September 28, 2029

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

CHICAGO TRIBUNE
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on their ballot.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2022/08/18/darren-bailey-playing-to-downstate-crowd-resumes-calling-chicago-a-hellhole-at-state-fairs-gop-day/
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD: DD: Democrat leaders outrageously/disgustingly/falsely/unethically hint/imply/argue/shout that the SAFE-T Act lowers crime.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/09/28/illinois-darren-bailey-safe-t-act/

DAILY HERALD
— FRONT PAGE TOP OF FOLD WITH BIG PICTURE: Mostly receptive crowd greets Trump at Medinah. Trump delivered very brief opening remarks and stuck around until the closing ceremony.
https://www.dailyherald.com/20260927/syndicated-columnists/president-donald-trump-delivered-very-brief-opening-remarks-and-stuck-around-until-the-closing-cerem/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: DuPage County Republican Secretary Jeff Castle sported a wardrobe with a stars and stripes motif, including a cape and matching shorts and socks. “I think anybody who doesn’t support the president, no matter who it is, Republican or Democrat alike, they’re a fool. Because to not support the president is to want this country to fail,” he said. At the same time, he said, “I think we need to start talking with each other. Both sides should start listening to each other a little bit.”)

POLITICO ILLINOIS
— Trump keeps it brief at Medinah.
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/illinois-playbook/2026/09/28/trump-keeps-it-brief-at-medinah-01094547

CAPITOL FAX
— Morning briefing
https://capitolfax.com/2026/09/28/isabel%e2%80%99s-morning-briefing-816/

FROM ILLINOIS CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

BREAKTHROUGH IDEAS
— Taxpayer-funded Non-profit Protests Trump Visit.
https://www.breakthrough-ideas.com/read/2026/09/26/taxpayer-funded-non-profit-protests-trump-visit

PRAIRIE STATE WIRE
— Moseley-Braun, Part II? Democrat U.S. Senate hopeful Stratton refuses debates, claims to be “dancing” her way to Washington. DD: GAO works for Congress. When I was 49 in 1997, my Democrat GAO Chicago office superiors talked and acted like Mosely-Braun, Durbin, and Illinois’ Democrat congressmen pressured them to force me to retire. If I could do it over again, I would have strongly asked Illinois’ Republican congressmen to come to my defense. They were Hyde, Crane, Porter, Weller, Fawell, Hastert, Manzullo, LaHood, and Shimkus.
https://prairiestatewire.com/moseley-braun-part-ii-democrat-u-s-senate-hopeful-stratton-refuses-debates-claims-to-be-dancing-her-way-to-washington

GOPUSA ILLINOIS
— Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on their ballot. But to vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism and for more dependency on government and charity, LGBTQ, abortion, mass/illegal immigration, gambling, pot, and other vices, diminishment of Second Amendment rights, and Affirmative Action and DEI, that is, race and gender based preference giving, patronage, political affiliation discrimination, reverse discrimination, age discrimination, religious discrimination, and national origin discrimination. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com
— Getting out the Republican vote. Last week, to get out the vote for Republican candidates on the November 3, 2026 ballot in my DuPage County Milton Township Precinct 59 in Wheaton ( https://electionresults.dupagecounty.gov/election/PrecinctMaps/map50059.pdf ), I walked to the front doors of 370 residences in my precinct that have at least one registered Republican or Independent voter and delivered 370 DuPage County GOP-provided envelopes using 660 DuPage County Election Division-provided mailing labels that contained a) the outstanding Milton Township Republican Organization (MTRO)-provided Voter Guide, b) the sample ballot ( https://electionresults.dupageco.org/election/ballots/2026/General/Milton%20059-0316-NP.PDF ), and c) campaign pieces from the 14 of the 18 Republican candidates on that ballot who provided MTRO with their campaign pieces. Those 370 envelopes contained 5,920 pieces: 5,180 campaign pieces (14X370), 370 Voter Guides, and 370 sample ballots. The 18 candidates on the ballot in my precinct are: Tracy, Bailey/Del Mar, Fioretti, Harris, Drew, Soloman, Oakley, Lewis, Vrankovich, Grasso, Noonan, Schiappa, Henry, Eckhoff, Michaud, Schultz, Quirk, and Helland. – Dave Diersen
http://www.gopillinois.com

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-RIGHT SOURCES

NEW YORK POST
— Crowd sings ‘from the river to the sea’ at AOC’s college student event promoting Dems ahead of midterms.  DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://nypost.com/2026/09/27/us-news/crowd-sings-from-the-river-to-the-sea-at-aoc-event-promoting-dems-ahead-of-midterms/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Cornell University’s lefty crowd gave Democratic Socialist superstar Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez a warm, hate-filled welcome by singing anti-Israel chants at a campaign event meant to gin up support for Democrats ahead of the midterms Sunday. While warming up the standing-room-only crowd of roughly 2,000 people gathered for the congresswoman’s “Students vs. Billionaires” town hall in downtown Ithaca Sunday, Cornell University Young Democratic Socialists of America co-chairs Mina Petrova and Zoe Reisman led the crowd singing “from the river to the sea” and declaring “long live the student intifada.”)

AMERICAN THINKER
— Then vs. Now: Good and bad immigration. Early waves of immigrants to the United States each brought something that contributed to the material well-being of the nation. Later waves? Not so much.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/then-vs-now-good-and-bad-immigration/
— Democrat affordability claims have never added up and never will. Giving Democrats control of Congress amounts to national suicide.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/democrat-affordability-claims-have-never-added-up-and-never-will/

BREITBART
— Schwarzenegger Jumps In to Help Socialist L.A. Mayor Candidate Nithya Raman. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/09/27/arnold-schwarzenegger-jumps-in-to-help-socialist-l-a-mayor-candidate-nithya-raman/
— Johns and Street Hookers Doing Robust Business in Mamdani’s New York. DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly promote more vice.
https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/09/27/johns-and-street-hookers-doing-robust-business-in-mamdanis-new-york/amp/

FOX NEWS
— Democrats favor socialism over capitalism 65% to 35%. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.foxnews.com/video/6405700653112

POST MILLENNIAL
— Boston pays illegal aliens to become political activists.
https://thepostmillennial.com/boston-pays-illegal-aliens-to-become-political-activists

TOWNHALL
— Americans Voted to Deport Illegal Aliens.
https://townhall.com/columnists/jeffcrouere/2026/09/28/americans-voted-to-deport-illegal-aliens-n2683672
— A Free Press Must Be a Responsible Press. DD: The mainstream news media exists not only to destroy Trump, but to destroy all Republicans starting with Republicans who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time.
https://townhall.com/columnists/allenwest/2026/09/28/a-free-press-must-be-a-responsible-press-n2683623

VISUAL CAPITALIST
— Ranked: U.S. Wealth by Generation in 2026. DD: What helped you build wealth? For me, it was my earning 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.visualcapitalist.com/americas-net-worth-by-generation-2026/
(FROM THE ARTICLE: Baby Boomers hold $97.4 trillion, or 52% of U.S. household net worth, despite making up just 30% of households. Millennials and Gen Z account for 37% of U.S. households, more than any other generation, but hold only 11% of household wealth.)

FROM NATIONAL CENTER-LEFT SOURCES

NBC NEWS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on their ballot.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-down-ballot-republicans-biggest-risk-n594811

NEW YORK TIMES
— FRONT PAGE: Democrat leaders blame Trump for high gas prices and mortgage rates.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/business/trump-economy-midterm-elections.html

ASSOCIATED PRESS
— DD: The more planks in the Republican Party platform that you promote, the more that anti-conservatives call you an extremist.
https://www.wric.com/news/politics/ap-republicans-say-democrats-are-extremists-these-democrats-want-to-convince-voters-thats-not-true/

CNN
— US deported LGBTQ migrants to countries where homosexuality makes them a target.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/26/world/lgbtq-migrants-asylum-seekers-america-intl

WASHINGTON POST
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on their ballot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/09/23/heres-what-new-research-tells-us-about-presidential-coattails-in-down-ballot-races/

USA TODAY
— DD: Democrat and RINO employers use Affirmative Action and DEI a) to not hire Republicans and b) to get rid of their Republican employees.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/09/23/corporate-america-dei-programs-impact-stocks-revenue/91810189007/
— IRS tax forms may soon ask about your citizenship.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personal-finance/taxes/2026/09/25/irs-citizenship-status-question/91901367007/

MERCURY NEWS
— DD: To get more votes from LGBTQers, Democrat leaders ever-increasingly give LGBTQers more preference.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/09/27/newsom-signs-bills-aimed-at-protecting-lgbtq-people-citing-trump-administration-attacks-3/

FORBES
— Career problems. DD: What do you blame your career problems on? I blame my career problems on my Democrat superiors in the federal government. They wasted my career and they forced me to retire when I was 49 years old in 1997 because I refused to become a Democrat. Because I refused to become a Democrat, my Democrat Post Office superiors a) disallowed my sick leave requests in 1968 and 1969 and b) forced me to resign in 1969.  Because I refused to become a Democrat, my IRS superiors a) got rid of the IRS manager who had promoted me in 1972, 1973, and 1974, b) disallowed my travel vouchers in 1974, c) disallowed my education deductions in 1978, and d) made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-13. Because I refused to become a Democrat, my GAO superiors a) forced me to take a $23,699/year (21%) pay cut in today’s dollars to transfer from IRS in 1980, b) delayed my promotions to GS-11, GS-12, and GS-13 and made it clear that they would never promote me to GS-14, c) kept me off audits of IRS for all but 3 of the almost 18 years that I worked for GAO, d) got rid of the GAO manager in 1987 who had arranged my transfer from IRS in 1980 and was finally able to assign me to audits of IRS and to promote me to GS-13 in 1986, e) always ranked me in the bottom half of my coworkers for pay-for-performance, and f) forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997. They took the aforesaid adverse actions against me notwithstanding my earning a job-related bachelor’s degree in 1970, job-related master’s degrees in 1976, 1980, and 1997, job-related professional certifications in 1979, 1981, 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1997, and a job-related professional license in 1981.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kathycaprino/2024/08/09/why-so-many-of-our-professional-problems-are-not-about-our-careers/

FORTUNE
— Nearly two in five parents with young children, or 37%, expect to receive some sort of financial help from their own parents or grandparents over the next year. DD: While I worked for the Democrats who ran the federal government for almost 30 years, my Democrat superiors and supervisors who were parents a) painted themselves as being underpaid and b) decried the high cost of raising their children.
https://fortune.com/2026/09/27/affordability-crisis-37-parents-financial-help-baby-boomers/

MONEYWISE
— Average used car requires $120K in income to afford. DD: Back in the good old days, when I was 17 years old in 1966, I was able to buy a new 1966 Pontiac Tempest Sprint ( https://over-drive-magazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/1965-12-CD-1966-Pontiac-Tempest-Sprint-Test-1-4.pdf ),  with the money I earned working for the minimum wage part-time for 15 months and full-time for 3 months.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/average-used-car-requires-120k-140000054.html

NARFE
— How to advance in federal government. DD: Democrats run the federal government. To advance in the federal government you have to be a Democrat. You have excel at helping your superiors get rid of not only their employees who are Republican, but those who are conservative, White, male, older, non-veteran, Protestant, German American, and/or have ancestors who have been in America for a long time. Because I refused to become a Democrat, my Democrat Post Office superiors refused to promote me beyond GS-4, my Democrat IRS superiors beyond GS-12, and my Democrat GAO superiors beyond GS-13 even though 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. They not only wasted my career, they forced me to retire when I was 49 in 1997.
https://www.narfe.org/magazine-issues/

INSIDE HIGHER EDUCATION
— Who Gets to Be ‘College Material’? DD: When I attended Crete-Monee High School 1962-1966, virtually no one saw me as being college material because neither of my patents attended college, because my father was only the first of ancestors to earn a high school diploma, and because my mother never attended high school. But nevertheless, I took college preparatory courses, I earned an ACT score of 24, I graduated in the upper 20% of my class, and I got accepted by UIC.
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2021/04/12/colleges-should-reimagine-what-it-means-be-college-material-and-be-force-equity

POLITICO
— Trump’s latest Mamdani lovefest comes at a bad time for Republicans. DD: To vote for Democrats is to vote for socialism.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/27/trumps-latest-mamdani-lovefest-comes-at-a-bad-time-for-republicans-01093811

DAILY KOS
— DD: Democrat leaders ever-increasingly shout at voters that if they do not like what Trump has said or done, they should vote for all the Democrats on their ballot.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/9/27/800103652/series/socialist-or-maga-republican-america-has-a-preference/

FROM FOREIGN SOURCES

INDIA TODAY
— Successful women face marriage hurdles. DD: Ever-increasingly, men are less successful than women.
https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/haryana-doctors-reality-check-on-why-successful-women-face-marriage-hurdles-3004096-2026-09-27

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.