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		<title>Keep Fighting for The SAVE America Act</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/06/keep-fighting-for-the-save-america-act/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Voter Integrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carol Davis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dick Durbin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Americans should have confidence that every legal vote is counted — and that every voter participating in our elections is legally eligible to do so.</p>
<p>That is the simple premise behind <span class="svelte-x57wqa fade-in"><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/s3752" target="_blank" rel="noopener">S.3752</a>,</span> the <strong>SAVE America Act</strong> (Safeguard American Voter Eligibility), a major election integrity proposal backed by <strong>President Donald J. Trump</strong>. This federal legislation would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections, strengthen voter ID protections, and help ensure that American elections are decided by American citizens.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/06/keep-fighting-for-the-save-america-act/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>7K% Spike in Chinese Nationals Crossing Border</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/7000-percent-spike-in-chinese-immigrants-crossing-border/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 15:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive Branch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biden Administration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Border Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bret Baier]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ecuador]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merrick Garland]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="https://illinoisfamily.org/author/?id=21" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></a></span></p>
<p>The number of illegal immigrants crossing the southern border continues at a frightening rate, and the Biden Administration continues to pretend it isn&#8217;t a major problem. Meanwhile, the persisting surge has only served to increase havoc in border states and big cities across the nation.</p>
<p>There is no question about it: the Biden Administration has encouraged this border crisis <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/us/border-crossing-migrants-biden.html?searchResultPosition=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">from the very beginning</a> of his term.  Almost four years later, <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/470426/americans-showing-increased-concern-immigration.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voters are increasingly worried</a> about illegal immigration and the loss of our American identity.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2024/04/7000-percent-spike-in-chinese-immigrants-crossing-border/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Christmas Queens And The Oxymoronically Named Respect For Marriage Act</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/11/christmas-queens-and-the-oxymoronically-named-respect-for-marriage-act/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2022 13:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rob Portman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roy Blunt]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>We’ve had a very serious setback this last week in the cause of freedom, courtesy of a dozen “woke” Republican senators. But first, we’ll begin with a bit of pop culture that speaks to where we are as a nation.</p>
<p>Sad to say, <strong>Mariah Carey</strong> won’t be able to trademark “Queen of Christmas.” Yes, in time, we will get over this.</p>
<p>The ubiquitous songbird, whose “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is piped everywhere, tried to monopolize the title legally.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/11/christmas-queens-and-the-oxymoronically-named-respect-for-marriage-act/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Romney, Murkowski and Collins: Weak-kneed Republicans</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/04/romney-murkowski-and-collins-weak-kneed-republicans/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Robert Knight</em></p>
<p>What part of a judge being soft on child pornography offenders don’t they understand?</p>
<p>Having embraced every perversion under the sun and proclaimed it all good, Democrats in the U.S. Senate predictably voted 50-0 on Thursday to affirm Judge <strong>Ketanji Brown Jackson</strong>’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.</p>
<p>That would include <strong>Joe Manchin</strong>. The senator from West Virginia has stood in the gap against some of the Democrats’ worst schemes like “Build Back Better.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2022/04/romney-murkowski-and-collins-weak-kneed-republicans/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Beware Those Hysterical Historians</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/beware-those-hysterical-historians/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2021 14:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Media Watch]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ruth Ben-Ghiat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sara Gideon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sherrod Brown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Tim Graham</em></p>
<p>Liberals love to insist they&#8217;re on the &#8220;right side of history,&#8221; and their confidence crests in the liberal dominance among historians. Just as the liberal media dominate our evaluation of day-to-day developments, liberals count on their historians to dominate our evaluation of the decades behind us.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just historians but our taxpayer-funded storytellers, like the insufferable PBS documentarian <strong>Ken Burns</strong>. On the day before President-elect <strong>Joe Biden</strong>&#8216;s inauguration, NPR&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Edition&#8221; presented him as an American treasure with no partisan bias.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2021/01/beware-those-hysterical-historians/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Election Update: What We Know So Far</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/update-from-the-political-front/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2020 12:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allen Skillicorn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amy Elik]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mark Batinick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seth Lewis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Susan Collins]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>The final results of this week&#8217;s election may remain unknown for days or weeks with five or more states still counting ballots. Our continued prayers are needed today and throughout the upcoming week for honesty and fairness to prevail. Pray that voter fraud of any type would be exposed. The Bible tells us in Proverbs 20:23 that the Lord hates unequal scales.</p>
<p>We should not be surprised to learn how wrong the predictions of the establishment media and pollsters have been again.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2020/11/update-from-the-political-front/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>GOP Fails Pro-Life Voters by Refusing to Defund Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/gop-fails-pro-life-voters-by-refusing-to-defund-planned-parenthood/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2018 19:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Sanctity of Life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chris Pandolfo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defund Planned Parenthood]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[March for Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Students for Life America]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Carly Hoilman</em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As the final weeks of the GOP-controlled Congress draw to a close, pro-life voters look on with great disappointment at the Republican politicians who failed to follow through on their most crucial promise: to defund Planned Parenthood. In about a month, Democrats will take over the U.S. House of Representatives and any hope of stripping the abortion giant of federal funding will pass away.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">With precious little time left in the lame-duck session, GOP congressional leaders have chosen to ignore the persistent urgings of pro-life leaders.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2018/12/gop-fails-pro-life-voters-by-refusing-to-defund-planned-parenthood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>U.S. Senate to Trump:  Force Transgenders on Military</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/u-s-senate-to-trump-force-transgenders-on-military/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2017 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Chaplain Gordon James Klingenschmitt, PhD</em></p>
<p>&#8220;New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a Democrat, and Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, introduced a bipartisan amendment to protect transgender service members from President Trump&#8217;s plan to ban them from the military,&#8221; <a href="http://time.com/4936786/transgender-military-ban-amendment-susan-collins-kirsten-gillibrand/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> Time.</p>
<p>&#8220;The amendment introduced Monday would prohibit the Department of Defense from dismissing current transgender service members &#8216;solely on the basis of the member’s gender identity,&#8217; Senators said in a statment.</p>
<p>&#8220;Any individual who wants to join our military and meets the standards should be allowed to serve, period.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/09/u-s-senate-to-trump-force-transgenders-on-military/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>John McCain Joins Pro-Abortion Republicans to Defeat U.S. Senate Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/john-mccain-joins-pro-abortion-republicans-to-defeat-senate-bill-defunding-planned-parenthood/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Jul 2017 09:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Federal Issues]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Steven Ertelt</em></p>
<p>Christmas is months away but U.S. Senator<strong> John McCain</strong> is already on the naughty list for pro-life Americans.</p>
<p>U.S. Senator McCain joined two probation Republicans to defeat the Senate bill that would defund Planned Parenthood. Called the skinny Bill to repeal portions of Obamacare, pro-life organizations and Senate Republican leaders hoped the bill would get enough votes to be able to land a repeal and defund measure on President Donald Trump’s desk.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/john-mccain-joins-pro-abortion-republicans-to-defeat-senate-bill-defunding-planned-parenthood/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Why Democrats Are More Unified Than the GOP</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/why-democrats-are-more-unified-than-the-gop/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin D. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2017 09:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p class="p1"><em>By <span class="author vcard">Paul Gottfried</span> </em></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Thanks to at least nine opposing Republican senators, Congress left for its July 4 break without passing a replacement bill for Obamacare.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-narrow-path-forward-for-the-gop-health-care-bill/">The opposition from these Republicans was two-fold</a>: Four conservatives thought the GOP bill on the table went too far in retaining government control over the medical insurance market, while five centrist members complained it doesn’t go far enough in providing federal funding for Medicaid in their states, and would leave 22 million Americans overall without medical insurance.</span>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/07/why-democrats-are-more-unified-than-the-gop/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Is Johnson-Weld a Libertarian Ticket?</title>
		<link>https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/08/is-johnson-weld-a-libertarian-ticket/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 09:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em>Written by Ilya Shapiro</em></p>
<p>Plenty of libertarians were wary of seeing former Massachusetts governor <strong>Bill Weld</strong> as the Libertarian Party’s nominee for vice president. Even those of us who haven’t had anything to do with the LP would like to see the party represented by, you know, libertarians. Weld, who seems like a nice man and was apparently a <a href="http://www.cato.org/blog/cato-fiscal-grades-gary-johnson-william-weld">decent governor</a>, is the living expositor of the difference between a libertarian and someone who’s “socially liberal and fiscally conservative.”&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2016/08/is-johnson-weld-a-libertarian-ticket/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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