March 27, 2025

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

ABC7
— Democrat leaders reject Trump order that requires voters to show proof of US citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/donald-trump-election-news-today-voting-rights-groups-urge-local-voters-follow-il-law-despite-presidents-executive-order/16087064/
— Democrat leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-protest-immigration-advocates-rally-loop-possible-travel-ban-president-donald-trump-administration/16087244/
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly side with Hamas
https://abc7chicago.com/post/trump-administration-initiative-could-use-terror-laws-college-students-protesting-war-gaza-sparks-free-speech-concerns/16087394/

NBC5
— How to get election results in Chicago-area elections Tuesday
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/how-to-get-election-results-in-chicago-area-elections-tuesday/3707107/

CBS2
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/chicago-immigrant-rights-groups-possible-new-travel-ban/

FOX32
— Trump imposes 25% tariff on imported cars: ‘This is permanent’
https://www.fox32chicago.com/money/trump-tariffs-auto-imports
— Democrats leaders arrange protest in downtown Chicago over possible Trump travel ban
https://www.fox32chicago.com/video/1614866

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Illinois Democrats vow to defend state elections law against Trump executive order
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/illinois-democrats-vow-to-defend-state-elections-law-against-trumps-executive-order/
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/27/opinion-black-americans-donald-trump-civil-rights/

CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Trump cuts $153 million in Illinois public health, substance abuse programs. The Illinois cuts are part of $12 billion in grants that the federal Department of Health and Human Services canceled this week.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/03/26/trump-administration-cuts-illinois-mental-health-and-substance-abuse-programs-28-million
— Race, wealth disparities underlie turnout for ballot questions hitting voters’ wallets. Anticipate/expect that voters want tax increasers that they will not have to pay.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/elections/2025/03/26/tax-referendum-race-wealth-disparity-cook-county
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2025/03/26/illinois-education-funding-poll-public-schools
— Democrat leaders glorify and praise Lake View high school senior Bella Brown. What leadership skills did you show in high school? I showed none. Because I needed money for college, I washed dishes for the minimum wage in the basement of the S.S. Kresge in Chicago Heights during my junior and senior years at Crete-Monee High School and the summer in between. I used the money that I earned and saved to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint in May of 1966 that I used to commute from my parents’ home in Crete to a) summer jobs in 1966, b) classes at UIC 1966-1967, and c) delivering mail in Park Forest 1966-1967.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/03/26/education-bella-brown-national-honor-society-scholarship

DAILY HERALD
— District 200 school board race pits incumbents against challengers questioning middle school projects
https://www.dailyherald.com/20250326/local-politics/district-200-school-board-race-pits-incumbents-against-challengers-questioning-middle-school-project/

CRAIN’S CHICAGO BUSINESS
— As Trump’s attack sets in, Chicago’s Jenner & Block faces a choice: Fight or fold? GAO is just a shell of what it once was. If Gingrich had reformed GAO instead of gutting it and/or if Bowsher had reformed GAO and/or successfully fought Gingrich, there would be no need for a DOGE today.
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/law/trump-executive-order-forces-hard-choices-jenner-block
— Illinois EV sales surged, fueled by incentives
https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-ev-sales-surge-early-2025-fueled-incentives


WBEZ
— Democrat leaders always want higher taxes.
https://www.wbez.org/education/2025/03/26/new-poll-shows-most-in-illinois-want-more-funding-for-public-schools
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly promote more illegal immigration.
https://www.wbez.org/curious-city/2025/03/26/dnp

WGN RADIO
— The mainstream news media exists a) to elect Democrats and b) to defeat Republicans.
https://wgnradio.com/lisa-dent/how-has-the-trump-administration-affected-illinois/

SPRINGFIELD STATE JOURNAL REGISTER
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.sj-r.com/story/news/state/2025/03/26/us-senator-tammy-duckworth-calls-pete-hegseth-a-f-liar/82677446007/

JOURNAL COURIER
— Federal workers targeted for DEI-related activities file class action complaint. To promote DEI is to promote discrimination against those who are conservative, Republican, American, 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.myjournalcourier.com/news/politics/article/federal-workers-targeted-for-dei-related-20242710.php

RIVER BENDER
— All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats who a) 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) 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.riverbender.com/news/details/on-equal-pay-day-duckworth-durbin-join-senate-democrats-in-reintroducing-paycheck-fairness-act-to-help-end-wage-discrimination-close-gender-pay-gap-80977.cfm?

WAND TV & PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, Republicans discriminate against non-Republicans, and because of that, non-Republicans cannot succeed without massive government assistance.
https://www.wandtv.com/news/national/founders-of-black-owned-brands-adapt-their-hopes-and-business-plans-for-a-post-dei/article_9b6c8758-1614-5a7c-baf5-132208171197.html
https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2025-03-26/senior-issues/facing-funding-hurdles-il-march-for-meals-event-moves-forward/a95992-1

CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2025/03/26/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-276/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at voters to punish Trump by voting for Democrat and RINO candidates in the April 1, 2025 election. How much success have they had doing that 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. What do you say to RINO leaders who display yard signs for Democrat and RINO candidates? – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I oppose mass/illegal immigration. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— To promote Affirmative Action, DEI, and/or wokeness/wokeism is to promote more hatred against 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. – Dave Diersen
http://www/gopillinois.com
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.

MCHENRY COUNTY BLOG
— Another Democrat Uses the “F” Word
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/another-democrat-uses-the-f-word/
— Text Reveals Kat Abughazaleh’s Anti-Israel Views
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/text-reveals-out-kat-abughazalehs-anti-israeli-views/
— Kat Abughazaleh Upsets the Democratic Party Establishment
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/kat-abughazaleh-upsets-the-democratic-party-establishment/
— The Key Difference in the Schakowsky v. Abughazaleh Primary Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/the-key-difference-in-the-schakowsky-v-abughazaleh-primary-election/
— Democrats Shut Off Rep. Jeff Keicher’s Microphone
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/26/democrats-shut-off-rep-jeff-keichers-microphone/
— Lesperance Mails in Support of His Campaign for Nunda Township Road Commissioner Re-Election
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/lesperance-mails-in-support-of-his-campaign-for-nunda-township-road-commissioner-re-election/
— 26-Year Old Chicago Resident, TicTok “Influencer” Challenging 80-Year Old Jan Schakowsky
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/26-year-old-chicago-resident-tictoc-influencer-challenging-80-year-old-jan-schakowsky/
— Former Nunda Township Clerk Endorses Parrish for Road Commissioner
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/former-nunda-township-clerk-endorses-parrish-for-road-commissioner/
— Bill Maher Sems to Say Blue State Dems Too Stupid to Save Themselves, Illinois Set To Lose One or Two Seats in Congress
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/bill-maher-sems-to-say-blue-state-dems-too-stupid-to-save-themselves/
— Wilcox Opposes Shopping Bag Tax
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/wilcox-opposes-shopping-bag-tax/
— Pharmacies Must Sell One Hundred Needles Upon Request to Anyone Over 18 under Bill That Had No Committee Opposition
https://www.mchenrycountyblog.com/2025/03/25/pharmacies-must-sell-one-hundred-needles-upon-request-under-bill-that-had-no-committee-opposition/

ILLINOIS REVIEW
— The Democratic Party Exposes its True Allegiance. Democrat leaders want their illegals to vote.
https://www.illinoisreview.com/illinoisreview/2025/03/opinion-the-democratic-party-exposes-its-true-allegiance.html

ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Chicago aggravated batteries hit 5-year high; 3 in 5 victims are Black
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-aggravated-batteries-hit-5-year-high-3-in-5-victims-are-black/

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

WASHINGTON TIMES
— Pritzker puts himself forward as the Democrats’ anti-Trump champion
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/25/jb-pritzker-puts-forward-democrats-anti-trump-champion/
— Why women are struggling with marriage. Finding ‘Mr. Right’  What did you do to make yourself marriage material? By the time I got married when I was 29 years old in 1978, I had a) earned a job-related bachelor’s degree from NIU when I was 21, b) earned and a job-related master’s degree from Loyola when I was 27 , c) started earning more than $100,000/year in today’s dollars when I was 25, and c) bought a one bedroom condo in the Outer Drive East building when I was 27.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/women-struggling-marriage/
— Military academy leaders find ‘woke’ classes after combing through curriculum for DEI violations
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/mar/26/military-academy-leaders-find-handful-possibly-woke-courses-offered/

NEW YORK POST
— Trump admin bars illegal migrants and non-permanent residents from receiving taxpayer-backed mortgages. I got my first mortgage when I was 24 years old in 1972. I there had been as much pressure back then to give mortgages to illegals as there is now, I might not have gotten that mortgage.
https://nypost.com/2025/03/26/us-news/trump-admin-bars-illegal-migrants-and-non-permanent-residents-from-receiving-taxpayer-backed-mortgages/

AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
— If Judges Can Stymie the Will of the People, We Don’t Have a Democracy Anymore. The Trump administration is right: Judge Boasberg has no authority to direct the national security operations of the United States.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/if-judges-can-stymie-the-will-of-the-people-we-dont-have-a-democracy-anymore/

AMERICAN THINKER
— Hegseth boards plane flanked by two ‘bada**’ women, and the politically correct capitulation tour continues
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/hegseth_boards_plane_flanked_by_two_bada_women_and_the_politically_correct_capitulation_tour_continues.html

BLAZE
— GOP torches NPR, PBS for political bias amid public funding scrutiny
https://www.theblaze.com/news/gop-torches-npr-pbs-for-political-bias-amid-public-funding-scrutiny

BREITBART
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote the ever-increasingly profane Duckworth.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/26/dem-sen-tammy-duckworth-calls-for-pete-hegseth-to-resign-fking-liar/

CHRISTIANITY TODAY
— Religious Employers in Illinois May Be Compelled to Hire Abortion-Related Employees
https://www.christianitydaily.com/news/employers-in-illinois-may-be-compelled-to-hire-abortion-employees.html

COLLEGE FIX
— No-whites-allowed Illinois scholarship program for future professors under fire. My critics/opponents have always demonized me, denigrated me, and condemned me as being a stupid son of rich parents because I never got any scholarships. In my defense, I have stressed a) that neither of my parents attended college, b) that my father was only the first of my ancestors to earn a high school diploma, c) that he never earned more than $50,000/year in today’s dollars, d) that my mother never attended high school, and e) that I had to work my way through college.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/no-whites-allowed-illinois-scholarship-program-for-future-professors-under-fire/

DAILY CALLER
— Companies Backing Out Of Supporting Several Major Gay Pride Events Amid Trump’s DEI Crackdown
https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/26/companies-backing-out-of-supporting-several-major-gay-pride-events-amid-trumps-dei-crackdown/

FOX NEWS
— Migrants abusing the asylum system have slowed down dramatically
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6370602052112

LIFE NEWS
— Illinois Pro-Life March Calls Pritzker the Most Radically Pro-Abortion Governor in America
https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/26/illinois-pro-life-march-calls-jb-pritzker-the-most-radically-pro-abortion-governor-in-america/

REAL CLEAR EDUCATION
— K-12 Is Getting More Woke, Not Less
https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2025/03/26/k-12_is_getting_more_woke_not_less_1100069.html

TOWNHALL
— Trump Admin Needs to Reverse Biden Wokeness and Weaponization
https://townhall.com/columnists/derekhunter/2025/03/27/government-needs-to-root-out-wokeness-all-the-way-down-to-the-root-n2654509
— Rogue Judges Are a Threat to Democracy
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeremyfrankel/2025/03/26/gill-comments-on-boasberg-n2654516

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

REUTERS
— Trump’s immigration policies find support as he expands crackdown
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-policies-find-support-he-expands-crackdown-2025-03-26/

NEW YORK TIMES
— Hate-Filled Trump-Hating Trump-Haters Say That Trump Is Taking The Law Into His Own Hands.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/opinion/trump-judges-congress.html

FOX NASHVILLE
— PBS and NPR exist to promote the Democrat Party platform.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwYQHJEb5to

WALL STREET JOURNAL
— The Supreme Court, Race and Redistricting. The Justices have a chance to stop racial gerrymanders. Illinois Democrats horribly gerrymandered Illinois’ 3rd Congressional District to favor Hispanics.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/louisiana-v-callais-supreme-court-redistricting-racial-gerrymanders-brett-kavanaugh-23a099a3

BLOOMBERG
— Pritzker Is Ready to Brawl Through 2028
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-03-27/jb-pritzker-illinois-governor-is-ready-to-brawl-through-2028

BARRON’S
— Democrat And RINO Leaders Say That New Cars Could Become Luxury Purchase as Trump Tariffs Threaten Jump in Domestic Prices. I was able to buy a new car when I was 17 years old in 1966 with money that I earned washing dishes for the minimum wage for 18 months.
https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-032725/card/new-cars-could-become-luxury-purchase-as-trump-tariffs-threaten-jump-in-domestic-prices-cVEhyHjttRIWsf0LJ5IE

NPR
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, tariffs on auto makers will not bring manufacturing back. I worked on an automotive assembly line in Belvidere in early 1970.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5341796/will-trump-new-tariffs-on-auto-makers-bring-manufacturing-back

AMERICAN PROSPECT
— Democrats ever-increasingly call Republicans racists and sexists. Democrats ever-increasingly shout at everyone a) that Republicans cause all the problems that minorities and women have, and that because of that, b) minorities and women will forever need massive government assistance. I worked my way through college. I earned three master’s degrees. I earned six professional certifications. I earned a professional license. If a minority or a woman had done that, they would have been infinitely more successful career wise than I was. Ever since the 1960s, my employers have been under ever-increasing pressure from Democrat and RINO leaders to ever-increasingly give more preference to minorities and to women.
http://www.gopillinois.com
https://prospect.org/civil-rights/2025-03-27-trumps-simple-racism/

LGBTQ NATION
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasing destroy those who do not promote LGBTQ.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/donald-trumps-anti-dei-crusade-takes-a-page-straight-from-the-authoritarian-playbook/

DAILY MAIL
— DeSantis reveals bombshell plan to replace undocumented migrant workers. All of my employers would have hired citizens of foreign countries instead of me if they could have and I had to work my way through college. None of my critics/opponents can say that because they had wealthy parents who bought them cars, paid for their college expenses, and got them good jobs.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14541435/Ron-DeSantis-bombshell-plan-replace-undocumented-migrant-workers.html

GUARDIAN
— Democrat and RINO leaders ever-increasingly a) paint today’s Democrats as being Union soldiers in the Civil War and b) paint today’s Republicans as being Confederate soldiers in the Civil War. While all my ancestors immigrated during the 1840s and 1850s, they always lived in northeast Illinois and they all were Republicans.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/27/confederacy-trump-republican

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.