July 26, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/united-states-department-justice-lawsuit-illinois-cook-county-chicago-sanctuary-city-policies-dismissed-judge/17295816/

CBS2
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-illinois-sanctuary-laws/

WTTW
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/25/federal-judge-upholds-chicago-cook-county-and-illinois-protections-undocumented

WTTW & RIVER BENDER
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly use Emmett Till to promote more hatred against Illinois Republicans
https://news.wttw.com/2025/07/25/local-leaders-commemorate-emmett-till-s-birthday-preservation-church-building-where
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/on-emmett-tills-84th-birthday-duckworth-honors-till-family-legacy-at-historic-bronzeville-church-84693.cfm

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/25/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-challenging-illinois-chicago-sanctuary-policies/
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly fight deportation of their illegals. Illegals take bad jobs. Employers want cheap labor. All my employers would have hired illegals instead of me if they could have. My critics/opponents cannot say that because they did not have to take bad jobs because their parents had lots of money. Because my parents lacked money, I had to take bad jobs. I did yard work for 2 summers. I delivered newspapers for 4 years. I washed dishes for 18 months. I cleaned golf shoes, chipped slag, and pumped gasoline during 1 summer. I delivered mail for almost 3 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those whose parents had the most money. They look down on people like me if not despise people like me.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/25/trump-immigration-chicago-factories/
— FRONT PAGE WITH PICTURE: Chicago communities recovering from string of hateful defacements. Democrats run Chicago communities.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/26/chicago-communities-recovering-from-string-of-hateful-defacements/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— ALL OF THE FRONT PAGE: The Democrat Party platform ever-increasingly promotes more homelessness. The Democrat Party platform promotes LGBTQ. That destroys traditional marriage and family. That promotes homelessness.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2025/07/26/trump-order-targets-homelessness-visibility-not-solutions-advocates-say

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— Bigger SALT deduction will benefit Illinois taxpayers. A bigger SALT deduction would have helped my wife and I in the past, but not now.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/bigger-salt-deduction-will-benefit-illinois-taxpayers

ALTON TELEGRAPH
— Illinois Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more abortion
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/republicans-and-independents-have-warmed-on-the-20785712.php
— Illinois Democrats comply only with those laws that benefit them personally
https://www.thetelegraph.com/news/article/why-do-maga-faithful-support-trump-if-his-big-20783955.php

FORD COUNTY CHRONICLE
— Petition circulation to begin Aug. 5 for March 2026 election
https://www.fordcountychronicle.com/articles/featured/petition-circulation-to-begin-aug-5-for-march-2026-election/

BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://blockclubchicago.org/2025/07/25/aclu-city-using-lawsuits-to-fight-back-against-trumps-immigration-crackdown/

CWB CHICAGO
— Hyde Park targeted in growing string of anti-Semitic vandalism incidents. Democrats run Hyde Park.
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/07/hyde-park-targeted-in-growing-string-of-anti-semitic-vandalism-incidents-cpd-says.html

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/07/25/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-353/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— To get more votes from those who are liberal, minority, female, younger, poor, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or have ancestors who have not been in America for a long time, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more hatred against those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-poor, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. How successful have Democrat leaders been doing the aforesaid in your county, township, municipality, school district, and precinct? I should write about their success in DuPage County, Milton Township, Wheaton, Wheaton Warrenville School District 200, and my precinct. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

CENTER SQUARE ILLINOIS
— U.S. Rep. Mary Miller targets China as security threat to U.S. real estate, schools, farmland
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/article_2f5f4f53-7321-434d-9d6e-01d9a42a52d6.html
— Illinois lawmakers among highest paid in country, double national average. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being grossly overpaid. My GAO salary was $153,151/year in today’s dollars when I was 49 years old in 1997. In my defense, a) I had a earned a job-related bachelor’s degree and three job-related master’s degrees, b) I had earned six job-related professional certifications, and c) I had earned a job-related professional license.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/article_b15cec65-48ca-4af5-926d-38fc43224451.html

ILLINOIS FAMILY INSTITUTE
— Should Christians Send Their Children to Public School? My parents sending me to Missouri Synod Lutheran grade schools put me on track a) to earn a bachelor’s degree and three master’s degrees, b) to earn six professional certifications, and c) to earn a professional license.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb3hJFTSja0

ILLINOIS FAMILY ACTION
— Why Are Dead People Still on Illinois Voter Rolls?
https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/07/why-are-dead-people-still-on-illinois-voter-rolls-2025/

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— No. 2 no more: Illinois property taxes rank highest in U.S.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/no-2-no-more-illinois-property-taxes-rank-highest-in-u-s/
— Chicago pension sweetener would add $11.1 billion in liabilities. My critics/opponents who are not getting a pension and/or are not in line to get a pension oppose pensions and oppose those like me who get one. In my defense, I paid 7% of my federal salary into the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) for almost 30 years. In today’s dollars, my CSRS pension is only 44% of what my salary was when I was 49 years old and less than what my salary was when I was 23 years old.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-pension-sweetener-would-add-11-1-billion-in-liabilities/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/25/trump-loses-lawsuit-challenging-illinois-sanctuary-law/

WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3483050/judge-throws-out-trump-administration-lawsuit-sanctuary-city-chicago/

NEW YORK POST
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/26/us-news/trump-administrations-lawsuit-over-chicagos-sanctuary-city-policies-tossed-by-federal-judge/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Washington Post abandons last shred of self-awareness and publishes a how-to list about becoming a journalist. Rampell clearly isn’t living in reality. Here are a few tips on what it actually takes to be a columnist at the Washington Post. The mainstream news media exists to elect Democrats. According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist unless you promote the Democrat Party platform. Therefore, according to them, I am not a journalist.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/07/wapo_abandons_last_shred_of_self_awareness_and_publishes_a_how_to_list_about_becoming_a_journalist.html

BLAZE
— Trump administration says Obama’s ‘Dreamers’ have no legal status, can be arrested and deported
https://www.theblaze.com/news/daca-dhs-deport-arrest-statement

BREITBART
— Trump Lands in Britain and Immediately Torches Europe For Killing Itself With Immigration
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/07/26/trump-lands-immediately-torches-europe-for-suicide-by-open-borders/
— Tesla shares end week in decline amid third straight quarterly loss. Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters punish Tesla to punish Musk to punish Trump.
https://www.breitbart.com/news/tesla-shares-end-week-in-decline-amid-third-straight-quarterly-loss/
— My critics/opponents do everything that they can to stop me from sending out GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they do everything that they can to stop everyone from reading my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters. Failing that, they threaten to have their operatives and their dupes take even more and even bigger adverse actions against me. Last year, they had their operatives and their dupes end my membership on the Illinois Republican Party State Central Committee Platform and Resolutions Committee. In 2021, they had their operatives and their dupes end my service as the Republican fundraiser for Wheaton Independence Day parades and fireworks.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/07/25/fcc-commissioner-gomez-trump-engaged-in-campaign-of-censorship-and-control-of-media/

DAILY CALLER
— Trump Admin Returns Education Grants It Accused Of Funding Illegal Immigrants
https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/25/trump-admin-returns-grants-meant-for-funding-migrant-education/
— Wheaton Alumni Threaten To Pull Support After College Caves To Anti-Trump Protesters
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wheaton-alumni-threaten-to-pull-support-after-college-caves-to-anti-trump-protesters/ar-AA1zeEMD

DAILY SIGNAL
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans who are conservative, white, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/07/25/ayanna-pressley-proposes-codifying-dei-federal-government/

FOX NEWS
— Trump admin offers $608M for states to build migrant camps modeled after ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’  Five states are reportedly already in talks with DHS about replicating Florida’s eight-day construction model, according to Noem.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-offers-608m-states-build-migrant-camps-modeled-after-alligator-alcatraz
— DOJ, FBI used the ‘same tools’ to destroy Trump as a ‘citizen, candidate and president. My critics/opponents have their operatives and their dupes destroy those like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those a) who continue to have lots of religious, government, political, and/or financial clout in Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois and b) who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6376151110112
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-needs-stopped-before-he-seizes-news-outlets-sells-them-cronies-fired-abc-journalist-says
— Democrats and RINOs ever-increasingly use DEI to destroy Republicans who are conservative, white, male, older, non-poor, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/civil-rights-organization-declares-state-national-emergency-citing-attacks-dei

LEGAL INSURREXTION
— DEI Training Creates a Hostile Work Environment. My Democrat IRS and GAO superiors ever-increasingly used DEI training to ever-increasingly make their work environment more and more and more hostile for their employees who were conservative, Republican, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, and/or had ancestors who had been in America for a long time. I should write about that.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/07/equal-protection-project-amicus-brief-dei-training-can-constitute-hostile-work-environment/

PJ MEDIA
— Crisis at Media Matters As It Cuts Staff and Struggles to Pay Legal Bills
https://pjmedia.com/paula-bolyard/2025/07/25/reports-of-the-death-of-media-matters-have-not-been-greatly-exaggerated-n4942101

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

THE HILL
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5421494-trump-sanctuary-laws-illinois/
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket. Will Democrats change the name of their party to the “Epstein Party?”
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5419834-james-carville-donald-trump-maga-base-epstein-files/
— Trump places officials on leave. When I was 49 years old in 1997, my Democrat GAO superiors did far more than place me on leave, they forced me to retire. By doing that, they forced the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to pay me to not come to work.  So far, the CSRS has paid me $1.8 million in today’s dollars to not come to work.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5421304-noaa-officials-trump-sharpiegate/

MSNBC
— Hate-filled Trump-hating Trump-haters ever-increasingly put all their eggs in their Epstein basket. Will Democrats change the name of their party to the “Epstein Party?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L17z2M_UOg
— The mainstream news media exists to drive Trump’s approval rating down.
https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/trump-s-approval-rating-hits-second-term-low-at-37-gallup-poll-243856453670

ABC NEWS
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-dismisses-trump-administration-lawsuit-chicago-sanctuary-laws-124086411

NBC NEWS
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/federal-judge-dismisses-trump-administrations-lawsuit-chicago-sanctuar-rcna221197

CBS NEWS
— About 3,870 NASA employees have applied to depart the agency over two rounds through the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program. My Democrat Post Office, IRS, and GAO superiors always and increasingly wanted me to depart because I failed/refused to become a Democrat, because I was not a minority, female, or veteran, and because I increasingly complained about their political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, and age discrimination. They ever-increasingly did everything that they could to get rid of me. My Democrat Post Office superiors denied my sick leave requests and forced me to resign. My Democrat IRS superiors disallowed my travel vouchers and education deductions and never promoted me beyond GS-12. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to take a $23,472/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS to GAO, delayed my promotions and never promoted me beyond GS-13, kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and forced me to retire when I was 49 years old.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-workforce-employees-leave-agency/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Illinois Democrat leaders have had great success gerrymandering Illinois
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/25/us/politics/texas-democrats-redistricting.html

WASHINGTON POST
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/25/judge-dismisses-doj-illinois-chicago-immigration-lawsuit/
— 11 tips for becoming a journalist. The mainstream news media exists to elect Democrats. According to my critics/opponents, you are not a journalist unless you promote the Democrat Party platform. Therefore, according to them, I am not a journalist
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/23/column-writing-tips-media-rampell/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote Hamas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/25/gaza-hunger-trump-hamas-ceasefire/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly encourage citizens of foreign countries to give birth in America. They see those babies as being future Democrats.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/2025/07/25/immigration-birthright-citizenship-trump/bde2551e-6995-11f0-ac4f-195fdb8ee9a8_story.html
— Trump’s pick to protect federal workers shares a disdain for them. My critics/opponents despise/hate past, present, and future federal employees and federal retirees. I was a federal employee for almost 30 years. I have been a federal retiree for almost 28 years. I should write about my critics/opponents. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-s-pick-to-protect-federal-workers-shares-a-disdain-for-them/ar-AA1JcoKM
— Anticipate/expect that Democrat and RINO leaders will ever-increasingly use the Pope to promote more mass/illegal immigration.  Mass/illegal immigration will destroy Catholicism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/07/26/pope-leo-migrants-refugees/

USA TODAY
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/25/judge-dismisses-doj-sanctuary-lawsuit-against-illinois-chicago/85381781007/

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— This Trump Poll Reveals a Number That Should ‘Scare’ Democrats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTVMsfWO0uY
— Illinois Democrat leaders have declared a Second Civil War on Illinois Republicans. Illegals are their soldiers in their Illinois Democrat Army.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/judge-dismisses-doj-lawsuit-over-chicagos-sanctuary-protections-for-immigrants-09142b09

BLOOMBERG LAW
— My employers always paid their similarly qualified employees more who were Democrat, minority, female, younger, and/or veteran than their similarly qualified employees who were Republican, White, male, older,  and/or non-veteran.  My employers used Affirmative Action and DEI to justify that.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/employers-balance-state-pay-equity-laws-with-trump-anti-dei-push

CANNABIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly push more pot.
https://www.cannabissciencetech.com/view/building-knowledge-and-community-engagement-inside-the-university-of-illinois-groundbreaking-cannabis-research-program

COEUR D’ALENE PRESS
— Don’t let party elitists cross you off. I should write about past and present Illinois Republican Party, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, and Milton Township Republican Organization leaders who destroy Republican Precinct Committeemen like me who they cannot manipulate or dominate, who refuse to glorify and praise them, who refuse to pander to them, who refuse to serve as one of their operatives or dupes, who refuse to cover up their wrongdoing, and/or who refuse to give them money. I would focus on those who have had their operatives and their dupes take the most/biggest adverse actions against me lately.
https://cdapress.com/news/2025/jun/26/my-turn-dont-let-party-elitists-cross-you-off/

TIME
— Democrats ever-increasingly a) make it clear that they are anti-American and b) side with foreign countries.
https://www.aol.com/rosie-odonnell-responds-trump-threatens-142512243.html

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.