FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
ABC7
— Vice President JD Vance to deliver keynote address on final day of Republican midterm convention in Dallas, Texas.
https://abc7chicago.com/story/vice-president-jd-vance-deliver-keynote-address-final-day-republican-midterm-convention-dallas-texas/19816642/
— Charlie Kirk remembered at GOP midterm convention 1 year after shooting death.
https://abc7chicago.com/post/charlie-kirk-shooting-year-political-activist-was-killed-front-thousands-utah-speaking-event/19816054/
NBC5
— Trump claims U.S. adults will get $5k ‘dividend’ if Republicans win midterms.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/video/news/politics/donald-trump-dividend-5k-elections-republicans/3987081/
— Trump’s $5,000 ‘dividend’ offer sparks intense criticism, questions of legality. President Trump’s proposal to send Americans $5,000 checks if Republicans retain control of Congress has sparked criticism and even mockery.
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/trumps-5000-dividend-offer-sparks-intense-criticism-questions-of-legality/3987329/
FOX32
— Charlie Kirk death: Where the case stands 1 year after his death.
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/charlie-kirk-death-where-murder-case-stands-1-year-later
WTTW
— Despite More Diverse Applicants, Those Promoted in CFD Remain Overwhelmingly White, Male. DD: All my coworkers who my Democrat superiors in the federal government promoted over me were Democrats a) who were minority, female, younger, veteran, non-Protestant, non-German American, and/or had ancestors who had not been in America for a long time and/or b) who had less education than I had, had less work experience than I had, had no professional certification or fewer than I had, and/or had no professional license like the one I had. None of my coworkers came close to doing what I did. I earned three job-related master’s degrees, I earned six job-related professional certifications, and I earned a job-related professional license.
https://news.wttw.com/2026/09/09/despite-more-diverse-applicants-those-promoted-cfd-remain-overwhelmingly-white-male
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— Republican convention provides JD Vance center stage moment as party faces midterm verdict.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/jd-vance-republican-midterm-convention/
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Hoping to salvage midterms, Donald Trump makes dubious pledge to give every US adult $5,000 if GOP wins.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/donald-trump-gop-dallas-convention/
— DD: Democrat leaders say “Republicans showcase their ‘big beautiful bill’ to voters, but the law’s impact has been mixed.”
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/republicans-big-beautiful-bill-impact/
— President Donald Trump promises $500 Obamacare rebate checks for 1M enrollees in 30 states.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/donald-trump-500-obamacare-rebate-checks/
— Lake County Board GOP candidate may not appear on ballot: ‘It should be up to the voters.’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/09/lake-county-board-jorge-sanchez/
— Donald Trump wants to send Americans money. Congress and economists don’t seem thrilled with the idea.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/donald-trump-money-congress-economists/
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasing promote more pot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/10/cannabis-shop-streeterville/
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
— Memories of 9/11 horror still fresh after a quarter-century. The worst bloodshed on American soil since the Civil War unfolded on an ordinary Tuesday morning in September.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2026/09/10/9-11-memories-25th-anniversary-twin-towers-chicago-scene
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more LGBTQ.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2026/09/10/illinois-officials-put-pressure-on-trump-administration-to-restore-crisis-lifeline-for-lgbtq-youth
RIVER BENDER
— Duckworth Pushes For Clarity And Due Process For Exemplary Military Officers Whose Promotions Are Blocked By Pete Hegseth. DD: My Democrat GAO superiors blocked my promotion to GS-14, my Democrat IRS superiors to GS-13, and my Democrat Post Office superiors to GS-5. My Democrat GAO superiors forced me to retire. My Democrat Post Office superiors forced me to resign. Would Duckworth have come to my defense?
https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/duckworth-pushes-for-clarity-and-due-process-for-exemplary-military-officers-whose-promotions-are-blocked-by-pete-hegseth-96610.cfm?
BELOIT DAILY NEWS
— Republicans honor Charlie Kirk before Vance and Trump speak on Day 2 of convention.
https://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/national-news/the-latest-republicans-honor-charlie-kirk-before-vance-and-trump-speak-on-day-2-of/article_cea4077f-a7ff-5b2a-a221-095da4772f4e.html
WSPY
— Republican governor candidate Darren Bailey coming to Sandwich Fair.
https://www.wspynews.com/news/local/republican-governor-candidate-darren-bailey-coming-to-sandwich-fair/article_f01c8453-a2a3-4bd9-b9fe-b95476ebc3ee.html
ELMHURST PATCH
— ICE Jail Unlikely In Elmhurst, Given State Law: Official. Residents speculated earlier this year that such a lockup may come to town.
https://patch.com/illinois/elmhurst/ice-jail-unlikely-elmhurst-given-state-law-official
CAPITOL FAX
— Afternoon roundup
https://capitolfax.com/2026/09/10/isabel%e2%80%99s-afternoon-roundup-592/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— According to Democrat and RINO leaders, about half of American voters view the Republican Party’s platform as being too conservative. They ignore, downplay, dismiss, and belittle the fact that a similar share view the Democratic Party’s platform as too liberal. Since 2000, RINO leaders of the Milton Township Republican Organization, DuPage County Republican Central Committee, Illinois Republican Party (IRP), Wheaton, Milton Township, DuPage County, and Illinois have used my promotion conservative principles and the Republican Party platform against me big time. Previously the RINO leaders of TAPROOT Republicans of Illinois and Illinois Center Right Coalition used that against me big time. Ever-increasingly, the aforesaid blame me and blame my GOPUSA ILLINOIS newsletters for defeats suffered by Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct. They ever-increasingly hint/imply/argue/shout at Republican candidates on ballots in my precinct that the more that I do to help elect them, the fewer votes that they will get and especially from Independent voters. They would be overjoyed if I left the IRP and joined the Conservative Party of Illinois ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_(United_States)#Illinois ). – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— RINO leaders want the Republican Party to be the Democrat Lite Party. They want the Republican Party to dump its personal responsibility, traditional marriage and family, right to life, immigration, anti-vice, Second Amendment, and/or equal opportunity (no race or gender based preference giving) planks in its platform. But the Republican Party exists to promote conservatism. The Democrat Party exists to promote liberalism. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— I challenge my critics/opponents to justify their demonizing me, denigrating me, and condemning me as being too conservative. To promote personal responsibility, I discourage the promotion of dependency on government and charity. To promote traditional marriage and family, I discourage the promotion of LGBTQ. To promote right to life, I discourage the promotion of abortion. To promote enforcement of immigration laws, I discourage the promotion of illegal immigration. To promote conservative principles, I discourage the promotion of vices. To promote Second Amendment rights, I discourage the diminishment of those rights. To promote equal opportunity, I discourage the promotion of Affirmative Action, DEI, and wokeness/wokeism, that is, I discourage the promotion of race and gender based preference giving, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
ILLINOIS POLICY INSTITUTE
— Because of pensions, Chicago pays $157 for $100 of payroll.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/chicago-pension-crisis-payroll-premium-2025/
FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES
WASHINGTON TIMES
— 90% of colleges still don’t require the SAT, even as the Ivy League returns to it.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/sep/10/report-finds-90-colleges-resisting-return-mandatory-sat/
WASHINGTON EXAMINER
— Trump’s $5,000 dividend pledge divides Republicans.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4721724/trump-dividend-pledge-divides-republicans-spending/
— Former presidents, excluding Trump, will attend 9/11 ceremony in New York City.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/4721740/former-presidents-trump-911-new-york-and-jd-vance-moments-of-silence/
— The dark celebration of the ‘Kirkaversary.’
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/patriotism-unity/4720841/dark-celebration-kirkaversary/
— The Left made Charlie Kirk’s assassination inevitable. Stop burying the politics.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4720907/charlie-kirk-assassination-left-wing-identity-politics/
— They couldn’t win the argument, so they ended it: One year after Charlie Kirk.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4720866/charlie-kirk-political-violence-politics-progressivism/
NEW YORK POST
— 25 years after the horrific 9/11 attacks, America’s collective memory is fading — but the lessons learned mustn’t be forgotten.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/10/opinion/25-years-after-the-horrific-9-11-attacks-its-meaning-must-continue-to-stand-forever/
— Vance pays tribute to friend Charlie Kirk — credits widow Erika for major life decision.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/10/us-news/jd-vance-pays-tribute-to-friend-charlie-kirk-credits-widow-erika-for-major-life-decision/
BREITBART
— Liberals Are Worried Too Many Women Got Jobs Last Month.
https://link.breitbart.com/view/5d13d86afc942d626ccc80b7s8uyw.2vo/9942e99c
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Ever since the August jobs report was released last week, the legacy media and liberal pundits have been highlighting the fact that the payrolls show the net gains for women dwarfed the gains for men. Employers added 158,000 women to payrolls in August and just 4,000 men. “Women accounted for almost all of job gains in August. Here’s why,” CNBC announced. Fortune went with: “Who runs the labor market? Women accounted for 98% of U.S. job gains in August.” This is a curious development. Why are the financial press and liberal pundits highlighting these job gains for women? Surely it is not to celebrate the feminist economy of Donald Trump or a great stride toward gender equality achieved by tariffs and the One Big Beautiful Bill. The Secretly Sexist MAGA Agenda Finally, an analysis from Mike Konczal, VP Policy and Research at the Economic Security Project and a former staffer at the National Economic Council, explained it. “One of the great ironies of the second Trump administration has been that, despite their attempt to reassert a male breadwinner family model and make a gender vibe shift, men have gained no jobs under it,” Konczal explained. As it turns out, the reason for all these stories was that liberals were attacking a demon of their own imagining. They have conjured a patriarchal Trump economic policy out of nothing but their own conviction that deep down Trump and his supporters have been fashioning a world where only men work, a male breadwinner family model of the economy. The fact that nothing Trump has said or done supports this is entirely beside the point. They just know that’s what he really wanted, and they’re eager to point out that he failed at the thing they only imagined he was trying to engineer.)
DAILY CALLER
— One Year Passed, What Charlie Kirk Would Want From Us Now.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/09/10/charlie-kirk-turning-point-usa-florida-ohio-tpusa-erika-one-year-anniversary/
FOX NEWS
— RNC Midterm Convention chants Charlie Kirk’s name.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6404864944112
FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES
CBS NEWS
— George W. Bush says Americans “don’t pay attention to the lesson of 9/11.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/george-w-bush-911-attacks-condoleezza-rice/
— Trump says he doesn’t think $5,000 dividend payments would need to be approved by Congress.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/president-donald-trump-dallas-texas-republican-midterm-convention-interview/
— Trump’s $5,000 dividend would reignite inflation and swell the U.S. deficit.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-5000-checks-inflation-deficit-economists/
WALL STREET JOURNAL
— $5,000 Checks for Every American? What to Know About Trump’s Latest Promise. President’s trillion-dollar idea faces hurdles in Congress, risks sparking inflation
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/5-000-checks-for-every-american-what-to-know-about-trumps-latest-promise-0eb47fe6
FORTUNE
— Billionaire Democratic governor of Illinois Pritzker insists ‘Republicans have done nothing to earn your vote.’
https://fortune.com/2026/09/10/billionaire-democratic-governor-of-illinois-insists-republicans-have-done-nothing-to-earn-your-vote/
— Trump tries to bribe Americans to vote Republican with promise of $5,000 dividend — only if the GOP wins.
https://fortune.com/2026/09/10/trump-5000-dividend-republicans-midterms-us-debt/
— Trump’s first term had real stimulus checks. His second has promised ones tied to problems he started.
https://fortune.com/2026/09/10/trump-5000-check-republicans-midterms-stimulus/
