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 mores 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 mote 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
