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		<title>How Our Republic Is Destroyed</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p data-path-to-node="2"><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" data-path-to-node="2"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><strong><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;">The DSA’s Platform Walks Us Through, Brick by Brick</span></strong></span></p>
<p>The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has officially released an updated platform titled <a href="https://program.dsausa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Workers Deserve More!</em></a>, published through its official magazine, <a href="https://democraticleft.dsausa.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Democratic Left</em></a>. Describing it as a vision for a &#8220;comprehensively democratic society,&#8221; the platform seeks to unite the organization&#8217;s rank-and-file membership and elected officials around a single political program.</p>
<p>As expected, the DSA platform upholds the &#8220;right&#8221; to kill preborn babies in the womb (abortion) by calling for universal healthcare and &#8220;reproductive care.&#8221;&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/07/how-our-republic-is-destroyed/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Illinois House Democrats Approve In-State Tuition for Illegal Aliens</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>Illinois House Democrats are once again advancing sanctuary policies that place the interests of non-citizens ahead of law-abiding citizens.</p>
<p>During debate on <a href="https://www.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocNum=5093&#38;GAID=18&#38;DocTypeID=HB&#38;LegId=166637&#38;SessionID=114" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 5093</a>, lawmakers approved legislation removing key residency requirements for in-state tuition eligibility at public colleges and universities. While presented as a technical adjustment, the real effect is clear: expanding taxpayer-subsidized tuition benefits to individuals who are not lawfully present in the United States.</p>
<p>The bill’s sponsor, State Representative <strong>Barbara Hernandez</strong> (D-Aurora), acknowledged that the measure eliminates the requirement that a student be an Illinois resident while still allowing eligibility for those who attended and graduated from an Illinois high school.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2026/04/illinois-house-democrats-approve-in-state-tuition-for-illegal-aliens/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Remembering the Victims of Communism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 09:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by David E. Smith</em></p>
<p>What was the most evil regime of the 20th century? Many people instantly picture a crazed <strong>Adolf Hitler</strong> and his Third Reich rounding up millions of Jewish men, women and children in an attempt to systematically exterminate them. An estimated six million were murdered across German-occupied Europe. That&#8217;s truly evil. Yet, if we&#8217;re looking at death tallies, consider the human toll inflicted under Communism:</p>
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<li>Sixty million dead in the Soviet Union under <strong>Joseph Stalin</strong>.</li></ul>&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2025/05/remembering-the-victims-of-communism/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>American Education and Intellectually Bankrupt Schools</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 12:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Dr. Everett Piper</em></p>
<p>In a recent <em>Washington Times</em> column, titled “Is San Francisco the future of America?,” <strong>Lee Edwards</strong>, distinguished fellow at the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/heritage-foundation/">Heritage Foundation</a>, asked, “What has happened? Why is America slouching like some rough beast — not toward Bethlehem, but Gomorrah?”</p>
<p>This is a question we hear almost every day. “How did this happen so quickly?” It is as if we’ve have awakened from what we thought was a bad dream only to find that the nightmare is real.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2019/10/american-education-and-intellectually-bankrupt-schools/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Report Finds Thousands of Non-Citizens Were on Voter Rolls in Virginia</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David E. Smith]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 09:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p><em>Written by Rachel Del Guidice</em></p>
<p>A conservative legal organization has uncovered that Virginia election officials removed thousands of voters between 2011 and May 2017.</p>
<p>In a <a href="https://publicinterestlegal.org/files/Alien-Invasion-II-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a> released Tuesday, the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a conservative legal group, found 5,556 voters were removed because they were noncitizens and that <a href="https://publicinterestlegal.org/blog/report-5500-noncitizens-discovered-voter-rolls-virginia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">one-third</a> of the removed citizens voted illegally.</p>
<p><strong>Hans von Spakovsky</strong>, a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a board member of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, told <em>The Daily Signal</em> in an email that the findings of the report are alarming.&#8230; <a href="https://illinoisfamilyaction.org/2017/06/report-finds-thousands-of-non-citizens-were-on-voter-rolls-in-virginia/" class="read-more">Continue Reading </a></p>]]></description>
		
		
		
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