/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: “American women now hold 176,000 more payroll jobs than American men,” according to the Wall Street Journal and July data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. For many years under progressive administrations and in major companies, the DEI regime has reigned. A lot of firms had either official or unofficial gender and/or race targets they were striving to meet. The NASDAQ, which includes more than 3,000 major companies, had rules requiring its listees to publicly disclose diversity statistics and to have — or explain why they did not have — at least two directors who are minorities, including one who self-identifies as female. Though not a strict numerical quota, such forced diversity disclosure served as a moral litmus test for companies. Though a court eventually struck down the rules, the exchange for over three years signaled that females should be privileged in C-suites. That and other virtue-signaling memos trickled down through the culture to this generation of young men. In college, I remember a male friend’s frustration as he and other finance undergrads competed for a small pool of jobs while big banks clamored to fill spots with females, despite their having, in his telling, less impressive applications. Before President Trump issued executive orders prohibiting DEI in the federal government, affirmative action in the awarding of government contracting was widespread, effectively a different kind of cronyism. The message was the same in college admissions. Before the Supreme Court declared affirmative action in admissions unconstitutional in 2023, colleges participated in discrimination against white men by applying racial preferences. Even now, some schools, including Duke Law, have tried to circumvent the Supreme Court’s Harvard ruling via proxy discrimination, developing mechanisms to flag for ostensibly marginalized backgrounds in admissions essays and usher in minority candidates. As for women, their rising numbers in colleges were aided by the lifting of artificial caps on female enrollment. Before the 1970s, schools such as Yale University limited female enrollment to a small fraction of the class. With affirmative action and Title IX, universities dropped these ceilings and invited many new female students. However, some STEM institutions didn’t just open the doors — they gave favorable consideration to women to counter underrepresentation. “Girls are twice as likely as boys to get into Caltech or MIT, to make up for the fact that they are half as likely to apply,” the Washington Post wrote in 2024. To be fair, now that females make up nearly 60 percent of all college students nationwide, some colleges have allegedly practiced gender balancing in the other direction. Dubbed “affirmative action” for men, this isn’t the way, either. But even if female enrollees didn’t technically steal spots that would otherwise go to men, the disproportionate number changed the constitution of the average college. It is not a coincidence that gender studies, which is based on the idea that the patriarchy is the root of evil in society, has exploded as a discipline across academia in the past decade. With women dominating, colleges have evolved to focus on women’s concerns, as Helen Andrews wrote in her essay “The Great Feminization.” Gee, maybe that was a deterrent to men? If colleges are increasingly adopting an ideological tone that treats maleness as problematic, that might chase men out or keep men away. A conscious policy choice that has displaced young men in the workforce involves legal immigration programs such as H-1B, which, aside from being a corrupt labor arrangement, takes jobs from young men in technical fields. For those who would argue that these immigrants bring special genius and expertise that Americans cannot provide, there is no highly skilled worker shortage in the United States. Rather, it is more likely that the infusion of foreign labor depresses wages for Americans, disincentivizing them from putting their STEM degrees to use or pursuing them in the first place. That being said, there is a whole sector begging for young men to join. An analysis this year found that nearly 1.4 million trade jobs across seven essential industries will be unfilled by 2030. Since the turn of the century, labor force participation has steadily declined across the board. As tradesmen retire, new apprentices aren’t replacing them fast enough. For every five tradesmen who leave the workforce, only two younger workers step up. There is incredible financial opportunity for young men in vocations if they want it. It’s true that for many years, young men have repeatedly run into walls erected by politicians and corporate partners who determined that the appearance of equity was more important than fairness. The trend of the stay-at-home boyfriend is partly a consequence of a workforce now dominated by women, which was not so much an organic development as one that was socially engineered. Their disengagement from American life did not happen in a vacuum. Young men feel defeated, and they cannot be entirely blamed for that. But the answer is not to grovel to despairing young men or treat them with kid gloves. The Trump administration has done the foundational work of ripping up the institutional barriers standing against men, though some remain. We, as a culture, must continually affirm that young men are valuable parts of our economy and our future. And entrepreneurship and getting your hands dirty are still paths welcome to young men who desire to build.)
REAL CLEAR POLITICS
— The Cost of California’s ‘Sanctuary’ Policies – In Human Lives.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2026/08/26/the_cost_of_californias_sanctuary_policies_-_in_human_lives_709063.html
WHITE HOUSE
— Trump Delivers: 14 Recent Wins You May Have Missed.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/08/trump-delivers-14-wins-you-may-have-missed/
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arrests-record-high-july-new-data/
NEW YORK TIMES
— Stop Trying to Make Everyone Go to College. DD: My father often decried his not having a college degree. That motivated me to earn not only four college degrees, but a six professional certifications, and a professional license even though no one saw me as being college material. My ACT score was only 24 and I only just barely made it into the upper 20% of my class.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opinion/college-technical-vocational-education.html
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— States Face Election Confusion as Trump Administration Upends Mail-Ballot Rules. With clock ticking and litigation raging, new Trump-favored postal regulations threaten to disrupt midterms.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/states-face-election-confusion-after-postal-service-upends-mail-ballot-rules-6525fe7d
FORBES
— There Are 5 Mentors Your Career Needs. How Many Do You Have? DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat IRS superiors got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me when I was 23, 24, and 25. To get rid of me, my Democrat GAO superiors got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS when I was 31 and was finally able to assign me audits of IRS when I was 37 and to promoted me when I was 38.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andymolinsky/2026/04/20/there-are-5-mentors-your-career-needs-how-many-do-you-have/
— Job Ads Deter Applicants Age 40 And Older.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sheilacallaham/2022/09/26/new-research-shows-job-ads-deter-applicants-age-40-and-older/
LAW
— Discouragement. DD: To get rid of me, my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors discouraged me from earning job-related college degrees, professional certifications, and professional licenses. Nevertheless, I earned a bachelor’s degree in management, an MBA, and master’s degrees in accounting and in financial markets and trading. I passed the CPA and Certified Internal Auditor examinations on my first attempt. I became a licensed CPA. I earned professional certifications in fraud examination, government financial management, financial services auditing, and forensic accounting. None of my Democrat coworkers who my Democrat superiors promoted over me came close to doing what I did.
https://www.law.com/2026/08/24/how-i-made-law-firm-leadership-do-not-let-being-underestimated-discourage-you-says-hillary-nappi-of-awk-survivor-advocate-attorneys/
FROM FOREIGN SOURCES
TIMES OF INDIA
— Generac has a $1.6 billion data-center order backlog.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/wisconsin-based-generator-company-has-a-1-6-billion-data-center-order-backlog-ceo-says-the-question-is-/articleshow/133455798.cms
