July 19, 2026

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Federal appeals court rules that New Jersey’s assault weapons ban is unconstitutional.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/federal-appeals-court-rules-new-jerseys-assault-weapons-ban-is-unconstitutional/19532978/

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/17/aldermen-chicago-police-ice-complaints/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOILD WITH PICTURE: Big gaps between Democratic, Republican campaign coffers in suburban House races. DD: What motivates you to donate money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes their demonstrated commitment and ability to defend and advance the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260718/us-congress-politics/big-gaps-between-democratic-republican-campaign-coffers-in-suburban-house-races/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against Trump.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260718/news/rally-promoting-voter-turnout-brings-good-trouble-to-arlington-heights/
— DD: To get more votes, Democrats ever-increasingly flood America with those who have demographics that vote for Democrats, that is, those who want/need/demand massive government assistance.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260719/letters-to-the-editor/fear-stoking-citizenship-debate/

CENTRAL ILLINOIS PROUD
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://www.centralillinoisproud.com/news/local-news/river-city-pride-peoria/amp/


FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— Secretary of State dismisses calls for clarity on migrant’s license status. DD: Under the Democrats and under the RINOs, anticipate/expect that ever-increasingly, those who drive vehicles will be noncitizens.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_92f9bb63-f01c-4b30-853f-33559b074085.html

JOHN KASS
— Media Mistrust and Why Illinois and California are Failing.
https://johnkassnews.com/media-mistrust-and-why-illinois-and-california-are-failing/

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— What motivates you to donate money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes their demonstrated commitment and ability to defend and advance the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks. – Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— What does your future hold for you? From what I see, under the Democrats and under the RINOs, the more of the following that you are, the bleaker that your future is: conservative, Republican, American, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Ever-increasingly, Democrats and RINOs will a) ascribe evil motives and bad judgement to everything that you say or do and b) blame you for everything that is bad. Ever-increasingly they will turn those who are the following against you: liberal/moderate, noncitizen, minority, female, younger, 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

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Democratic Party’s left-wing insurgency spreads to pivotal House race in Michigan. DD: Anticipate/expect that sooner or later, the Democrats who run Illinois, your county, your township, your municipality, and your school district will pivot further to the left.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jul/17/democratic-partys-left-wing-insurgency-spreads-pivotal-house-race/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Ben Shapiro denounces Marco Rubio’s socialist policies.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/in_focus/4654212/ben-shapiro-marco-rubio-socialist-policies/

AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE
— Liberal News Media Bias Has a Serious Effect. DD: Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media promotes the Democrat Party platform, that is, it ever-increasingly promotes more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action, DEI, that is, wokeness/wokeism, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. Ever-increasingly, the mainstream news media promotes more hated against those who have demographics that vote for Republicans, that is, those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.aei.org/articles/liberal-news-media-bias-has-a-serious-effect/

AMERICAN GREATNESS
— The Left Is Intrinsically Intolerant. 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. My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors never tolerated my refusing to become a Democrat. Because of that, to get rid of me, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. Because I had none of the aforesaid demographics, they ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action, DEI, and the Veterans Preference to get rid of me. The final straw was when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40 in 1988. To get rid of me, they a) got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and had finally been able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986, b) threw me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career, c) assigned me to a Democrat veteran who gave me very unfair performance expectations and a very unfair performance appraisal, and d) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance.
https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/18/the-left-is-intrinsically-intolerant-attacking-new-york-nuns-is-a-feature-not-a-bug-of-the-lefts-civil-religion/

BREITBART
— Britain Set to Become ‘Third-World Country’
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2026/07/18/farage-warns-britain-will-become-a-third-world-country-under-establishment-uniparty-government/
— Socialism is a Tool to Further Exploit People. DD: My refusing to become a Democrat harmed my efforts to achieve the American Dream. Under socialism, if you refuse to become a socialist, you will never achieve the American Dream.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2026/07/18/polis-socialism-a-tool-to-further-exploit-people/

DAILY CALLER
— Secret Service Agents Tasked With Protecting JD Vance’s Family Appear To Be Leaking Their Private Affairs to Left-Wing Media.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/07/17/secret-service-media-leaks-jd-vance-family-marine-two/

DAILY SIGNAL
— If We Don’t Teach Liberty to the Next Generation, We’ll Lose It. 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. I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years. To get promoted beyond GS-4 working for the Post Office, beyond GS-12 working for IRS, and beyond GS-13 working for GAO, you had to not only be a Democrat, but you had to excel at promoting Democrats who were the aforesaid. That is, you had to excel at getting rid of federal employees who were Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who had been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/07/18/liberty-next-generation/

FEDERALIST
— 7 Ways DSA Plans To Turn America Into A Third-World Communist Country.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/17/7-ways-dsa-plans-to-turn-america-into-a-third-world-communist-country/
— CNBC: ‘Best States To Live In’ Mutilate Kids, Free Criminals, Take All Your Money. DD: He who sets the criteria determines the outcome.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/17/cnbc-best-states-to-live-in-mutilate-kids-free-criminals-take-all-your-money/
— After Birthplace Citizenship Ruling, China Won’t Need Hackers To Meddle In US Elections.
https://thefederalist.com/2026/07/17/after-birthplace-citizenship-ruling-china-wont-need-hackers-to-meddle-in-us-elections/

FOX NEWS
— A two-day conference featuring socialist, anti-war and pro-Palestinian activists at Chicago Teachers Union headquarters is drawing criticism from an education advocate who says the gathering reflects priorities far removed from the classroom.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/far-left-activist-conference-teachers-union-hq-raises-classroom-concerns
— Socialism’s rise inside the Democratic Party now threatens the American Dream. DD: My refusing to become a Democrat harmed my efforts to achieve the American Dream. Under socialism, if you refuse to become a socialist, you will never achieve the American Dream.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/socialisms-rise-inside-democratic-party-threatens-american-dream

LEGAL INSURRECTION
— White Supremacy Narrative Alive and Well On College Campuses. Everything on the campuses is framed through a racial lens. DD: Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/white-supremacy-narrative-alive-and-well-on-college-campuses-criticalrace-org-report-reveals/
— Democrats Far Outraising Republicans in Key Senate Races. DD: What motivates you to donate money to Republican candidates? For me, it includes their demonstrated commitment and ability to defend and advance the Republican Party platform including its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2026/07/uh-oh-democrats-far-outraising-republicans-in-key-senate-races/

NATIONAL REVIEW
— How We Get Shameless Candidates. DD: I should write about those Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct  since 2000 who have blamed me the most for their defeats. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2026/09/authentically-bad-how-we-get-shameless-candidates/

NEW AMERICAN
— Mamdani’s Year Zero: NYC Whites Out White People From Its History. DD: Democrats and RINOs have always used Affirmative Action and DEI to get rid of Republicans.
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/mamdanis-year-zero-nyc-whites-out-white-people-from-its-history/

NEWS BUSTERS
— The View Fears Testosterone for Male Solders, But Demand Trans in Military.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2026/07/17/view-fears-testosterone-male-solders-demand-trans-military

TOWNHALL
— Why the Left Hates Jews and Christians. DD: My Democrat superiors in the federal government had my many Jewish superiors and supervisors take many big adverse actions against me. I should write about that.
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2026/07/18/why-the-left-hates-jews-and-christians-n2679686

WESTERN JOURNAL
— Mamdani-backed candidate who blamed 9/11 on American ‘capitalism and racism’ wins Democratic primary. DD: One of the many reasons why 9/11 continues to have a big impact on me is my having been in the buildings that fell in New York when I worked for GAO. When the buildings fell, I was delivering press release kits for Republican State Representative Randy Hultgren.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/mamdani-backed-candidate-who-blamed-9-11-on-american-capitalism-and-racism-wins-democratic-primary/ar-AA26sCYP

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NEW YORK TIMES
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly a) glorify and praise their illegals and b) fight their deportation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/us/immigration-chicago-prosecutors.html
— Democratic Lawmakers Tell Military to Refuse Illegal Orders. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, I never refused to carry out any order that they gave me, including their ever-increasing orders to give more and more and more preference to my Democrat subordinates who were minority, female, younger, veteran, disabled, non-Protestant, non-German American, had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time, and/or had performance problems. All of those who they assigned me to supervise were many, most, if not virtually all of the aforesaid. But that was not enough for my Democrat superiors. When I was 49 in 1997, they forced me to retire and gave my Black subordinate my job and my preferred corner office. 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/democratic-lawmakers-illegal-orders.html

FED WEEK & GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE
— Rule Finalized Giving OPM Power to Fire Federal Employees on Suitability Grounds. 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. According to my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors, I was never a suitable federal employee because I refused to become a Democrat. Because of that, to get rid of me, they ever-increasingly took more and bigger adverse actions against me. Because I had none of the aforesaid demographics, they ever-increasingly used Affirmative Action, DEI, and the Veterans Preference to get rid of me. The final straw was when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40 in 1988. To get rid of me, they a) got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and had finally been able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986, b) threw me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career, c) assigned me to a Democrat veteran who gave me very unfair performance expectations and a very unfair performance appraisal, and d) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance.
https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/rule-finalized-giving-opm-power-to-fire-federal-employees-on-suitability-grounds/
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2026/07/opm-finalizes-nixonian-rule-centralizing-enabling-some-firings/414575/

FEDERAL NEWS NEWORK
— Non-disclosure agreements for federal employees. DD: I was a whistleblower. I ever-increasingly complained about my Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors’ ever-increasing political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. Consequently, they took ever-increasingly bigger adverse actions against me. For my Democrat GAO superiors, the final straw was when I became an active member in a class action lawsuit that charged them with reverse discrimination, age discrimination, and retaliation when I was 40 in 1988. To get rid of me, they a) got rid of the GAO manager who had arranged for my transfer from IRS in 1980 and had finally been able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me in 1986, b) threw me off audits of IRS for the rest of my GAO career, c) assigned me to a Democrat veteran who gave me very unfair performance expectations and a very unfair performance appraisal, and d) ranked me at the bottom of my coworkers for pay-for-performance.
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/06/nda-proposal-draws-concerns-of-chilling-effect-on-federal-employees/

REASON
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly replace American students with foreign students.
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/07/18/trumps-harmful-and-unjust-restrictions-on-foreign-students/

PEW RESEARCH
— DD: Democrat and RINO leaders are extremely divisive. They ever-increasingly turn those who are liberal/moderate, minority, female, younger, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time against those who are conservative, White, male, older, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/09/19/americans-feelings-about-politics-polarization-and-the-tone-of-political-discourse/

Author: David Diersen

The opinions that I express in GOPUSA ILLINOIS emails are based on experience that I have gained doing many things since 1948. I base my opinions on what I learned a) working for the federal government for almost 30 years -- Post Office 1966-1969, IRS 1971-1980, and GAO 1980-1997, serving on the Executive Committee of the Association of Government Accountants Chicago Chapter 1983-1996, and being a union member while I worked for the Post Office and IRS; b) earning an MBA from Loyola in 1976, a masters degree in accounting from DePaul in 1980, and a masters degree in financial markets and trading from IIT in 1997; c) passing the CPA examination on my first attempt in 1979 and passing the Certified Internal Auditor examination on my first attempt in 1981; c) serving as a Republican Precinct Committeeman since 1999, the GOPUSA Illinois Editor since 2000, the TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois Chairman 2005-2012, a member of the 2008 Illinois Republican Party (IRP) Platform and Resolutions Committee, a Wheaton Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee member 2003-2011, the Milton Township Republican Central Committee webmaster 2008-2010 and 2000-2004, an Illinois Center Right Coalition Steering Committee member 2003-2007, and an American Association of Political Consultants Midwest Chapter board member 2001-2004; d) attending the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2016 IRP State Conventions as a delegate; e) being the subject of a nasty 4-page article in the February 1978 issue of Money Magazine; f) pursing litigation including Diersen v. GAO and Diersen v. Chicago Car Exchange; g) being married since 1978; h) living in Crete 1948-1972, in University Park 1972-1976, in Chicago 1976-1978, and in DuPage County, Milton Township, and Wheaton since 1978; and i) being baptized, raised, and confirmed as a Missouri Synod Lutheran.