Amy Sherman https://illinoisfamilyaction.org Sun, 22 Feb 2026 14:13:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-download-32x32.jpg Amy Sherman https://illinoisfamilyaction.org 32 32 76203252 Jim Crow or Common Sense? The Media’s War on Voter ID https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/02/jim-crow-or-common-sense-the-medias-war-on-voter-id/ Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:00:09 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=31498 Written by Tim Graham

The people who call themselves the “mainstream media” have a remarkable tendency to take the minority position on an 80-20 issue, most recently on requiring voters to show a photo ID at the polls. U.S. House Republicans have passed the SAVE Act, while Democrats have almost unanimously opposed it.

But the American people do not. Gallup pollsters report 84% of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote — 98% of Republicans, 84% of independents, and 67% of Democrats.… Continue Reading

]]> 31498 Shocker! PolitiFact Tags Trump For ‘Lie of the Year’ For the 7th Time https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/12/shocker-politifact-tags-trump-for-lie-of-the-year-for-the-7th-time/ Fri, 20 Dec 2024 12:00:55 +0000 https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/?p=28346 Written by Tim Graham

Don’t call PolitiFact an “independent fact-checker.” When they assemble to select their “Lie of the Year,” they have singled out Donald Trump in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021. No Democrat has been tagged with this dishonor since Trump arrived on the scene.

It was Trump again this year, as PolitiFact tweeted: “A lie marked a town and its residents in the name of campaign rage. It was absurd. It was consequential.… Continue Reading

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